Ch. X. 



LANCASHIRE. 



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the Duke of Lancaster kept house here, 

 but that it was disparked and granted by 

 lease to Sir John Townley, Knt., for 

 seventy years in the tenth of the reign of 

 Henry VIII., at an annual rent of 30/. 

 Whitaker adds, that Sir Richard Shuttle- 

 worth appears as the lessee about the 

 fifteenth of Elizabeth, ' which they have 

 since converted into fee-simple.' 



The Forest of Blackburnshire, observes 

 Whitaker, appears to have been divided 

 into four subordinate divisions, viz. : 

 Ifjitenhill Park, Trawden Chase, Rosseiu 

 dale Chase with the Park of Musbury, and 

 the Chase oi Accrington. Custody of the 

 Herbageof Musbury was granted to James 

 de Radcliflfe by John of Gaunt in the eight- 

 eenth of Richard 1 1., and a lease was also 

 granted of this park to Richard Radcliffe 

 of Radcliffe for twenty years at the rent of 

 8/. 6j. %d. in the ninth of Edward IV.^ 



In Bowland Forest, of which the family 

 of Parker of Browsholme were hereditary 

 bow-bearers, and where the deer were 

 finally destroyed in the year 1805,' there 

 were too ' Launds ' or enclosures for the 

 deer — Radholme Park or Lawn, in York- 

 shire, and the park of Lathgram or Lea- 

 gram, in Lancashire. 



An ancient park existed also at Stony- 

 hurst on the borders of Yorkshire, ' but 

 when it was enclosed,' says Whitaker, ' I 

 have not been able to learn.' 'The Dean 

 or Abbot,' he tells us, ' had a park at 

 JVAaNey,a.nd here, according to tradition, 

 bubali or wild cattle were transplanted 

 from Blakely, and after the Dissolution 

 removed to Gisbume Park, where their 



* Whitaker's Whalley, p. 222. 



2 See Mr. Lister Parker's Description of 

 Browsholme Hall, p. 12. 



' Whitaker's WhaUey, p. 205. Tradition 

 says they were drawn to Gisbume by the 



descendants still remain.'' By Inquisition 

 in the ninth of Henry VIII., it was found 

 that the Abbot's Park of Whalley was en- 

 closed in the twenty-second of Henry .VII., 

 but it is probable that this refers only to 

 a licientia imparcandi, of later date than 

 thetime at which it was actually enclosed.'* 



Whitaker describes the warm and fertile 

 country on the left bank of the river 

 Ribble from Walton to Salisbury, ten miles 

 in length, as one of the finest portions of 

 Ribblesdale : it was once possessed, he 

 says, by five knightly families, all resident 

 on their own estates. In this tract were 

 four parks, as many manor-houses of the 

 first rank, furnished with domestic chapels, 

 all now gone, the parks divided, and the 

 woods destroyed. The parks appear to 

 have been Osbaldeston,Salesbury, Samles- 

 bury, and Dinkley? 



At Rishton in this neighbourhood was 

 once an ancient park, as appears by the 

 petition of Richard Walmesley to King 

 Charles II. in May 1664, asking for a 

 confirmation of the Charter of Edward II., 

 granting free warren and liberty of hunt- 

 ing in the demesne lands of Rishton, and 

 for permission to impark and employ for 

 breeding deer his other lands adjoining, 

 lying in the parish of WhaUey.' 



At Hopton was also an ancient park 

 first mentioned in the second year of 

 Edward III. It then belonged to the 

 Arches family. Prior to the year ii8r, 

 Robert de Lacy, who died in 1 193, granted 

 to William de Arches a confirmation of all 

 the privileges which his ancestors had 

 conferred upon the ancestors of the latter, 



power of music. — Btiwick^s Quadrupeds, p. 

 39 «. 



< lb. p. 251. 



» lb. p. 433. 



• Calendar of State Papers Domestic. 



