. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED In 1332 the contributors to the subsidy numbered sixteen persons; those to the poll tax of 1379 numbered forty-nine, all husbandmen or ; Richard Charnley was the only person assessed upon lands in 1524. Hugh Welchman in 1649 com- pounded for his delinquency in adhering to the forces against the Parliament by a fine of £^ 10/., representing the sixth part of the value of his estate.'" To the tax in 1666 as many as 127 hearths were liable in this township ; the house of |ohn Southworth had
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED In 1332 the contributors to the subsidy numbered sixteen persons; those to the poll tax of 1379 numbered forty-nine, all husbandmen or ; Richard Charnley was the only person assessed upon lands in 1524. Hugh Welchman in 1649 com- pounded for his delinquency in adhering to the forces against the Parliament by a fine of £^ 10/., representing the sixth part of the value of his estate.'" To the tax in 1666 as many as 127 hearths were liable in this township ; the house of |ohn Southworth had thirteen hearths and that of William Walmsley ten ; there was one of four hearths, and others ; A deer park is shown in Saxton's map as existing here in the time of Elizabeth. The church of Sr. LEONJRD-THE- CHURCH LESS stands in a low situation close to the left bank of the Ribble, amid pleasant rural surroundings, and consists of a clearstoried nave and under one roof, 66 ft. long inter- nally by 18 ft. 6 in. wide, with north and south aisles 10 ft. 6 in. wide, and a tower at the north-west corner. The tower, how- ever, is modem, having been added in 1899-1900, at which time also the two wooden porches on the south side were erected. There was a restoration in 1885,*'when a new east window was inserted, the walls stripped of ac- cumulated coats of whitewash and the piers re-chiselled. Originally the build- ing, which dates substantiaUy from the year 1558, had a wooden bell-turret over the west gable, but this was re- moved at the time the tower was built. The original chapel, which existed in the 12 th century, had pro- bably been rebuilt, and the ancient masonry now incorporated in the east and west walls may belong to a 14th or early 15th-century building, whose length must have been the same as at present, but narrower in width and less in height, being presumably without aisles and forming a long barn-like structure, the area of the existing nave.
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