AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



ST. MICHAEL- 

 ON-WYRE 



distributed in money doles, 68 and £i from Ellen 

 Longworth for bread for the poor attending Copp 

 Church. 89 Elizabeth Hoole or Hull gave about 

 2 acres of meadow in Elswick to the Roman Catholic 

 chapel in Great Eccleston, charging it with the pay- 

 ment of £$ a year to the poor of Elswick. 90 This 

 sum is distributed by the parish council in money 

 gifts at Christmas. 



Thomas Knowles of Sowerby in 1686 gave his 

 estate at Loudscales in Goosnargh for the benefit of 

 the poor of Great and Little Sowerby, Inskip, Tarn- 

 acre and Goosnargh, in equal shares. The gross 

 rental is £90. Three-fourths of the net income, 

 about £82, is divided equally between Inskip with 

 (Great) Sowerby and Upper Rawcliffe with Tarnacre 

 (which includes Little Sowerby). The money is 

 given by the trustees in doles averaging about 14^. in 

 December. 91 For Inskip with Sowerby there is a 

 further money dole of £16 18/., due to the gift of 

 John Jolly in 1750, 92 and for Upper Rawcliffe with 

 Tarnacre other doles of £2 lew. from Ralph Long- 

 worth 93 and £2 from John Hudson. 9 ' In Out 

 Rawcliffe £1 is. a year used to be given, but had 

 ceased by 1 824." 



The township of Woodplumpton has £23 iSs. ^d. 

 a year from the benefactions of Thomas Houghton 96 

 and George Nicholson, 97 applicable in kind, or in 

 medical relief, money gifts or education. It has also 

 £ 8 1 5/. a year, given in money, from the bequest of 

 Richard Edward Waterworth in 1850. 93 



UPPER RAWCLIFFE WITH 

 TARNACRE 



Rodeclif, Dom. Bk. ; Rotheclif, 1301 ; Uprouthe- 

 clyve, lz88. Up Rawcliffe was the form commonly 

 used till about 1 700, when Upper Rawcliffe, which 

 appears in the 16th century, displaced it. 



Trenaker, c. 1250. 



This township, which contains the parish church, 

 has a total area of 3,839^ acres, 1 of which two-thirds 

 lie north of the River Wyre and the remaining third 

 south. The population in 1901 was 518. Tarnacre 

 or Trenacre, the acreage of which is now estimated 

 as 486, is in the north-east,' Turnover Hall about 

 the centre, on the north bank of the river, with 

 Stockenbridge to the south ; White Hall is on the 

 western border. The Brock flows into the Wyre 

 half a mile east of the church. The surface is flat 

 and low ; the highest ground, about 50 ft. above sea 

 level, is in the north, in Rawcliffe Moss. 



The principal roads go from east to west through 

 the township, to the south and north of the river, 

 from Myerscough to Great Eccleston (past the church), 

 and from Catterall to Hambleton respectively. Near 

 the church there is a bridge across the Wyre by which 

 these roads are connected. 



A parish council administers local affairs. 



The soil is mostly light peat with subsoil of blue 

 clay ; oats, potatoes, turnips, &c, are grown. 



There are ghost stories connected with two of the 

 old houses. Major Longworth of St. Michael's Hall 

 was said to have haunted the place after his death. 

 To lay his ghost the ' combined power of priest and 

 parson was brought into operation. The ghost was 

 " laid" under the bridge near the hall, with the injunc- 

 tion that it had to remain quiet " so long as the water 

 flowed down the hills and the ivy remained green." ' 3 

 The other ghost was said to appear in the garden of 

 White Hall. 1 



In 1066 Earl Tostig held a RAW- 

 MANORS CLIFFE assessed as three plough-lands 

 and a Ml CHAELKIRK assessed as one. 5 

 Probably the whole was granted together with Gar- 

 stang to form the Wyresdale fee of the Lancaster 

 family. 6 In 1 242 Lambert de Multon held the twelfth 

 part of a knight's fee in Rawcliffe.' He was then 



Stone Lands, for ' the poorest sort of 

 householders' in the township. The 

 charge is still paid, and the money is 

 distributed with Dobson's. 



88 The list of recipients is settled by 

 the parish council. 



89 She left £20 in 1789 for the purpose 

 named. The capital is intact, and £ 1 a 

 year is paid as interest. This provides 

 ten twopenny ' cobs,' which are given 

 after morning service at Copp Church on 

 the last Sunday of the month to poor 

 people who have attended the service. 



90 The rent-charge now exceeds the 

 annual value of the land. 



" The other fourth part goes to the 

 poor of Goosnargh. 



92 He left the residue of his estate for 

 the benefit of poor housekeepers in the 

 township. The whole amount was ^370, 

 but 3^170 was said to have been lost by 

 the bankruptcy of a trustee ; the re- 

 mainder is lent on mortgage, and owing 

 to various charges only a small amount 

 yearly has recently been available for 

 distribution. The trustees give it in 

 sums of 11. to y. about Christmas time. 



93 His will was dated 1691. In 1824 

 the £2 1 01. was paid out of the estate 

 called St. Michael's Hall, which had 

 been owned by John Ashton Nelson of 

 Fairhurst, and after his death in 1822 

 V his sister. Archdeacon Hornby was 

 the owner in 1898, and paid the rent- 

 charge through his tenant. The sum 



was added to Knowles' charity and simi- 

 larly distributed. 



94 By his will in 1722 he left his 

 estate in Upper Rawcliffe to his son 

 Robert charged with £2 to be paid in 

 equal sums to four of the poorest persons 

 in the township 'to buy them such things 

 as they should stand most in need of, 

 against the great yearly festival of the 

 Nativity.' Ralph Baincs was the owner 

 in 1824 and William Baines Porter in 

 1898 ; the rent-charge is duly paid and 

 given in sums of 10s. to four poor persons. 



95 It had been paid by John France and 

 then by his widow ; but there was nothing 

 to show that it was not a voluntary gift, 

 and on her death about 1822 it ceased. 



96 He in 1649 devised an estate in 

 Woodplumpton and Broughton for chari- 

 table uses ; see End. Char. Rep. for 

 Preston. A fourth part of the income 

 (£67) is available for Woodplumpton. 

 It used to be given in money doles, but 

 is now united with Nicholson's gift, as 

 follows. 



97 He left money for 'needful poor 

 people ' in the township about 1666 ; and 

 in 1672 it was decreed that ,£210 was 

 the sum due to the poor. The income, 

 now S-j 31. \d. from consols, was, like 

 Houghton's charity, formerly distributed 

 in money doles, but since 1870 the two 

 have been combined and regulated under 

 a scheme of the Charity Commissioners, 

 allowing payments as in the text. The 



267 



income is applied to paying bonuses to 

 contributors to a clothing club, care being 

 taken to allow larger sums to the poorer 

 members. 



98 He left £600, half the interest to 

 be paid to theincumbent of Woodplumpton 

 Church and half to be distributed in 

 money or bread among poor persons, over 

 sixty years of age, recommended by the 

 said incumbent. 



1 The Census Rep. of 1 901 gives 

 3,842 acres, including 38 of inland 

 water. 



2 It appears from charters, &c, that 

 this hamlet was formerly much more 

 extensive, reaching to the south side of 

 the Wyre by the church. 



3 Hewitson, Our Country Churches, ^7. 



4 Fishwick, St. Michael's (Chet. Soc), 

 167. 6 V.C.H. Lanes, i, 2884. 



6 Ibid, i, 357, n. 13 ; Final Cone. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 214 ; ii, 51. 



7 Lanes. Ina. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 154. Lambert 

 de Multon married Amabil daughter and 

 co-heir of Richard de Lucy by Ada 

 daughter and co-heir of Hugh de Morvill 

 and Helewise de Stutevill, widow of 

 William de Lancaster II. Ada de Lucy 

 married for her second husband Thomas 

 de Multon, the father of Lambert. It 

 seems to have been in this way that 

 Lambert obtained a part at least of Upper 

 Rawcliffe ; Cockersand Chartul. (Chet. 

 Soc), i, 178 n. 



