. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Clayton. Argent l cross engrailed sable be- tween four torteaux. Grimshaw. Argent a griffon segreant sabhy beaked and legged or. GRIMSHJW. At an early date this estate adjoin- ing on the east to Hoddlesden Brook was granted to a family who took name from it. Having acquired half the manor of Clayton-le-Moors by marriage about the year 1345 they removed to that place, in the account of which some notice of the family will be found. In the time of the first Edward the original tenement was augmented by various gifts of adjacent


. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Clayton. Argent l cross engrailed sable be- tween four torteaux. Grimshaw. Argent a griffon segreant sabhy beaked and legged or. GRIMSHJW. At an early date this estate adjoin- ing on the east to Hoddlesden Brook was granted to a family who took name from it. Having acquired half the manor of Clayton-le-Moors by marriage about the year 1345 they removed to that place, in the account of which some notice of the family will be found. In the time of the first Edward the original tenement was augmented by various gifts of adjacent lands from the lords of the vill.^^ ' Lanes. Ittq, and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 12 ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 192. ^ Lanes. Assise R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 47, 146 i Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 235 ; Whalley Couch. (Chet. Soc), i, 102. ' In the descriptioa of the boundaries of this land on the east, south and west these places are named—From Hoddes- dene Brook up Dedesike and Wallesike to Wallesheved, by Haselehurst Greve below the Halgh house, to a Hag-hethorn on the lower side of Thommekar and to a Crabbe- tree, up the Redde-lumme to Halghdich, across the ditch of Tyddy-clogh, below the Outlone leach, down to Derewent ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 1579. * Ibid. ; Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 83 ; Duchy of Lane. Var. Acets. bdle. 32, no. 17, fol. 6. In 1325 Robertson of Robert de Eccleshill gave to Adam de Turton all his messuages and lands in Eccleshill (except a plat called Thomeherth) within boundaries among which Les Bridestones, Blakepitte, Blakelache-hevid and Le Wythyn-greve are named ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 1580. ' Ibid. no. 1587-8. Nicholas son of Adam de Turton was in 1343 accused of interfering with the Clitheroe fair ; Assize R. 430, m. 22. ^ See the tenures recorded in sub- sequent notes. '° Lanes. Inq. (Chet. Soc.), i, 93 ; Duchy of Lane. Knights' Fees, bdle. 2, no. 20, fol. 9. " Pal. of Lane. Fe


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