Part of the computus of Edmund de Thedmersh in the following year, 16-17 Edw. III. when he
delivered the horses in his charge to Roger de Normanville his successor, several of whose rolls of account
are extant.
EQUICIUM DE IGHTENHILL. Jumenta. Idem respondit computans de xlij jumentis de equicio Regis de
Ightenhill de remanenti computi sui anni precedentis, quorum viij nigra, ij sore, iij ferrantz pomelo, vij bay,
v ferrantz bauzan, iij nigra bauzan, i sore grisel, i sor bauzan, i Powys cum duobus pedibus posteris albis,
iij grisels, i braunbay, i nigra cum stella, ij lyard, ij lyard bauzan, et ij lyard cum stellis.
Et de iiij jumentis de adjunccione pultrellarum, quarum i lyard, ij uigra et i sore bauzan.
Summa xlvj jumenta. E quibus
Idem computat in morina 1 iij jumenta, quorum i nigra bauzan iij die Januarii, i nigra bauzan x die
ejusdem mensis, et i nigra bauzan iiij' die Febr.
Et liberavit Duci Cornubie 2 iiij jumenta per breve Regis indentatum, quorum i ferrant pomelo, i
sorbausan, i nigra, i brounbay. Et Rogero de Normanville, xxxj jumenta quorum ix nigra, ij sor, ij
ferrantz pomele, vij bay, v ferrantz bausan, i sor grisel, i powys cum duobus pedibus posteris albis, iij grisel,
i nigra cum stella, iij lyard, ij lyard bausan, ij lyard cum stellis, et j sorbausan, per indenturam. Et est
quietus.
Pullani masculi. Item respondit de v pullanis masculis etatis trium annorum et dimidii de remanenti-
bus, quorum iij grisel et ij nigri. Et tractantur ad domandum inter magnos equos Regis, de quibus idem
Edmundus respondit in compute suo de eisdem equis. Et est quietus.
Item respondit de iij pullanis masculis etatis duorum annorum et dimidii de rem. quorum i lyard, i
grisel cum stella, et i niger. Et liberavit prefato Will, de Fremelesworth etatis trium annorum et dimidii
per indenturam.
1 These mares had died in a murrain. a The Black Prince.
312
HISTORY OF WHALLEY.
[BOOK III. CHAP. IV.
Item respondit de vi pullanis masculis etatis unius anni et dirnidii de remanent. quorum iij grisel, i bay,
i niger et i sor. Et liberavit prefato W. etatis duorum annorum et dimidii. Et est quietus.
Item respondit de vi pullanis masculis de illis xij pullis rem. de exitu in compute suo anni precedents,
quorum i grisel cum stella, ij grisels, i niger bausan cum uno pede postero albo, i grisel bauzan cum iiij or
pedibus albis, et i bay. Summa vi pullani masculi. Et liberavit Rogero de Normanvill etatis unius anni et
dimidii per indenturam. Et est quietus.
Pultrelle. Item respondit de iij pultrellis etatis trium annorum et dimidii de rem. quarum i lyard, ij
nigro, et i sore bauzan. Et adjunguntur supra cum Jumentis. Et est quietus.
Item respondit dc ij pultrellis etatis duorum annorum et dimidii de rem. quarum i sore et lyard. Inde
in morina i pultrella sore iij die Decembr. Et liberavit Rogero de Normanville i pultrellam lyard etatis
trium annorum ct dimidii. Et est quietus.
Item respondit de v pultrcllis etatis unius anni et dimidii de rem. quarum i nigra, i bay, ij grisels, et i
dun. Et liberavit prefato Rogero etatis duorum annorum et dimidii per indenturam. Et est quietus.
Item respondit de vi pultrellis de predictis xij pullis rem. de exitu in compute suo anni precedentis,
quarum iij grisel cum stellis, i bay, et ij grisel. Et liberavit prefato Rogero etatis unius anni et dimidii
per indenturam. Et est quietus.
Pulli de exitu. Item respondit de xv pullis de exitu predictorum Jumentorum hoc anno. Et liberavit
Rogero de Normanville videlicet xi masculos et iiij femiiieas diversorum colorum per indenturam. Et est
quietus. (Exchequer. Q. R. Equicium Regis W 8 -)
From the Receiver's Compotus, 1 and 2 Hen. VI. (Duchy of Lane. Cl. xxix. Bundle 220.)
Et solutis Johanni Parker paliciatori parci de Ightenhull sic conducto per Senescallum loci videlicet
ad sustentandum vetus palicinm parci predicti per totum circuitum ejusdem cum fossato
ejusdem hoc anno, et ad purgandum cxx rodas cujusdam veteris fossati quod ducit circa parcum
predictum, cum corroboracione dicti palicii, sumptibus ipsius Johannis, quas purgavit, et alia
profecta per sacramcntum ipsius Johannis et per testimonium Senescalli prout allocatum est in
compute prccedente ........
Et solutis eidem Johanni pro nova factura de Iij rod. fossati quod ducit circa parcum ibidem cum
albis spinis in duabus cursubus plantatis, roda ad v d.
XV 8.
XXI 8.
Receiver's Compotus, 3 and 4 Hen. VI. (1426.)
Custus reparacionis domorum Manerii de Ightenhull.
Jacobo del Hogh pro carpentria Coquine et Granarii ibidem ex convencione facta in grosso ultra
cibaria, etc. . . . . . . . xiij s. viij d.
Johanni Herne pro cariacione iij rod. et quart, lignorum ad idem opus . . xi s. vi d.
Pro cibario Carpentarii tempore factionis domorum predictorum . . . xiij s. viij d.
Stephano le Couper et Will'o Caterynson pro cariacione maeremii ad idem opus . ij s.
Will'o de Henden lucracione xxxviij plaustratarum de sclalston cum cariagio earundem . xliij s. iiij d.
Roberto Maude pro coopertura x rod. et purgacione Coquine et aliarum domorum ibidem iij s. iiij d.
Whithed pro factura murorum lapid. ibidem . . . . . . xi s. xd.
Pro muris Coquine predicte . . . . . . ix s.
Henrico Gyour pro cariacione earundem plaustratarum . . . . vi s.
Johanni Wilson pro lucracione zabuli et factura de morter' ibidem . . . . ivs. ivd.
Roberto Maude pro M 1 lathes emptis ad idem opus . . . . . zs. yd.
Johanni Smythe pro iiij 1 " 1 de stonbrodes et c spytynges emptis ad idem opus . . . vj s. vd.
Johanni Parker et Johanni Smyth pro M 1 et cccc de stonbrodes vi c et dimidio de spykynges .vs. ij d.
Johanni Wilson pro labore suo per ii dies ...... iiij d.
BOOK III. CHAP. IV.]
IGHTENHILL PARK.
313
Johanni Smyth pro factura des bandes ad fenestram ibidem . . . . ij s. iiij d.
Eidem Johanni pro vi petris ferri emptis pro diversis ferramentis inde faciendis . . iiij s.
Johanni Mercer pro xvi quarterns calceti emptis ad idem opus cum cariagio ejusdem . . xvi s.
Roberto Couper pro factura tabellarum ibidem . . . . . ix d.
Johanni Wilson pro servicio dato tempore levacionis et exaltacionis grossi maeremii ibidem . vi d.
Roberto Maude pro victu duorum hominum per unum diem .... iiij d.
Will' Haworth pro emendacione des sparres ibidem . . . . ij d.
Johanni Smyth pro factura des hokes fe-nestre ibidem . . . . xij d.
Johanni Colynson pro pargettynges murorum Granarii ibidem .... xiij d.
Thome Maude pro vi c de stonbrodes emptis ad idem opus . . . . x d.
Et in rewardo facto Jacobo Banastre pro supervisu et ordinacione dictorum operum in conven-
cione facto per Auditorem et Receptorem
xiij. iiij d.
Summa .... xiij li. iij s. vi d.
(Compotus of Thomas Urswyk, Rec. of Clitheroe, 3 & 4 Hen. VI. Duchy of Lane. Class xxix. Bundle 220.)
From Receiver's Account, 3 & 4 Edw. IV.
Reparacione et emendacione Manerii de Ightenhill .... vili. xvijs. xid.
Palicii de Ightenhill .... xxx s. iiij d.
(Duchy of Lane. Class xxix. Bundle 221.)
PARKERS OF
9 Mar. 1400, 1 Hen. IV. Warrant to the Receiver
of the County of Lancaster to pay to John Parker,
Parker of Ightenhill, his wages appertenant to the
office. Duchy Register, Vol. 15, f. 63 b.
Johannes Parker fil. Joh. Parker parcarius parci
de Ightenhull, appointed by patent, 1 Mar. 4 Hen. V.
1416. He occurs as " the younger Parker of Ighten-
hill" 13 Feb. 1423 (Ibid. f. 79); also in the Re-
ceiver's Accounts of 1-2 Hen. VI. and 3-4 Hen. VI.
He had a son Richard.
IGHTENHILL.
Johannes Talbot, succeeded by
Carolus Belfeld, 19 July, 1 Edw. IV. 1461.
Alexander Butirworth, 7 Nov. 1 Edw. IV. 1461.
Johannes Talbot occurs 22 Edw. IV. 1482-3.
(Harl. MS. 433, f. 317.)
Rob. Ryssheton " valettus Garderobe cum dilectis-
simo filio nostro principi," on the death of John
Talbot. 26 Oct. 18 Hen. VII. (1502). Register,
f. 32.]
Of the Chases within Blackhurnshire : the next is
TRAWDEN ;
so called probably qu. Trough-den, the hollow or excavated valley, stretching from the
summit of Boolsworth to Colne Water, about four miles, and from the boundary of Brier-
cliffe nearly to Emot, about three. It may therefore be estimated, allowing for irregu-
larities in the outline, at ten square miles, or 6,400 statute acres. At the time of the
great Inquisition of 1311, it consisted of five booths or vaccaries : the agistment of each
was valued at ten shillings.
[Foresters ofTrawden.
William Natter, 12 Feb. 1423, to be Master Forester, William Nutter, Gustos Chacee de Trauden, succeeded
with a grant of 2d. a day (Kegister, Hen. VI. pt. 1, f. 26.) by
John Whitened Forestarius, appointed by patent 5 Dec. John Hunter, patent 6 March, 3 Edw. IV. 1463,
1 Edw. IV. 1461, died 9 Aug. 1464. wages 2d. a day.]
VOL. I. 28
314
HISTORY OF WHALLEY.
[BOOK III. CHAP. IV.
IMPROVED RENTS.
YY roka*
VI 1.
VIII 1. XIII 8. IV d.
In thd commission of approvement, 22nd Hen. VII. these were reduced to three ;
namely,
Berdshaie Booth, of which the old rent paid by Johnj x j xnls> III( j.
Hartley, Jeffrey Hartley, and other ould tenants was,.
Over and Nether Wycoller, old rent paid by Peirs 1 1 nn j XIIIS-
Foldes, Piers Hartley, and other ould tenants
Wynewall . . vil.
A very moderate advance for the latter years of Henry VII.
The name of Berdshaghbooth is now become obsolete, and is lost in that of Trawden
proper. To these has since been added Emot Moore, a more recent improvement, which
pays II. 5s. Id. ; and as the last improved rents of Henry VII. were fixed and rendered
perpetual by the decree of James I. the whole forest now pays 291. 5s. Id.
The next, and most extensive of the chaces, is ROSSENDALE ; which, including Brand-
wood, Cohope, and Lench, originally members of it, though in the parishes of Rochdale
and Bury, cannot contain less than twenty-four square miles, or 15,360 statute acres.*
I was once inclined to deduce this word from the British rhos, a bottom; but the
following etymology, for which I am indebted to Baxter (vid. Gloss, in voc. Carnovacce)
is much more appropriate. Pagus isle, de ILussco puto graminum colore, Hossen dicitur,
I/din ejusmodi criceum pascuum Britannorum vulgo Rhos dicitur. If there was a circum-
stance about the place which would strike the observation of the first colonists above every
other, it must have been the brown and dreary hue of its native herbage, which the labours
of three centuries have not been able to overcome.
Within this chace, in the neighbourhood of Broadclough, are the remains of an
entrenchment called THE DYKES, to which no tradition is annexed that may serve to
ascertain either its antiquity, or the end it was designed to answer. It is cut out from the
gentle slope of a rising ground, in one direction, nearly parallel to the horizon, for more
than 600 yards in length, not exactly in a right line, but following the little curvatures
of the surface. In one part of the line, for about 100 yards, it appears to have been
levelled ; and in another, where it crosses a clough, is not very distinct : but more than
400 yards of the line exhibit a trench eighteen yards broad in the bottom, and of pro-
portionate depth : a most gigantic, and at the same time almost inexplicable work, 3 as it
1 Ancestor of the ancient family of the Foldes's of Trawden, still resident in that place. The estate of the
Hartley's passed, by marriage, to the Cunliffes of Hollins in Accrington, and is now the property of Henry Owen
Cunliffe, Esq.
2 [A History of the Forest of Rossendale, by Thomas Newbigging, Member of the Historic Society of Lancashire
and Cheshire: with a chapter on the Geology of Rossendale by Captain Aitken, J.P., Vice-President of the Manchester
Geological Society, and Observations on the Botany of the District, by Abraham Stansfield, President of the Todmorden
Botanical Society, has been published in 1868. Rossendale is now essentially a manufacturing valley, and for its
modern history the reader must be referred to that work, and to the particulars derived from it in the new edition of
Baines's Lancashire, vol. ii. pp. 44 et seq.~]
* [Mr. Newbigging (Hist, of the Forest of Rossendale, p. 10) states that the dyke is 11 or 12 feet high in the
deepest part ; that it extends from the farm called Dykes House to the edge of Whitaker's Clough, not continuously,
BOOK III. CHAP. IV.]
ROSSENDALE.
315
could only have been intended for some military purpose ; and yet, in its present state,
must have been altogether useless as a fortification : for, though it would have defended
a great army in front, yet their flanks might have been turned with the greatest ease, and
the whole might have been destroyed in their trenches, from the high grounds which
immediately command it. On the whole, I am inclined to think it one side of a vast
British camp, which was intended to have been carried round the crown of the hill ; but
for some reason, never to be recovered by us, was left in its present unfinished and useless
state. Abating for the herbage with which it is covered, the present appearance of it
is precisely that of an unfinished modern canal, though much deeper and wider in its
dimensions.
At the time of the great Inquisition in 1311, here were eleven vaccaries (or loci
vaccarum, as they are called), of which the herbage is valued at ten shillings each. These
were increased, in later times, to nineteen, including the laund or park of Musbury.
The following are the names of the booths, together with the advanced rent * of each,
as settled under the commission 22nd Henry VII. which was afterwards perpetuated and
confirmed by the decree of James I.
iv 1.
. II 1. m s. iv d.
vl.
vl. vis. vnd. qu
xl. rv s.
vl.
(deest).
however, for much of the centre is levelled. He differs from Dr. Whitaker and Mr. T. T. Wilkinson (Lane, and
Cheshire Hist. Soc. Transactions, ix. 21, 42), as to its bung an unfinished work, suggesting that the rising ground in
the rear and extremities was protected by strong natural defences of trees and underwood. The tenant of the farm on
which the dyke is situated has frequently dug to the depth of six, eight, and even ten feet, and has always found the
soil " loose and intermixed with sticks and bark."]
1 My copy of the decree of Henry VII. being defective in the end, I am not able to state the ancient rents of
llossendale and Accrington. [See hereafter most of these vaccaries mentioned among the leases described from the
Duchy records.]
2 Of which the old orthography was Routandstall, and the adjoining clough Eoutanddougli, from the Saxon
hpucan, strepere, the brawling brook.
3 [Reparacione et emendacione logii de Wolfanden, vij s. viij d. Compotus of Receiver of Clitheroe, 3 and 4 Edw.
IV. Duchy of Lane. Cl. xxix, Bundle 221.]
4 [Adam de Balochawe granted to Henry de Lacy a messuage and 16 acres of land near Oakenhead, by the
following charter: Universis Christi fidelibus presens scriptum visuris vel audituris, Adam de Balochawe salutem in
domino. Noveritis me remississe et omnino quietumclamasse pro me et heredibus meis domino Ilenrico de Lascy
Comiti Lincoln" et Constabulario Cestrie totum jus et clameum quod habui aut aliquo modo habere potui in uno
messuagio et sexdecim acris terre cum pertinenciis in foresta de Eoscindal apud Hokenhevedd. Ita quod nee ego nee
heredes mei nee aliquis nomine nostro aliquod jus vel clameum in dictis messuagio et sexdecim acris terre cum perti-
nenciis exigere vel vendicare poterimus imperpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium huic scripto sigillum meum apposui.
Testibtts dominis Roberto Banestre, Ilenrico de Lee, Johanne Biron, Adam de Bury, militibus, Ileurico de Clayton,.
Alexandra de Keverdal, Willelmo del Hacking, Rogero de Middleton, Adam de Prestwyche, Willelnio de Hopwode et
aliis. Great Cowcher of the Duchy, vol. i. 78 b. Lancaster Carta Clxxv.]
2s2
Gamulside
Dunnockshawe
Love Clough .
Goodshawe
Crawshaweboothe
Constablelee .
Bawstonstall 2
Dedqueneclough
Wolfenden Boothe 3
Tunstead
Lenclies
Cowliope
Newhall Heye
Oakenlieade Woodo 4
x 1. II s. vn d.
iv 1. xvii s. nd. ob
v 1. xii s.
iv 1. vi s. vin d.
v 1. xin s. iv d. ob
vn 1. xin s. iv d.
ix 1. ix s. n d. ob
316
Musbury
Hoddlesden 1
Bacope .
HISTORY OF WHALLEY.
xin 1. is. vin d.
ix 1. xix s. xi d.
xi 1. xvi s. vni d.
Wolfenden
Henheads
[BOOK III. CHAP. IV.
xin 1. vs. id.
XIII S.
We will now endeavour to collect what can be retrieved concerning the vaccaries ;
and, first, of the PARK OF MUSBURY, so called qu. Mooj-byjug, the hill of moss, from Moof,
the Saxo-Danish genitive of Mooji ; 2 a brown conical hill on the confines of Rossendale and
Tottington, anciently inclosed as a lawnd for the lord's deer.
[In a list of charters found at Pontefract Castle, r. Edw. II. occurs " MUSBURY.
Item carta Lodowici de Geraville facta eidem Johanni [de Lacy], etc. de tota terra de
Musbury cum pertinenciis."]
Custody of the herbage of Musbury ' was granted to James de Radcliffe by John of
Ghent, 18 Rich. II. and there were several renewals to the same family. 4
The first mention of Rossendale, by name, is in the memorable story of Liwlphus,
dean of Whalley, who, at a place called Ledmesgreve, cut off the tail of a wolf in hunting.*
The ordinary period allowed by chronologers to human life, together with the number of
deans in succession from Liwlphus to those whose sera is ascertained, will carry up this
event to Canute, in whose charter of the forest we have seen that the existence of this
animal in England, though contrary to the vulgar tradition, is expressly referred to.
1 In the Inq. of 1311, Hoddlesden is neither included in Rossendale nor Accrington.
2 Vide Dr. Hickes ap. Thoresby's Due. p. 267.
[In 1850 a handsome church was erected at Musbury, of which Mr. Shellard of Manchester was the architect.
The site was given by William Turner, esq. of Flaxmoss House, whose body was the first interred there, March 27,
1852, two days after the consecration.]
3 Here are three small subdivisions of the hamlet, called Ugden, Musden, and Holden; of which the first is called
the " Trippet," or third part of Ugden; the only instance which I know of the subdivision of a hamlet but it claims
the rights of a constablewick.
4 Concessio per literas patentes 2 Hen. V. Ric. Radcliffe de Radcliffe de uno parco vocato Musbury Park, haben-
dum ad term. 20 annor. reddendo viij li. vj s. viij d. et vj s. viij d. de incremento. (Last edition, p. 236, from Towneley
MSS.) 16 June 2 Edw. IV. a lease to Jac. Radcliffe arm. of the herbage and pasture parci de Musbury at viij li. x s. for
16 years from Michaelmas last past; and of Hudelsden vaccary for 16 years at 10 marks a year. (Chancery Rolls,
Duchy Off. Class 25 x. 1 a.) 20 Oct. 7 Edw. IV. 1467. Lease to Galfridus Warton, arm. for 20 years of the herbage
and pannage of Musbury Park, rent 8/. 10s. " et predictus Galfridus reparabit et sustentabit palicium, sepes et fossatum
dicti parci per totum circuitum ejusdetn sumptibus suis propriis expensis durante termino predicto." (Ibid.) It was
ordered by a decree dated 1 Mar. 19 Edw. IV. (1480), " that no fees nor wages are to be paid to any officer of Musbury
Parke, as by Act of Parliament no fees nor wages shall be paid for any office as nedeth nat dayly exercise, and that
also in our said parke there is no game to kepe." (Register, f. 59 b.)
Parkers of Musbury.
Nic. Brounlawe. Patent dated 24 May, 1 Hen. V. John Cay. Patent 24 May, 3 Edw. IV. Occurs 1 and
Nic. de Brunlawe, 17 Feb. 1423, confirmation or reap- 2 Ric. III. in the Receiver of Clitheroe's Compotus.
pointment by Henry VI. Laurence Maderer, appointed by patent 1 Oct. 1 Hen.
John Barlow, who was succeeded by VII. 1485.
9 Edw. IV. a lease to Richard Radcliffe for twenty years at the rent of viij li. vj s. viij d. and renewed for the like
term. (Last edit, from Towneley MSS.)
* See before, p. 74.
BOOK III. CHAP. IV.] ROSSENDALE. 317
The first part of this tract which was inclosed and planted with inhabitants was
Brandwood, 1 which was granted by Roger de Lacy, about the year 1200, to the abbot and
convent of Stanlaw, in the same charter which conveys to them four oxgangs of land in
Recedham.
Dedi etiam eis in foresta mea pasturam illam quse dicitur Brendwude, ad eorum animalia pascenda, per
divisas subnotatas, scilicet a Goresichelache usque Cuhopeheued, et sic sicut Coliope descendit in Yrewil, et
sic [per] Yrewil usque Fulebacope, 2 ' deinde ascendendo usque Saltergat, et sic usque Hamstalesclowe,
et sic usque Denesgreue, 3 et sic per transitum muse 4 usque Cumbehepli ad Gorsichelache : habebunt
autem predicti monachi in pastura ilia C. vaccas cum exitu duorum annorum ; et si animalia ibi habuero,
eorum animalia pascent et ibunt in latum et in longum ubicunque mea pascunt et vadunt, $c. Testibus,
Turgisio abb. de Kirkstal, Hie. de Cestria, Eustach. de Cestria, fratribus meis, etc.
And in the 18th Edw. III. a suit which R. de Radcliffe, Master Eorester of Pendle,
brought against the abbot and convent of Whalley, for puture of the foresters, which cer-
tainly was not reserved by the grantor in the former charter, according to the usual form,
salva foresta mea, produced this curious account of the first population of Brandwood :
Iiiveniunt juratores quod temp. Reg. Johan. non erat in praedicta placea de Brandwode aliquod mane-
rium nee aliqua mansio, immo fuit vastum, non edificatum neq. cultum, et fuit parcella p'dictoe forcsta? de
Penhull ; et dicitur quod tempore regis Henrici proavi regis nunc quidam abbas qui tune fuit primus con-
struxit et edificavit domos in p'dicto vasto de Brandwode, et magnain partem vasti includi fecit, quod nunc
vocatur Manerium de Brandwode.
In this instance alone Rossendale appears included within the chace of Pendle.
Again, John de Lacy, son of Roger, by charter directed to his foresters and bailiffs,
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