BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



Burvvains and Anibvvell are noteworthy house- 

 names. 



There is an ancient cross.' 



The township is administered by a parish council. 

 FOULRIDGE, a member of the 

 MANOR Lacys' Clitheroe lordship, was in 1242 

 held of the heir of the Earl of Lincoln 

 by John de Crigleston by the service of the 

 eighth part of a knight's fee ; it belonged to the 

 dower of the countess.* John de Pothou and Rosa- 

 mund his wife held Foulridge in 1275, apparently 

 in the wife's right," and William son of John de 

 Pothou asserted a claim to it through his mother." 

 In 1302 it was held by the same tenure by Willi.im 

 de Pothou,' but in 1 3 1 1 the said Willi.im was 

 recorded to hold two plough-lands in Foulridge of 

 Henry de Lacy by the fourth part of a knight's fee 

 and suit at the court of Clitheroe.' In the same 

 year Brian de Thornhill purchased the manor of 

 Foulridge from William son of John de Pothou.' 

 John de Thornhill died in 1322 holding of the king 

 as of his lordship of Clitheroe a capital messuage in 

 Foulridge, with 8 oxgangs of land demised to tenants 

 at will, a water-mill, and various lands and rights, 

 including zos. rent from four free tenants ; he held 

 by homage and fealty and the service of the eighth 



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part of a knight's fee.'" His son and heir Brian, then 

 twenty-three years of age, is mentioned soon after- 

 wards as holding one plough-land in Foulridge for the 

 eighth part of a knight's fee." He was living and 

 holding the same in 1355 " and 1361.'' 



By the marriage of his granddaughter Elizabeth 

 to Henry Savile early in the 15th century" Foul- 

 ridge passed to the Saviles already noticed in the 

 .iccount of Rochdale, and in 1445-6 their son Sir 

 Thomas Savile held the eighth part of a knight's fee 

 there." Sir John Savile held the same about 1484.'" 

 A later Sir John died in 1505 holding the manor 

 and other lands of the king as of his duchy of 

 Lancaster by the eighth part of a knight's fee and 

 rent ; his heir was his son Henry, twenty-two years 

 of age." Foulridge was in 1551 included in the 

 settlement on Robert Savile in the same way as 

 Rochdale." Robert appears to have sold many 

 parcels of land in Foulridge,*' and in 1573 he and 

 his wife Anne were deforciants to a fine of the manor, 

 with its messuages, lands, water-mill, rents and view 

 of frankpledge.'" This appears to have preceded a 

 sale by which the manor was divided among the 

 freeholders, as in later inquisitions a number of 

 fractions are recorded, but the manor as a whole 

 disappears.*' 



^ Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xviii, 37. 



* Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rcc. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 150. 



* De Banco R. 10, m. 37 d. ; 28, m. 

 I7d. See also Cat. Close^ 1272-9, 



P- 333-4- 



" Agnes and Margery, daughters of John 

 the Harper, were stated to have land in 

 Foulridge, and Agnes summoned John 

 de Pothou to warrant her. He did not 

 come, and his son William thereupon 

 prayed that he might not lose his tene- 

 ments, of which his mother had died 

 seised ; Assize R. 408, m. 24 d. John de 

 Pothou was party to other suits ; ibid, 

 m. 24, 58. 



' Lanes. Inq. and Extents^ i, 318. 

 8 Ibid, ii, 13. 



' Final Cone. (Rcc. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 6. 



*" Lanes. Inq. and Extents^ ii, 45. In 

 demesne he held 8 acres of meadow. 

 Tenants at will held of him 50 acres of 

 roodland. 



" Ibid, ii, 134. 



'^ Feudal Aids, iii, 88. See also the 

 Lansdowne Feodary in Baines' Lanes. 

 (ed. 1870), ii, 694. 



" Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 122. 

 " Foster, Yorks. Ped. (West Riding). 

 '* Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, bdle. 

 2, no. 20. 



'^ Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. cxxx. 

 '' Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. ii, no. ii ; 

 V, no. 5, 32. The first recites a charter of 

 Thomas Savile, great-grandfather of Sir 

 John, dated at Foulridge 142 1, and gives 

 the descent. 



'« Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 14, 

 m. 223. 



"For example, in 1565 John Taylor 

 purchased a messuage, &c., in Foulridge 

 from Robert Savile 5 Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 27, m. 211. See also Pal. of 

 Lane. Plea R. 214, m. 7. 



2" Pah of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 35, 

 m. 146. The * manor' of Foulridge, 

 with water-mill, &e., was acquired by 

 Robert Walker from Henry Mitton in 

 i6lo; ibid. bdle. 74, no. 52. From in- 

 quisitions cited below it appears that the 



manor had been subdivided long before 

 this. 



^' William Halstead died in 1589 

 holding, among other lands, a twenty-fifth 

 part of the manor of Foulridge of the 

 queen as of her duchy by the hundredth 

 part of a knight's fee j Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. XV, no. 2. 



Richard son of Henry Ryeroft died in 

 1595 holding two messuages in Foulridge 

 and the fourteenth part of the manor and 

 water grain mill of the queen as of her 

 duchy by the eightieth part of a knight's 

 fee. The heir was a son Henry, aged 

 three years ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xvii, no. 93. Some deeds are in the Court 

 of Wards and Liveries (box 42.^, no. 

 FD 1—5} ; they show that Richard 

 Ryeroft of Standroyd just before his death 

 gave his newly-erected house in Foulridge, 

 &c., to Richard Ryeroft of Mosshouse 

 and another as trustees. A sister Ellen 

 appears to have married Henry Walton of 

 Great Hey. 



William Barcroft of Bareroft in Cliviger 

 in 1575 granted to trustees two messuages 

 in Foulridge and land in Broad Slack there 

 to the use of himself for life, and then of 

 Henry Barcroft his younger son and male 

 issue, with remainder to Henry's brother 

 Thomas; Add. MS. 32104, no. 521. 

 Henry Bareroft died in 1587 holding a 

 messuage in Foulridge of the queen as of 

 her duchy by the hundredth part of a 

 knight's fee. His son Henry, aged thirteen 

 in 1591, having died, a younger son 

 William was In 1606 found to be the 

 heir ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvill, 

 no. 15 ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 47. 'Thomas Barcroft, who 

 died In 1609, held a fifth part of the 

 manor of the king as duke by knight's 

 service. His son Ambrose was thirty- 

 nine years old In 1618 ; ibid, ii, 95. A 

 deed of 1739 (W. Farrer's D.) names 

 William Barcroft of Noyna as grandson 

 and heir of Thomas Bareroft, deceased. 

 William Bareroft was vouchee of part of 

 the manor in 1742 5 Pal. of Lane. Plea 

 R. 554, m. 5. For Captain Ambrose 

 William Barcroft (d. 1795) see Carr, 



545 



Annah of Colne, 87-9. The Barcroft 

 share of the manor, one-fifth and one- 

 thirty-sixth, was in 1762 sold to John 

 Clayton by John Barcroft, Elizabeth his 

 wife and Martha Barcroft ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 267, m. 27. 



John Barcroft, a celebrated Quaker 

 (1664— 1723), was descended from the 

 Barcrofts of Noyna ; Wilkinson Tatter- 

 sall, Memories of Hursfwood, 108, 109. 



John Pollard died in 1608 holding a 

 messuage, &c,, and the thirty-fifth part of 

 the mill and a rent from the tenant of 

 Foulridge Hall, of the king as of his duchy 

 by the 200th part of a knight's fee. His 

 son John was five years old ; ibid, i, 118. 



Robert Banister of Park Hill, who died 

 in 1 6 1 6, held four messuages, a sixth 

 part of the mill and a sixth part of the 

 wastes of the manor of Foulridge of the 

 king as of his castle of Clitheroe in socage ; 

 ibid, ii, 29. 



Others who held of the king by knight's 

 service were James Whitacre, d, 1604; 

 Agnes Hargreaves, widow, d. 1616 ; John 

 Holgate, d. 1619 ; James Payley, d. 1621 j 

 ibid, ii, 1 19, loi, 218, 290. 



The above-named Agnes (? Alice) Har- 

 greaves, who had a son and heir Robert, 

 appears to have had sisters Margery and 

 Elizabeth, of whom the former (d. 1623) 

 married John Emmott (d. 1625), s.p., and 

 the latter married the father of Henry 

 Walton, who left a son Ambrose, aged 

 forty, in 1630. The Emmotts held a six- 

 teenth part of the manor and water-mill, 

 and their right descended to Robert Har- 

 greaves ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxviii, 

 no. 31. See also Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 74, no. 23. Robert Hargreaves 

 died in 1635 holding a sixteenth part of 

 the manor of the king as of his duchy 

 by the 200th part of a knight's fee. His 

 heir was his son John (of Highroyd), 

 aged forty-eight, but the Foulridge lands 

 had been settled on a younger son Richard. 

 Towneley MS. C 8, I3 (Chet. Lib.), 

 p. 495. 



Lawrence Mancknowles died in 1627 

 holding 25 acres of land in Foulridge 

 called * Panshaiebrook,' 4 acres called 



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