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 . the decrees, and to compel the copyholders to pay the remaining moiety;with a heavy penalty of ^.5 per diem, on default of payment, after the 1st of September thenfollowing. Several of the copyholders failed in providing their quotas; which occasioned a generaldeficiency of payment, according to the act. This alarmed the wiser and more wealthy of theparties concerned ; who paid the whole moiety, together with a great overplu
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 . the decrees, and to compel the copyholders to pay the remaining moiety;with a heavy penalty of ^.5 per diem, on default of payment, after the 1st of September thenfollowing. Several of the copyholders failed in providing their quotas; which occasioned a generaldeficiency of payment, according to the act. This alarmed the wiser and more wealthy of theparties concerned ; who paid the whole moiety, together with a great overplus, nomine pocnce,amounting, in all, to ,^.4833 ; and thus the affair slept tdl the Restoration: soon after which,namely, in 1661, a general act of confirmation was passed. And on this foundation rest all thetitles to wapontake, or copyhold lands of the new tenure, in Blackburnshire*. *? By the same Act, the forests were attached to the ailjoiiiing manoi-s ; .as, ex gr. Trawden to Coin, Pendle toIghtenhill, and Rossendale, with Accrington, to the maitor of Accrington-vetus. These two last-meDtioned forestsconstitute what is called Accrineton Newhold. />. 242 HISTORY OF VVHALLEY. [Book IV.—Chap. 1. BOOK IV. CHAPTER I. TOPOGRAPHICAL SURFEY OF THE PRESENT PARISH OF WHALLEY, BY TOWNSHIPS. J. O have considered the several townships of this great parish in alphabetical order, would havebeen extremely inconvenient, as such an arrangement would have separated those which areunited in natural character, as well as civil and ecclesiastical connections, and have broughttogether others which have no other title to proximity.—I have therefore preferred a distribution,which will preserve all these connections, by dividing the parish into three great portions,?which are not only strongly marked by natural features and limits, but are for the most partseverally related to each other, as united either immediately under the parish-church, or underthe same parochial chapelries. Thes
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