Braddyll of Portfield in Whalley

The figures in brackets refer to the original numbering:-

DDBR 1. Accrington

DDBR 2. Bolland, Co.York

DDBR 3. Cumberland

DDBR 4. Downham

DDBR 5. Haslingden

DDBR 6. Lincolnshire

DDBR 7. London & Middlesex

DDBR 8. Miscellaneous

DDBR 9. Northamptonshire

DDBR 10. Oswaldtwistle

DDBR 11. Pardons & Liveries

DDBR 12. Pendleton

DDBR 13 Rentals

DDBR 14. Ribchester & Dutton

DDBR 15 Samlesbury

DDBR 16 Settlements, etc.

DDBR 17 Torver

DDBR 18 Whalley & Billington

DDBR 19 Whalley Abbey

DDBR 20 Wills

DDBR 21 Wiswall

DDBR 22 Worston

<p>See also DDX 41 &amp; DDX 336</p>

This collection, deposited by Arthur John Dixon Robinson, Esq., and Col.G.N.Robinson is part of the muniments of the Braddylls of Portfield. They were contained in a box on which was a note signed by Dixon Robinson: "This box and its contents were in the possession of the late Adam Cottam at the time of his death and they were given to me by William Whalley, Mr. Cottam's Executor - it is not known how they came into Mr. Cottam's possession".

One Richard Cottam was steward of the Braddyll estates in the mid-18th Century.

The Portfield estate was acquired by John Braddyll, of nearby Brockhall, in 1580 and it remained with his descendants, along with the rest of their Whalley properties, until it was sold to James Whalley of Clerk Hill (see Greenwood of Clerk Hill p. 220).

The undermentioned documents are the only known surviving ones of this estate, having been preserved by a descendant of Richard Cottam, steward of the property in the mid-18th century.