BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



Marsden ^^ of Heir's House gave it to his natural son 

 Richard Marsden alias Robinson, who gave the same 

 with his natural daughter Jane in marriage with 

 Richard Burton of Preston, stationer, in possession 

 in 1658.'^^ About 1875 Heir's House was the 

 property of Mr. T. T. England, who also owned 

 the following estate. It is now the property of 

 Mr. Rennie Knight.^^ 



BLAKET HJLL may have derived its name from 

 one of the families who owned it, for Blakey, or the 

 Blake Hey, appears to have been within Pendle Forest, 

 where the family had lands.^^* Simon de Blakey was 

 ten.'tnt of part of Barrowford in 1323/** and in I 331 

 he obtained from the king a grant of Blakey in fee ; 

 he had paid i u. ^d. rent for it as tenant at will, and 

 was to pay 5/. more as freeholder.''^ He died in 

 1349, ^^^ ^^s lands, described as in Coinc, were 

 still in the king's hands in 1361,^- probably through 

 the minority of his son and heir Geoffrey, who held 

 in Colne by 16/. ^d. rent, and obtained a pardon in 

 1362,"^ The line can be traced down to 1634,""* 

 when Simon Blakey and Nicholas his brother con- 

 firmed to the above-named Edward Marsden the 



capital messuage of Blakey, &c.^^ The Blakeys were 

 recusants, and the fines for religion are said to have 

 been the chief cause of their fall.^*^ There are 

 numerous references to the Blakeys of Colne in the 

 Court Rolls." 



GREENFIELD was reputed to be a manor.^^ It 

 was at one time held by a Banastre family. In 1457 

 Agnes Banastre of York, as widow of John Banastre, 

 claimed dower from John's son John in her husband's 

 estate in Colne, Great Marsden and elsewhere. The 

 son objected, because she had deliberately procured a 

 divorce from bed and board by acting as sponsor at 

 confirmation to one of her children by the said John 

 Banastre. ^^ The estate seems to have descended to 

 another John Banastre in i 507.^^ In or before i 5 i 8 

 an award was made concerning all the lands, &c., 

 which had belonged to John Banastre of the Green- 

 field and the reversion of those held for life by 

 Lawrence Towneley ; and William Banastre of 

 Aldclifie became bound for the observance of the same 

 to Sir John Towneley and George Hoghton.^^ This 

 George Hoghton, no doubt in right of his wife, 

 appears to have entered on possession of Greenfield. ^^ 



Margaret Marsden, the widow, and 

 Lawrence Marsden, the executor, of 

 James son and heir of Robert Marsden of 

 Heir's House were in 15x6 summoned to 

 answer Thomas Lister and Christopher 

 Robinson, executor(s) of the will of 

 Henry Parker of Alkincotes ; Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 1+2, m. 10 d. Nicholas 

 Marsden was in possession in 1537; he 

 also owned Priestfield, Netherley and 

 Hatherald (Haverholt) ; Farrer, Clitheroe 

 Cr. ^. i, 272, 311, 321, &c. The name 

 of the house is spelt sometimes with and 

 sometimes without the H. Another 

 Marsden family had land in Calfhey ; 

 ibid. 427, 4^. 



One Nicholas Marsden in 1521 

 arranged for the marriage of his son 

 Nicholas with Grace daughter of John 

 Hoghton of Pendleton ; Add. MS. 32104, 

 no. 206. Grace Marsden in 1563, as 

 widow and executrix of Nicholas Marsden, 

 agreed to an arbitration about disputes 

 with Robert Shuttleworth of Hacking ; 

 ibid. no. 208. 



^ He paid ^^lo in 1631 as composi- 

 tion for declining knighthood ; Misc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 217. 

 He was buried at Colne, as 'of Blakey,' 

 39 Dec. 1643 ; Reg. 



^ Note by Christopher Towneley in 

 Add. MS. 32104, after no, 400. Evi- 

 dences are given; ibid. no. 211, 213, 

 400, 399. Sarah Folds (1644) was sister 

 and heir of Edward Marsden ; ibid. no. 

 210. 



^^ Carr, op, cit. 66 n. 



^^'^ Sec the account of Barrowford. 



^0 Lanes. Ct. R. 33, 72. 



" Towneley MS. C 8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), 

 B 191. Simon de Blakey's cattle were 

 seized in Barrowford in 1335 by Richard 

 de Marsden, bailiff of Queen Isabel, then 

 holding the honor; De Banco R. 301, 

 m. 175 d. 



^2 Memo. R. (L.T.R.) 130. 



'8 C 8, 13, B 175 ; Geoffrey had en- 

 tered without coming into court and 

 doing fealty, &c. About the same time 

 he made a feoffment of his lands in 

 Colne and the Chase of Pendle ; ibid. 

 B 176, Geoffrey and Lettice his wife 

 received lands in 1363 ; ibid. B 478. 



^* Nicholas Blakey appears in 138 1-3 

 and Lawrence his son in 1459 ; ibid. 



B 316, 178-9. Lawrence Blakey and 

 Joan hia wife made a feoffment of their 

 lands in 1461 ; Add. MS. 32104, no. 1222. 

 Lawrence in 1471-5 gave lands in Blakey 

 to his nephew Nicholas; C 8, 13, 

 B 180-2. Blakey is here called * in the 

 parish of Clitheroe,' not Colne. la 1485 

 Simon son of Nicholas Blakey of Blakey 

 was contracted to marry Jenet daughter 

 of Lawrence Towneley; ibid. B 183-4. 

 Nicholas was dead in 1527, when his 

 widow Agnes occurs (ibid. B 189), and 

 Simon appears to have had a son Nicholas 

 (living 1535), whose widow Alice Blakey 

 of Admergill and sons Simon and Bernard 

 occur in 1556 ; ibid. B 192-4. Bernard 

 Blakey of Blakey appears to have suc- 

 ceeded to land in Blacko and Admergill 

 (Ibid. B 195). He is named as a friend 

 in the will of Lawrence Blakey of 

 Blacko, clothier, 1574, and was one of 

 the witnesses. Bernard's will of 1603 

 names sons Simon (the heir), John, 

 Nicholas, Henry and Robert ; he left 

 ^160 for his younger children and others ; 

 Towneley MS. DD, no. 981. He was 

 buried at Colne 7 June 1603 ; Reg. 

 Shortly afterwards(i6o5-7) Simon Blakey 

 sold his lands at Admergill in Yorkshire 

 to Sir Stephen Tempest and James Paley ; 

 C 8, 13, B 196, 479. Simon Blakey 

 contracted his son Simon (under fourteen) 

 to marry Prlscilla daughter of Emery Carr ; 

 ibid. B201. The marriage took place 

 14 Feb. 1612-13, and Priscilla died two 

 years later ; Colne Reg. Simon Blakey, 

 apparently the father, died in Sept. 1632 ; 

 ibid. 



Richard Blakey was defendant to a 

 claim to Sym Pasture, Here Stones, &c., 

 about 1600 ; ibid, iii, 487. 



^^ C 8, 13, B 200 ; Frances Blakey, the 

 mother, was a party, and Anne wife of 

 Simon (son of Simon) Blakey is also 

 named. Simon Blakey occurs again in 

 1638 ; ibid. B 199. Anne Blakey, widow, 

 was buried at Colne 29 Jan. 1639-40; 

 Reg, 



^*^ Simon Blakey (c. 1625) was a con- 

 victed recusant, paying double to the sub- 

 sidy. His wife, another Simon and wife, 

 and Bernard Blakey were also convicted 

 recusants; Carr, op. cit. 27. In 1639 

 Frances widow of Simon Blakey, who had 

 ^8 a year from Edward Marsden of 



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Heir's House as dower from her late 

 husband's lands, gave him * all or so 

 much of the said yearly rent of j^8 as 

 will pay, bear, and sustain all the damage 

 and loss as the said Edward Marsden shall 

 bear for and about my recusancy ' ; Add. 

 MS. 32104, no. 207. 



^^ Thus one John (son of Nicholas son 

 of Thomas) Blakey in 1425 inherited a 

 messuage and land in Colne from his 

 mother Isabel, daughter and heir of John 

 EUott ; Farrer, op. cit. i, 218. 



Robert Blakey had various messuages 

 in 1537 ; ibid. 328 ; dower of his wife 

 Margaret, See also pp. 390, 406, 416, 

 428 ; Blackstubheys, Walkerfield, Ten- 

 terholme, Judfield, the Warth, the water 

 called Colne Viver and Hall Hill are 

 among the places named. The dispo- 

 sitions made by Robert Blakey led to 

 much disputing. After one surrender he 

 was persuaded to make a second to 

 different feoffees and different uses. Ac- 

 cording to the first, he left the lands to 

 his daughter Ellen, who was to marry 

 John son of Lawrence Blakey of Colne, 

 with remainder to Robert's brother John 

 and male issue. After that, 'upon his 

 bed, giving God thanks, [he] did say 

 that he was now quiet in his mind, for 

 that his father had in his life time taken 

 him sworn that he should leave the said 

 lands to his name ; and for that Ellen his 

 daughter had chosen one John Blakey to 

 take to her husband he was glad thereof ' ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Dep. Ixxvii, B 1 1. 



Roger Blakey died in 1557, and was 

 succeeded by a kinsman John Blakey j 

 Farrer, op. cit. i, 424. 



"^^ In a plea of 1636 it was said to He 

 in Great Marsden ; Duchy of Lane. Plead, 

 bdle. 346. ^^ Farrer, op. cit. i, 224. 



s" Ibid. 232. Only lands in Great 

 Marsden are named. John's mother Joan 

 had married Lawrence Townley, who 

 claimed to hold her lands till death by 

 the courtesy of England. John Banastre 

 was living in 1515 ; ibid. 25(1, 260. 



s^ Add. MS. 32104, no. 758. 



3^ His name appears on the Colne jury 

 lists from 1520, and in 1532 he acted as 

 greave ; he was styled ' of Greenfield ' in 

 1533; Farrer, op. cit. i, 270, 307, 313, 

 According to the pedigree in Whitaker 

 [fVhaUeyj ii, 28) he married Joan daughter 



