. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED WHALLEY estate at Cowden Brook or Cole Clough descended to the Veevers family.'' TOWNELEr^' was about 1200 granted by Roger de Lacy to Geoffrey son of Robert the Dean of Whalley, who was authorized to maintain a dwell- ing-place there for use when hunting in the district. The land was assessed as 2 oxgangs and was to be taken from a tract of country the bounds of which began at Thorny Clough, went down the Calder, and followed this stream as far as Bradbridge ; going thence to Dedsyke, to Hawksnest Clough he
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED WHALLEY estate at Cowden Brook or Cole Clough descended to the Veevers family.'' TOWNELEr^' was about 1200 granted by Roger de Lacy to Geoffrey son of Robert the Dean of Whalley, who was authorized to maintain a dwell- ing-place there for use when hunting in the district. The land was assessed as 2 oxgangs and was to be taken from a tract of country the bounds of which began at Thorny Clough, went down the Calder, and followed this stream as far as Bradbridge ; going thence to Dedsyke, to Hawksnest Clough head, Pikedlow, Crombrook to its head, Withenslack head, Middlehill, Thornley syke head, and Thorny Clough. Geoffrey was to share in the common pasture of Burnley and have right of chase outside the lord's demesne heys. Lands in Coldcoats and Snodsworth in Billington were quitclaimed to him. For the whole estate, 8 oxgangs of land in all, Geoffrey and his heirs were to render the service due for the tenth part of a knight's fee.'' The succession of the Deans of Whalley has been related in the account of the church there. The early descent of Towneley is far from clear. In 1242 Henry Gedleng held the tenth part of a knight's fee in Towneley, Coldcoats and Snodsworth, all being in- cluded in the dower of the Countess of Lincoln.'* The name ' Gedleng' does not occur again ; Henry was pro- bably the Henry de Towneley who, together with his brother Richard and son William, attested a charter by which Adam Abbot of Kirkstall (1249-59) granted to Walter the chaplain of Towneley certain land in ; Henry de Towneley attested a Worsthorne deed about the same ; The next in possession, so far as is known, was a Richard de. TowNKny of Towne- ley. Argent a Jesse tuith three mullets in chief sable. Towneley, whose heirs in 1295-6 paid 10/. as relief on succeeding to the threefold estate," but a Nicholas de Towneley is named among certain county mag- nates in
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