An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell . again. have 174 HISTORY OF WHALLEY. [Book III.—Chap. I. have seen *, immediately after the Conquest, were extended and encouraged ; and thus, by suc-cessive steps, the origin of all landed property within the hundred, some later copyholds aloneexcepted, is to be traced to voluntary concessions of the Lacies, or their successors of the houseof Lancaster, Yet we are not to consider these grants as acts of pure beneficence ; fo
An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell . again. have 174 HISTORY OF WHALLEY. [Book III.—Chap. I. have seen *, immediately after the Conquest, were extended and encouraged ; and thus, by suc-cessive steps, the origin of all landed property within the hundred, some later copyholds aloneexcepted, is to be traced to voluntary concessions of the Lacies, or their successors of the houseof Lancaster, Yet we are not to consider these grants as acts of pure beneficence ; for, beside the personalservices which they required, they were frequently charged with pecuniary payments nearlyequivalent, at first, to rack-rents; but their real value, which is great indeed at present, grewout of the operation of causes little understood at the time, either by lord or vassal, namely, thecertainty of the render, the diminishing value of money, and the perpetuity of the title. * The progress of these, during a period of more than two centuries, will be accurately traced under eveiy town-ship, by lights borrowed from the great Inquisition of CHAPTER Book III.—Chap. II.] HISTORY OF WHALLEY. 175 CHAPTER II. LORDS OF THE HONOR OF CLITHEROE. XVESPECT only to general opinion, and to the authority of Dugdale, which has been helddecisive, induces me to place at the head of this catalogue Ilbert de Laci *, a Norman adventurer, on whom the Conqueror undoubtedly conferredthe great fee of Pontefract ; but, as he is unnoticed under the survey of Blackburnshire, by theauthentic record of Domesday, which was completed in the last years of the first William, anddied early in the reign of Rufus, there is no evidence to prove that he was ever connected withthe subject of this history.—Ilbert, however, left a son, Robert de Laci, who was certainly lord of Blackburnshire, though it is now impossibleto discover by what means he became possessed of it. As, however, the
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