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AN HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL PARISH OF WHALLEY AND HONOR OF CLITHEROE. AN
HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL PABISH OF'WHALLEY, AND HONOR OF CLITHEROE. TO WHICH
IS SUBJOINED AN ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH OF CARTMELL. 15 Y THOMAS DUNHAM
WHITAKEK, LL.D., F.S.A. VICAR OF WHALLEY. THE FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND
ENLARGED, BT JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, F.S.A. AND THE KEV. PONSONBY A. LYONS,
B.A. VOLUME I.
1872.
CONTENTS OF THE FIKST VOLUME. PAGE Preface to the Fourth (the present) Edition ......... ix Biographical Memoirs of The Author .......... xiii Original Dedication to Charles Townley, esq. ......... Ivii Preface to the First Edition ........... lix Subscribers to the First Edition .......... Ixiv Advertisements to the Second and Third Editions ........ Ixvi BOOK I. CHAP. I. Introductory. Natural Features, Rivers, Etymology ...... 1 CHAP. II. Roman History . . . . . . . . . . .11 The Itinerary attributed to Richard of Cirencester . . . . . .14 Ribchester and its Antiquities ......... 17 Roman Roads . . . . . . . . . . .41 CHAP. III. Memorials of the Parish during the Saxon JEra . . . . . . .48 Domesday Book for Lancashire, South of the Ribble . . . . . .53 BOOK II. CHAP. I. Ecclesiastical History ........ . (15 The Status de Blackbnrnshire . . ...... G6 The White Church under the Leigh . . . . . . . .70 The Deans of Whalley .......... 73 Case of the Monks of Pontefract regarding the Church of "Whalley . . . .77 Peter de Cestria, the only Rector of Whalley ....... 80 CHAP. II. History of Whalley Abbey, originally founded at Stanlavv in
Cheshire . . . .83 Grievances of the Abbey of Salley on the translation of the Abbey of
Stanlaw . . .84 Valor of the Church of Whalley and its Chapels, taken in 1296 . . . .80 Abbots of Stanlaw, and the Monks at their translation to Whalley . . . .88 Biographical Catalogue of the Abbots of Whalley . . . . . .91 The Hermitage, and its Abolition ........ 101 Injunctions given to the Monastery of Whalley, temp. Hen. VIII. . . . .107 The Pilgrimage of Grace ... . . . . . . .108 Catalogue of the Monks of Whalley, during the 14th and 15th centuries . . .
112 The Compotus of 1478 and that of 1521 (in parallel columns) ..... 116 The Construction of Monasteries in general and of Cistercian Houses in
particular . .135 The Remains of Whalley Abbey as they exist at present ...... 139 Indulgences granted for the removal of Stanlaw . . . . . . .144 Poetical Epitaphs of the Lacies . . . . . . . .147 Documents from the Commonplace Book of the Abbey . . . . . .149 French Poem written after the Battle of Neville's Cross . . . . . .155 b Ti CONTENTS. PAOE CHAP. IL continued. French and Latin Poem on Taxation, written circ. 1337 .... Latin Sermon by Fr. Johannes de Glovernia, who died in 1328 ..... Documents relating to the Appropriation of the Church of Whalley to the
Abbey . Valuation of Great Tithes in 1298 and 1310 ..... Petition for Appropriation of the Church of Preston ...... Various Corrodies granted by the Abbey ... Obit founded for Bishop Koger de Meuland .172 Eights of the Chapel of Clitheroe and Church of Slaidburne within the
Forest of Bowland . 173 Visitation made by John Abbot of Savigny in 1320 . . .177 Dead of Sale of a Slave (p. 175) and the hiring of a Servant for Life . . "
. .179 Eunic Alphabet (with fac-simile) .... 18. Contracts for Sale and Delivery of Wood ....... 16. Sale of the Abbey and its Demesnes ........ Notices of Whalley Park . ... 183, 203 Inventory of all the Goods of the Monastery, 28 Hen. VIII. . . . .185 The Abbey Kitchener's last Account, 28 Hen. VIII. . .... 188 Part of another Inventory made in 1536 . . .... 189 State of the Abbey estates after the Attainder .......* Observations on the Dissolution of Monasteries . . . .190 Agreement on the Tithe of Hay, made in 1 330 . . . . ib. Valor of the Estates of the Abbey, 36 Hen. VIII. . . . 191 The Lcctionary of Whalley Abbey, throughout the year . . . . . .193 Seals attached to Whalley Charters (as engraved in Plate) ..... 200 The Seal and Arms of Whalley Abbey . ...... 201 CHAP. III. Parish Church and Vicarage of Whalley . ...... 202 The divisce made in 1306 between the medieties of Billington ... . 203 Chapels of the old foundation in the Parish of Whalley, with the measure of
their respective glebes in oxgangs and acres ........ 205 Exoneration of the Chaplains of Colne, Burnley, Church, and Haslingden,
from the repairs of the Parish Church . . . . . . . . . ib. Chapelries of the later foundation ........ 207 List of the Vicars of Whalley ......... 211 Pedigree of Johnson or Johnston . . . . . . . .214 Documents collected. by William Johnson, Vicar of Whalley ..... 215 Return of the Chapelries and their Ministers, made in 1650 . . . . .218 Richard Dugdale, the Surey Demoniac . . . . . . . .221 Ministers' Orders, in the Hundred of Blackburn, 1649 ....... ib. Instruction for my Lord of Canterburies Benefices in Lancashire . . . .223 Undertaking of William le Wolf of Kirklawton, Vicar of Whalley, not to seek
any increase of the new foundation of Whalley Vicarage, 1336 ...... 225 BOOK III. CHAP. I. Origin, Progress, and Ramifications of Property . . . . . .226 Four senses of the manerium or manor . . . . . . . . 228 Domesday Survey of the Hundred of Blackburn ...... ib. Inquisition on the death of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln ..... 230 CHAP. II. Lords of the Honor of Clitheroe ......... 236 The First House of Lacy ... . ib. CONTENTS. vii PAQK CHAP. II. continued. Hugh de la Val, the intruding Lord of Clitheroe ... . 237 The family of Lizours, and Second House of Lacy ...... 239 The Royal House of Lancaster ......... 252 George Monck, Duke of Albemarle, and his Descendants ..... 253 CHAP. III. Castle of Clitheroe, and Chapel of St. Michael in Castro ......
255 List of Chaplains -....... 257 Calendar of Documents relating to the Chapel ....... 258 CHAP. IV. Honor of Clitheroe, with the Forest and other Demesnes . . . .
.203 Feodary of the Earl of Lincoln in Blackburnshire . . . . . . ib. Custumale of Blackburnshire, taken by inquisition 3 Hen. IV. ..... 2G5 Officers of the Honor of Clitheroe ........ 267 Senescalli, or Stewards of Blackburnshire . . . . . . .268 FORESTS. The Laws and Customs of ancient Forests ........ 270 The Forests of Blackburnshire and Bowland ....... 282 Commission for granting lands within the Forest, 22 Hen. 3 ; The river Hodder, and Chapel of WHITEWELL . .333 Biographical notice of Richard Rauthmell the antiquary . The mansion-house of BROWSHOLME Biographical notice of Thomas Lister Parker, esq. F.R.S. and F.S.A. . 337 Historical papers preserved at Browsholme 339 A Balade of Maryage ' .340 Pedigree of Parker (following p. 340) The Forests and Demesnes of Blackburnshire 341 Documents relating to the Forests Bowland, 343; Leagrim Park, 347; Radholme
Park, 349; Manor-house of Whitewell ... ... .351 Leases of the Vaccaries in the Forest of Rossendale 353 Survey of Woods in Bowland, 31 May 1620 354 List of the Master Foresters of Blackburnshire, 355; of Bowland, ib. ;
Parkers of Radholme, 356; Parkers of Lathegryme .... 357 Compotus of Thomas Lord Stanley, Receiver of Clitheroe, 1464 . . . . . ib. Mines of Coal and Slate, and Conveyance of the Forest revenues . 361 Commission regarding Future Rents, temp. Hen. VII. .... 362 LIST OF PLATES. Portrait of the Author . . . . . . To face the Title. Map of the Ancient Parish of Whalley ..... Page 1 Roman Antiquities, Plate I. . . . . . . .32 Plate II 34 Distant View of Whalley Abbey . . . . . .83 Whalley Abbey, from the River . . . . . . .135 Whalley Abbey, from the Cloister Court . . . . . .139 Plan of