Cliviger
folk mentioned in documents held at
Lancashire Record Office
ref. DP 439/1 - date: 9 May 1344
For unspecified consideration: Thomas Symondstone
to Henry his son - all lands in Milnewod
in Clyvacher which he had by gift of Gilbert de la Legh.
- Witn: William Scot,
Justice of the Common Bench, Roger of Bankewell,
John of Eland, John Flemyng and Brian of Thornehill.
At York
ref. DP
439/2 - date: 7
Mar 1349
For unspecified consideration: Henry son of Thomas of Symondstone
to Peter of Tatersell
- messuage, lands and tenements
in Clyvacher held for life by Richard of Tatersall
and Alice his wife by gift of Thomas,
at 6d. rent - Witn:
Gilbert de la Legh, John
of Dyneley, Adam of
Briddistuesill, Adam
of Wallessche,
and Oliver of Stanisfeld.
At Clyvacher
ref. DDTO Q 13/1-18
Mortgage
from Chas. Towneley & his s. Ric. to Ric. Langton of the manors of Towneley, Cliviger Hapton, & Bertwisle, two parts
(in four parts divided) of the bailiwick of the Wapentake
of Blackburn & premises in Towneley Hapton, Extwisle, Worsthorne, Hurstwood, Cliviger
& Burnley; other papers including law papers &
copy of a deed of 1379-80 concerning a trespass of Ric.
Towneley against John Ingham
in Burnley
ref. DP 439/4 - date: 18 Jul 1430
For unspecified consideration: John Tatursall
of Clyvacher to Margaret
his daughter - messuage, land
etc. called "Lanhows Lond" in Clyvacher excepting 3½ acres called "Costbonk";
messuage and croft called "Yatehowslond",
and messuage and land called
"Merecloghlond" below Coppetrode
in Clyvacher, with reversion
if Margaret should die without heir - Witn:
Richard of Townley,
John of Stansfeld,
and John of Legh. At
Clyvacher
ref. DDTA 105 - date: 1 July 14 Hen. VIII [1522]
Feoffment by William Bercroft, of Rodehaloes
in Pendall to John Ormerod,
of Ormerod, John Halsted
of Halsted, Robert
Woderoff and Richard
Tattersall of Roggs, of a messuage and lands in
Worstown and Clyvhacre
near Burnley and to uses mentioned.
Thieveley Lead Mines - ref. DDKE/5/183-266
ref. DDKE/5/183 - date:
1629
Commission:
Charles I to Sir Raffe
Ashton, baronet, Richard Shuttleworth, Roberte
Hotte, Nicholas Towneley, Savill
Radcliffe, esquires, and
Roger Kenyon, gentleman - for the working
of lead mines within the wastes of Cliviger, part of
the duchy of Lancaster - 23 May 1629.
ref. DDKE/5/195 - date: 1630
Draft letter: Roger Kenyon to the duchy office - sending the quarterly
certificate of the lead mines in Cliviger and complaining
that "the myners are
worse then divells .........."
- 3 May 1630.
ref. DDKE/5/246 - date: 1632
Petition: William son and heir of Thomas Whittaker late
of the Holme in Cliviger decd,
to the court of the Honour of Clitheroe
- to be admitted to part of the smelthouse
on the common allotted to Thomas Whittaker, so
that William Whittaker may have a reasonable
rent.
Endorsed: Quitclaim for £6. 15s. 0d.: Roberte
Whittaker of the Holme
in Cliviger, to Anne widow of Thomas Whittaker
late of the Holme, gentleman, decd - part of the filial
portion from his father John Whittaker, decd.
ref. DDHK 5/2/72 - date: 1766
Counterpart Lease of New Hey Farm in Cliviger
Ann Robert, daughter and heir apparent of
Richard Robert of Foxstones
in Cliviger
Lease
for £31 years at £34 rent: Lawrence Ormerod of Ormerod, gentleman,
to Francis Nuttall of Farside, husbandman
- messuage and two barns with
34 acres of named closes known as Farside,
2 Feb.1754; with attorney's opinion and memorandum of
agreement relating to Francis Nuttall's
breaches of covenant under the lease by ploughing and
other offence, 19 May 1775 - ref. NCHa/49/1 date:
1754-1775
FILE - Surrender: wapentake of
Blackburn; foeffees in trust
for Lawrence Ormerod
of Ormerod, gentleman, deceased,
to Charlotte Ormerod of Ormerod House, spinster
- messuages and tenements
in the wapentake, known as: Law House land; 'land near Foxstones'; New Close at Brown Hill; Crawshawlaw;
also several parts of Cliviger Moor - ref. NCHa/37/4 -
date: 1797
FILE - Copy lease and release to make a tenant to the precipe: Mrs. Martha Anne Ormerod
of Ormerod, widow, and others,
to Robert Bickerstaff of Preston, gentleman -
3 farms in Cliviger, known as Farside,
Mount Pleasant and Fighting Cocks - 10 and 11 Aug.1827;
with copy transcript of recovery at Lancaster Assizes:
James Hargreaves Esq., demandant,
Robert Bickerstaffe,
gentleman, tenant, 29 Aug.1827 - ref. NCHa/37/6 - date:
10-29 Aug.1827
"RECORD BOOK OF DISSENTING
MEETINGS" - ref. QDV/4
Manchester, Easter, 1697. - ref. QSP/796
Registration
of house of John Hartley in Cliviger as dissenter's
meeting-place.
Date: 19 Jan 1816, Place: Cliviger premises: House of William Halstead in Mereclough
Lancashire Quarter Sessions
Recognizance rolls - ref. QSB/1
Recognizance
Roll: Preston, Midsummer - ref. QSB/1/25 - date: 1627
disorderly
alehouse of Nicholas Bailye
at Merecloughe
Recognizance
Roll: Preston, Michaelmas
1627 - ref. QSB/1/29 - date: 1627
Nicholas Bailye, blacksmith, licensed as alehousekeeper, misbehaviour of said Nicholas Bailye
of Meareclough
Recognizance
Roll: Preston, Michaelmas,
1628 - ref. QSB/1/45 - date: 1628
William Barnes, husbandman, to prosecute Marie Heyward
for theft from Robert Holt, husbandman
Examination
re theft by Marie Heyward
Recognizance
Roll: Preston, Midsummer 1629 - ref. QSB/1/57 - date: 1629
Richard Aspden, husbandman of Cliviger, to keep the peace
to William Whytacre,
husbandman
Recognizance
Roll: Preston, Midsummer, 1633 - ref. QSB/1/121 -
date: 1633
John Ingham and Robert Eckles
of Redlees, and Christopher
Omand, husbandmen, to
appear at Sessions
Recognizance
Roll: Preston, Midsummer, 1634 - ref. QSB/1/137 - date: 1634
James Hartley, shepherd, to prosecute Lawrence Shore of
Bacoppe, labourer, for theft
of lamb belonging to Richard Townley of Townley,
informations concerning theft of lamb by Lawrence
Shore of Bacop, collier
Recognizance
Roll: Preston, Easter, 1636 - ref. QSB/1/165 - date: 1636
William Boothman, husbandman, to keep the peace to William
Shackleton, husbandman
Recognizance
Roll: Preston, Michaelmas,
1636 - ref. QSB/1/173 - date:
1636
Robert Hoult, clothier, to keep the peace to George
Duneden
Recognizance
Roll: Preston, Epiphany, ref. QSB/1/299 -
date: 1647/8
Joseph Stansfeild, clothier, to keep the peace to Henry
Aspden, husbandman
WILLS
William
Barcroft of Barcroft, Probate, 5th April 1621 – ref. DDTA 557, 558 –
date 4th Jan 1621
ref. DDTO K 28/30 - date: 1660-1
Last
will and testament of Hen. Wood of Dinely,
yeoman. Dated 1653.
Proved 1 Mar. 1660-61.
Thomas
Barcroft of Barcroft – ref. DDTA 423 – date: 1663
MISCELLANEOUS
Ref.
DDTA- date 28th Nov Eliz.
[1598] Authority from the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster to enclose 240 acres of common within Cliviger
rendering a yearly rent of 4d an acre
PETITIONS
Preston: Epiphany, 1675/6. - ref. QSP/443
Persecution
of James Charnocke
of Cliviger, aged 80, Jennett his wife, and John and Susanna their
children, by the bailiffs of Burnley.
Preston: Epiphany,
1676/7. - ref. QSP/459
Bastardy of John Eastwood and Jenet
Holdin of Cliviger.
Preston: Michaelmas 1755 - ref. QSP/1720/11
Cliviger
Order to seize the estates of Robert Bulcock for the maintenance of Anne his wife
- date: 1755 29 Sep
Preston: Michaelmas 1830 - ref. QSP/2935
Instructions
for motion that Ralph Slater and James Crossley
of Cliviger, submit to presentment for non-repair of
highway
Preston: Midsummer
1839 - ref. QSP/3107
Notice
of intention to apply for order against Joseph Cunliffe of Habergham Eaves,
mechanic, for maintenance of his bastard daughter by
Sarah Dearden, singlewoman
of Cliviger
Preston: Midsummer
1839 - ref. QSP/3107
Notice
of intention to apply for order against Robert Tattersall of Burnley, labourer, for maintenance of his
bastard daughter by Grace Collinge, singlewoman of Scholey Head
Preston : Easter 1850 – ref QSP/336
Certificate
of expenses of Ellen Smith of Redlees, Cliviger and Thomas Merryweather
of Burnley, pawnbroker, for attendance as witnesses
Reproduced with kind permission of
the Lancashire Record Office
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