BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



The five vaccaries were in 1422 occupied thus : 

 Edmund and John Parker had Over and Nether 

 Beardshaw, paying £S 1 3/. ^.d. a year ; Ellis Parker 

 had Winewall, at £j 6s. %ti. (late £^ los.) ; and 

 GeofFrey and Robert Hartley had Over and Nether 

 WycoUer, at ^^5 13;. \d. (late ^^4 10/.). In addition 

 /i js. id. was received from various other tenants ; 

 6s. ifd. from Lawrence brother and heir of William 

 son of John Parker, for 19 acres improved from the 

 waste ; 6s. %d. for the fishery of Colne Water held by 

 Sir Richard Radclifte and Richard Shireburne ; and 

 1 3/. i^d. (late 2/.) for a mine of sea coal demised to 

 Edmund Parker. Nothing was received for winter 

 agistment, summer herbage, or sales of grass, because 

 all was reserved for the king's deer.'^ Later accounts 

 show that the Beardshaw vaccary was let for 

 £\o \y. \d., Winewall for £6 and Wycoller for no 

 more than ^f 3 6s. Sd. ; the fishery in Colne Water 

 for IS. id. only.13 



In 1 507 the Royal Commissioners found that the 

 vaccary of Beardshaw Booth had lately been let at 

 j^io 13;. ^d., and they demised it to Geoffrey Hartlei-, 

 John Hartley and other old tenants for £1^ 6s. Sd. 

 Winewall, lately let at £6, they demised to James 

 Shuttleworth, Lawrence Smith, Hugh Hartley and 

 the old occupiers for £S 1 3/. ^.d. a year. Wycoller, 

 lately j^4 1 3/. 41/., was demised to Piers Folds, Piers 

 Hartley the elder and other former tenants at £6.^* 

 Carr Heys or Carry Heys and Emmott Moor, now 

 in Colne township, appear then to have been con- 

 sidered part of the forest. In 1527 the tenants of 

 Beardshaw were ten Hartleys,^^ Richard and James 

 Shackleden and GeofFrey Folds ; the same surnames 

 appear again in 1609 (with Shaw added), and in 

 1662, with Crombock and Bancroft added. '^ The 

 tenants of Winewall in 1527 were Roger Hartley, 

 £i IS. 4/ ; Hugh Shuttleworth, Thomas Hartley 

 and James Driver the younger, each ^l 8/. \od. ; 

 John Hartley the elder and Roger Roberts each 

 £1 1/. ?id. The same surnames occur in 1609. In 

 1662 the tenants were John Cunliffe of Hollins, 

 [ames Hartley and Lawrence Shuttleworth of Wanless, 

 John Driver of Stunstead, William Hanson and 



WHALLEY 



Robert Midgeley of Winewall, John Hargreaves of 

 He)royd and John Kippax of Wycoller. The Wycoller 

 tenants in 1527 were Peter Hartley and three others 

 of that surname," Robert Emmott and the wife of 

 James Folds. These surnames again appear in 1609, 

 while in 1662 Elizabeth Cunliffe, Bernard Hartley, 

 Richard Shackleton, John Kippax, Robert and George 

 Emmott and James Folds were the chief tenants."* 

 Edmund Townley of Greenfield in 1598'° and 

 Lawrence Townley of Barnside in 1623 had land in 

 Trawdcn.-" 



The Cunliffes of Hollins in Accrington and of 

 Wycoller have been mentioned in the account of the 

 former township. In Wycoller 

 they succeeded to a Hartley 

 share.-' Nicholas Cunlifle 

 married Elizabeth Hartley at 

 Colne in 1611,22 and was de- 

 scribed as of Wycoller in 

 1 646, when he was a member 

 of the newly-formed Presby- 

 terian Classis^s ; and in 1652 

 he was appointed on the 

 Royalist Sequestration Com- 

 mittee in Lancashire.2^ His 

 widow is mentioned above, as 

 also is his son John, who 



married another Hartley heiress and so obtained an 

 estate in Winewall.^^ Younger branches of the 

 family acquired wealth in commerce in Liverpool 

 and elsewhere.26 The Trawden estate descended to 

 Henry Owen, who in 1773 assumed the surname of 

 Cunlifle. He died in 18 19, and the estate was 

 under a decree of Chancery purchased by the mort- 

 gagee, the Rev. John Oldham, who afterwards sold 

 it to John Wilkinson Warney.^^ 



WrCOLLER HJLL, now a ruin, stands in a 

 picturesque and sheltered situation in the Wycoller 

 Valley, close to the stream, facing south-west, and is 

 a stone-built 16th-century house of somewhat unusual 

 plan, though the state of dilapidation it is now in 

 makes an exact understanding of the original disposi- 

 tion of its parts diflicult. It follows, however, to some 



Cunliffe. Sable 

 three conies courant 

 argent. 



^^ Mins. Accts. bdle. 76, no. 1498, 



^^ In 1459 Jolin, Henry, James and 

 William Hartley and Geoffrey Shakelden 

 paid ,f 10 13s. 4<f. for Beardshaw Booth ; 

 Ellis, Henry and James Hartley and 

 Robert Emmott 66j. %d. (late /6) for Over 

 and Nether Wycoller, with a parcel of 

 meadow taken out of Winewall ; John 

 Hartley and Thomas Driver £6 for Wine- 

 wall ; and Lawrence Lister zod. (late 

 p. 41/.) for the fishery ; Receivers' Accts. 

 bdle. 89, no. 1648. 



In 1464 William Leyland was farmer 

 of all three vaccaries at the rents named, 

 and Lawrence Lister had the fishery ; 

 ibid. bdle. 90, no. 1649, In 1474 Lord 

 Stanley had Beardshaw, Peter Hartley 

 Winewall and Christopher Parker Wy- 

 coller, Lawrence Lister having the 

 fishery; ibid. bdle. 90, no. 1650. The 

 same names and rents are recorded in 

 1495 ; ibid, bdle, 91, no. 1662. As the 

 Earl of Derby is still called 'Lord 

 Stanley,* this rental had not been properly 

 revised. 



The list of tenants in 1443 shows the 

 surnames of Clerk, Parker (Carr Hey), 

 Booth, Emmotts and Hartley ; Farrer, 

 CUtheroe Ct. R, i, 506. 



" MS. at Huntroyde. The tenants of 

 1527 are from Duchy of Lane. Rentals, 

 bdle. 5, no. 1 2 ; of 1609 from the Grim- 

 shaw MS. ; and of 1662 from Towneley's 

 MS. entitled ' Honor of CUtheroe.' 



'5 Viz. Henry, three Rogers, two 

 Nicholases (one a chaplain), James the 

 younger, John the younger and Richard. 



" The 1662 list is : James and Roger 

 Folds, Geoffrey, Robert, James, John and 

 Roger Hartley, Geoffrey and James 

 Shackleton and James Bancroft, all de- 

 scribed as 'of Trawden' ; James Hartley 

 of Lane, James Hartley of Wanless, 

 James Hartley of Aldcrhurst, James 

 Hartley of Bcyghur, James Hartley of 

 Ludgemoss, John Hartley of Gelford 

 (Gillvcrt) Clough, Peter Hartley of 

 Beardshaw Head and John Crombock of 

 Clerk Hill (Whalley). 



^' Viz. John, Christopher senior and 

 Christopher junior. 



'8 All were described as of Wycoller 

 except George Emmott of Emmott. 



" Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvii, 

 no. 13. 



'■"' Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), iii, 410. 



549 



'^^ viz. that held by John Hartley in 

 1609. 



-'2 Colne Reg. 



» Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1868), i, 227. 



''^ Cal. Com. far Comp. i, 633 ; Royalist 

 Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 iii, 281. His brother Robert also was a 

 strong Parliamentarian, being member for 

 the county in 1653 ; Pink and Beaven, 

 Pari. Repre. of Lanes. 73. See the pedi- 

 gree in Whitaker, Whalley, ii, 259, from 

 which several of the particulars in the 

 text have been derived. 



25 John Cunliffe married Grace Hartley 

 at Colne 8 Dec. 1628 ; Grace Cunliffe 

 was buried there 18 Mar. 1635-6 ; Reg. 

 Elizabeth daughter of John Cunliffe of 

 WycoUer was baptized 15 Nov. 1635; 

 ibid. The Winewall estate would de- 

 scend to the daughter, Wycoller going to 

 Nicholas, John's son by a second mar- 

 riage, baptized 11 Apr. 1640; ibid. 



26 One of John CunUffe's grandsons 

 was Foster Cunliffe, a Liverpool merchant 

 (d. 1758), who is ancestor of the Cun- 

 liffes baronets ; Gregson, Fragments (ed. 

 Harland), 168. 



'>■'' Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 258 ; Gastrell, 

 Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc), ii, 327 n. 



