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contained in their boundaries. 1 Vide supra, (p. 306) under Iglitenhill. [The name of John de Lacy is now altered to Robert in accordance with Dr. Whitaker's note in his last edition, p. 228. The word " slack " is probably still incorrect: see note 4 .
Toteynton. Carta Henrici de Middleton per quam dedit Johanni de Lascy Comiti Lincolnie et Constabulario Cestrie, et heredibus suis in feodo, totam terrain suam in Totyngton cum omnibus pertinenciis suis.
quatuor acras terre in foresta de Totynton.] 3 Vide cart. W. de Stapleton, under Rochdale. 3 [The charter itself now printed from the coucher of Monkbretton shows that the reservation was retained.] 4 [Dr. Whitaker printed this " Pilgrim crosse-charche," which he suggested was an error for churche; but it more probably meant a shaw, or wood. It follows that his theory of a pilgrims' church or chapel standing near the- cross is imaginary.]
324 HISTORY OF WHALLEY. [BOOK III. CHAP. IV. Carta Eogeri de Monte Begonia. Omnibus sancte matris Ecclesie filiis ad quos presens scriptum pen-enerit, Rogerus de Monte Begonis salutem. Noverit universitas vestra me divine pietatis intuitu dedisse et concessisse, et hac present! carta mea confirmasse Deo et ecclesie Sancte Marie Magdalene de Bretton et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus totam forestam meam que vocatur Holecumbam, videlicet boscum et planum intus et extra sine ullo reteni- mento, per istas divisas subscriptas, scilicet quantum foresta mea se extendit versus Querendonam in longitu- dino et latitudine, et ascendendo per divisas foreste meo usque ad Langschauet, 1 et de Langschauet usque ad Aldenehevet, et de Aldene hevet extrauverso usque Arkilishou, 2 et iude per medium Arkilishou versus ad Pilgrimscroschahe, et inde descendendo versus ad viam que ducit per medium Tyteleshou, sequendo predictam viam usque ad Titelesliou broc, et inde versus occidentem sequendo semitam que dicitur semita latronum usque Saltcrbrigge, et de Saltcrbriggc usque viam de Oskelei. Tenenda et habenda omnia que sunt infra divisas prcscriptas tarn super tcrram quam subtus, et de omnibus predictis pro voluntate faciendum etutenda sua, libere, quicte, pacifice et lionorifico sicut puram et porpetuam clemosinam. Salva tamen venacione et salvis nisis* mihi ct heredibus meis infra predictas divisas. Prctcrca dedi et concessi eisdem monachis totam pasturam foreste mee et sustcntacionem plenariam averiis suis de bosco infra divisas subscriptas videlicet de Caldweft hevet 4 versus in nquam de J?rcwil, 5 sequendo Caldwellsic, et inde sequendo prewil versus Titeleshoubroc, et inde ascendendo per Titelishou broc usque ad viam que ducit per medium Titelesliou, et inde sequendo predictam viam versus ad Caldewell'hcvet. Salva tamen hominibus de Totington comuna quam antiquitus habere sole- bant. Preterea dedi et concessi predictis monachis tres acras de prato sub Arkilhou juxta Pilgrim croschahe, et licebit eisdem monachis circa illud pratum 6 sepem facere vcl fossatum prout voluerint. Et sciendum est quod prenominati monachi debcnt communicare ubique cum hominibus de Totington. Et si averia predic- torum monachorum prenominatas divisas transgredierint predict! monachi inde non debent causari nee homines eorum ncc pastores, sed predicta averia debent reduci inter proprias divisas predictorum monachorum sine calumpnia alicujus vcl molestia. Ista omnia prenominata sicut prescripta simul dedi et concessi predictis monachis in puram et pcrpctuani elemosinam pro salute anime mee et uxoris mee et patris mei et matris mcect Johannis Malhcrbe fratris mci ct antecessorum et successorum meorum. Ita tamen quod nullus ballivus meus sen serviens sive forestarius meus vel hercdum meorum vcl assignatorum meorum vel assignatorum hcredum meorum inquictabit vcl molestabit nee gravabit predictos monachos nee homines eorum nee pastores nee averia eorum in nullis rebus, nee in cibis nisi ex mcra liberalitate eis conferre voluerunt. Quare volo et firmiter prccipio ut prenominati monachi habeant et teneant et possideant omnia prenominata sicut supra- scripta sunt in puram et perpetuam elemosinam tarn libere tarn pacifico tarn honorifice et integre quam aliqua elemosina melius ct liberius dari poterit vel teneri vel possideri in tota Anglia. Et ego prefatus Rogerus et heredes mei vel assignati mei vel assignati heredum meorum omnia prenominata sicut prescripta sunt predictis monachis sicut puram et perpetuam elemosinam contra omnes homines warantizabimus et defen- demus in perpetuum. Hiis Testibus, domino Will' fil. "W. etc. (Lansd. MS. 405, f. 43 b.) 1 In the Monasticon Anglicanum, (1st edit. p. 662, edit. 1825, v. p. 138,) will be found still another charter of Roger de Montbegon de Foresta de Holecombe different from any of the three now printed, for it had different witnesses, beginning with Eudo de Lungvilers. In it Langshauet is written Langschahevet, i. e. the head of the long shaw: which confirms the meaning now assigned to Pilgrim's cross schahe or shaw. 3 Harcles Hill, which is 1,216ft. high. 1 Young falcons taken from the nest. * i. e. the head of the cold well. 5 f. e. the Irwell. ' Et singulis annis sepes eis facere licebit circa illud pratum, et circa pratum suum apud Haderleies, prout voluerint. Preterea licebit illis habere edificia sua ubi Henricus Luggejambe mansit vel alibi versus Querendonam ubi voluerint. Licebit eisdem illam terram excolere ad victualia pastorum suorum circa domum in qua dictus Henricus mansit. Charter in the Monasticon. BOOK III. CHAP. IV.] THE MANOR OF TOTTINGTON. 325
(2). Conjirmacio [Rogeri~\ de Monte Begnnis.
Rogerus de Monte Begon sal. Noverit universitas vestra me divine pietatis intuitu dedisse et concessisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Deo et sancte Marie Magdalene de Bretton et monachis ibidem Deo servienti- bus totam Holcumbam, videlicet boscum et planum intus et extra, per istas divisas, scilicet de Holcumbhevet usque ad supercilium mentis de Arkeleshow versus Aledeneheuet, et de Arkellhou versus Tyteleshougate, et de Titeleshougate usque Caldewellhevet, et de Caldewellhevet usque in Irewil, sicut rivulus currit, cum omni libera communione ad Totintun pertinente ex una parte, et ex altera parte de Holcumbe versus Querendune in longitudine et latitudine quantum forestum meum extendit, salva tamen venacione mea, et salvis nisis meis infra prenominatas divisas, pro salute anime mee et uxoris mee et Johannis Malhcrbe fratris mei et antecessorum et successorum meorum, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam. Ita tamen quod nullus Ballivus neque serviens neque forestarius meus vel heredum meorum inquietabit vel molestabit homines vel pastores eorum in aliquibus rebus nee in cibis nisi ex mera liberalitatc conferre voluerint. Quare volo ct firmiter prin- cipio ut prenominati mouachi prenominatam elemosinam teneant et possideant, libere et quiete, pacifice et honorifice, sicut aliqua elemosina melius et liberius tenetur in tota Anglia. Ego vero prenominatas Rogerus et beredes mei predictam elemosinam prenominatis monachis contra omnes homines warantizabimus in perpetuum. Hiis Testibus, Will'o fil. Will', et cetera. (3). Carta Rogeri de Monte 'Begonis. Omnibus sancte matris Ecclesie filiis ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Rogerus de Monte Begon sa- lutem eternam in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra mo dcdisso et concessisse ct hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Deo et sancte Marie Magdalene de Bretton et Monachis ibidem Deo servientibus pasturam meam de Holecumba cum pertinenciis in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, salvis bestiis et avibus meis, et ad avaria sua pascenda per istas divisas scilicet de Holecumba usque ad supercilium mentis de Arkcleshou, at ab Arkeleshou in [do] descendendo usque ad viam que so extendit per medium Tutclleshou versus villam de Totington. Ita quod predicta averia non debent excedere predictas divisas, et si forte excesserint non tamen inde causabuntur, sed libere servientibus monachorum deliberabuntur si capta fuerint. Si autem averia hominum meorum vel aliorum prefatam pasturam ingressa fuerint servientes monachorum ea imparcabunt nee ea dimittent quousque satisfiat eis de ingrcssu illicito suo. Hanc autem donacionem Ego Rogerus et heredes mei warantizabimus predictis monachis contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Hiis testibus, Johanne Malherbe, etc. In the reign of Richard III. the estate of the monks of Mount Bretton was annexed to the Duchy of Lancaster, and the King granted to the Priory in exchange the advowson of Darton in Yorkshire by the following charter :
cujusdam Foreste sive pasture vulgariter nuncupate Holcombe in com. Lancastrie que jam in manibus nostris existit ut parcellum Ducatus nostri Lancastrie, et que ad Priorein et Conventum Monasterii beate Marie Magdalene de Monkebretton et successores suos pertinere deberet, prout per inspeccionem diversarum cartarum Rogeri de Monte Begon predecessoribus predict! nunc Prioris confectarum plenius apparet, et pro aliis diversis consideracionibus et convencionibus inter nos et prefatum Priorem et Conventum Monasterii beate Marie Magdalene predicte indentatis, de gracia nostra speciali dedimus, concessimus et per presentes damus et concessimus Priori Domus et Ecclesie beate Marie Magdalene de Monkebretton et ejusdem loci Conventui et successoribus suis Advocacionem sive patronatum Ecclesie parochialis de
326 HISTORY OF WHALLEY. [Boon III. CHAP. IV. Derton in Com. Ebor. et Ebor. diocessis predicte parcelle Ducatus nostri Lancastrie predicti Honoris de Pountfreit, habendam. et tenendaui advocacionem sive patronatum preclictam prefatis Priori et Conventui et successoribus suis in recompensacionem predlctam absque aliquo fine seu feodo inde ad opus nostrum quovismodo capiendo, faciendo seu solvendo, eo quod expressa mencio de vero valore annuo premissorum aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus eisdem Priori et Conventui per nos ante hec tempora factis in presentibus minime facta existit, aut aliquo statute actu ordinacione permissione sive restitucione inde in contrarium facto, edito, ordinato sive promisso non obstante. In cujus rei, etc. Dat. etc. apud London. viij die Februarii Anno etc. primo. (8 Feb. 1 Rich. III. 1484.) Duch. Lane. Class xi., No. 20, f. 11.] Where this cross and chapel stood, or whether the latter were on the site of the present chapel of HOLCOMBE, I am not informed; 1 hut of the last, tradition reports that it was once a prison, and an adjoining eminence the place of execution belonging to it. 2 It is, indeed, not improhahle that the Lacies, or the Montbegons, who were mesne lords of Tottington under them, might have a local jurisdiction here extending to capital offences.
bination of two or more syllables of local names, expressing the same idea in different and successive languages. Thus Cwm in British, and Hoi in Saxon, both denote a bottom. The lands granted by Montbegon to the priory of Monkbretton were, with an immense quantity of others, re-granted to John Braddyll, 3 of Whalley, gent, the great dealer in this unsafe commodity, by letters patent of Henry VIII. dated March 23, anno regni 36, under the description of "omncs illas terras, &c. jacent. in Holcame, al. diet. Holcome et Totting- ton, com. Lane, nuper Prioratui dc Monkbretton, com. Ebor. dudum spectantes." I have once seen it styled (Towneley MSS.) the Honor of Tottington, an appellation, to which, though holding of the superior Honor of Clitheroe, it seems entitled, from the number and opulence of the manors dependent upon itself ; for to the court of Tottington tho Earl of Derby owes suit and service for his manor of Bury ; Lord Suflield for the manor of Middleton; Sir Thomas Horton for Chatterton, and the Lever family for Alkcrington. In the great Inquisition of 1311 Tottington is thus described : TOTTINGTON IN SALFORDSCHIRE. A capital messuage . . . . vj s. c acr. demised to tenants at will at iiij d. per acre . . . xxxiij s. iv d. viij oxgangs, demised in like manner iij s. each . . . xxij s. The park of Musbirry 4 . . . . . . xiij s. ivd. A separate pasture ....... x s. Water Mill ........ xx s. 1 [Whewell Cross or Pilgrim's Cross will be found in the Ordnance Map upon Holcombe Moor. Its height is 1,200 feet above the sea.] [A new church at Holcombe was consecrated by the Bishop of Manchester, April 8, 1853.] 2 A grant of the furca or gallows within Tottington was obtained by Edmund de Lacy from Henry HI. Towneley MSS.
4 Vide Rossendale [p. 316], to which it was afterwards annexed. BOOK III. CHAP. IV.] THE MANOR OF TOTTINGTON. 327
Profits of Court estimated at . . . . . . xx s.
Roger de Middleton held the manor of Middleton for one knight's fee, and suit to the said court. Henry de TraiFord, for Chadreden, with its appurtenances, one knight's fee. Adam de Prestwich, for Alkrington, one fourth part of a knight's fee. Henry de Bury, for half the manor of Shotlesworth .... xij d.
Summa
vj li. vi s. iij d. ob.
Such, then, is the manor, honor, or forest of Tottington, 3 which stretches about five miles on the banks of the Irwell, and far up the sides of the adjoining hills, from Elton southward, to the great opening into the parish of Whalley northward, a tract approxi- mating in soil and climate to the Appennine of Lancashire, and upon which its warm and wealthy feudatories of Bury, Middleton, Chatterton, and Alkerington, if ever they remem- ber their dependence at all, will probably look upward with contempt.
1 In the 9th Edw. IV. a licence was granted to Thomas Pilkinton, to kernel and embattle his manor-house of Bury. (Towneley MSS. G. 13.) This was the old manerial residence of the Burys, and afterwards of the Pilkintone, upon the attainder of the last of whom it was granted to Thomas Earl of Derby. The remains of the moat, which are still visible, were mistaken by Mr. Percival for a Roman station; for which he has been very properly corrected by the historian of Manchester. 2 [Et de id. ob. de firma Galfridi de Chaderton pro Shillingbotham pro i libra Cymini. Compotus terrarum Hen. de Lacy, 23-24 Edw. I. 1294.] 3 The Greenhalghs of Brandlesome were hereditary bailiffs of Tottington. MS. pen. C. Chadwick, Ar. [Haillivi et Prepositi de Tottington. Henr. Nathawe, prep. 1 4 Hen. VI. Thurstan Bothe, prep. 3132 Hen. VI., 3637 Hen. VI. 1 Edw. IV. Joh. de Grenehalgh, prep. 14 Hen. VI. 3132 Hen. VI. Edmund Grenehalgh, prep. 3637 Hen. VI. 1112 Edw. IV. 12 Rio. III. Will'mus Leylond, 34 Edw. IV. Henr' Bury, 9 Edw. IV. Henr' Wode, 1112 Edw. IV. Christ' Bothe, 12 Ric. III. Tho' Nuttall, prep. 910 Eliz.
ballivi 910 Eliz.] 328 HISTORY OF WHALLEY. [BOOK III. CHAP IV. BOWLAND. Having now surveyed the Forest of Blackburnshire and its sub -divisions, it remains that we turn northward, where we shall find another of the demesnes of Clitheroe, a forest till very lately "peopled with its old inhabitants."
for the exercise of archery. The first mention of the word is in the Status de Blackburn- shire, which evidently refers it to a period as early as the foundation of the Deanery of Whallcy. The circumstances relating to its ecclesiastical history will be noticed below. It was undoubtedly a member of that great fee which the Conqueror bestowed upon Roger de Poitou, and was by him granted either to Ilbert or Robert de Lacy ; but thus much is certain, that Robert do Lacy obtained from Henry I. a grant of Boeland, which he had before held of Roger de Poitou, to be henceforward held of the King in capite. 1 Thus it appears that this portion of the demesnes of Clitheroe Castle was held under a title distinct from that of the Honor itself. The whole tract of country vulgarly called Bowland, and consisting of the parishes of Slaidburn and Mitton, together with the forest, is now equally a member of the fee or honor of Clitheroe, and was equally comprehended within the original parish of Whalley : the two former, however, were separated at an early period from their mother church, and at the time of the Domesday survey were taken as portions of the manor of Grin- dleton, as they have since been of Slaidburn. But the Forest of Bowland, in the strict sense, was in its civil relation included, from its first acquirement by the Lacies, in the demesnes of the castle, and subject to the court of Woodmote alone, and in its ecclesias- tical was always a portion of the extra-parochial tract called the Castle Parish, and uniformly paid tythes to the abbey of Whalley, after the annexation of the chapel of St. Michael in Castro.
forest so ill ascertained, that circumstances may be foreseen in which it would answer even a legal purpose to have retraced them with a reference to original authorities. First, then, the following passage from the Status de Blackburnshire, of the vigilant and learned abbot Lyndlay :
quidem Capella tune pcrtinens erat ad ecclesiam parochialem de Whalleye. Unde omnes Decani predicte ecclesie invenerunt capellanum cotidic sumptibus suis ibidem celebrantem. Et quia illo tempore nullimoda sepultura ibidem habebatur, corpora mortuorum totius foreste de Bouland deferebantur apud Whalleye, 2 et fuerunt ibidem tradita sepulture, tanquam ad ecclesiam tune matricem. Et tune temporis omnes decimationes tarn majores tarn minores totius foreste de Bouland, scilicet de Brenand, del Trogh, ubi illi de 1 Dugd. Bar. vol. i. p. 99. " Ex autographo nup. in Cast, de Pontefract." 2 This was before the foundation of the castle or church of Clitheroe. BOOK III. CHAP. IV.] BOWLAND. 329 Whytlidale niinc habitant, et del Sikes, de Harden, do Stapelhaw, Thorniholme, Grishurste et de Bathirarghes sicut le Frythebroke descendit usque in aquam de Hodre predicte ecclesie de Whalley penitus solvebantur, unde locus adhuc a multis cognoscitur ubi predicta capella fuit situata. (The sequel will be found under Slaidburn.) Addit. MS. 10,374, f. 126 b. A perambulation l of the Forest of Bowland, dated Whalley, 1483, will completely ascertain the boundaries, so far as the ancient names are now intelligible. It was made in consequence of the great suit for tithes between Christopher Parsons, Rector of Slaid- burn, and the abbot and convent : but it refers to a much older perambulation in the time of Abbot Lyndley and Henry Duke of Lancaster, which explains the expression of " the Duke's ground " or lands. Universis sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis JACOBCS STANLEY, 2 Archidiaconus Cestric, Sal. Noveritis nos inspexisse Registrum Abbatis et Conventus Monasterii Beate Marie de Whalleye, in lice vcrba : Mem m de Terminis et Bundis Capelle S'cti Micliaolis Arcliangcli in Castro do Cliderhow, annexe et unite ecclesie parocliiali de Whalleye, notatis et determinatis per Dom. Johem Lyndlay, S. T. P. quondam Abfetem Monasterii Beate Marie de Whalleye predict, et Dom. Thorn. Halton quondam rcctorem ecclesie parochialis de Slaydburn. Imp 8 . Eawcrossc and Newhay-head, bounding upon the parish of Slaydburn, and from Newhay-head following westward unto Longshaw, and from Longshaw unto Grypden-head, and following upp the Oaken- clough unto the height of Kytcholme, and from Kytcholmc to Fyldyngo Clough Head, then to the Dcsu 3 clough head, and so to water of Hoder ; then following upp the water of Hocler to the dcpartyngc between the Duke's ground called Thorniholme and Hamcrton lands, and so unto the water of Hoder, and so follow- ing water of Hoder into Longden water, and from thens following the meares betwixt Borholme and the Stotclose unto the Red syke ; then following upp the Red sykc to the height of Todridge ; soe following Todridge as heaven water deales unto the head of Brandslacke brooke, bounding upon the parish of Chippin, and so from Brandslacke brooke unto the head of Threapleigh unto Paycocke clough ; then to Chippin brooke ; soe following Chippin brooke to the park ycate of Laygram at Chippin brooke ; so following from the park yeate the brooke to the head of Hudefeld ; soe from the head of Hudefeld to the pale ; so following from the pale to the lands of Startivant ; so following the said lands to Chippin brook ; so to foot of water of Lowde ; so unto water of Hoder bounding on parish of Mitton ; so following Hoder unto Wyerburne foot ; so follow- ing Wyerburne to head of Bashall Parke ; so following lands of Bashall and the Duke's lands to Newhahouse, and from Newhahouse following the devise of the lordship of Bashall and the Duke's land to head of New- hay; so ensuing the Woodward Scoore to north end of Whitston Cliffe, as heaven water deales ; so following- said Woodward Scoore from head of Whitstoncliife to the Wolfstanbanke as heaven water deales ; so the height of Stiversten line (sic) Swarthaw as heaven water deales ; and so to well in the north end of Stiversten ; so following the well streame from the north end of Stiversten to the Champon dyke upon the parish of Slaydburne aforesaid; so following Champon Dyke to Fellbrig water; also following upp Harrop dyke to the height of Helden hill as heaven water deales ; so to Brynhill pyke as heaven water deales ; and so from Bryn- Yüklə 4,81 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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