Sir James Whalley Smythe Gardiner , of Clerk Hill, Whalley, Lancs., & Tackley, & Cuddesdon (Oxon), & Roche Court, Fareham Reference DDX 156 Covering dates 1830-1893 Held by Lancashire Record Office Extent 41 Files Source of acquisition Deposited by Mr.G.Sherring, 17 February, 1950. Related information See also DDX 196 Contents: DDX 156/1 - 23 Blackburn DDX 156/24 - 27 Settlements etc. DDX 156/28 - 30 Various townships. DDX 156/31 - 39 Wills. DDX 156/40 - 41 Yorkshire. [no title] DDX 156/1 12/13 Apr. 1830 Contents: Lease and release: for £1,200 paid by (vi) to (i): (i) William Assheton of Downham Hall, esq., and the Rev. Streynsham Master, Rector of the Parish Church of Croston, clerk, (ii) Robert Whalley of Clerkhill, esq., eldest son of Sir James Whalley Smythe Gardiner, bart. (iii) The Rev. John Master Whalley, clerk, William Whalley, gent., both of Clerkhill, Samuel Jelicoe of Uplands, co. Southampton, and Elizabeth Jane, his wife, Barbara Smyth Whalley, Grace Whalley and Caroline Whalley Gardiner, all of Clerkhill, spinsters(iv) Sir James Whalley Smythe Gardiner of Roche Court, co. Hants. and Robert Whalley (trustees of the marriage settlement of Samuel Jelicoe and Elizabeth Jane, his wife) (v) Thomas William Whalley of Roche Court, Co. Hants., esq., (vi) Lieutenant General Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset, Lieutenant General of His Majesty's Ordnance, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Fane, Surveyor-General, Spencer Perceval, esq., clerk of the Ordnance, Frederick William French, esq. a Colonel in His Majesty's Army, Principal Store-Keeper and the Hon. Edmund Phipps, Clerk of the Deliveries, (vii) Richard Byham, esq. Secretary of the Board of Ordnance-- closes and parcels of meadow and pasture in Blackburn (10 ac. 3 r. 16¾p.) -- Also assignment by (v) to (vii) of the residue of a term of 2,000 years under the marriage settlement between James Whalley and Jane Master, in trust for the Principal Officers of the Board of Ordnance [no title] DDX 156/2 13 Apr. 1830 Contents: Deed of Covenant: (i) William Assheton and the Rev. Streynsham Master (ii) Robert Whalley, (iii) Lieut. General Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset, Lieut-General Sir Henry Fane, Spencer Perceval, Frederick William French, and the Hon. Edmund Phipps, all all of Clerkhill, spinsters(iv) Sir James Whalley Smythe Gardiner of Roche Court, co. Hants. and Robert Whalley (trustees of the marriage settlement of Samuel Jelicoe and Elizabeth Jane, his wife) (v) Thomas William Whalley of Roche Court, Co. Hants., esq., (vi) Lieutenant General Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset, Lieutenant General of His Majesty's Ordnance, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Fane, Surveyor-General, Spencer Perceval, esq., clerk of the Ordnance, Frederick William French, esq. a Colonel in His Majesty's Army, Principal Store-Keeper and the Hon. Edmund Phipps, Clerk of the Deliveries, (vii) Richard Byham, esq. Secretary of the Board of Ordnance -- to produce deeds -- [no title] DDX 156/3 4/5 Feb. 1833 Contents: Lease and release: for £4,700 paid by (ix) to (i): (i) The Rev. Streynsham Master, (ii) Robert Whalley, both of Clerkhill, esq., eldest son of Sir James Whalley Smythe Gardiner, bart., (iii) Dame Jane Gardiner of Clerk Hill, widow of Sir James Whalley Smythe Gardiner, bart. deceased, (iv) The Rev. John Master Whalley, William Whalley, both of Clerkhill, Samuel Jelicoe, late of Uplands, now of Mill Brook, both co. Southampton, esq. and Elizabeth Jane his wife. Barbara Smythe Whalley, Grace Whalley and Caroline Whalley Gardiner, (v) Sir James Whalley Smythe Gardiner and Robert Whalley, (vi) The Rev. Streynsham Master, all as DDX 156/1, (vii) Thomas William Whalley, late of Roche Court, now of Needhams Hotel, Westminster, co.Middlesex, esq., (viii) William Turner, calico printer, (ix) Robert Hopwood the elder, cotton manufacturer, (i) Leonard Wilkinson, gent., all of Blackburn - messuage and tenement, part of a messuage and tenement called Horse Load, and the farmhouse, barn, buildings and Barn Meadow (3 ac. 3 r. 29¾ p.) Croft Fold and Gardens (3 r. 36½ p.) Meadow and Gardens (3 ac. 1 r. 13½ p.) Lower Pasture (2 ac. 31¾ p.) Gardens (1 r. 19 p.) Higher Pasture (3 ac. 2 r. 23½ p.) Grimshaw Park Meadow and Gardens (2 ac. 1 r. 8½ p.) Grimshaw Park Croft (3 r. 28 p.) Barnfield (3 ac. 1 r. 37½ p.) Higher Bank or Middle Field (2 ac. 21½ p.) Higher Bank (3 r. 20 p.) the Lime Field (4 ac. 3 r. 39½ p.) all in Blackburn, and the tithes of corn and hay arising out of the premises (except the Easter offerings and surplice fees) -- Assignment of the residue of a term of 2,000 years by (vii) to (x) in trust for (ix).
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