FORESTRY 



the year, nor were there any vaccaries. Inclosing a ' launde ' in Pendle cost 1 31. 4^., and a 

 man maintaining the pales of Ightenhill Park received 4.0s, in wages.^°° 



Ample material to illustrate the development and settlement of the forests and chases of the 

 county in the fifteenth century is to be found in the Ministers' and Receivers' accounts of the 

 Duchy."' In 1443 when the king's tenants of Clitheroe and Tottington attorned to him after the 

 reconveyance of those estates to him from his feoffees there were in Trawden 11, Pendle 24, and 

 in Rossendale 25 tenants. There is little mention of the deer in these chases during the fifteenth 

 century, or of trespassers against venison save an occasional presentment for deer-stealing. Thus 

 Robert son of Lawrence Legh of Clifton in Burnley, gent., was presented for having killed a stag 

 with a crossbow in Rishton Thornes in the forest of Pendle shortly after Midsummer, 1440, which 

 he carried away."^ 



In Lent, 1498, the king caused all persons claiming rights of chase or other liberties within 

 the forests and chases to be summoned to prove their warrant to use such liberties,^'' and a few 

 years later directed a survey to be made inter alia of the Blackburnshire chases with a view to 

 improve the same for his ' most singler profitte and auvantage.' As a result the chases were in 

 1507 let by copy of court roll in parcels as hereunder.^^" 



Pendle Forest 



Westclose and Huntersholrae (pasture) 

 Higham Booth (vachery) 

 New Laund (pasture) .... 

 Barley Booth and ..... 



2 small parcels (vachery). 

 Higham Close alias Nether Higham '*' (vachery) 

 Over Goldshaw and Nether Goldshaw with the Crags 



(vachery) ...... 



Filly Close '^^ (pasture) 



Old Laund (pasture) ..... 

 Whitley Carre (pasture). .... 



Over Barreford and Nether Barreford (vacheries) 



with Russheton Thornes 

 Over Rughley and Nether Rughley alias Rughley 



Booths (vacheries) .... 

 Haw Booth (vachery) .... 

 Whitley in Haw Booth .... 

 Redhalowes (vachery of zoo acres) . 



Old Farm 

 I I 3/. 41^. 

 iom. 

 8ot. 

 113/. 4</. 



£,\ 13^- \d. 



£fi 10s. 

 £g 6s. id. 

 60s. 

 106/. id. 



a \ 



l\s. %d.) 

 £g 6s. U. 



New Rent 



lom. 

 £^0. 



£6. 



;^i3 6s. %d. 



£10 IS-'- 4'^- 

 £4. 6s. %d. 

 £6 6s. 8d. 



£^2 13/. 4"^- 



;^i3 6s. Sd. 



£9 



£10 



Trawden Forest 



Berdshaw Booth (vachery) 



Over Wicoler and Nether Wicoler (vacheries) 



Wyenwall (vachery) .... 



^10 13/. 4d. 

 £\ 13^- \d- 

 £(> 



£13 6s. 8d. 



£6 



£8 13s. 4d. 



Rossendale Forest 



Over Haddes, and Frerehill, alias Henneheedes '" 



(pastures) 

 Cowhouses (vachery) 

 Rounstall alias Rotenstall (vachery) 

 Constablelegh (vachery) and . 

 Okeneywood (pasture) . 

 Dedwenclough (vachery) 



13s. 4d. 



£6 



S3!- 4d. 

 £^0 13'- 



£6 



^d. 



26s. Sd. 



£9 



y6s. 8d. 



£S 



£8 6s. Sd. 



Zio 13/. 4a'. 



'" Duchy of Lane. Auditor's Accts. ifHy. 



"* Pal. of Lane. Assize R. 20 Hen. VI, 3, m. 10. 



"' Pal. of Lane. Prothon. writs, 1 3 Hen. VII. 



De/i. Keepei's Rep. xlv, App. 20-4. 



'" Farrer, Clitheroe Court R. 235. The date of the commission for disaiForesting given by Whitaker in 

 Hist. ofWhalley (ed. 1876), i, 287, as 1502 is incorrect. 



'" A parcel of land called the Fence, lying within the forest or chase of Pendle, and within the pastures 

 or vaccaries of Sabden, Westclose, and Higham, upon which ' the herde of the stagges always before the 

 deforesting had their several being,' was not granted, but was surrendered to the tenants of Higham, Westclose 

 and Goldshaw Booth to their use with their other tenements ; Clitheroe Ct. R. Ightenhill, 6 June, 1 8 Hen. VIII. 



"' ' Hath byn usyd to be agistet to the somme of ^^9 6s. Sd. and no more by cause of the recourse that 

 the dere of PenhuU hath therunto.' 



163 I whych all the kynges tenauntes and fermours in hys forest of Rossendale have had alweyes amonge 

 them in commen.' 



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