Nicholas Nowell

Personal and Family Information

Nicholas was born about 1370, the son of John Nowell but his mother is unknown. The place is not known.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Source: Full text of "The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;"

The Victoria history of the Counties of England, EDITED BY WILLIAM PAGE, F.S.A., A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE, VOLUME VI, THE VICTORIA HISTORY

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In 13%0 a puture rent of 7s. 2d. was levied here <<<< Probbly 1390.

yearly ; whilst Hesketh paid 20¢. and Nowell rod.

at Midsummer for castle-guard rent.* In 1421 John

Nowell demised to his son Nicholas a water-mill upon <<<< Nicholas

Shaw Brook and a hey called the Denefeld. Again

in 1429, as John son and heir of Lawrence Nowell,

he did homage and fealty to Thomas Hesketh, son

of Nicholas Hesketh, for his lands here on the

occasion of a wapentake court being held at a place

called Billingehill in Witton. He died four years

later, well advanced in years.” Thomas Hesketh, esq.,

having pulled down the ‘ teynde barne on the fermet

lande’ of Ralph, Abbot of Whalley, in 1445 by the

award of an arbitrator was constrained to permit the

abbot to rebuild it and to deliver up the timber and

provide six ‘sappelinges’ for the work. In another

dispute touching the boundaries between Harwood

and Rishton, in 1457, John Bradshaw of Bradshaw

awarded to Thomas Hesketh common of pasture in

Harwood, beginning at the foot of the North Deyne,

ascending the same water westward to a little beck

running ‘ auretwert ’—that is athwart—Dungecarre,

ascending the beck beneath the Taghed stone as far

as it lasts, and thence unto the head of Rede Brook.”®

The dispute was renewed in 1491, when an award

was made that the tenants of Thomas Talbot, kt.,

and Nicholas Rishton, esq., in Rishton, and of

Thomas Hesketh and John Nowell, esqs.,in ‘ Mikill

Harwood,’ should inter-common with all their cattle

upon the common in variance as they had used in

times past. Notwithstanding the grants of Henry

and Robert de Lacy to Richard Fiton, the parcel of

common on the north side of Norden, above Tottie-

worth, has long been reputed to be part of Rishton.”

In 1490-1 an award was made in a dispute touching

rights of way, by which a way on horseback and foot

from Martholme through Mr. John Nowell’s ground

called The Park” was awarded to Mr. Thomas

Hesketh. Further, Mr. Nowell and his tenants

and servants were inhibited from using a way

with cart, horse or on foot through Mr. Hesketh’s

grounds called the Lymetrough, Hyefurlong and

Thyring Moor, whilst Hesketh was

inhibited from using a way through Nowell’s

ground to a ford called Sheyford without the latter’s

permission.”®