BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



widow of Thomas RadclifFe ; all the grantor's lands 

 in the parish of Colne and chase of Travvden were 

 included. 1"" The descent of the estate cannot be 

 traced for lack of evidence, but the surname was not 

 uncommon in the district.i"^ The estate called 

 Emmott Hall descended to two brothers, William 

 and John Emmott, the former of whom died in 172; 

 and the latter in 1 746, i''^ but a younger brother, 

 Christopher, a London merchant, had been obliged 

 to repurchase it. It went to a nephew, Richard 

 Wainhouse, who took the name of Emmott, and 

 his granddaughter Harriet Susanna Ross having 

 married George Green,'"' their son, after succeed- 

 ing to this estate, took the additional name of 

 Emmott in 1851. The hall is now the property 

 of his son, Mr. Walter Egerton John Green- 

 Emmott.io* 



EMMOTT HALL stands on high ground 2* 

 miles east of Colne near the junction of the River 

 Laneshaw with the Hullown 

 Beck, the front facing south 

 towards the Wycoller Valley. 

 The house, which is built of 

 stone and has stone slated 

 roofs, is apparently of 1 7th- 

 century date '"^ and of the 

 usual type with central hall 

 and projecting gabled end 

 wings, but in the first half of 

 the 1 8th century the whole 

 of the middle part was re- 

 fronted and other alterations 

 carried out entirely changing 

 its appearance. The building 

 is of two stories and the end 

 wings retain their original balled gables, though the 

 windows have been modernized and sashes and later 

 casements substituted for the old mullioned openings. 

 Between the end wings the 1 8th-century work remains 

 unaltered and is a fine and dignified classic com- 

 position, the middle part emphasized by four Ionic 

 pilasters rising from the ground the full height of the 

 two stories and carrying an entablature with cushioned 

 frieze, surmounted by a parapet with large urn 

 ornaments, the middle one of which bears the Emmott 

 arms. The windows, which retain their original 

 wood bars, have moulded architraves, those to the 

 first floor having in addition pedimented heads. 



Emmott. Per pale 

 a^ure and sable a Jesse 

 engrailed ermine betv>een 

 three bulls* heads ca- 

 boshed or. 



The junction of the classic front with the lower side 

 gables is effected by a boldly stepped and curved 

 parapet, the whole forming a very good specimen of 

 late Renaissance work of a tj'pe not frequently met 

 with in this part of the county. Over the two outer 

 windows and below the cornice are the initials 

 C. I. E. and the date 1737, probably the year when 

 the new front was erected, but some work appears to 

 have been done ten years earlier, as on an ornamental 

 spout head on the return of the east wing is the date 

 1727 together with the Emmott crest. The door- 

 way is centrally placed and has an open stone porch 

 supported by small Ionic pillars and pilasters. The 

 older 17th-century work in the wings is built with 

 small roughly-coursed stones, but the later work is 

 faced with large squared blocks of gritstone. The 

 interior of the house preserves some of the 17th- 

 century panelling and a good staircase on the north 

 side with twisted balusters. There is a modern wing 

 at the east end. 



The fine 18th-century stone gate-piers and iron 

 gates now at the south-east side of the house were 

 originally erected to the left of the carriage drive in 

 front of the hall, but were removed to their present 

 position in I 841, when the road was altered and the 

 grounds in front of the house were rearranged by the 

 banking up with soil of the rocky surface and by the 

 erection of a retaining wall to the road. 



Emmott Moor and Carry Heys were parts of 

 Trawden Forest. In 1507 the former, which had 

 paid nothing,'"^"' was demised to Lawrence Townley 

 and Ralph Askew for £\ rent. They sold two- 

 thirds to Thomas Emmott in 1508 '"^ and the other 

 third to Alice Hanson and John Hanson in I 509 '"^ ; 

 but, though Thomas Emmott paid the whole rent in 

 1527, John Emmott paid two-thirds and John 

 Hanson one-third in 1609, and William Emmott 

 and William Hanson the same shares in 1662. 

 John Hanson of Emmott died in 161 2 holding a 

 messuage there of the king as duke by the two- 

 hundredth part of a knight's fee. His son and heir 

 William was twenty years of age.^'" 



Carry Heys was held by John Rushworth in 

 1527 by a rent of zos. 6d. ; in 1662 James Folds, 

 James Hargreaves and the heirs of Robert Hargreaves 

 paid 20s. net, while the fee farm of Nicholas Townley 

 of Royle for old rent there was 13/. zd., and for new 

 improvement 15/. wdP^ 



io» Towneley MS. C 8, I 3, p. 1066. 



101 Evidence will be found in the 

 Clitheroe Ct. R. Thomas Emmott the 

 elder was a juror in 1425. Thomas and 

 William Emmott were tenants of Colne 

 in 1443. Thomas, Richard and Edmund 

 Emmott are mentioned together in 15155 

 ibid, i, 260. Thomas (son and heir of 

 James) Emmott and Henry Emmott 

 occur in 1537; ibid. 325. Henry 

 Emmott died in 1554, leaving a son and 

 heir John ; ibid. 405. Thomas Emmott 

 of Emmott and his brother John, James 

 Emmott of Wycoller, John Emmott of 

 Emmott Lane and Humphrey Emmott 

 occur together in 1563 ; ibid. 447. 



An inventory of the goods of James 

 Emmott of Emmott, clothier, 1681, is 

 preserved at Chester. Administration 

 was granted to his widow Elizabeth. 

 Henry Emmott of Emmott and Thomas 

 Emmott of Emmott Lane are mentioned. 



'"^Whitaker, IVhalley, ii, 257. He 

 gives of the brothers William and John 



the following portrait : 'John Emmott 

 was a pious and amiable man, a Christian 

 of the old school, regular and devout, 

 retired and humble. William, the older 

 brother, is said to have had a portion of 

 the same spirit. Their infirmity was 

 that both were inattentive to their worldly 

 concerns.* '"^ Ibid. 



^°^ The later steps in the descent arc 

 from Burke's handed Gentry, 



105 Tije date 1693 (or 1643, the third 

 figure is difficult to decipher) is on a 

 stone behind the parapet near the centra] 

 urn, doubtless one of the original stones 

 re-used in the 18th-century alterations. 

 The date may give the year of the 

 building of the east wing and alteration 

 of the west wing to match, the latter 

 being the oldest part of the house. 



106-7 MS. at Huntroyde. The other 

 particulars in the text are from Duchy of 

 Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, no. 12 for 1527, the 

 Grimshaw MS. for 1609 and the Honor 

 of Clitheroe MS. (Towneley) for 1662. 



^^^ Farrer, op. cit. i, 240. 



109 Ibid. 24.3. Thomas Emmott 

 appears to have been succeeded by 

 William (living 1561), whose son and 

 heir Thomas occurs in 1544 ; ibid. 363, 

 441. Thomas appears to have come 

 into possession by 1563 ; ibid. 456. 



"0 Lana. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanca. 

 and Ches.), i, 233. Alice widow of 

 William Hanson and John Hanson her 

 son occur in 1520; Farrer, op, cit. i, 

 268. Alice was still living in 1537; 

 ibid. 325. William the son of John 

 Hanson was admitted to the third part 

 of Emmott Moor and land in Great 

 Marsden in 1557 ; ibid. 418, 421. He 

 had a brother John ; ibid. 461. 



"1 The Rushworths have already been 

 mentioned. In 1599 Lawrence Haberg- 

 ham claimed land called Carry Heys 

 against John and Nicholas Folds j Ducatus 

 Lane, iii, 319. 



Robert Hargreaves of Carry Heys 

 made his will in 1655 {pr. 1657); he 



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