A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



\'arious other estates in Twiston come under notice 

 in the records,^ but no * manor ' is spoken of, except in 

 conjunction with Downham,-' after the middle of the 

 1 6th centur)'. 



The principal owners in 1788 were Thomas Lister 

 s.nd the Rev. Mr. Starkic^"* 



The site of a chapel is marked on the map, but 

 nothing is known of its history except that a charge 

 for St. Lawrence's, Twiston, occurs in the later 

 compotus rolls of Whalley Abbey.*® 



An old burial-ground of the Society of Friends, 

 known as the Sepulchre, was acquired in 1670.^ 



** Thomas Lister in 1564 obtained 

 eight messuages, &c,, from Anthony 

 Lister and Anne his wife ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 26, m. ^T,. Thomas 

 Lister, probably his son, died in 1608 

 holding six messuages, &c^ of the king 

 as duke, and leaving a son Thomas, aged 

 sixteen, who married Jane daughter of 

 Thomas Heber ; Lanes. Inq, p.m. (Rec 

 Soc), i, 117, This Thomas died in 1619 

 holding the same lands and leaving a 

 son Thomaa, aged three years ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxiti, 55. See 

 pedigree of Lister of Gisbum in Whit-iker, 

 Crauen (ed. Morant^, 54.. 



Edward Braddyll in 157$ bought four 

 messuages, &c., from Miles Aspenhaugh, 

 John Houghton and Agnes Houghton his 

 wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of V. bdlc. 37, 

 m. 185. The estate (augmented) was 

 sold to Lawrence Duxbury in 1579 ; ibid. 

 bdle. 41, m. 96. The purchaser died in 

 16 1 9 holding of the king as duke and 

 leaving a son Nicholas, aged thirty-seven ; 

 Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc), ii, 1 67. 

 Nicholas died in 1628, leaving a son 

 Lawrence, aged twenty-three, to inherit 

 the estate ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 x-vvi, no. 26, 



Richard Grimshaw of Mourhiles in 



Pendledied in 1608 holding hit mesiuagc 

 in Twiston of the king as duke by knight 1 

 service. His estate was divided amon^ 

 his tour daughters or their reprcscatativcs ; 

 Ljncs. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc), i, 157, J46. 

 The Grimshaw estate was probably <L»- 

 tained from Assheton, who had purchased 

 from Sir Thomas Langton; Duchy of Lane. 

 Plead, xlv, G lo (note by Mr. Anderton). 



■^ The manors of Downham and Twii- 

 ton are named in the grant to Richard 

 Assheton in 161 ^. 



^'' Land tax returns at Preston. 



«* Whitaker, H^halley, ii, 155, 



^"^ Quaker Char. Rep, 1905, 



560 



