. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED WHALLEY The present lord of the manor is the seventh Earl of Abingdon, in right of his first wife Caroline Louisa, eldest daughter and co-heir of Charles Towne- ley. No courts are held. BIRTIVISLE^^ was assessed separately as half a plough-land, and held in socage of the lord of Clitheroe by a rent of 4/. Robert de Lacy, who died in 1193, granted it to Kudo de Lungvilers at that rent, the forest and wild beasts therein being reserved to the In 1209 Reyner son of Ralph claimed the 4 oxgangs of land
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED WHALLEY The present lord of the manor is the seventh Earl of Abingdon, in right of his first wife Caroline Louisa, eldest daughter and co-heir of Charles Towne- ley. No courts are held. BIRTIVISLE^^ was assessed separately as half a plough-land, and held in socage of the lord of Clitheroe by a rent of 4/. Robert de Lacy, who died in 1193, granted it to Kudo de Lungvilers at that rent, the forest and wild beasts therein being reserved to the In 1209 Reyner son of Ralph claimed the 4 oxgangs of land in Birtwisle against Eudo, who allowed him 3 oxgangs on the east side at a rent of 6s., reserving to himself the oxgang on the west ; 20 acres formerly held by Thomas son of Gospatrick were allowed to Eudo, who gave Reyner an equal amount of land in his western oxgang.^' Before the end of the i 3th century the manor was acquired by John de Lacy of Cromwellbottom,^!* whose des- cendant Henry in 1356 sold it to Gilbert de la ' Gilbert, as above related, inherited the prin- cipal manor of Hapton, and from that time Hapton and Birtwisle were held together.^^ Ultimately the latter was lost sight of.^' The family of Birtwisle probably descended from the Reyner of 1209. In 1253-4 J°h" son of Reyner son of Ralph called upon John son of Eudo de Lungvilers to observe the conditions of the fine of 1209.'" John de Birtwisle, possibly the same, claimed land in Birtwisle against Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln, whose defence was that Birtwisle was neither town nor borough, but only a hamlet in Hapton, which the plaintiff could not gainsay.^^ It is not possible to trace the various branches clearly. One part of the estate was sold to John de Towneley in 1394 by Nicholas de Kighley and Joan his wife, she being a daughter of Adam son of Gilbert de Bir- twisle.'^ Adam de Birtwisle had in 1353 claimed an oxgang of land in Hapton against Henry son of John de Lacy.'' In 1397-8 the f
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