BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



made in 1605, and bounds were set between the 

 manors of Colne and Ickornshaw.'* 



A demise of the manors of Colne, &c., was made 

 to Edward Allen and another by Charles I in 162;." 

 It seems to have come into the possession of Henry 

 Doughty of Thornley in Chipping, for in 1641 the 

 manor and various copyhold lands in Colne were 

 assigned to secure the dowry of Elizabeth Callis, who 

 married Henry's son John.^* The Doughtys were 

 Royalists and their estates were sequestered and for- 

 feited." Hence, apparently, the sale of the manor 

 to William Sykes, a Leeds merchant. This sale is 

 said to have been nullified at the Restoration.'" The 

 manor was then and afterwards included in the 

 Clitheroe honor conferred on General Monk and 

 held by his descendants, but Colne Hall remained 

 with the Doughtys, and so descended through the 

 Patten heiress to the Earls of 

 Derby," who continued to 

 own it till recently. The 

 house ivith some land was 

 sold to the late Mr. Thomas 

 Shaw, who sold the house 

 and grounds to the Colne 

 Co-operative Society. The 

 Earl of Derby still remains 

 one of the principal land- 

 owners. 



A rental of 1662 is pre- 

 served in one of Christopher 

 Towneley's MSS.'« The land 

 remains largely copyhold, the 

 courts being held regularly by the lords of the honor 



Stanley, Earl of 

 Derby. Argent on a 

 bend azure three stags' 

 heads cahoshed or. 



of Clitheroe. The manor now includes Trawden, 

 with Emmott and Carr or Carry Heys, formerly 

 in the Forest of Trawden. The Court Rolls are 

 complete from 1507, and there are a few earlier 

 ones.'" The pinfold is mentioned in 1425"; the 

 stocks were wanting in isog.*' A large number 

 of field-names and minor place-names occur in the 

 rolls." 



JLKINCOTES" was sometimes regarded as a 

 separate vill. There were several freehold estates in 

 it. John de Lacy gave 22 acres in the vill to the 

 Hospitallers," and this land was in 1540 held by the 

 heir of John Parker at a rent of 12a'." In 131 1 

 there were four other estates there held by charter, 

 viz. 32 acres held by Richard son of Adam de 

 Alkincotes by 10/. 8d. rent ; 7 acres by William son 

 of Adam de Alkincotes by 3/. 6d. ; 23 acres by 

 Adam son of Peter de Alkincotes by Jj. %d. ; and 

 20 acres by Richard son of Adam Ayre by zod. 

 rent.'"' The first of these was in 1342 held by John 

 the Parker in virtue of a grant by Henry de Lacy to 

 Adam son of Richard de Alkincotes." The second 

 was a grant by Adam de Alkincotes to his son 

 William.*' The third was held by James de 

 Walton in 1323, and may have been in Marsden." 

 The fourth appears to be the tenement known as 

 Heir's House. 



The Parkers were the chief family at Alkincotes, 

 and had several branches.™ Bernard Parker died in 

 1608 holding a messuage in Alkincotes of the king 

 as duke in socage.*' His son and heir, also named 

 Bernard, then thirty years of age, in 161 1 sold 

 to Daniel Barnard," who in 163 1 paid ^10 as 



Hunter Law. Another said the known 

 bounds were a grey stone in Aynslack 

 Head, Stone Benkes, round hill at Barn- 

 side Knarr end, Sandyford Bridge, and 

 Langshaie (Laneshaw) Water. Another 

 said the tenants of Monkroyd had always 

 repaired the west end of the stone bridge 

 over Sandyford Syke and the tenants of 

 Ickornshaw the east end of it. 



32 Ibid. no. 678. 



^ Pat. I Chas. I, pt. iv. 



3"* Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc, 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 256-62. John 

 Doughty, a 'delinquent,' died about 1647. 

 His father joined the Scots in 1648. 



3^ Ibid. 263-8 ; Index of Royalists 

 (Index Soc.), 41. 



3^ * The manor of this town, with some 

 cottages on the south side of it, was pur- 

 chased in the time of the civil wars by 

 Mr. William Sykes, of Leeds, merchant, 

 who, dying in 1652, left it to his son, 

 who valued it at ^^1,158 zs. gd. But at 

 the Restoration it reverted to its former 

 owner* ; Gregson, Fragments (ed. Har- 

 land), 297, quoting * Lucas's MSS.' 



3^ Carr, op. cit. 3 I. Ambrose Barcroft 

 was described as of Colne Hall in 1678 j 

 Folds D. 



^ Honor of Clitheroe MS. (in posses- 

 sion of W. Farrer), p. 195. It gives 

 fifty-two tenements of the * old hold ' in 

 Colne township, most of them having 

 parcels of the ' new hold ' also, and 

 twenty-three of the * new hold' only. 

 The rents of the ' old hold ' in Colne and 

 Marsden amounted to ^^26 5J. x\d. 

 according to the decree made by the 

 Commissioners of James I, and those of 

 the 'new hold,' resulting from improve- 

 ments of the commons and wastes, to ^^50. 



3^ Lanes. Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 1-5, gives the rolls of 1323-4. 



Farrer, Clitheroe Ct. R. \, 215 on, gives 

 the rolls of 1425, 1457 (extract), 1478 

 (extract), 1495-6, 1498, 1504, 1507-67. 



*" Farrer, op. cit. i, 222, 269, 270. 



" Ibid, i, 246. 



*2 For example, Burwens, Carrholme, 

 Crawshey, Henfield (Brownhill), Keriall 

 Lane (in Marsden), Malkin Yard, Piper 

 Yard, Pulforth (south of Nether Hey), 

 Tunercrook, Withinbutts, Walkerfield. 



**' Altencote, 1242; Alcancotes, 1296 ; 

 Alkenkotes, 13 1 1. 



" Kuerden MSS. iv, A3; fol. MS. 

 230, 233. The bounds began on the 

 east side of ' Strutwide ' and extended to 

 the pathway going down from the house 

 of Uctred son of Adam de Swinden as 

 far as the brook which was the division 

 between Alkincotes and Colne. 



The original charter was about 1650 

 * in the custody of Richard Burton of 

 Blakey and the Heir's House, by the 

 gift of Richard Marsden, his father-in- 

 law' ; Harl. MS. 2077, fol. 325. 



45 Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 84A. 



^" Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 6. 



4^ Cal. Pat. 1340-3, p. 487 ; inspexi- 

 mus of the charter. Of the land 20 acres 

 had bounds beginning from * GiUeber- 

 dechay ' Clough and going south and 

 west as far as Jordanwell Syke ; the 

 other 12 acres lay east of the Greengate. 

 In addition to the lord's rent of loj. %d. 

 payable on St. Giles's Day, the tenant 

 was to pay -^d. for ward of Lancaster 

 Castle. 



Richard de Alkincotes was living in 

 1323 ; Farrer, op. cit. i, 482. 



In 1365 Robert de Marsden gave to 

 John son of John the Parker of Alkin- 

 cotes a messuage, &c,, which he had by 

 the feoffment of William del Fenays ; 

 Add. MS. 32104, no. 391. 



* Gybertshcy ' in Alkincotes is named 

 in 1550 ; Ducatus Lane, (Rec. Com,), 

 i, 266. 



^8 Kuerden fol. MS. p. 31 ; Peter and 

 Richard de Alkincotes were witnesses. 

 William son of Adam de Alkincotes paid 

 his fine on entry to his lands in 1296 ; 

 De Lacy Compoti^ 4. William de Alkin- 

 cotes was living in 1323 and 1332; 

 Farrer, op. cit. i, 482 ; Lanes. Ct. R. 5 ; 

 Exch. Lay Sui?s. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 85. 



^9 Farrer, op. cit. i, 482. 



^'^ Richard the Parker of Colne was a 

 defendant in 1340 ; Coram Rege R. 322, 

 m. 163 d. In 1361 Geoffrey de Blakey 

 granted to John son of John the Parker 

 of Alkincotes 2 acres of meadow in the 

 vill of Colne lying by Foulridge Brook j 

 Add. MS. 32104, no. 1214. 



William de Walton in 1 424 com- 

 plained that a number of people in the 

 district, including Ellis son of Richard 

 Parker of Alkincotes and Geoffrey son 

 of John Parker of the same, had lain in 

 wait for him to beat him, &c. ; Towneley 

 MS. RR, no. 1685. Ellis was outlawed ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Chan. Misc. bdle. i, file 5. 



Ralph Parker of Alkincotes occurs in 

 1425 ; Farrer, Clitheroe Ct. R. i, 219. 



In 1550 Henry Parker and Margaret 

 his wife occur j Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle, 14, m. 321. See also Farrer, 

 op. cit. i, 381, 399- Bernard Parker is 

 named in 1552 and later j ibid. 395, 400. 

 Bernard son of Bernard in 1563 ; ibid. 



453- 



^^ Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, no. 



^^ Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 79, 

 no, 40. The deforciants were William 

 Fenwick, Elizabeth his wife and Bernard 

 Parker. 



