. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. RiSHTON of Pont- halgh. Urgent a Jesse tmbatded sable, in chief t-wo mullets of the second. Gerard of Astley. A-^ure a lion rampant ermine, croivned or. in the borough charter of i 307.*' The manor-house was afterwards called The Alleys. It appears to have belonged to the Rishtons of Ponthalgh in the I 5th cen- tury,*" and then to the Radciiffes of Winmarieigh," ^^ Clark, op. cit. 401. *^ Various early accounts have been published. In 1241-2 the value of Clitheroe was ^^25 loj. 6d. ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 156.
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. RiSHTON of Pont- halgh. Urgent a Jesse tmbatded sable, in chief t-wo mullets of the second. Gerard of Astley. A-^ure a lion rampant ermine, croivned or. in the borough charter of i 307.*' The manor-house was afterwards called The Alleys. It appears to have belonged to the Rishtons of Ponthalgh in the I 5th cen- tury,*" and then to the Radciiffes of Winmarieigh," ^^ Clark, op. cit. 401. *^ Various early accounts have been published. In 1241-2 the value of Clitheroe was ^^25 loj. 6d. ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 156. In 1258 Clitheroe was held of the Earl of Lancaster by knight's service. There were 180 acres of arable land, 30 acres of meadow and 30 acres of demesne pasture, each worth 4^/. ; two barns at Standen were worth 71., and a garden in Clitheroe 35. Two tenants paid 25. 6d., the mill £10, the borough ^4 8j., a dye house 6s. %d. ; tolls yielded j^5 131. ^d. and pleas of the courts 135. 4<y.â,1^21 131. lod, in all; ibid, i, A number of details are afforded by the rolls of 1296 and 1305, where under Clitheroe receipts and expenses in many other parts of the honor are accounted for. Rents from Baldwin hill, Salthill, Sandwell and Salewcll, Snelleshou (Whallcy), the herbage of the ditches of the castle and a garden there were among the receipts. In 1296 from the goods of Ellis, a thegn beheaded for felony, £6 101. was received. The expenses in that year included 321. 4^/. for the safe con- veyance of ;^I90 in money from Clitheroe to Buckby and five times to Pontefract ; also 12J. for taking five colts from Clitheroe to Buckby, with fodder and other expenses ; De Lacy Compotus Rolls (Chet. Soc), 12-16. In 1305 there appear 6d. for a place beneath the hall of pleas, \ for a place for a forge under the castle, zod. for the entry of live prisoners at the castle gate, £27 Js. gd. for perquisites of the court of Clitheroe, 511. 2d. from the chattels of a fugitive. Among the
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