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154.4 sold by the Crown to John Braddyll of 

 Whalley,'* and he in 1545 sold the same to Lawrence 

 Townley and Henry his son.'" Henry Townley 

 died in 1 61 6 holding the 

 manor of Barnside of the king 

 in chief by the zooth part 

 of a knight's fee." His son 

 Lawrence, then forty years of 

 age, died in 1623 holding 

 similarly and leaving a son and 

 heir Richard, aged twenty- 

 six.'^ Richard Townley died 

 in 1630 holding the manor 

 or capital messuage of Barn- 

 side by the same tenure as 

 before, \vith messuages and 

 lands in Barnside, Monkroyd, 

 Foulridge, Colne and Traw- 

 den Forest ; also parts of the 



manors of Goosnargh and Wrightington and mes- 

 suages in Little Marsden.^' His heirs were three 

 sisters, but he had devised his estates^** to a cousin, 

 Richard Townley,''* whose grandson Richard left a 

 daughter and heir Margaret.''^ She in 1754 married 

 John Clayton of Little Harwood, and Barnside de- 

 scended to their son Colonel Thomas Clayton.''' 

 After his death in 1835 it was sold to Robert Halstead 

 Hargreaves of Ardwick, and descended to his son.''^ 

 The old house was abandoned as the residence of the 

 family in the i8th century,''^ Carr Hall in Barrowford 

 being preferred. It has since been demolished. 

 Roger de Lacy before 1 2 1 1 granted to Alexander 



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de Bamford 14 acres of land in Foulridge (called 

 Sourby) and in Chorlesykehurst at a rent of 3/.,'"'^ 

 but the later descent does not appear. 



In 1323-4 Adam Proctor of Colne gave the 

 messuage called Monkroyd in Barnside to Richard 

 his son and Joan his wife ; the boundaries given 

 mention 'Souribough' as the boundary between 

 Monkroyd and Barnside. A service of is. a year 

 was due to St. John's Priory, Pontefract, and some 

 other service to Richard de Barnside. ''" In 1509 

 Richard Banastre obtained a messuage and land in 

 Barnside from Percival Proctor and Grace his wife."'' 

 Hamerton seems to have followed."''' In the 1 7th 

 century Monkroyd was part of the Barnside estate. 



A document of about the middle of the 17th 

 century gives the following as the freeholders in Foul- 

 ridge whose estates were worth at least £^ a year : 

 Mr. Richard Townley, esq., £100 ; Mr. Ambrose 

 Barcroft, gent., £^0 ; and the following yeomen : 

 Thomas Barcroft, ^20 ; John Fairebank, John Har- 

 greaves and John Holgate, ^f 10 each ; Henry 

 Accrondley, Henry Boulton, Richard Hargreaves, 

 James, Robert and Roger Hartley, Henry Pollard ancl 

 John Spencer, £i, each.^** 



James Cattei-all was the only landowner contribut- 

 ing to the subsidy of 1524,*° and Lawrence Townley 

 in I564'*f ; in 1597 Henry Townley and Thomas 

 Barcroft contributed,** and Richard Townley and 

 Ambrose Barcroft in 1626.^^ 



In Foulridge in 1666 there were in all 139 hearths 

 liable to the tax. The largest house was that of 

 James Smith, with ten hearths ; Mrs. Townley's 



been withheld recently ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Assize R. 4, m. 13 d., 22. In 1445 

 William, then Prior of Pontefract, claimed 

 fo acres in Barnside against William 

 Monkroyd as the right of this church ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 8, m. l6i; 9, 

 m. 19. 



At the Colne Court of 1425 William 

 Nutter was presented for an encroachment 

 on the lord's waste in Colne, but he said 

 he was a free tenant of Pontefract Priory 

 and had the land in its right ; Farrcr, 

 Clitheme Ct. S. i, 217. 



«5Pat. 36 Hen. VIII, pt. xi. The 

 price was ^393. 



^ W. Farrer's D. 103 ; it appears that 

 Lawrence Townley was the occupier. 

 This Lawrence was son of Henry son of 

 the Lawrence Townley who in 1507 

 acquired Rishton Thorns in Barrowford ; 

 Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Chcs.), 

 lii, 112-13. Lawrence Townley was 

 living in 1527 (Rental) but dead in 1530, 

 and his son Henry died in the following 

 year ; Farrer, Clitheme Ct. R. i, 301, 304. 

 Lawrence Townley, the grandfather, 

 erected the Barnside quire in Colne 

 Church. The grandson and his son Henry 

 in 1563 granted a lease of the Shaw in 

 Barnside to Richard Hargreaves of the 

 Hill; W. Farrer's D. 104. Henry 

 Townley increased his inheritance by 

 marriage with Anne Catterall of Mitton, 

 Goosnargh, &c., and a settlement of mes- 

 suages, &c., in Barnside, Foulridge and 

 Goosnargh was made by them in 1590 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 52, m. 136. 

 An agreement for a marriage between 

 John a son of Henry Townley and Ellen 

 daughter of Thomas Rishworth was made 

 in 1589; Add. MS. 32104, no. 1240. 

 There were disputes as to the commons 

 in 1596, the tenants of Colne making 

 claims j Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 3 5 9. 



^•^ Lanes. Jnq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 30. 



^* Ibid, iii, 410. Lawrence Townley 

 in 1622 obtained from the Crown a lease 

 of all the coal mines in the manors of 

 Colne and Ightenhill, and subleased the 

 same to John Hargreaves of Heyroyd ; 

 Add. MS. 32104, no. 528. 



Lawrence's will is printed in IVills 

 (Chet. Soc. new ser.), ii, 192. The will 

 of Lucy Townley of Shacklehey, 1621, 

 daughter of Lawrence is printed by 

 Piccope ; Tp^ills (Chet. Soc), iii, 197, 



^^ Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxv, no. 

 19. His heirs were his sisters — Anne 

 wife of Henry Hoghton, Margaret wife of 

 Lawrence Roberts and Jane wife of John 

 Haliday, each over thirty years of age. 

 Alice Townley, his widow, was living at 

 Carr Hall. She afterwards married Chris- 

 topher Towneley. 



■" By his will (1630) he desired to be 

 buried in his own quire in Colne, where 

 his ancestors lay buried. He set aside 

 £()0 a year for the maintenance and 

 education of Richard and Robert, the sons 

 of his uncle Robert Townley, deceased. 

 He left j^20 to the poor of Colne. 



" Dugdale, Fisit. (Chet. Soc), 308, 

 where it is stated that Richard Townley 

 was killed at a bullfight at Gisburn 

 about 1655 and left a son of the same 

 name aged fourteen in 1664. In 1673 

 a settlement was made of the manor of 

 Barnside with lands, &c., there and in 

 Foulridge, Monkroyd, Colne and Goos- 

 nargh ; Pal. of Lane Feet of F. bdle. 

 191, m. 6j. The deforciants were 

 Richard Townley and Anne Townley, 

 widow. See Exch. Dep. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 57-60, 142 for a dispute as 

 to the management of Barnside, 1678-80. 

 •"' Pedigree in Whitaker, Whalley, ii, 

 256, where it is stated that Richard 



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Townley had a son Richard, who died in 

 1739, and by his second wife (Martha 

 Barcroft of Noyna) left a daughter and 

 heir Margaret. In 1728 there wa3 a 

 recovery of the manor of Barnside, 

 Richard Townley being vouchee ; Pal, of 

 Lane. Plea R. 526, m. z. In another 

 recovery In 1751 Margaret Townley, 

 spinster, was vouchee ; ibid. 572, m. 97. 

 The will of Martha Townley, widow 

 of Richard Townley of Carr Hall, dated 

 1756, mentions her daughter Margaret 

 wife of John Clayton, and her late 

 husband's sisters Catherine Grimshaw, 

 Ann Clarkson and Margaret Labege. 

 Special directions are given as to paintings 

 of horses and dogs left by her husband. 

 John Barcroft was executor ; W. Farrer's 

 D. 



^^ Thomas Clayton was tenant in 1 776 j 

 Pal, of Lane. Plea R. 624, m. 4. 

 ^^ Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 256 n. 

 ^^ Richard Townley was described as 

 * of Carr Hall ' in 1684 ; Colne Ct. R. 



^^^ Kuerden fol. MS. (Chet. Lib.), fol. 

 234 ; Whitaker, Whalley, ii, 260. 



^6 Kuerden fol. MS. (Chet. Lib.), fol. 

 310. The bounds began at a stone called 

 Ernistone on the west side of the hill 

 called Bernsetkreg, following its south 

 side to the east part of Harlow as far as 

 the west of Ivomsligh (? Ickornshaw) 

 waste, south to Sandford Syke (the 

 boundary between Lancashire and York- 

 shire), and by this syke west to the way 

 down from Souribough and up the stream 

 to Ernistone, 



^' Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), iii, 166. ^^* Sizergh D. ii, 397. 

 ^^ Folds MSS. ; it is signed by Henry 

 Pollard, constable of Foulridge. 



"•^ Subs. R. Lanes, bdle. 130, no. 82. 



^^ Ibid. bdle. 131, no. 212. 



^^ Ibid, no. 274. ^2 Hjjd^ no^ ^i^_ 



