CLITHEROE Court Rolls v 111
TITHES AND OBLATIONS RECEIVED BY THE ABBOT AND CONVENT OF WHALLEY FROM THE WHOLE PARISH OF WHALLEY AND PAROCHIAL CHAPELRIES IN THE YEAR 1536.
In the account of Brother Richard Mersden in the office of Porter, A.D. 1536, and in the year of Sir John Paslew, abbot, inter alia, is contained as follows, namely –
The account of Brother Lawrence Forest in the office of proctor of Whalley with the King’s chapels.
From lambs and wool of Hapton £1-8-0
FROM SHEAVES
John Townley, knt., for Hapton £2-13-4
The herbage of Hapton Parke 10-0
1Printed from C. Towneley’s MS. “Transcripts from Monastic Cartularies”, p.312
Presentments from Forest of Rossendale 1552
Richard Smyth of Hapton (12d) with dogs chased the beasts of the Queen’s tenants of Rossendale and Accrington upon the moor at Henheides.
