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•*  ••       JREMAINS 

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HISTORICAL  &  LITERARY 

CONNECTED  WITH  THE  PALATINE  COUNTIES  OF 

LANCASTER  AND  CHESTER 

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,THE)CHETHAM  SOCIETY. 
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VOL.    XXI. 


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(Council. 

JAMES  CROSSLEY,  ESQ.,  PRESIDENT. 

REV.  RICHARD  PARKINSON,  B.D.,  F.S.A.,  CANON  OF  MANCHESTER  AND 

PRINCIPAL  OF  ST.  BEES  COLLEGE,  VICE-PRESIDENT. 
WILLIAM  BEAMONT. 

THE  VERY  REV.  GEORGE  HULL  BOWERS,  D.D.,  DEAN  OF  MANCHESTER. 
REV.  THOMAS  CORSER,  M.A. 
JAMES  DEARDEN,  F.S.A. 
EDWARD  HAWKINS,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  F.L.S. 
THOMAS  HEYWOOD,  F.S.A. 
W.  A.  HULTON. 
REV.  J.  PICCOPE,  M.A. 
REV.  F.  R.  RAINES,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

THE  VEN.  JOHN  RUSHTON,  D.D.,  ARCHDEACON  OF  MANCHESTER. 
WILLIAM  LANGTON,  TREASURER. 
WILLIAM  FLEMING,  M.D.,  HON.  SECRETARY. 


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HISTORIC  NOTICES  OF  THE  DIOCESE 
OF  CHESTER, 


RIGHT  REV.  FRANCIS  GASTRELL,  D.D. 

LORD    BISHOP    OF    CHESTER. 


NOW  FIBST  FEINTED   FEOM   THE   OBIGTNAL  MANTTSCBIPT,    WITH   ILLTJSTBATTVE 
AND   EXPLANATOBY  NOTES, 

BY 

THE   REV.  F.  R.  RAINES,   M.A.  F.S.A. 

BTTBAL   DEAN,   HON.   CANON   OF  MANCHESTEE,   AND 
INCUMBENT   OF  MILNEOW. 


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INTRODUCTION. 


FRANCIS  GASTRELL  was  born  at  Slapton  in  Northampton- 
shire, on  the  10th  of  May  1662,  and  his  baptism  was 
not  delayed,  as  it  is  recorded  in  the  Register  of  the  Parish 
Church  to  have  been  administered  on  the  day  of  his  birth.1 
His  father  was  Henry  Gastrell,  a  gentleman  of  family  and 
considerable  property,  descended  from  those  of  his  name 
seated  at  Tetbury  and  Shipton  Moyne  in  the  county  of 
Gloucester.  In  the  Heralds'  Visitation  of  Gloucestershire 
in  1623,2  Richard  Gastrell  Esq.  recorded  a  Pedigree  of  his 
family,  by  which  it  appears  that  he  married  Ann,  daughter 

and   heiress  of  Butler  of  Badminton  in   the  same 

county  Esq.  and  that  his  eldest  son,  Fabian  Gastrell  of  Tet- 
bury, was  then  dead,  having  had  issue  by  his  wife,  Mary, 
third  daughter  of  Thomas  Knightley  of  Preston  Capes  Esq. 
a  son,  Knightley  Gastrell  Esq.  then  aged  seventeen  years, 
and  heir  apparent  of  his  grandfather,  and  whose  descendant 

1  "  Francis,  Sonn  of  Henery  Gastrill  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,   was  born 
and  bapd  the  10th  of  May  1662." — Slapton  Register. 

2  C.  17.  130,  Coll.  Arm.  London. 


IV  INTRODUCTION. 

in  1683,  then  also  of  Tetbury,  continued  the  family  record 
at  the  Heralds'  Visitation  of  the  county.1  Fabian  Gastrell 
had  also  a  son  Henry,  who  settled  at  East  Garston  in  Berk- 
shire, and  had  issue  one  son  Peregrine,  who  married  on  the 
29th  of  March  1631,  Jane,  eldest  daughter  of  Richard 
Knightley  of  Burgh  Hall  in  the  county  of  Stafford,  and  of 
Fawsley  Park  in  the  county  of  Northampton  Esq.  M.P.  and 
dying  in  early  life,  left  an  only  child,  Henry  Gastrell,  who 
was  still  a  minor  on  the  death  of  his  mother  in  February 
1652-3,  and  in  the  guardianship  of  his  step-father,  the 
Rev.  John  Thomson,  Rector  of  Preston  Capes,  near  Da- 
ventry. 

The  Manor  and  Advowson  of  Slapton  were  conveyed  by 
John  Thomson  Gent.2  in  April  1653,  to  Henry  Gastrell 
Esq.  who  shortly  afterwards  made  this  village  his  principal 
residence.3  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward 
Bagshaw  of  Morton  Pinkney  in  the  same  county  Esq.  M.P. 
descended  from  the  Bagshawes  of  Derbyshire,  and  the  pupil 
and  biographer  of  the  famous  Robert  Bolton. 

1  K.  5.  223,  Coll.  Arm.      The  Arms  borne  by  the  above   families  are, 
Chequy  arg.  and  sab.  on  a  chief,   or,  three  stags'  heads  couped  of  the 
second.      Crest,  —  a  lion's  head  erased  proper,  gorged  with  a  wreath  of 
leaves,  vert.     These  arms  were  used  by  Bishop  Gastrell,  and  also  by  Mr. 
Chancellor  Gastrell,  without  the  heraldic  marks  of  cadency. 

2  Baker's  History  of  Northamptonshire,  parts  3  and  4,  fol.  1822-30. 

3  In  1655  the  Parliamentary  Inquisitors  certified  that  Slapton  was  an 
appropriate  Parsonage  presentative  in  the  Patronage  of  Mr.  Henry  Gastrell 
of  Slapton,  —  that  Timothy  Hart  supplied  the  Cure,  which  was  worth  £40 
a  year,  —  and  that  there  was  no  Chapel  of  Ease  in  the  Parish. — Parl.  Tnq. 
Lamb.  Libr. 


INTRODUCTION.  V 

Mr.  Gastrell  died  in  early  life,  leaving  issue  two  sons  and 
two  daughters.  Edward  Gastrell,  the  eldest  son,  inherited 
the  family  Estate,  and  was  the  father  of  Peregrine  Gastrell, 
afterwards  Chancellor  of  the  Diocese  of  Chester.  The  se- 
cond son  was  Francis,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Chester,  who, 
when  in  his  fifteenth  year,  was  admitted  on  the  Foundation 
of  Westminster  School,  under  the  celebrated  Dr.  Busby, 
and,  by  a  sedulous  application  to  his  studies,  —  which  he 
directed  to  the  noblest  objects,  —  there  laid  the  foundation 
of  that  accurate  and  extensive  knowledge  of  sacred  and 
profane  authors  of  which  he  has  left  so  many  evidences  in 
his  numerous  publications. 

After  having  been  four  years  at  Westminster,  Gastrell, 
like  several  of  his  ancestors,  was  elected  a  Student  of  Christ 
Church,  Oxford,  Deer.  17th  1680;  B.A.  there  June  13th 
1684;  M.A.  April  20th  1687;  admitted  into  Deacon's  Or- 
ders Deer.  29th  1689 ;  ordained  Priest  on  the  25th  of  June 
following,  and  B.D.  on  the  23d  of  June  1694. 

At  this  time  he  had  not  appeared  as  an  author,  but  his 
talents  and  learning  were  not  unknown,  —  and  having  been 
distinguished  by  his  pulpit  eloquence,  the  Hon.  Society  of 
Lincoln's  Inn  selected  him  for  their  Preacher  in  1694, 
whilst  yet  a  young  man  for  so  responsible  an  office. 

An  "  unhappy  dispute,"  as  Dr.  Vicesimus  Knox  terms  it, 
in  an  admirable  paper  on  the  subject,1  though  written  per- 
haps in  a  tone  of  rather  too  much  lightness,  had  long  dis- 
tressed the  minds  of  all  good  men  on  an  important  point 
of  doctrine.  The  combatants  were  Sherlock,  Dean  of  St. 

1  Winter  Evenings,  No.  133. 


VI  INTRODUCTION. 

Paul's,  South,  a  Canon  of  Christ  Church,  and  Mr.  Gastrell, 
the  latter  appearing  in  the  controversy  more  as  a  mediator 
than  a  partisan.  His  Considerations  on  the  Trinity,  and 
the  Ways  of  Managing  that  Controversy,  1696,  4to.  met 
with  the  approbation  of  Dr.  Scott,  the  celebrated  author 
of  The  Christian  Life,  and  the  calm  and  temperate  tone 
by  which  the  work  was  characterized  excited  considerable 
attention,  and  in  a  short  time  it  passed  through  several 
editions.1  Sherlock,  in  1698,  replied  to  the  arguments  of 
his  opponent ;  and  this  led  in  the  same  year  to  a  Defence  of 
the  "Considerations." 

Posterity  will,  perhaps,  be  disposed  to  admit  that  the 
opinions  of  these  learned  men  on  the  subject  of  this  con- 
troversy were  essentially  the  same,  and  that  they  merely 
differed  in  their  respective  modes  of  defending  it. 

The  writer  of  GASTRELL'S  Life,  in  the  Biographia  Britan- 
nica?  states  that  the  "  Considerations"  were  first  published 
in  1702.  He  does  not  appear  to  have  been  aware  that  this 
was  merely  a  new  edition  of  a  book  which  had  become 
popular,  although  published  anonymously. 

There  can  be  little  doubt  that,  although  GASTRELL  had 
chosen  to  preserve  his  incognito  for  many  years,  he  was 

1  This  Tractate  has  not  quite  passed  into  unmerited  obscurity,  as  the 
learned  Bishop  Randolph,  in  his  Enchiridion  Tkeologicwm,  has  very  pro- 
perly given  it  a  place  amongst  "  those   short   and    comprehensive    Tracts 
which  deserve  to  he  frequently  read  and  studied,  and   which"   he   says, 
"  were  meant  to  be  selected  out  of  such  as  are  scarce,  or  are  likely  soon  to 
become  so,  or  not  to  be  had,  except  as  parts  of  voluminous  works." 

2  Biographia  Britannica,  vol.  iii. ;  and  the  same  error  is  committed  in 
Nichols'  Literary  Anecdotes,  vol.  i.  p.  138. 


INTRODUCTION.  Vll 

well  and  favourably  known  to  those  who  had  the  disposal 
of  the  rewards  of  merit  and  learning,  for  in  1697  he  was 
brought  more  prominently  forward  as  Preacher  of  the 
Boyle  Lectures.  He  had  secured  the  patronage  of  Arch- 
bishop Tenison,  to  the  great  mortification  of  Evelyn,  who 
was  wishful — and  in  the  wish  who  would  not  concur? — that 
his  friend  Dr.  Bentley  should  have  been  again  the  Lecturer. 
That  great  man,  however,  stated  that  GASTRELL  was  very 
well  qualified  for  the  office,  and  had  desired  it  a  long 
time.1 

The  Eight  Sermons  which  he  preached  on  that  occasion 
at  St.  Martin's  in  the  Fields,  were  published  by  him  in  the 
same  year  (1697,)  and  were  dedicated  to  Archbishop  Teni- 
son, Sir  Henry  Ashurst  Bart.  Sir  John  Rotheram,  Serjeant- 
at-Law,  and  John  Evelyn  senr.  Esq.  the  original  Trustees 
of  the  Hon.  Robert  Boyle. 

In  1699  he  published  another  volume,  entitled  The  Cer- 
tainty of  the  Christian  Revelation,  designed  as  a  continua- 
tion, or  second  part  of  his  Boyle  Lecture.  It  is  no  small 
tribute  of  commendation  to  the  value  of  this  excellent  work 
to  find  it  several  times  referred  to,  and  quoted  by,  Bishop 
Van  Mildert,  in  the  Appendix  to  his  own  Boyle  Lectures, 
On  the  Rise  and  Progress  of  Infidelity,  —  where  he  justly 
styles  GASTRELL  a  forcible  writer.  —  Appendix,  vol.  ii.  p. 
520,  8vo.  third  edition. 

By  these  learned  Discourses  he  was  introduced  to  that 
great  Patron  of  learning,  and  of  learned  men,  Harley,  af- 
terwards Earl  of  Oxford,  who  found  him  to  be  a  person 

1  Bishop  Monk's  Life  of  Richard  Bentley,  chap.  v.  p.  59. 


Vlll  INTRODUCTION. 

well  fitted  in  every  respect,  to  adorn  the  highest  and  most 
responsible  offices  in  the  Church. 

On  the  13th  of  July  1700,  he  commenced  D.D.  and  in 
the  following  year,  when  Harley  was  appointed  Speaker  of 
the  House  of  Commons,  he  nominated  GASTRELL  to  the 
Chaplaincy  of  the  House;  and  in  January  1702-3,  he  was 
installed  Canon  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford.1 

On  the  20th  of  August  1703,  he  married  at  the  Church 
of  St.  Helen,  Bishopsgate,  London,  his  kinswoman,  Eliza- 
beth, only  daughter  of  the  Rev.  John  Mapletoft,  M.D. 
F.R.S.  Professor  of  Physic  in  Gresham  College,  Rector  of 
Braybrook  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  and  Vicar  of  St. 
Laurence,  Jewry,  London. 

The  year  following  GASTRELL  published  a  Fast  Sermon, 
preached  before  the  House  of  Commons  on  Psalm  xlvi.  1, 
2,  and  3 ;  and  in  this  year  his  Patron  was  made  a  Privy 
Councillor  and  Secretary  of  State. 

In  1705  GASTRELL  contributed,  with  other  members  of 
Christ  Church,  to  the  rebuilding  of  three  sides  of  the  Court 
called  "  Peckwater's  Quadrangle,"  after  a  plan  by  Dean 
Aldrich,  —  and  his  name  and  pious  liberality  were  comme- 
morated in  an  appropriate  Latin  inscription.2 

At  the  beginning  of  this  century  Education  for  its  own 
sake,  as  tending  to  humanise  the  people  and  to  ameliorate 
their  condition,  was  not  much  in  favour,  nor  even  coun- 
tenanced at  all  except  by  a  few  thoughtful  men  amongst 

1  Le  Neve's  Fasti,  p.  527 ;  and  Willis'  Cathedr.  vol.  ii.  p.  462. 

2  Gutch's  Continuation  of  Wood's  History  of  the  University  of  Oxford, 
vol.  iii.  p.  455. 


INTRODUCTION.  IX 

the  Clergy,  who  influenced  a  similar  minority  amongst  the 
Laity. 

These  far-sighted  benefactors  of  their  species  feared  no- 
thing, but  hoped  every  thing,  from  the  universal  extension 
of  sound  learning ;  and  whilst  Steele1  looked  upon  the  Cha- 
rity Schools  as  the  greatest  instance  of  public  spirit  the  age 
had  produced,  Addison2  compared  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Children  to  the  pomp  of  a  Roman  triumph,  and  re- 
garded the  victories  of  Marlborough  as  a  Divine  reward  for 
the  National  Charity.  GASTRELL,  ever  ready  to  promote 
the  welfare  of  his  fellow  beings,  came  forward  in  1707,  and, 
in  an  impressive  Sermon,  ably  advocated  the  cause  of  popu- 
lar Education. 

From  an  inconsiderable  beginning,3  the  Schools  have  gra- 
dually advanced  in  public  favour  until  they  now  form  one 
of  the  finest  Institutions  of  the  Metropolis ;  and,  happily 
for  the  best  interests  of  the  people,  similar  Institutions  have 
been  extended  throughout  the  United  Kingdom. 

Nor  was  GASTRELL'S  patronage  of  this  system  of  Edu- 
cation of  an  evanescent  description.  When  he  became 
Bishop  of  Chester  his  active  mind  was  especially  directed 
to  the  state  of  Education  throughout  his  Diocese,  and  a 
searching  inquiry  was  instituted  into  the  endowments  and 
expenditure  of  the  various  Schools  in  it,  the  condensed 
result  of  which  is  given  in  the  Notitia. 

1  Spectator,  No.  294. 
3  Guardian,  No.  105. 

3  See  Nelson's  Address  to  Persons  of  Quality  and  Estate,  Append,  pp. 
48,  49,  Svo.  1715,  a  book  of  great  worth. 

b 


X  INTRODUCTION. 

His  well  known  and  excellent  work  The  Christian  Insti- 
tutes was  first  published  in  1707,  being  printed  in  Italics, 
without  any  Scripture  references,  which  were  subjoined  in 
a  second  edition :  his  chief  aim  in  preparing  this  work  was 
to  provide  an  easy  manual  of  instruction  and  devotion  for 
the  Children  educated  in  the  Charity  Schools.  In  1718 
it  was  translated  into  Latin  by  the  Rev.  Andrew  Tooke 
M.A.  the  Head  Master  of  the  Charter  House;  and  in 
1727  had  reached  a  fifth  edition.  Having  been  for  many 
years  a  popular  book  in  the  Catalogue  of  the  venerable 
Society  for  Promoting  Christian  Knowledge,  the  pious 
prayer  of  the  author  has  been  realized,  and  the  character 
by  which  it  is  best  known,  as  he  desired  it  might  be,  is  its 
Usefulness.1 

In  1711  he  became  a  member  of  the  Society  for  the 
Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,  cordially 
approving  of  the  objects  of  the  Institution,  and  regarding 
it  as  a  valuable  off-shoot  of  the  sister  Society  for  Pro- 
moting Christian  Knowledge.  In  the  same  year  he  was 

1  Preface,  p.  2.  It  is  somewhat  remarkable  that  this,  the  least  able  of 
his  literary  productions,  is  the  one  by  which  he  is  now  best  known.  See 
Gent.'s  Mag.  1818,  p.  606. 

In  the  Chetham  Library,  Manchester,  is  a  copy  of  Archdeacon  Gregory's 
edition  of  the  Greek  Testament,  1703,  formerly  belonging  to  the  Rev.  John 
Clayton,  Fellow  of  the  Collegiate  Church,  who  has  recorded,  on  a  fly  leaf, 
that,  "  the  interleaved  remarks  and  references  are  a  transcript  from  the 
interleaved  Greek  Testament  of  the  Right  Rev.  Francis  Gastrell  D.D.  the 
late  learned  and  worthy  Bishop  of  Chester,  communicated  by  the  Rev. 
and  learned  Jonathan  Colly  A.M.  Chaplain  to  his  Lordship,  and  Pre- 
centor of  the  Cathedral  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford." 


INTRODUCTION.  IX 

nominated  a  Commissioner  for  building  fifty  new  Churches 
in  London  and  Westminster,  and  falls  under  the  satire  of 
Pope  in  his  Imitation  of  Horace,  — 

"  Shall  half  the  new  built  Churches  round  thee  fall;"1 

alluding  to  the  defective  manner  of  their  erection :  but  the 
rebuke  was  not  felt  by  GASTRELL,  as  he  was  dead  when  the 
poem  was  published. 

In  the  same  year  he  was  chosen  Proctor  in  Convocation 
for  Christ  Church ;  and  his  steadiness  of  principle  and  in- 
flexible integrity  of  character  well  qualified  him  to  delibe- 
rate on  matters  concerning  the  Church  and  to  suggest 
canons  for  the  regulation  of  its  affairs. 

At  this  time  his  Patron  was  created  Earl  of  Oxford,  and 
appointed  Lord  Treasurer,  and  GASTRELL  was  immediately 
nominated  one  of  the  Queen's  Chaplains.  He  published  in 
1712,  a  Sermon  on  Romans  xiv.  18,  preached  before  her 
Majesty ;  and  in  1714  another  Sermon,  preached  before  the 
House  of  Lords,  on  Prov.  xxi.  31. 

He  had  now  entered  his  fifty-second  year,  and  had  been 
long  and  deservedly  known  as  a  sound  Divine  whose  accom- 
plished learning  had  been  successfully  employed  in  his  great 
MASTER'S  cause,  and  whose  whole  life  had  been 

"  A  living  Sermon  of  the  Truths  he  taught/' 
He  was  therefore  wisely  selected  as  the  successor  of  Sir 

1  Lib.  ii.  Sat.  2,  1.  119. 

2  April  4,  Biographia  Britannica.      In  a  letter  to  Dr.  Charlett,  dated 
London,  July  25th,  1703,  the  writer  says,  "  Mr.  Wyvill,  my  Lord  Bishop 


Xll  INTRODUCTION. 

William  Dawes  in  the  See  of  Chester,  and  was  Consecrated 
on  the  14th  of  April  1714,2  in  Somerset  House  Chapel,  at 
which  time  he  resigned  the  office  of  Preacher  at  Lincoln's 
Inn,  but  was  allowed  to  retain  his  Canonry,  in  commendam, 
with  his  poor  Bishoprick. 

The  appointment  was  most  opportune  for  GASTBELL,  as 
on  the  27th  of  July  his  Patron,  the  Lord  Treasurer,  re- 
signed his  Staff  to  the  Queen,  and  her  Majesty  dying  on  the 
1st  of  August,  his  power  and  influence  were  at  an  end. 

In  the  same  year  in  which  he  was  consecrated  Bishop  of 
Chester  he  published  anonymously,  Remarks  upon  Dr.  Sam- 
uel Clarke  s  Scripture  Doctrine  of  the  Trinity.  The  acute 
metaphysician  in  his  Reply  passed  a  high  eulogium  upon 
GASTRELL,  and  admitted  that  "  the  objections  were  set  forth 
to  particular  advantage  by  the  skill  of  a  very  able  and 
learned  writer,  and  were  proposed  writh  a  reasonable  and 
good  spirit."1 

The  Bishop  was  not  an  unconcerned  spectator  of  the 
troubles  which  befel  the  country  in  1715,  in  the  various 
risings  for  the  restoration  of  the  House  of  Stuart.  He  felt 
that  principle  was  in  direct  antagonism  with  expediency, 
but  his  loyalty  induced  him  to  discourage  all  attempts  for 
the  subversion  of  the  monarchy  and  the  restoration  of  a 

of  Bristoll's  Chaplain,  told  me  that  his  Lordship  had  accepted  of  the  Bishop- 
ric of  London,  and  was  soon  to  be  here  to  take  possession  of  it,  though  he 
believed  he  would  return  again  to  Utrecht :  but  who  is  to  succeed  him,  or 
Dr.  Smalridge,  we  know  not,  though  some  name  Dr.  Gastrell  for  both."  — 
Ballard's  MS.  Collections,  vol.  xxxvi.  p.  79. 
1  Page  1,  8vo.  1714. 


INTRODUCTION.  Xlll 

system,  both  ecclesiastical  and  political,  which  the  mass  of 
the  people  justly  viewed  with  alarm  and  jealousy.  "The 
Prints  tell  us,"  said  Archdeacon  Stratford,  in  a  letter  to  his 
cousin,  Dr.  William  Stratford,  (GASTRELL'S  Secretary,)  dated 
Oxford,  Nov.  9th  1715,  "that  the  Northumberland  Rebels 
are  marching  towards  Lancashire.  If  you  hear  of  any  dis- 
turbance of  Rebellion  in  those  parts,  you  must  give  your 
Lord  what  accounts  you  hear  of  it,  as  soon  always  as  they 
come  to  you."  Again  on  the  23d  of  November  the  Arch- 
deacon writes,  "My  Lord  was  much  concerned  to  hear  of 
the  Rebels,  and  cannot  suppose  that  Englishmen  will  desire 
to  revive  a  system  condemned  and  deplored  by  all  sound 
Protestants :"  and  the  Bishop  himself  on  the  28th  of  No- 
vember, writing  to  his  Secretary,  observes,  "whatever  my 
sympathy  may  be  for  a  houseless  Prince,  my  loyalty  and 
duty  to  my  Sovereign  are  clear,  and  I  hope  this  is  the  feel- 
ing of  my  Diocese."  —  MSS.  in  the  Registry,  Chester. 

The  Universities  were  known  to  maintain  opinions  not 
much  in  accordance  with  those  of  the  ruling  powers,  nor 
was  the  individual  character  of  the  Sovereign  such  as  to 
conciliate  the  many,  and  GASTRELL,  from  conviction,  as 
well  as  from  disapprobation  of  the  treatment  of  the  Earl 
of  Oxford,  who  had  been  impeached  of  high  treason  and 
imprisoned,  stood  prominently  forward  in  the  House  of 
Lords  as  the  vehement  advocate  of  those  celebrated  seats 
of  learning. 

At  this  juncture  Mr.  Samuel  Peploe,1  the  Vicar  of  Pres- 

1  Samuel  Peploe  B.D.  though  styled  by  all  his  biographers  D.D.  a  degree 


XIV  INTRODUCTION. 

ton,  rendered  himself  conspicuous  by  advocating  the  liberal 
measures  of  the  party  which  had  displaced  the  Earl  of 
Oxford,  and  maintained  with  great  zeal  the  succession  of 
the  House  of  Hanover.  He  had  preached  and  published 
opinions  on  Religious  Liberty  which  had  damaged  him  in 
the  estimation  of  his  Diocesan,  who  had  felt  it  to  be  his 
duty  to  speak  and  vote  in  his  place  in  Parliament  against 
the  Repeal  of  the  Test  Act,  which  measure  had  been 
strongly  advocated  by  Mr.  Peploe. 

During  the  time  that  the  Rebels  were  in  Preston,  in 
1715,  the  daring  zeal  of  the  Vicar  for  the  reigning  So- 
vereign was  the  subject  of  general  conversation,  and  he 
daily  read  the  prayers  for  the  King,  on  one  occasion  even 
in  the  presence  of  his  Majesty's  rival.  It  is  also  reported 
that  a  rebel  soldier,  forgetful  of  his  allegiance  to  a  higher 

which  he  never  ohtained,  being  well  contented  with  his  Lambeth  distinction, 
was  born  in  1668,  in  Shropshire,  educated  at  Penkridge  School,  and  after- 
wards a  Batler  of  Jesus  College,  Oxford,  B.A.  1690,  M.A.  1693.  He 
became  Rector  of  Keddleston  in  Derbyshire,  and  Chaplain  to  John,  Lord 
Delawar,  and  was  instituted  to  the  Vicarage  of  Preston  in  1700,  on  the 
nomination  of  the  Presbyterian  Patron.  In  1718  he  became  Warden  of 
Manchester,  and  was  appointed  successor  of  Bishop  Gastrell  in  the  See 
of  Chester,  (holding  his  Wardenship,  in  commendam,)  being  consecrated 
at  St.  Margaret's  Church,  Westminster,  April  26th  1726.  He  was  twice 
married,  had  issue,  and  died  at  Chester,  Feb.  21st  1752. 

His  early  Sermons,  which  I  have  seen  in  MS.  are  characterised  by  that 
"  largeness  and  freedom  of  judgment"  mentioned  by  Dr.  Birch  as  a  distin- 
guishing feature  in  what  he  calls  "the  latitudinarian  divines." — Life  of 
Tillotson,  p.  390.  In  later  life  Peploe  appears  to  have  avoided  the  road 
alike  to  Racovia,  Geneva,  and  Rome. 


INTRODUCTION.  XV 

power,  once  approached  the  Vicar  during  Divine  Service, 
and  drawing  his  bayonet,  threatened  Peploe's  life  if  he 
dared  to  read  the  Prayer  for  the  Elector  of  Hanover.  With 
an  undaunted  courage,  characteristic  of  the  man,  Peploe 
replied,  "  Soldier,  do  your  duty,  and  I  will  do  mine  ! "  The 
firmness  of  his  tone,  and  the  dignity  of  his  manner,  awed 
the  rebel,  who  silently  retired,  and  the  alarmed  congrega- 
tion proceeded  with  their  devotions. 

When  this  anecdote  was  related  to  George  the  First,  he 
was  so  much  affected  by  the  cool  heroism  of  his  Whig  sup- 
porter, that  he  exclaimed  in  his  broken  German,  with  consi- 
derable emphasis,  "Peep-low,  Peep-low,  by  he  shall 

Peep-high  —  he  shall  be  a  Bishop!"  a  royal  determination 
punctually  performed. 

Before  the  Mitre  was  ready  for  his  acceptance,  however, 
Peploe  was  nominated  by  the  King  to  the  Wardenship  of 
Manchester,  vacant  by  the  death  of  Dr.  Wroe,  on  the  1st  of 
January  1718;  and  he  was  unfortunate  enough  to  find  the 
College  composed  of  a  body  of  Clergy  opposed  to  him  on  all 
the  leading  topics  of  the  day,  nor  was  he  at  all  likely  to 
meet  with  any  sympathy  from  his  Diocesan.  The  Bishop 
and  his  Clergy  were  generally  Tories,  and  Peploe  stood 
almost  alone  in  the  Diocese  as  an  Erastian  and  a  Whig. 

By  the  Statutes  of  the  College  of  Manchester,  the  War- 
den was  required  to  be  "  at  least"  a  Bachelor  of  Divinity, 
whereas  Peploe  was,  at  this  time,  a  Master  of  Arts  only. 
Instead  of  taking  his  Degree  in  the  usual  way  at  Oxford,  of 
which  University  he  was  a  Member,  he  obtained  from  Arch- 
bishop Wake,  a  Lambeth  Degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divinity, 


XVI  INTRODUCTION. 

and  presented  himself  for  institution  to  Bishop  GASTRELL, 
the  Visitor  of  the  College.1 

The  Bishop,  however,  declined  to  institute,  on  the  ground 
that  when  a  Degree  was  required  by  a  Charter  it  must  be 
conferred  by  an  English  University,  and  that  a  Lambeth 
Degree  was  an  honorary  distinction,  not  qualifying  the  indi- 
vidual who  might  possess  it,  for  preferment. 

Not  wishing  to  incur  the  displeasure  of  the  Minister  of 
the  day  by  rejecting  the  Court  favourite,  he  voluntarily 
offered  his  assistance  to  the  new  Warden  to  obtain  for  him 
the  required  Degree  at  Oxford. 

This  offer  was  declined,  and  with  the  permission  of  Arch- 
bishop Wake,  GASTRELL  drew  up  a  statement  entitled  "  The 
Bishop  of  Chester's  Case  with  relation  to  the  Wardenship  of 
Manchester ;  in  which  is  shewn  that  no  other  Degrees  but 
such  as  are  taken  in  the  University  can  be  deemed  legal 
Qualifications  for  any  Ecclesiastical  preferment  in  England." 

The  proofs  and  arguments  are  very  ingenious  and  exhibit 
much  antiquarian  knowledge  of  the  nature  of  Lambeth 
Degrees,  which  had  their  origin  long  prior  to  the  Refor- 
mation in  a  Legantine  power  originally  conferred  by  the 
Pope,  and  probably  before  the  English  Universities  were 
in  existence. 

Three  years  after  Peploe's  nomination  to  the  Wardenship 
the  Court  of  King's  Bench2  decided  that  the  Degrees  so 

1  A  full  statement  of  this  unhappy  dispute  may  be  seen  in  Dr.  Hibbert 
Ware's  History  of  the  Collegiate  Church  of  Manchester,   vol.  ii.   4to. 
1834. 

2  The  Court  of  King's  Bench  was  not  applied  to  in  the  first  instance,  as 


INTRODUCTION.  XVU 

conferred  were  of  equal  validity  with  University  Degrees 
in  qualifying  for  Ecclesiastical  preferment. 

appears  from  the  following  letter  addressed  by  Gastrell  to  Dr.  Arthur  Char- 
lett,  Master  of  University  College,  Oxford,  and  dated  "  Chester,  Sept.  7," 
although  the  year  is  not  given;  but  on  the  13th  March  1720,  Mr.  Shrigley, 
writing  from  Manchester  to  the  Bishop,  says,  "I  was  glad  to  find  the  Trial 
deferred,  and  hope  Sir  P.  R.  will  come  the  Summer  Circuit.  He's  a  man  of 
character  for  learning :  but  here  was  an  excellent  special  Jury,  many  of  'em 
my  Friends,  hut  I  do  believe  the  same,  or  a  better  Jury,  (if  possible,)  may 
be  had  hereafter."  "  I  had  forgot  to  tell  yr  Lordship  y*  we  have  had  great 
hurry  with  a  fellow  pretending  to  Strangways,  ye  great  Estate  given  to  our 
Warden  for  ever,  on  ye  decease  of  Mr.  Reynolds,  without  heirs ;  but  the 

fellow  dare  not  venture.    We  had  rods  in for  him,  and  ye  Special  Jury 

above  was  for  y*  Cause,  which  the  fellow  has  given  notice  he  won't  try  this 
Assize:"  —  Lane.  MSS.  —  Letters. 

"  Chester,  Sept.  7. 

"  Dr  Sr,  — Our  cause  came  on  at  Lancaster  Assizes ;  Mr.  Page  called  for  it 
first,  and  was  in  great  haste  to  dispatch  it.  A  plea  had  been  given  in  by 
our  councill  called  a  plea  in  abatement,  wh  he  was  extremely  angry  at  be- 
fore it  was  argued,  And  was  pleased  to  reflect  upon  me  in  a  very  Grosse 
manner.  This  was  in  ye  morning;  But  wn  the  plea  was  argued  in  the 
Afternoon  his  behaviour  was  quite  altered,  And  was  very  calm  and  very 
civill.  However,  he  overruled  the  plea  at  last,  And  ordered  a  plea  in  chief 
to  be  put  In  within  a  month ;  So  y*  ye  merits  of  the  cause  cannot  be  tried 
till  next  Assizes,  wn  he  has  threatened  to  be  at  Lancaster  again.  I  am  glad 
the  cause  is  put  off  since  it  must  have  been  tried  before  this  worthy  Judge  : 
and  after  his  Reflexions  upon  me  he  shall  hear  of  them  in  another  place. 
Pray  be  so  Kind  to  communicate  this  account  wh  my  service  to  ye  vice- 
chanc :  if  he  be  with  you,  and  to  our  other  friends  at  Oxford. 

I  am, 
Your  affectionate  friend  and  Servant, 

FRAN.  CESTRENS. 

"  I  set  out  from  hence  some  time  next  week,  and  hope  to  see  you  before 
Mich's."  —  Ballard's  MS.  Letters,  vol.  ix.  p.  51. 

c 


XV111  INTRODUCTION. 

On  the  termination  of  the  trial,  GASTRELL,  in  his  own 
vindication,  published,  "for  private  circulation  only,"1  the 
"  Case"  above  referred  to.  It  was  printed  in  folio,  pp.  52, 
at  the  Theatre  in  Oxford,  in  1721,  and  also  at  Cambridge 
in  the  same  year.2 

An  Answer  appeared  to  this  publication,  entitled  Consi- 
derations on  the  English  Constitution  in  Church  and  State 
relating  to  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Chester's  Case,  which  the 
writer  styles  "a  pamphlet  lately  industriously  dispersed;" 
and  it  appears  from  other  evidence  that  the  "  Case,"  though 
now  rarely  to  be  met  with,  had  been  "  very  extensively  cir- 
culated." 

The  writer  styles  himself  "F.  Bennett,"3  and  dates  his 
pamphlet,  which  consists  of  thirty-two  pages,  August  12th 
1721.  He  displays  much  research,  and  an  acquaintance 
with  his  subject,  but  writes  in  an  acrimonious  and  abusive 
spirit. 

The  Universities,  whose  rights  and  privileges  had  been 

1  Dr.  Hibbert  Ware. 

3  Nichols'  Lit.  Anecd.  vol.  i.  p.  139.  Archdeacon  Wilkins,  writing  from 
Lambeth  to  Bishop  Nicolson,  March  4th  1720-1,  says,  "The  Bishop  of 
Chester  has  printed  the  Case  of  the  Wardenship  of  Manchester  College  in 
relation  to  the  Archbishop's  power  of  granting  degrees,  both  in  Oxford  and 
Cambridge;"  and  without  giving  an  opinion  on  its  merits,  adds,  "I  pity 
poor  Mr.  Peploe,  who  is  all  this  while  kept  out  of  his  place."  —  Nicolson's 
Epist.  Corr.  vol.  ii.  p.  537.  Lord  Chief  Justice  Eyres  pronounced  Gas- 
trell's  to  be  one  of  the  best  law  Cases  he  ever  saw. — Ballard's  MS.  Letters, 
in  the  Bodleian,  vol.  ii.  p.  64. 

3  Nothing  appears  to  be  known  of  him.  Dr.  Hibbert  Ware  gives  him  a 
wrong  initial,  calling  him  T.  Bennet. 


INTRODUCTION.  XIX 

defended  with  such  unflinching  firmness,  decreed  a  vote  of 
Thanks  to  the  Bishop,  by  a  Grace,  on  April  22d,  1721  ;* 
and  the  same  was  conveyed  by  Dr.  Waterland  and  Dr. 
Lany. 

For  a  man  like  GASTRELL  to  find  himself  opposed  to  the 
Crown  and  the  See  of  Canterbury,  must  have  been  amongst 
"  the  travails  and  crosses  wherewith  Prelacy,"  according  to 
judicious  Hooker,  "is  never  unaccompanied;"  but  as  he 
went  obviously  against  the  popular  current,  and  sacrificed 
his  few  remaining  prospects  of  advancement,  he  doubtless 
considered  himself  to  be  acting  under  the  influence  of  a 
high  and  holy  principle,  —  and  is  therefore  deserving  of  the 
respect  of  posterity.2 

1  March  22,  1720,  in  Nichols'  Lit.  Anecd.  vol.  i.  p.  138. 

2  The  Bishop  had  his  full  share  of  anxiety  and  trouble  from  Manchester. 
In  Dr.  Hibbert  Ware's  History  of  the  Collegiate  Church  of  Manchester, 
vol.  ii.  pp.  73-4,  will  be  found  an  account  of  a  misunderstanding  between 
the  Chaplains  and  the  Parishioners,  alluded  to  in  the  following  anonymous 
Letter  addressed  to  Gastrell.      Mr.  Richard  Assheton,  a  zealous  Tory,  had 
been  appointed  by  Gastrell  to  a  Chaplaincy,  during  the  vacancy  of  the 
Wardenship,  and  appears  to  have  made  himself  obnoxfous  not  only  to  his 
Whig  Parishioners,  but  also  to  those  who,  like  "the  unknown  hand,"  (as 
the  Bishop  styled  him,)  considered  themselves  to  be  moderate  men :  — 

"Manchester,  June  ye  18th,  1725. 

MY  LORD,  —  I  do  protest  before  the  Great  God  of  heaven  that  I  wish 
both  your  temporal  and  Eternal  welfare.  • 

"  My  Lord,  as  I  doubt  not  but  that  the  peace  and  welfare  of  the  Churches 
In  your  Diocess  is  what  your  Lordship  has  most  at  hart,  so  my  Lord,  this 
Comes  with  a  Real  designe  of  doing  good,  and  freely  to  Inform  your  Lord- 
ship how  matters  stand  with  us  at  Manchester.  Did  you  but  hear  the 
publick  Clamour  of  your  Enemies,  with  the  Gross  Reflections  against  your 


XX  INTRODUCTION. 

Another  remarkable  proof  is  afforded  in  the  case  of 
Didsbury,  of  the  determination  with  which  he  defended 
the  right  of  the  Church,  and  of  a  poor  Curate,  when  he 

person  and  Goverment  in  the  Church,  your  Lordship  would  apply  some 
Wholesome  Remady,  and  put  a  stop  to  this  Growing  Evil. 

"  '  What,'  say  they,  '  are  we  to  have  a  Bishop  worse  than  the  pope,  to  suf- 
fer such  things  as  these?'  Says  another  Gang,  'and  is  this  your  Bishop,  to 
keep  out  Mr.  Peplo  that  we  may  fall  a  prey  to  2  Chaplins  ?' 

"  Says  another  Sort,  '  we  have  known  my  Lord  protest  against  arbitrary 
power.  Sure  he  was  but  in  jest  when  he  Can  suffer  this.' 

"  And  all  your  freinds  can  say  is,  '  they  beleife  your  Lordship  knows  no- 
thing of  these  things,  or  you  would  not  suffer  it  to  be  so.' 

"  My  Lord,  these  are  plain  truths,  and  should  I  be  111  thought  on  for 
acquainting  your  Lordship  with  these  things  I  should  think  it  hard ;  and 
perhaps  some  that  pretend  to  be  your  greatest  freinds  will  not  tell  you  so 
plainly  as  I  do,  some  for  fear  of  disobligeing  a  Customer,  some  for  one 
thing,  some  for  another. 

"  Now,  my  Lord,  the  Cause  of  all  this  distraction  is  through  our  two 
Chaplins  of  the  ould  Church,  in  turning  a  milde  Request  made  in  favor  of 
them,  In  Relation  to  bringing  in  the  dead  at  prayer  time,  into  a  Command, 
and  Extorting,  as  is  believed,  unlawful  Somes  from  people;  Not  people  dis- 
affected to  the  Church,  and  upon  Examination  of  the  persons  your  Lordship 
will  find  it  so :  here  follows  the  names  of  a  few  — 

"  10"  demanded  from  Wm  Drake  Esq.  not  paid ;  10s  from  Mr  Wm  Hulme, 
Grocer,  and  paid ;  1s  from  Thomas  Somister ;  and  the  Corps  Came  in  very 
soon  after  prayers.  Mrs.  Bleak,  alias  Brown,  of  Salford,  Can  give  your 
Lordship  such  an  account  as  I  care  not  to  name. 

•  "  My  Lord,  I  shall  Conclude  with  praying  that  God  would  Reward  you  for 
what  you  have  already  done  for  the  Church,  and  may  the  divine  providence 
Continue  you  a  blessing  to  it,  is  the  prayer  of  your  ever  obedient 

Sarvent, 
Neither  Whig,  my  Lord,  false  Brother, 

nor  treacherous  time  Sarver. 


INTRODUCTION.  XXI 

supposed  that  the  one  was  invaded,  and  the  other  oppres- 
sed, by  an  opulent  family.  Having  been  informed  officially, 
that  Rowland  Mosley  Esq.  had  formerly  conveyed  an  Estate, 

"  My  Lord,  I  think  it  proper  at  present  to  Conceal  my  name,  but  if  your 
Lordship  please  to  honour  me  with  an  answer,  you  may  direct  for  Gerrard 
Joans,  to  he  Left  at  John  Brown's,  at  the  Talbot,  near  Salford  Chapel,  and 
it  will  Come  to  my  hands." — Lane.  MSS. — Letters. 

Nor  were  the  proceedings  at  St.  Anne's  altogether  what  the  Rector 
wished,  or  the  Bishop  thought  desirable,  which  led  to  the  following  state- 
ment of  the  former,  who  was  his  Lordship's  Chaplain,  and  dying  September 
9th,  1736,  was  buried  in  St.  Anne's  Church-yard :  — 

"Manchester,  Jan.  21,  1723-4. 

"  My  LORD,  —  I  suppose  y*  your  Lordship  hath  or  will  receive  from  the 
Church-wardens  of  ye  New  Church,  [St.  Anne's,]  an  Account  of  y8  differ- 
ence betwixt  us  as  to  ye  Disposal  of  ye  Offertory-money.  That  your  L'dship 
might  be  fully  inform'd,  I  thought  it  my  Duty,  to  acquaint  your  L'dship 
w°*  ye  Case,  wch  is  as  follows.  For  several  years  last  past,  out  of  ye  Offer- 
tory-money, wch  hath  not  been  counted,  (as  I  think  it  ought  to  have  been,) 
I  com'only  have  taken  3,  4,  or  5  shillings  to  give  poor  people.  The 
remainder  ye  Church-wardens  take.  But  lately,  they  thinking  y*  I  take  too 
much,  or  perhaps  y*  I  should  not  take  any,  on  last  Sunday  Mr  Lees,  y*  only 
Church-warden  then  present,  would  not  allow  me  to  take  any.  We  counted 
all  ye  money,  wch  was  about  thirty  seven  shillings,  and  disposed  of  none  of 
it.  This  Collection,  I  believe,  was  not  so  great  as  usual,  bee.  ye  number  of 
Com'unicants  was  not  so  great  as  at  other  times.  Now  since  we  disagree, 
your  L'dship  is  to  determine  in  what  method  y®  offertory-money  is  to  be 
disposed  of.  People  have  been  very  much  dissatisfy'd  as  to  what  ye  Church- 
wardens have  had,  so  y*  ye  Collections  have  not  been  so  great  as  otherwise 
they  would  have  been.  The  Bottom  of  all  our  differences  and  uneasiness  is 
this.  The  Church  is  brought  into  Debt  by  very  unnecessary  painting  about 
three  years  agoe ;  towd"  ye  Discharge  of  which,  the  Church-wardens  would 
have  ye  offertory-money  apply'd ;  which  I  take  to  be  very  wrong,  as  well  as 
ye  buying  therewith  some  time  agoe  by  Mr  Lees,  without  consent  of  his 


XX11  INTRODUCTION. 

in  fee,  for  the  use  of  the  Incumbent  of  Didsbury,  for  the 
time  being,  and  that  the  same  had  been  diverted  from  its 
prescribed  purpose,  and  selfishly  appropriated  by  the  family 
of  Sir  John  Bland  M.P.  (who  had  married  the  heiress  of  the 
Mosley's,)  his  Lordship  immediately  intimated  his  intention  of 
closely  investigating  the  matter,  regardless  of  all  considera- 
tions, and  fully  aware  of  the  weight  and  influence  of  the 
parties  implicated;  who  were  not  less  conspicuous  in  the 
Diocese  on  account  of  their  large  possessions,  family  con- 
nections, and  fashionable  accomplishments,  than  for  their 
unbounded  affection  and  liberality  towards  the  Church. 

"My  duty  is  obvious,"  says  the  Bishop  to  Mr.  William 
Shrigley  of  Manchester,  a  Lawyer  of  some  eminence  in  his 
day,  with  whom  the  Bishop  corresponded,  "  and  though  dis- 
agreeable, shall  be  performed ;"  and  the  Lawyer  assured  his 

Brother  Ch'-warden,  or  mine,  a  dozen  of  Com'on  prayer  books,  for  ye  use 
of  ye  Congregation,  which  cost  above  four  pounds.  Mr  Shrigley  lately  men- 
tioned to  me  another  expedient  toward  getting  ye  Church  out  of  Debt,  viz. 
a  Com'ission  from  your  L'dship  to  apply  part  of  ye  Incomes  of  ye  Rector  and 
Curate  to  y*  purpose ;  which  tho  (as  I  suppose,)  impracticable,  yet  shew'd 
his  good-will  to  us.  I  am  afraid  matters  will  never  be  easy  and  as  they 
should  be  amongst  us,  till  one  thing  be  altered,  which  I  care  not  to  mention 
without  leave,  lest  I  should  be  thought  to  pretend  to  direct  your  Lordship. 
I  am  sorry  and  ashamed,  y*  I  am  forced  to  give  your  L'dship  this  Trouble, 
for  which  I  humbly  ask  your  L'dship's  pardon,  and  am, 

My  Lord, 
Your  Lordship's  most  dutiful  and 

most  humble  Servant, 

NATH.  BANNE." 
Lane.  MSS.  —  Letters. 


INTRODUCTION.  XX111 

Lordship  that  there  were  no  family  records  in  which  the 
Ogree  Lands,  (those  in  dispute,)  were  mentioned,  and  that 
Mr.  Broome,  Sir  John  Eland's  Steward,  had  searched  in 
vain  for  information  on  the  subject  of  the  title.  The  Bi- 
shop reasonably  enough  inferred  that  this  absence  of  proof 
strengthened  the  presumptive  claim  of  the  Curate,  and 
roundly  intimated  that  such  was  his  deliberate  opinion. 

This  being  communicated  to  Lady  Bland,  then  a  widow, 
she  undertook  to  address  the  Bishop  as  follows :  — 

"  Hulme,  July  22,  1720. 

"  MY  LORD,  —  I  was  very  much  surprised  when  Mr  Shrigley 
shewed  me  your  Lordship's  Letter,  and  am  sorry  that  Mr  Wright 
hath  so  much  imposed  upon  you ;  for  I  do  assure  your  LordsP  that 
Mr  Wright  never  came  to  Didsbury  by  my  Nomination,  or  Appro- 
bation, but  was  sent  by  Mr  Leicester,  in  his  illness  (when  I  was  at 
London)  to  Officiate  there :  and  after  Mr  Leicester's  Death  con- 
tinued some  time  there,  because  I  had  a  Relation  (who  I  thought 
then  would  have  qualified  himself  for  y*  Place,)  and  I  designed  to 
have  given  it  to  him.  I  am  much  concerned  that  your  Lord8? 
should  have  so  ill  an  opinion  of  me,  or  my  Dear  Husband  Sr  John 
Bland,  that  we  should  wrong  the  Church  of  any  thing  that  belongs 
to  it.  The  whole  Affair  is  too  long  to  trouble  your  Lord?  with,  so 
leave  my  Cousen  Bland  to  acquaint  you  therewith;  and  wn  you 
have  heard  the  matter,  I  hope  your  Ldsp  is  so  just,  that  you  will 
withdraw  the  Licence  you  have  given  to  a  Man  who  hath  not  told 
you  the  truth,  and  hath  abused  her  who  is, 

My  Lord, 

Yr  Lordship's  most  Obedient  and 
most  humble  Servant, 

ANN  BLAND." 


XXIV  INTRODUCTION. 

On  the  24th  of  July,  Mr.  Adam  Bland,  (himself  a  Law- 
yer, and  married  to  one  of  the  daughters  and  coheiresses  of 
Edward  Chetharn  of  Smedley  Esq.  commonly  called  "  Law- 
yer Chetham,")  informed  the  Bishop  that  he  had  at  length 
discovered  an  Indenture  dated  the  12th  of  August  in  the 
4th  Jac.  from  which  it  appeared  that  Rowland  Mosley  of 
Hough  Hall  Esq.  had  "  Leased  a  messuage  in  Didsbury  for 
the  term  of  fourscore  years,  to  commence  from  the  death  of 
one  Pickering,  for  the  use  of  the  Parson  or  Curate  offi- 
ciating at  Didsbury,  by  the  liking  and  consent  of  the  said 
Rowland  Mosley,  and  his  heirs  and  assigns :" *  and  Lady 
Bland  wrote  on  the  same  day  acknowledging  the  Bishop's 
favour  on  another  subject  which  had  become  litigated.2 

1  Shrigley  afterwards  wrote  to  the  Bishop  — "  To  shew  your  Lordship 
that  the  Parson  has  some  just  reason  of  complaint,  Pickering  was  born  in 
1586,  and  the  Lease  was  made  in  1606,  when  he  was  20  years  old.  He 
went  out  of  the  kingdom  for  Ireland  about  1630,  and  supposing  that  he 
died  at  that  time,  which  is  without  proof,  the  term  expired  hut  in  1710, 
and  the  rent  has  been  kept  back  years  beyond  that,  (from  1680;)  but  this 
man's  death  requires  further  enquiry,  and  so  does  the  Ogree,  for  many  rea- 
sons. In  short,  my  Lord,  burn  this ,  but  insist  on  seeing  the  Writings." 

The  Letters  of  Mr.  Thomas  Wright,  Incumbent  of  Didsbury,  addressed  to 
the  Bishop  on  the  subject,  confirm  Shrigley's  statements,  and  reflect  little 
credit  upon  Mr.  Broome  and  Lady  Eland's  partisans. — Lane.  MSS. — Letters. 

2  "  July  24,  1720. 

"  MY  LORD,  —  I  must  own  your  Lordship's  great  Favour  in  withdrawing 
your  Licence  from  Mr  Wright,  till  you  are  fully  satisfied  in  my  Tytle  to 
present  to  Didsbury.  The  Bearer,  Mr  Dale,  was  recommended  to  me  by 
Substantiall  People,  and  those  whom  I  call  the  honest  side,  which  with 
ye  conveniency  of  his  being  so  near  Didsbury,  made  me  first  nominate  him  : 
but  if  your  Ldsp  has  any  perticular  objection  against  him,  (as  I  innocently 


INTRODUCTION.  XXV 

One  point  after  another  was  thus  brought  incidentally 
to  light,  and  the  whole  question  not  being  fully  exhibited 
these  partial  disclosures  were  deemed  unsatisfactory  by  the 
Bishop.  His  apprehensions  were  excited  by  the  insinu- 
ations of  Shrigley,  and  he  probably  exaggerated  the  impor- 
tance of  this  gradual  admission  of  facts,  and  unfortunately 
interpreted  it  as  tantamount  to  a  virtual  acknowledgment 
of  a  bad  cause.  Shrigley  communicated  to  his  Lordship 
that  Lady  Bland  was  deeply  mortified  on  having  been  in- 
formed by  Mr.  Dale  (the  Curate)  that  his  Lordship  had 
harshly  or  rashly  stated  that  he  did  not  know  whether  she 
and  Mr.  Dale  might  not  contrive  together  to  defraud  the 
Church  of  its  rights,  and  that  his  duty  and  determination, 
as  the  Diocesan,  was  to  defend  these  rights  against  all  equi 
vocal  friends.  As  this  was  merely  the  report  of  a  conver- 
sation there  might  be  some  misapprehension  of  the  Bishop's 
meaning  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Dale. 

nominated  him,)  I  shall  find  out  another,  (so  as  to  save  my  own  right,)  who 
I  hope  your  Lord8p  will  licence  to  officiate  during  this  dispute.  I  cannot 
forbear  acquainting  your  Lord'1'  that  severall  of  my  most  substantiall  Te- 
nants came  to  me  on  friday  last,  to  acquaint  me  how  I  was  threat'ned 
by  Mr  Wright;  they  also  told  me  that  ye  Communicants  are  very  much 
increased,  and  the  Congregation  more  numerous,  since  Mr  Dale  came 
amongst  them,  and  that  he  is  very  acceptable  to  them.  I  shall  leave  the 
Law  part  to  my  Cousen  Bland,  and  submit  to  yr  Lord1"  Judgem*  and  me- 
thod, how  to  secure  my  right  of  Nomination  for  ye  future,  being, 

My  Lord, 
Yr  Lords1"  most  Obedient  and 

Obliged  humble  Servant, 

ANN  BLAND." 

d 


XXVI  INTRODUCTION. 

On  the  6th  of  August  Lady  Bland  wrote  as  follows :  — 

"Hulme,  Aug.  6^,  1720. 

"  MY  LOKD,  —  I  had  the  favour  of  both  your  Lord?'8  Letters,  the 
first  came  3  dayes  after  date,  the  other  was  five  before  I  got  it, 
but  was  not  brought  by  Mr  Wright ;  and  before  I  received  them, 
I  had  provided  one  to  preach  at  Didsbury  on  Sunday,  ye  31st  of 
July :  not  imagining  yr  Ldsp  had  granted  a  License  to  Mr  Wright, 
after  your  Orders  given  to  Cousen  Bland  to  have  Mr  Shrigley 
return  ye  License.  It  is  the  greatest  concern  to  me  imaginable, 
that  my  dear  Sr  John's  Memory  should  be  so  aspersed,  whereas 
no  man  had  more  regard  for  the  Rights  of  ye  Church,  nor  more 
conscientious  and  generous  than  he  was :  I  am  less  concerned  for 
what  is  said  of  my  self,  since  those  who  are  best  acquainted  with 
me  (and  are  not  prejudiced,)  know  I  am  not  guilty  of  what  Mr 
Wright  has  laid  to  my  charge;  I  do  assure  yr  Ldp  the  dislike  I 
have  of  him  is  not  grounded  upon  fancy  or  humour,  but  on  a  deli- 
berate knowledge  of  his  ill  qualities,  and  for  his  neglecting  his 
Duty,  when  he  was  formerly  employed  to  preach  at  Didsbury,  and 
had  no  other  Chappell  to  preach  at,  as  he  now  has. 

As  to  the  Particulars  mentioned  in  your  Ldp's  first  Letter,  to 
have  been  taken  by  our  Family,  from  ye  Curates  of  Didsbury,  I 
fear  your  information  came  from  some  Ignorant,  or  ill  designing 
Persons ;  for  the  House  called  the  Parsonage  house,  and  the  land 
belonging  to  it,  was  (as  Cousen  Bland  informed  you,)  given  for  a 
term  of  years  only,  which  I  apprehend  is  expired :  nay,  whilst  ye 
estate  continued,  it  was  so  long  only  as  the  Curates  should  remain 
there,  with  ye  consent  and  approbation  of  ye  family.  And  the  31 
a  year  given  by  Sr  Edward  Mosley,  my  Father,  was  also  given  for 
a  term  of  years  also,  wch  is  ended.  And  ye  Close  called  ye  Ogre, 
which  belongs  to  my  Son,  Sr  John  Bland,  appears  to  have  been 
given  during  the  will  and  pleasure  of  ye  giver.  And  I  and  my 
Son  are  resolved  to  support  our  respective  Rights  to  y6  said  parti- 


INTRODUCTION.  XXV11 

culars,  against  ye  groundless  pretences  that  Mr  Wright,  or  others, 
may  raise  to  themselves. 

As  to  the  right  of  Nomination,  upon  the  inquiry  which  I  have 
hitherto  made,  there  is  great  reason  to  believe  it  in  the  Family ; 
however,  till  it  be  more  perfectly  look'd  into,  I  shall  be  well  satis- 
fied if  your  Lordship  (as  yu  was  pleased  to  promise  in  yr  first 
letter,)  license  a  Person  agreeable  to  me  to  officiate,  untill  ye  right 
of  Nomination  be  settled :  I  have  proposed  it  to  Mr  Cattell,  who 
cannot  accept  of  it,  it  being  inconvenient  to  him,  and  there  is  no 
other  at  present  I  can  find  out  but  Mr  Dale ;  who  I  know  is  very 
acceptable  to  y6  inhabitants  of  ye  Chapellry ;  and  who  by  his  good 
preaching,  diligence,  good  life  and  conversation,  is  agreeable  to 
me :  but  I  submitt  to  yr  Lord?'8  Judgement,  and  am, 

Yr  Lordship's 

most  Obedient  and 

Most  humble  Serv*, 

ANN  BLAND. 

I  beleeve  yr  Ldsp  was  not  told  y*  my  dear  Sr  John  gave  101  a 
year  to  ye  Chappell  of  Didsbury  wn  he  took  ye  land  into  his  own 
hands;  which  I  have  continued  to  pay  half  yearly,  tho'  not  obliged 
to  do  it." 

The  dispute,  however,  remained  undetermined,  and  the 
Bishop  dissatisfied  probably  during  the  whole  of  his  Epis- 
copate, and  various  proceedings  of  an  uninteresting  descrip- 
tion arose  out  of  it.  On  the  3d  of  July  1722,  the  Opinion 
of  Nicholas  Fazakerley  Esq.  the  Lawyer,  was  taken  upon  an 
ex  parte  Case  drawn  up  by  Mr.  Broome,  which  being  adverse 
to  the  Curate  was  unsatisfactory  to  the  Bishop ;  who  again 
expressed  his  determination  to  relinquish  no  right  belonging 
to  the  Church,  and  his  intention  to  urge  Lady  Bland  to 
abandon,  not  only  her  questionable  possession  of  the  goods 


XXV111  INTRODUCTION. 

of  the  Sanctuary,  but  also  those  individuals  whom  he  really 
considered  to  be  her  "ill  advisers.''  He  courteously  ad- 
mitted that  he  did  not  question  her  fidelity  to  the  Church, 
of  which  he  acknowledged  that  she  had  already  furnished 
ample  proof;  but  he  more  than  questioned  her  right  to  cer- 
tain arrears  of  rent,  and  grievously  disturbed  her  Ladyship's 
tranquillity  of  temper  by  requiring  the  production  of  her 
Title  to  the  Advowson  of  Didsbury. 

On  Nov.  4th  1723,  conceiving  that  GASTRELL  had  pushed 
the  demands  of  the  Church  so  far  as  to  render  conciliation 
impossible,  Lady  Bland  addressed  the  following  letter  to  Mr. 
John  Starky  of  Rochdale,  who  had  been  professionally  em- 
ployed, and  its  curt  and  sententious  style,  hardly  to  be  recon- 
ciled with  the  common  notions  of  Christian  Charity,  will 
remind  the  reader  of  the  indignant  letter  of  Anne,  Countess 
of  Pembroke,  Dorset,  and  Montgomery,  in  reply  to  an 
electioneering  application  from  the  Court  of  Charles  the 
Second :  — 

"  Hulme,  Novber  4th,  1723. 

"  Sr,  —  I  received  yours  of  Octber  28th,  and  all  the  Answer  I  can 
give  is,  that  I  have  spared  neither  Cost  nor  Paines  to  Satisfy  the 
Bishop  of  Chester,  (and  also  my  self,)  that  the  Chapel  of  Dides- 
bury  hath  had  no  wrong  done  either  by  me,  or  ye  Family  before 
me,  but  the  quite  contrary ;  which  I  am  fully  satisfied  of,  and  can 
make  it  plainly  appear :  therefore  I  will  neither  accompt  for  the 
mean  Profitts,  nor  give  2001  for  obtaining  ye  Bounty  money:  so 
the  Bishop  may  take  his  own  Method.  I  am,  Sr, 

Your  humble  Servant, 

ANN  BLAND." 


INTRODUCTION.  XXIX 

An  equitable  arrangement  might  have  prevented  the 
unhappy  contention,  delay,  and  expense,  which  this  case 
involved,  but  neither  party  evinced  the  slightest  symptom 
of  hesitation  in  the  course  each  pursued.  The  Bishop,  with 
the  most  honest  intentions,  prosecuted  his  suit  with  rather 
more  vigour  than  the  occasion  warranted ;  and  the  Lady, 
acting  under  the  guidance  of  "  Cousen  Bland"  and  Mr. 
Broome,  unwisely  declined  assenting  to  Mr.  Shrigley's  pro- 
position that  the  proceeds  of  the  Estate  in  question  might, 
from  a  certain  period,  be  reasonably  required  by  the  Bishop, 
on  behalf  of  the  Church. 

Bishop  GASTRELL  was  active  and  zealous  in  his  Diocese, 
and  the  high  value  which  he  placed  on  the  personal  cha- 
racter of  his  Clergy  is  seen  throughout  his  lengthened 
Correspondence  with  his  excellent  Secretary,  Dr.  William 
Stratford.  This  Correspondence  is  too  miscellaneous  and 
general  to  admit  of  publication  in  this  place,  —  but  it  dis- 
plays the  Prelate,  the  Churchman,  and  the  Friend,  in  the 
best  points  of  view.  He  took  unusual  pains  to  secure  able 
and  laborious  Clergymen,  especially,  as  he  said,  for  the 
larger  Parishes,  and  steadily  refused  the  solicitations  of  the 
higher  Clergy  when  he  considered  that  they  interfered  with 
the  general  welfare  of  the  Church.  He  ministered  disci- 
pline firmly,  sometimes  through  the  agency  of  others,  but 
always  reasonably.  He  intimated  his  intention  of  vigorously 
punishing  a  lay  delinquent  of  high  standing,  and  watched, 
with  feelings  of  no  common  solicitude,  the  supposed  exer- 
cise of  corrupt  patronage.  He  evinced  his  paternal  regard 
for  the  destitute  families  of  several  poor  Clergymen ;  and 


XXX  INTRODUCTION. 

absence  from  Chester  did  not  chill  his  interest  in  the  pro- 
gress of  a  Subscription  for  the  Charity  Schools.  He  had 
pleasure  in  relinquishing  a  year's  Income  from  the  Arch- 
deaconry of  Richmond,  in  favour  of  his  new  Commissary, 
and  expended  large  sums  upon  his  humble  Palace  and  the 
Houses  belonging  to  the  See.  In  1721  he  gave  £100  to- 
wards augmenting  the  Vicarage  of  Mottram  in  Cheshire; 
in  1722,  £100  to  the  Curacy  of  Staveley  in  Westmoreland ; 
in  1723,  £100  to  the  Curacy  of  Horwich  in  Lancashire; 
and  on  renewing  the  Lease  of  the  Rectory  of  Chipping, 
took  a  less  Fine  than  he  was  entitled  to  on  condition  that 
the  Vicar's  stipend  should  be  increased.  Unlike  ordinary 
scholars,  he  was  a  man  who  had  studied,  if  not  political,  at 
least  domestic  economy,  and  had  some  commendable  regard 
to  household  prudence,  expenditure,  and  management.1 

He  was  one  of  the  most  uncompromising  and  formidable 
opponents  of  the  Ministry  of  George  the  First,  and  his 
"  Protests"  entered  on  the  Rolls  of  the  House  of  Lords  indi- 
cate his  somewhat  liberal  and  comprehensive  views  on  all 
the  leading  political  topics  of  the  day.2 

1  "Feb.  12,  1718.    The  first  Brewing  may  be  according  to  the  usual  pro- 
portion, but  let  the  next  be  all  small  beer;  with  7  bushels  only   o  the  2 
Hogsheads,  \v^  is  full  strong  enough,  wn  it's  not  to  keep  above  2  months." — 
Bishop  Gastrell  to  his  Secretary. 

"Feb.  27, 1719.  You  may  Order  a  Brewing  before  you  go  to  Oxford." — 
Bishop  Gastrell  to  his  Secretary. 

2  1715.     Aug.  18,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Act  for  the  At- 
tainder of  Henry,  Viscount  Bolingbroke,  and  James,  Duke  of  Ormonde,  for 
High  Treason,  on  the  ground  that  they  were  out  of  the  kingdom  when 
impeached,  and  had  received  no  notice  of  any  charge  brought  against  them. 


INTRODUCTION.  XXXI 

I  only  find  two  members  of  his  family  preferred  by  him 

1716.  April  14th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Septennial  Act, 
being  in  favour  of  short  and  free  Parliaments. 

1717.  April  30th,   he  recorded  his  protest  against  a  Censure   of  the 
University  and  City  of  Oxford  by  a  Committee  of  the  House  of  Lords,  on 
neglecting  to  make  public  rejoicings  on  the  Prince  of  Wales'  birth-day,  on 
the  ground  that  it  reflected  upon  all  the  Heads  and  Members  of  the  Uni- 
versity and  City,  without  allowing  them  any  opportunity  of  reply,  and  that 
they  had  no  precedent  for  such  rejoicings. 

1717—18.  Feb.  20th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Act  for  Pun- 
ishing Mutiny  and  Desertion,  on  the  ground  of  its  being  an  exercise  of 
martial  law  in  time  of  peace,  and  against  the  liberty  of  the  subject. 

1717-18.  Feb.  24th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  a  similar  Act  and 
for  the  better  Payment  of  the  Army,  on  the  ground  of  being  opposed  to  the 
expence  of  a  large  military  force  in  time  of  peace. 

1717-18.  March  8th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Act  for  re- 
building the  Church  of  St.  Giles  in  the  Fields,  instead  of  one  of  the  fifty 
new  Churches,  on  the  grounds  of  defeating  the  end  of  two  Acts  of  Parlia- 
ment, and  of  the  Bill  being  introduced  without  the  royal  permission.  At 
the  same  time,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  words  "  of  pious  me- 
mory" being  refused  insertion  in  the  Act,  after  the  words  "Queen  Anne." 

1721.  Nov.  20th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  refusal  of  the 
House  to  Address  the  King  for  an  Order  to  lay  before  the  House  the 
Treaty  of  Commerce  with  Spain,  on  the  ground  that  the  Treaty  had  been 
twice  mentioned  in  the  King's  speeches  to  the  Houses  of  Parliament. 

1721.  Dec.  5th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  refusal  of  the 
House  to  consider  the  Causes  of  Increasing  the  Navy  Debt,  on  the  ground 
of  being  opposed  to  employing  greater  numbers  of  seamen  than  were  pro- 
vided for  by  Parliament. 

1721.  Dec.  6th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  rejection  of  a  Peti- 
tion from  the  City  of  London  praying  to  be  heard  by  Council  in  relation  to 
the  Quarantine  Act,  on  the  ground  that  the  liberty  of  petitioning  the  King 
(rather  than  Parliament)  is  the  birth-right  of  Englishmen,  and  that  the  City 
of  London  was  entitled  to  apply  for  relief  against  certain  clauses  in  the  Act. 


XXX11  INTRODUCTION. 

during  the  whole  of  his  Episcopate.      In  1719  he  gave  a 

1721.  Dec.  13th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  refusal  of  leave  to 
bring  in  a  Bill  on  the  above  subject. 

1721.  Dec.  19th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  refusal  of  an  Ad- 
dress to  the  King  to  give  orders  that  the  Instructions  given  to  Sir  George 
Byng,  Viscount  Torrington,  in  relation  to  the  Action  against  the  Spanish 
Fleet,  in  the  Mediterranean,  be  laid  before  the  House,  on  the  ground  that 
such  a  refusal  was  never  before  made ;  that  Commerce  had  been  en- 
tirely interrupted  with  Spain,  and  that  the  War  was  injurious  to  British 
interests. 

1721.  Dec.  21st,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Act  for  punishing 
Mutiny  and  Desertion,  &c.,  on  the  ground  of  being  opposed  to  keeping  up 
a  large  standing  army,  and  of  thus  overthrowing  the  civil  power. 

1721-2.  Jan.  19th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Act  for  relieving 
Quakers  from  Oaths,  and  substituting  Affirmations,  on  the  ground  that 
they  who  reject  the  two  Sacraments  of  CHRIST,  were  unworthy  of  the 
name  of  Christians,  &c. 

1721—2.  Jan.  25th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Order  of  the  Day 
for  refusing  to  consider  the  Causes  of  contracting  so  large  a  Navy  Debt. 

1721-2.  Feb.  3d,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  a  negatived  motion  to 
adjourn  the  House  on  account  of  the  Lord  Chancellor  having  unreasonably 
absented  himself  from  it  and  detained  the  Peers,  in  his  attendance  on  the 
King,  at  St.  James',  on  the  ground  that  it  was  a  gross  insult  to  the  autho- 
rity of  that  Supreme  Council. 

1721-2.  Feb.  13th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  rejection  of  a 
Bill  for  securing  the  Freedom  of  Election  of  Members  to  serve  in  the  Com- 
mons' House  of  Parliament,  on  the  ground  of  Bribery  and  Corruption ; 
which  required  a  Parliamentary  remedy,  especially  in  the  forbidding  of  pub- 
lic money  being  issued  towards  influencing  Elections.  Eleven  arguments 
are  recorded. 

1721-2.  Feb.  19th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  an  Order  that  the 
above  arguments  should  be  expunged  from  the  Rolls,  on  the  ground  that 
they  were  agreeable  to  the  precedents  and  forms  of  the  House. 

1721-2.     Feb.  19th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  an  Order  that  the 


INTRODUCTION.  XXX1I1 

Stall,  which  had  lapsed  to  him,  to  the  Rev.  John  Maple- 
consideration  of  the  Naval  Debt  should  take  place  in  three  weeks,  on  the 
ground  of  delay  to  obstruct  enquiry. 

1721-2.  Feb.  20th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  a  negatived  motion 
to  take  into  consideration  the  state  of  the  National  Debt,  on  the  ground  of 
excessive  increase  of  the  Debt. 

1721-2.  Feb.  20th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  a  negatived  motion 
that  the  annual  lessening  of  the  Public  Debt  is  necessary  to  restore  and 
preserve  Public  Credit,  on  the  ground  of  its  undeniable  truth. 

1721-2.  March  3d,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  making  it  a  standing 
Order  of  the  House  that  the  time  for  entering  Protestations  should  be 
limited,  and  the  Order  of  the  year  1641  superseded,  on  the  ground  of 
rigorously  restricting  a  public  right  "  which  had  not  of  late  been  abused." 

1721-2.  March  3d,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Protestations  of 
the  19th  and  20th  of  February  being  expunged  from  the  Rolls,  on  the 
ground  that  they  were  matters  of  fact. 

1721-2.  March  5th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  expunging  of 
the  Reasons  in  the  Protestations  entered  on  the  19th  of  January,  on  the 
grounds  therein  stated. 

1722.  Oct.  llth,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  a  Bill  to  empower  the 
King  to  secure  and  detain  persons  suspected  of  conspiring  against  his  Per- 
son and  Government,  and  to  continue  in  force  until  Aug.  24th  1723,  on  the 
ground  that  it  was  an  unnecessary  invasion  of  the  Liberty  of  the  Subject 
and  of  the  Habeas  Corpus  Act. 

1722.  Oct.  26th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  an  application  for  the 
committal  of  Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  on  suspicion  of  Treason,  on  the 
ground  that  it  was  contrary  to  the  Privileges  of  the  House  as  recognized  in 
an  Act  just  passed. 

1722-3.  Jan.  21st,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  publication,  by 
the  Judges  of  the  King's  Bench,  of  the  Trial  of  Christopher  Layer  Esq.  for 
Conspiracy,  on  the  ground  that  unnecessary  and  suspicious  delay  had  taken 
place  since  the  trial,  with  the  connivance  of  Ministers.  This  protest  occa- 
sioned much  angry  discussion;  and  several  protests  were  made  by  the 
Bishop  and  his  party  against  the  Government. 

e 


XXXIV  INTRODUCTION. 

toft,1  his  wife's  brother;   and  in  1721    he   appointed   his 

1722-3.  Feb.  16th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Amendments 
made  to  a  Bill  for  Increasing  the  Army,  on  the  ground  that  a  large  standing 
army  in  time  of  peace  was  unnecessary,  and  calculated  to  change  a  limited, 
into  an  absolute  Monarchy;  nor  was  any  danger  to  be  apprehended  from 
the  treasonable  Conspiracy  discovered  eight  months  before,  as  the  Crown 
already  possessed  sufficient  power  to  suppress  rebellion. 

1723.  April  29th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Bill  for  the  At- 
tainder of  John  Plunkett  Esq.  for  Treason,  on  the  ground  that  the  preser- 
vation of  the  State  did  not  require  it ;  and  that  the  Bill  being  brought  in  to 
supply  defects  in  evidence,  tended  to  supersede  the  judicial  power  of  the 
Lords,  and  also  the  Trial  by  Jury. 

1723.  May  2d,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Bill  for  the  Attainder 
of  George  Kelly,  an  agent  of  Atterbury's,  on  the  ground  of  proof  of  the  Pri- 
soner's defence  being  refused. 

1723.  May  7th,  he  recorded  his  ^protest  against  the  Opinion  of  the 
House  in  Atterbury's  Case,  that  it  was  unnecessary  to  suffer  any  further 
Inquiry  to  be  made  respecting  Warrants  granted  by  the  Secretaries  of  State 
to  intercept  Letters  at  the  Post-Office,  on  the  ground  that  in  all  Criminal 
Proceedings,  the  cross-examination  of  witnesses  is  necessary  for  the  Defence 
of  the  Prisoner,  and  for  the  satisfaction  of  the  Judge,  —  otherwise  fraudu- 
lent evidence  may  be  offered. 

1723.  May  15th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  the  Bill  to  inflict  Pains 
and  Penalties  on  Atterbury,  Bishop  of  Rochester,  on  the  grounds  that  by  it 
a  Peer  of  Parliament  is  in  part  tried  and  adjudged  to  punishment  by  the 
House  of  Commons,  and  the  right  of  Peers  thereby  infringed;  that  the 
Commons  had  condemned  the  Bishop,  by  Impeachment,  before  the  Bill  had 
been  brought  before  them;  that  the  ordinary  rules  of  evidence  had  been 
violated,  and  that  the  proof  of  the  charge  was  defective. 

1723-4.  March  16th,  he  recorded  his  protest  against  an  Act  for  the 
better  payment  of  the  Army,  on  the  ground  of  danger  to  the  Constitution 
in  keeping  a  large  army  in  time  of  peace,  (the  necessity  of  four  thousand 
men  being  added  to  the  army  existing  no  longer,  the  Conspiracy  being  at  an 
end,)  and  the  expense  burdensome  to  the  country. 


INTRODUCTION.  XXXV 

nephew,  Peregrine  Gastrell  Esq.  Chancellor  of  the  Diocese.2 

1725.  April  13th,  he  recorded  ^his  protest  against  a  Bill  for  regulating 
Elections  within  the  City  of  London,  on  the  ground  that  it  did  not  suffi- 
ciently preserve  the  ancient  rights  and  liberties  of  the  citizens. 

1  The  Rev.  John  Mapletoft  was  the  second  son  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Maple- 
toft,  the  Gresham  Professor,  and  of  his  wife  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Lucy 
Knightley  Esq.   of  the  Fawsley  family.      He  was   Fellow  of  Pembroke 
College,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1706,  M.A.  1710,  Vice-Dean  and  Prebendary  of 
Chester,   Vicar  of  Neston,   and   Rector  of  West  Kirkby.      He  married 
Barbara,  daughter  of   Francis  Godolphin  (ancestor  of  the  first  Earls  of 
Godolphin)  of  Sparger  in  Cornwall  Esq.     His  Will  is  dated  Chester,  May 
20th  1761,  (proved  Aug.  26th  1762,)  wherein  he  desires  that  his  body 
may  be  decently  interred  in  St.  Mary's  Chapel,  belonging  to  the  Cathedral, 
and  he  bequeaths  £.25,  to  be  distributed  at  the  discretion  of  his  Executors, 
"  amongst  the  Widows  and  Children  of  Clergymen  who  are  members  of  the 
said  Cathedral  and  proper  objects  of  Charity."     He  only  names  his  wife, 
(who  died  in  June  1762,)  and  daughters  Barbara,  (who  died  unmarried  in 
January  1794,)  and  Susanna,  (who  also  died  unmarried  in  March  1795.) 
He  had,  however,  two  sons,  one  of  whom  left  issue,  a  son,  Henry  Maple- 
toft,  living  in  Dublin  in  1769.  —  MS.  Fed.  Coll.  Arm. 

2  Peregrine  Gastrell  Esq.  LL.B.  succeeded  to  the  family  Estate  at  Slapton, 
was  appointed  Chancellor  of  Chester  in  1721,  and  dying  intestate  in  1748, 
administration  of  his  effects  was  granted  to  his  two  sons,  Edward  Peregrine 
Gastrell  of  Chester  Esq.  and  the  Rev.  Francis  Gastrell  M.A.  Rector  of 
Frodsham.     The  former  son  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of Ravens- 
croft  of  Pickhill  in  the  county  of  Denbigh  Esq.  and  died  in  1772,  leaving 
issue  an  only  son,  Edward  Gastrell  Esq.  who  died  unmarried,  and  intestate, 
in  1798,  when  his  sole  sister,  Frances,  wife  of  William  Orford  of  Chester 
Gent,  succeeded  to  the  Estate,  "  having  married  without  the  privity  or  con- 
sent of  her  father,  and  to  a  person  whom  he  was  informed,  and  believed, 
had  it  not  in  his  power  to  make  a  provision  for  her."     She  died  without 
issue  in  October  1812,  and  was  buried  "in  her  family  burial  place  in  St. 
Mary's  Chapel,"  and  devised  by  Will  £400  for  her  funeral  expenses.     Her 
uncle,  the  Rev.  Francis  Gastrell,  Rector  of  Frodsham,  was  of  Christ  Church, 


XXXVI  INTRODUCTION. 

His  opposition  to  Warden  Peploe  was  scarcely  subsided 
when  he  had  another  painful  public  duty  to  perform,  in  the 
affair  of  Bishop  Atterbury,  who  had  been  committed  to  the 
Tower  on  a  charge  of  Treason.  GASTRELL  was  the  only 
Prelate  who  defended  his  old  friend  and  school-fellow  in  the 
House  of  Lords,  and  indignantly  deprecated  the  unseemly 
haste  of  the  Government  proceedings.  That  he  was  sincere 
in  his  eloquent  vindication  of  Atterbury,  and  considered 
him  unjustly  suspected  and  injuriously  treated  by  the  Go- 
vernment, admits  of  no  question;  although  it  is  equally 
clear  that  during  his  exile,  as  well  as  whilst  in  England,  the 
Bishop  of  Rochester  entered  into  the  secret  plots  and  in- 
trigues of  the  House  of  Stuart. 

When  Dr.  John  Colbatch,  the  friend  of  Atterbury,  and 
the  opponent  of  Dr.  Bentley,  was  in  difficulties  with  the 
leading  powers  of  the  State,  owing  to  some  offensive  pas- 
sages in  his  Jus  Academicum,  the  only  Bishops  who  inter- 
Oxford,  M.A.  1728,  instituted  to  his  Living  in  1740,  and  died  in  1772, 
having  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Aston  of  Aston  in  the  county 
of  Chester  Bart,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.  This  lady  left  by  Will  £100 
to  the  Society  for  Promoting  Christian  Knowledge,  ,£100  to  the  Society  for 
Propagating  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,  and  in  1774  settled  a  good  Estate 
in  Frodsham  Parish  upon  the  Vicar  for  the  time  being,  charging  it  with 
£10  a  year  to  the  Warrington  Society  for  the  Relief  of  the  Widows  and 
Orphans  of  Poor  Clergymen  in  the  Archdeaconry  of  Chester.  Mrs.  Gas- 
trell  and  her  husband  have  obtained  an  unhappy  fame  owing  to  New- 
Place  having  been  destroyed,  and  Shakspeare's  mulberry-tree  cut  down, 
whilst  in  their  possession.  —  See  Gent's  Mag.  vol.  Ixi.  p.  1159,  vol.  Ixii. 
p.  18,  vol.  Ixxix.  p.  1126,  vol.  Ixxx.  p.  101;  Malone's  Skakspeare,  vol.  i. 
p.  118.  1790. 


INTRODUCTION.  XXXV11 

ested  themselves  in  his  favour  were,  Sir  William  Dawes,  the 
Archbishop  of  York,  and  Bishop  GASTRELL;  but  being 
Tories,  they  possessed  no  influence,  and  their  chief  merit 
consisted  in  their  enlightened  advocacy  of  the  great  prin- 
ciple of  Christian  Charity. 

In  1725  GASTRELL  published,  anonymously,  his  Moral 
Proof  of  the  Certainty  of  a  Future  State ;  and  mentions 
in  the  Preface  that  a  few  copies  had  been  printed  about 
seven  years  before,  and  communicated  only  to  some  parti- 
cular friends  of  the  Author,  without  any  intention,  at  that 
time,  of  making  the  work  more  public.  In  allusion  to  this 
work,  Atterbury  writes  to  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  Morice,  "  Feb. 
14,  1728,  Bishop  Gastrell's  book  has  never  reached  me ;  and 
yet  I  have  the  greatest  desire  to  read  it.  Pray  venture 
another  by  a  surer  hand." 

He  survived  the  appearance  of  this  useful  and  elegantly 
written  work  only  a  few  weeks.  The  Gout,  from  which  he 
had  long  suffered,  as  appears  by  the  frequent  allusions  to  it 
in  his  Letters  to  his  Secretary,  terminated  his  existence  on 
the  24th  of  November  1725,  in  which  year  he  had  held  his 
Triennial  Visitation  of  his  Diocese,1  and  had  consecrated 
three  new  Churches.  It  has  been  elsewhere  stated  that  his 

1  The  following  characteristic  letter  addressed  to  a  member  of  the  Knight- 
ley  family  was  written  about  this  time,  or  probably  a  few  years  earlier :  — 

"  Mar.  15. 

"Honoured  Sir,  —  I  find  myself  soe  exceedingly  mistaken  In  every  part  of 
my  last  letter  y*  I  can't  Tell  w*  answer  to  give  y*  will  set  me  right  again. 

The  design  you  are  upon  to  augment  the  Living  of ,  I  take  to  be  for 

ye  advantage  of  ye  church ;  and  I  never  did  Imagine  that  you  could  entertain 


XXXV111  INTRODUCTION. 

Lordship  died  of  the  Palsy,  on  the  14th  of  that  month,  but 
neither  date  accords  with  that  on  his  Monument ;  it  is,  how- 
ever, certain  that  he  died  of  the  Gout,  which  Goldsmith, 
in  his  famous  description  of  a  Visitation  Dinner,  has  pro- 
nounced to  be,  "time  out  of  mind,  a  Clerical  disorder," 

any  thoughts  of  doing  wrong  either  to  church  or  poor.  I  have  no  manner 
of  scruple  y*  shd  hinder  me  from  Doing  all  I  could  to  promote  ye  Augmen- 
tation intended,  and  I  resolved  to  doe  It  as  soon  as  it  came  regularly  before 
the  Governours ;  but  you  seem  not  to  be  acquainted  w111  the  method  used  at 
that  board.  Whether  the  Return  from  ye  Bishop's  commissioners  be  made 
or  not,  the  Governours  will  take  no  manner  of  notice  of  It  till  a  proposall 
for  the  augmentation  be  made  to  them  under  Hand  and  Seal,  (as  you  will 
see  by  ye  enclosed  Rules.)  Wn  the  proposall  is  made  the  Judges  and  other 
Lawyers  among  the  Governours  will  probably  Be  asked  their  opinion  whe- 
ther the  Trustees  having  all  along  applied  the  profits  mentioned  In  ye  Trust 
to  this  Living,  are  not  obliged  to  apply  them  soe  constantly.  This  is  a 
question  y*  I  shall  not  suggest  to  them;  but  certainly  'tis  proper  for  any 
one  who  intends  to  procure  such  an  augmentation  as  is  proposed,  to  know 
before-hand  w*  objections  may  be  made  to  it.  You  see  plainly  by  this 
account  of  the  matter  y*  ye  thing  cannot  be  determined  Quickly;  and  I 
designed  to  have  discoursed  It  more  fully  over  w411  you  wn  I  called  at 
Fawsely  after  my  visitation  was  over,  as  I  still  design,  wh  yr  leave,  to  doe. 
W*  I  mentioned  to  you  in  ye  postscript  was  only  by  way  of  information 
in  a  matter  wh  might  some  way  or  other  concern  you.  All  ye  question  in 
D™  Commons  was  (as  I  told  you)  whether  a  codicill  to  a  former  will 
shd  stand  good  :  'tis  adjudged  since  Against  ye  codicil),  by  wb  Judgment  my 
Lady  Kilmurrey  comes  into  the  whole  residue  of  my  Aunt's  estate,  w*ever 
it  was.  But  whether  the  estate  be  chargeable  w01  ye  money  devised  in 
ye  codicill  cannot  be  determined  in  ye  Civill  Law-courts.  And  whether 
that  money  will  ever  be  demanded,  or  is  receivable,  if  it  be,  is  w*  I  know 
nothing  of:  but  since  my  acquainting  you  \v^  a  matter  of  fact  in  wh  you 
might  possibly  be  concerned,  in  pure  respect  to  you,  has  given  you  a  handle 
to  ask  for  ye  money  you  was  so  kind  as  to  lend  me,  I  take  this  opportunity 


INTRODUCTION.  XXxix 

although  one  little  known  amongst  the  Clergy  of  GASTRELL'S 
Diocese. 

The  Bishop  died  at  his  Canon's  Lodgings  in  Oxford,  and 
was  buried  in  Christ  Church  Cathedral,  without  any  mo- 
nument; but,  as  Browne  Willis  observed,  (who  probably 
wrote  the  short  article  on  GASTRELL,  in  the  Biographia 
Britannica,}  he  left  a  sufficient  monument  of  himself  in  his 
excellent  writings,  —  and  his  virtues  are  far  from  being  yet 
forgotten. 

Although  many  years  passed  away  before  a  Monument 
was  erected  to  his  memory,  yet,  after  the  death  of  his 
widow,  "his  praises  were  veiled  in  the  decent  obscurity  of 
a  learned  language"  on  a  marble  on  the  North  side  of  the 
Cathedral  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford  :  — 

"FRANCISCUS  GASTRELL  S.  T.  P. 

Episcopus  Cestriensis 

Vir  ingenii  vividi 

Animi  integerrimi 

Cui  nihil  erat  prhis  quam  libere  sentire  et  fari 
Non  aliorum  secutus  vestigia 

to  let  you  know  that  I  shall  be  ready  to  pay  some  part  of  the  principal!  next 
month,  wn  I  pay  a  second  year's  interest ;  and  y*  remainder  shall  be  paid 
in  w*hin  half  a  year,  or  sooner,  if  required. 

"I  have  always  had  a  sincere  regard  for  yr  Family,  and  have  endeavoured 
to  serve  it  to  y*  utmost  of  my  power,  and  shall  continue  soe  to  doe,  in  such 
a  manner  as  I  am  certainly  informed  will  be  acceptable,  and  no  other. 

I  am, 
Your  obliged  affectionate  Kinsman, 

and  Humble  Servant, 

FRAN.  CBSTRIENS." 


xl  INTRODUCTION. 

Sed  suo,  ut  plurimum,  penu  fretus 

Omnes  vires,  omnia  sua  studia 
Ad  Christianam  Religionem  confirmaudam  et  promovendam 

potissimum  intendit 

In  argumentis  inveniendis  sagax 

In  disponendis  aptus 

Quae  acute  excogitavit 

Verbis  dilucide  expressit 

Non  sine  vi  quadam  et  vehementia 

Quse  in  scriptis  ssepe,  in  congressu  ssepius  emicuit 

Facile  ut  intelligi  possit 

Nihil  eum  aliis  suadere 

Quod  ipse  non  habeat  persuassimum 

Ob  vindicata  Academiarum  jura 

Ab  earum  utraque 

Nee  non  a  multis  Cleri  conventibus 

Gratias  publicis  literis  testatas  accepit 

E  Collegio  Westmonasteriensi  evocatus 

Hujus  JSdis  Alumnus 

Ejusdem  deinde  Canonicus  fuit. 

Obiit  Anno  ^Etat.  60,  Dom.  1725,  15  Nov. 

In  hoc  etiam  sacello 

atque  eodem  tumulo  conduntur  cineres 

ELIZABETHS  dilectissimaB  ejus  uxoris 

Quse  obiit  31  Jan.  1761." 
ARMS  —  See  of  Chester :   Impaling,  Checque,  Argent  and  Sable, 

on  a  Chief  Or,  three  Bucks'  heads  couped  of  the  last. 
On  the  Pavement,  on  a  white  marble  of  a  diamond  figure  — 

"  Hie  jacent 
FRANCIS  GTASTRELL  S.  T.  P. 

Episcopus  Cestriensis 
Et  ELIZABETHA  Uxor  ejus  : 


INTRODUCTION.  xl 

Adi  marmor  sepulchrale 
in  adverse  hujus  Sacelli  latere 

Positum." 
Gutcb/s  Contin.  of  Wood's  Hist  of  Oxford,  vol.  iii.  p.  498. 

The  Bishop's  Will,  which  is  very  brief,  is  dated  Jan.  2d 
1723  -  4,  and  he  desires,  if  he  should  die  at  Chester,  to  be 
buried  there,  but  if  at  any  other  place,  then  as  near  his 
dear  child1  as  possible,  at  Christ  Church,  Oxford.  He  gives 

1  Archdeacon  Stratford,  in  a  letter  to  his  cousin,  Gastrell's  Secretary, 
dated  Dec.  5,  1716,  says,  "youre  good  Bishop  has  lost  his  only  son  by  the 
small  pox."  A  monument  was  erected  to  his  memory  in  Christ  Church 
Cathedral,  with  an  inscription,  by  his  grandfether,  Dr.  Mapletoft.  — 

"M.S. 
Fselici  piaeque  memoriae 

ROBERTI  GASTRELL 

Admodum  Reverendi  FRANCISCI 

Episcopi  Cestriensis  et  hujus 

Ecclesise  Canonici 

Filii  unici 

Pueruli  Deo,  suisque  merito  perchari 

Optimseque  in  Optimis,  Coeleste 

scilicet  regnum  spectantibus,  spei 

Qui  placide  in  Domino  obdormivit 

Et  ah  Angelis  in  Abraham!  Gremium 

Ablatus  est  5*°  Decembris 

An.  D.  1716,  ^Et.  suse  13tto  currente 

Non  periit,  sed  praeivit 


Dilectissimo  Nepoti  Avus 

Invicem  dilectus  posuit 

Gratulabundo  quam 

Mserenti  propior." 


xlii  INTRODUCTION. 

all  his  Estate,  real  and  personal,  to  his  wife,  desiring  her  to 
be  kind  to  the  children  of  his  nephew  Gastrell,  Chancellor 
of  Chester.  He  did  not  appoint  an  Executor,  and  on  the 
26th  of  November  1725,  administration,  with  Will  annexed, 
was  granted  by  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury  to 
Elizabeth  Gastrell,  his  widow. 

"A  half  length  Portrait  of  FRANCIS  GASTRELL,  W.[est- 
minster,]  Stud.  D.D.  Canon,  Bishop  of  Chester,  ob.  1725, 
by  Dahll,  in  his  Episcopal  habit,"  was  placed  on  the  wains- 
cot, on  the  North  side  of  the  Hall  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford. 
His  distinguished  friend  the  Earl  of  Oxford,  whom  he  sur- 
vived little  more  than  a  year,  had  this  Portrait  engraved  by 
Vertue,  in  his  best  style,  under  which  are  these  lines :  — 

' '  Reverendus  admodum  in  Christo  Pater 
FRANCISCUS  GASTRELL,  Episcopus  Cestriensis  S.  T.  P. 

ex  ^Ede  Christi  in  Academia  Oxon. 

nee  Cantabrigiensi  minus  interim  charus 

quippe  qui  utriusqj.  jura  egregie  tuebatur 

Veritatis  semper 

indagator  sagacissimus 

Vindex  acerrinms." 

The  writer  of  this  inscription  appears  to  have  had  in  his 

On  a  Gravestone,  — 

«  H.  S.  E. 
ROBERTUS  GASTRELL 

Puer  optimae  spei 

obiit  Dec.  5,  An.  D.  1716 

JEt.  decimo  tertio 

Currente." 

Gntch's  Con.  Ant.  Wood,  vol  iii.  p.  494. 


INTRODUCTION. 

eye  Dr.  Hody's  vow  as  a  controversialist,  which  Mr.  Boyle 
quoted  with  so  much  piquant  humour,  "for  Bentley's  benefit 
and  Hody's  honour,"  in  the  celebrated  controversy. 

At  the  time  the  Portrait  was  painted  the  Bishop  seems 
to  have  been  about  sixty.  He  wears  the  large  curled  wig  of 
his  day,  and  the  Episcopal  habit.  His  features  are  regular 
and  massive — his  forehead  high  and  ample — his  eyes  large, 
intelligent,  and  piercing  —  his  nose  somewhat  thick  and 
cartilaginous,  which  is  said  to  be  characteristic  of  the 
English  feature  of  this  class,  —  and  his  lips  full  and  expres- 
sive, with  a  singularly  pleasing  smile. 

He  appears  to  have  been  above  the  middle  height,  and 
though  of  a  spare  figure  has  a  stately  and  commanding 
appearance,  and  there  is  much  of  the  polished  patrician,  or 
rather  of  the  dignified  English  Prelate,  in  his  aspect.  He 
stands  at  a  Table,  with  his  left  hand  leaning  upon  a  large 
folio  volume,  closely  resembling  the  MS.  Notitia,  on  the 
back  of  which  are  embossed  the  Arms  of  the  See  of  Chester 
impaling  those  of  Gastrell. 

He  enjoyed  a  high  reputation  with  his  contemporaries, 
and  is  frequently  mentioned  by  Swift  in  terms  of  admira- 
tion. Shortly  after  his  death  a  Poem,  of  great  force  and 
beauty,  was  published  to  his  memory;1  and  although  the 
writer  withheld  his  name,  the  Poem  was  afterwards  acknow- 

1  To  the  Memory  of  the  Right  Revd.  Father  in  God,  FBANCIS  GASTBELL, 
D.D.  Lord  Bishop  of  Chester.  London :  printed  and  sold  by  J.  Roberts, 
in  Warwick  Lane.  1726. 

"  The  Memory  of  the  Just  is  blessed ;  but  the  Name  of  the  Wicked 
shall  rot." 


INTRODUCTION. 

ledged  by  Samuel  Wesley,  Usher  of  Westminster  School, 
(the  elder  brother  of  John  and  Charles  Wesley,)  whose 
Nonjuring  principles  led  him  to  defend  the  insidious  pro- 
ceedings of  Atterbury  and  to  advocate  the  political  creed 
of  GASTRELL.  The  following  passages  are  too  graphic  and 
interesting  to  be  omitted  here :  — 

"  I  sing  a  Prelate  good,  unbodied  now, 
Nor  longer  Angel  of  the  Church  below ; 
Enthroned  Triumphant !     May  the  lines  be  free 
From  sordid  hope,  and  servile  Flattery. 
Such  views,  if  known,  this  happy  Saint  would  move 
To  shake  his  radiant  head,  and  frown  above. 
A  gen'rous  Plainness  thro'  the  verse  be  shewn, 
Truth  without  fear,  and  Roughness  like  his  own  : 
Roughness  by  none  despised,  by  most  revered ; 
By  fools  avoided,  and  by  Villains  fear'd. 
While  GASTRELI/S  praises  fill  the  hallowed  strain, 
Far  hence  ye  false,  ye  vicious,  ye  profane ! 
Whoe'er  can  Virtue  out  of  Place  despise, 
And  sneak  Inglorious,  when  ye  stoop  to  rise ; 
Whoe'er  for  Int'rest  have  your  Honour  sold, 
And  truck' d  your  conscience,  or  your  friend,  for  gold  : 
Whoe'er  with  changing  factions,  change  your  minds, 
And  veer  obsequious  to  the  shifting  winds ; 
Or  shun  to  read,  or  reading  scoff  his  Name, 
And  where  you  mean  him  scandal,  give  him  fame. 
Ye  sacred  Founts,  whence  truth  and  learning  spring, 
At  once  accept,  and  witness  what  I  sing. 
Mean  Poet  I,  to  bid  in  Numbers  rise 
GASTRELL  the  learn' d,  the  pious,  and  the  wise ! 
By  Cam's  and  Isis'  grateful  sons  approv'd ; 


INTRODUCTION.  xlv 

By  Anne  promoted,  and  by  Harley  lov'd. 
Him,  Isis  early  blest  with  calm  retreat, 
Where  Arts  ingenious  fiVd  their  happy  seat ; 
Where  Laud,  of  old,  intrepid  rul'd  the  Gown ; 
Where  Fell  presided,  and  where  Aldrich  shone  : 
Studious  in  youth,  here  learn' d  he  to  excell, 
And  gained  the  Wisdom  he  employed  so  well. 
Whether  his  nervous  Eloquence  he  show'd, 
T'  assert  creating  and  presiding  GOD, 
Author  and  End  of  All ;  whose  Will  is  Fate, 
Almighty  to  revenge,  as  to  create ; 
Or  CHRIST,  his  consecrated  Pen  require, 
Co-seval  Son,  descending  from  the  Sire ; 
Whom  Ransom  for  his  foes  the  Father  gave, 
Who  liv^d  to  teach  us,  and  who  dy'd  to  save. 
From  Truth  to  Truth,  the  solid  Reas'ner  goes, 
Nor  fraud  can  'scape  him,  nor  can  force  oppose ; 
And  Earth  and  Hell  may  try  their  Arts  in  vain, 
To  break  one  Link  of  th'  Adamantine  Chain. 
Hear  him,  when  Learning  seems  his  voice  to  need, 
For  Academic  Honours  boldly  plead ; 
Mindful  of  Truth,  as  mindless  of  applause, 
With  Strength  and  Candour  worthy  of  his  Cause. 
Long  may  those  Bulwarks  of  Religion  stand, 
True  to  the  Mitred  head,  and  Sceptred  Hand. 
********* 

This  Anna  deigned  with  pitying  eye  to  see, 

Supreme  alike  in  pow'r  and  piety ! 

In  Deserts  wild  the  prophets'  sons  she  fed, 

And  made  the  hungry  Ravens  bring  them  bread; 

And  wisely  liberal  rais'd  their  growing  store, 

Nor  plundered  from  the  Rich,  to  feed  the  Poor. 


Xlvi  INTRODUCTION. 

How  wide  diffused  the  Charity  extends, 

"When,  what  the  Prince  begins,  the  Prelate  ends ! 

For  see  the  Loaves  which  GASTRELI/S  hands  divide, 

Almost  by  Miracle  are  multiply^. 

At  once  by  Precept  and  Example  led, 

From  breast  to  breast,  infectious  bounty  spread. 

The  Deist  scarce  from  offering  could  withhold, 

And  Misers  wonder5 d  they  should  part  with  gold; 

Who  grudge  the  smallest  Mite  to  Churches  given, 

And  count  it  loss  on  earth,  to  gain  in  Heav'n. 

#$$$£$$#& 

The  noblest  preachers  only  now  present 

The  calm,  still  Wonder  of  a  Life  well-spent : 

Such  GASTRELL  liv'd,  on  Duty  bent  alone, 

Studious  to  profit  All,  but  flatter  None  : 

List'ning  attentive  to  the  Wretches'  cry, 

The  Griefs  low-whisper' d,  and  the  stifled  Sigh. 

When  gath'ring  Storms  would  touch  his  Soul  with  Fear, 

Unmov'd,  tho'  Peals  of  Thunder  struck  his  ear : 

Careful  by  Works,  his  Faith  unfeign'd  to  prove, 

By  zeal  unshaken,  and  unweary'd  Love ; 

For  tend'rest  Love  and  warmest  Zeal  agree, 

Nay,  zeal  well-bounded,  turns  to  charity, 

That  cheers  the  faint,  bright- shining  from  afar, 

And  guides  to  JESUS,  like  the  Wise  men's  Star ! 

O  !  would  th'  Incarnate  GOD  to  Prelates  give, 

To  All  like  Him  to  write,  like  Him  to  live ! 

So  faith  divine  might  wider  Beams  display, 

And  win,  resistless,  o'er  the  World  its  Way : 

So  Rome  the  Gospel  uncorrupt  might  own, 

And  haughty  Pontiffs  vail  their  Triple  Crown. 

The  frozen  North  might  Bishops'  thrones  befriend, 


INTRODUCTION. 

And  far  as  Thule  to  the  Mitre  bend. 
Cautious  and  Strict,  what  Stedfastness  he  showed, 
Ordaining  Servants  for  the  Courts  of  GOD  ! 
Thither,  thro'  him,  no  feet  unhallow'd  came,   ^ 
The  pass  was  guarded  with  a  sword  of  name. 
No  Criminals  his  awful  looks  could  bear, 
Who  fled  to  shelter,  not  to  worship  there : 
Far  let  them  fly,  and  seek  in  distant  lands, 
For  less  intrepid  hearts,  and  meaner  hands. 
Nor  Frown,  nor  Smile,  nor  Terror,  nor  Reward, 
Mov'd  him  the  Saviour's  Church  to  disregard : 
Almost  as  soon  might  Peter's  zeal  have  sold 
His  heavenly  pow'rs  for  perishable  gold; 
At  Mammon's  Beck  dispens'd  ^Etherial  Fire, 
And  made  Apostles  for  a  Wizard's  hire. 

GASTBELL  the  Art  of  Courts  disdain'd  to  know, 
And  the  smooth  polish  of  a  fawning  brow ; 
His  tongue  refused  the  subtle  Statesman's  part, 
And  spoke  the  genuine  language  of  the  heart ; 
Fearless  of  poVrful  Anger's  threat'ning  Eye, 
Too  plain  to  double,  and  too  brave  to  lie. 
Those  slavish,  abject  souls,  he  scorn' d  severe, 
Who  count  promotion  never  bought  too  dear : 
********* 

His  Loyalty  from  genuine  motives  floVd, 
True  to  his  Prince,  as  faithful  to  his  GOD  : 
Him,  solemn  oaths  could  tie,  tho'  unconfin'd 
By  Bonds  of  Int'rest  base,  or  passion  blind. 

********* 

The  Prelate  doom'd  in  Exile  sad  to  rove  I1 
1  Atterbury. 


INTRODUCTION. 

Forgive,  ye  great  ones,  for  1  still  must  love  ! 
Ere  yet  tlie  Thunder  from  its  cloud  was  fled 
Or  lanc'd  the  lightning,  pointed  at  his  head, 
Found  GASTRELL  firm  an  En' my  to  defend; 
Let  Cowards  leave,  and  Villains  crush  a  friend : 
No  conscious  guilt  in  common  danger  ty'd, 
No  partial  Favour  warp'd  him  to  his  side. 
You,  that  in  pomp  of  grandeur  strut  your  hour, 
In  brief  Meridian  of  an  envied  pow'r, 
Try  all  your  friends,  of  ev'ry  rank  and  kind, 
A  man  like  this,  amid  your  thousands,  find : 
Nor  Levees  throng' d,  his  equal  can  supply ; 
Nor  honours  gain  you,  nor  Exchequers  buy. 
When  loss  of  best-lov'd  friends  ordain' d  to  know, 
Next  pain  and  guilt,  the  greatest  ill  below ; 
For  vain  the  hope  which  mortal  breath  supplies, 
Since  Oxford  yields  to  fate,  and  Anna  dies  ! 
Grieved,  not  dismayed,  to  Providence  resigned ; 
Nor  death  he  courted,  nor  at  life  repin'd. 
Tho'  Crowds  before  him  slept,  from  Toils  released ; 
And  pious  Smalrich1  had  retired  to  rest. 
Nor  fear'd,  had  Heaven  decreed  it,  to  have  stood 
Adverse  against  a  world,  and  singly  good !" 

Mrs.  GASTRELL  long  survived  her  husband,  and  died  in 
the  Parish  of  St.  Margaret,  Westminster,  Jan.  31st  1761, 
aged  eighty-one  years.  In  her  Will  she  describes  herself  as 
the  widow  of  FRANCIS,  late  Bishop  of  Chester,  and  desires 
to  be  buried  with  him  in  the  same  grave  in  Christ  Church, 
Oxford.  She  names  that  her  real  Estate  had  been  already 

1  George  Smalridge,  Bishop  of  Bristol,  ob.  27th  Sept.  1719. 


INTRODUCTION.  xlix 

settled  by  Deed,  on  "  my  daughter  Rebecca,  and  my  grand- 
son William,"  and  mentions  that  "my  grand-daughter  Fran- 
ces had  a  legacy  from  her  Aunt."  She  appoints  her  brother, 
the  Rev.  John  Mapletoft,  and  the  Rev.  Thomas  Bagshaw,1 
her  Executors.  Dated  the  7th  of  May  1754,  and  witnessed 
by  Francis  Gastrell  and  Joseph  Albin.  There  are  two 
codicils  (of  no  importance)  dated  Febr.  28th,  and  Aug.  9th, 
1759,  and  the  witnesses  to  the  last  are  Elizabeth  Bromley 
and  Rebecca  Bromley. 

On  the  24th  of  February  1761,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Bag- 
shaw of  Bromley  in  the  county  of  Kent,  made  oath  as  to 
the  hand-writing  of  the  Testatrix,  and  the  Will  and  Codicils 
were  proved  by  him  on  the  26th  of  February  1761,  power 
being  reserved  to  the  Rev.  John  Mapletoft,  brother  of  the 
deceased. 

I  have  been  thus  minute,  to  obviate  the  conclusion  that 
the  Bishop  died  without  issue,  which  might  be  inferred 
from  his  Will,  and  also  to  correct  an  error  into  which 
Chalmers  has  fallen,  who  states  that  "the  Bishop  left  one 
daughter,  who  married  the  Rev.  Dr.  Bromley  in  1768." 

The  individual  whom  she  married  was  Francis  Bromley2 

1  Kinsman  of  Bishop  Gastrell.     He  died  Nov.  20th  1787,  aged  seventy- 
seven,  Rector  of  Southfleet,  and  Chaplain  of  Bromley  College.     There  are 
two  letters  addressed  to  him  by  Dr.  Johnson,  in  Boswell's  Life  of  Johnson. 
He  was  son  of  the  Rev.  Harrington  Bagshaw,  (Chaplain  to  Bishop  Sprat,) 
and  of  his  wife  Abigail,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Busby  of  Addington  Knt. — 
Gent.'s  Mag.  vol.  Ivii.  p.  1191. 

2  Dr.  Bromley's  Will  is  dated  the  17th  of  July  1750,  wherein  he  desires 
to  he  buried  where  his  wife  intends  to  be  buried.     He  only  mentions  that 

ff 


1  INTRODUCTION. 

D.D.  born  in  1703,  educated  at  Westminster  and  Oxford, 
Rector  of  Wickham  in  the  county  of  Southampton,  second 
son  of  the  Right  Hon.  William  Bromley  of  Bagginton  in 
Warwickshire,  Secretary  of  State  to  Queen  Anne. 

It  now  remains  to  give  some  account  of  Bishop  GASTRELL 
as  an  Ecclesiastical  antiquary,  and  his  admirers  cannot  fail 
to  lament  that  his  labours  should  experience  the  disadvan- 
tage of  a  posthumous  publication. 

It  is  not  improbable  that  from  an  early  period  he  had 
been  a  Student  of  Archaeology.1  His  name  occurs  in  1691 

his  marriage  settlement  "has  fixed"  the  fortunes  of  his  children;  but  having 
omitted  to  appoint  Executors,  administration  was  granted  at  Doctors'  Com- 
mons, on  the  16th  of  January  1754,  to  Sir  Richard  Hoare  Knt.  a  creditor, 
Rebecca,  the  relict,  renouncing. 

Mrs.  Rebecca  Bromley,  widow,  in  her  Will,  dated  January  16th  1767, 
describes  herself  of  the  Parish  of  St.  James',  Westminster,  and  gives  only 
one  Legacy,  viz.  to  Mary  Jones,  probably  a  servant,  which  she  desires  may 
be  paid  by  her  children.  She,  like  her  father  and  husband,  named  no  Exe- 
cutors, administration  was  therefore  granted  to  her  son,  William  Bromley 
Chester  Esq.  on  the  14th  of  May  1768,  and,  according  to  an  Affidavit,  Mrs. 
Bromley  had  died  on  the  25th  of  April  in  that  year. 

1  Browne  Willis,  in  a  letter  to  Dr.  Arthur  Charlett,  dated  the  17th  of 
March  1713-14,  speaking  of  drawing  up  a  Catalogue  of  the  Abbots  of 
Battle,  mentions  his  intention  of  applying  to  Colonel  Anstis  and  Archdeacon 
Gibson,  having  already  written  to  Dr.  Kennet,  and  expresses  a  hope  that 
the  Dean  of  Battle  can  help  him,  "  for  if  he  cannot  I  don't  know  what  wee 
shall  doe ;  I  have  noe  manner  of  acquaintance  with  Dr.  Gastrell,  soe  must 
not  pretend  to  speak  to  him ;  besides,  if  I  should,  I  doubt  hee  will  under- 
stand little  of  the  matter."  —  Ballard's  Collections,  vol.  xviii.  p.  59,  Bodl. 
Libr.  Willis  afterwards  became  acquainted  with  the  Bishop;  and  on 
January  7th  1716-17,  at  the  request  of  the  latter,  Archdeacon  Stratford 
applied  to  his  cousin,  Gastrell's  Secretary,  for  an  entire  Catalogue  of  the 


INTRODUCTION.  11 

amongst  the  few  subscribers  and  patrons  of  Wood's  Athena 
Oxoniensis  i  and  in  1707,  through  his  judicious  interfer- 
ence and  sensible  recommendation,  Harley,  afterwards  Lord 
Oxford,  purchased  the  two  hundred  and  fifty-seven  MS. 
Volumes  of  the  four  Randal  Holmes',  after  they  had  been 
refused  by  the  Corporation  of  Chester,1  and  thus  these  valu- 
able records  were  preserved  for  the  use  of  the  public. 

Immediately  upon  his  elevation  to  the  See  of  Chester  he 
appears  to  have  commenced  his  Notitia  Cestriensis,  which 
he  compiled  from  a  great  variety  of  public  and  private 
documents,  from  his  own  Episcopal  Registers,  (some  of 
which  are  now  lost,)  as  well  as  from  personal  investigations,2 
and  printed  circular  queries.3 

Abbots  of  Chester  from  the  foundation,  along  with  a  Catalogue  of  the  Pre- 
bendaries, after  it  became  a  Cathedral,  for  Dr.  Browne  Willis'  work.  In 
Mr.  Secretary  Stratford's  reply,  he  says,  "  Finding  Mr.  Prescot  dilatory  I  set 
about  the  work  myself,  and  after  several  days'  searching,(with  the  assist- 
ance of  Dr.  Fogg,  the  Dean,)  their  confused  and  imperfect  records,  I  at 
last  made  up  the  enclosed  Account,  which,  I  believe,  can't  be  made  more 
perfect  here."  —  Stratford's  MSS. 

1  Dr.  Gower's  Prospectus  for  a  History  of  Cheshire,  p.  40,  4to.  1771, 
where  he  styles  Gastrell,  "a  name  great  in  the  knowledge  of  Theology 
and  of  our  National  Antiquities." 

2  Ormerod's  Preface  to  the  History  of  Cheshire,  p.  xviii. 

3  «  TO  THE  REVEREND  THE  [RECTOR  OF  ASHTON-UNDER-LINE.] 

"  SIR,  —  The  Church-wardens  and  Chapel-wardens  in  the  Archdeaconry 
of  Richmond  were  often  required  to  give  an  exact  Account  of  all  Schools, 
and  Charities,  &c.  within  their  respective  Parishes  and  Chapelries,  by  dis- 
tinct Answers  to  certain  Queries  delivered  to  them ;  but  thro'  Negligence, 
or  Ignorance,  many  of  them  made  no  Return,  and  the  rest  in  general  such 
Returns  as  were  very  imperfect,  it  is  probable  that  the  same  method  taken 


Ill  INTRODUCTION. 

The  Notitia  has  been  pronounced,  by  a  very  competent 

in  this  Archdeaconry  would  have  a  like  Success;  therefore,  I  am  com- 
manded by  your  Right  Reverend  Diocesan,  to  desire  all  the  Rectors,  Vicars, 
and  Ministers,  of  every  parochial  Church  and  Chapel,  carefully,  and  deli- 
berately, to  draw  up  in  writing  plain  and  distinct  Answers  to  every  one  of 
the  following  Queries,  and  deliver  the  same  to  the  Register  at  the  ensuing 
Visitation,  in  order  to  be  transmitted  to  his  Lordship :  And  because  the 
Curates  of  many  of  the  Chapels  may  not  be  capable  of  giving  such  an  exact 
Account  of  these  Matters  as  is  required,  his  Lordship  expects  that  every 
Rector  and  Vicar,  will  make  a  distinct  Return  and  Answer  to  the  Queries 
for  every  Chapel  Parochial,  or  not  Parochial,  within  his  Parish,  I  doubt 
not  but  you  will  shew  a  willing  Compliance  by  giving  the  best  Account  you 
can  of  these  matters,  and  am, 

Your  affectionate  Friend  and  Servant, 

PEREGRINE  GASTRELL. 

Q.  1 .  Have  you  any  Free  School,  or  other  Schools,  within  your  Parish 
or  Chapelry? 

2.  By  whom  was  it  Erected,  or  Founded  ? 

3.  Who  hath  the  Nomination  of  the  Master  ? 

4.  What  Lands,  Rents,  Stipends,  Money,  or  other  Income  belongeth  to 
it,  and  by  whom  given  ? 

5.  In  whose  Custody  are  the  Deeds,  Wills,  or  other  Writings,  by  which 
such  Lands,  Rents,  &c.  were  given  ? 

6.  Is  there  any  other  Gift,  or  Legacy,  to  any  other  charitable  Use  within 
your  Parish  or  Chapelry  ?  if  there  be  give  a  particular  Account  of  it. 

7.  Into  how  many  Townships,  Hamlets,  Villages,  Quarters,  &c.  is  your 
Parish  or  Chapelry  divided  ?  and  what  are  their  Names  ? 

8.  Is  there  any  other  Part,  District,  or  Division  of  your  Parish  or  Cha- 
pelry, that  goes  by  any  other  particular  Name  ? 

9.  Have  you  any  Ancient  Seats,  Halls,  Granges,  and  how  called  ? 

10.  How  many  Church- wardens,  or  Chapel- wardens,  have  you  within 
your  Parish  ? 

11.  If  not  chose  as  the  89th  Canon  directs,  give  an  Account  of  the  Cus- 
tom and  manner  of  chusing  them  ? 


INTRODUCTION.  liii 

judge,1  to  be  "  the  noblest  monument  extant  on  the  subject 
of  the  Ecclesiastical  Antiquities  of  the  Diocese ;"  and  the 
same  learned  historian  states,  with  respect  to  its  plan,  that 
it  is  divided  into  Archdeaconries,  under  which  are  given  the 
Parishes  subdivided  into  Chapelries,  when  necessary,  and 
that  the  various  Charities  are  appropriated  to  each  head. 

The  design  of  GASTRELL  was  rather  more  comprehensive 
than  what  is  here  stated ;  his  work  is  arranged  in  four  prin- 
cipal divisions,  beginning  with  an  Historical  Account  of  the 
Bishopric  generally,  afterwards  of  the  Cathedral,  then  of  the 
Monasteries  and  Religious  Houses,  and  finally  of  the  various 
Parishes  and  their  subordinate  Chapels,  with  an  account  of 
the  principal  Seats  and  Charitable  Foundations,  within  their 
respective  Deaneries. 

Although  the  Bishop's  plan  was  thus  systematic,  he  col- 
lected rather  than  organised,  and  accumulated  more  than 
combined  his  various  materials.  These  are  highly  valuable 
as  being  authentic  and  genuine,  —  and  if  not  disentangled 
from  the  meshes  which  enveloped  them,  are  still  satisfactory 

12.  For  what  Township,  Quarter,  &c.  does  each  Warden  Serve  ? 

13.  Is  your  Parish  Clerk  chose  as  the  91st  Canon  directs,  or  by  whom  is 
he  chosen  ? 

14.  What  Salary  or  Income  belongs  to  him  ? 

15.  Have   you   any   particular   Custom   of    making   Lays,    or   Assess- 
ments ? 

16.  Have  you  any  particular  Custom  of  Collecting  such  Assessments? 

17.  Have  you  any  particular,  or  unusual  Custom  of  Tything  ? 

18.  Have  you  any  remarkable  Custom  of  any  kind  within  your  Parish  or 
Chapelry  ?" 

1  Dr.  Ormerod. 


Hv  INTRODUCTION. 

because  the  authorities  are  carefully  produced,  and  facts, 
widely  scattered  and  inaccessible  to  ordinary  individuals, 
are  brought  together.  Nor  was  it  at  all  times  an  easy 
matter  to  obtain  antiquarian  information  from  his  own 
records  and  officials,  as  his  repeated  applications  to  Dr. 
Stratford,1  and  others,  clearly  evince.  He  has,  however, 

1  Some  account  of  this  good  man  will  not  be  deemed  out  of  place  here. 
Many  of  his  original  unpublished  Letters  are  in  my  possession ;  and  his 
Funeral  Sermon,  (St.  Luke,  xxiii.  50,)  and  "  Character,"  by  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Hunter,  Vicar  of  Garstang,  4to.  1754,  with  "  An  Account  of  his 
Charities,"  published  at  Kendal  in  1766,  and  some  notice  of  him  in  the 
Gent'.s  Mag.  Part  I.  April,  1786,  furnish  an  admirable  picture  of  a  man 
little  known  beyond  the  immediate  circle  of  his  own  friends,  though 
worthy  of  universal  admiration. 

He  was  born  at  Northampton  in  1679,  being  the  nephew  of  Dr.  Nicholas 
Stratford,  Bishop  of  Chester,  and  nearly  related  to  the  Lord  Chancellor 
Hardwicke.  He  records  in  his  Diary,  "  I  came  to  Chester  Aug.  8th  1696, 
and  began  to  read  Law  Oct.  13th  1698.  July  14th  1716,  entered  myself 
at  St.  Mary's  Hall,"  Bishop  Gastrell  having  declined  soliciting  a  Lambeth 
Degree  for  him  from  Archbishop  Wake.  There  are  several  letters  on  this 
subject  addressed  by  him  to  his  friends.  In  his  Diary,  "  I  took  my  degree 
Oct.  20th  1721.  Went  out  of  Pembroke  Hall."  He  was  the  diligent  and 
faithful  Secretary  of  Bishops  Stratford,  Dawes,  and  Gastrell;  and  his  con- 
duct so  recommended  him  to  the  last,  that  he  promoted  him  to  the  office  of 
Commissary  of  the  Archdeaconry  of  Richmond,  and  appears  to  have  con- 
sulted him  on  every  occasion  in  which  legal  knowledge,  unusual  caution, 
or  sound  discretion,  were  required.  Gastrell's  opinion  of  his  Secretary's 
public  and  private  character  remained  unchanged  through  life. 

"  His  parts  were  not  naturally  elevated  or  bright.  His  sense  was  rather 
solid  than  sublime.  He  had  great  sagacity  and  penetration,  but  no  very 
fruitful  invention,  nor  flowing  or  graceful  elocution.  He  had  neither  sym- 
metry in  his  form,  grace  in  his  motion,  nor  comeliness  in  his  person ;  yet 
Piety  gave  a  charm  to  all  he  did  or  said,  to  which  external  beauty  would  in 


INTRODUCTION.  Iv 

brought  together  a  congeries  of  facts,  without  advancing 
conjectural  opinions  or  lengthened  dissertations  on  their 
respective  value,  —  and  the  only  feeling  in  contemplating 
his  labours,  is  one  of  surprise  that  a  Prelate  gifted  with 
powers  of  original  composition  should  have  patiently  toiled, 

vain  pretend.  He  was  by  nature  not  of  the  kindest  disposition,  and  seemed 
choleric  and  hasty  hy  his  habit  and  complexion ;  but  Piety  had  sweetened 
his  temper  and  formed  in  him  a  propensity  to  all  the  acts  of  courtesy  and 
benevolence.  He  was  affable,  easy  of  access,  and  obliging  to  all,  — -  humble 
without  ostentation,  and  complaisant  without  design  or  flattery :  he  spoke 
what  he  thought,  or  he  spoke  nothing,  yet  was  never  magisterial  in  his  dic- 
tates or  pertinacious  in  his  private  opinions.  His  devotion  was  manly, 
sober,  prudent,  and  charitable,  and  sometimes  elevated  and  heavenly.  It 
was  firmly  rooted  in  his  heart,  and  he  thought  true  Religion  was  not  the 
property  of  any  Party.  His  beneficence  was  the  more  extraordinary  as  he 
was  by  nature  frugal  and  penurious ;  yet  Eeligion  had  taught  him  to  abound 
in  good  works ;  and  while  he  seemed  to  retain  his  native  temper  in  the  care 
of  little  things,  he  displayed  a  divine  soul  in  doing  the  greatest.  He  would 
not  give  a  halfpenny  to  a  common  vagrant :  he  would  give  one  guinea,  or 
five,  or  more,  to  a  real  sufferer,  —  or  twenty,  to  put  out  an  hopeful  boy 
an  apprentice.  His  exhibitions  to  his  relations  and  dependants  were, 
though  sufficient,  yet  not  lavish  or  large,  while  he  made  no  scruple  to  give 
a  hundred  pounds  to  an  Infirmary,  or  two  hundred  to  augment  a  small 
Cure.  For  several  years  his  Charities  exceeded  the  annual  profits  of  his 
place,  and  in  1751  he  gave  away  £939.  The  life  of  this  good  man  was 
the  triumph  of  grace  over  nature,  and  the  strongest  instance  I  have  observed 
of  the  power  of  plain  sense  and  real  Christianity  to  direct  and  keep 
mankind  in  the  road  of  virtue  and  happiness.  He  was,  amidst  plenty, 
temperate,  and  unshaken  by  prosperity ;  in  sickness,  resigned ;  in  office, 
uncorrupt ;  in  authority,  humble ;  agreeable,  without  wit ;  of  eminent  abi- 
lities without  genius,  and  great  without  show  and  ostentation.  If  he 
forgave  man,  it  was  because  GOD,  for  CHBIST'S  sake,  had  forgiven  him. 
If  he  did  good,  it  was  in  imitation  of  GOD,  who  is  good  to  all,  and  for  the 


v  INTRODUCTION. 

from  year  to  year,  in  such  a  province  with  untiring  assi- 
duity. Sedentary  and  tranquil  pursuits  like  these,  albeit 
in  somewhat  better  odour  now  than  in  former  days,  have 
generally  been  assigned  to  individuals  of  phlegmatic  dulness 
and  laborious  mediocrity,  and  the  feverish  and  disputatious 

sake  of  CHRIST,  who  lived,  and  died,  and  intercedes  for  all.  His  death  was 
not  attended  with  any  preceding  sickness.  He  had  been  abroad  in  his 
chariot  upon  his  usual  exercise,  and  after  his  return  home  was  remarkably 
cheerful  in  the  evening ;  but  in  some  part  of  the  night,  and  probably  in  his 
sleep,  was  struck  with  the  dead  palsy.  The  next  morning  he  was  found 
deprived  of  speech,  and,  to  appearance,  of  all  sense  of  pain.  Thus  he  lan- 
guished for  a  few  days,  and  then  expired  on  the  7th  of  September  1753,  in 
the  seventy-fifth  year  of  his  age." 

Dr.  Stratford's  Will  corroborates  Mr.  Hunter's  Character  of  his  friend's 
liberality,  and  is  a  model  of  a  good  man's  last  Testament  to  his  Church,  his 
Family,  and  his  Friends.  He  bequeathed  "to  Mrs.  Gastrell,  widow  of 
good  Bishop  Gastrell,  to  Dr.  Bromley,  and  to  the  three  children  of  the  said 
Dr.  Bromley,  each  twenty  guineas;  to  the  two  children  of  Mr.  Edward 
Gastrell  of  Chester,  each  £50,  and  to  Mr.  Edward  Gastrell  two  guineas." 
Amongst  the  books  to  be  purchased  for  poor  housekeepers  within  the 
Archdeaconries  of  Kichmond  and  Chester,  with  a  legacy  of  £300  be- 
queathed for  that  purpose,  is  Bishop  Gastrell's  Christian  Institutes,  which 
is  also  one  of  the  books  to  be  purchased,  with  a  legacy  of  &  100,  for  Poor 
Curates  of  Chapels  in  Richmondshire. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  his  personal  Estate  amounted  to  £  15,365,  his 
real  consisted  of  only  a  Freehold  Estate  worth  £14  a  year.  He  bequeathed 
to  his  relations  (none  nearer  than  cousins)  and  friends,  about  £3,270.  His 
Houses  in  Northampton  he  had  given  in  his  life-time  to  his  relations. 

By  means  of  Dr.  Stratford's  benefactions  upwards  of  sixty  small  Livings, 
many  of  them  not  much  exceeding  £20  per  ann.  were  augmented,  in  con- 
junction with  the  Governors  of  Queen  Anne's  Bounty,  chiefly  in  the  Arch- 
deaconry of  Richmond,  whereby  £24,000  was  obtained  for  the  benefit  of  the 
poor  Clergy,  and  thus  the  pious  intentions  of  the  Testator  were  answered. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ivii 

polemic,  and  the  elegant  and  exact  classic,  have  found  in 
them  few  attractions. 

It  is  admitted  that  there  have  always  been  exceptions  to 
these  remarks,  or  we  should  not  have  been  told  that  Bishop 
Saunderson  —  perhaps  the  greatest  Divine  of  his  century  — 
playfully  turned  from  the  Secunda  Secundse  of  Aquinas,  the 
Rhetoric  of  Aristotle,  and  the  deepest  casuistical  lore,  to 

The  following  Livings  in  the  Counties  of  Lancaster  and  Chester  were 
thus  augmented,  those  in  Yorkshire,  Cumberland,  and  Westmoreland,  and 
large  sums  disbursed  in  Charity,  being  here  omitted :  — 

£.  £. 

Ellel 100     Garstang  Chapel       100 

Shireshead           100    Filling      100 

Longridge      100    Caton             200 

Torrer      ...         ..- 100    St.  John's,  Lancaster     200 

Conistone       100    Longton         60 

Lowick 200    Silverdale             100 

Balderstone  in  Blackburn  Parish,  •>  Tunstal  Vicarage       ...         ...         ...  100 

after  Mr.  Hunter  resigned  it.  . . .  )  Trinity  Chapel,  Warrington      . . .  100 

Broughton  in  Furness          ...         ...  100  Royton  in  Prestwich            ...         ...  50 

Rusland  in  Coulton  Parish        ...  100    Peel,  or  Piel  Chapel       50 

Cop 100    Dalton  Vicarage       100 

Woodplumpton 100    Seathwaite           200 

Flookborough           100 

Lindale 100  CHESHIRE. 

White  Chapel           100 

Ribby  with  Wray           100    Over  Vicarage           200 

Melling  Vicarage      100    St.  Bridget's,  Chester     200 

Euzton 70    Bidston-cum-Ford 150 

On  the  North  side  of  the  Chancel  of  Lancaster  Church  there  is  a  fine 
marble  Monument  to  the  memory  of  William  Stratford  Esq.  L.L.D.  by 
Koubiliac ;  and  a  good  Portrait  of  him  is  engraved  in  the  Gent's  Mag,  for 
1786,  (where,  on  page  276,  for  1759,  read  1766,)  in  his  Civilian's  Gown, 
Bands,  and  Wig. 

h 


INTRODUCTION. 

the  study  of  Heraldry,  Antiquities,  and  Genealogies,  as  to  a 
light,  agreeable,  and  favourite  recreation.  So  it  might  be 
with  Bishop  GASTRELL;  and  in  both  instances  it  was  a 
search  after  knowledge,  and  one  which  loses  none  of  its 
interest  in  the  estimation  of  the  Antiquary,  from  being 
sought  in  one  of  the  paths  of  literature  hallowed  by  the 
walks  of  Leland  and  Camden,  of  Dugdale  and  Kennet. 

GASTRELL  continued  to  make,  from  time  to  time,  new 
additions  to  his  Notitia  even  until  the  last  year  of  his  use- 
ful life,  and  the  information  is  therefore,  especially  in  the 
Cheshire  part,  various,  copious,  and  extensive ;  but  not 
being  chronologically  arranged,  some  slight  liberty  has  been 
taken  in  transposing  his  statements  in  order  that  the  events 
recorded  might  follow  successively  in  the  order  of  time. 
Nor  ought  the  statement  to  be  omitted  here  that  a  large 
proportion  of  the  original  returns  to  the  Bishop's  Parochial 
enquiries  are  still  in  existence,  and  having  been  carefully 
examined,  such  facts  as  were  omitted  by  GASTRELL  have 
been  embodied  in  his  text,  and  may  be  distinguished  by 
being  placed  within  brackets. 

The  CHETHAM  SOCIETY  have  only  published  that  portion 
of  the  work  which  refers  to  the  two  Palatine  Counties  of 
Lancaster  and  Chester.  The  Notitia  is  a  large  folio  volume 
in  the  hand-writing  of  Bishop  GASTRELL,  consisting  of  three 
hundred  and  sixty-three  pages  closely  written  in  double 
columns,  and  in  a  singularly  illegible  hand.  There  is  no 
title  page  now  remaining,  but  on  the  back  of  the  book  is 
lettered  "  BISHOP  GASTRELL'S  NOTITIA."  It  is  handsomely 
bound  in  blue  morocco,  with  a  profusion  of  gilded  orna- 


INTRODUCTION.  lix 

ment,  and  has  been,  as  might  have  been  expected,  carefully 
preserved.  The  MS.  volume  was  originally  intended  to  be 
given  by  Mrs.  Gastrell  to  the  Library  of  the  Dean  and  Chap- 
ter of  Chester,  but  she  afterwards  ordered  it  to  be  disposed 
of  as  the  Bishop  of  Chester  should  direct,  and  his  Lordship 
commanded  it  to  be  deposited  in  the  Registry  in  February 
1755,  as  appears  by  several  memoranda  entered  on  the  fly- 
leaves of  the  book. 

The  History  of  the  Diocese  by  Bishop  GASTRELL  would 
seem  to  be  imperfect  without  some  account  of  its  present 
state,  and  the  Editor  is  indebted  for  the  following  remark- 
able statistical  facts  to  Archdeacon  RUSHTON,  whose  exer- 
tions in  the  cause  of  Church  extension  are  well  known  and 
duly  appreciated. 

When  the  See  of  Chester  was  founded  in  1541  there 
were  in  the  Diocese,  exclusive  of  the  portion  lately  assigned 
to  Ripon,  327  Churches;  and  from  that  time  to  1828,  186 
additional  Churches  were  built.  Bishop  Sumner  consecrated 
233  Churches,  averaging  one  new  Church  in  each  month 
during  his  Episcopate,  and  was  the  first  individual  who 
established  Diocesan  Church  Building  Societies.  In  the 
Diocese  of  Chester  this  great  and  good  Prelate  occasioned 
and  witnessed  the  expenditure  of  £1,284,229,  raised  from 
local  subscriptions  and  grants  of  public  societies,  exclusive 
of  a  very  considerable  amount  expended  by  private  indi- 
viduals who  sought  no  foreign  aid. 

The  Clergy  have  increased  proportionably  with  the 
Churches.  In  1831  there  were  672  Clergymen  in  the  Dio- 
cese ;  at  the  close  of  1847  there  were  1033,  all  resident,  and 


x  INTRODUCTION. 

49  non-resident.  Nor  has  School  accommodation  lagged  be- 
hind. During  the  same  Episcopate  671  new  Schools  were 
built  in  428  different  localities,  at  a  cost,  raised  from  public 
and  local  resources,  of  £198,274,  exclusive  of  many  School- 
houses  built,  and  in  some  cases  endowed,  by  benevolent 
individuals,  which  swells  the  amount  to  little  short  of  a 
quarter  of  a  million. 

These  statements  refer  to  the  Diocese  of  Chester  as 
bounded  since  the  Yorkshire  portion  (containing  120  bene- 
fices) was  annexed  to  the  new  Diocese  of  Ripon,  and  before 
the  entire  Diocese  of  Manchester  was  carved  out  of  it,  and  a 
third  curtailment  effected  by  the  addition  of  certain  extre- 
mities of  the  counties  of  Lancaster,  Cumberland,  and  West- 
moreland, to  the  See  of  Carlisle. 

In  1847  the  Diocese  of  Chester  contained  2,435,644 
inhabitants.  Of  these,  1,390,287  are  now  assigned  to  the 
See  of  Manchester,  117,022  are  hereafter  to  be  added  to 
the  See  of  Carlisle,  and  928,335  remain  to  that  of  Chester. 
Of  the  777  benefices  which  the  latter  See  then  contained, 
320  now  form  the  Diocese  of  Manchester,  121  will  be  an- 
nexed to  Carlisle,  and  Chester  will  retain  336.  The  total 
Church  accommodation  is  535,166  sittings,  more  than  half 
of  which  is  free. 

The  following  summary  may  appropriately  close  this 
account  of  Diocesan  increase  during  Bishop  Sumner's  emi- 
nently useful  and  laborious  Episcopate  of  twenty  years,  viz : 

233  new  Churches  and  Ecclesiastical  Districts. 

194,745  additional  sittings  in  Churches. 

361  additional  Clergy. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixi 

671  new  Schools. 
768,584  additional  inhabitants. 

It  only  remains  for  the  Editor  to  express  his  grateful 
acknowledgments  to  the  Reverend  Chancellor  RAIKES  for 
his  liberal  permission  to  consult  the  Records  of  the  See 
of  Chester,  in  the  Registry  of  which  many  of  Bishop 
GASTRELL'S  MSS.  are  deposited;  nor  does  the  Editor  feel 
less  indebted  to  the  Rev.  JOHN  PICCOPE  M.A.  Incumbent  of 
Farndon,  for  directing  his  attention  to  those  miscellaneous 
Diocesan  documents,  of  which  a  copious  use  has  been  made 
in  the  following  Notes.  It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  observe 
that  Whitaker,  Baines,  Gregson,  and  all  the  ordinary  County 
and  Local  Historians  have  contributed  to  the  elucidation  of 
the  scanty  text  of  GASTRELL.  The  Members  of  the  CHET- 
HAM  SOCIETY  owe  the  accompanying  Plate  to  the  liberality 
of  Mr.  WILLIAM  LANGTON,  and  to  the  same  diligent  and 
accurate  Antiquary  the  Editor  gladly  expresses  his  obliga- 
tions for  the  friendly  and  valuable  aid  afforded  during  the 
progress  of  the  work  through  the  press.  Nor  would  he 
omit  recording  his  sense  of  the  courtesy-  of  the  Clergy  gene- 
rally, who  have  replied  to  his  numerous  queries  with  much 
alacrity,  and  especially  of  the  liberality  of  two  or  three 
friends  who  have  contributed  £20  to  the  funds  of  the  CHET- 
HAM  SOCIETY  expressly  for  the  publication  of  this  work. 

F.  R.  R. 


CONTENTS. 


VOL.  II.  — PARTS  I.  II.  AND  III. 


[The  filial  Churches  here  printed  in  Italics  have  been  built  since  the  time  of  Bishop  Gas  tr  ell, 
and  are  not  included  under  their  respective  Mother  Churches  in  the  Notes.  The  names  of 
the  Bishops  by  whom  they  were  consecrated,  the  date  of  Consecration,  and  the  present 
Patrons,  are  added,  the  whole  having  been  carefully  collated  with  the  Episcopal  Regis- 
ters by  Archdeacon  Rushton.  January,  1850.] 


of 


2R. 


Patron  in  1850. 


Lees,  P.  C. 
Mosley,  P.  C. 
Cocker  Hill,  P.  C. 

St.  Peter,  P.  C. 
Staley  Bridge,  P.  C. 
Bardsley,  P.  C. 
Audenshaw,  P.  C. 
Leesfield,  P.  C. 
Christ  Church,  P.  C. 
Hurst,  P.  C. 


Bishop  Peploe  1744. 

Bishop  Keene  1757. 

Bishop  Markham  1776. 

Bishop  Blomfield  1824. 

Bishop  Sumner  1840. 

Ditto  1844. 

Ditto  1846. 

Bishop  Lee  1848. 

Ditto  1848. 

Ditto  1849. 


BLACKBOD,  P.  C 
BBADSHAW,  P.C 
ErviNGTON,  P.  C 

TUETON.P.C 


The  Eector. 

Ditto. 

Earl  of  Stamford  and 

Warrington. 
The  Eector. 
Ditto. 

Hulme's  Feoffees. 
Crown  and  Bishop  alter: 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 

6 

15 

17 

19 

..  22 


dv 

CONTENTS. 

Constcratrt  bg 

patron  hi  1850.        Wagf 

WAIMSLEY,  P.  C  

25 

All  Saints,  Bolton,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Peploe 

1743. 

Thomas  Tipping  Esq. 

Little  Lever,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Cleaver 

1791. 

The  Vicar. 

St.  George,  Bolton,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1796. 

Ditto. 

Trinity,  ditto,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Blomfield 

1826. 

Ditto. 

Emmanuel,  ditto,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Sumner 

1839. 

Ditto. 

Harwood,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1841. 

Trustees. 

Christ  Church,  Bolton,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1844. 

Crown  and  Bishop  alter: 

Leverbridffe.  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1845. 

Ditto. 

Astleybridge,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Lee 

1848. 

Ditto. 

St.  John,  Bolton,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1849. 

Ditto. 

Tonge,  P.  C. 

Licensed. 

Ditto. 

Belmont. 

Building 

1850. 

Surg,^  

27 

ETONFIELD,  P.  C  

33 

HETWOOD,  P.  C  

33 

HOI-COMBE,  P.  C  

36 

St.  John,  Bury,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Keene 

1770. 

The  Eector. 

Tottington,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Cleaver 

1799. 

Ditto. 

Walmersley,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Sumner 

1838. 

Ditto. 

St.  James,  Heap,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1838. 

Bishop  of  Chester. 

St.  Paul,  Bury,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1842. 

Trustees. 

Ulton,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1843. 

The  Hector. 

Shuttleworth,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Lee 

1848. 

Crown  and  Bishop  alter: 

Bamsbottom,  P.  C. 

Building. 

1850. 

Ditto. 

Seane,  ®  

37 

HOEWICH,  P.  C  

41 

WESTHOTTGHTON,  P.  C. 

45 

Peel,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Keene 

1760. 

Lord  Kenyon. 

Farnworth,  P.  C.  or  .V. 

Bishop  Law 

1823. 

Hulme's  Feoffees. 

St.  Peter,  Halliwell,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Sumner 

1840. 

Trustees. 

St.  Paul,  ditto,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Lee 

1848. 

J.  H.  Ainsworth  Esq. 

Smithills,  D. 

P.  Ainsworth  Esq. 

eerie*,  9  

46 

ElXENBBOOK,  D  

53 

Pendleton,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Markham 

1776. 

The  Vicar. 

Strinton,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Cleaver 

1791. 

Ditto. 

Walkden  Moor,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Sumner 

1838. 

Earl  of  EUesmere. 

Pendlebury,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1842. 

Trustees. 

Barton-  on-  Irwell,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1843. 

Ditto. 

Worsley,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1846. 

Earl  of  Ellesmere. 

Paddington,  P.  C. 

Licensed. 

Crown  and  Bishop  alter: 

CONTENTS. 


€ 


Congtcratrti  bg 


JJruvcn  in  1S30. 


Cljurd),  » 

ST.  ANNE,  MANCHESTEB,  R 

BIECH,  P.  C.    , 

BLAKELEY,  P.  C , 

CHOBLTON,  P.  C 

DENTON,  P.  C 

DlDSBTTBY,  P.  C 

GOBTON,  P.  C 

NEWTON,  P.  C 

SALFOKD,  P.  C 

STBETFOEB,  P.  C 

St.  Thomas,  ArdioicJc,  P.  C.    Bishop  Peploe 

St.  Mary,  Manchester,  R.       Bishop  Keene 

St.  Tho. HeatonNorris,  P. C.  Ditto 

St.  Paul,  Manchester,  P.  C.    Ditto 

St.  John,  ditto,  R.  Ditto 

St.  James,  ditto,  P.  C.  Bishop  Cleaver 

St.  Michael,  ditto,  P.  C.         Ditto 

St.  Clement,  ditto,  C. 

St.  Peter,  ditto,  P.  C. 

St.  Mark,  Chetham,  P.  C. 


55 
57 
77 
79 
80 
83 
84 
86 
88 
89 
92 
95 


Licensed 
Bishop  Cleaver 
Ditto 


St.  Stephen,  Salford,  P.  C.    Ditto 


St.  I/uke,  Chorlton,  C. 

St.  George,  Manchester,?.  C. 

All  Saints,  Chorlton,  P.  C. 

St.  Matthew,  Manchr.  P.  C. 

St.  Philip,  Salford,  P.  C. 

St.  George,  Hulme,  P.  C. 

St.  Andrew,  Manchr.  P.  C. 

Christ  Church,  Salford,  P.  C. 

St.  Saviour,  Chorlton,  P.  C. 

Harpwrhey,  P.  C. 

St.  Luke,  Chetham,  P.  C. 

Sroughton,  P.  C. 

Openshaw,  P.  C. 

AH  Souls,  Ancoats,  P.  C. 

Withington,  P.  C. 

St.  Jude,  Ancoats,  P.  C. 

S.S.  Simon  and  Jud«,  P.  C. 


Licensed 

Bishop  Law 

Ditto 

Bishop  Blomfield 

Ditto 

Bishop  Simmer 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 

Ditto 


1741.  Dean  and  Canons. 

1756.  Ditto. 

1765.  Ditto. 

1765.  Ditto. 

1769.  Ditto. 

1788.  Ditto. 

1789.  Ditto. 

1793.  Trustees. 

1794.  Ditto. 

1794.  Heirs  of  the  Rev.  C. 

W.  Ethelston. 

1794.  Heirs  of  the  Rev.  N. 

M.  Cheek. 

1804.  Trustees. 

1818.  Bishop  of  Chester. 

1820.  Trustees. 

1825.  Dean  and  Canons. 

1825.  .Ditto. 

1828.  Ditto. 

1831.  Ditto. 

1831.  Trustees. 

1836.  Scholes  Birch  Esq. 

1838.  Trustees. 

1839.  Ditto. 
1839.  Ditto. 

1839.  Ditto. 

1840.  Dean  and  Canons. 

1841.  Trustees. 

1842.  Ditto. 

1842.  Bishop  of  Chester. 


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CONTENTS. 


St.  Silas,  ArdwicTc,  P.  C. 

St.  Barthol.  Salford,  P.  C. 

St.  Matthias,  ditto,  P.  C. 

Trinity,  Hulme,  P.  C. 

St.  Barnabas,  Manor.  P.  C. 

St.  Thomas,  ditto,  P.  C. 

Failsworth,  P.  C. 

Eusholme,  P.  C. 

Longsiffht,  P.  C. 

Ch.  Ch.  Heaton  Norris,  P.  C. 

Droylesden,  P.  C. 

St.  Simon,  Salford,  P.  C. 

St.  Margaret,  Mosside,  P.C. 

St.  Mark,  Hulme,  P.  C. 

Collyhurst,  C. 

Blind  Asylum,  C. 

Bradford  Rood, 

Mosside, 

Heaton  Mersey, 

Christ  Church,  Denton, 

ftOftleton,  » 

ASHWOBTH,  P.  C 

COCKEY,  P.  C 

Birch,  P.  C. 
Bircle,  P.  C. 
Great  Lever, 


iTonsf cratrt  l)u 

Bishop  Sumner        1842. 

Ditto  1842. 

Ditto  1842. 

Ditto  1843. 

Ditto  1844. 

Ditto  1844. 

Ditto  1846. 

Ditto  1846. 

Ditto  1846. 

Ditto  1846. 

Bishop  Lee  1848. 

Ditto  1849. 

Ditto  1849. 
Licensed. 
Ditto. 

Unconsecrated. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 

Building  1850. 
Ditto. 


patron  in  1850. 
Trustees. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 

Miss  Atherton. 
Trustees. 

Bishop  of  Chester. 
Crown  and  Bishop  alter  : 
C.  C.  Worsley  Esq. 
Trustees. 

Bishop  of  Chester. 
Crown  and  Bishop  alter  : 
Ditto. 
Trustees. 
Crown  and  Bishop  alter  : 

Trustees. 

Ditto. 

Ditto. 

Bishop  of  Manchester. 


96 

102 
105 


Bishop  Sumner 

Ditto 

Building 


1828. 
1846. 
1850. 


The  Rector. 
Ditto. 


OlDHAM,  P.  C 

RINGLET,  P.  C  ...........  . 

SHAW,  P.  C 

Unsworth,  P.  C. 

Boyton,  P.  C. 

St.  Peter,  Oldham,  P.  C. 

Hollimoood,  P.  C. 

Stand,  R. 

St.  James,  Oldham,  P.  C. 

Tonge,  P.  C. 

Glodvnck,  P.  C. 

St.  John,  Chadderton,  P.  C. 

Waterhead,  P.  C. 

East  Crompton,  P.  C. 

Coldhvrst,  P.  C. 


Bishop  Peploe  1730. 

Bishop  Keene  1757. 

Ditto  1768. 

Ditto  1769. 

Bishop  Blomfield  1826. 

Bishop  Sumner  1829. 

Ditto  1839. 

Ditto  1844. 

Ditto  1845. 

Ditto  1847. 

Ditto  1847. 

Bishop  Lee  1848. 


107 

Ill 

117 

119 

The  Rector. 

Ditto. 

Ditto. 

Ditto. 

Earl  of  Wilton. 

The  Rector. 

Ditto. 

Crown  and  Bishop  alter  : 

Ditto. 

Ditto. 

Ditto. 

Ditto. 


CONTENTS. 


Ixvii 


[patron  in  1850. 

St.  Hatth.  Chadderton,  P.  C.  Licensed.                              Crown  and  Bishop  alter: 
Wernith,  P.  C.                        Ditto.                                   Ditto. 
St.  Margaret,  Prestwich,  C.   Building                  1850. 
3ftad)fcale,  3F 121 

LlTTLEBOBOTTGH,  P.  C 131 

MILNBOW,  P.  C 139 

SADDLEWOETH,  P.  C.  * 143 

TODMOBDEN,  P.  C 147 

WHITWOBTH,  P.  C 154 

St.Mary,JIundersfield,P.C.  Bishop  Peploe          1744.     The  Vicar. 

Friarmere,  P.  C.  Bishop  Keene         1768.     Ditto. 

Dobcross,  P.  C.  Bishop  Cleaver        1787.     Ditto. 

Lydgate,  P.  C.  Ditto  1788.     Ditto. 

St.  James,  Rochdale,  P.  C.    Bishop  Law  1821.     Ditto. 

Smallbridge,  P.  C.  Ditto  1834.     Ditto. 

Spotland,  P.  C.  Ditto  1835.    Ditto. 

Walsden,  P.  C.  Bishop  Lee  1848.     Crown  and  Bishop  alter  : 

Healey,  P.  C.  Building.  Ditto. 

Freizland,  P.  C.  Ditto.  E.  E.  Whitehead  Esq. 

IxntfdtlTr,  2ft 158 

St.  Thomas,  P.  C.  Bishop  Law  1819.    Earl  of  Wilton. 

IBeanerg  of  <L?tavvtngton. 

8xifll)t0n,  2ft 161 

r,  $.  € '. 163 

164 

GABSTOH,  P.  C 168 

HALE,  P.  C 170 

PABK  CHAPEL,  P.  C.  (See  Toxteth  Park,)  171 

Wavertree,  P.  C.  Bishop  Cleaver        1794.     Trustees. 

Woolton,  P.  C.  Bishop  Blomfield    1826.     The  Vicar. 

Aigbwrih,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner       1837.     Trustees. 

Halewood,  P.  C.  Ditto  1839.     The  Vicar. 

^alrfall,  3ft 172 

MAGHTTLL,  P.  C 175 

MELLING,  P.  C 176 

Lydiate,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner,       1841.     The  Eector. 

$|UBt0tt,  W 177 

Knowsley,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner       1844. 

Roly,  Building  1850. 

lUtflf),  V 180 

ASTLEY,  P.  C 186 


\ 


cviii 

CONTENTS. 

(Conawratrti  bg 

patron  in  1830.        $agt 

189 

UHOWBENT,  f.  \s.  (-a-inerium.}  
TyldesUy-cum-Shakerley, 
p.  C.                                    Bishop  Blomfield 

1825. 

Lord  Lilford. 

Bedford,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Sumner 

1840. 

The  Vicar. 

Westleigh,  C. 

Ditto 

1847. 

Ditto. 

iLturrpPOl:  £t.  ^trljnlns,  1 

190 

ro'ftit*  i&t   MH^r   $t 

190 

fife.  George,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Peploe 

1734. 

J.  Fletcher  Esq. 

52.  Thomas,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1750. 

Trustees. 

fife.  PawZ,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Keene 

1769. 

G.  Ramsden  Esq. 

St.  Anne,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Markham 

1773. 

Rev.  T.  Stringer. 

St.  John,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Porteus 

1785. 

Trustees. 

fife.  Stephen,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Cleaver 

1792. 

The  Rectors. 

JZbZy  Trinity,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1792. 

John  Bibby  Esq. 

.4W  Saints,  C. 

Licensed 

1798. 

Crown  and  Bishop  alter: 

.Ditto,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Graham 

1848. 

Ditto. 

fife.  Matthew,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Cleaver 

1798. 

The  Rectors. 

Ditto, 

Bishop  Graham 

1848. 

Ditto. 

C%ri*£  Church,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Cleaver 

1800. 

Trustees. 

fife.  JfarAr,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Law 

1815. 

Ditto. 

St.  Andrew,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1815. 

Sir  J.  Gladstone  Bart. 

St.  Philip,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1816. 

John  Cragg  Esq. 

fife  .  Mary,  Blind  Asylum,  C. 

Licensed 

1819. 

Trustees. 

Ditto,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Sumner 

1829. 

Ditto. 

St.  Michael, 

Bishop  Blomfield 

1826. 

J.  Lawrence  Esq. 

St.  David,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1827. 

Trustees. 

St.  Martin,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Sumner 

1829. 

St.  Bride,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1830. 

Trustees. 

St.  Luke,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1831. 

Rev.  W.  Mulleneux. 

St.  Catherine,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1831. 

Trustees. 

St.  Matthias, 

Ditto 

1834. 

The  Rectors. 

St.  Simon, 

Licensed  in 

1839. 

Ditto, 

Bishop  Sumner 

1847. 

Crown  and  Bishop  alter. 

St.  Bartholomew,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1841. 

Trustees. 

fife.  Barnabas,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1841. 

Ditto. 

St.  Silas,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1843. 

Ditto. 

fife.  Saviour, 

Licensed 

1842. 

Mariners'  Chapel, 

Ditto 

Bevington, 

Building 

1850. 

Crown  and  Bishop  alter: 

Vauxhall, 

Licensed. 

Ditto. 

fiorfl)  fHc<ils,  &. 

..  194 

Ch.  Ch.  Southport,  P.  C.        Bishop  Law 


1821.     Sir  P.  H.  Fleetwood  Bt. 


CONTENTS. 


Trinity,  ditto,  P.  C. 
Crossens,  P.  C. 

©rirwfturft,  W  

ffionsectatrt  bg 
Bishop  Sumner 
Ditto 

1837. 
1837. 

patron  in  1850. 
The  Hector. 
Ditto. 

..  196 

LATHOM  D.          

..  200 

Skelmersdale,  P.  C. 
Ditto, 
Biwscoughbridge,  P.  C. 
SicTcerstaff,  P.  C. 
Scarisbrick,  C. 
Newboroitgh.  C. 

Bishop  Porteus 
Bishop  Law 
Bishop  Sumner 
Ditto. 
Building 
Ditto 

1781. 
1822. 
1832. 
1843. 
1850. 
1850. 

The  Vicar. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 

..  203 

ST.  HELEN'S,  P.  C  ....................  ;  .................................................  206 

FABNWOETH,  P.  C  ........................................................................  208 

KATNFOBD,  P.  C  ............................................................................  213 

SANKEY,  P.  C  ............  .  ....................................................................  215 

Ch.  Ch.  Eccleston,  P.  C.         Bishop  Sumner        1838.     S.  Taylor  Esq. 

St.  Thomas,  ditto,  P.  C.        Ditto  1839.     Late  T.  Greenall  Esq. 

Eainhill,  P.  C.  Ditto  1839. 

Parr,  P.  C.  Ditto  1844. 

Sutton,  Y.  Bishop  Graham       1849. 

Whiston,  C.  Licensed  1844. 


Key.  J.  Brierley. 
Inct.  of  St.  Helen's. 
King's  Coll.  Cambridge. 


..................................................................................  216 

CBOSBY-MAONA,  P.  C  ....................................................................  219 

Seaforth,  P.  C.  Bishop  Law  1815.     J.  Gladstone  Esq. 

Waterloo,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner      1841.     Trustees. 

Aintree,  Licensed  1848. 

TOXTETH  PAEK,  E.  P  ......................................................................  171 

St.  James,  P.  C.  Bishop  Markham    1785.     Eector  of  Walton. 

St.  Michael,  P.  C.  Bishop  Law  1815.     J.  S.  Leigh  Esq. 

St.  John  the  Baptist,  P.  C.      Bishop  Sumner       1832.     M.  Banner  Esq. 
St.  Thomas,  P.  C.  Ditto  1841. 

St.  Clement,  P.  C.  Ditto  1841. 

St.  Paul,  P.  C.  Ditto  1847. 

St.  Matthew,  C.  Not  consecrated      1849. 


Sir  J.  Gladstone  Bart. 

Trustees. 

Ditto. 


.  antf  3F  .......................................................  221 

WEST  DEEBY,  P.  C.  (Rebuilt  in  1847.)  ...............................................  226 

FOBMBY,  P.  C  ....................................................  ...........................  227 

EJBKBY,  P.  C  ......................................................  .........................  229 

Edge  Hill,  P.  C.  Bishop  Law  1813.     Trustees. 

St.  George,  Sverton,  P.  C.     Ditto  1814.    Ditto. 

Sootle,  P.  C.  Bishop  Blomfield    1827.    W.  S.  Millar  Esq. 

St.  August.  Everton,  P.  C.     Bishop  Sumner        1830.     Trustees. 


1XX 


CONTENTS. 


Consmatrt  bo  patron  in  1850.        $afl* 

Kirkdak,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner         1836.  Trustees. 

Christ  Church,  Everton,  P.C.  Bishop  Graham       1848.  T.  HorsfaU  Esq. 

St.  Peter,  ditto,  C.  1848.  Trustees. 

Walton  Sreck,  P.  C.  Bishop  Graham      1849.  W.  Brown  Esq.  M.P. 

WEST  DEBBT,  E.  (created  in  1843.)  ...................................................  226 

St.  Jude,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner        1831.  Trustees. 

St.  Ann,  Stanley,  P.  C.          Ditto  1831.  Her.  T.  Gardner. 

Knotty  Ash,  P.  C.  Ditto  1836.  Trustees. 

St.  James,  P.  C.  Ditto  1847.  Mrs.  Thornton. 

aarrtnflt0n,  »  ............................................................................  230 

BtTBTONWOOD,  P.  C  ........................................................................    237 

HOLLINFABE,   P.   C  .........................................................................    239 

HOLT  TBINITY,  P.  C  ......................................................................  241 

St.  Paul,  ditto,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner       1831.     The  Eector. 

Padgate,  P.  C.  Ditto  1838.     Ditto. 

Stjan,  »  .....................................................................................  242 

BILLINGE,  P.  C  ...............................................................................  253 

HINDLEY,  P.  C  ..............................................................................  254 

HOLLAND,  P.  C  .............................................................................  258 

St.  George,  Wigan,  P.  C.      Bishop  Porteus       1780.    The  Eector. 
Pemberton,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner        1832.     Ditto. 

Haigh,  P.  C.  Ditto  1833.     Ditto. 

Abram,  P.  C.  Ditto  1838.     Ditto. 

Scholes,  P.  C.  Ditto  1841.    Ditto. 

St.  Thomas,  Wigan  Building  1850. 

SStnfoufc,  »  .................................................................................  260 

ASHTON,  P.  C  ...............................................................................  267 

NEWCHTJBCH,  P.  C  ........................................................................  .  269 

NEWTON,  P.  C  ...........................  ,  ................................................  271 

Lowton  E.  Bishop  Peploe         1733.    Eector  of  Winwick. 

Croft,  E.  Bishop  Sumner       1833.     Ditto. 

Ashton,  E.  Ditto  1838.     Ditto. 

Newton,  E.  Ditto  1843.     Ditto. 

Golborne,  E.  Bishop  Graham      1849.     Ditto. 


Dranrrn  of 
Xlarftburn,  ?F  .............................................................................  274 

BALDEBSTON,  P.  C  .........................................................  281 

DABWEN,  P.  C  ...........................................................  283 

HABWOOD  MAGNA,  P.  C  ..............................................  284 

LAN&o»P-C  ........................................................  """!"'."!  ".  286 

LAW  CHTTBCH,  P.  C  .............................................  289 


CONTENTS. 


Ixxi 


Patron  in  1850. 

SAMLESBTTEY,  P.  C 292 

TOCKHOLES,  P.  C 296 

St.  John,  Blackburn,  P.  C.   Bishop  Cleaver        1789.    The  Vicar. 

Salesbury,  P.  C.  Bishop  Majendie     1807.    Ditto. 

St.  Peter,  Blackburn,  P.  C.  Bishop  Law,  1821. 

Holy  Trinity,  Darwen,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner,       1829. 

St.  James,  Low.  Dor.  P.  C.  Ditto  1829. 

Mellor,  P.  C.  Ditto  1829. 

St.  Paul,  Blackburn,  P.  C.   Ditto  1829. 

Feniscowles,  P.  C.  Ditto  1836. 

Bomber  Bridge,  P.  C.  Ditto  1837. 

St.  Michael,  Bl'kburn,  P.  C.  Ditto  1844. 

Holy  Trinity,  Ditto,  P.  C.     Ditto  1846. 


Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 


Mellor  Brook, 


Licensed,  not  Cons:  1844. 


W 297 

ACCBINGHON,  P.  C 304 

ALTHAM,    P.    C 306 

BTTENLET,  P.  C 308 

CASTLE  CHAPEL,  P.  C 317 

CLITHEBO,  P.  C 319 

CHUBCH,  P.  C 322 

COLNE,  P.  C 324 

DOWNHAM,  P.  C 328 

G-OODSHAW,  P.  C 331 

HASLINGTOEN,  P.  C 332 

HOLME,  P.  C 334 

MAESDEN,  P.  C .*. 336 

NEW  CHURCH,  PENDLE,  P.  C 338 

NEW  CHFBCH,  KOSSENDALE,  P.  C 340 

PADIHAM,  P.  C 343 

WHITEWELL,  P.  C 346 

Bacwp,  P.  C.  Bishop  Cleaver        1788.     Hulme's  Feoffees. 

Worsthorn,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner        1836. 

HabergJiam  Eaves,  P.  C.       Ditto  1836. 

Christ  Chwrch,  Colne,  P.  C.  Ditto  1836. 

Oswaldtwistle,  P.  C.  Ditto  1837. 

Fence,  P.  C.  Ditto 

Chatbwn,  P.  C.  Ditto 

Eawtenstall,  P.  C.  Ditto 

St.  James,  Clitheroe,  P.  C.   Ditto 

Clay ton-le- Moors,  P.  C.        Ditto  1840. 


Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Trustees. 

1837.  H.  Holden  Esq. 

1838.  Hulme's  Feoffees. 

1838.  H.  Hoyle  Esq. 

1839.  Trustees. 
Ditto. 


Ixxii 


CONTENTS. 


Consmatrt  f>8 

patron  in  1850.        Page 

Bishop  Sumner        1840. 

Trustees. 

Ditto                       1841. 

Hulme's  Feoffees. 

Ditto                       1841. 

Ditto. 

Ditto                       1841. 

Trustees. 

Ditto                        1846. 

Le  Gend:  N.  Starkie,  Esq. 

Ditto                        1846. 

Crown  and  Bishop  alter: 

Bishop  Lee              1848. 

Ditto. 

Ditto                        1849. 

Ditto. 

Ditto                        1849. 

Ditto. 

Ditto                        1849. 

Ditto. 

Licensed,  not  Cons: 

Ditto 

Building                   1850. 

Crown  and  Bishop  alter: 

Ditto                         1850. 

Ditto. 

Ch.  Ch.  Accrington,  P.  C. 
Sriercliffe,  P.  C. 
Barroivford,  P.  C. 
Tunstead,  P.  C. 
Hey  Houses,  P.  C. 
Traivden,  P.  C. 
Limb,  P.  C. 

St.  James,  Hurnley,  P.  C. 
AllSaints,  Habergham,  P.  C. 
Great  Marsden,  P.  C. 
Pendleton,  C. 
Low  Moor,  C. 
Muslury,  P.  C. 
Lanebridge,  P.  C. 


of  IU»latttu 

Brttrtrle,  & 

Crouton,  ia.  antt  W  ......................................................................  3 

BECONSAIL,  P.  C  .......................................  . 

CHOELEY,  P.  C 

KTJFFOETH,  P.  C 

TAEIETON,  P.  C  ................................................  . 

St.  George,  Charley,  P.  C.     Bishop  Blomfield    1825. 

Bretherton,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner        1840. 

Mawdesley,  P.  C.  Ditto  1840. 

St.  Peter,  Chorley,  Building  1850. 

errlnmm,  »  .................................................................................  371 

DOUGLAS,  P.  C  .........................  ...................................................  375 

376 

F  ..................................................................................  379 

EUXTON,  P.  C  .........................  .......................................................  384 

HEAPEY,  P.  C  ...............................................................................  386 

Hoghton,  P.  C.  Bishop  Law,  1823.     The  Vicar. 

Whittle-le-Woods,~P.C.        Bishop  Sumner       1830.     Ditto. 
Withnel,  P.  C.  Ditto  1841.     Ditto. 

entoorfljam,  $.  C  .........................................................................  387 

LONGTON,  P.  C  ..............................................................................  388 

Farrington,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner        1840.     Incumbt.  of  Penwortham. 

tatrtJ«ft),  &  ................................................................................  390 

COPPTTL,  P.  C  ...............................................................................  395 

Adlington,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner        1839.     The  Eector. 


3 


362 
363 
366 
368 


CONTENTS. 


Ixxiii 


Of  &mOtttttlenWSg.     CCongecratetr  fig  patron  in  1850. 

33tj$j>f)am,  p.  C.. 398 

Blackpool,  P.  C.  Bishop  Law  1821.     Trustees. 

South  Shore,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner       1837.     Thomas  Clifton,  Esq. 

401 

.  403 

ELLEL,  P.  C 406 

SHIBESHEAD,  P.  C 407 

Dolphinholme,  P.  C.  Licensed  1841. 

<SarjStnns,  W.  ..-. 408 

GABSTANG  CHAPEL,  P.  C 412 

PILMNG,  P.  C 413 

mafyxm,  w 414 

leadership  Founded  and  End.  1670. 

GOOSNABGH,  P.  C 420 

HAMBLETON,  P.  C.' 422 

G-BEAT  SINGLETON,    P.   C 423 

LUND.  V 424 

EIGBT,     426 

WABTON,     427 

WHITECHAPEL, .  427 

Freckleton,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner        1838. 

Weeton,  P.  C.  Ditto  1845. 

Hanrajtor,  e.   : 429 

ADMABSH,  P.  C 437 

CATON,  P.  C 439 

GBESSINGHAM,  P.  C 440 

OYEBTON,  P.  C 441 

STALMHTE,  P.  C 443 

WYEBSDALE,  P.  C 446 

Poulton-le-Sands,  P.  C.          Bishop  Peploe         1745.     The  Vicar. 
Littledale,  P.  C.  Bishop  Keene          1752.     Ditto. 

St.  John,  Lancaster,  P.  C.     Ditto  1755.     Ditto. 

St.  Ann,  Ditto,  P.  C.  Bishop  Cleaver        1796.    Ditto. 

SJcerton,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner       1833.     Trustees. 

Quernmore,  P.  C.  Ditto  1834.     The  Vicar. 

Glasson,  P.  C.  Ditto  1840.     Trustees. 

St.  Thomas,  Lancaster,  P.  C.  Ditto  1841.     Mrs.  E.  Salesbury. 

fcgtijam,  li.  C 446 

St.  John,  P.  C.  Bishop  Lee  1849.     Thomas  Clifton,  Esq. 

448 


Ixxiv 


CONTENTS. 


Patron  tn  1850. 


ELSWICK,  P.  C  

452 

COP,  P.  C  

453 

WOODPLFMPTON,    P.    C  

.'.  4-54 

Out  Bawcliffe,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Sumner 

1838. 

The  Vicar. 

Inskip,  P.  C. 

Boulton^I^JFijniP,  SF  

Bishop  Lee 

1849. 

Ditto. 
456 

Morton,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Majendie 

1804. 

The  Vicar. 

Thornton,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Sumner 

1836. 

Trustees. 

Fleetwood,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1841. 

Sir  P.  H.  Fleetwood. 

33rrston  W 

461 

ST.  GEOBGE,  P.  C  

466 

BBOUGHTON,  P.  C  

467 

ST.  LAWBENCE,  BAETON,  P. 

C  

469 

Grimsargh,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Peploe  gr_ 

1726. 

Holy  Trinity,  Preston,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Law 

1815. 

St.  Peter,  Ditto,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Blomfield 

1825. 

St.  Paul,  Ditto,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1826. 

Christ  Church,  Ditto,  P.  C. 

Bishop  Sumner 

1836. 

Ashton-on-EibUe,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1836. 

St.  Mary,  Preston,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1838. 

St.  Thomas,  Ditto,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1839. 

St.  James,  Ditto,  P.  C. 

Ditto 

1841. 

All  Saints,  C. 

Licensed 

1848. 

fcibdjeiter,  W  

471 

LONGEIDGE,   P.    C  

474 

STIDD,  E  

476 

Dranrnj  of 

Ctattflfjtott,  »  ...............................................................................  479 

j&tllins,  W  ..................................................................................  481 

ABKHOLME,  P.  C  ...................................  .  ........................................  484 

HOENBY,  P.  C  ..............................................................................  485 

Wray,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner  1841.  Trustees. 

r.ttljnni,  1\  ....................................................................................  487 

TATHAM  FEU,  P.  C  ........................  ..............................................  488 

tDuttftall,  2E  ..................................................................................  489 

LECK,  P.  C  .............................................  ....................................  491 

.  .........................................................................  491 


494 


Beamrg 


,  3R 


CONTENTS.  IxXV 


(ZTongecratelJ  6jr  patron  in  1850. 

DESDBON,  P.  C  ........................................................................  ....  496 

Cartnwn,  p.  C  ............................................................................  497 

CABTMELL  FELL,  P.  C  ..................................................................  501 

FLOOKBOBOUGH,  P.  C  ......................................................................  503 

LINDAI,  P.  C  ...............................................................................  504 

STATELET,  P.  C  ............................................................................  505 

Field  Uroughton,  P.  C.          Bishop  Peploe         1745.     Earl  of  Burlington. 

Coulton,  $.  C  ...............................................................................  507 

FlNSTHWAITE,  P.  C  .............................  .  ...........................................    509 

Rusland,  P.  C.  Bishop  Peploe         1745.     Incumbt.  of  Coulton. 

Haverthwaite,  P.  C.  Bishop  Blomfield    1825.     Ditto. 

JBaltan,  W  .....................................................................................  511 

EAMSIDE,  P.  C  ...........................................................................  514 

KTBBY  IBELITH,  P.  C  ......................................................................  515 

WALNEY,  P.  C  ...............................................................................  516 

Hafofcfyartf,  p.  C  ........................................................................  517 

GBAITHWAITE,  P.  C  ......................................................................  522 

SATTEBTHTVAITE,  P.  C  ...................................................................  523 

Erathay,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner  1836.  Q-.  Eedmayne,  Esq. 

Ittr&B  JErelttt),  »  ...........................................................................  524 

BBOUGHTON,  P.  C  .......................................................................  527 

SEATHWAITE,  P.  C  .....  ...................................................................  529 

WOODLANDS,  P.  C  .........................................................................  531 

,  P.  €  .........................................................................  532 

...............................................................................  534 

BIAWITH,  P.  C  ........................................................  ....................  538 

CONISTON,  P.  C  ............................................................................  539 

LOWICK,  P.  C  ...............................................................................  540 

TOBTEB,  P.  C  ...............................................................................  542 

EaTON-CUM-NEWLAND,  P.  C  ............................................................    543 

Holy  Trin.  Ulverston,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sumner       1832.     T.  E.  Q-.  Braddyll,  Esq. 
ritotci,  W  ..................................................................................  543 

Hardsea,  C.  Licensed  1849. 


of  itenUal. 

^an^,  W  ......................................................................  547 

OVEB  KBLLETT,  P.  C  ......................................................................  550 

Ccvperwwrayy  D.  Licensed. 

alton,  3R  ....................................................................................  552 

ATTGHTON,  P.  C  ............................................................................  554 

3R  ....................................................................  ..  555 


Ixxvi 


CONTENTS. 


ffionsraateli  bg  patron  in  1850.        iBaflt 

JHSarton,  ® 557 

BOBWICK,  C 561 

SlLTEEDAlE,   P.   C 563 

Yeland  Conyers,  P.  C.  Bishop  Sunnier        1828.     Hyndman's  Trustees. 


CORRIGENDA. 

Page  50,  Note  7,  vol.  ii.  part  1.  On  the  28th  of  February  1627,  George,  son  of  Otho 
Holland  "of  the  New  Hall  within  Pendleton,"  conveyed  lands  there  to  his 
brother,  James  Holland,  who,  on  the  7th  of  July  1635,  conveyed  the  same,  in 
Trust,  (to  Sir  Alexander  Radcliffe  of  Ordsall  Knt.  Thomas  Prestwich  of 
Hulme  Esq.  Humphrey  Chetham  of  Clayton  Esq.  and  James  Chetham  of 
Crumpsall  Gent.)  on  his  marriage  with  Marie  Blomfleld.  Otho  Holland  was 
the  son  of  this  marriage,  and  his  daughter  Mary  having  married  Mr.  Robert 
Cooke  of  Worsley,  New  Hall  has  descended  to  their  great-grandson,  Thomas 
Alderson  Cooke  of  Peterborough  Esq. 

Pages  83  and  84,  Note  2,  part  1.  Mr.  Dickenson  was  not  the  purchaser  of  Chorlton 
Hall  and  its  demesne,  (which  were  bought  in  1792,  for  £42,914,  by  William 
Cooper,  Samuel  Marsland,  and  two  others,)  but  of  other  adjacent  lands  of  the 
Mynshulls,  which  have  descended  to  his  representatives,  the  Ansons.  (See  p. 
79,  Note  1.)  The  Hall  still  remains  near  St.  Luke's  Chapel  at  Chorlton-upon- 
Medlock. 

Page  163,  line  7,  for  Pap.  Reg.  here  and  elsewhere  in  the  text,  read  Pap.[er  in  the] 
Registry,  Chester.'] 

Page  179,  transfer  the  paragraph  from  the  Notitia  Paroch.  to  page  162;  and  for 
Huyton,  read  Aiighton. 

Page  197  Note,  line  3,  for  north-east,  read  south-west. 

Page  205  Note,  line  13,  for  Charles,  read  William. 

Page  221  N  ote,  line  1,  for  £294,  read  £1,294. 

Page  275  Note,  after  "Town, "add,  and  a  moiety  of  the  Manor  is  still  vested  in  the 
See  of  Canterbury. 

Page  309  Note,  line  15,  dele  are  now,  and  read  were  lately,  Lord  Montagu  being 
dead. 

Page  317  Note,  third  line  from  the  bottom,  dele  has,  before  descended. 

Page  324  Note,  line  9,  for  Bargreave,  read  Hargreaves. 

Page  344,  Note  3,  dele  whose  son,  Richard  Fort,  Esq.  M.  P.  and  add  who,  before 
rebuilt. 

Page  350  Note,  line  3,  for  Bulley,  read  Butley. 

Page  363,  line  19,  after  1664,  add,  The  whole  Manor  is  now  vested  in  the  Fazakerley 
family. 

Page  472  Note,  line  17,  for  Linchalls,  read  Linehalls. 

Page  545  Note,  eighth  line  from  the  bottom,  for  Bardsley,  read  Bardsea. 


Beanrp  of  aSHarriitjjton,  in  &ancasfrire. 


about  1201  p.[er]  an.  Itt.  14.15.04. 

r  T  i>  r  -11  Pr.A.  0.   3.   4. 

[num;]  new  Pars,  [onage]  house,  leave  syn..  o.  2.  o. 


^       •  v    *1J   -A  r      1    i«m          r>        Tri...  0.  3.  4. 

0  given  to  build  it,  an  [no]   1711.     Reg.  Fam       153 

*  jwfer]  5.  look,]  4.  pivffi:  S 


An.  [no]  1548,  Will,  [iam]  Bradshaw 
de  Uplitherland,  Patron.  Inst. \itu- 
tiori]  B.[pok,~\  1,  p.  33. 

An.  [no]  1602,  Gabriell  Hesketh  of 
Newhull  in  Aughton,  Patron.  B.[ook,~\  2,  p.  34. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Michael.     Value  in  1834,  £676.     Eegisters  begin  in  1541. 

Achetun,  a  Manor,  and  Literland,  were  held  before  the  Conquest  by  Uctred,  the 
Saxon  proprietor  of  Dalton  and  Schelmersdale.  Henry  II.  gave  to  Warine  de  Lan- 
caster, amongst  other  Manors,  Uplitter-land,  which  Henry  Fitz  Warine  remitted  to 
King  John.  In  the  latter  reign,  John,  son  of  Simon,  son  of  Mabilla  de  Acton, 
(Aughton,)  granted  to  Eichard  Wallensis,  Lord  of  Litherland,  his  curtilege  in  the 
town  of  Acton,  and  Eichard  le  Walais,  probably  the  same  Lord,  granted  land  in  the 
Manor  of  Acton,  and  also  land  within  his  Manor  of  Litherland.  In  the  15th 
Edward  II.  Eichard  le  Walays  held  the  Manor  of  Litherland  juxta  Halsall,  a  third 
part  of  the  Manor  of  Aghton  juxta  Bykerstath,  and  the  Advowson  of  the  Church  of 
Aghton,  which  in  the  year  1371,  were  held  by  Eoger  de  Bradshaigh,  and  Mabilla,  his 
wife.  In  the  5th  Henry  V.  Mabilla,  widow  of  Eoger  Bradshaigh,  settled  upon 
Eichard  Bradshaigh,  her  son,  and  Isabel,  his  wife,  daughter  of  Henry  Scarisbrick, 
the  Manor  of  Uplitherland.  The  Bradshaighs  continued  in  possession  until  the  4th 
Edward  VI.  when  William  Bradshaw  of  Uplitherland  conveyed  his  Manors  of  Aghton 
and  Uplitherland  to  James  Scarisbrick  Esq.  in  whose  family  they  continued  until  the 
17th  Elizabeth,  when  they  passed  to  Bartholomew  Hesketh  Esq.  the  third  in  descent 
from  William  Hesketh,  sixth  son  of  Thomas  Hesketh  of  Buffbrd  Esq.  In  the  year 
1657,  it  was  awarded  that  Uplitherland  was  a  distinct  Manor  within  the  Parish  of 
VOL.  II.]  Y 


162 


liotttia  Ceatwnsia. 


£rf)0ol. 


Cljarittai. 


An.  [no]  1700,  Alexander]  Hesketh  Esq.  presented. 
Patron,  Mr.  Plomb,  who  bought  ye  Manour,  with  ye  Advowson 
appendant,  of  Mr.  Hesketh,  an.  [no]  1721. 
2  Wardens. 
Aughton  Hall,2  Moor  Hall.3 

ete  is  a  School-house  erected  upon  the  Glebe,  by  Mr.  Hind- 
ley,  ye  late  Rect.[or;]4  but  no  Endowm*. 

fetribttteU  to  ye  Poor  yearly  G1-!8,  arising  from  Int.[erest] 
of  money,   and  rent  charge  on  Lands,  given  by  severall 
persons. 

Aughton,  and  that  Bartholomew  Hesketh  was  the  sole  Lord  ;  and  that  Aughton  was 
also  a  distinct  Manor,  and  that  Caryl,  Lord  Viscount  Molyneux,  Laurence  Ireland,  and 
the  said  Bartholomew  Hesketh,  were  the  joint  Lords.  In  the  year  1718,  Alexander 
Hesketh  Esq.  sold  the  Manor  of  Uplitherland,  and  his  third  share  of  Aughton,  with 
the  Advowson,  to  John  Plumbe  Esq.  an  opulent  Attorney,  of  Wavertree  Hall  near 
Liverpool,  who  died  in  Aughton  in  the  year  1763,  in  whose  descendant,  Colonel  J. 
Plumbe  Tempest,  they  were  vested  in  the  year  1834,  when  he  sold  the  Advowson 
to  R.  Bolton  of  Wavertree  Esq. 

2  Aughton  Hall,  the  ancient  residence  of  the  Aughtons,  is  still  in  existence,  and  used 
as  a  farm-house.     In  the  year  1717,  Samuel  Birch  of  Underwood  near  Rochdale,  Gent. 
devised  his  Estates  to  his  daughter,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Thomas  Hesketh  of  Aughton 
Esq.  for  her  life,  and  her  issue  by  any  future  husband,  it  being  his  intention  and  wish 
to  exclude  her  then  husband,  and  her  two  sons,  Stanley  Hesketh  and  Birch  Hesketh, 
from  all  interest  in  his  estates,  the  reversion  of  which  he  gave  to  his  friend,  James 
Haslam,  of  Falinge  near  Rochdale,  merchant.     In  the  year  1756,  the  two  grandsons 
of  the  Testator  were  living,  and  his  daughter  had  married  John  Smallwood  of  Hatty- 
heath  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  yeoman  ;   but  the  marriage  was  unproductive,  and 
the  Estates  passed  according  to  the  Will.     The  house  is  the  property  of  Sir  T.  S.  M. 
Stanley  of  Hooton  Bart. 

3  Moor  Hall  passed  with  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Hesketh,  the 
fourth  in  descent  from  Bartholomew  Hesketh  Esq.  to  Alexander  Hoghton  Esq.  and 
was  conveyed  in  marriage  by  -  ,  daughter  of  -  Hoghton  of  G-oosnargh,  to 
Edward,  son  of  Peter  Stanley  Esq.  of  Aughton. 

4  Mr.  Robert  Hindley  married  a  sister  of  Mr.  Thomas  Hey,  by  whom  he  had  a 
son  and  daughter.      He  became  Rector  in  the  year  1701,  on  the  presentation  .  of 
the  Crown,  by  lapse,  and  died  in  the  year  1720-21,  having  bought  the  next  presenta- 
tion to  the  Rectory,  (for  his  son,  who  died,)  of  old  Mr.  Hesketh,  and  Mr.  Whalley, 
the  mortgagee  of  the  Manor.     The  purchase  money  was  not  paid,  but  Mr.  Plumbe's 


j?  of  ^Harrington.  163 


certified]  lli-lO^OO-i,  viz.  101  p<*  by  IA  &. 
Molineux;  I1- 10s  Surp.[lice]  fees.  gj;      17 

Patron  and  Improp.[riator,]  Ld  Molineux,  who  let  all 
ye  Tithes,  great  and  small,  (an.  [no]    1717,)  for  above 
801  p.[er]  an.  [num.] 

An.  [no]  1695,  [the]  Inhab.  [itauts]  subscribed  51  p.[er]  an. 
[num.]  V.  [ide]  Pap.  Reg.  Now  no  contribution. 

This  Towns?  formerly  belonged  to  Merivall  Abbey,  Warwick-  (£0imtj$.  i. 
sh.[ire]  and  ye  Chappell  was  supplyed  by  a  Monk  from  thence, 
who  resided  at  Altcar  Hall,  to  wch  it  closely  adjoins. 

The  Improved  value  of  ye  Township  [is]  about  16001  p.[er]  an. 
[num,]  exclusive  of  ye  Tythes,  wch  are  set  for  901  p.  [er]  an.  [num,] 
exclusive  of  ye  meadows,  wch  are  2  parts  of  ye  TownsP,  and  are 
Tyth-free. 

[The]  Inhab. [itants]  of  this  Town?  pay  no  Toll  in  Markets,  nor 
any  thing  to  County  Bridges. 

An.  [no]  1695,  [a]  Curate  [was]  Licensed  to  Altcar. 

An.  [no]  1702,  to  Altcar  and  Formby.  V.[ide]  Subscription] 
Afoofc] 

2  Wardens,  [who  are]  chosen  Can.  [onically,]  serve  by  House-row. 

Altcar  Hall,2  and  ye  whole  Town,  belong  to  Ld  Molineux. 

but  not   free,   to   wch   was   given    by   Rich.[ard] 
Whitehead,   and  his    son   John,    301;    and   by  Tho.  [mas] 
Tickle,  321. 

It  was  erected  at  ye  charge  of  ye  Inhab.  [itants.] 

title  being  defective,  his  younger  son,  then  at  Brasenose,  was  likely  to  lose  the 
Living,  but  through  Bishop  Gastrell's  interference  obtained  it.  —  See  MS.  Letters, 
Lane.  MSS. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Michael.     Value  in  1834,  £117.     Eegisters  begin  in  1664. 

In  the  21st  Edward  I.  the  Abbot  of  Mira  Vallis,  or  Merivale,  held  a  carucate  of 
land  in  Aldekar,  given  to  him,  and  his  successors,  by  Agnes,  wife  of  William  de 
Ferrars,  and  sister  of  Ranulph,  Earl  of  Chester ;  and  the  Manor  continued  in  that 
religious  house  until  the  Dissolution.  In  the  year  1558  it  was  conveyed  by  the 


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[The]  Master  [is]  commonly  chosen  by  six  Trustees,  in  whose 
hands  are  ye  Bonds  for  ye  money. 

to  [the]  Poor  by  one  William  Wilson,  (in  1665,)  101, 
wch  is  upon  Bond. 


»    O5.ii.oa 

Pr.  A.  0.  0.  0. 
Syn...  0.  2.  0. 
Tri. ...  0.  6.  8. 

Pens.    0.13.  4. 
to  be  paid  by 
Lessee,  but 
Discharged. 

V.  O.  R.  p.  281. 

Towns    ..  10. 

10. 

Fam 321. 

Pap 208. 

-Fam 


Diss.  M.  P. 
Diss.  Fam.    49. 


Certified]  581-08B.10d,  viz.  Vic. 

[arage]  house  and  about  an  acre  of  Land  adjoining, 
^•lO8;  Church-y.[ard,]  I1;  paid  out  of  ye  Great  Tyths, 
301;  Small  Tyths  at  Easter  and  Mich8,  201,  including 
Hemp,  Flax,  Pig,  and  Goose,  in  Much  Woolton,  and  Little  Wool- 
ton,  given  [in]  1697,  by  Tho.[mas]  Norris  of  Speak,  for  1000 
years,  as  also  prescript,  [ion]  rent  of  10s.  pd  by  [the]  Manour  of 
Allerton.  Pdby  prescript,  [ion]  from  Speak  Hall,  16s;  from  Hutt 
and  Hale  Hall,  I1 -5s.  A  Close  bought  wth  501  given  by  Mrs. 
Marg.[aret]  Norris  of  Speak,  21-10S.  Int.[erest]  of  money  left 

Crown  to  Sir  Richard  Molineux,  and  in  the  year  1624  the  Advowson  and  Manor 
were  held  by  Sir  Richard  Molineux,  as  they  are  at  present  by  his  representative,  the 
Earl  of  Sefton. 

The  Church  is  not  included  in  the  Valor  of  1291,  and  has  been  severed  at  some 
subsequent  period  from  one  of  the  adjoining  Parishes.  A  wooden  structure  existing 
in  the  year  1558,  was  taken  down  in  the  year  1746,  when  the  present  Church  was 
built,  partly  by  collections  obtained  by  a  Brief  granted  in  the  year  1743. 

2  Altcar  Hall  is  now  a  farm-house,  over  the  door  of  which  were  formerly  the  arms 
of  Molineux. 

1  Dedicated  to  All  Saints.     Value  in  1834,  £455.     Registers  begin  in  1557. 

Childwall,  the  Cildeuuelle  of  Domesday,  was  held  after  the  Norman  Invasion,  by 
Roger  Pictavensis,  (or  Poitou,)  then  by  Randulph  de  Blundevill,  Earl  of  Chester, 
who  died  in  the  year  1232,  and  was  given  by  William,  Earl  Ferrars,  to  Peter,  son  of 
Thomas  de  Grrelle,  in  the  year  1262.  The  Manor  passed  to  Sir  Robert  de  Holland  in 
the  year  1303,  whose  daughter,  Margaret,  married  John  de  la  Warr,  the  successor  of 
the  Grelleys.  From  the  Hollands,  this  Manor  descended  to  the  Lovels,  and  in  the 
year  1361  Henry,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  died  seized  of  it.  Shortly  afterwards,  it  was 
transferred  to  Robert  de  Lathom  of  Lathom,  whose  representative,  Isabella,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Sir  Thomas  de  Lathom,  married  Sir  John  Stanley,  and  conveyed  the 
Manor  to  his  family.  It  was  seized  by  the  Parliament  in  the  seventeenth  century, 


Oraumj  of  <!£larvmtjton.  165 

by  3  persons,  I1 -1s.     Surp.[lice]  fees,  21-14S.     Rent  of  a  Close  for 

3  lives,  by  Lease,  1693.     Tyths  in  Garston,  given  freely  by  Edw. 

[ard]  Norris  of  Speak,  I1  •  3s. 

Ded.[uct]  41  pd  to  Hale  Chap,  [el,  and]  2s  [for]  Syn.[odals.] 
Patron  and  Improp.  [riator,  the]  B.  [ishop]  of  Chester. 
This   Church   was   approp.  [riated]    to    [the]    Mon.[astery]    of 

Holland    by    [the]    B. [ishop]    of    Cov. [entry]    and   Lich. [field]. 

V.  [ide]  supra  Mon.  [astery.] 

with  other  Estates  of  the  House  of  Derby,  and  was  sold  to  a  person  of  the  name  of 
Legay,  from  whose  descendant  it  was  purchased  by  Isaac  Green  of  Liverpool  Esq. 
whose  daughter  and  coheiress,  Mary,  married  Bamber  Gascoigne  of  Barking  in  the 
county  of  Essex  Esq.  M.P.  who  became  seized  of  the  Manor  in  her  right.  Frances 
Mary,  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  his  son,  Bamber  Gascoigne  Esq.  M.P.  married  in 
the  year  1821,  James  Brownlow  William,  Marquess  of  Salisbury,  who  assumed  the 
name  of  Gascoigne,  and  is  the  present  owner  of  the  Manor. 

There  was  a  Church  here  at  Domesday,  which  Roger  Pictavensis  granted  to  the 
Abbey  of  Sies,  but  gave  the  Tithe  to  the  Priory  of  Lancaster.  The  Advowson,  how- 
ever, appears  to  have  been  vested  in  the  Grelleys,  and  passed  to  Sir  Robert  de  Hol- 
land, by  whom  it  was  granted  to  the  Priory  of  Holland  in  the  year  1309.  At  the 
Dissolution,  it  was  seized  by  the  Crown,  and  in  the  year  1561  was  annexed  to  the  See 
of  Chester. — Ormerod's  Cheshire,  vol.  i.  p.  74.  Gregson  states  that  the  Tithes  of 
Childwall  were  appropriated  to  the  See  of  Chester  in  the  year  1542.  —  Fragments, 
p.  194.  A  Chantry  in  the  Church  was  dissolved  in  the  year  1547. 

"Childewell  Vic.  Dotatio  Vicarie.  Dat.  Lichf.  A.D.  1307." — Reg.  Langton,  fol.  28,  a. 
Ducarel's  Sepert,  Lamb.  Libr. 

The  Church  was  valued  at  £40  per  annum,  in  the  year  1291. 

In  the  year  1650,  the  Tithe  Corn  in  Childwall,  worth  £12  per  annum,  and  the 
small  Tithes  and  Easter  Dues,  worth  10s.  per  annum,  were  paid  to  the  Parson, 
[Vicar]  and  also  £5  as  an  augmentation  of  his  Vicarage  out  of  the  Parsonage.  The 
Tithes  of  Woolton  Parva,  worth  £30  per  annum,  belonged  to  Mr.  Anderton  of 
Birchley,  and  his  predecessors ;  "  but  by  reason  of  his  delinq?,  doth  now  belonge  to 
the  State  Publique."  Thomas  Orme  yearly  paid  for  a  close  called  "Alley's  Hey,"  in 
Woolton  Parva,  then  in  his  possession,  to  the  Churchwardens  of  Childwall  3s.  4d. 
for  the  repair  of  their  Parish  Church.  Mr.  David  Ellison,  the  Incumb',  "  is  a  godly 
preach*  Minister,  and  doth  observe  the  Lord's  Days,  and  Fast  Days,  and  Days  of 
Humiliat"  appointed  by  Act  or  Ordinance  of  Parliament,"  and  appears,  in  all  re- 
spects, to  have  been  conformable  to  his  republican  patrons ;  which  was  not  the  case 
with  his  predecessor,  the  Rev.  William  Lewis,  M.A.  collated  to  the  Living  by  Bishop 
Bridgeman,  December  6th  1632,  and  for  his  Loyalty  and  Episcopacy,  ejected  by  the 
Parliament  about  the  year  1647.  He  was  also  Rural  Dean  of  Warrington. 

Several  augmentations  were  made  to  the  Church  during  the  Incumbency  of  the 


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An.  [no]  1531,  [the]  Right  of  presenting  to  [the]  Vicaridge 
[was]  in  [the]  Priory  of  S*  Thomas  ye  Martyr  of  Holland. — Inst. 
[itution]  B.[ook,1  I,  p.  28-29. 

10.      T.  [owns]   10.      Childwall,  Speak,  Garston,  Wavertree,  Much- 
Woolton,  Little  Woolton,  Allerton,  Hale,  Hale-bank,  Halewood. 

2  Wardens. 

Ancient  Halls.     Hut,2  Hale,3  Speak,4  Allerton,5  Childwall.6 

Rev.  Ralph  Markland,  who  became  Vicar  in  the  year  1690,  and  died  here  in  the  year 
1721;  and  who  addressed  the  following  letter  to  "the  Divine,"  who,  in  the  year  1705, 
was  collecting  materials  for  a  History  of  the  Churches  in  England :  —  "  The  Tithes  of 
the  Parish  of  Childwall  do  belong  to  the  Bishoprick  of  Chester;  the  Easter  Roll,  and 
some  part  of  the  other  small  Tithes,  viz.  of  hemp,  flax,  pig,  and  goose,  (as  it  was,  I 
believe,  when  this  Parish  belonged  to  the  Priory  of  Up-Holland,)  being  reserved  to 
the  Vicar.  All  these  not  amounting  to  £20  per  annum.  But  in  the  year  1681,  the 
Et.  Rev.  Father  in  God,  Dr.  John  Pearson,  then  Lord  BP  of  Chester,  and  John 
Garroway  Esq.  gave  each  £200,  wherewith  £30  per  ann.  was  purchd  out  of  the  Great 
Tithes,  and  are  annexed  to  the  Vicarage.  There  are  other  benefactions,  some  before 
and  some  since  this  of  Bp  P.  and  Mr.  G-.  viz.  £11,  to  be  given  to  the  use  of  the  Vicar, 
and  his  successors  ;  but  who  was  the  benefactor,  or  when  the  time  of  this  benefactor, 
I  cannot  learn.  John  Lyon  of  the  Folds  in  this  county,  gave  10s.  yearly  for  ever  to 
a  Preach*  Minr  at  Childwall.  Sam1  Legay  Esq.  Tho.  Cook,  and  Rob.  Carter  Gent", 
purchd  a  ten'  of  3  acres,  or  thereab'8,  (accords  to  the  measure  used  in  this  Country,) 
and  gave  it  to  the  Vicar  of  C.  and  his  successors,  a°  1693,  for  the  term  of  3  lives,  all 
which  are  yet  in  being.  Thomas  Norris  of  Speak  Esq.  gave  to  the  Vicar  of  C.  and  to 
his  successors,  a°  1697,  the  Tithes  of  Hemp,  Flax,  Pig,  and  Goose,  in  the  Township 
of  Much  Woolton,  and  Little  Woolton,  in  this  Parish.  Mrs.  Marg'  Norris,  sister  to 
the  sd  Tho.  Norris,  gave  by  her  last  will  and  test.  a°  1699,  £50,  for  an  augment"  to 
this  Vicarage.  Robert  Carter  Gent,  above  mentioned,  gave  by  his  last  will  and  test, 
to  the  use  of  the  present,  and  all  succeed*  Vicars  of  C.  £10,  a°  1704."  —  Notitia 
Paroch.  Lamb.  Libr.  vol.  vi.  p.  1536. 

2  Hutte,  or  the  Haut,  is  supposed  to  have  been  a  residence  of  the  Hollands,  Lords 
of  Hale  and  Halewood;  and  the  present  interesting  and  extensive  remains,  indicate 
its  former  importance.     The  great  Hall  is  said  to  have  been  one  hundred  feet  long 
and  thirty  feet  wide.     The  house  was  surrounded  by  a  moat  which  still  remains. 
The  Gate  House,  of  which  a  drawing  is  given  in  Gregson's  Fragments,  is  of  more 
modern  date  than  the  great  Hall.      Sir  Robert  Ireland,  descended  from  John   de 
Hibernia,  was  Lord  of  Hutte  in  the  time  of  King  John. 

3  Hale,  before  the  32d  Edward  I.  was  obtained  by  Sir  Robert  de  Holland,  in  mar- 
riage with  Cicely,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Alan  de  Columbers,  and  was  conveyed  by 
his  grand-daughter,  Averia,  to  Adam,  son  of  Sir  John  Ireland,  Lord  of  Hutt,  which 
was  confirmed  in  the  12th  Edward  III.  to  his  son,  John  Ireland.     The  Estates  of 


of  Gfftarrington.  167 

A  new  bay  of  building  [was]  added  to  ye  Church  by  [a]  Grant 
from  [the]  BP  an.  [no]  1716.  Register]  B.[ook,~\  4. 

n  this  Towns?  (w6*1  is  about  a  mile  from  Childwall,)  there  is 
a  School,,  by  whom  built  is  not  known ;  but  [it  is]  repaired 
at  ye  charge  of  ye  Parish.  All  y*  belongs  to  ye  Master  is  [the] 
Int.[erest]  of  1571,  old  stock,7  and  1001  given  an.  [no]  1702,  by 
Sr  Will,  [iam]  Norris,  wch  is  put  out  by  ye  2  School-Reeves,  Offi- 
cers chosen  yearly  by  ye  Parish. 

[The]  School  [is]  free  to  all  ye  Parish,  except  those  of  Hale 
Chapy,  who  refuse  to  pay  to  [the]  repair  of  it.  [The]  Parish  pre- 
tend [to  have]  a  Right  to  choose  ye  Master,  but  will  not  contest 
it  wth  Mr.  Norris  of  Speak,  who  put  in  ye  last. 

Hale  and  Hutt  continued  in  this  family,  in  male  descent,  until  the  death  of  Sir 
Gilbert  Ireland  M.P.  in  the  year  1675,  without  issue,  when  his  two  sisters  became 
his  coheiresses.  Eleanor,  the  elder,  married  Edward  Aspinwall  Esq.  whose  great 
grand-daughter  and  representative,  married  Isaac  Green  of  Childwall  Esq.  and,  in 
right  of  his  wife,  Lord  of  Hale.  Of  the  coheiresses  of  Mr.  Green,  Ireland,  the  second 
daughter,  married  in  the  year  1752,  Thomas  Blackburne  of  Orford  within  Warrington, 
Esq.  Sheriff  of  Lancashire,  grandfather  of  John  Ireland  Blackburne  Esq.  M.P.  the 
present  Lord  of  the  Manors  of  Hale  and  Hutt. 

4  Speke  was  held  shortly  after   the  Conquest  by  Roger  Gerneth,  who  gave  two 
carucates  in  Spec  to  Richard  de  Mulas  or  Molyueux.     Annota,  sole  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Benedict  Gernot,  conveyed  the  Manor  to  her  husband,  Adam  Molyneux, 
and  in  the  14th  Edward  I.  it  again  passed  with  Joan,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Moly- 
neux of  Sefton,  to  Roger  de  Erneys  of  Chester,  whose  heiress,  Alice,  conveyed  it  in 
marriage  to  Sir  Henry  Norreys,  the  eighth  in  descent  from  Alan  le  Norreys  of  Sutton 
in  the  county  of  Lancaster.     The  family  became  extinct,  in  the  male  line,  on  the  death 
of  Thomas  Norris  Esq. ;   and  the  Estates  were  conveyed  in  the  year  1736,  by  his 
cousin,  Mary,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Norris  Esq.  to  Lord  Sidney  Beauclerc, 
fifth  son  of  Charles,  first  Duke  of  St.  Albans,  whose  grandson,  Charles,  son  of  the 
Hon.  Topham  Beauclerc,  sold  the  Manor  to  Richard  Watt,  a  merchant  of  Liverpool, 
whose  descendant,  Richard  Watt  of  Bishop  Burton  in  Yorkshire  Esq.  is  the  present 
Lord. 

Speke  Hall  is  partly  surrounded  by  a  moat,  and  is  built  of  timber  and  plaster. 
Some  parts  were  added  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth ;  but  the  house  is  much  older. 
Of  this  family  was  Sir  William  Norres,  who,  in  the  year  1543,  appears  to  have 
obtained  part  of  the  Royal  Library  of  Holyrood  Palace,  and  some  curious  and 
elaborate  oak  panelling,  still  remaining  at  Speke. 

5  Allerton  was  held  by  the  Lathoms  under  the  de  la  Warrs,  who  held  the  same  of 


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[There  is]  20l  left  by  Mr.  Crompton,  [the]  Int.  [erest]  for  Books 
for  [the  use  of]  Poor  Children. 

[An]  Inquis.  [ition  was]  taken  an.  [no]  22  Jac.  1,  bef.[ore] 
B.[ishop]  Bridgman,  &c.  ab*  misemployed  moneys  belong,  [ing] 
to  this  School,  (and  to  [the]  Poor  of  Rum  worth.)  V.[ide]  DEAN. 
MS.  Hulm.  98,  A.  16,  36. 

C&artttoi.  eft  to  ye  Poor  by  William  Carter,  50s ;  by  John  Lyon  to 

Halewood,  I1  p.  [er]  an.  [num.] 


This  Chappell  was  for 
many  years  ruinated  and  disused,  but 

the  Duchy  of  Lancaster.  In  the  llth  Henry  VIII.  the  Manor  was  possessed  by 
Robert  Lathom,  from  whom  it  descended  to  Thomas  Lathom  of  Parbold,  in  the  21st 
Jac.  and  was  seized  by  the  Commonwealth  Parliament  for  the  alleged  delinquency  of 
Richard  Lathom  Esq.  his  son,  and  sold  in  the  year  1653,  to  John  Sumpner  of  Med- 
hurst  in  Sussex,  for  £3,700.  It  was  again  sold  in  the  year  1670,  to  Richard  Percivall 
of  Liverpool,  merchant,  for  £4,755,  who,  in  his  turn,  sold  it  to  James  Hardman  of 
Rochdale,  and  John  Hardman  of  Liverpool,  merchants,  in  the  year  1732,  for  £7,700. 
The  Hall  and  Estate  afterwards  became  the  property  of  William  Roscoe  Esq.  by 
whom  they  were  held  until  the  year  1816. 

6  Childwall  Hall  belonged  to  the  Earl  of  Derby  in  the  year  1650 ;  and  was  rebuilt 
by  Bamber  Q-ascoigne  Esq.  M.P.  the  grandson  of  Isaac  Green  Esq.    It  is  a  castellated 
edifice,  of  stone,  from  the  design  of  Mr.  Nash.     The  situation  is  picturesque ;  and 
the  house  has  been  the  occasional  residence  of  the  Marquess  of  Salisbury,  the  noble 
owner. 

7  This  "old  stock"  was  probably  the  £55  detained  by  Edward  Molineux  of  Garston, 
yeoman;  and  also  the  £80  "  and  odd,"  in  the  hands  of  Henry  Mossocke  of  Allerton, 
yeoman,  and  William  Ellison  of  Wavertree,  yeoman,  School  Reeves;  and  the  £15 
interest,  ordered  to  be  paid  by  Bishop  Bridgeman,  and  four  other  Commissioners,  at 
the  Inquisition  at  Wigan,  3d  March  1625. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Michael.    Value  in  1834,  £138.     Registers  begin  in  1777. 

In  the  reign  of  Henry  III.  the  Manor  of  Garston  was  held  by  Adam  de  Gerston, 
under  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster.  It  afterwards  passed  to  the  Norris  family  of 
Speke,  and  was  sold  by  Mr.  Topham  Beauclerk  to  Peter  Baker  and  John  Dawson, 
who  sold  the  same  to  Richard  and  James  Gerrard,  of  whom  it  was  purchased  by 
Richard  Kent  of  Liverpool,  merchant,  for  £2,200,  and  devised  by  his  Will  dated  the 
24th  of  November  1788,  to  Trustees,  for  his  son  in  law,  Lord  Henry  Murray,  and 


of  Harrington,  1C9 

was  rebuilt  an.  [no]  1716,  by  Mr.  Edw.[ard]  Norris2  of  Speak,  with 
3001  left  by  his  Mother  for  that  use,  and  601  given  by  Himself. 
It  is  built  upon  ye  same  ground  wth  the  old  one,  but  not  quite  as 
large.  The  old  Chap. [el]  was  probably  Consecrated,  a  font  being 
found  among  ye  Rubbish,  and  sev.[eral]  graves  in  ye  Chap,  [el] 
yard,  tho  no  service  had  been  performed  in  it  since  ye  Reformation. 

Certif.  [ied]  that  no  Endowment  belonged  to  it. 

Mr.  Edw.[ard]  Norris  of  Speak  gave  3001  for  ye  Augmentat. 
[ion]  an.  [no]  1717. 

Elizabeth,  his  wife,  and  their  infant  son,  Richard  Murray.  In  the  year  1793,  the 
Manor  was  again  sold  to  John  Blackburne  of  Liverpool,  and  Hawford  in  the  county 
of  Worcester,  Esq.  who  dying  in  the  year  1827,  was  buried  here,  when  the  Manor 
passed  with  his  daughter  and  heiress  to  Thomas  Hawkes  Esq.  M.P. 

The  Chapel  of  Garston  was  given  in  the  46th  Henry  III.  by  Thomas  de  Grelle  to 
his  son,  Peter  de  Grelle,  who  was  Warden  of  Manchester  in  the  year  1235.  Dame 
Cecill  of  Torboke,  Lady  of  Torboke,  by  Will  dated  the  7th  of  March  1466,  bequeaths 
"  to  the  Chirch  of  Gerston,  iiis.  ivd."  The  pedestal  and  socket  of  a  stone  Cross  still 
remain  in  the  Chapel  yard.  The  sacred  structure  is  a  small  building  with  a  cupola, 
and  bears  date  1707. — Baines,  vol.  iii.  p.  758.  The  Curate  is  nominated  by  Richard 
Watt  Esq. 

Garston  Chapel  was  reported  in  the  year  1650  to  be  very  ancient,  but  in  ruin  and 
decay,  and  no  Incumbent  there  "  for  the  present."  It  was  considered  fit  to  be  made 
a  Parish  Church,  and  that  Speke,  Garston,  and  Allerton  should  be  annexed  to  it. 
The  Tithe  of  Garston  was  worth  £36  per  annum,  and  Mr.  James  Anderton  formerly 
held  it  in  Lease  from  the  Bishop  of  Chester;  but  by  reason  of  Mr.  Anderton's 
delinquency,  it  had  been  "sett  and  farmed,"  by  Mr.  Peter  Ambrose,  Agent  for 
Sequestration,  "  to  the  use  of  the  Publique."  Mr.  Norris  paid  16s.  a  year  for  small 
Tithe  and  Easter  Roll  for  his  own  house.  —  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

In  December  1686,  Mr.  Ambrose  resigned  the  Vicarage  of  Childwall.  —  Bishop 
Cartwright's  Diary,  p.  17. 

2  This  benefactor  was  Edward  Norris  M.D.  youngest  son  of  Thomas  Norris  of 
Speke  Esq.  and  his  wife,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Garway,  Alderman  of 
London.  Edward  Norris,  and  his  mother,  Catherine  Norris,  (mis-spelt  Harris,  in 
Nichols'  Lit.  Anec.)  were  the  early  friends  of  Jeremiah  Markland,  and  his  brother 
John,  both  sons  of  Mr.  Ralph  Markland,  Vicar  of  Childwall. — See  Nichols'  Lit.  Anec. 
vol.  iv.  pp.  273—4.  Dr.  Norris  was  brother  of  Sir  William  Norris  M.P.  whom  he 
accompanied  on  his  Embassy  to  the  Great  Mogul.  Like  both  his  elder  brothers,  he 
represented  Liverpool  in  Parliament ;  and  also  succeeded  them  in  their  father's 
Estate.  He  died  in  the  year  1726,  and  was  buried  at  Garston,  being  succeeded  by  an 
only  son,  Thomas,  who  had  no  issue.  —  See  the  Norris  Papers,  published  by  the 
CHETHAM  SOCIETY. 

VOL.  II.]  Z 


170  $otttta  Cestttensts. 

Left  by  Tho.  [mas]  Marsh,  tenant  to  Mr.  Norris,  201 ;  and  by 
John  Huytou,  another  tenant,  101.  [The]  Int.  [erest]  to  [be  given 
to]  the  Curate. 

3  m.[iles]  from  Childwall,  and  above  3  m.[iles]  from  any  other 
Church  or  Chap,  [el.] 

[Garston,3  Aighburgh.4] 


Certif-  [iedl  1 71  •  1 7s  •  ood,  viz. 

M.T.  41  paid  by   [the]  Vicar  of  Childwall ; 

••••••  17°:  41  modus  for  Small  Tyths,  from  ye  Lords  of  Hutt  and  Hale ;  61, 

Rent  of  Land  purchased  by  Mr.  Cook ;  21,  rent  of  land  bought  wth 
501  given  by  Mrs.  Marg.[aret]  Norris;  and  51  by  Cath.[arine] 
Crosse;  17s,  [the]  Int.  [erest]  of  171  left  by  sev.[eral]  persons.  I1 
Surp.[lice]  fees. 

This  is  an  ancient  Market-town,  having  a  Grant  of  that  privi- 
lege from  King  John. 

An.  [no]  1703  an  award  of  ye  BP  [was  made]  cone,  [erning]  ye 
portion  to  be  pd  by  [the]  Inhab.  [itants]  of  Hale  tow.[ards]  ye 
yearly  Accounts  of  [the]  Churchw.  [ardens]  of  Childwall.  R. 
[egister]  B.[ook,~]  3,  p.  268.  The  like  dispute  was  settled  by 
[the]  E.[arl]  of  Derby  an.  [no]  1591,  wn  it  appeared  y*  Div.[ine] 
Service  had  been  performed  here  time  out  of  mind,  and  y*  ye 

3  G-arston  Hall  is  now  a  farm-house,  with  one  of  the  gables  of  wood  and  plaster, 
and  contained  a  Roman  Catholic  Chapel.     It  was  formerly  the  property  of  the  family 
of  Norris  of  Speke,  and  now  belongs  to  Sir  John  Gerard  Bart. 

4  Aigburgh  Hall  passed  in  marriage  with  Anne,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  John 
Toxliche,   to  William   Lathom  of  Parbold,   living  in  the  12th  Henry  VIII. ;    and 
shortly  afterwards,  it  was  in  the  possession  of  William  Bretargh  Esq.  whose  descend- 
ants were  the  owners  until  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  Charles  I. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Mary.     Value  in  1834,  £105.     Registers  begin  in  1572. 

The  Tithes  of  Hale  were  given  by  Roger  of  Poictou  to  the  Priory  of  Lancaster, 
shortly  after  the  Conquest.  In  the  14th  Henry  VI.  the  Parochial  Chapel  of  Hale  is 
mentioned :  and  in  the  year  1466,  Dame  Cecill  of  Torboke  bequeaths  by  Will  "  to  the 
Chirch  of  Hale,  xiii".  iTd." 

The  old  Tower  of  the  Chapel  still  remains.     The  Chapel  was  rebuilt  in  the  year 


lieanevg  of  ffiBaamngton.  171 


Chappelry  was  severed  from  the  Parish  with  [the]  precincts  and 
bounds.  V.[ide]  Pap.  Reg. 

[The]  Lord  of  Hutt  and  Hale  claims  ye  Nom.  [ination]  of  [the] 
Curate;  but  [the]  present  [one  was]  put  in  by  [the]  Vicar.  1722. 

1  Warden,  [and]  1  Assist,  [ant.] 

5  m.[iles]  from  Childwall  ;  4m.[iles]  from  any  other  Ch.[urch.] 

ere  is  a  School  erected  out  of  ye  Town-stock;  but  no  endow- 
ment.     [The  site  was  given  by  Isaac  Green,  and  Mary  his 

wife.] 

eft  by  Jane  Middleton  [in  1703,]  101;  W.  Allet,  51;   [Ellen,  «!>artttr*. 
wife  of  John  Wainwright,  £5,  1713.] 


£&8P*{|BL,p  in  Tocksteath 
Park  near  Childwall,  supposed  to  be 

1754,  the  Patronage  being  vested  in  the  Blackburne  family.  A  Parsonage  House 
was  erected  in  the  year  1824. 

Handle  Holme  visited  "Hale  Church  in  com.  Lane."  about  the  year  1650,  and 
records  two  inscriptions  on  grave  stones  in  the  Chancel,  of  the  dates  1400  and  1462. 
See  Baines's  History,  vol.  iii.  p.  750. 

"  Hale  is  a  Parochial  Chapelry  fit  to  be  made  a  distinct  Parish,  because  there  is  not 
any  person  here  that  hath  any  seat  or  buriall  place  in  Childwall  Church;  and  we 
allot  Hale,  and  Hale  Bank,  to  belong  to  the  said  new  Parish.  There  is  no  Parsonage 
or  Vicarage  in  the  Township  of  Hale ;  but  there  is  a  White  rent  of  3s  5d  in  Hale, 
and  a  donation  of  £5  to  the  Chaplain,  given  by  Tho8.  Vause  of  Garston,  late  decd, 
remain^  in  the  hands  of  Tho.  Linley,  when  there  shall  be  a  Minr  to  supply  the  Cure — 
at  present  vacant.  Gilbert  Ireland  of  the  Hutt  Esq.  claims  to  be  Patron  of  the  sd 
Chapel  of  Hale,  and  holds  the  small  Tithe  of  the  Chapelry  of  Hale,  and  Halebank, 
and  part  of  Halewood,  worth  25s  per  ann.  and  paid  to  the  Vicar  of  Childwall,  but 
worth  £3,  with  the  Easter  Dues  for  his  house." — Lamb.  MSS.  Parl.  Survey,  1650. 

1  The  district  of  Toxteth  Park  is  extra-parochial. 

In  the  year  1650  Mr.  Huggan  (so  spelt)  was  Minister  of  Toxteth  Chapel,  and 
approved  of  by  the  Classis.  He  received  the  Tithes  of  the  Township  or  Hamlet, 
worth  £45  per  annum,  and  also  £10  a  year  from  Mr.  Ward,  the  Rector  of  Walton. 
The  said  Chapel  of  Toxteth  Park  was  so  far  from  any  other  Church  or  Chapel  that  it 
was  recommended  to  be  made  a  separate  Parish. — Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 


172 


ilotttta  Cesrtriensfe. 


extra-parochial,  or  in  ye  Parish  of  Lancaster,  possessed  by  Dis- 
senters, held  by  a  Lease  from  Ld  Molineux,  and  [was]  given  in  as 
a  house  belonging  to  his  LP,  by  his  Agents,  wn  they  Registered 
his  Estate.  An.  [no]  1718. 

This  was  a  Park  and  waste  land  wthout  Inhab.  [itants]  in 
Q.[ueeii]  Eliz.  [abeth]'s  reign. 

There  is  a  Tradition  that  an  Irish  Bishop  has  preached  sev. 
[eral]  Sundays  in  this  Chappell. 


.    24.11.05J. 
Pr.A.  0.10.   0. 
Syn...  0.  2.  0. 
Tri....  0.  6.   8. 

Fam 194. 

Pap 146. 

Pap.  M. 


about  3001  p.  [er]  an.  [num.]    Lady  Mohmi, 
Patron. 

An.  [no]    13th  Eliz.  [abeth,]  Henry  Halsall,  Patron. 
Inst.\itution\  B.[ook,~]  1.  Pap.  B.[ook,~]  p.  3. 
Custom  to  Tyth  [the]  11th  Cock  of  Hay  and  Hattock  of  Corn. 
The  hamlet  of  Snape  in  Ormskirk  Par.  [ish,]  payes  Tyths  one 
year  to  Halsall,  another  to  Ormskirk ;   but  Church-leys  every  year 
to  both  Churches. 

It  was  reported  afterwards  by  the  Commissioners  that  the  Committee  of  Plundered 
Ministers  allowed  "Mr.  Thomas  Huggins,  an  honest  man,  and  a  Graduate,"  the 
Tithes  of  Toxteth,  which  amounted  to  £60  a  year. 

In  the  year  1774  an  Act  of  Parliament  was  obtained  to  build  a  Church  in  Toxteth 
Park  in  the  Parish  of  Walton-on-the-Hill,  on  the  south  side  of  the  town  of  Liverpool, 
to  be  dedicated  to  St.  James,  there  being  only  one  Church,  called  St.  Thomas's,  in  that 
part  of  the  town. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Cuthbert.  Value  in  1834,  £3051.  Registers  of  Baptism  begin 
in  the  year  1611,  imperfect  until  1653 ;  Marriages  and  Burials  begin  in  1662. 

Halsall,  the  Herleshall  of  Domesday,  was  held  at  the  Norman  Survey,  by  Chetel,  a 
Saxon,  and  his  successor,  Paganus  de  Villiers,  gave  one  carucate  to  Vivian  Gernet,  in 
marriage  with  Emma,  his  daughter,  to  be  held  by  Knight's  service ;  and  Alan,  son  of 
Simon,  supposed  to  be  descended  from  Chetel,  held  the  lands  of  Robert  de  Villiers,  in 
the  reign  of  Henry  III.  Simon  de  Halsall  granted  lands  here  in  the  12th  Henry  III. 
and  in  the  40th  of  the  same  reign,  Gilbert  de  Halsall  held  the  Manor  of  Halsall  under 
Sir  William  le  Botiller,  Lord  of  Warrington.  The  Manor  continued  in  the  Halsall 
family  until  the  latter  part  of  the  sixteenth  century,  when  it  was  sold,  along  with  the 
Advowson,  by  Sir  Cuthbert  Halsall  to  Sir  Gilbert  Gerard  of  Gerard's  Bromley  Knt. 


Heanerg  of  £<Jtavvmgtott.  173 

2  Churchwardens :  one  chosen  by  [the]  Rectour,  (who  serves 
for  Halsall ;)  ye  other  by  ye  Lord  of  Halsall,  or  his  Agent,  who 
serves  for  Down-Holland.  2  Assist,  [ants.]  Church  Lay  is  laid 
by  a  15th  throughout  the  Parish,  as  has  long  been  accustomed. 

Halsall ;  Down-Holland,  (wch  is  divided  into  Barton,  Heskene,  Colons.  5. 
and  Down-Holland ;)  Lidiate,  (part  of  which  is  called  Egergath ;) 
Maghull,  and  Melling,  (part  of  wch  is  called  Counscough.) 

Halsall,2  Lidiate  ;3  Hallwood  and  Counscough,4  both  in  Melling, 
[being  ancient  Seats.] 

is  a  Free  Gram,  [mar]   School  adjoining  to  ye  Church, 
founded  by  Edw.[ard]  Halsall  Esq.5  Lord  of  the  Manour, 

who  appears  to  have  devised  it  to  his  second  son,  Radclifle  Gerard  Esq.  grandfather 
of  Charles  Gerard,  created  Baron  Gerard  of  Brandon  in  the  year  1645,  and  Earl  of 
Macclesfield,  in  the  year  1679.  His  son,  the  second  Earl,  dying  without  issue  in  the 
year  1697,  unjustly  disinherited  his  brother,  and  devised  the  Estates  to  Charles,  Lord 

Mohun,  who  had  married  his  niece,  Charlotte,  daughter  of Mainwaring  Esq. 

Lady  Mohun  married,  in  her  widowhood,  Brigadier  General  Lewis  Mordaunt,  third 
son  of  John,  first  Viscount  Mordaunt  of  Avalon  in  Somersetshire,  and  conveyed  this 
Manor  to  her  husband,  (who  died  in  1712-13,)  by  whose  grandson,  Charles  Lewis 
Mordaunt,  it  was  sold  to  Thomas  Eccleston  Scarisbrick  of  Scarisbrick  Esq.  whilst  the 
valuable  Advowson  was  sold  by  the  same  individual  to  Jonathan  Blundell  of  Liver- 
pool Esq.  and  is  now  vested  in  R.  H.  Blundell  Esq. 

A  Chantry  in  this  Church  dedicated  to  St.  Nicholas  and  St.  Mary,  was  dissolved  in 
the  year  1548,  restored  in  the  year  1553,  and  suppressed  in  the  year  1559. 

The  Church  was  rebuilt  in  the  year  1591. 

On  June  22d  1650,  Halsall  was  returned  as  an  ancient  Parish  Church,  and  Mr.  Tho- 
mas Johnson,  the  "able  Minister."  He  had  for  his  salary  a  Parsonage  House  and  Glebe, 
worth  £8.  per  annum ;  rent  of  tenements  and  old  Glebe,  worth  23s.  lOd.  a  year ;  and 
Tithe,  worth  £60  per  annum.  He  also  received  £100  from  the  Tithe  of  Holland  and 
Lidiate ;  and  from  Thomas  Gore,  for  a  Cottage  and  Tithe  Barn,  2s.  6d.  Out  of  this 
large  income,  —  for  he  was  an  influential  supporter  of  the  ruling  faction,  —  he  was 
required  to  pay  Mrs.  Travis,  wife  of  Mr.  Peter  Travis,  B.D.  the  lawful,  but  ejected 
Rector,  £20  per  annum,  by  order  of  the  Committee  of  Plundered  Ministers.  I  am 
sorry  to  find  that  Mr.  Travis  was  a  Pluralist.  —  See  pp.  27,  28. 

2  Halsall  Hall  is  a  large  plain  brick  house,  occupying  the  site  of  the  ancient  Mane- 
rial  Hall  of  the  Halsalls,  and  was  probably  built  by  Lady  Mohun.     It  was  the  resi- 
dence of  Charles  Lewis  Mordaunt  Esq.  in  the  year  1760. 

3  Lydiate  was  the  residence  and  Manor  of  Benedict  de  Lydiate,  in  the  3d  Edward 
III. ;  and  his  grand-daughter  and  heiress  married  Robert  de  Blackburne  in  the  16th 


174  llotttta 

an.  [no]  1593,  and  endowed  wth  20  marks  p.[er]  an.[num, 
£13.  6s.  8d.]  [The]  Master  is  nom.  [inated]  by  [the]  Lord  of 
Halsall  for  ye  time  being,  and  during  his  minority,  by  ye  Rectour. 
Writings  in  ye  hands  of  Mr.  Heyes,  Steward  to  ye  Lady  of  ye 
Manour. 

Cljarttto*.  |8gg  UtoatU  3^aIsaII,  Founder  of  ye  School,  gave  20  marks  p.  [er] 
S§|i  an.[num]  to  ye  Poor,  18  of  wch  to  six  of  ye  most  needy  im- 
potent persons  of  Halsall  TownsP ;  and  2  marks  to  one  poor  per- 
son, [an]  Inhab.  [itant]  of  Down-Holland.  [The]  Poor  to  be 
nominated  by  [the]  Lord  of  Halsall,  and  during  his  minority,  by 
ye  Rect.  [or.]  Settled  upon  Lands  in  Eccleston,  and  payable  by  ye 
Lords  of  Eccleston  to  [the]  Churchw.  [ardens]  of  Halsall. 

Given  by  Fitton,  E.[arl]  of  Macclesfield,6  ISMS" -4*  to  Halsall; 
and  ye  same  sum  to  Down-Holland.  By  others,  201  to  Barton ; 
201  to  Down-Holland ;  51  to  Heskene :  [.£10  of  which  was  given 
by  Edward  Halsall,  late  of  Down-Holland,  and  £20  by  Henry 
Fazakerley  of  the  said  Town ;  but  the  other  Donors  are  unknown.] 
W*  was  given  by  [the]  E.  [arl]  of  Macclesfield  is  made  up  201  by 
[the]  Par.[ish.] 

There  is  171-6s-8d  more  Poor-Money  in  Halsall,  but  [it  is]  not 
known  who  gave  it. 

l^p.ter]  an.[num,]  at  least,  Poor  Money,  in  JJidiate,  arising 
from  Land  in  Lydiate,  Aughton,  and  other  places. 

Richard  II.  Agnes,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  de  Blackburne,  conveyed  Lydiate, 
by  marriage,  to  Thomas,  son  of  Sir  John  Ireland  of  Hutt  and  Hale,  and  his  descend- 
ant, Edward  Ireland  Esq.  in  the  13th  Charles  I.  left  a  daughter  and  coheiress,  mar- 
ried to  Sir  Charles  Anderton  Bart,  from  whom  it  passed  to  the  Blundells  of  Ince. 

The  Hall  consists  of  a  centre  of  timber  and  plaster,  painted  in  trefoils,  with  two  wings 
chiefly  of  brick.  There  are  numerous  armorial  carvings  and  quaint  devices  in  wood. 
A  room  in  the  house  has  been  used  as  a  Roman  Catholic  Chapel  since  the  Refor- 
mation ;  and  for  this  purpose,  the  adjoining  ruin  called  Lydiate  Abbey,  was  originally 
intended.  The  beauty  and  variety  of  the  scenery  in  this  neighbourhood  form  a  pic- 
ture too  seldom  realized  in  this  county. 

4  Cunscough  or  Keniscough  Hall,  was  the  seat  of  the  Mossokes,  a  respectable 
family  of  lesser  gentry,  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and,  probably,  passed  from 
them  by  marriage,  to  the  Blundells  of  luce  Blundell. 


lleattn;»  of  OTanrmgton.  175 


Certif.  [ied]   that   no-  pam 6a 

thing  belongs  to  it  but  20l  p.  [er]  an.  p^.  p^.  6|; 
[num,]  paid  by  ye  Rectour,  and  51  Surp.  [lice]  fees. 

V.[ide]  Nom.  [ination]  of  a  Curate  by  [the]  Rect.[or,]  an.  [no] 
1702.     Pap.  Reg. 
2  Chap,  [el]  Wardens,  chosen  by  [the]  Inhabitants.] 

4  m.[iles]  from  [the]  Parish  Church. 

The  Poor's  Stock  is  1501  out  upon  Personal  Security.  Cf)<mtte£. 

5  Edward  Halsall  Esq.  (called  Stanley  in  Baines's  History,  vol.  iv.  p.  260,)  was 
sometime  Chamberlain  of  the  Exchequer  at  Chester,  and  died  in  the  year  1593,  s.p. — 
See  Fuller's  Worthies,  vol.  i.  p.  552.     He  was  succeeded  in  his  Estates  by  his  kinsman, 
Henry  Eccleston  of  Eccleston  Esq.   ancestor  of  the  present  Manorial  owner  of 
Halsall. 

6  For  some  account  of  this  nobleman  see  Not.  Cest.  vol.  i.  pp.  273,  299,  Notes 
3  and  5. 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.     Value  in  1834,  £122.     Registers  begin  in  1729. 

Uctred  held  Magole  at  the  Conquest.  "  King  John,"  says  Lucas,  "  gave  the  fourth 
part  of  the  town  of  Maghull  (pronounced  Mail)  to  William  de  Maghull,  where  his 
posterity  have  lived  ever  since."  A  very  elaborate  Pedigree  of  the  family,  deduced 
from  original  evidences,  is  recorded  in  vol.  xii.  of  MS.  Lane.  Pedigrees.  The  Manor 
was  sold  in  the  last  century  to  Viscount  Molyneux,  and  had  passed  by  sale  to  William 
Mawdesley  Esq.  before  the  year  1815. 

A  Chapel  was  built  here  at  a  very  early  period.  The  north  Aisle  of  the  present 
structure  is  divided  from  the  Nave  by  three  massive  arches,  and  is  the  oldest  portion 
of  the  edifice.  The  other  parts  are  modern.  In  the  year  1650  the  Commissioners 
reported  that  "Maghull  is  an  antient  Chappel  called  Male  Chappel,  and  a  rood  of  land 
about  the  said  Chappel  is  fit  to  be  enjoyed  therewith ;  and  in  regard  of  the  remote- 
ness of  the  said  Chappel  from  any  other  Church,  we  think  itt  fitt  to  be  made  a  Parish, 
being  4£  miles  from  Halsall. «  Mr.  William  Aspinall,  a  painfull  and  godlye  Minister, 
hath  the  Tythes  of  Male,  being  £50  per  annum,  out  of  wch  he  payes  to  Mrs.  Travis, 
wife  of  the  late  Minister,  a  10th,  according  to  the  Order  of  the  Committee  of  Plun- 
dered Ministers." — Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  The  Rector  of  Halsall  nominates 
the  Incumbent. 

Maghull  Hall,  formerly  a  half-timbered  house  of  spacious  dimensions,  the  resi- 
dence of  the  Maghulls,  was  sold,  with  other  Estates,  by  the  Earl  of  Sefton,  before  the 
year  1805,  to  William  Harper  of  Liverpool,  and  of  Davenham  in  the  county  of  Ches- 
ter Esq.  who  devised  the  same  by  Will  dated  the  5th  of  December  1815,  to  his 
daughter  and  heiress,  Helen,  wife  of  John  Formby  of  Everton  Esq. 


176  llotttia 


Certif.[ied]  28MO- 
viz.  201  paid  by  [the]  Rectour; 
House  and  3  acres  of  ground,  51;  left  by  John  Tarbock,  [in]  1675, 
21  p.[er]  an.[uum;]  Int.[erest]  of  51  left  by  Mrs.  Crompton,  5s; 
Surp.[lice]  fees,  I1  -5s. 

4  m.[iles  and  a]  \  from  Halsall,  near  Maghall. 
2  Wardens. 

[was]  built  here  about  ten  years  agoe  ;  the  ground 
upon  wch  it  was  built,  with  two  Stat.  [ute]  acres  more,  was 
given  by  Rob.[ert]  Molineux  Esq.  About  401  left  by  one  Edwd 
Smith  of  Cunscough,  by  Will  dated  1709;  and  201  by  Mr.  John 
Tatlock,  (by  Will  dated  1708;)  w*  other  donations  there  are  nei- 
ther Curate  nor  Churchw.  [ardens]  can  tell.  [The]  Trustees  allow 
but  41  p.[er]  an.[num]  to  [the]  Master,  and  refuse  to  give  an 
Account  of  w1  is  in  their  hands.  Certif.[ied]  by  [the]  Curate, 
an.  [no]  1717. 

eft  to  ye  Poor  of  Melling,  at  sundry  times,  251,  now  in  ye 
hands  of  Richd  Tatlock;  301,  given  by  some  of  his  Ances- 
tours;  101,  by  J.  Banks.     Certif.[ied]  an.  [no]  1718. 

1  Dedicated  to  the  Holy  Rood.     Value  in  1834,  £140.     Registers  begin  in  1613. 

Melinge  was  held  at  the  Conquest  by  Godeue.  It  appears  to  have  been  granted  by 
Roger  de  Poictou  to  Vivian  de  Molines  ;  for  his  son,  Sir  Adam  de  Molines,  gave  to 
the  Church  of  St.  Mary  of  Cokersand,  lands  in  Melling  and  Cunscough,  under  the 
seal  of  the  Cross  Moline.  A  branch  of  the  Molyneux  family  was  seated  here  in  the 
43d  Edward  III.  and  Richard,  second  Viscount  Molyneux,  died  seized  of  the  Manor  in 
the  year  1652. 

The  family  of  Bootle  were  located  here  in  the  reign  of  Henry  V.  and  continued  to 
reside  at  Melling  until  the  year  1724,  when  Lathom  was  purchased  by  Sir  Thomas 
Bootle  Knt.  M.P.  Chancellor  to  Frederick,  Prince  of  Wales,  and  Attorney  General 
for  the  Bishop  of  Durham.  His  niece  having  married  in  the  year  1755,  Richard 
Wilbraham  of  Rode  Hall  in  the  county  of  Chester  Esq.  M.P.  conveyed  the  Estates 
to  his  family,  which  are  now  vested  in  his  son,  Edward  Bootle  Wilbraham,  created 
Baron  Skelmersdale  in  the  year  1828. 

The  Parliamentary  Commissioners  in  1650  reported  that  Melling  was  an  antient 
Parochial  Chapel  with  a  fair  yard,  well  walled.  It  had  a  Mansion-house  with  Glebe, 


Beanerg  of  ^Harrington.  177 


Certified]  421,  viz.  House,  Garden,  and     U.   29. 
Glebe,  |  of  an  acre,  4l;  all  Tyths  due  to  [the]  Vicar,  T^.OO.M.IL 
331;  left  by  W.  Carter,  51  p.[er]  an.  [num.]     An.  [no]  gn..'  o.'  2!  a 
1676,  W.  Davidson  left  131  •  6s .  8d,  [the]  Int.[erest]  to  rim.......  200'. 

[be  paid  to  the]  Vicar.     Bond  in  ye  hands  of  ye  Churchwardens.     DLHUM.P.  ' 

mi         «i         r  '  i    "       r  i  ^    A.   f  /-ti-       -j.       a  »    Diss.Fam.  38. 

The  51  p.[er]  an.[num,]  was  left  for  a  Chanty  Sermon  upon  ye    [P.34.  Q.4.] 
Purificat.  [ion,]   wch  is  paid  out  of  an  Estate  in  Halewood,  [in] 
Childw.[all]  Par.[ish.] 

A  New  House  [has  been]  built  since  this  return. 

worth  £3  per  annum ;  a  parcel  of  Glebe,  worth.  10s.  per  annum,  but  rented  at  3s.  per 
annum,  by  John  Aspinall.  The  Tithes  of  Melling  were  worth  £60  per  annum,  and 
constituted  the  salary  of  Mr.  John  Mallinson,  the  Minister,  who  paid  Mrs.  Travis 
the  tenth  part,  by  Order  of  the  Committee  of  Plundered  Ministers.  He  came  in 
by  the  election  of  the  Township,  and  supplied  the  Cure  in  a  godly  and  able  manner. 
The  Chapel  was  said  to  be  seven  miles  from  the  Parish  Church,  and  fit  to  be  made  a 
distinct  Parish.  —  Part.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  voL  ii.  The  Eector  of  Halsall  nominates 
the  Curate. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Michael.  Value  in  1834,  £150.  Registers  of  Baptism  begin  in 
1578 ;  Marriages  in  1587 ;  and  Burials  in  1665. 

In  the  reign  of  Edward  the  Confessor,  Hitune  was  held  by  Dot,  a  Thane ;  and,  at 
the  Conquest,  it  was  annexed  to  the  Barony  of  Widnes.  In  the  reign  of  Henry  III. 
Robert  de  Lathum,  descended  from  Robert,  the  Founder  of  Burscough  Priory,  and 
son  of  Henry 'de  Torbock,  held  under  the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  then  Baron  of  Widnes, 
one  Knight's  fee  in  Knowsley,  Hulton,  and  Thorboc. — Testa  de  Nevill.'  These  Ma- 
nors passed  into  the  Derby  family  by  the  marriage  of  Isabella,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Sir  Thomas  Lathom,  with  Sir  John  Stanley.  This  Manor,  however,  appears  to 
have  been  a  subinfeudation,  and  to  have  been  held  afterwards  by  another  of  the 
Lathoms,  whose  heiress  conveyed  it  to  the  Harrington  family ;  of  which  was  John 
Harrington  of  Huyton  Esq.  Collector  of  the  Fifteenth  in  the  Hundred  of  Derby,  in 
the  15th  Henry  VI.  In  the  20th  Henry  VIII.  Hamo  Haryngton  held,  it  is  said,  the 
Manor  of  Huyton ;  and  his  descendants  continued  to  reside  here  until  the  early  part 
of  the  last  century.  In  the  year  1708  John  Harrington  Esq.  and  Charles  Harrington 
Grent.  his  son  and  heir,  obtained  an  Act  of  Parliament  to  enable  them  to  settle  their 
Estates,  and  to  dispose  of  some  of  them  for  the  payment  of  their  debts.  The  Manor 
of  Huyton  was  vested  in  Charles,  Duke  of  Shrewsbury,  the  Hon.  Richard  Molyneux, 
son  and  heir  of  William,  Viscount  Molyneux,  Henry  Fleetwood  of  Penwortham 
Esq.  and  others,  on  the  marriage  of  Charles  Harrington  and  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
Arden  of  Upton  Warren  in  the  county  of  Worcester  Esq.  Thomas  Molineux 
VOL.  II.]  A  A 


178  ilotitta 

This  Church  was  given  by  ye  Founder  to  ye  Priory  of  Burscough. 
V.[ide]  sup.  Mon.  [asticon.~\ 

An.  [no]  1383,  Will,  de  Swallow  admissus  ad  primam  Canta- 
riam  et  omnia  bonse  memoriae  Jo.  de  Wynwick  in  Ecclesia  de 
Huyton.  MS.  Hulm.  95,  L  11,  ex  Cartul.  Epi  Cov.  fy  L. 

An.  [no]  1558,  the  Crown  presented.  Institution]  B.[pok,~\  1, 
p.  50. 

An. [no]  1615,  Sr  Rich.[ard]  Molineux,  Patron.  B.\ook^\  2, 
p.  58. 

Patron,  Mr.  Farington,  Trustee  for  Ld  Molineux.  Now  in  his 
own  Right.  V. [ide]  Mem. [prandum\  B.[ook]  of  B? Daw[e]s. 

Unsworth  Seel  Esq.  (of  the  New  Hall  family,)  is  the  present  Manorial  Lord,  in  right 
of  his  grandmother,  the  heiress  of  the  Harringtons. 

The  Church  was  given  to  the  Priory  of  Burscough  by  Robert  de  Lathum,  in  the 
twelfth  century.  "Hoyton  Church"  was  valued  at  £10  per  annum  in  the  year 
1291.  Ecton  calls  the  Parish  "  Hilton,  alias  Huyton ;"  but  the  former  name  does 
not  occur  in  any  ancient  evidences. 

Before  the  17th  Henry  VII.  the  Asshetons  of  Croston  had  a  grant  from  the  Priory 
of  a  Chantry  in  Huyton,  and  the  Advowson  of  the  Church ;  and,  in  the  next  reign, 
Thomas  Assheton  brought  an  action  in  the  Duchy  Court  against  Thomas  Hesketh, 
and  others,  as  feoffees,  for  tortuous  possession  of  the  Chantry  and  Advowson  of  Huy- 
ton Church,  and  having  recovered  them,  died  seized  of  them  in  the  year  1530. 

The  Advowson  was  subsequently  in  the  noble  family  of  Molyneux ;  and  in  the  last 
century  passed  to  the  House  of  Derby,  in  which  the  Patronage  is  still  vested. 

The  Church  was  rebuilt  in  the  year  1647,  and  new  seated  and  repaired  by  John 
Harrington  Esq.  in  the  year  1663. 

The  Chancel  has  a  curious  hammer-beam  roof,  but  of  a  late  date,  and  a  fine  Rood 
Screen  of  the  time  of  Henry  VII. 

Ordinatio  Vicarise  p.  R.  Cov.  et  Litch.  Epum  A.D.  1273.  Reg.  Cartar.  Eccl. 
Lichfeld,  fol.  291,  (Harl.  MSS.  No.  4799.) 

Ordinatio  Vicarise  de  Huyton  al.  Hugton,  fact.  A.D,  1277,  et  Confirmat.  per  Ra- 
dulphum  Decan.  et  Capit.  Lich.  eodem  anno  Cartular.  Monasterii  de  Burscough  in 
Com.  Lancastr,  in  officio  Ducat.  Lancastr,  apud  Hospitium  Grayense,  Lond.  f.  62. 
Compositio  Eccles.  de  Huyton,  Lich.  Dioc.  Dat.  apud  Heywood  6  die  Septr.  A.D. 
1383. — Cowcher  of  the  House  of  S.  Nicholas  de  Burscogh.  MS.  in  the  Office  of  the 
Dutchy  of  Lancaster,  in  Gray's  Inn,  fol.  87,  6,  ad  fol.  94,  A.  —  Ducarel's  Repert. 
Lamb.  Libr. 

The  Impropriate  Tithes  of  Huyton  in  1650  were  worth  £150  a  year,  and  were 
received  by  Richard,  Lord  Viscount  Molyneux.  The  Vicarage  was  worth  £10  per 
annum ;  chief  rents,  4s.  per  annum ;  and  £80  was  deducted  from  the  Impropriation 


of  2.2  tawing  ton.  179 

An.  [no]  1708,  wn  upon  a  Triall  at  Law,  W.  Farington  of  Wor- 
den  was  adjudged  [the]  true  Patron,  and  a  Mandamus  directed  to 
ye  BP  to  accept  his  Clerk :  [and  yet  in  1720  Lord  Molineux  pre- 
sented. Ecton.] 

Huyton-cum-Roby,  Knowsley,  and  Tarbock ;  for  which  there  STninntf.  3. 
are  3  Churchwardens. 

Huyton-hey,2  Knowsley,3  Tarbock,4  [and]  Wolfall.5  &an*.  4. 

[The]  Par.  [ish]  is  4  m.  [iles]  long,  [and]  2  broad. 

aforesaid,  which  was  then  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  William  Bell  M.A.  the  Pastor, 
"  and  paid  to  him  as  a  Minister  Itinerant  within  this  county,  by  Mr.  Pollard,  the 
receiver  of  the  revenues  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster.  Mr.  Bell  is  a  man  well 
qualified  for  all  parts,  and  a  godly  studious  preaching  Minister,  who  came  into  this 
place  by  the  free  election  of  the  People  and  approbat"  of  the  Parliament." — Lamb. 
MSS.  vol.  ii.  He  was  one  of  the  King's  Preachers,  and  had  been  ordained  by  Bishop 
Bridgeman.  He  became  Vicar  of  Huyton  in  the  year  1640,  and  held 'the  Living 
during  all  the  changes  of  the  times  ;  but  not  conforming  in  the  year  1662,  (after  the 
example  of  two  of  his  sons,  who  obtained  promotion,)  he  lost  it.  Calamy  states  that 
he  died  in  the  year  1681,  aged  seventy-four.  The  date  on  his  monument  in  Huyton 
Church  is  the  10th  of  March  1683,  in  his  eightieth  year.  He  published  some  small 
Tracts  recommended  by  Mr,  Baxter.  He  is  omitted  in  Baines's  Catalogue  of  the 
Vicars  of  Huyton. 

In  the  year  1705  Mr.  Christopher  Sudell,  who  styled  himself  Hector,  (omitted  in 
Baines's  Catalogue,)  stated  that  the  Tithes  of  Huyton  were  not  Impropriated,  but 
that  the  Church  was  endowed  both  with  the  great  and  small  Tithes,  and  that  the 
Advowson  belonged  to  Alexander  Hesketh  Esq.  —  Notitia  ParocMalis,  Lamb.  Libr. 
vol.  vi.  p.  1538. 

2  Huyton-hey  Hall  was  the  residence  of  the  knightly  family  of  Harrington,  and  was 
conveyed  in  marriage  by  an  heiress  to  Mr.  Molineux  of  New  Hall  in  Walton,  in  the 
hist  century. 

3  Knowsley  Park  is  one  of  the  seats  of  the  Earl  of  Derby,  and  was  obtained  by  Sir 
John  de  Stanley  Knt.  M.P.  and  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  in  marriage  with  Isabel, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Thomas  Lathom  Knt.  in  the  time  of  Richard  II.     The 
house  has  been  built  at  various  times,  and  there  are  many  architectural  incongruities 
about  it.     The  present  kitchen,  standing  upon  pillars,  and  not  unlike  the  Chapel  at 
Haddon,  on  a  larger  scale,  is  the  oldest  part  of  the  house. 

4  Torbock,  before  the  time  of  Richard  I.  had  given  name  to  the  ancestors  of  the 
Torbocks  and  Lathoms ;  and  the  Torbocks  continued  to  reside  here,  in  knightly  rank, 
until  the  seventeenth  century,  when  the  Estate  was  lost.     The  Earl  of  Sefton  is  the 
Lord  of  the  Manor. 

5  Wolfall  Hall  was  the  residence  of  the  Wolfalls  for  many  centuries,  their  ancestor, 
Richard  de  W'lfal,  being  on  the  Inquisition  for  the  Grascon  Scutage  in  West  Derby, 


180 


liotitta 


Cfprttft*. 


ett  is  a  Gram,  [mar]  School,  but  when  and  by  whom  Found- 
ed, and  wh.  [ether]  Free  or  not,  is  not  known.  It  is  repaired 
by  ye  Parish;  and  ye  Churchwardens  are  Trustees  to  ye  School- 
Stock,  wch  is  about  2101,  besides  13l  •  6s  •  8d  left  by  W.  Davidson, 
and  5'by  Tho.[mas]  Massey;  [the]  Int.  [erest]  of  wch  is  paid  to 
ye  Master,  who  is  named  by  ye  Churchwardens. 

eft  about  60  y.  [ears]  agoe,  [by  Mr.  William  Bell  M.A.  who 
died  in  1683,]  3l,  now  lost;  left  by  Wm  Webster,  an.  [no] 
1648,  [qu.  1684,]  801,  [the]  Int.  [erest]  to  be  paid  at  ye  rate  of  41 
per  cent.  ;  and  to  [the]  Poor  of  Tarbock,  501,  [the]  Int.  [erest  to 
be  paid  at  the  rate  of]  51  p.[er]  cent.  ;  to  ye  same  Poor,  by  Anne 
Richardson,  [in  1686,]  and  R.[ichard]  Garnet,  [in  1707,]  101 
each  ;  [and  by]  Tho.  [mas]  Massey,  51. 

Left  by  Lady  Derby  to  Knowsley  and  Huyton,  2001;  501  in 
each  place  [to  be  given]  to  poor  Widows,  the  other  to  bind  out 
Apprentices.  Not  yet  paid.  Enquire  of  Ld  Arran  and  Mr. 
Bromley,  Execut8.  Vic.  [ar~\'s  Account,  an.  [no]  1719. 


Certified]  321-18s-04d,  viz.  House  and 
Glebe,  (betw.[eeu]  7  and  8  acres,)  161;  paid  by  [the] 
ImPr°P-[riator>]  l51  •  13s  '  °4d;  sma11  Cottage,  10s; 
given  by  Mr.  Naylour,  and  said  to  be  perpetuall,  15s; 

[the]   Surp.[lice]  fees  belong  to   [the]   Improp.[riator,]  but  are 

farmed  by  ye  Vicar  at  21  p.[er]  an.  [num.] 


13. 

Diss.  M. 

[about  220.] 


about  the  25th  Henry  III.  The  Estate  was  conveyed  in  marriage,  about  the  year 
1653,  by  Ann,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Wolfall  Esq.  to  Robert,  son  of 
William  Harrington  of  Huyton-hey  Esq.  and  was  settled  by  Act  of  Parliament,  in 
the  year  1708,  on  the  marriage  of  Charles  Harrington  Esq.  with  his  first  wife.  From 
this  family  it  passed  with  their  heiress  to  the  Molineux's  of  New  Hall,  whose  repre- 
sentative, Thomas  Molineux  Unsworth  Seel  Esq.  lately  sold  it  to  the  Earl  of  Derby. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Mary.     Value  in  1834,  £263.     E*gisters  begin  in  1560. 

The  Manor  of  Westleigh,  commonly  called  Leigh,  and  pronounced  by  the  inhabi- 


Seaneri?  of  SLSlarrtngtou.  181 

Rob.  [ert]  Pennington  left  61  p.[er]  an.  [num,]  to  commence 
after  ye  death  of  Eliz.[abeth]  Johnson,  still  living,  an  [no]  1708. 
An.  [no]  1696,  [by  Deed  dated  17th  Aug.  1682,]  left  by  Mr. 
Richard  Hulton  [Hilton,]  10s  p.[er]  an.[num,]  for  a  Sermon  on 
St.  Stephen's  Day,  wn  his  Legacy  to  ye  Poor,  [est  People,  being 
Protestants,  or  so  reputed,  who  come  to  Church  to  hear  the  Ser- 
mon,] is  distributed. 

tants  with  a  peculiar  guttural  sound  indicative  of  their  descent  from  the  Teutonic 
tribes,  was  held  under  the  Butlers,  Barons  of  Warriugton,  by  Geffrey  de  Westleigh, 
in  the  time  of  Richard  I.  Sygreda,  supposed  to  be  the  heiress  of  this  family,  con- 
veyed it  in  marriage  to Urmston  of  Unnston,  in  whose  male  descendants  it  con- 
tinued until  the  death  of  Eichard  Urmston  Esq.  in  the  year  1659.  He  left  three 
daughters :  Mary  married  Robert  Heaton  of  Westleigh ;  Frances  married,  first, 
Eichard  Shuttleworth  of  Bedford  Esq.  (ob.  1650,)  and  secondly,  George  Bradshaw 
of  Greenacre ;  and  Anna  married  Thomas  Mossock  of  Heatonhead.  By  the  repre- 
sentatives of  these  coheiresses  the  Estates  were  sold  in  the  last  century,  when  the 
Manorial  rights  passed  to  the  Athertons  of  Atherton,  and  the  Hiltons  of  Pennington. 
In  the  year  1797  one-fourth  of  the  Manor  was  acquired  by  the  first  Lord  Lilford, 
father  of  the  present  joint  Manorial  owner,  on  his  marriage  with  Henrietta  Maria, 
daughter  and  coheiress  of  Eobert  Atherton  Gwillym  Esq. ;  and  the  remaining  three- 
fourths  are  vested  in  Samuel  Chetham  Hilton  Esq. 

"  The  Church  of  Leithe"  is  valued  at  £8  per  annum  in  the  Valor  of  Pope  Nicholas, 
although  the  contrary  is  stated  to  be  the  case  by  Baines,  vol.  iii.  p.  590.  In  the  9th 
Edward  II.  the  Advowson  was  vested  in  the  Urmstons ;  and  in  the  39th  Edward  III. 
it  was  held  by  Sir  Eobert  de  Holland  for  the  Priory  of  Up-Holland.  Descending  to 
Maud,  grand-daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Eobert,  it  passed  by  marriage  to  Sir  John 
Lovell ;  and  in  the  23d  Henry  VI.  the  Augustin  Canons  of  Erdbury  Priory  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  purchased  this  Advowson  from  William,  Lord  Lovell,  and  in  the 
year  following  had  Letters  Patent  for  appropriating  the  Eectory. 

"  Appropriatio  Eccles.  de  Legh  Monasterio  de  Erdbury  et  Ordinatio  Vicarise  ibid. 
Dat.  in  CapeU.  Castri  de  Eccleshale  17  die  Martii  A.D.  1450.— E.  6,  E.  7,  Augm.  Offic. 
Chart.  Miscell.  Concordia  et  advocatione  Eccles.  de  Legh  T.  E.  apud  Lancas- 
trian! 13  die  Aug.  16,  E.  4,  ibid.  E.  2. — Award  concerning  the  Advowson  of  the 
Church  of  Legh.  Dated  the  25th  Oct.  in  the  15th  Edward  IV.  ibid,  E.  3.— Ducarel's 
Repert. 

Westley,  in  the  year  1650,  had  a  Vicarage  house,  eight  acres  of  land,  and  one  cot- 
tage, worth  £8  per  annum ;  one  other  house  called  Nowell-house,  and  a  horse  mill, 
worth  £8.  14s.  8d.  received  by  Mr.  [Bradley]  Hayhurst,  (said  by  Baines  to  have  been 
instituted  in  the  year  1660,  and  ejected  in  the  year  1662 ;)  a  man,  "  constant  in 
preach*  the  Word,  and  in  all  Ministerial  duties."  The  Tithes  of  West  Leigh  "  are 
seqd  for  the  delinq'"  of  Eichard  Urmston  Esq.  and  the  profits  being  £124.  8s.  2d.  and 


182  liotitta 

[The]  Vicar,  [age]  house  [was]  rebuilt  by  Mr.  Ward,2  ye  pres. 
[ent]  Vicar. 

Patron,  Rich.[ard]  Shuttleworth  Esq.  and  others.  [Richard 
Shuttleworth  presented  in  1696.  Ecton.] 

This  Church  was  given  by  William,  Lord  of  Lovell,  Burnell, 
and  Holland,  Knight,  to  ye  Mon.[astery]  of  Erdbury  in  Warwick- 
sh.  [ire,]  at  ye  desire  of  Sr  Ralph  Bottiler,  Baron  of  Seudley,  and 
Ld  High  Treasurer,  Founder  of  ye  said  Mon.  [asteryj  and  approp. 
[riated]  by  [the]  B.[ishop]  of  Cov.  [entry]  and  Litch.  [field,]  an. 
[no]  1450,  reserving  to  [the]  Vicar  a  stipend  of  13  marks  p.[er] 
an.[num;]  [a]  Pens. [ion]  of  6s- 8d  to  [the]  BP;  3s- 4d  to  [the] 
Archd. [eacon]  of  Chester;  and  6s  •  8d  to  the  Poor.  Old  Reg. 
[ister,]  E.E.E. 

[A]  stipend  [was]  reserved  to  [the]  Vicar  [of]  lOMS8^,  to 
which  51  was  since  added.  Part  of  [the]  Surp.  [lice]  fees  belong 
to  [the]  Impropriator.  Vic.[ar]  Ward's  Accf-  an. [no]  1704.  Pap. 
Reg. 

An.  [no]    1452,  Approp.  Eccles.  de  Legh  et   Dotatio  Vicariae 

a  Parsonage  house,  are  recd  by  the  Agents  of  Seqn  for  the  use  of  the  State,  some  parts 
of  which  go  to  the  State,  and  the  5th  belongs  to  the  daughters  of  the  said  Mr.  Urm- 
ston.  We  conceive  that  one-half  of  the  sd  Parsonages  and  demesne  lands  belongs  to 
the  Parish  Church  of  Leigh,  as  Church  land.  The  Tithe  corn  of  Pennington,  being 
£40  per  annum,  is  settled  on  Mr.  Hayhurst,  by  order  of  Parl'.  The  Privy  tithes, 
worth  13s.  belong  to  Mr.  Urmston,  the  Impror.  The  higher  side  of  Bedford  has 
Tithes  belonging  to  the  Vicar  of  Leigh,  now  recd  by  Mr.  Herst  (Hayhurst,)  worth 
£20  per  annum,  part  of  the  sd  £124.  8s.  2d.  The  lower  side  Tithes  have  been  recd  by 
Mrs.  Agnes  Travis  for  eight  years  past,  and  belonged  to  Eichard  Urmston  of  Kink- 
nail  Gent,  worth  £4.  13s.  4d.  and  due  and  paid  to  Mr.  Urmston  of  the  Parsonage ; 
but  now  seqd  for  his  delinq^,  and  recd  by  the  Public.  If  paid  in  kind  they  would  be 
worth  £20.  A  yearly  rent  of  £8  per  annum  is  pd  in  Atherton  by  John  Atherton 
Esq.  in  lieu  of  Tithe,  to  Eichard  Urmston  Esq.  by  virtue  of  a  Grant  made  in  the  1st 
Elizabeth,  1558,  by  Eichard  Urmston  to  Sir  John  Atherton  Knt.  for  certain  years 
yet  in  being.  Worth  £20  this  year."  — Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

At  the  Dissolution,  the  Advowson  of  the  Vicarage  appears  to  have  become  vested  in 
the  Urmstons,  who  were  the  Lessees  of  the  Tithes,  and  continued  in  the  representa- 
tives of  that  family  until  purchased  about  the  year  1785,  by  E.  Atherton  Gwillym 
Esq.  from  whom  it  has  descended  to  the  Eight  Hon.  Thomas,  Baron  Lilford. 

2  The  Eev.  George  Ward  was  instituted  in  the  year  1696,  and  died  in  the  year  1733. 


g  of  HCtarnugton.  183 

ad  summam  16  mercarum,  Pens.  Ep°  vis.  viiid.     Arch.  Cestriae, 
iiis.  ivd.     MS.  Hulm.  95,  L  11,  ex  cartul.  Epl  Cov.  and  Litchf. 

An.  [no]  1504,  [a]  Vicar  [was]  presented  by  [the]  Prior  and 
Convent  of  Erdbury.  Institution]  B.\ook,~\  1,  p.  1. 

An.  [no]  1616,  pres.  [entation]  by  Rich,  [ard]  Urmston  Esq. 
B.[ook,~\  2,  p.  63. 

An.  [no]  1619,  [a]  Caveat  [was]  entred  by  [the]  E.[arl]  of 
Hartford,  who  claimed  ye  Advowson  from  his  Great  Grandfather, 
the  Duke  of  Suffolk.  jB.[oo#,]  2,  p.  70. 

An. [no]  1620,  Mr.  Urmiston  presented  again.  Ib.[id,~\  p.  98. 
No  presentat.  [ion]  since  entred  in  ye  Books. 

An.  [no]  1693,  [a]  Case  about  an  Assessment  for  ye  Bells. 
V.[ide]  Pap.  Reg. 

Atherton,    Tildesley-cum-Shakerley,   Penington,   Astley,    Bed-  (£0tonj$.  6. 
ford,  West-leigh. 

Six  Churchwardens ;  for  every  TownsP  one.     Six  Assist,  [ants.] 

Atherton,3  Chaddock,4  Penington,5  [Cleworth,]6  and  2  Granges, 
only  small  Farm-houses.  [Qu.  Dam-house7  and  Morleys.8] 

3  Atherton  Hall  was  built  by Atherton  Esq.  in  the  seventeenth  century,  on 

his  abandoning  Lodge  Hall,  the  ancient  moated  Manor  house.      This  Hall  was  super- 
seded by  another,  of  superb  dimensions,  which  was  commenced  in  the  year  1723,  and 
finished  in  the  year  1743,  at  a  cost  of  £63,000 ;  the  principal  front  being  one  hundred 
and  two  feet  in  extent.     A  description  of  the  house  is  given  in  the  Vitrwvius  Britan- 
nica,  vol.  iii.  p.  89.      In  the  year  1825  this  splendid  mansion  was  taken  down,  by  the 
first  Lord  Lilford,  and  a  farm  house  erected  upon  the  demesne. 

4  Chaddock  Hall  in  Tildesley,  was,  in  the  early  part  of  the  last  century,  the  seat  of 
a  family  of  the  same  name, — to  be  carefully  distinguished  from  Chadwick, — although 
so  designated  by  Baines,  vol.  iii.  p.  606.     Before  the  year  1774  the  Manor  of  Tildesley 
and  Chaddock  Hall  had  become  the  property  of  Samuel  Clowes  of  Manchester  Esq. 
and  are  now  held  by  his  third,  but  eldest  surviving  son,  William  Leigh  Clowes  of 
Broughton  Hall  Esq. 

5  Pennington,  in  the  30th  Henry  III.  was  the  Manor  of  Richard  de  Penington, 
which  had  passed  to  the  Bradshaighs  of  Haigh,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  III.  from 
whom  it  descended  to  a  younger  son  settled  at  Aspull.      Margaret,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  John  Bradshaw  of  Pennington  Esq.  and  great-grand-daughter  of  Richard 
Bradshaw,  the  Benefactor  of  the  School  and  Poor,  married   George   Farington  of 
Werden  Esq.  who,  in  the  year  1726,  sold  the  Hall  and  some  Estates  for  £4,550,  to 
Samuel  Hilton  Esq. ;   whose  descendant,  Samuel  Chetham  Hilton  Esq.  conveyed  the 


184  jiotttta 


i)e  [Grammar]  School  and  51  [£6  ?]  p.  [er]  an.  [num,]  said 
to  be  given  by  Mr.  Richard  Bradshaw  of  Penington  (in 
1681 ;)  51  p.  [er]  an.  [num]  more,  I  have  heard  was  given  by  one 
Ramiard,  [John  Ranicars  of  Athertou,  by  Will  dated  16th  Aug. 
1655,]  and  ye  tenants  to  certain  Lands  pay  it;  and  21  p.[er]  an. 
[num,]  I  have  heard  was  given  by  one  Wright,  but  I  never  saw 
any  Deeds,  nor  can  I  tell  where  to  enquire  for  ym.  [James 
Wright,  in  1679,  and  Randal  Wright,  in  1686,  left  each  the  inter- 
est of  £20.]  Vic.[ar~]'s  Actf-  an. [no]  1719. 

V.[ide]  Recom.  [mendation]  of  a  Master.     Pap.  Reg. 

Estate,  by  sale,  in  the  year  1808,  to  Benjamin  Gaskell  of  Thornes  House  in  the 
county  of  York  Esq.     The  Hall  was  rebuilt  in  the  last  century  by  Samuel  Hilton  Esq. 

6  Cleworth  Hall  passed  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  with  ATITI,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  John  Parr  Gent,  and  widow  of  Thurstan  Barton  of  Smithills  Esq.   to 
Nicholas  Starkie  Esq.  and  is  chiefly  memorable  as  the  scene  in  which  seven  indivi- 
duals, in  the  year  1594,  became  the  dupes  of  a  knave  called  Hartley,  and  supposed 
themselves  to  be  possessed  with  evil  spirits.     The  Rev.  John  Darrell  B.A.  who  wit- 
nessed some  of  the  vagaries  of  these  credulous  persons,  afterwards  published  his  ver- 
sion of  the  marvellous  events,  which  led  him  into  a  controversy  on  the  subject  with 
Mr.  Samuel  Harsnet,  afterwards  Archbishop  of  York ;  and  it  is  said  that  the  72d 
Canon  was  framed  to  deter  Ecclesiastics,  in  future,  from  imposing  on  the  credulity 
of  the  vulgar,  as  Darrell  had  done.     Dr.  Dee,  the  Warden  of  Manchester,  appears  to 
have  prudently  declined  interfering  in  the  business,  which  has  been  shorn  of  some  of 
its  marvels  by  a  Discourse  published  by  the  Rev.  George  More,  Minister  of  Caulk 
in  the  county  of  Derby,  who,  with  Darrell,  and  others,  undertook  to  dispossess  the 
members  of  Mr.  Starkie's  family.     He  says  that  Mr.  Nicholas  Starkie  having  married 
a  lady  that  was  an  inheritrix,  and  of  whose  kindred  some  were  Papists,  these,  partly 
for  Religion,  and  partly  because  the  Estate  descended  not  to  heirs  male,  prayed  for 
the  perishing  of  her  issue,  and  that  four  sons  pined  away  in  a  strange  manner ;  but 
that  Mrs.  Starkie  learning  this  circumstance,  estated  her  lands  on  her  husband,  and 
his  heirs,  failing  issue  of  her  own  body ;  after  which  a  son  and  daughter,  (John  and 
Anne,)  were  born,  who  prospered  well  until  they  arrived  at  the  age  of  ten  or  twelve 
years,  when  the  demoniacal  assaults  commenced.     The  Estate  of  Cleworth  was  always 
inconsiderable,  consisting  but  of  one  hundred  and  sixty-three  acres  of  land,  now  the 
property  of  Le  Gendre  Piers  Starkie  of  Huntroyde  Esq. 

7  Dam  House  in  Tyldesley,  is  distinct  from  "  Hope,  alias  Langley  House,"  (Baines, 
vol.  i.  p.  606,)  situate  nearer  Leigh  on  the  same  Estate.      It  was  built  by  the  Morts 
in  the  seventeenth  century,  adjacent  to  the  site  of  the  former  dam  of  a  mill,  long 
since  removed,  and  is  a  good  specimen  of  the  bay  window  style.     Many  additions  and 


of  £fetarrmgton,  185 

Who  founded  ye  School  is  not  known ;  but  the  pres.  [ent]  Mas- 
ter, by  Contributions,]  hath  rebuilt  it.  The  Vicar  hath  some- 
times nom.[inated;  but]  who  hath  ye  Right  [is]  uncertain.  I 
never  could  learn  exactly  ye  [amount  of]  money  given,  or  by 
whom.  Vic.  \_ar]'s  Account,  an.  [no]  1722. 

by  Mr.  Henry  Travis,  [in  1624,]  101  p.[er]  an.[num,] 
to  be  divided  among  40  poor  people,  at  5s  apiece,  the  money 
secured  upon  Land,  and  to  be  given  upon  Thursday  in  Passion 
Week,  every  year,  near  the  grave  stone  of  the  Testator ;  by  Mr. 
Richard  Hilton,  [in  1682,]  10l  p.[er]  an.[num,]  to  be  divided  in 
the  same  manner,  [and  6s.  8d.  or  not  more  than  10s.  for  a  dinner 
for  the  entertainment  of  the  Minister  who  preaches,  and  the 

restorations  have  lately  been  made ;  it  is  now  again,  fortunately  for  the  neighbour- 
hood, the  residence  of  its  owners,  and  the  centre  of  a  system  of  agricultural  improve- 
ments carried  out  most  extensively  and  judiciously. 

8  Morleys  Hall,  in  Astley,  was  the  seat  of  the  Leylands  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
VIII. ;  and  of  this  house  Leland,  the  antiquary,  writes,  "  Morle  in  Darbyshire,  [i.e. 
West  Derby,]  Mr.  Lelandes  Place,  is  buildid  saving  the  Fundation  of  Stone,  squarid, 
that  risith  within  a  great  moote  vi  Foote  above  the  Water,  are  of  Tymbre,  after  the 
commune  sort  of  building  of  Houses  of  the  Gentilmen  for  most  of  Lancastreshire. 
There  is  much  Pleasur  of  Orchardes  of  great  Varite  of  Frute,  and  fair  made  Walkes 
and  Gardines  as  ther  is  in  any  Place  of  Lancastreshire."  Wardley  in  Worsley,  was 

obtained  by  the  marriage  of Tildesley  with  Margaret  de  Worsley,  temp.  Edward 

III.  or  Eichard  II. ;  and  on  the  death  of  his  descendant,  Thurstan  Tildesley  Esq. 
whose  Inquisition  was  taken  in  the  year  1554,  the  Wardley  Estate  became  vested  in 
Thomas  Tildesley  Esq.  his  son  and  heir,  and  was  sold  in  parcels  by  Thurstan,  son  of 
this  Thomas,  and  father  of  Sir  Thomas  Tildesley  of  Gray's  Inn,  Attorney  General  for 
the  Duchy  of  Lancaster.  The  said  Sir  Thomas  married  Ann,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Thomas  Norres  of  Orford,  in  the  year  1593,  whose  surviving  daughters  and  coheiresses 
married  Edmund  Breres,  and  Adam  Mort,  both  of  Preston,  and  the  Estates  of  Orford 
passed,  by  successive  sales,  to  John  Blackburne  of  Newton,  who  had  married  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Eobert  Norres  of  Bolton.  This  Margaret  was  erroneously  styled 
by  Sir  Isaac  Heard,  "heiress  of  EobertNorres ;"  but  a  recent  entry  in  the  College  of 
Arms  has  discovered,  and  rectified  the  error.—  Norf.  viii.  Coll.  Arm. 

The  mesne  Manor  of  Morleys  passed  in  marriage  with  Anne,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Thomas  Leyland  Esq.  to  Edward,  second  son  of  Thurstan  Tyldesley  of  Wardley, 
about  the  year  1560.  He  was  younger  brother,  in  half  blood,  of  Thomas  Tyldesley  of 
Wardley,  and  had  the  Estate  in  Tyldesley,  hereditary,  from  the  time  of  Henry  III.  or 
John ;  and  the  Deputy  Forestership  and  Lodge  of  Myerscough,  which  ha  held  under 
VOL.  II.]  B  B 


18G  ilotttui 

Trustees;]  by  Mr.  Richard  Bradshaw  of  Pennington,  51  p.[er] 
an.[num,]  to  be  divided  among  20  poor  People  in  Pennington, 
[by  Will  dated  28th  April  1681.] 

The  Rent  charge  of  101  p.[er]  an.[num,]  given  by  Travis 
[Travers,]  found  by  Verdict,  an  [no]  1627.  MS.  Hulm,  98,  A. 
16,  50. 

Richard  and  Katherine  Spakeman,  in  1673,  £20;  Katherine 
Spakeman,  in  1679,  £10;  Matthew  Lythgoe,  in  1679,  £50,  for 
the  Poor  of  Bedford;  George  Hampson,  in  1666,  to  the  Poor 
of  West-Leigh,  £10;  Jane  Heywood,  in  1669,  £20;  William 
France,  in  1709,  Land  in  West-Leigh,  to  be  laid  out  in  Cloth; 
William  Hart,  in  1716,  £20;  Sir  Geoffrey  Shakerley,  Knt. 
£2.  3s.  4d. ;  Edward  Burron,  £3.  10s. ;  all  to  the  Poor  of  West- 
Leigh. 


<&f)ap.$at.  S^e^,1   Certified]  371  •  19*  •  08*, 

8,Ugm.  vSSSt  viz-  SILIO8,  Rent  of  2  Estates  in  Til- 

syn.A.  o.  i.  o.  desley,  [inl  Leigh  Par.  fish,]  left  by  Adam  Mort,  Founder  of  ve 

Pr.Tri.  0.  2.   0.  *7LJ  •  * 

Chap. [el;]  101,  Rent  Charge,  given  by  Tho.[mas]  Mort;  21-15S, 
[by]  Anne  Mort ;  10s,  rent  of  a  Tenem1  in  Astley ;  6s,  given  by 
Jane  Starkey.  Ded.[uct]  Proc.  [uration,]  1s -4d. 

the  Duchy.  He  was  great-grandfather  of  Sir  Thomas  Tyldesley,  Major- General  in  the 
army  of  Charles  II.  who  inherited  these  three  properties,  and  died  in  the  year  1651. 
His  son  and  heir,  Edward  Tyldesley  Esq.  aged  twenty-nine  years,  in  the  year  1664 
demised  his  Tyldesley  Estate  for  sale,  to  pay  his  debts,  Sept.  llth  in  the  26th  Charles 
II.  and  on  the  26th  of  August  1675  the  Trustees  conveyed  to  Edward  Gathorne  and 
Richard  Fox,  and  the  assigns  under  a  subsequent  mortgage  to  Lord  Willoughby  of 
Parham,  conveyed  to  Mr.  Thomas  Johnson  of  the  Acres  in  Bolton-le-Moors,  great- 
grandfather of  the  present  owner,  George  Ormerod  Esq.  D.C.L.  of  Tildesley,  and  of 
Sedbury  Park  in  the  county  of  Gloucester.  The  Hall  is  now  merely  a  farm  house. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Stephen.     Value  in  1834,  £126.     Registers  begin  in  1760. 

Astley  was  a  reputed  mesne  Manor,  and  claimed  as  such  by  Leyland  of  Morleys  ; 
but  this  was  extinguished  by  Radcliffe  of  Wimersley,  temp.  Elizabeth.  —  See  Ducat. 
Lane.  The  real  Manor,  which  is  in  every  respect  maintained,  (notwithstanding  the 
statement  in  Baines,  vol.  i.  p.  600,)  is  a  dependency  of  the  Barony  of  Halton  in  the 
county  of  Chester,  and  was  held  by  a  branch  of  the  Tildesleys  before  the  reign  of 


Heanerg  of  flawing  ton.  187 

A  new  house  [was]  built  for  ye  Curate  about  1710,  by  Contrib. 
[utions,]  chiefly  of  Mr.  Mort. 

This  Chap,  [el]  was  built  by  Adam  Mort  of  Tildsley,  Lord  of  ye 
Manour  of  Astley,  was  consecrated  an.  [no]  1631,  and  dedicated  to 
St.  Stephen.  Reg. \ister ^\  p.  413. 

[The]  Curate  [was]  chosen  by  Tho.  [mas]  Mort,  [the]  Vicar  of 
Leigh,  and  [the]  Vicar  of  Dean,  an.  [no]  1702.  V.[ide]  Certif. 
\icate~]  of  Election.  Pap.  Reg. 

An.  [no]  1722,  it  was  augm.  [ented]  by  Mr.  Rich.[ard]  Atherton 
and  Mr.  Sam.  [uel]  Hilton,  who  gave  1001  each. 

1  Warden. 

is  a  School  founded  by  Adam  Mort,  who,  by  his  Will 
[dated  the  19th  of  March,]  an.  [no]  1630,  left  to  Trustees 
some  lands,  now  let  for  71-0s-0d  p.  [er]   an.  [num,]  for  teaching 

Edward  III.  when  it  passed  from  that  family  to  Robert  Radcliffe  of  Radcliffe,  and 
thence  to  Radcliffe  of  Wimersley.  William  Radcliffe  of  Wimersley  (whose  Inquisi- 
tion was  taken  in  the  3d  Elizabeth,)  settled  it  on  his  half  sister,  Anne,  wife  of  Sir 
Gilbert  G-erard,  who  conveyed  it  to  Adam  Mort  of  Dam  House  in  Tyldesley,  between 
the  years  1606  and  1609.  Thomas  Mort  of  Dam  House,  who  died  in  the  year  1734, 
s.p.  conveyed  it  to  his  cousin,  Thomas  Sutton,  coheir  (along  with  Froggatt)  of  the 
Morts  of  Peel  in  Little  Hulton,  and  subsequently  of  Mort  of  Dam  House  also ;  and 
these  interests  afterwards  united  in  Mr.  Froggatt,  whose  heiress,  Sarah,  (sister  of  the 
late  Thomas  Sutton  Mort  Froggatt  Esq.)  is  wife  of  Colonel  Malcolm  Ross,  now  resi- 
dent at  Dam  House. 

This  Chapel  was  founded  by  Adam  Mort  of  Dam  House  Gent,  in  consideration  of 
the  inhabitants  being  "very  rude,  and  ignorant  of  good  things."  The  founder  devised 
to  Trustees  a  messuage  and  lands  of  the  yearly  value  of  £18,  for  the  maintenance  of 
a  Preaching  Minister,  and  gave  the  power  of  nominating  the  Ministers  to  his  son, 
Thomas  Mort,  with  a  direction  that  he  should  appoint  some  method  for  the  due 
nomination  of  Ministers  after  his  death ;  but  if  he  failed  to  do  so,  that  the  house- 
holders and  heads  of  families  in  Astley,  should  nominate. 

The  founder  died  in  the  year  1630;  and  his  son,  on  the  3d  of  August  1631, 
resigned  by  Deed  all  his  right,  title,  and  interest,  on  behalf  of  himself,  and  his  heirs, 
in  the  Chapel,  to  John,  Lord  Bishop  of  Chester,  and  died  without  appointing  any 
method  for  the  nomination  of  the  Ministers.  Hence  violent  disputes  and  turbulent 
proceedings  have  sometimes  arisen  respecting  the  choice  of  Ministers, — the  Bishop  of 
Chester,  the  Vicar  of  Leigh,  and  the  Householders  of  Astley,  being  the  respective 
claimants.  After  much  litigation,  the  Court  of  King's  Bench  decided  in  the  year 


188  Jiotitta 

poor  Children  in  ye  Neighbourhood;  51  p.[er]  an.[num]  more, 
was  given  an. [no]  1711,  by  Tho.[mas]  Mort  Esq.;  and  6s  p.[er] 
an.[num]  more,  for  Feuell,  an.  [no.]  1713.  [The  origin  of  these 
payments  was  unknown  to  the  Charity  Commissioners,  as  appears 
by  their  19th  Report,  p.  134.] 

The  Master  is  Elected  by  all  ye  Housekeepers  in  Astley,  and  ye 
heir  male  of  ye  said  Adam  Mort,  (whose  voice  is  equall  to  six,)  and 
such  of  his  kindred  or  blood  as  have  any  lands  in  Astley,  wth  ye 
advice  of  some  of  ye  neighbouring  Clergy.  The  Writings  are  in  ye 
hands  of  ye  sd  Tho.[mas]  Mort,  an.  [no]  1718. 

V.[ide]  Nomination]  an.  [no.]  1690.     Pap.  Reg. 

Cfjarttto*.  eft  to  ye  Poor  of  Astley  an.  [no]  1630,  by  Adam  Mort,  51 

p.[er]  an.[num,]  wth  a  Discretionary  power  in  his  Trustees 

to  deduct  20s  p.[er]  an.[num]  for  other  TownshP8,  and  15s  p.[er] 

an.[num]  is  deducted;  by  J.  Parkinson,  I1 -4s  p.[er]   an.[num;J 

1824,  that  the  right  of  appointing  the  Minister  was  in  the  Vicar  of  Leigh,  and  not  in 
the  Householders, — and  thus  gave  judgment  in  favour  of  the  Bishop  of  Chester. 

"  Half  of  the  Tithes  of  Astley  in  Leigh  are  recd  (A.D.  1650,)  by  Adam  Mort,  and 
worth  £12  per  ann.  £10  of  wch  is  pd  to  the  Poor  of  Astley  as  a  gift,  as  appears  by 
suff*  convey8  made  by  his  grandfather,  Mr.  Adam  Mort,  late  of  Tildesley.  The  other 
part  of  the  sd  Tithes  is  recd  by  John  Grest  of  Astley,  leased  to  him  for  21  years,  by 
Sir  Tho.  Tildesley,  dated  20  Mar.  14  Car.  worth  £15  per  ann.  The  Tithes  of  pig, 
goose,  hemp,  and  flax,  are  enjoyed  by  Ralph  CHllibrand  of  Astley  Grent.  worth  10s. 
per  ann.  A  Chapel  in  Astley  was  founded  and  erected  with  all  manner  of  materials  at 
the  proper  costs  and  charges  of  Adam  Mort,  decd,  and  so  maintained  during  his  life ; 
and  since  his  decease  by  Adam  Mort,  his  grandchild  and  heir.  Mr.  Tho.  Crompton, 
a  very  honest  Minr,  (only  he  kept  not  the  last  Fast,)  hath  for  his  salary  £16  a  year, 
out  of  a  Ten'  called  Hope  house,  and  out  of  half  of  anor  Tenem'  called  Hudman's 
house  in  Tildesley,  form1''  purchd  and  given  by  the  Founder  towards  the  mainte  of  the 
Minr  of  Astley,  so  long  as  such  Minr  shd  be  appointed  and  recomd  by  the  sd  Mr.  A. 
Mort  and  his  heirs ;  and  so  Mr.  Crompton  came  in  by  the  approval  of  Mr.  Ad.  Mort, 
and  had  £40  per  ann.  paid  by  the  Agents  for  Sequest"  within  Derby  Hundred,  for  3 
or  4  years  last  past ;  but  it  is  not  paid  unto  him  now,  for  what  reason  we  know 
not."  —  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

In  the  year  1732  the  Chapel  and  School  were  further  endowed,  amongst  other 
charities,  by  Thomas  Mort  of  Dam  House  Esq.  with  a  moiety  of  the  Tithes  of 
Astley. 

In  the  year  1760  the  old  Chapel  was  taken  down,  and  a  new  and  enlarged  one  built 


Heanerg  of  SSterington.  189 

by  Anne  Parre,  (in  1707,)  2001;  Thos  Stockton,  and  Oliver  Whal- 
ley,  51  each;  Edw.  [ard]  (John?)  Burron,  51 . 10s.  [The]  Int.  [erest] 
to  [be  paid  to]  ye  Poor. 


—  ATHERTON.     Certif. 

[ied]  an. [no]  1705,  21  •  15s  .  Od  p[er]  Syn.  oo.oa.oo. 

an.[num,]  v.[ide]  Pap.  Reg.;  but  Certif. [ied]  an. [no]  1717,  by  TrL  ° 
ye  Vicar  of  Leigh  y1  nothing  certain  belongs  to  it  that  he  knows 
of,  but  he  hath  heard  y*  ab*  21-10S  p.  [er]  an.  [mini]  was  given  by 
Dame  Mort,  formerly.  It  was  built  (as  he  hath  been  informed) 
about  1645,  by  ye  then  Lord  of  Buisy  and  his  Tenants,  they  build- 
ing ye  Body  of  ye  place,  and  he  the  Chancell.  He  believes  it  was 
never  Consecrated,  and  y*  it  hath  alwayes  been  possessed  by  Pres- 
byterians, who,  wn  ye  Vicar  comes  to  officiate,  quit  ye  place, 

by  the  Landowners,  when  the  Living  was  augmented  by  Mr.  Froggatt.      The  Chapel 
was  again  enlarged  in  the  year  1847. 

Of  this  family  was  Adam  Mort  Gent,  probably  second  son  of  the  Founder,  named 
in  his  Will,  a  Freeman  of  Preston,  and  admitted  a  Member  of  the  Drapers'  Company 
in  the  year  1636,  having  served  his  apprenticeship  in  Drapery.  He  was  elected  Mayor 
of  the  Borough  in  the  year  1642,  and  was  fined  one  hundred  marks  for  refusing  to 
serve  the  office.  He  was  killed  at  the  siege  of  Preston,  on  the  13th  of  February  1643, 
being  an  intrepid  royalist,  and  having  declared  "  that  he  would  fire  the  town  rather 
than  surrender  it  into  the  hands  of  the  rebels,  and  that  he  would  begin  with  his  own 
house."  His  son,  a  bold  and  enterprising  youth,  was  killed  by  his  side. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  John  the  Baptist.  Value  in  1834,  £100.  Eegisters  entered  at 
Leigh. 

The  Manor  of  Atherton  in  the  time  of  King  John  was  held  by  Robert  de  Atherton, 
Sheriff  of  Lancashire,  under  the  Butlers,  Lords  of  Warrington ;  and  having  descended 
for  six  centuries,  in  an  unbroken  line  distinguished  alike  for  ancestral  rank  and 
wealth,  was  conveyed  in  the  year  1797,  by  his  descendant,  Henrietta  Maria,  eldest 
daughter  and  coheiress  of  Robert  Vernon  Atherton  Esq.  to  her  husband,  Thomas, 
second  Baron  Lilford,  whose  son,  Thomas  Atherton  Powys,  Lord  Lilford,  is  now  the 
Manorial  owner. 

The  most  important  division  of  the  Township  of  Atherton  is  Chowbent,  in  which 
this  Chapel  was  built,  according  to  Doming  Rasbotham  Esq.  (MS.  Notes  written 
in  1787,)  for  the  Tenants  and  Domestics  of  the  Atherton  family,  in  the  year  1648,  by 
John  Atherton  Esq.  and  used  by  the  Presbyterians  until  the  year  1720,  "when, 


190 


Leaving  him  a  Large  Bible  and  Com.[mon]  Prayer  Book  ready 
for  Use. 

Mr.  Atherton,  the  Lord  of  Buisy,  hath  now  taken  it  from  ye 
Dissenters,  and  hath  proposed  to  ye  Gov.[ernors]  of  ye  Q.[ueen]'s 
Bounty  to  Augment  it.  An.  [no]  1722. 

Mr.  Atherton  of  Buisy  gave  2001  tow.[ards]  Augm.  [enting] 
this  Chap,  [el]  an.  [no]  1722;  and  it  was  Consecrated  by  [the]  BP 
of  Man,  an.  [no]  1723. 


M.B.T. 

Fam 2780. 

Pap 135. 

—  150. 

Pap.M.abt.200. 
Diss.  M....       3. 

P.  2.      Q.  1. 
P.  abt.  1100  ads. 


MED.    1,   MED.   2.  —  TWO  CHURCHES 

AND  ONE  CURE.  Here  was  formerly  only  a  Chap,  [el] 
of  Ease,  belonging  to  Walton  Parish;  but  now  this 
Chap,  [el]  is  enlarged,  and  another  Church  built  called 

the  New  Church,  consecrated  [June  29th]  an.  [no]  1704,  and 
*  abA'n  20° ads'  dedicated  to  St.  Peter ;  and  both  these  Churches  are  made  Rec- 

toryes  by  Act  of  Parl*.  10  and  11  of  Will,  [lam]  3.     V.[ide]  Act 

in  New  Reg.  [ister.~\ 

upon  a  change  of  principles  in  the  family,  it  was  taken  from  them,  and  consecrated  by 
Dr.  Wilson,  BP  of  Man."  For  some  curious  particulars  respecting  Mr.  James  Woods, 
and  this  Chapel,  see  Dr.  Hibbert  Ware's  Memorials  of  the  Rebellion  o/"1715,  p.  249, 
published  by  the  CHETHAM  SOCIETY. 

"  There  is  a  Chapel  in  Atherton  820  poles  5J  yards  from  Leigh.  Mr.  James  Smith 
now,  A.D.  1650,  supplies  the  Cure,  being  a  man  of  good  life  and  convn,  only  he  did  not 
observe  the  last  Fast  Day  appointed  by  Act  of  Parl'.  He  hath  £70,  out  of  Impro- 
priated  lands  within  the  Parish  of  Leigh,  by  Order  of  the  Committee  of  Plundered 
Ministers."  —  Lamb.  MSS. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Nicholas,  and  to  St.  Peter.  Value  of  first  mediety  in  1834, 
£615 ;  value  of  second  mediety  in  1834,  £615.  Registers  begin  in  1681 ;  some  at 
Chester  in  1624. 

Liverpool  does  not  occur  in  the  Domesday  Survey,  and  yet  Camden  states  that  a 
castle  was  built  here  in  the  year  1076,  by  Roger  de  Poictiers ;  but  this  was  probably 
the  castle  of  West  Derby,  which  existed  in  the  reign  of  King  John.  To  this  monarch 
is  ascribed  the  foundation  of  the  castle  of  Liverpool,  by  the  Mersey,  which  was  dis- 
mantled in  the  year  1659,  and  its  site  granted  on  lease,  on  the  5th  of  March  1705, 
by  Queen  Anne,  as  Duchess  of  Lancaster,  to  the  Corporation  of  Liverpool,  who 
demolished  the  then  remaining  ruins  of  the  castle ;  and  in  the  year  1714  the  King 


IDrancnj  of  <!£larnngton.  191 

The  old  Chap,  [el]  is  called  the  Parochiall  Chap. [el]  of  our  Lady 
and  St.  Nicholas.  The  additionall  building  of  this  Chap,  [el]  was 
made  by  Order  granted  an.  [no]  1718.  Reg.\ister~\  B.  [oo&,]  4. 

The  two  Rectours  of  these  medietyes  are  to  have,  by  Act  of 
Parl*,  1001  p.  [er]  an.  [num]  each,  wthout  any  deduct,  [ion,]  assessed 
upon  Houses,  and  are  to  divide  ye  Duty  and  the  Surp.  [lice]  Fees 
betw. [een]  them:  but  upon  ye  Rect.[or]  of  Walton's  death,  the 
Tythes  of  this  TownsP  are  to  goe  to  ye  Corp.  [oration]  in  ease  of  ye 
Assessm*  upon  Houses.  Val.  [ue]  601  p.  [er]  an.  [num.] 

The  Patronage  (wch  was  purchased  of  Ld  Molineux,  Patron  of 
Walton,)  is  by  ye  Act  vested  in  [the]  Mayor  and  Alderm.[en,] 

gave  the  Corporation  the  land  as  a  site  for  St.  George's  Church.  In  the  year  1229 
Henry  III.  granted  a  Charter  by  which  he  constituted  Liverpool  a  Free  Borough, 
with  a  guild  merchant,  and  liberties  of  toll,  passage,  stallage,  customs,  and  the  privi- 
leges conferred  by  preceding  Charters.  In  the  year  1252  William  de  Ferrers,  Earl 
of  Derby  of  the  first  line,  is  supposed  to  have  built  "  the  Tower"  as  a  Watch  station 
for  the  Lancashire  coast ;  and  about  the  year  1360  it  passed  with  Isabella,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Sir  Thomas  de  Lathom  to  Sir  John  Stanley,  who,  in  the  year  1405, 
obtained  a  Licence  from  Henry  IV.  to  fortify  his  house  at  Liverpool,  which  he  had 
rebuilt,  with  embattled  walls.  This  Tower  continued  for  several  ages  the  occasional 
residence  of  the  Derby  family ;  but  was  entirely  removed  in  the  year  1819. 

In  the  reign  of  Edward  III.  "  the  Chapel  of  our  Lady  and  of  St.  Nicholas,"  was 
built  by  John  of  Gaunt,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  to  celebrate  masses  for  the  souls  of  him- 
self and  his  ancestors,  and  to  make  one  yearly  obit  for  his  soul.  At  this  time,  Liver- 
pool was  a  Chapelry  in  the  Parish  of  Walton,  and  is  so  named  in  the  year  1327,  when 
the  Vicarage  of  Walton  was  ordained.  In  the  year  1361  a  burial  ground  was  annexed 
to  the  Chapel  of  St.  Nicholas,  which  had  probably  been  rebuilt  about  that  time,  as  it 
was  then  consecrated. 

There  were  four  Chantries  here  at  the  Dissolution  in  the  year  1548.  The  Chantry  of 
St.  Nicholas,  founded  by  John  of  Gaunt ;  the  Chantry  of  the  High  Altar,  founded  by 
Henry,  Duke  of  Lancaster  K.G.  who  died  in  the  year  1360 ;  the  Chantry  of  St.  John, 
founded  by  John  de  Liverpool,  probably  the  same  individual  who  was  Burgess  in 
Parliament  for  West  Derby,  in  the  19th  Edward  II.  for  the  souls  of  his  ancestors ; 
and  the  Chantry  of  St.  Katherine,  founded  by  the  Will  of  John  Crosse,  dated  the 
15th  of  May  1515,  to  celebrate  there  for  his  soul  and  to  keep  one  yearly  obit,  to 
distribute  3s.  4d.  to  the  Poor,  and  to  keep  a  School  of  Grammar,  free  for  all  children 
of  the  name  of  Crosse,  and  other  poor  children.  Another  Chapel  was  built  by  the 
Moores  of  Moore  Hall,  and  was  their  ancient  burial  place  for  centuries ;  and  Sir 
Edward  Moore  reverently  says,  in  the  year  1633,  "  I  value  it  at  the  price  of  the  best 
Lordship  I  have."  —  Tfo  Moore  Mental,  p.  13. 


192  fiotttta 

such  as  have  been  Aldermen  or  Bailiffs,  Peers,  and  ye  Com.  [mon] 
Councill,  for  ye  time  being :  But  it  not  being  said,  '  by  the  major 
part  of  ym/  and  a  dispute  happening  upon  it,  betw.  [een]  ye  BP  and 
ye  Town,  another  Act  was  obtained,  wth  ye  consent  of  ye  Bp,  in  wch 
these  words  are  added. 

An.  [no]  1675,  1  Warden,  [and]  1  Assist,  [ant.] 

ere  is  a  Public  School,  the  Foundation  of  wch  is  unknown. 
51  .  13s  •  6d  p.  [er]   an.  [num]  was  given  to  it  by  Q,.  [ueen] 

Leland,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  writes  of  Liverpool,  "  Lyrpole,  alias  Lyver- 
poole,  a  pavid  toun,  hath  but  a  Chapel.  Walton  a  iiii  miles  not  far  from  the  Se  is  a 
Paroche  Chirch.  The  King  hath  a  Castelet  there,  and  the  Erie  of  Darbe  a  stone 
howse  there.  Irisch  Marchauntes  cum  moch  thither,  as  to  a  good  Haven.  Good 
Marchandiz  at  Lyrpole,  moch  Yrisch  Yarn  that  Manchester  men  do  by  ther."  —  Itin. 
vol.  vii.  fo.  50,  p.  44. 

Camden,  in  the  year  1586,  speaks  of  the  town  as  "  more  famous  for  its  beauty  and 
populousness  than  for  its  antiquity ;"  and  such  was  its  importance  in  the  year  1626, 
that  the  Burgesses  were  invested  with  all  the  functions  of  a  Corporate  Body  in  that 
year. 

"  Saturday,  June  22,  1650.  In  the  Town  and  Borough  of  Liverpool  within  the 
Parish  of  Walton,  there  is  an  antient  Parochial  Chapel  called  Liverpool  Church,  and 
neither  Parsonage  nor  Vicarage  thereunto  belonging.  Mr.  John  Hogg,  a  godly,  pain- 
ful Minr,  supplies  the  Cure  there,  and  came  in  by  the  election  of  the  Mayor  and  Com- 
mon Council,  and  receives  for  his  salary  the  benefit  of  all  the  Tithes  growing  and 
issuing  within  the  Liberties  and  precincts  of  the  said  Town,  by  an  Order  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Plundered  Ministers,  worth  £75  per  ann.  He  also  has  £10  from  the  Rec- 
tor of  Walton,  and  the  ancient  yearly  allowance  of  £4.  15s.  from  the  Receiver  of  the 
late  King's  Revenues,  fourth  of  the  Publique  receipt  of  the  same  Revenues,  save 
that  Mr.  Hogg  pays  out  of  the  Tithe  of  Liverpool,  £11.  10s.  to  Dr.  Clare's  wife, 
according  to  Order  of  the  Hon.  Com.  of  Plundered  Ministers.  The  said  Parochial 
Chapel  is  far  remote  from  any  other  Church  or  Chapel,  and  is  fit  to  be  made  a  Parish 
of  itself."  —  Part.  Inq.  taken  at  Wigan,  MSS.  Lamb.  Libr.  vol.  ii. 

In  the  year  1699,  Liverpool  was  constituted  an  independent  Parish,  by  an  Act  of 
the  10th  and  llth  William  III.  entitled  "  An  Act  to  Enable  the  Town  (or  Corpora- 
tion) of  Liverpool,  in  the  Co.  Pal.  of  Lancaster  to  build  a  Church,  and  endow  the  same, 
and  for  making  the  same  Town,  and  liberties  thereof,  a  Parish  of  itself,  distinct  from 
Walton."  This  new  Church  was  St.  Peter's,  and  £400  was  raised,  by  an  assessment, 
towards  its  erection.  At  the  same  time,  two  joint  Rectors  of  the  Parish  were 
appointed,  both  under  the  patronage  of  the  Corporation ;  and  it  was  directed  that 
£110  should  be  levied,  in  quarterly  payments  from  the  Parishioners,  for  their  annual 
support,  in  the  same  manner  that  the  London  Clergy  are  maintained.  This  was  the 


i)  of  t&ttmmgton.  193 

Eliz.[abeth.]  The  Corp.  [oration]  names  the  Master,  and  allow 
him  351  p.[er]  an.[uum]  more,  obliging  him  to  give  101  p.[er] 
an.  [num]  out  of  it  to  an  Usher. 

Here  is  likewise  a  fine  Charity  School  built. 

small  Legacyes  [are  left]  to  y6  Poor,  but  [are]  not  paid  CfjartttoS. 
to  ye  Churchw.  [ardens]  to  distribute. 

dawn  of  a  new  era  in  the  prosperity  of  Liverpool,  which  has  continued  to  flow  on 
without  recession,  until  Liverpool  has  outstript  every  other  out-port  in  the  kingdom. 

In  the  year  1778  Dr.  Ducarel  records  that  in  the  town  of  Liverpool  "here  are  four 
Churches,  all  in  the  gift  of  the  Corporation,  viz.  S.  Nicholas,  Rect.  the  old  Church  S. 
Peter,  Eect.  consecrated  1703.  S1  George,  Eect.  consecrated  1732,[  ?]  and  S.  Thomas 
the  Apostle,  Rect.  consecrated  1750.  —  See  an  Act  10  Wm  III.  Parl.  1,  Sess  1 ;  and 
another  Act  1  Geo.  1.  S'  George's  Church  was  built  by  Act  of  Parl.  1  Geo.  1 ; 
S1  Thomas,  21  Geo.  2 ;  S'  Paul's,  2  Geo.  3 ;  and  another  by  the  same  Act,  is  now 
(1778)  building,  intended  to  be  called  St.  John's.  Besides  the  Churches  of  St.  Ann, 
and  S1  James,  lately  built  by  private  Acts  of  Parl',  and  two  private  Chapels,  one  cal- 
led S'  Mary,  the  other  ....  not  yet  consecrated. — Ducarel's  Repertory  Lamb. 
Libr. 

After  the  Dissolution  of  Chantries,  a  stipend  of  £5.  13s.  4d.  was  appropriated  to 
the  Master  of  the  Grammar  School  founded  by  John  Crosse,  who  had  given  lands  in 
Liverpool  in  the  year  1515  to  maintain  a  Mass  Priest  as  Schoolmaster ;  and  by  Let- 
ters Patent  dated  the  30th  of  October  1565,  it  was  appointed  that  the  Chapel  of 
Liverpool  should  continue,  and  that  the  then  Incumbent  should  serve  there,  and  have 
for  his  wages  £4.  17s.  5d.  yearly.  And  Queen  Elizabeth  authorised  the  Burgesses  of 
Liverpool,  and  their  successors,  by  the  txlvice  and  assent  of  the  Bishop  of  Chester,  to 
nominate  a  person  to  be  Minister  in  the  said  Chapel,  and  a  discreet  and  learned  per- 
son to  be  Schoolmaster  of  the  Grammar  School  in  Liverpool ;  and  the  Queen's 
Receiver  of  the  Duchy  was  authorised  to  pay  the  stipends,  during  her  Majesty's 
pleasure. 

This  School  was  discontinued  in  the  year  1803  ;  and  in  the  year  1825,  the  Corpo- 
ration built  two  National  Schools,  each  capable  of  containing  six  hundred  children, 
at  an  expense  of  upwards  of  £12,000 ;  and  salaries  are  paid  to  the  Masters  and  Mis- 
tresses amounting  to  about  £400  a-year. 


VOL.  II.]  C  C 


194 


ilotitia 


Diss 


about  1601  p.[er]  an. [num.] 

Patron,  Mr.  Fleetwood  of  Penwortham.     The  Chappell 
of  Meoles  "  cum  omnibus  pertinentiis"  was  given  to  ye 
Mon.  [astery]  of  Penwortham,  wch  was  a  Cell  to  Eves- 
ham.     V.[ide]  Dug.  [dale's]  Mon.  [asticon,']  v.  1,  p.  360. 

An.[no]  1300,  Patron,  [the]  Ab.[bot]  of  Eresham.  MS.  Hulm. 
95,  /.  11,  ex  Cartul.  Ep.  Cov.  et  Litchf. 

An.  [no]  1537,  [the]  Mon. [astery]  of  Evesham  presented. 
V.[ide]  Institution]  B.[ook,]  1,  p.  44. 

An.  [no]  4  and  5  Ph.  [ilip]  and  Mar.  [y,]  John  Fleetwood  Esq. 
presented  as  true  and  originall  Patron.  Ib.  p.  50. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Cuthbert.  Value  in  1834,  £844.  Registers  of  Baptisms  begin 
in  1594,  and  of  Burials  and  Marriages  in  1600. 

At  the  Domesday  Survey  three  Thanes  held  Mele  for  three  Manors.  The  district 
now  called  North  Meols  afterwards  fell  to  the  Barons  of  Penwortham,  and  in  the 
reign  of  Richard  I.  Hugh  Bussell  gave  to  Richard  Fitz  Hutred,  or  Uctred,  the  whole 
of  Normoles,  which  grant  John,  Earl  of  Morton,  confirmed.  Robert  de  Meales  was 
the  son  of  Fitz  Hutred,  and  direct  ancestor  of  Richard  de  Aghtou  of  Meales,  living 
in  the  year  1377.  On  the  death  of  John,  son  of  Sir  Richard  Aghton,  without  issue,  in 
the  4th  Edward  VI.  the  Estates  passed  to  his  two  sisters  and  coheiresses,  of  whom 
Elizabeth  married  John  Bold,  and  died  in  the  32d  Elizabeth;  and  Johanna,  the 
elder,  married  Barnaby  Kytchin,  who  acquired  the  moiety  of  the  Manor  of  North 
Meols,  and  died  without  male  issue,  in  the  year  1605 ;  and  his  daughter  and  co- 
heiress, married  Hugh,  a  natural  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Hesketh  of  Ruflbrd,  and  brought 
him  the  moiety  of  the  Manor,  which  descended  to  Bold  Fleetwood  Hesketh,  who 
died  in  July  1819,  and  by  Will  dated  the  21st  of  May  1810,  devised  the  same  to  his 
brother,  Robert  Hesketh  Esq.  who  died  in  March  1824,  having  by  Will  dated  the 
23d  of  April  1821,  devised  it  to  his  widow,  and  the  Rev.  Edward  South  Thurlow, 
Rector  of  Houghton-le-Spring,  in  Trust,  for  his  son  and  heir,  Sir  Peter  Hesketh 
Fleetwood  Bart.  The  other  moiety  having  descended  to  Peter  Bold  of  Bold  Esq. 
he,  by  Will  dated  the  13th  of  December  1757,  settled  it  upon  his  eldest  daughter 
and  coheiress,  Anna  Maria  Bold,  on  whose  death,  unmarried,  in  the  year  1813, 
it  descended  to  Peter,  son  of  Thomas  Patten  Esq.  and  his  wife,  Dorothea  Bold, 
sister  of  Anna  Maria,  as  tenant  in  tail  male,  on  which  event  Colonel  Patten 
assumed  the  additional  surname  of  Bold.  He  married  Mary,  sister  of  Thomas 
Parker  of  Astle  Esq.  May  22d  1790,  and  died  on  the  17th  of  October  1819,  leaving 
four  daughters  his  coheiresses,  and  having,  by  his  Will  dated  the  15th  of  March  1814, 
charged  an  annuity  of  £3,500  on  the  Manor,  for  his  widow,  and  having  devised 
the  fee  to  his  eldest  daughter,  Mary  Patten  Bold,  who  afterwards  married  his  High- 
ness Prince  Eustace  Sapieha,  of  the  Russian  Empire,  and  dying  in  December  1824, 


Bsatteri?  of  ^Harrington.  195 

Towns,  [hips,]  2.     Northmeals  and  Birkdale.     The  first  is  divi-  SToUms. 
ded  into  8  parts  or  villages,  viz.  Churchtown,  Marshside,  Higher 
Blowick,  Lower  Blowick,  New-row,  The  Hoes-houses,  Crossens, 
the  Banks. 

No  Hall,  but  N.[orth]  Meals,2  bel.  [onging]  to  Rob.[ert]  Hes- 
keth  Esq. 

3  Church w.  [ardens,]  2  of  wch  serve  for  N.[orth]  Meals,  and  are 
chosen  by  ye  2  Lords  [of  the  Manor ;]  ye  3d  serves  for  Birkdale, 
and  is  chosen  by  [the]  Rectour. 

is  lately  built  by  ye  2  Lords  of  this  Manour,  Bold  and 
Hesketh,  a  very  handsome  School,  near  ye  Church,  there 
being  before  left  to  ye  use  of  a  School  by  ye  late  Rectour,3 
401;  by  R.[ichard]  Ball,  (in  1692,)  and  Thos  Blevin,  (in  1690,) 
201  each;  and  since,  by  R.[oger]  Hesketh  Esq.  401,  (in  1720  and 
1723;)  Mrs.  [Hannah]  Woods,  101,  (in  1720;)  and  John  Augh- 
ton,  (in  1719,)  101.  The  money  is  laid  out  upon  Land:  ye  Wri- 
[tings  are]  in  ye  hands  of  Rog.  [er]  Hesketh  Esq.  Certif.  \icate,~] 
an.  [no]  1725. 

without  issue,  the  Estate  devolved  upon  Dorothea,  the  second  daughter  of  the  said 
Peter  Patten  Bold,  who,  in  May  1820,  married  Henry  Hoghton  Esq.  afterwards  Sir 
Henry  Bold  Hoghton  Bart,  in  whose  son  it  is  now  vested. 

The  Manor  and  Lands  of  North  Meols  were  allotted  and  exchanged  between  the 
Heskeths  and  Bolds,  by  virtue  of  an  Act  of  Parliament,  in  the  year  1825. 

Warin  de  Bussell,  the  first  Baron  of  Penwortham,  conferred  the  Chapel  of  Meols 
upon  the  Abbey  of  Evesham,  and  Richard,  who  succeeded  in  the  reign  of  Henry  I. 
confirmed  his  father's  donation,  whilst  Albert,  the  third  Baron,  gave  the  whole 
Church  of  Meols,  with  all  its  appurtenances,  and  a  fourth  part  of  its  fishing.  The 
Church  is  not  mentioned  in  the  Valor  of  1291,  and  was  doubtless  included  in  Halsall, 
from  which  Parish  it  was  originally  separated.  At  the  Dissolution,  North  Meols  was 
constituted  an  independent  Parish,  and  the  present  Church  was  rebuilt  in  the  year 
1571.  The  Advowson  was  purchased  about  the  year  1553,  of  the  Crown,  along  with 
Penwortham  Priory,  by  John  Fleetwood  Esq.  and  is  now  vested  in  his  representative, 
Sir  Peter  Hesketh  Fleetwood  Bart. 

A  Brief  was  obtained  and  "two  pence  gathered  8br  6,  1734,"  at  Milnrow,  for  North 
Meols  Church,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster.  —  Register  Book. 

2  North  Meols  Hall,  a  lofty  brick  building,  contiguous  to  Church-town,  vras  the 
seat  of  the  Heskeths,  until  the  early  part  of  the  last  century.  It  is  now  a  farm- 
house. 


196  iHotttta 


Certif.[ied]   44!.05s.06d,  viz.  Vic. 
[arage] -house,  Garden,  and  Barn  [of  2  bays,]  valued 
at  61  •  10s ;  3  fields  of  Glebe  land,  being  four  acres  and 
a  half,  #;  Grasse  of  Church-yard,  5s;  Int. [erst]  of  31 
lrin:::  Sap.'  a  left  by  Jam.[es]  Berry  [of  Ormskirk,]  3s;  pens,  [ion]  from  [the] 
p|eAi|L|d!o8]  Dutchy,  given   [by  the  Crown]  in  lieu  of  Small  Tyths,   [which 
is?110*       devolved  upon  it]  upon  [the]   Dissol.  [ution]  of  [the]  Abbey  of 
PeP*dby°viL.4- Burscough,  211;   Ded.[uct]  fees,  IS'-IO;    Surp.[lice]  fees,  Itf; 

Fam goo.  Ded.  [uct]    Proc. [uration,]    3s  •  8d,    (3s  •  4d,   later    Certificate,]) 

Pap.  '."".'.  358.  101  p.  [er]  an.  [num]  was  added  by  ye  Crown  upon  a  petition  to 

—   Fam.  124.  _  ,       r      ,-.   0 

Pap. M.I.     Edw.|ard|  6. 

Diss  M  2 

p.  i.'  Q.'I.'         Patron,  [the]  Earl  of  Derby. 
pp.  *r.  Q.  MI]       [The]  Tyths  belong  to  Coll.  Charteris. 

3  It  appears  from  a  Tablet  in  the  Church,  that  in  the  year  1684  the  Rev.  James 
Starkey,  Rector,  left  £40  to  the  School,  which  is  now  conducted  on  the  National 
System;  and  the  Master  receives  from  these,  and  other  benefactions,  about  £50 
a  year. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Peter  and  St.  Paul.  Value  in  1834,  £367,  Registers  begin  in 
1557. 

Ormskirk  is  not  found  in  the  Domesday  Survey,  but  tradition  has  assigned  the 
Manor  to  Orm,  the  Saxon  proprietor  of  Halton,  who,  driven  from  his  possessions  in 
Cheshire,  settled  in  Lancashire,  and  marrying  Alice,  daughter  of  Herveus,  a  Norman, 
ancestor  of  Theobald  Walter,  obtained  large  Estates  in  this  county.  He  was  the 
probable  founder  of  the  Church,  which,  with  his  own  name,  constitutes  that  of  the 
Parish.  Robert,  son  of  Henry  de  Torbok  and  Lathom,  the  descendant  of  Orm,  gave 
the  Church  of  Ormskirk  to  his  Priory  of  Burscough,  in  the  reign  of  Richard  I.  for 
the  souls  of  King  Henry  the  younger,  John,  Earl  of  Morton,  his  own  father  and  mo- 
ther, ancestors  and  posterity.  On  the  dissolution  of  Burscough,  the  Manor  of  Orms- 
kirk was  granted  to  Edward,  third  Earl  of  Derby  K.G.  in  whose  family  it  has  ever 
since  continued. 

"  The  Church  of  Ormeschirche"  was  valued  at  £13.  6s.  8d.  in  the  year  1291,  and 
was  probably  built  shortly  after  the  Conquest.  It  has  undergone  various  mutations 
and  alterations,  and  was  nearly  rebuilt  in  the  year  1731.  It  consists  of  a  Nave, 
Aisles,  Chancel,  and  in  the  south  east  Aisle,  within  a  parclose,  is  a  Sepulchral  Chapel 
of  the  noble  family  of  Stanley,  built  in  the  year  1572.  The  Tovegr  is  heavy  and  low, 
and  is  said  to  have  been  erected  for  the  reception  of  eight  bells,  brought  from  Burs- 
cough  Priory,  on  two  of  which  formerly  were  the  dates  1497,  and  1576.  The  second 


of  Warrington.  197 

This  Church  was  given  to  ye  Priory  of  Burscough  by  the 
Founder  of  that  Mon.[astery.]  V.[ide]  supra  Mon.  [asticon.~\ 

[The]  Vicar  [was]  presented  an.  [no]  1505,  by  [the]  Prior  and 
Convent  of  Burscough.  Inst.  [itution]  B.  [ooA:,]  1,  p.  3. 

An.  [no]  1593,  there  was  a  division  of  ye  Church  into  four  parts, 
for  ye  Use  of  ye  4  Quarters  of  ye  Parish.  Reg.  [ister]  B.  [oo£,]  2, 
p.  189. 

An.  [no]  1624,  an  Award  about  Seats.     Ib.  p.  368. 

The  Church  being  not  capable  of  [containing]  Galleryes,  will 
not  hold  above  600. 

The  Parish  is  9  m.  [iles]  long  on  ye  road  betw.[een]  Wigan  and 
Meals,  and  7  m.[iles]  on  y°  road  betw.[een]  Rainsford  and 
Rufford. 

Earl  of  Derby,  who  died  in  the  year  1521-2,  bequeathed  £30  to  the  Churchwardens 
of  Ormskirk,  to  buy  a  bell  for  their  Church. 

The  Spire  attached  to  the  original  edifice  is  at  the  north-east  corner,  and  although 
partly  rebuilt  in  the  year  1790,  rests  on  an  ancient  octagonal  base.  Two  curious 
figures  of  a  very  early  date,  are  built  up  in  the  outward  wall,  under  the  east  window 
of  the  Church. 

There  were  two  Chantries  in  this  Church  at  the  Dissolution  in  the  year  1548,  one 
belonging  to  the  family  of  Scarisbrick  of  Scarisbrick,  and  now  unenclosed,  containing 
a  brass  of  a  Knight  of  the  Scarisbrick  family  temp.  Henry  VI. ;  and  the  other,  pro- 
bably founded  by  the  Bickerstafls,  now  belonging  to  the  House  of  Derby.  The  latter 
was  amply  endowed  with  lands  at  Eccleston  in  Amounderness,  and  having  been  seized 
by  the  Crown,  was  sold  to  George  Johnston,  Citizen  and  Merchant  Taylor  of  London, 
and  Edward  Bostock  of  the  same,  Gent,  who  conveyed  it  by  Deed  of  Sale,  dated  the 
26th  "of  November  1607,  to  Edward  Stanley  of  Bickerstaffe  Esq.  ancestor  of  the  pre- 
sent noble  owner. 

Ordinatio  Vicarise  p.  E.  Cov.  et  Lichf.  Epum  A.D.  1273,  Eeg.  Cart.  Eccl.  Lichf.  fol. 
291.— Sari.  MSS.  No.  4,799,  DucareVs  Sep. 

This  Vicarage  was  re-ordained  by  Roger,  Bishop  of  Coventry  and  Litchfield,  by 
Letters  dated  at  Hanworth,  the  4th  of  April  1340,  and  of  his  Consecration  the  18th, 
whereby  he  required  the  Prior  and  Convent  of  Burscough  to  confirm  to  Alexander 
de  Wakefeld,  then  Vicar  of  Ormskirk,  and  his  successors,  all  the  rights  and  per- 
quisites which  Richard  de  Conyngton,  the  last  Vicar,  enjoyed,  viz.  a  competent  manse 
and  four  acres  of  land,  as  well  as  £10  a  year  to  be  paid  by  the  Convent,  on  eight 
feast  days  named,  by  equal  portions,  and  all  ordinary  and  extraordinary  burdens  due 
from  the  said  Church,  to  be  discharged  and  borne  by  the  Priory.  —  Eeg.  Northbury, 
fol.  80,  b.  Litchf. 

The  Parishioners  "  move  the  King  for  inlarging  of  the  Vicar's  wages,"  stating  the 


198  $otttta 

Scarisbrick,2  Cross  Hall,3  and  Hurleston.4 
Cofottf.       Towns,  [hips]  6:  Ormskirk,  Bickerstaff,5  Lathom,  Skelmersdale,6 
Scarisbrick,7    [and]    Burscough,  ;8    for  wch   there   are   soe  many 
Church-wardens  chosen  by  ye  Jurours  of  each  place  at  yr  Courts. 

population  to  be  3,013,  and  on  the  4th  of  May  1550,  at  Greenwich,  the  King  granted 
£10  a  year,  as  recorded  in  the  text. 

In  the  year  1650  Ormskirk  was  returned  as  being  a  Market  Town,  with  a  Parish 
Church,  Vicarage-house,  four  acres  of  Glebe  worth  £5  per  annum ;  a  donation  of  20s. 
per  annum,  given  by  Mr.  James  Blackledge,  late  of  London,  out  of  lands  in  Latham 
in  the  possession  of  Mr.  John  Case.  Mr.  William  Dunn,  a  diligent  Preaching  Minis- 
ter, received  the  above,  and  £50  out  of  the  Sequestration  of  Derby  Hundred,  by  order 
of  the  County  Committee.  Also  £26  out  of  the  Rents  formerly  in  fee  farm  to  the 
Earl  of  Derby,  and  £51  out  of  the  King's  Revenues,  to  be  Itinerant  Preacher  within 
the  county  of  Lancaster.  The  Impropriate  Tithes  were  worth  £14  per  annum,  and 
heretofore  belonged  to  the  Earl  of  Derby,  but  were  then  sequestrated  and  received 
for  what  was  called  "  the  Publique  use."  —  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

A  Brief  was  obtained,  and  one  shilling  and  one  penny  collected  at  Milnrow  for 
Ormskirk  Church,  on  Feb.  6th  1724-5  ;  and  Galleries  were,  after  all,  added  above  the 
Aisles,  about  the  year  1729.  The  Church  will  accommodate  two  thousand  one  hun- 
dred and  four  souls. 

2  Scarisbrick  Hall  was  at  a  very  early  period  the  seat  of  the  Scarisbricks,  and  con- 
tinued in  the  male  line  until  the  last  century,  when  the  Estate  passed  with  an  heiress, 
to  Thomas  Eccleston  of  Eccleston  Esq.  who  assumed  the  name  of  Scarisbrick,  and 
dying  in  the  year  1807  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Thomas  Scarisbrick  Esq.  who  died 
without  issue,  in  the  year  1833,  when  the  Estate  passed  to  his   brother,    Charles 
Dicconson  of  Wrightington  Esq.  who  assumed  the  name  of  Scarisbrick,  and  is  the 
present  owner.     In  the  year  1814  the  house  was  modernized ;   but  is  now  under- 
going extensive  alterations  and  improvements,  from  the  designs  of  Mr.  A.  W.  Pugin. 

3  Qross  Hall  is  now  destroyed ;  but  a  farm-house  is  still  approached  by  a  double 
avenue  of  venerable  trees.     It  was  the  seat  of  Sir  James  Stanley,  son  of  George,  Lord 
Strange,  father  of  Thomas,  second  Earl  of  Derby,  and  is  the  property  of  Edward 
Stanley  Esq.  who  succeeded  his  uncle,  Colonel  Edward  Stanley,  in  the  year  1816. 

4  Hurleston  Hall,  built  in  the  reign  of  Edward  VI.  is  a  half-timbered  house,  the 
property  of  Mr.  Scarisbrick,  and  occupied  by  a  farmer. 

6  Bickerstaffe  was  reported  in  the  year  1650,  to  be  six  miles  from  the  Parish  Church, 
and  that  a  Church  ought  to  be  erected  there  at  a  place  called  the  Nearer  Hall  Croft, 
lying  near  to  Bickerstaffe  Hall.  Richard  Dukinfield  of  Ormskirk  Gent,  had  the  Corn 
Tithe  on  lease  from  the  Earl  of  Derby,  deceased,  without  paying  any  rent  at  all,  for 
the  term  of  his  wife's  life,  as  he  testified  on  oath.  Worth,  at  that  time,  £30  per 
annum. 

6  Skelmersdale  was  reported,  at  the  same  time,  to  be  four  miles  from  the  Parish 
Church,  and  that  great  necessity  existed  for  a  Chapel  being  erected  there,  where  one 


g  of  raamngton.  199 

is  a  Free  Gram,  [mar]  School,  erected  by  Hen[ry]  Grammar 
Ascroft9  an.  [no]  1614,  endowed  by  Contrib.  [utions]  of  [the] 
Inhab.  [itants]  and  neighb.  [curing]  Gent.[ry,]  wth  lands  and 
money  to  ye  sum  of  211-10s«0d  p.[er]  an.  [num.]  The  Master  is 
elected  by  ye  Feoffees,  (of  wch  [the]  E.[arl]  of  Derby  and  [the] 
Vic.  [ar]  of  Ormskirk  are  always  two.)  The  Writings  are  kept  in 
a  Chest  wch  is  lodged  wth  ye  Constable  of  ye  Town  accord,  [ing]  to 
custom. 

[There  is]  a  Gram,  [mar]  School,  [which  was]  built  for  a  Meet- 
ing-house  in  Oliver's  time,  [but  it  is]  not  endowed.  Jam.[es] 
Carr,  about  a  year  agoe  left  1001  "  to  the  Chapel  School  of  Scaris- 
brick," [the]  Int.  [erest]  to  goe  to  a  School  here  for  poor  Children, 
ye  care  of  wch  is  left  to  7  Trustees.  Certif.[ied]  an.  [no.]  1722. 

An.  [no]  1725,  a  Charity  School  [was]  built  in  Ormskirk  by 
Contrib.  [utions,]  and  Endowed  wth  2001  by  [the]  E.[arl]  of 
Derby,  [the]  Int.  [erest]  of  wch  for  teaching  12  poor  Children, 
buying  Books,  and  an  outward  habit  for  them. 

to  [the]  Poor  of  Ormskirk  by  Mr.  Peter  Aspinwall,  301;  Cljarttterf. 
bysev.[eral]  Inhab.  [itants]  of  ye  same  Towns?,  301;  [the] 
Int.  [erest]  of  both  to  buy  Flesh  :  91  p.[er]  an.  [num,]  by  Hen.[ry] 
Smith,  to  [the]  poor  of  Skelmersdale,  settled  upon  Lands  in 
Longney  in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  to  be  given  in  cloth ;  and 
S^IO8  p.[er]  an.  [num,]  by  another  person,  to  [be  applied  to]  ye 
same  use ;  [the]  Int.  [erest]  of  271,  to  Scarisbrick ;  31  •  10s  p.  [er] 

formerly  was.  The  Tithe  was  said  to  be  worth  £17  per  annum,  which  Mrs.  Margaret 
Marshall  held,  by  gift,  from  the  late  Earl  or  Countess  of  Derby,  for  the  term  of  her 
life,  without  paying  any  rent  at  all  for  the  same. 

7  Scarisbrick  Chapel  was  also  reported  to  be  three  and  a  half  miles  from  the  Parish 
Church,  and  then  newly  erected  and  built.     Mr.  Gawain  Berkeley,  "  an  able,  orthodox, 
and  godly  preaching  Minister,  and  of  good  life  and  conversation,"  had  £50  from  the 
State,  by  order  of  the  Committee  of  Plundered  Ministers.      The  Tithe  Corn  and 
Small  Tithe  were  worth  £68.  16s.  per  annum,  and  the  Hay  Tithe  £7.  4s. ;  formerly 
belonging  to  the  Earl  of  Derby,  but  then  sequestrated  for  his  delinquency.     The 
Township  was  thought  fit  to  be  made  a  separate  Parish.     This  Chapel  is  the  School 
mentioned  in  the  text. 

8  Burscough  was,  at  the  same  time,  returned  as  being  three  miles  from  any  Church, 


200  jjiotttta 

an.  [nnm ,]  upon  Land  by  Wm  Sutch,  in  1638,  for  [the]  Poor  of 
Burscough;  and  20s  p.  [ear]  an.[num,]  by  another  person,  for 
Beef;  1001,  by  James  Blackleech  of  London,  in  1631;  Bichd 
Moss,  in  1702,  Land  to  apprentice  poor  Children  in  Skelmersdale. 

^^Ti^Hlft*1  Here  was  a  Chappell  wth 
a  Curate  belong,  [ing]  to  it,  who  had  a 

small  Pension,  an. [no]  1604.  V.[ide]  Brief  Observations,]  MS. 
The  Curate  is  inducted  not  Instituted,  [and]  only  has  a  Licence 

from  the  Bishop. 

and  that  it  was  needful  that  there  should  be  a  Chapel  erected  there.  The  owners  of 
the  Tithes  and  Abbey  Lands  are  named,  and  their  respective  rights  and  possessions 
are  described,  by  the  Commissioners. — Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

9  It  appears  from  certain  proceedings  in  the  Court  of  Chancery  for  the  County 
Palatine  of  Lancaster,  that  by  an  Inquisition  taken  at  Ormskirk,  on  the  27th  of 
September  1610,  it  was  found  that  several  sums  of  money,  amounting  to  £136. 11s.  8d. 
had  been  given  by  Henry  Ascroft  Gent,  deceased,  and  divers  others,  for  the  use  of  a 
Free  Grammar  School  at  Ormskirk ;  and  on  the  28th  of  September  1612,  Thomas 
Tyldesley  Esq.  and  others,  were  empowered  to  make  orders  touching  the  government 
of  the  said  Monies  and  School.  In  September  1827,  the  School  property  produced 
an  annual  income  of  £138.  15s. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  John.    Value  in  1834,  £178.     No  Registers. 

Robert  Fitz  Henry,  founder  of  Burscough  Priory,  was  the  great-grandfather  of 
Sir  Robert  de  Lathom,  (living  in  1291,  and  ob.  in  1325,)  and  is  supposed  to  have 
been  himself  the  descendant  of  Orme,  the  Saxon  Thane  of  Halton  in  Cheshire. 
Sir  Robert  married  Katherine,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  de  Knowsley,  and 
acquired  that  Estate ;  and  his  son,  Sir  Thomas  de  Lathom,  who,  in  the  21st  Edward 
III.  was  licensed  to  impark  Knowsley,  having  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  de  Ferrers,  had  a  son,  Sir  Thomas  de  Lathom,  junr.  who  married  Joanna, 
daughter  of  Hugh  Venables,  and  had  issue  Isabella,  ultimately  his  heiress,  who  mar- 
ried Sir  John  Stanley.  In  the  8th  Richard  II.  Sir  John  succeeded  to  the  Manors  of 
Lathom  and  Knowsley,  on  the  death  of  his  wife's  brother.  —  Ormerod's  Stanley 
Legend,  8vo.  1839.  From  this  time,  Lathom  was  the  principal  seat  of  this  branch 
of  the  noble  family  of  Stanley ;  and  it  was  to  this  house,  in  the  year  1495,  that 
"King  Henrie  (VII.)  did  take  his  progresse  into  Lancastershire  the  25th  daie 
of  June,  there  to  make  merie  with  his  moother,  the  Countesse  of  Darbie,  which 
then  laie  at  Lathome,  in  the  Countrie."  —  Hollinshed's  Chronicle,  vol.  iii.  p. 
BIO.  In  the  year  1617  King  James  visited  Lathom,  on  his  progress  from  Edin- 
burgh to  London,  and  conferred  the  honour  of  Knighthood  on  several  county 
gentlemen. 


of  OUarrtngton.  201 

A  Chappell,  wth  an  Almshouse,  about  2  m.[iles]  and  £  from 
Ormskirk,  has  a  revenue  belong. [ing]  to  it,  distinct  from  ye 
Almshouse,  in  Lands,  and  Dutchy  Rents,  about  301  p.[er]  an. 
[num.  It  is]  in  ye  Gift  of  Ld  Ashburnham's  daughter,2  as 
Heiress  to  [the]  E.[arl]  of  Derby,  who  had  a  noble  seat  here. 

Newborough,  within  Latham.  Here  is  a  handsome  School,  wth 
a  house  for  ye  Master,  built  about  six  years  agoe,  (in  1714,)  by 
[the  Rev.]  Mr.  [Thomas]  Crane,  Curate  of  Winwiek,  born  at 
Newborough,  [and]  who  hath  Endowed  it  with  Lands  and  Money 
[of  the]  val.[ue]  of  IGip^er]  an.  [num.] 

[The]  Master  is  Nom.[inated]  by  Trustees  appointed  by  his 
Will,  dated  12th  June  1717,  viz.  Thomas  Hesketh  Esq.  Lord  of 
Rufford ;  Thomas  Legh  Esq.  Lord  of  Bank ;  and  Nicholas  Rigby, 
junr.  of  Harrock  Gent,  and  their  heirs ;  William  Taylor  of  Seword ; 
his  nephew,  William  Crane  of  Newborough;  and  his  cousin,  George 
Crane  of  Lathom.  Certif.\ied~\  an. [no]  1722. 

The  sieges  which  this  splendid  mansion  sustained  from  the  Republican  forces  in 
the  years  1644  and  1645,  when 

"  The  spears  of  the  North  had  encircled  the  Crown," 

and  its  gallant  defence  by  the  chivalrous  and  noble-minded  Charlotte  de  la  Tremouille, 
Countess  of  Derby,  stand  imperishably  recorded  in  British  history,  and  can  never  be 
read  without  exciting  feelings  of  the  most  lively  interest  in  behalf  of  the  Royal  cause, 
and  its  gallant  supporters.  The  heroine  was  worthy  of  her  descent  from  a  long  line 
of  "Kings,  and  of  the  cause  in  which  she  was  embarked,  and,  it  may  be  added,  the 
cause  was  worthy  of  the  heroine. 

Lathom  House  was  partly  rebuilt  by  the  ninth  Earl  of  Derby,  and  finished  by  Sir 
Thomas  Bootle,  before  the  year  1734.  It  is  an  edifice  not  unworthy  of  its  ancient 
renown,  though  in  the  Italian  style  of  architecture :  — 

"The  site,  the  spot,  now  consecrate  to  fame, — 
Time  holds  not  in  his  hand  a  more  immortal  name." 

After  the  Restoration,  Lathom  was  restored  to  its  rightful  owners.  In  the  year 
1714  the  Estate  was  transferred  in  marriage  with  Henrietta  Maria,  daughter  and 
coheiress  of  William  Richard  George,  ninth  Earl  of  Derby,  to  her  second  husband, 
John,  first  Earl  of  Ashburnham,  by  whom  it  was  sold  to  Henry  Furnese  Esq. 
and  conveyed  by  sale,  in  the  year  1724,  to  Sir  Thomas  Bootle  of  Melling  Knt.  an- 
cestor of  the  present  noble  owner,  Edward,  Lord  Skelmersdale.  —  See  MELLING, 
p.  176. 

2  Lady  Henrietta  Bridget,  sole  daughter  of  John,  third  Lord  Ashburnham,  (who  was 
created  Earl  of  Ashburnham  in  the  year  1730,  and  died  in  the  year  1736-7,)  by  his 
VOL.   II.]  D  D 


202  ilOtltta 

None  to  be  free  but  such  whose  names  are  Crane,  or  their 
mother's  name  Crane.  V.[ide]  Will  of  Tho.[mas]  Crane,  an. [no] 
1717,  in  Reg. 

[The]  Estate  [is]  now  improved  to  221  p.  [er]  an.  [num ;]  wn  it 
comes  to  301  p.  [er]  an.  [num,  the]  School  to  be  Free  to  all. 

Left  since  by  one  Holland,  1001. 

tt  Almshouse,3  by  whom  Founded  not  known,  (as  [the]  Vic. 
[ar]  certif.[ied]  an.  [no.]  1725.)  There  are  ten  persons 
belong,  [ing]  to  it,  who,  besides  convenient  Lodgings,  receive 
S^p^er]  an.  [num]  each,  yearly,  [sic-]  and  ye  Master  251  p.  [er] 
an.  [num :]  ye  profits  arise  from  Copyholds,  Lands  in  [Up]  -Hol- 
land, and  some  lands  near  Chester. 

101  p.[er]  an.  [num  was]  given  to  [the]  Poor  of  this  Towns?  by 
Pet.  [er]  Lathom,  charged  upon  Land. 

second  wife,  Lady  Henrietta  Maria  Stanley,  was  born  in  the  year  1718,  the  year  her 
mother  died,  and  died  herself,  unmarried,  on  the  8th  August  1732. 

3  In  the  year  1650  the  Commonwealth  Commissioners  reported  that  there  was  nei- 
ther Church  nor  Chapel  in  the  town  of  Latham,  but  that  Mr.  Henry  Hill,  an  orthodox 
Minister,  supplied  the  Cure  there  in  a  Chapel  within  the  Manor  House  or  Hall  of 
Latham,  "  for  the  present."  The  Commissioners  thought  that  the  Hospital  Chapel 
in  Lathom  was  very  fit  to  be  repaired  and  made  a  Parish  Church  for  the  Divine  Ser- 
vice of  Gtod.  £50  per  annum  was  paid  to  Mr.  Hill  by  Mr.  Peter  Ambrose,  Agent  for 
Sequestration.  The  Tithes  were  worth  £80  a  year,  but  were  sequestrated  owing  to 
the  delinquency  of  the  Earl  of  Derby. 

The  Chapel  of  Lathom  is  ancient  and  domestic,  and  is  attended  by  the  noble  family 
of  Skelmeradale,  their  tenants,  labourers,  and  dependants.  Divine  Service  is  performed 
twice  every  Sunday,  and  also  on  the  days  of  the  great  Festivals  and  Fasts  of  the 
Church.  It  will  contain  a  congregation  of  about  three  hundred  in  number ;  and  was, 
thirty  years  ago,  repaired  and  ornamented  by  Lord  Skelmersdale,  at  an  expence  of 
41,200.  The  Chaplain  is  called  "  the  Almoner  of  Lathom ;"  and  the  Diocesan  neither 
claims  jurisdiction  over  him  nor  the  Chapel. 

Nothing  is  known  of  the  origin  of  the  Almonry.  In  the  year  1751  there  was  a 
rent  charge  of  £25,  payable  out  of  certain  lands  in  Upholland;  and  in  the  year 
1753  Sir  Thomas  Bootle  gave,  by  Will,  £20  a  year  to  the  Charity.  There  have  been 
thirteen  pensioners  for  many  years,  although  in  Bishop  G-astrell's  time,  ten  appears 
to  have  been  the  number. 


•Dranrri?  of  ^Harrington.  203 


about  1401  p.[er]  an.[num.]  Patron, -yr.  24  oo  10 
King's  Coll.[ege,]  Cambr.  [idge,]  v.[ide]  Present.  |^;  o! is!  £ 
[ation]  from  [the]  Provost  and  Scholars  of  King's  p^T  0*13'  4 
Coll.[ege,]  an.  [no]  1558.  Institution]  B.[ook,]  i. 8ion^  °:  ••'  * 

_      KI  Fam 736. 

P-    &*•  Pap 372. 

An.  [no]  1447,  Will.[iam]  Booth,  younger  brother  of  ye  Booths 
of  Dunham,  then  (of)  Barton,  was  Rectour  of  Prescott,  and  was 
then  made  B.[ishop]  of  Litchfield,  and  afterw.  [ards]  translated  to 
York,  viz.  an.  [no]  1452.  MS.  Str.  out  of  Fuller. 

[There  are]  4  Wardens  for  Prescott  side,  viz.  Prescott,  Whiston,  Cofioni.  15. 
and  Rainhill,   one   [for]   each  townsP  in  its  turn;   Sutton,2  one; 
Eccleston  and  Rainford,  one ;  Windle  and  Parr,  one ;  the  first  of 
wch  is  named  by  [the]  Vicar,   [and]   ye  other  three  by  ye  eight 
men. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Mary.     Value  in  1834,  £893.     Registers  begin  in  1583. 

Prescot  does  not  occur  in  the  Domesday  Survey,  and  appears  to  have  been  con- 
veyed in  marriage  with  Joan,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Benedict  Gernet,  to  William 
de  Dacre,  first  Baron  Dacre  of  Gillesland,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  I.  and  the  Advow- 
son  was  held  by  Ranulph  de  Dacre,  the  second  Baron,  in  the  35th  Edward  III. ;  but 
in  the  12th  Richard  II.  it  had  become  Tested  in  John,  Lord  Nevill  of  Raby,  and 
Elizabeth,  his  wife,  daughter  and  heiress  of  William,  Lord  Latimer  K.Q-.  About  the 
year  1430  the  Manor  and  Advowson  were  in  the  possession  of  the  Crown,  in  right  of 
the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  and  were  granted  by  Henry  VI.  to  the  Provost  and  Fellows 
of  King's  College,  Cambridge,  about  the  year  1444.  In  the  27th  year  of  that  King's 
reign,  (1449,)  the  College  obtained  a  Charter  for  a  Market  at  Prescot. 

"  Appropriatio  Eccles.  Prescote  Coll.  Regal.  Cantabrig.  et  Dotatio  Vicarise  reser- 
vatis  pensionibus,  viz.  Epo  Cov.  et  Litchf.  13  sol.  4  den. ;  et  Archidiac.  Cestr.  6  sol. 
8  den.  Dat.  apud  Heywode  2  die  Oct.  A.D.  1448— Seg.  Sooth,  a  fol.  64,  ad  fol.  68,  b. 
Dotatio  Vicarise.  Dat.  in  Manerio  de  Heywode  2  die  Oct.  A.D.  1448."  —  In  Archiv, 
Coll.  Reyal.  Cantabr.  b.  V,  n.  5.  Ducarel's  Rep.  Tic.  Lamb.  Libr. 

"The  Church  of  Prestkote"  was  valued  at  £40,  in  the  year  1291. 

The  Church  was  pewed  in  the  year  1611. 

2  The  Provost  and  Fellows  of  King's  College,  Cambridge,  are  about  to  build  a 
Church  in  the  Township  of  Sutton,  and  to  constitute  it  a  distinct  Parish.     Mr.  Lodge, 
in  his  Pedigree  of  Norris  of  Speke,  has  given  ten  generations  of  Norris  of  Sutton  be- 
fore the  30th  Henry  III.  which,  on  the  moderate  computation  of  thirty  years  to  each 
life,  extends  to  one  hundred  and  twenty  years  before  the  Conquest.     It  would  be  desi- 
rable to  scrutinize  the  evidences,  on  which  such  rare  deductions  are  founded. 


204  iHotttia 

[There  are]  4  Wardens  for  ye  Chappelry  side,  viz.  Widnesse, 
one;  Bold,  one;  Cronton  and  Cuerdly,  one;  Ditton,  Sankey,  and 
Penketh,  one :  ye  first  of  wch  is  named  by  [the]  Curate  of  Farn- 
worth,  [and]  ye  other  three  by  ye  Vestry. 

Parr,3  Eccleston,4  Whiston,5  Halsnead,6  Penketh,7  [and]  Ditton.8 

(grammar  |pl|ff  l)e  Gram,  [mar]  School  here  is  supposed  to  have  been  erected 
5>fyQQ  •     <|^|g|  at  ye  charge  of  [the]  Inhab.  [itants]  and  Neighbours ;  and 

ye  Sal.[ary]   of  [the]   Master,  (viz.  lOMO8,  in  houses  and  Int. 

[erest]  of  Money,)  to  have  been  raised  by  Contributions.     The] 

Master  is   Nom.[inated]    by  4  Wardens,   yearly  elected  by   ye 

Parish. 

3  Parr  was  anciently  the  Manorial  property  of  the  Parrs,  Barons  of  Kendal,  and 
Sir  Thomas  Parr  died  seized  of  the  Manor  in  the  10th  Henry  VIII.     In  the  beginning 
part  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  the  Manor  and  Hall  of  Parr  had  passed  to  the 
family  of  Byrom  of  Byrom,  in  which  they  continued  for  several  generations.     The 
Manor  is  now  claimed  by  Charles  Orrell  Esq.  but  no  Court  is  held. 

4  Eccleston  was  at  an  early  period  in  the  family  of  the  local  name,  the  first  on 
record  being  Hugh,  grandfather  of  Robert  de  Eccleston,  living  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
III.     The  family  continued  in  possession  of  the  Estate  until  the  year  1812,  when  it 
was  sold  by  Thomas  Eccleston  Scarisbrick  Esq.  (see  Note  2,  p.  198,)  to  Colonel 
Samuel  Taylor  of  Moston,  father  of  Samuel  Taylor  of  Eccleston  and  Moston  Esq. 
Eccleston  Hall  was  rebuilt  in  1567. 

5  Whiston  Hall,  a  venerable  building,  is  now  a  farm  house.     Roger  Ogle,  of  the 
family  of  the  Barons  Ogle  of  Bothill  in  the  county  of  Northumberland,  settled  here 
in  the  21st  Henry  VII.  and  his  descendant,  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  coheiress  of 
Captain  John  Ogle,  married,  after  the  Restoration,   Jonathan   Case   of  Eredhasles, 
ancestor  of  John  Ashton  Case  Esq.  the  present  owner. 

6  Halsnead  Park  was  purchased  by  Thomas  Willis  Esq.  in  the  time  of  Charles  II. 
and  passed,  in  the  third  generation,  on  the  death  of  Daniel  Willis  Esq.  in  the  year 
1763  to  Thomas  Swettenham  Esq.  son  of  William  Swettenham  of  Swettenham  Esq. 
and  his  wife  Bertha,  daughter  of  Thomas  Willis  Esq.      Mr.  Swettenham  assumed  the 
surname  of  Willis  upon  inheriting  the  Estates  of  his  cousin,  Daniel  Willis,  and  dying 
s.p.  in  the  year  1788,  was  succeeded  in  the  Willis  possessions  by  his  distant  kinsman, 
Ralph  Earle  Esq.  who  also  assumed  the  name  of  Willis,  and  was  grandfather  of 
Richard  Willis  Esq.  the  present  owner.     The  north  front  of  the  house  was  built  in 
the  year  1727,  and  the  south  front  by  the  last  owner. 

7  Penketh  was  held  by  Jordan  de  Penket  in  the  37th  Edward  III.  under  Sir  William 
de  Boteler,  as  Roger  de  Penket  formerly  held  it.     The  Estate  passed  with  Margaret, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Richard  Buckwith  of  Penketh  Esq.  in  marriage,  to  Richard 


Oranmj  of  HUarnngton.  205 

Above  3001  of  School  Stock  was  left  long  ago,  as  certif.  [led] 
an.  [no]  1689.  Pap.  Reg. 

Here  is  a  Gram,  [mar]  School,  free  to  this  Towns?.  Sal.  [ary] 
to  [the]  Master,  101  •  10s  p.  [er]  an.  [num.] 

1001  was  given  to  it  by  Mr.  Eccleston ;  but  [the]  Int.  [erest] 
never  paid,  and  ye  money  is  thought  to  be  lost. 

An.  [no]  1626,  [An]  Inquis.[ition9  was  held]  about  misemployed 
money,  given  for  Erecting  a  School  here;  and  an  Order  [was] 
made  upon  it.  MS.  Hulm.  98,  A.  16,  42,  43. 

eft  by  Josh,  [ua]  Marrow,  (in  1708,)  4001,  for  Binding  Poor 
Apprentices:  given  by  Mr.  John  Alcock,  (in  1653,)  501; 
Mrs.  Mary  Crosse,  and  Mr.  William  Glover,  501  each ;  Mrs.  Nor- 
ris,  201;  Laurence  Webster,  101;  Mr.  Forme,  51;  Samuel  Ashton, 
(in  1689,)  4  Cottages  in  Whiston. 

Asheton,  about  the  latter  part  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  Margaret,  daughter  and 
coheiress  of  John  Asheton  Esq.  married  about  the  year  1603,  Robert  Heywood  of 
Heywood  Esq. ;  and  the  Manor  of  Penketh  was  sold  about  the  year  1630,  to  John 
Ireland  Esq.  from  whom  it  passed  to  the  Athertons,  whose  co-representative  is  Lord 
Lilford.  Penketh  Hall  is  now  a  farm-house. 

Of  this  family  was  Thomas  Penketh  D.D.  of  Oxford,  educated  an  Augustinian  at 
Warrington,  afterwards  a  Scotist  Professor  at  Padua,  and  Provincial  of  his  Order 
in  England.  He  died  in  the  year  1487.  —  See  Fuller.  Hopkinson's  MSS.  vol.  x. 
p.  135. 

8  Ditton  was  held  in  severalties,  in  the  time  of  Edward  III.  chiefly  by  the  Dittons, 
and  in  the  year  1472,  12th  Edward  IV.  Joan,  daughter  of  Robert  de  Ditton,  having 
married  Henry,  son  of  Nicholas  Blundell  of  Little  Crosby,  conveyed  the  Manor  to 
him,  which  now  belongs  to  Charles  Blundell  of  Crosby  Esq.  and  others. 

An  ancient  family  of  the  name  of  Dychefield  resided  here  for  several  centuries,  and 
occupied  the  Hall  in  the  year  1567,  and  subsequently. 

9  By  this  Inquisition,  taken  before  Bishop  Bridgeman,  William  Leigh,  B.D.  and 
William  Bispham,  at  Wigan,  on  the  2d  of  October  1627,  it  appears  that  James  Ken- 
ricke  gave  £300,  due  from  Robert  Kenricke,  by  Deed  dated  the  26th  of  November 
1597,  for  the  maintenance  of  a  Free  School  and  Chapel  in  the  Parish  of  Prestcot,  and 
decreed  that  the  School  should  be  built  in  Eccleston,  on  condition  of  Edward  Eccles- 
ton Esq.  giving  £100  and  an  acre  of  land.     During  twenty-three  years,  no  progress 
had  been  made  in  carrying  out  the  benefactor's  intentions,  when  the  School-wardens 
of  Prescot  sought  to   have  the  £300  transferred  to  their  School;    and  as  Henry 
Eccleston  Esq.  son  of  the  said  Edward  Eccleston,  refused  to  confirm  his  father's 


206  $otttta 

Here  is  an  Alms-house,  built  by  Oliver  Lyme,  (in  1707,)  and 
%.lmg*T)a\i6t,  endowed  wth  5001,  [to  be  applied]  to  ye  maintenance  of  12  poor 
people  of  this  TownsP.  The  money  is  in  ye  hands  of  Jonathan 
Case  Esq.  and  ye  Deed  of  Gift  in  [the]  Rev.  Mr.  Marsden's 
hands,  of  Walton ;  but  ye  Poor  have  yet  received  no  benefit  from 
it.  Certified]  an.  [no]  1718. 

Given  to  the  Poor  of  this  TownsP,  by  Hi.  [chard]  Holland,  (in 
CfjaritteJ.      1713^)  2501 ;   Mr.  Alcock,  501;  Mr.  Boardman,  201;  Mrs.  Elean. 
[or]  Eccleston,  1001. 


2T.  lEiLUJEN'^,1  standing  in  WINDLE. 
This  Chap,  [el]  was  formerly  possessed 
by  ye  Presbyt.  [erians,]    but   [was]    Recovered  from  ym  by  Mr. 

grant  of  the  site,  and  was  willing  that  the  School  should  be  erected  in  Prescot,  the 
Commissioners  ordered  the  School-wardens  to  prosecute  John  Kenricke  of  Rainhill, 
Administrator  of  Christopher  Kenricke,  brother  of  the  said  James,  for  the  £300,  for 
that  purpose.  A  building,  now  used  as  a  dwelling-house,  was  probably  built  for  a 
School,  in  pursuance  of  this  decree. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Helen.  Value  in  1834,  £240.  Registers  of  Baptisms  begin  in 
1713 ;  Burials,  in  1721 ;  and  Marriages,  in  1724. 

Windell  Chapel  was  returned  as  a  Chantry  in  the  year  1548.  On  the  23d  of  January 
1613,  Katherine  Doumbell,  [Domville,]  "Patroness  of  the  Chapel  of  St.  Helen,"  toge- 
ther with  James  Doumbell  Gent,  her  son  and  heir,  enfeoffed  Thomas  Eccleston,  and 
eight  others,  their  heirs  and  assigns,  with  the  Chapel,  Messuage,  and  Premises,  to 
repair  and  uphold  the  same,  and  nominate  the  Minister,  also  to  make  rules  for  the 
government  and  ordering  of  the  said  Chapel  and  Minister,  from  time  to  time ;  the 
Minister  to  read  Divine  Service  according  to  the  usage  of  the  Church  of  England ; 
and  the  feoffees  to  appoint  seats  and  forms  in  the  Chapel,  respect  being  always  had 
to  those  who  extended  bounties  and  furtherance  of  maintenance  to  the  said  Chapel  and 
Minister.  This  Deed  would  prove  that  the  Chapel  was  a  Donative ;  but  having  been 
augmented  by  the  statute  of  1st  George  I.  s.  2,  c.  10,  it  has  become  subject  to  the  visi- 
tation and  jurisdiction  of  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese,  and  if  suffered  to  remain  void  for 
six  months,  would  lapse  as  other  presentative  Livings.  There  is  no  Chapelry  attached 
to  the  Church,  and  its  duties  are  confined  within  its  own  walls,  although  Baptism 
is  administered,  and  Marriages  solemnized  in  it,  which  anomaly  led  to  an  Assize  Trial 
at  Liverpool  in  August  1847,  respecting  the  right  of  the  Incumbent  to  the  Dues  of 
the  Church,  which  were  claimed  by  the  Vicar  of  Prescot ;  but  the  case  was  referred  to 
a  higher  tribunal.  The  Trustees  act  as  Wardens,  and  repair  the  building.  With  the 


of  ^Harrington.  207 

Byrom.2  Certif.[ied]  Q7l-l&-Q6*,  viz.  I1 -10s,  out  of  Lands  in 
Widnesse;  10s,  for  a  house  let  to  H.  Turner;  S^IS"^,  [the] 
Int.  [erest]  of  1131  •  10s  left  by  sev.[eral]  persons,  of  wch  501  by  Mrs. 
Guest.  151  more  is  lost. 

This  Chap,  [el]  was  Augmented  by  Capt.  Clayton  of  Leverpool 
with  2001,  an.  [no]  1716,  who  afterwards  gave  1001  more,  and  ye 
People  contributed  801,  wth  wch  2001  from  ye  Bounty,  made  5801. 

No  Warden. 

School,  wch  stands  wthin  ye  Chap,  [el]  yard,  was  Erected  jvfyaal. 
by  John  Lion  of  Windle,  an.  [no]  1670,  who  left  30sh  p.[er] 
an.  [num]  to  it  out  of  an  Estate  in  Widnesse.  All  ye  other  Sal. 
[ary]  at  present,  (an.  [no]  1719,)  is  51  p.[er]  an.  [num,  the]  Int. 
[erest]  of  sev.[eral]  parcells  of  money  let  out  upon  doubtfull 
Security. 

benefactions  named  in  the  text  the  Trustees  purchased  in  the  year  1719  half  of  the 
Corn  Tithe  of  Pennington,  the  predial  Tithes  of  Tildesley-cum-Shakerley,  and  a 
modus  in  Bedford,  all  Townships  in  the  Parish  of  Leigh.  In  the  year  1736  a 
second  augmentation  being  made,  an  Estate  was  purchased  at  Sutton  in  the  Parish 
of  Prescot. 

It  is  supposed  that  it  was  originally  a  Chapel  dependent  upon  the  Mother  Church 
of  Prescot,  but  that  the  Patronage  was  afterwards  lost,  and  being  unimportant,  was 
not  recovered  at  the  proper  time.  It  is  now  in  the  hands  of  Trustees,  whose  right  to 
nominate  the  Incumbent  has  been  questioned  by  King's  College,  on  behalf  of  the  Vicar 
of  Prescot,  to  whom  the  small  Tithes  of  St.  Helen's  belong.  In  the  year  1650  the 
Puritan  Inquisitors  reported  that  St.  Ellen's  in  Hardshaw  within  Windle,  was  three 
statute  miles  from  the  Parish  Church,  and  that  Parr,  parts  of  Sutton  and  Eccleston, 
and  the  Township  of  Windle,  were  fit  to  be  annexed  to  St.  Ellen's,  and  made  a 
Parish.  Mr.  Richard  Mawdisley  was  the  Minister,  and  taught  at  the  said  Chapel, 
having  been  elected  by  the  free  choice  of  the  Inhabitants  "  in  the  sayd  Chappelry," 
and  had  received  for  some  time  past  £40  a  year  out  of  the  Sequestrations  of  Derby 
Hundred,  but  at  that  time  had  his  Income  "  by  the  gratuity  of  his  hearers,"  in  addi- 
tion to  £4.  12s.  4d.  the  interest  of  several  sums  given  towards  the  maintenance  of  a 
Minister  at  the  Chapel.  Upon  the  whole  he  was  deemed  a  painful  Minister,  and 
one  who  served  the  Cure  diligently  on  the  Lord's  Days ;  but  Thursday,  the  13th  of 
June,  being  a  Fast  Day,  and  a  day  of  public  humiliation,  he  did  not  observe  it.  The 
Tithe  Corn  belonged  to  King's  College,  Cambridge,  but  was  then  under  sequestration 
for  the  delinquency  of  James,  Earl  of  Derby,  to  whom  it  was  leased.  "  We  believe," 
say  the  Inquisitors,  "  that  the  Lease  is  ended."  —  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 


208  liotitta 

The  Sal.[ary]  is  sd  to  have  been  much  more,  but  ye  money 
[was]  spent  by  [the]  Presbyt.  [erian]  Feoffees,  in  a  Suit  wth  Mr. 
Byrom  about  ye  Chap,  [el.] 

In  a  Table  hung  up  in  ye  Chap,  [el]  is  found  1001  left  to  the 
School  by  one  Roughley  of  Shirdley.  V.[ide]  Ad.[judication] 
cone,  [erning]  a  Legacy  of  1001  given  to  the  School  here,  an.  [no] 
1619.  Register]  B.^ook,]  2,  p.  356. 

[The]  Master  [was]  Licensed  an.  [no]  1709,  upon  ye  Nom. 
[ination]  of  Kich.[ard]  Sadler,  Feoffee,  and  others.  V.[ide] 
Mem.[prandum\  _B.[oo£,]  and  Subs. [criptiori\  B.[ook.~\ 

Cfjarttte*.  ggj(  fjomas  2Ta»lor,  in  1684,  gave  e^lO8  a  year,  charged  on 
fpjfl  Land  in  Great  Crosby,  to  the  Poor  of  Windle ;  Richard 
Holland,  in  1707,  gave  £5  a  year,  on  Land,  to  the  Poor  of  Win- 
die  ;  [and]  Mary  Egerton,  in  1693,  gave  20s  a  year  to  Ditto. 


™™  Certified]    16L 

Fam        ra*  ^fe  16*.00d,  viz.  a  Cottage  and  2  Acres  of 

-  ....'.'."'.  470.  Land  in  Penketh,  41  ;  Rent  Charge  upon  a  House  and  Land  in 

Pap.  Fam.    35. 
Diss.  M....     2. 


was  rebuilt,  on  an  enlarged  scale,  in  the  year  1816,  when  the  Patron 
Saint  was  changed  to  St.  Mary. 

2  "  Sep.  8,  1687,  Mr.  Venables  and  his  brother  brought  Mr.  Biram  of  Prescott  to 
me,  who  desired  to  have  a  Curate  in  St.  Helen's  Chapel,  into  which  the  Presbyterians 
are  now  intruded,  which  I  promised  him  —  Mr.  Dalton."  —  Bishop  Cartwright's 
Diary,  p.  77. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Wilfred.     Value  in  1834,  £172.     Eegisters  begin  in  1538. 

Farnworth  is  in  the  ancient  Barony  of  Widnes,  which,  having  belonged  to  the 
Barons  of  Halton,  progenitors  of  the  Lascy  family,  passed  to  the  Dukes  of  Lancaster, 
by  whom  it  was  conveyed  to  the  Crown.  The  Manor  of  Widnes  was  leased  in  the 
9th  Elizabeth,  to  Francis  Alforde,  but  has  long  been  held  of  the  Crown  by  the  Chol- 
mondeley  family,  and  is  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Marquess  of  Cholmondeley. 

The  Chapel  of  Farnworth  is  of  considerable  antiquity,  and  although  now  Parochial 
was  originally  a  Chapel  of  Ease  to  Prescot.  It  was  in  existence  in  the  year  1430,  but 
was  then  dilapidated,  and  required  reparation  ;  so  that  an  earlier  era  must  be  assigned 
for  its  foundation. 

The  present  Church  appears  to  have  been  principally  built  in  the  reign  of  Henry 


fl  of  ^Harrington,  209 

Upton,  I1;  4  acres  and  £  of  Land  purchased  for  [the]  Min. 
[ister,]  4!.10S;  left  by  Mr.  Woods,  6s;  House,  built  for  [the] 
Min.[ister]  by  ye  Chappelry,  31;  Surp.[lice]  fees,  41.  Besides  wch 
the  Curate  has  241-13s-74d,  wch  is  said  not  to  be  perpetuall,  viz.  a 
Common,  enclosed  by  [the]  Inhabitants]  of  Widnesse,  and 
Granted  for  32  years,  by  [the]  E.[arl]  of  Rivers,  101;  Contrib. 
[utions]  from  Bold,  5l'5s;  Kewarby,  3J-5S;  Crouton,  31;  Pens. 
[ion]  from  [the]  Crown,  3l-&-7$A. 

VIII.  The  Bold  Chapel,  within  the  Church,  contains  numerous  monuments  to  the 
memory  of  the  ancient  and  knightly  family  of  Bold,  which  had  long  furnished  the 
State  with  brave,  and  the  Church  with  good  men. — See  Gents.  Mag.  part  ii.  pp.  105, 
198.  1824. 

In  the  year  1650  it  was  recommended  that  Farnworth  should  be  constituted  a  dis- 
tinct Parish,  being  four  miles  from  the  Parish  Church  ;  it  was  found  that  the  Tithe 
Corn  amounted  to  £70  a  year,  and  belonged  to  King's  College,  Cambridge ;  that  Mr. 
William  Garner,  late  Minister,  had  received  £50  a  year,  out  of  the  Sequestered 
Tithes,  then  withdrawn,  and  the  necessary  consequence  was  that  the  Inhabitants 
were  without  an  Incumbent.  The  settled  income  was  £3.  6s.  8d.  arising  out  of  the 
revenues  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  by  Patent ;  the  interest  of  £10,  given  by  Tho- 
mas Vause  of  Grarston,  deceased,  "  to  a  Preaching  Minister  of  Farnworth ;"  and  the 
interest  of  £5,  given  by  John  Marsh  of  Bold,  for  the  same  purpose.  —  Lamb.  MSS. 
vol.  ii. 

Handle  Holme,  who  visited  the  Church  on  February  27th  1635,  mentions  a  broken 
inscription  in  "the  este  window  of  the  Cuerdley  quire,  with  the  Bishop's  picture, 
and  under  it,  Orate  pro  a'i'a  D'ni  Will'i  Smyth,  ac  p'  a'i'abus  p'entum  suor."  And 
"  in  the  Chauncell  roofe  carued  in  the  tymber,  is,  in  seuerall  places  a  griffen  passant 
wch  sheweth  some  of  the  Boulds  to  have  built,  or  been  a  benefactor.  In  the  north 
ile  is  Aston  (Ashton)  of  Penketh  in  the  window,  2  cotes,  very  auntient.  In  the 
Chauncell  window,  on  the  este  end,  the  cote  of  France  and  England  quartered  in  a 
border  gobonate  ar.  and  b. ;  on  the  right  is  a  cote,  I  think  for  the  Dioces  of  Lichfeld. 
On  the  left  hand  of  England's  cote,  is  b.  a  tower,  or.  Some  Bushup  of  that  Dioses 
built  the  Window.  The  writting  broke,  only  there  remaynes  epi  to  be  read.  In 
Bould's  Chappell,  on  the  north  side,  in  the  est  window,  France  and  England  quar- 
tered. In  the  north  window,  '  Orate  pro  Anla  Bid  de  Bolde  et  Elene  ux.  suse  quorum 
albs  ppif  Deus.'  Under  the  writtiug  is  a  man  in  armor,  on  outside  his  coat  is  A.  a 
griff,  pass.  sa.  beke  and  legges,  and  a  labell  or.  This  was  that  Kich.  Bould  wch  liued 
temp.  Hen.  6.  and  marr.  Ellen  Halsall.  There  is  in  the  Chappell  a  monument  made 
for  Kich.  father  to  Sr  Tho.  Bould,  and  stood  in  the  middle  of  the  Chapell,  and  is  a  man 
in  armor  sa.  garnished  or,  holding  a  book  between  his  hands,  praying ;  but  on  build- 
ing the  seat  in  the  Chapell,  it  was  removed  and  reared  up  to  the  wall  weare  it  now 
standeth.  Ther  is  a  brass  on  a  gravestone  for  Eich.  Bold,  who  died  about  20  years 
VOL.  II.]  E  E 


210  ilotttta  <£estwnst&. 

An.  [no]  9  H.[enry]  6,  Sr  Pet.[er]  de  Button2  was  ordered  to 
deliver  an  Oak  out  of  Northwood  Park,  for  ye  Repair  of  Farnworth 
Chap,  [el.]  S'P.  L.  p.  255. 

An.  [no]  1555,  a  Compos,  [ition]  was  made  betw.[een]  ye  Par. 
[ishj  of  Prescot  and  [the]  Inhab.  [itants]  of  this  Chappelry  about 
ye  choice  of  8  persons  to  examine  ye  Church  ws  accounts,  and  ab* 
ye  manner  of  Laying  and  Paying  Lays  in  ye  Par.  [ish]  for  ye  Re- 
pair of  ye  Church,  and  Confirmed  by  ye  BP.  V.  [ide]  Reg.  [ister] 
B.[ook,]  1,  p.  406. 

[The]  Vicar  of  Prescot  is  obliged  to  maintain  a  Curate  here, 
"  propriis  sumptibus,"  but  to  avoid  ye  charge,  he  suffers  ye  Chap- 
pelry to  choose  for  themselves.  But  [the]  Inhab.  [itants]  an.  [no] 
1705,  recommended  wthout  any  pretence  of  Right  to  choose. 
V.  [ide]  Form  in  Pap.  Reg. 

4  Wardens :  one  for  Bold ;  one  for  Widnesse-cum-Appleton, 
(in  wch  stands  Farnworth;)  one  for  Cuerdly  and  Crowton,  by 
turns ;  one  for  Ditton,  Penketh,  and  Sankey,  by  turns  :  One  of  ye 
four,  [is]  chosen  by  [the]  Min.  [ister ;]  the  other  three  by  ye  In- 
hab. [itants]  of  ye  Chappelry.  V.[ide]  Prescott. 

3  m.[iles]  from  Prescott.  Extends  from  N.[orth]  to  S.[outh] 
5  m.[iles,]  from  E.[ast]  to  W.[est]  4  m.[iles.] 

Bold.3 

of  age,  sonne  and  heyre  to  Rich,  who  ob.  1635,  who  had  his  achevements  put  up 
then."  —  Harl.  MSS.  cod.  2,129,  pp.  79,  and  189.  The  Vicar  of  Prescot  nominates 
the  Incumbent. 

2  Sir  Peter  Dutton  of  Dutton  Knt.  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Butler  of  Beausy,  Lord  of  Warrington.     He  was  made  Governor  of  Northwood  Park 
in  Over  Whitley  in  the  county  of  Chester,  in  the  1st  Henry  VI.  1423,  and  was 
ordered  to  deliver  this  oak  by  William  Harrington,  Chief  Steward  of  Halton,  under 
Henry,  (Chicheley,)  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  other  feoflees  of  King  Henry  V. 
Sir  Peter  died  in  1433  aged  sixty-six. — Leycester's  Hist,  of  Cheshire. 

3  Bold  was  in  the  possession  of  Robert  de  Bold  in  the  year  1292,  2d  Edward  I.  he 
being  the  son  of  Matthew,  the  grandson  of  William  de  Bold.      The  last  heir  male,  in 
direct  descent,  was  Peter  Bold  Esq.  M.P.  who  died  in  the  year  1762,  having  devised 
his  Estate  to  his  eldest  daughter,  Anna  Maria  Bold,  who  dying  unmarried  in  the  year 
1813,  it  passed  to  her  nephew,  Peter  Patten  Esq.  M.P.  F.R.S.  and  S.A.  (son  of 
her  sister,  Dorothea,  the  wife  of  Thomas  Patten  of  Bank  Esq.)  who  assumed  the  sur- 
name of  Bold,  and  at  his  death,  in  the  year  1819,  the  representation  devolved  upon 


j?  of  ^Harrington.  211 

is  a  Free  School,  founded  by  BP  Smith,4  [the]  Founder 
of  Brazennose  Coll.[ege,]  who  was  born  in  this  place,  and 
has  settled  101  p.[er]  an.  [num]  upon  the  Master,  charged  on  (the 
Rectory)  Lands  of  Rostherne  in  Cheshire,  and  appointed  the 
Mayor  of  Chester  Trustee  for  ye  payment  of  it,  in  whose  hands 
are  the  Writings  relating  to  this  Charity. 

The  BP  has  given  a  preference  to  ye  Scholars  of  this  Parish  wth 
respect  to  ye  Preferments  in  his  Coll.  [ege.] 

The  Inhab.  [itants]  nom.[inate]  ye  Master,  though  'tis  doubted 
whether  the  Right  be  in  them. 

An.  [no]  1507:  By  Indent,  [ure]  betw.[een  the]  BPandD.[ean] 
and  Ch.[apter]  of  Lincoln,  [the]  Priory  of  Laund,  and  [the]  Mayor 
and  Citizens  of  Chester,  the  Priory,  in  consid.  [eration]  of  3001, 

his  daughters  and  coheiresses,  the  eldest  of  whom,  the  Princess  Sapieha,  dying  in  the 
year  1824,  s.p.  the  Estate  passed  to  her  sister,  Dorothea,  wife  of  Sir  Henry  Bold 
Hoghton  Bart. 

Bold  Hall,  surrounded  by  a  moat,  was  rebuilt  in  the  year  1616,  by  Richard  Bold 
Esq. ;  but  little  of  that  structure  now  remains.  The  present  house  was  finished  in. 
the  year  1730,  by  Peter  Bold  Esq.  from  the  design  of  Leoni,  an  Italian  architect. 

4  William  Smith,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  Lord  President  of  the  Marches  of  Wales,  and 
co-founder  of  Brasenose  College,  Oxford,  of  an  ancient  and  respectable  family,  was  the- 
fourth  son  of  Robert  Smith  of  Peel  House  in  Widnes,  and  born  about  the  year  1460. 
He  was  educated  under  the  roof  of  Thomas,  first  Earl  of  Derby,  whose  pious  and 
munificent  lady,  Margaret,  Countess  of  Richmond,  became  his  Patron ;  and  thence 
removed  to  Lincoln  College,  where  he  was  a  Commoner  in  the  year  1478.  In  the 
year  1492  he  became  Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry ;  and  in  the  year  1495  was 
translated  to  Lincoln,  and  was  elected  Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Oxford.  In 
the  year  1507  he  founded  a  Fellowship  in  Oriel  College ;  and  the  same  year  a  Free 
School  at  Farnworth,  endowed  by  an  annuity  payable  by  the  Monastery  of  Laund  in 
the  county  of  Leicester,  preserved  by  a  Decree  of  the  Court  of  Augmentation,  on  the 
Dissolution,  and  paid  out  of  the  Tithes  of  Rosthorne  in  Cheshire,  by  the  Dean  and 
Chapter  of  Christ  Church,  they  having  the  appropriation  from  the  Crown.  Arch- 
deacon Churton  is  probably  more  exact  in  his  statement  than  the  text.  He  states 
that  the  Bishop  gave  £350  to  the  Monastery  of  Laund,  to  assist  them  in  procuring 
the  appropriation  of  the  Tithes  of  Rosthorne ;  and  stipulated  by  Indenture  dated 
July  20th  1509,  that  the  Prior  and  Convent  should  pay  £10  a  year,  for  ever,  to  the 
Mayor  and  Corporation  of  Chester,  for  the  use  of  the  Master  of  the  Free  School  of 
Farnworth.  In  the  year  1508  he  became  a  benefactor  of  Lincoln  College ;  and  in  the 
same  year  obtained  the  site  for  the  foundation  of  Brasenose  College,  which  building 
appears  to  have  been  commenced  in  the  year  1509,  and  finished  in  the  year  1512.  It 


212  |lotttia 

given  them  by  ye  BP  towards  their  expence  in  approp.[riating]  the 
Church  of  Rosthern,  grant  to  [the]  Mayor  and  Citizens  of  Chester, 
101  p.[er]  an.[uum,]  to  be  paid  to  [the]  Schoolmaster  of  Farn- 
worth, to  be  named  by  [the]  BP  of  Lincoln,  during  his  life,  [and] 
afterw.  [ards]  by  [the]  Mayor  and  Citizens  of  Chester.  Orders 
for  ye  School  to  be  made  by  ye  BP.  Reg.  Xtch. 

Paid  out  of  [the]  Rect.[ory]  of  Rosthern  by  [the]  Tenant  of 
[the]  Capitall  House.  Ib. 

V.[ide]  Pet.[ition]  to  [the]  Mayor  and  Ald.[ermen,]  1631. 
MS.  Hulm.  97,  A.  18,  100. 

An.  [no]  1623,  a  Letter  was  directed  to  Sr  Tho.[mas]  Smith,5 
Mayor  of  Chester,  from  ye  Gentry  of  Farnworth,  wch  demonstrates 
yt  ye  power  of  choosing  a  Master  was  in  ye  Mayor  and  the  Assem- 
bly. Str.  MS. 

Henry  Plumpton,  by  Will  dated  the  25th  of  June  1638,  gave 
Lands  in  Rainhill  for  the  better  maintenance  of  a  School-master. 
J.  Plumpton  gave,  before  1694,  a  house  and  3|  acres  of  land  in 
Penketh,  to  the  Chapel  and  School. 

is  ordained  by  the  Charter  that  the  College  shall  consist  of  a  Principal,  and  twelve 
Fellows,  all  of  them  to  be  bom  in  the  [ancient]  Diocese  of  Coventry  and  Lichfield, 
with  preference  to  natives  of  the  counties  of  Lancaster  and  Chester,  and  especially 
natives  of  the  Parishes  of  Prescot  in  Lancashire,  and  Prestbury  in  Cheshire.  He 
also  founded  a  Free  School  and  Hospital  at  Lichfield.  He  died  January  2d  1513. 
Mr.  Churton  names  that  Matthias  Smyth,  the  first  Principal  of  Brasenose,  by  his 
Will  dated  Dec.  llth  1547,  gave  lands  in  Sutton  to  his  nephew  Baldwin  Smyth, 
charged  with  20s.  a  year  to  the  Usher  of  Farnworth  School.  —  Churton's  Lives  of 
Sishop  Smith  and  Sir  Richard  Sutton.  p.  392,  4to.  1800. 

Farnworth  had  the  distinguished  honour  of  producing  two  other  Prelates  equally 
learned  if  not  equally  as  munificent  as  Bishop  Smith.  Here  was  born  in  the  year 
1544  Richard  Bancroft,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  a  great  Statesman  and  a  sound 
Churchman,  who  died  in  the  year  1610.  Here  was  also  born  John  Bancroft,  nephew 
of  the  Archbishop,  Master  of  University  College  Oxford,  consecrated  Bishop  of  Oxford 
in  1632,  and  who  expended  £3,500  in  building  Cuddesden  Palace.  He  died  in  the 
year  1640. 

8  Sir  Thomas  Smith  of  Hough  Knt.  Mayor  of  Chester  in  the  year  1622,  Sheriff  of 
Cheshire  in  the  year  1623,  living  in  the  year  1666,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir 
Hugh  Smith,  near  Bristol,  and  had  twenty-two  children.  His  ancestors  appear  to 
have  been  connected  with  the  Founder  of  Brasenose  College.  He  was  the  fourth  in 


g  of  OTarrmgtott.  213 

by  one  Lion,  20s  p.  [er]  an.  [num,]  Rent  Charge  upon 
Land  in  Upton ;  101  to  [the]  Poor  of  Kewardly,  and  10l  to 
Widnesse,  [the]  Int.  [erest]  to  be  distributed  yearly,  by  Tho.  [mas] 
Smith. 


Certified]    191.07s-  Fam. 120 

00d,  viz.  51,  Int.  [erest]  of  1001,  called 

the  Old  Stock;  I1 -7s,  Int. [erest]  of  271  collected  upon  Letters 
Request  granted  by  B.[ishop]  Stratford;    51,  Int. [erest]  of  1001 
given  by  Mr.  Wells  of  Wigan;  I1,  left  by  J.  Lion;  21,  by  Tho. 
[mas]  Lion;    51,  from   King's   Coll.[ege,]    but  'tis  doubted  wh. 
[ether]  it  may  not  be  withdrawn ;  751,  left  since  by  Mr.  Parr. 

The  Curate  is  named  by  ye  Trustees  for  ye  Chappell  wth  [the] 
consent  of  ye  Vicar.  The  originall  of  this  Trust  was  ah*  20  years 
agoe,  wn  this  Chappell  was  recovered  out  of  the  Dissenters'  hands, 
who  had  been  in  Possession  ever  since  ye  Warrs. 

An.  [no]  1634,  there  were  no  Seats  in  ye  Chappell  but  w*  be- 
longed to  ye  Ancestours  of  Hen.[ry]  Latham  of  Mossborrow, 
(upon  whose  ground  'tis  sd  the  Chap,  [el]  was  built.)  In  this  year 
there  was  a  distribution  of  Seats  made  by  Commissioners  appointed 

descent  from  Sir  Thomas  Smith,  Mayor  and  Citizen  of  Chester,  one  of  the  Executors 
of  Bishop  Smith's  Will,  dated  the  26th  of  December  1512.  —  See  Grastrell's  Not. 
Cest.  vol.  i.  p.  123,  Note  2. 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.     Yalue  in  1834,  £135.     Registers  begin  in  1718. 

Sir  Robert  de  Lathom  held  the  Manor  of  Eainford  in  the  time  of  Edward  I.  by 
fealty,  and  without  performing  any  service.  In  the  reign  of  Richard  II.  the  Manor 
was  conveyed  to  Sir  John  Stanley  K.GK  in  marriage  with  Isabella,  the  heiress  of  the 
Lathoms ;  but  Mosborough  was  given  to  Thomas  Lathom  by  his  elder  brother,  Sir 
Robert  de  Lathom,  (who  married  Katherine  de  Knowsley)  in  the  year  1292,  20th 
Edward  I.  and  his  descendants  continued  to  reside  at  Mosborough  Hall  until  the 
early  part  of  the  last  century.  —  {Lane.  Fed.  Visit  of  Lane.  1613.)  The  Manor  then 
passed  to  the  family  of  Molineux  of  Hawkley,  by  whom  it  was  shortly  afterwards  sold 
to  the  Earl  of  Derby. 

The  Chapel  existed  in  the  year  1577,  and  in  the  year  1650  was  stated  to  be  six  or 
seven  miles  from  the  Parish  Church.  There  was  then  a  Yard  belonging  to  the  Cha- 
pel, upon  which  had  been  erected  a  small  building  called  the  Chapel  Chamber,  wherein 


214  liotttia 

by  ye  BP  ;  upon  w°h  Distribution,  over  ag*  ye  name  of  every  person 
who  had  a  Seat  assigned  him  ye  summe  he  was  to  pay  to  ye  Min. 
[ister]  for  his  Wages,  and  another  summe  for  his  fifteen  or  Assess- 
m*  towards  [the]  repair  of  ye  Chap,  [el.]  This  Order  is  in  ye 
hands  of  Edw.  [ard]  Rainford  of  Rainford,  one  of  ye  Trustees  of  ye 
Chappell. 

The  money  left  by  Mr.  Parr  is  upon  condition  y*  ye  Vicar  does 
not  keep  ye  Chap,  [el]  in  his  own  hands. 

4  m.  [iles]  from  Prescott. 

(Tnuins.  l.  I  Warden,  named  by  ye  Curate.  [The]  TownshP  [is]  divided 
into  Hasum-End  and  Chappell-End. 

School  here  was  first  built,  and  hath  been  all  along 
repaired  by  [the]  Inhabitants.]  [The]  Sal.[ary]  to  [the] 
Master  is  SMO5  p.[er]  an.  [num,]  viz.  21  [left]  by  Th.[omas]  Lion, 
charged  upon  Land ;  [by]  Joh.[n]  Lion,  (in  1670,)  I1;  and  21-10S, 
Interest  of  501. 

The  Master  [is]  nom.[inated]  by  5  Feoffees. 

[There  is]  751  left  since  by  Mr.  Parr  in  Mr.  Prescott's  hands. 
[The]  Writings  are  kept  in  ye  Town  Chest. 

[The]  School  [was]  built  ab*  40  years  agoe ;  [it  is]  free  only  to 
2  Scholars,  Left  by  Tho.  [mas]  Lion. 

Ab*  a  quarter  of  a  mile  from  [the]  Chappell ;  [there  is]  a  room 
over  ye  Chappell,  but  not  fit  for  [the]  Master  to  live  in. 

Charities'.  j!^j$i  IB  Stock  for  ye  Poor,  by  whom  given  not  known,  421-10S; 
Stiff  given  since  by  Mrs.  A.  Singleton,  601;  by  Tho.  [mas]  Lion, 
21  p.  [er]  an.  [num,]  Joh.  [n]  Lion,  (in  1670,)  I1  p.  [er]  an.  [num,] 
both  upon  Land.  Paid  by  Mr.  Lawton  of  Prescott. 

the  Minister  formerly  lived.  It  was  at  one  time  used  as  a  School-house,  but  in  the 
year  1650  was  in  the  possession  of  Ralph  Smith  "  during  the  Towne's  pleasure."  Mr. 
Timothy  Smith,  the  Minister,  was  elected  by  the  consent  of  the  Chapelry,  and  for- 
merly received  £40  a  year  out  of  the  Sequestrations.  There  was  a  stock  of  £60, 
given  by  several  persons  deceased,  for  the  use  of  a  Minister,  and  for  want  of  such,  to 
go  to  the  Poor  of  Rainford.  The  Tithe  was  worth  £40  a  year,  and  had  been  fanned 
by  the  Earl  of  Derby,  but  was  then  sequestered.— Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 


g  of  8&arrtngton.  215 

No  endowment.  This 
Chap,  [el]  was  never  used,  but  in  Oli- 
ver's time.  It  has  been  well  seated.  [It  is]  now  out  of  repair, 
an.[no]  1720. 

This  Chap,  [el]  was  built  in  ye  Reign  of  Char.[les]  1.  by  Contri- 
bution. The  Land  it  stands  upon,  wth  the  Yard  about  it,  was 
given  by  [the]  Fam.  [ily]  of  Buisey. 

The  Vicar  of  Prescot  appoints  the  Curate.  A  small  Gallery  has  lately  been 
erected  in  the  south  east  corner  of  the  Chapel  for  the  singers. 

• 

1  Dedicated  to  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary.  Value  in  1834,  £103.  Registers  begiu 
in  1728. 

Paganus  do  Villiers,  the  first  Baron  of  Warrington,  gave  to  Gerard  de  Sanki,  the 
carpenter,  a  carucate  of  land  in  Sankey,  to  hold  by  military  service;  and  his  son, 
Matthew  de  Villiers,  gave  the  service  of  Ralph  de  Sanchi  and  the  Church  of  War- 
rington to  the  Priory  of  Thurgarton ;  and  Roger  de  Sonkey,  in  the  reign  of.  Henry 
III.  held  of  Sir  William  Butler,  the  heir  of  Almeric  Pincerna,  the  twentieth  part  of 
a  Knight's  fee,  in  Penket.  The  Sonkeys  continued  at  Little  Sonkey  until  the  year 
1639. — See  Warrington  in  1465,  by  William  Beamont  Esq.  Note,  pp.  46,  47.  The 
Manors  of  Sankey  Magna  and  Sankey  Parva  continued,  however,  to  be  vested  in  the 
Butlers  of  Warrington,  and  passed  from  them  to  the  Irelands  of  Bewsey  in  the  year 
16  ,  and  probably  by  marriage  with  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Ireland,  to 
John  Atherton  of  Atherton  Esq.  (who  died  in  the  22d  Charles  I.  —  Lane.  Pedigrees, 
vol.  xii.)  and  are  now  held  by  his  co-representative,  Lord  Lilford,  who  is  also  Patron 
of  the  Living. 

The  Commissioners  report  in  1650  that  Sankey  Chapel  had  been  lately  built  by  the 
Inhabitants  of  Greave,  Sankey,  and  Penketh,  at  their  own  cost  and  charges,  being 
eight  statute  miles  from  Farnworth,  and  three  and  a  half  miles  from  Warrington. 
The  Tithe  belonged  to  King's  College,  Cambridge,  and  was  worth  £51  per  annum, 
being  farmed  by  the  Earl  of  Derby,  until  sequestered.  The  Tithe  in  Sankey,  held  by 
Gilbert  Ireland  Esq.  amounted  to  £14  per  annum.  The  small  Tithe  was  worth  £5  a 
year,  and  belonged  to  the  Vicar  of  Prescot.  The  Commissioners  recommended  that 
Sankey  should  be  made  a  distinct  Parish. — Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

The  Chapel  was  used  as  a  Presbyterian  place  of  worship  until  the  year  1728,  when 
the  Atherton  family  placed  it  under  Episcopal  government.  It  was  rebuilt  in  the 
years  1767-8,  and  consecrated  by  Bishop  Keene  in  the  year  1769.  In  the  year  1842 
a  Gallery  was  extended  giving  fifty-six  additional  sittings,  forty-two  being  free  and 
unappropriated,  to  the  previously  existing  three  hundred  and  forty. 

Hall  Whittle  is  an  ancient  house,  said  to  have  been  the  seat  of  the  Sonkey 
family,  and  subsequently  of  the  Rixtons,  who  were  settled  here  in  the  sixteenth  cen- 
tury. It  now  belongs  to  Lord  Lilford. 


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Pap.  Fam 

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about  3001  p.[er]  an.  [num.]  Patron, 
Ld  Cardigan,  who  purchased  ye  Advowson  of  Ld 
Molineux. 

An.  [no]   1396,  Pat.[ron,]   Sr  Wil.[liam]  Molineux. 
MS.  Hulm.  95,  /.  11,  ex  Cart.  Epl  Cov.  $  L. 

An.  [no]  1557,  Sr  Rich.[ard]  Molineux  presented.  Institution] 
S.[ook,~\  1.  48. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Helen.     Value  in  1834,  £1,378.     Registers  begin  in  1597. 

Roger  de^oictou,  shortly  after  the  Conquest,  gave  the  Manor  of  Sefton  and  other 
lands  to  William  des  Molines,  so  named  from  Moulins,  a  town  of  Bourbonnois  in 
France,  a  man  mentioned  in  the  Norman  Chronicles  as  of  noble  origin,  and  a  favou- 
rite of  William,  Duke  of  Normandy.  Some  writers,  however,  have  stated  that  this 
Manor  was  given  to  Vivian  de  Molineux,  his  son,  whose  son,  Adam  de  Mulyneux, 
and  his  wife,  Annota,  held  half  a  Knight's  fee  in  Cefton,  and  gave  lands  to  the 
Abbey  of  Cokersand,  under  the  Seal  of  the  Cross  Moline.  The  Manor  has  descended 
through  a  long  line  of  distinguished  and  illustrious  ancestors  to  the  present  noble 
owner,  Charles  William,  the  eleventh  Viscount  Molyneux,  and  third  Earl  of  Sefton. 

"  Ceston  Church"  was  valued  at  £26.  13s.  4d.  in  the  year  1291,  and  had  been  some 
time  in  existence,  as  it  is  mentioned  in  a  deed  s.d.  transcribed  into  the  Chartulary  of 
St.  Mary  of  Lancaster.  Much  of  the  present  edifice  was  built  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
VIII.  by  Anthony  Molineux,  the  Rector,  "a  famous  Preacher."  He  was  the  younger 
son  of  Thomas  Molineux  of  Haughton  in  the  county  of  Nottingham,  and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Markham  Knt.  and  also  great  nephew  of  Adam  de 
Molineux,  Bishop  of  Chichester ;  and  appears  to  have  succeeded  his  cousin,  James 
Molineux,  Archdeacon  of  Richmond,  in  this  Living,  which  was,  as  might  be  expected, 
frequently  held  by  one  of  the  family  of  the  Patron.  He  built,  according  to  Dods- 
worth,  a  great  wall  round  Magdalen  College,  Oxford ;  and  a  house,  for  a  School,  in 
the  Church-yard  of  Sefton,  which  has  disappeared.  Anthony  Molineux  died  in  the 
year  1543,  according  to  the  Pedigree  of  the  family.  The  Church  is  disposed  in  a 
Tower  surmounted  by  a  Spire,  Nave,  Aisles,  and  a  Chancel.  There  are  also  two 
Chapels, — one  belonging  to  the  Sefton  family,  and  founded  as  a  Chantry  in  the  year 
1528,  by  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Molyneux,  and  the  wife,  (1)  of  John 
Dutton  of  Dutton  Esq.  and  (2)  of  William  Buckley  Esq. ;  and  the  other  Chapel,  ori- 
ginally built  by  the  Blundells  of  Ince.  Both  are  surrounded  by  a  parclose.  In  the 
Choir  are  sixteen  oak  stalls  of  exquisitely  carved  work,  decorated  with  pinnacles,  and 
adorned  with  grotesque  figures.  The  Screen  between  the  Choir  and  Nave  is  of  beau- 
tifully carved  oak,  displaying  a  profusion  of  foliage,  bosses,  and  architectural  design. 
The  tombs,  brasses,  alabaster  monuments,  stalls  and  screens,  are  full  of  interest  to  the 
antiquary,  and  will  repay  examination. 

In  the  year  1650  Sephton  was  returned  as  an  ancient  Parish  Church,  the  Parsonage 


of  Jfctamngton.  217 

The  Church  is  a  stately  regular  building,  tho  of  no  great  anti- 
quity. [It  was]  endowed  at  ye  time  of  its  Foundation  wth  40 
acres  of  Glebe,  w1*  is  now  all  (except  a  little  more  than  an  acre) 
annexed  by  ye  Lords,  the  Patrons,  to  their  demesne,  and  y* 
Demesne  (which  is  above  3001  p.[er]  an.[num,])  exempted  from 
Tyth.  Rect.[pr]  of  Halsall's  Actf-  an.  [no]  1718. 

House  and  glebe  lands  being  worth  40s.  a  year.  The  Tithes  of  Sephton,  Nether- 
ton,  and  Lunt,  worth  £70  a  year.  The  Tithes  of  Thornton  in  this  Parish,  worth 
£64  per  annum.  The  Tithes  of  Inse  Blundell  and  Little  Crosby,  worth  £20 
per  annum.  The  Tithes  of  Litherland,  Orrell,  Ford,  and  Ayntrye,  worth 
£92.  10s.  a  year.  "Mr.  Joseph  Tompson,  an  able  and  godly  Minr,  painful  in  his 
Cure,  and  diligent  in  observing  such  days  as  have  been  set  apart  by  the  Parl*  either 
for  Fasts  or  Days  of  Thanksg3,  hath  the  above  for  his  Salary.  He  payeth  Mrs. 
Moreton,  wife  of  Dr.  Moreton,  (instituted  in  1629,)  a  delinquent,  late  Eector  of 
Sephton,  a  5th,  according  to  an  order  of  the  County  Commissioners ;  and  in  regard  of 
the  largeness  of  the  Parish,  the  Church  also  stands  att  one  side  of  the  Parish,  we 
conceive  itt  conven*  and  fitt  that  2  Churches  be  built  for  the  Work  of  God  within  the 
sd  Parish,  and  to  be  made  Parishes,  —  one,  in  or  near  Ince  Blundell,  (for  an  obvious 
reason ;)  the  other,  in  or  near  Litherland ;  the  want  of  such  Churches  being  the 
cause  of  Loytering,  and  much  Ignorance  and  Popery." — Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  £200  a 
year,  clear  of  deductions,  was  a  strong  Living  in  those  times.  Nearly  a  century  after- 
wards half  the  Parishioners  were  Members  of  the  Church  of  Rome,  and  only  one  Pres- 
byterian family  remained.  Dr.  Edward  Moreton  was  a  Prebendary  of  Chester,  and 
Rector  of  this  Parish,  descended  from  the  ancient  family  of  Moreton  of  Little  More- 
ton  in  the  county  of  Chester.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Webb 
Knt.  and  niece  of  Archbishop  Laud.  He  was  also  Rector  of  Standish,  and  afterwards 
Chaplain  to  the  Lord  Keeper,  and  created  D.D.  at  Oxford,  in  the  year  1636.  He  was 
deprived  of  his  preferment  about  the  year  1643,  and  his  wife  had  no  fifths  paid  her. 
He  was  reinstated  in  his  preferments  at  the  Restoration.  His  son,  William  Moreton 
D.D.  born  at  Sefton  in  the  year  1641,  became  successively  Bishop  of  Kildare  and 
Meath. — Walker's  Sufferings  of  the  Ctergy,  pp.  2,  and  11.  Wood's  Fasti  Oxon, 
p.  889. 

Mr.  Doming  Rasbotham,  in  the  last  century,  described  the  Monuments  in  this 
Church  with  considerable  minuteness.  Amongst  the  most  interesting  is  the  monu- 
ment of  Richard  Molineux  Knt.  and  Joanna  his  wife,  daughter  of  Sir  Gilbert  Hay- 
dock.  Sir  Richard  distinguished  himself  at  the  battle  of  Azincourt,  and  was  created 
a  Banneret  on  the  field.  He  died  in  the  year  1459,  and  his  lady  in  the  year  1439; 
and  their  Altar  Tomb,  of  white  marble,  still  remains,  partly  in  the  Chancel  and  partly 
on  the  north  side  of  the  Altar,  in  the  Molyneux  Chapel.  In  Part  xiii.  of  the  Waller 
Brasses,  is  an  engraving  of  the  monument  of  Sir  William  Molyneux  and  his  two 
wives,  in  the  year  1548,  also  remaining  in  this  Chapel. 

VOL.  II.]  F  F 


218  liotttia  £r0ttteufti0. 

Here  is  a  new  Pars,  [onage] -house,  built  by  ye  pres.[ent]  Rect. 
[or,]  an.[no]  1723. 

€0tonj$.  9.  This  Parish  is  divided  into  4  quarters ;  the  first  consists  of 
[the]  Towns,  [hips]  of  Sephton,  Netherton,  [and]  Luut.  2.  Inse- 
Blundell  [and]  Little  Crossby.  3.  Litherland  [and]  Aintry.  4. 
Orrell  and  Ford. 

[There  are]  2  Churchwardens,  wch  are  chose,  [n]  out  of  ye  sev. 
[eral]  Townships,  in  turn. 

[There  is]  an  ancient  Seat  in  Inse-Blundell2  called  The  Grange, 
[and]  Sefton.3 

The  Advowson  appears  to  have  been  reguardant  of  the  Manor  from  the  earliest 
period  until  it  was  sold  by  Caryl,  the  third  Viscount  Molineux,  on  his  being  out- 
lawed, and  on  his  death  in  the  year  1698  it  was  found  to  be  in  the  legal  possession  of 
George,  Earl  of  Cardigan,  who,  in  the  year  1722,  presented  the  Rev.  Thomas  Egerton 
M.A.  who  built  the  Kectory  House,  and  died  here  in  the  year  1763.  The  Advowsou 
was  purchased  a  little  before  the  latter  year,  by  the  Eev.  James  Rothwell,  the  Vicar 
of  Dean,  (see  vol.  ii.  part  i.  p.  42,)  who,  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Egerton,  presented  his 
son,  Mr.  Richard  Rothwell,  and  he  dying  in  the  year  1802,  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 
the  Rev.  Richard  Rothwell,  the  present  Rector  and  Patron. 

2  Ince  Blundell  was  in  the  possession  of  William  de  Blundell  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
III.  from  whom  it  descended  to  John  de  Blundell,  the  plaintiff  against  John,  son  of 
Henry  de  Chatherton,  and  Katerine  his  wife,  at  Westminster,  in  the  49th  Edward 
III.  for  the  Manor  of  Ines  juxta  Sefton,  when  John  Blundell  recovered  the  Manor. 
The  family  continued  here,  in  male  descent,  until  the  death  of  Charles  Robert  Blun- 
dell Esq.  born  in  May  1761,  and  died  October  30th  1837,  when  the  Estates  passed, 
by  devise,  to  a  member  of  the  family  of  Weld,  described  as  "  Edward  Weld  of  Lul- 
worth  Castle,  nephew  of  Lady  Stourton,"  [the  Christian  name  of  the  owner  of  Lul- 
worth  Castle,  being,  at  that  time,  Thomas,  second  son  of  Joseph  Weld  Esq.  brother 
of  the  Cardinal,]  who  assumed  the  name  of  Blundell,  and  took  possession  of  the 
Estates.  Lord  Camoys,  the  nephew  of  Charles  Robert  Blundell  Esq.  contested 
the  succession  of  Mr.  Weld,  on  the  ground  of  mis-description.  On  an  appeal 
to  the  House  of  Lords  the  question  was  referred  to  the  fifteen  Judges,  who,  in  July 
1847,  decided  that  Mr.  Thomas  Weld  Blundell  was  the  person  designated  in  the 
Will  as  "  Edward  Weld,"  and  consequently  entitled  to  the  Estates.  —  See  HOEWICH, 
vol.  ii.  part  i.  p.  41. 

In  the  midst  of  a  luxuriantly  wooded  Park,  commanding  varied  and  pleasing  views, 
is  the  Hall,  a  large  and  handsome  modern  house ;  and  at  the  eastern  angle,  is  the 
Pantheon,  a  circular  edifice  built  by  Henry  Blundell  Esq.  (who  died  in  the  year  1810, 
aged  eighty-six,)  for  the  reception  of  his  valuable  antiquities  and  curiosities,  consisting 
of  marbles,  busts,  statues,  urns,  sarcophagi,  and  paintings.  Mr.  Blundell  was  a  man 


Heanerg  of  TOamngton.  219 

to  [the]  Poor  by  sev.  [eral]  persons  wthin  these  8  years,  Cljartttrtf. 
541;  left  by  Will.[iam]  Parr,  301;  [by]  J.  Brianson  and  H. 
Hunt,  101  each  to  Sephton  Quarter ;  by  3  Darwens,  101  each ;  [by] 
B.  Fletcher,  51  to  Sephton  Town;  by  J.  Fletcher  501,  [and]  N. 
Fletcher  101,  to  Nettleton;  by  Oz.  Hill  301,  Jam[es]  Stephenson 
101,  A.  Eeynolds  201,  [and]  J.  Rice  51,  to  Inse-Blundell  j  by  Edw. 
[ard]  Holme,  [by  Will  dated  Dec.  30th  1695,]  1201,  to  Thornton; 
by  Ed.  [ward]  Darwen  and  Jam.[es]  Hurdes,  101  each,  to  Orrell 
and  Ford.  All  these  summes  [are]  in  good  hands,  and  [the]  Int. 
[crest]  duly  paid.  Certif.[ied]  an.  [no]  1718. 

Gifts  and  Legacyes  for  ye  use  of  ye  Parish,  641,  wch  hath  been 
given  of  late  years  —  wrote  uppon  a  large  Table  in  ye  Chancell. 
Certified]  an.  [no]  1722. 


— CROSBY  MAGNA,  or  MUCH  Fam 70. 

CROSBY.  Certif.[ied]  y*  it  is  provided 
for  by  the  Rectour  of  Sephton  who  allows  the  Curate  13l  p.[er] 
an.  [num.] 

of  refined  and  cultivated  taste,  and  employed  his  princely  fortune  and  ample  leisure 
in  rescuing  from  oblivion  works  of  art,  and  the  productions  of  genius,  which  here 
found  a  secure  haven  amongst  the  muses  and  graces.  There  is  a  Roman  Catholic 
Chapel  within  the  Hall. 

3  Sefton  Hall,  surrounded  by  a  moat  still  in  existence,  inclosing  about  a  quarter  of 
an  acre  of  elevated  ground  in  a  flat  field,  was  the  seat  of  the  Molineux  family  in  the 
year  1372,  and  adjoined  the  Church.  It  had  long  been  a  farm-house,  when  it  was 
taken  down  about  half  a  century  ago,  with  the  Roman  Catholic  Chapel,  which  was 
contiguous  to  it.  This  noble  family  has  been  variously  distinguished,  and  has  contri- 
buted its  full  share  to  the  great  men  of  the  county.  Sir  William  Molineux  was  in  the 
army  of  Edward  the  Black  Prince,  at  Navarre ;  Sir  Richard  Molineux  fought  under 
Henry  V.  at  Azincourt ;  Adam  Molineux  was  Bishop  of  Chichester,  and  murdered  at 
Portsmouth  in  the  year  1449 ;  and  another  Sir  William  Molineux  accompanied  the 
Earl  of  Surrey  to  Flodden  Field. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Luke.     Value  in  1834,  £119.     Registers  begin  in  1747. 

John,  Earl  of  Morton,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  II.  anno  1155,  granted  to  Robert 
Aynolsdale,  his  forester,  for  his  homage  and  service,  Great  Crosby,  and  confirmed 
the  donation  on  the  18th  of  June  after  he  became  King.  Sir  Robert  Blundell  of 


220  fiotitia 

The  Tyths  of  this  TownsP,  being  worth  near  1001  p.[er]  an. 
[num,]  are  Leased  to  Ld  Molineux  for  41  p.[er]  an.[nura,]  during 
[the]  Rect'3  life ;  and  having  been  soe  Leased  by  some  of  his  pred. 
[ecessors,]  it  is  very  near  come  to  a  prescription.  Cert,  [ified]  an. 
[no.]  1718,  by  [the]  Rect.  [or]  of  Halsall. 

Crosby  was  grandson  of  the  Grantee,  and  living  in  the  5th  Edward  I.  being  the 
direct  ancestor  of  Nicholas  Blundell  Esq.  who  died  in  the  year  1737,  having  by  his 
wife,  the  Hon.  Frances  Langdale,  daughter  of  Marmaduke,  second  Lord  Langdale, 
two  daughters,  of  whom  Frances  became  eventually  his  sole  heiress,  and  married 
Henry  Peppard  of  Drogheda,  Esq.  whose  son  Nicholas,  in  the  year  1772,  shortly 
before  his  mother's  death,  assumed  the  surname  of  Blundell,  and  dying  in  the  year 
1795  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  the  present  William  Blundell  Esq.  of  Crosby. 

The  Chapel  is  a  brick  building  with  a  Tower,  and  was  in  existence  in  the  year  1619. 
It  was  described  in  the  year  1650  as  an  antient  little  Chapel,  well  situated,  and  that 
the  Incumbent,  Mr.  John  Kidd,  an  able  Minister,  had  all  the  Tithes  of  the  Town- 
ship, amounting  in  value  to  £30  per  annum,  except  a  fifth  which  was  payable  to 
Mrs.  Moreton,  wife  of  the  ejected  Rector  of  Sephton.  It  was  three  miles  from  the 
next  Church,  and  ought  to  be  made  a  separate  Parish. — Lamb.  MiSS.  vol.  ii. 

On  the  9th  of  July  1672,  the  Merchant  Tailors'  Company  of  London  were  the 
Petitioners,  and  John  Ashworth,  Schoolmaster  of  the  Free  Grammar  School  at  Great 
Crosby  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  and  the  Church-wardens  of  St.  Augustine,  Lon- 
don, were  the  Defendants,  in  a  Suit  which  arose  out  of  a  dispute  respecting  property 
destroyed  in  the  Fire  of  London  in  the  year  1666.  The  Petitioners  set  forth  that 
John  Harrison,  late  Citizen  and  Merchant  Taylor  of  London,  deceased,  did,  by  Will 
dated  the  5th  of  May  1618,  give  to  the  said  Company  to  build  at  Great  Crosby  a 
Free  Grammar  School,  to  be  called  "  The  Merchant  Taylors'  School,  founded  at  the 
charge  of  John  Harrison,"  all  his  messuages  in  Crane  Court  in  the  Parish  of  St. 
Augustine,  and  four  houses  in  the  Old  Change  in  the  same  Parish,  two  houses  in  St. 
Swithin's  Lane,  near  London  Stone,  and  £500,  to  pay  Salaries,  &c.  to  the  Master  and 
Usher,  and  for  the  use  of  the  Poor  in  Lant  Alley  in  London,  by  consent  of  the  said 
Church-wardens.  The  Decree  of  the  Court  of  Judicature  established  to  settle  these 
disputes,  does  not  appear  in  this  case,  but  the  Court  usually  added  some  additional 
term  to  the  Lease  for  the  encouragement  of  building,  and  abated  for  a  time  the 
amount  of  rent  charge,  so  that  all  the  parties  might  equitably  bear  a  portion  of  the 
loss  occasioned  by  the  great  Fire ;  but  the  Decrees  did  not  affect  the  tenure  by  which 
lands  and  tenements  were  held.  The  value  of  these  records,  in  a  genealogical  and 
archaiological  point  of  view,  is  very  great,  and  the  whole  have  been  carefully  ab- 
stracted, arranged  and  Indexed,  though  still  in  MS.  by  Thomas  W.  King  Esq.  F.S.A. 
York  Herald.  —  Addit.  MSS.  Brit.  Mm.  5,100,  No.  52.  The  Founder's  bequests  are 
now  paid  by  the  Merchant  Tailors'  Company. 


of  2£lavnnQton.  221 

An.  [no]  1629,  a  verdict  [was  given]  touching  ye  misemploy  m1 
of  a  stock  of  money  given  tow.[ards  the]  maintenance  of  ye 
Minister.  MS.  Hulm.  98,  A.  16,  52. 

2  m.  [iles]  from  [the]  Par.[ish]  Church. 

Free  Gram,  [mar]  School  here,  (being  a  large  stone  build-  <§rammar 
ing,)  with  a  house  adjoining  for  ye  use  of  ye  Master,  was  &™00  • 
founded  by  John  Harrison,  Merch*  Taylour  in  Lond.  [on,]  who, 
by  his  Will  left  551  p.[er]  an.[num,]  viz.  301  to  a  Master,  201  to 
an  Usher,  and  51  for  repairs.     Ever  since  ye  Fire  of  Lond.  [on  in] 
1666,  the  201  to  ye  Usher  hath  been  withdrawn  by  ye  Merch*  Tayl. 
[ors']  Comp.  [any,]  (who  are  Governours  of  ye  School,  pay  ye  Sal. 
[ary,]  and  name  y°  Master,)  Some  of  ye  Houses  on  wch  ye  Stip. 
[end]  was  settled  being  burnt :  But  about  19  years  hence,  'tis  said 
the  money  will  come  in  again,  and  an  Usher  be  fixed. 

by  John  Lurting  and  Jas  Rice,  51  each.  CfiaritteS. 

An.  [no]  1629,  a  Book  of  ye  Town  Stock  of  Crosby,  and  of 
ye  rent  for  ye  same.     MS.  Hulm,  98,  A.  16,  53. 


Rect.[cry,]  about  4001  p.  [er]  an.  [num.]      !&..... 69. ic.ioj 
Vic.[arage,]  about  1001  p.  [er]  an.  [num.]      .                 pVA"0o'i3'°4 
Patron  of  ye  Rectory,  Ld  Cardigan,  who  purchased  ye  sya-  o-J-  g 
Advowson  of  Ld  Molineux,  for  Ld  Mol.[ineux]'s  life,  P^  by  Rectour. 
who  is  only  Tenant  for  life  himself.     The  Rectour  names  ye  Vicar,  £am 102 

Pap.  Fam    20 

Pap.  M. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Mary.     Value  in  1834,  £294.     Eegisters  begin  in  1586.  Diss-  M-p 

In  the  time  of  Edward  the  Confessor,  Winestan  held  Waletone,  and  soon  after  the  [p.  5.  An.  14.] 
Conquest,  William,  Earl  of  Warren,  gave  to  Walter,  grandfather  of  Henry,  son  of 
Gilbert  de  Waleton,   fourteen  bovates  of  land  lying  in  Waleton,  Wavertree,  and 
Neusum. 

In  the  fifteenth  century,  the  Manor  was  held,  in  portions,  by  the  descendants  of  the 
original  grantee,  and  one  third  of  it  was  conveyed  in  marriage  by  Helen,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Eobert  Walton,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  IV.  to  Eobert  Fazakerley  of 
Fazakerley ;  and  was  purchased  from  the  family  of  his  descendant,  the  late  Colonel 


222  jlotttta 

and  ye  Vicar  should  name  ye  Curates  of  ye  sev.  [eral]  Chappells, 
(as  appears  by  Ordinatio  Vicarise,)  but  the  ancient  profits  being 
ceased,  they  are  now  Nominated  and  paid  by  ye  Rectour. 

Fazakerley,  by  James,  Lord  Strange,  and  now  belongs  to  the  Earl  of  Derby.  The 
other  two  thirds  were  conveyed,  in  moieties,  by  Margaret,  elder  daughter  and 
co-heiress  of  Roger  Walton,  to  William  Chorley  of  Chorley  Esq.  whose  son  and  heir, 
William,  was  born  in  the  year  1478.  This  portion  of  the  Manor  was  sold  by  a 
Decree  of  Chancery,  after  the  Rebellion  of  1715,  in  which  Richard  Chorley  Esq.  had 
been  implicated,  to  Abraham  Crompton  of  Derby  Gent,  who  devised  it  to  his  younger 
son,  Abraham  Crompton  of  Chorley  Hall,  whose  descendant,  Abraham  Crompton, 
died  at  Skerton,  in  the  year  1822,  having  alienated  most  of  the  Walton  property  of 
his  family.  Elizabeth,  the  younger  daughter  aud  coheiress  of  Roger  Walton,  married 
Richard  Cross  of  Cross  Hall,  and  conveyed  Walton  Hall  and  the  other  third  portion 
of  the  Manor  to  him.  Blanche,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Richard  Cross  Esq.  married 
Roger  Breares  of  Walton  Gent,  in  the  sixteenth  century,  whose  descendants,  Roger 
Breares  and  Laurence,  his  sons,  sold  Walton  Hall  and  the  third  of  the  Manor,  in  the 
year  1746,  to  J.  Atherton  Esq.  from  whose  grandson,  John  Joseph  Atherton,  they 
were  purchased  by  Thomas  Leyland  Esq.  who  dying  in  the  year  1827,  was  succeeded 
by  his  nephew,  Richard  Bullen  Leyland  of  Walton  Hall  Esq. 

There  was  a  Church  at  Walton  at  the  Domesday  Survey,  and  the  Tithes  of  Everton 
and  Walton,  granted  by  Roger  de  Poictou  to  the  Abbey  of  Sees,  were  confirmed  by 
King  John.  Soon  afterwards  W.  Prior  of  Lancaster,  compounded  with  Stephen  de 
Walton,  Lord  of  the  Manor,  for  the  Tithes.  In  the  year  1291,  the  Living  was 
valued  at  £44,  and  was  the  largest  in  the  Deanery  of  Warrington,  being  almost  twice 
the  amount  of  Winwick. 

The  Vicarage  was  ordained  in  the  20th  Edward  II.  1326,  by  Letters  Patent,  the 
King  confirming  the  grant  of  the  Church  to  the  Abbey  of  St.  Peter  at  Shrewsbury. 
The  Advowson  appears  to  have  been  purchased  of  that  Abbey  by  Sir  Thomas  Moli- 
neux  Knt.  in  the  year  1470,  and  his  son  Edward,  was  the  Rector  in  the  time  of  Henry 
VII.  (omitted  in  Baines's  Catalogue  of  the  Rectors  of  Walton.)  From  this  period 
the  Advowson  was  vested  in  the  Molyneux  family,  but  the  right  of  presentation  was 
frequently  sold,  probably  owing  to  the  family  in  the  latter  part  of  the  seventeenth 
century  being  Roman  Catholics  ;  and  Richard,  fifth  Viscount  Molyneux.  in  the  early 
part  of  the  last  century,  alienated  the  Advowson  to  his  brother-in-law,  George,  Earl 
of  Cardigan.  It  was  purchased  in  the  year  1747  by  Sir  William  Heathcote  Bart,  and 
was  sold  by  his  representative  in  the  year  1810,  to  John  Leigh  of  Sandhills,  near 
Bootle  Esq.  who  died  in  the  year  1830,  and  is  now  vested  in  J.  S.  Leigh  Esq. 

In  the  year  1548  two  Chantries,  dedicated  to  St.  John  and  St.  Trinity,  were  dis- 
solved in  this  Church. 

In  the  year  1650  Walton-cum-Fazakerley  was  styled  an  ancient  Parish  Church. 
The  Parsonage-house  and  lands  were  worth  £4.  2s.  4d. ;  the  Tithes  of  the  Township 


£)ranrvi>  of  Warrtngtim.  223 

[The]  Vicar  sets  the  Tyths  of  Everton  for  301  p.  [er]  an.  [num ;] 
[the]  Tyths  of  Linam,  for  101  p.  [er]  an.  [num ;  and  the]  Easter 
dues  for  351  p.[er]  an. [num;]  Lands  in  West  Derby,  given  by 
one  Stones,  Clerk  of  Walton,  for  II1  p.[er]  an.  [num.  The] 
Surp.jlice]  Dues  are  about  91  p.[er]  an. [num.]  Besides  wch  [the] 
Vicar  has  ye  herbage  of  ye  Churchyard,  [and]  a  Vicarage-house 
and  Garden.  Vic.[ar\'s  AccL  an. [no]  1724. 

These  Lands  (given  by  Stones)  were  left  in  Mr.  Marsden's  time,2 
on  condition  yfc  3  Vicars  shd  successively  build  a  bay  of  building 
each,  upon  ye  premises,  for  a  Barn,  if  he  continued  Vicar  2  years. 

[The]  Tyth-fruit  in  Kirkby  and  Simondswood,  worth  21-10S 
p.  [er]  an.  [num,  is]  sd  to  belong  to  [the]  Vicar,  by  Mr.  Green  of 
Leverpool. 

Ordinatio  Vicarise  de  Walton  per  Epum  Cov.  et  Litchf.  an.  [no] 
1326.  V.[ide]  Register]  B.\pok,]  4.  When  this  Ordiuat.  [ion] 
was  made,  the  Patronage  of  ye  Rect.  [ory]  belonged  to  [the]  Mon. 
[astery]  of  St.  Peter's,  Salop;  v.[ide]  Ordin. [atio,]  in  whom  it 
continued  till  an.  [no]  1470,  wn  an  ancestour  of  ye  pres*  Ld  Moli- 
neux  purchased  it  of  ye  Mon.  [astery.] 

were  worth  £65.  12s.  4d.  a  year ;  and  the  Tithes  of  Kirkdale,  £26.  10s. ;  in  the  pos- 
session of  Mr.  William  Ward,  a  godly  able  Minister.  There  was  also  one  house, 
called  the  Vicarage,  with  a  yard,  orchard  and  garden,  worth  30s.  a  year,  then  in  the 
possession  of  Mr.  Neville  Kaye,  the  Vicar,  who  was  godly,  but  apparently  not  a 
preaching  Minister.  He  was  inducted  in  the  year  1621  to  the  Vicarage,  and  not  dis- 
turbed, —  which,  I  fear,  says  little  for  his  consistency.  He  received  £15.  15s.  a  year, 
from  the  small  Tithes  of  Everton;  and  30s.  from  Kirkdale.  Rector  and  Vicar, 
arcades  ambo,  both  had  learnt  the  beneficial  art  of  conciliating  the  Lay  Prelates  of 
the  times,  and  rejoiced  to  be  allowed  to  work  in  chains,  whilst  poor  Dr.  Andrew 
Clare,  who  had  fearlessly  done  his  duty  as  Rector,  from  the  year  1639,  was  deprived 
of  his  Living,  and  had  to  endure  a  great  deal  of  vituperation  and  cruelty  from  his  per- 
secutors, having  been  sequestered  by  the  Parliament  in  the  year  1644.  He  was 
Chaplain  to  Charles  I.  and  a  very  learned  man. —  See  Walker's  Sufferings  of  the 
Clergy,  p.  220 ;  who  erroneously  states  that  Neville  Kaye,  the  Vicar,  died  in  the  year 
1645.  He  suffered  some  hard  usage  from  the  soldiery.  —  Appendix,  p.  419. 

2  The  Rev.  Thomas  Marsden  M.A.  Vicar  of  Walton,  died  in  the  year  1720.  He 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Cunliffe  of  Hollins  Grent.  (who  died  aged  ninety- 
three,)  and  his  second  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Ralph  Chetham  of  Turton  Tower 
Gent. 


224  ilotttia 

An  Order  [was  made]  by  ye  BP  y*  ye  Rectour  and  his  Succes- 
sours  shall  allow  Mr.  Marsdeu  ye  Vicar,  during  y4  Incumbency, 
301  p.[er]  an.  [num.]  This  was  made  by  virtue  of  a  power  lodged 
in  ye  BP,  by  [the]  Ordinat.[io]  Vicar.[ise.]  an.  [no]  1671.  Reg. 
[ister]  B.^ook^  3,  p.  63. 

This  Order  the  Rect.  [or]  promises  to  obey,  under  his  hand.    Ib. 

An.  [no]  1715,  the  Proportion  of  Duty  to  be  performed  by  [the] 
Rect.  [or]  and  [the]  Vicar  settled  accord,  [ing]  to  a  former  Agree- 
ment, v.[ide]  Reg. [ister. ,]  4,  wth  Dr.  Pearson,  Chanc.  [ellor]  of 
York's  Opinion  upon  ye  Case. 

An.  [no]  1506,  [the]  Rect.  [or  was]  presented  by  Dudley,3  in 
Right  of  W.  Molineux  Esq.  Institution]  B.[ook,~]  1,  p.  3. 

An. [no]  1543,  Sr  Will.[iam]  Molineux  presented  in  his  own 
Right.  Ib.  p.  18. 

vTntuns.  8.       Walton,  Formby,  Derby,  Kirkby,  Fazakerly,  Bootle,  Kirkdale, 
[and]  Everton. 

1  Warden.     1  Assistant. 
2.         Croxteth,4  (Ld  Molineux;)  Bank  Hall,5  (Sr  Cleve  More.) 

3  On  May  12th.  1506  Richard  Dudley  was  instituted  to  the  Living,  (on  the  cession 
of  James  Stanley,  the  Rector,  consecrated  Bishop  of  Ely,  this  year,)  on  the  presen- 
tation of  Edmund  Dudley,  by  permission  of  the  Crown,  in  right  of  William,  after- 
wards Sir  William  Molineux.     He  died  in  the  year  1543. 

4  Croxteth  Park  was  granted  by  Henry  VI.  in  the  year  1446,  by  Letters  Patent,  to 
Sir  Richard  Molyneux,  and  his  heirs,  and  has  been  ever  since  the  principal  seat  of  the 
family.     The  south  front  of  the  Hall  was  rebuilt  in  the  year  1702,  of  brick,  with  or- 
namental stone  dressings,  and  a  terrace  is  ascended  by  a  broad  flight  of  steps.     The 
back  of  the  hduse,  formerly  of  timber  and  plaster,  was  rebuilt  with  brick,  in  the  year 
1805.    The  present  noble  owner  is  Charles  William,  tenth  Viscount  Molyneux,  and 
third  Earl  of  Sefton. 

5  Bank  Hall  was  originally  the  residence  of  the  family  of  De  la  More,  who,  about 
the  year  1280,  were  seated  at  More  Hall  near  Liverpool,  and  in  the  same  century 
built  Bank  Hall,  which  was  surrounded  by  a  moat.     The  entrance  Hall  was  open  to 
the  roof.     The  house  was  demolished  about  the  year  1772.     Of  this  family  was  Sir 
Peter  de  la  More,  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons  in  the  reign  of  Edward  III. ; 
William  de  la  More,  who  fought  at  the  battle  of  Poictiers ;  and  Edward  More,  created 
a  Baronet  in  the.  year  1675,  and  whose  son  and  heir  was  Sir  Cleave  More  M.P.  who 
died  the  23d  of  March  1729-30.     On  the  death  of  his  great-grandson,  Sir  William 


j)  of  OTavrtngton.  225 

whom  the  School  here  was  Founded  is  not  known ;  and 
wh.  [ether]  Free  or  not  is  uncertain.  There  is  a  tradition 
y*  it  was  built  by  an  old  Man  and  his  Wife,  who  sold  Ale  in  ye 
Town,  and  gave  3001  for  maint.  [aining]  of  a  Master,  501  of  wch 
was  lost  about  60  years  agoe :  Sr  Vivian  Molineux,  to  whom  it 
was  lent,  having  died  insolvent.6  [The]  Land  belong,  [ing]  to  it  is 
let  for  51  p.[er]  an.  [mini;]  and  there  is  1501  •  10s,  upon  Bond. 
[The]  Rect.  [or]  and  [the]  Vic.  [ar]  nominate  ye  Master.  [The] 
Writings  were  destroyed  in  the  Rebellion.  In  1613  Tho.  [mas] 
Harrison  left  £120,  in  1630  Alex.[ander]  Molyneux  gave  £20, 
and  in  1690  Richard  Whitfield  £10,  to  the  Free  School  of  Walton. 
Certified]  an.  [no]  1719. 

STatfetOtt  left  by  Will  in  1698,  501,  the  interest  to  be 
laid  out  in  bread;  15s  a  year  to  the  Poor  of  Walton;  and 
45s  to  the  Poor  of  Liverpool.  In  1698,  Tho.  [mas]  Fazakerley  gave 
Lands  to  the  use  of  the  Poor,  for  bread,  &c.  in  West  Derby. 
Tho.  [mas]  Berry  gave,  in  1601,  108s  a  year,  charged  on  a  mess, 
[uage]  called  the  Red  Cross,  in  the  Parish  of  St.  George  in  South- 
wark,  for  bread  to  [be  given  to]  the  Poor  of  Walton  and  Bootle. 


More,  the  fifth  Baronet,  on  the  21st  of  May  1810,  aged  seventy-three,  the  title  ex- 
pired. —  See  The  Moore  Rental,  edited  by  Thomas  Heywood  Esq. 

6  Sir  Vivian  Molyneux  was  the  fourth  son  of  Sir  Richard  Molyneux,  the  first 
Baronet,  and  brother  of  the  first  Viscount,  and  was  living  in  the  year  1665.  He 
died  unmarried. 

Antony  a  Wood  states  that  Sir  Vivian  was  son  of  Richard,  Viscount  Molyneux  of  Sef- 
ton,  and  travelled  into  several  foreign  countries ;  was  at  Rome,  when,  (though  Puri- 
tanically educated  by  Samuel  Radcliffe  of  Brasenose  College,)  he  changed  his  religion, 
returned  a  well-bred  man,  was  knighted,  and  in  the  grand  Rebellion  suffered  for  the 
Royal  cause.  He  translated  a  Spanish  book  into  English,  in  the  year  1672.  —  Fasti 
Oxon.  vol.  i.  p.  813.  Samuel  Radcliffe  was  no  Puritan ;  and  though  Sir  Vivian  be- 
came a  well-bred  man  at  Rome,  he  would  not  have  done  amiss  to  have  sedulously 
cultivated  the  good  morals  of  Oxford,  which,  from  the  text,  he  appears  to  have 
grossly  violated.  He  was  probably  a  man,  like  Canning's  "  patriot  of  all  countries, 
but  hia  own." 


VOL.  II.]  G  G 


226  llotttta  Crstwnaus. 

ffto<1  jpjjtt  1E1HSY1  — WEST  DERBY.     Certif.[ied] 

Etan.......*e  fill  431- 02s -08d,  viz.  paid  by   [the]   Kect. 

a^T7bt.  'eo4  [or]  of  Walton,  201  -  16^  from  [the]  Duchy  Court,  #  •  6"  -  8*; 
[rent  of]  House  and  Ground,  41;  Contributions]  from  [the] 
Inhabitants,]  151. 

An.  [no]  1719,  leave  [was]  given  to  build  an  Out  Isle  on  each 
side  of  y6  Chappell.     V.[ide]  Reg. \ister~]  B.[ook,~]  4. 
1  Warden. 

£ti)0ol.  UH|  m  is  a  School,  Free  to  y6  Town ;  when  it  had  its  beginning 
itUl  is  not  known;  (but  in  1667  Ann  Dwerrihouse  surrendered 
Lands  at  the  Manor  Court  of  "West  Derby  to  the  use  of  the  Free 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Mary.     Value  in  1834,  £166.     Registers  begin  in  1695. 

West  Derby,  in  the  Saxon  era,  was  probably  the  capital  of  the  Hundred,  and  the 
,  castle  erected  here  is  indicated  by  the  site  still  known  as  Castle  Hill.  In  the  50th 

Henry  III.  the  Honor  of  Derby  with  all  the  Manors  and  Lands,  West  Derby, 
Everton,  and  Crosby,  were  bestowed  upon  Edmund,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  on  the 
attainder  of  Robert  de  Ferrers,  eighth  Earl  of  Derby.  Dying  in  the  24th  Edward 
I.  the  Earl  of  Lancaster  was  found  to  have  held  the  Manor  and  Castle  of  West  Derby, 
the  Manor  of  Liverpool,  and  other  possessions.  His  son  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster, 
granted  the  Manor  of  West  Derby  juxta  Leverpoole,  to  Robert  de  Holland,  which  grant 
was  confirmed  by  Edward  II.  in  the  year  1319.  When  Henry  de  Bolingbroke,  Duke 
of  Lancaster,  became  King,  this  Manor  merged  in  the  Crown,  where  it  remained  until 
it  was  sold  in  the  year  1628,  to  Edward  Ditchfield,  and  others,  who,  in  the  year  1639, 
resold  it  to  James,  Lord  Stanley  and  Strange.  The  Manor  of  West  Derby  was  pur- 
chased by  Isaac  Green  Esq.  of  the  Legays,  who  had  bought  it  of  the  Derby  family, 
and  has  descended  through  the  Gascoignes,  to  the  Marquess  of  Salisbury,  the  present 
noble  owner. 

The  Chapel  was  probably  built  anterior  to  the  Reformation.  In  the  year  1650  it 
was  styled  "  an  antient  Chapel,"  and  three  miles  from  any  other  Church  or  Chapel. 
The  Tithes  were  then  worth  £140  per  annum,  of  which  two  parts  were  paid  to  Mr. 
Ward,  the  Minister  of  Walton ;  and  the  third  part  to  Mr.  Northcott,  "  a  godly  Minr 
who  supplyes  Derby  Chapell."  It  was  recommended  as  fit  to  be  made  a  Parish 
Church,  and  also  that  it  would  be  convenient  to  have  a  Church  built  near  Prescot 
Lane  in  West  Derby,  the  inhabitants  being  two  miles  from  any  Church.  —  Parl.  Inq. 
Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

The  Chapel  was  repaired  about  the  year  1680,  and  rebuilt  in  the  year  1792.  The 
Rector  of  Walton  is  the  Patron. 


of  SHamngton.  227 

School.)  [The]  Gifts  and  Legacyes  of  sev.[eral]  Inhab.  [itants] 
amount  to  81  p.[er]  an.[num,]  wch  is  charged  upon  Lands  and 
House;  and  ye  Sal. [ary]  of  ye  Master  is  made  up  by  Contrib. 
[utions]  from  [the]  Inhabitants,  201  p.[er]  an.[num,]  and  they 
name  ye  Master. 

nn  UtoetTtijOttSe  left  by  Will  in  1672,  12  penny  loaves  to 
12  poor  persons,  every  Sunday.  Jas  Woods  in  1678  left 
4  penny  loaves  to  the  Poor,  and  2s  to  the  School,  every  Sunday. 
Andrew  Mercer,  in  1689,  left  31  a  year,  [to  be  given]  in  bread, 
every  Sunday.  Tho.  [mas]  Aspe,  in  1698,  gave  lands  to  bind  out 
apprentice  a  poor  child,  yearly.  Eleanor  Gleast,  in  1699,  gave  40s 
a  year,  and  some  Land  in  Page  Moss,  for  the  same. 


Certified]  231-04».00d,        M-T- 

viz.    201   paid   by   [the]  Rect.[or]    of  Fam     __  ^ 

Walton;  Surp. [lice]  fees,  31- 4s.  p"^T~"  208 
8  m.[iles]  from  Walton. 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.     Value  in  1834,  £124.     Registers  begin  in  1711. 

Thomas  de  Forneby,  and  Alianora,  his  wife,  were  living  in  the  year  1372,  and 
seized  of  a  moiety  of  the  Manor,  which  has  descended  to  John  Formby  Esq.  The 
other  moiety  was  given  in  'the  year  1296,  25th  Edward  I.  by  Simon  de  Walton  to 
Nicholas  de  Blundell  and  descended  to  his  late  representative,  Charles  Robert  Blun- 
dell  of  Ince  Blundell  Esq. 

In  the  40th  Elizabeth,  Robert  Halsall,  Vicar  of  Walton,  bequeathed,  by  Will,  to 
the  Chapels  of  Formby,  Derby,  and  Kirkby,  vi8  viiid  each ;  and  to  the  Parish  Church 
of  Walton,  xl*  "  and  a  Coafer."  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xxiv. 

In  the  year  1650  Formby  Chapel  was  described  as  ancient  and  Parochial ;  and  the 
Tithes,  being  £70  a  year,  and  a  Cottage  worth  12d.  a  year,  were  received  by  Mr.  John 
Walton,  who  is  said  to  be  honest,  godly,  and  profitable  to  the  said  Township.  He 
paid  £10  a  year  out  of  his  Income  to  the  wife  of  Dr.  Clare,  according  to  an  order  of 
"  the  Honourable  Committee  of  Plundered  Ministers."  The  Chapel  was  said  to  be 
eight  miles  from  the  Mother  Church,  and  ought  to  be  made  a  distinct  Parish  of 
itself.  —  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

In  the  year  1705  the  Rev.  Timothy  Ellison,  the  Incumbent,  stated  that  Formby 
Chapel  was  founded  before  the  Reformation,  but  by  whom  he  could  not  learn,  although 


228  liotttia 

2  Wardens. 
$atl.  Formby  Hall.2 

is  a  School,  built  long  agoe  at  ye  expense  of  ye  Chap- 
pelry;  but  no  Sal.[ary]  belonged  to  it  till  about  12  years 
since,  when  Rich.[ard]  Marsh  of  London,  left  3001  [£400]  for 
two  Masters,  (by  Will  dated  9th  Sep.  1703,  he  left  £300  to  the 
upper,  and  £100  to  the  under  Master,)  wth  wch  money  an  Estate 
was  Bought,  (in  1709,  by  Eichard  Formby  Esq.  and  others,)  [and 
is]  now  let  for  211-10s-00d  p.[er]  an.[num.]  The  Masters  are 
nominated  by  7  Trustees.  [The]  WTritings  [are]  in  ye  hands  of 
Mr.  Ashurst.  Certif.[ied],  an. [no]  1718. 

),  (who  endowed  the  School,)  left  501  to  ye 
Poor,  for  wch  y6  Corp.  [oration]   of  Leverpool  have  Given 
Security,  and  pay  31  p.  [er]  an.  [num.] 

it  was  Parochial.  The  Tithes  were  paid  to  Mr.  Eichard  Eichmoud,  the  Eector  of 
Walton,  and  amounted  to  about  £90  a  year,  out  of  which  £20  a  year  was  allowed  to 
the  Minister  of  Formby ;  and  Mr.  Thomas  Masdin,  [Marsden]  the  Ticar  of  Walton, 
allowed  him  also  half  the  Easter  Dues,  amounting  to  about  £3  per  annum ;  the  Eec- 
tor and  Vicar  having  the  Donation  of  the  Chapel.  —  Notitia  Paroch.  Lamb.  Libr. 
vol.  vi.  p.  1537. 

A  Brief  was  obtained  in  the  year  1742,  and  £1,154  having  been  raised,  the  site  was 
changed,  and  the  Chapel  rebuilt  in  the  year  1746.  It  was  again  enlarged  in  the  year 
1830.  The  Eector  of  Walton  is  the  Patron. 

2  Formby  Hall  is  an  ancient  stone  mansion  with  plaster  cast  wings,  built  in  the 
fifteenth  century,  and  passed  on  the  death  of  the  Eev.  Eichard  Formby  L.L.B.  in  the 
year  1832,  (Founder  of  Holy  Trinity  Church,  Liverpool,  in  the  year  1792,)  to  his 
eldest  son,  John  Formby  Esq.  but  is  now  occupied  by  Miss  Formby.  The  Eev.  E. 
Formby,  married  Anne,  sole  child  and  heiress  of  Henry  Lonsdale  of  Field  House  near 

Bury  Esq.  and  his  wife widow  of  Mr.  Joshua  Wareing  of  Bury  (by  whom  she 

had  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Wareing,  who  married  the  Eev.  Eobert  Hankinson  Eough- 
sedge  M.A.  one  of  the  Eectors  of  Liverpool.) 


Drancnj  of  ^Barrtngton.  229 


Certif.[ied]   241  .  00*  •  00d, 
"viz.  paid  by  [the]  Rect.[or]   of  Wai-     Cofmuf.  l 

ton,  221-10s-00d;  by   [the]   ancient  Inhabitants]  of  Symond's    Fam 

Wood,*  8*;   [a]  parcell  of  Land,  let  for  18*,  (ded.[uct]  8d  chief    SJaa£ 
rent ;)  Chap.  [el]-yard,  1s  •  8d ;  Garden-spot,  let  for  3s ;  Surp.  [lice]       [R 
fees  very  small;  Contrib. [ution]  from  ye  Town-Stock,  51-10s-00d. 
No  dwelling-house  but  an  old  Bay  of  Building,  never  inhabited, 
in  wch  a  School  is  kept  for  Children.     40  years  agoe  the  Curate 
received  91-10S  out  of  ye  Town's  Stock,  wch  has  been  lately  aug- 
mented; but  [the]  payment  to  [the]  Curate  for  27  years  past  is 
Lesse  than  formerly.     Certif.[ied]  by  [the]  Curate,  an.  [no]  1719. 

0  School-house  but  an  old  building  belong,  [ing]  to  [the] 
Curate.  [The]  Master  teaches  to  read  and  write,  and  has 
41  •  10s  out  of  Lands  purchased  in  Billing,  besides  50s  int.  [erest]  of 
money  given  by  one  Sandford,  and  50s  p.  [er]  an.[num]  by  Mrs. 
Fazakerley.  Certif.  [led]  an.  [no]  1722. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Chad.     Value  in  1834,  £92.     Registers  begin  in  1678. 

Roger  Grefnet,  the  kinsman  of  Warin  Bussel  of  Penwortham,  a  Norinan  chief,  and 
two  others,  held  the  fifth  part  of  a  Knight's  fee,  in  Kyrkeby.  Adam  de  Molynes, 
Lord  of  Sefton,  son  of  Vivian  de  Molynes,  in  the  reign  of  William  II.  married 
Annota,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Benedict,  son  of  Roger  Gernet,  and  obtained  the 
Manor,  which  has  remained  uninterruptedly  in  the  noble  family  of  Molyneux  of 
Sefton  ever  since. 

The  Chapel  was  in  existence  at  the  Reformation.  It  was  rebuilt  by  a  Brief  dated 
the  5th  of  March  1766.  The  Patron  is  J.  S.  Leigh  Esq.  The  old  Font  is  very 
antique,  massive,  and  sufficiently  large  for  immersion.  Its  base  is  decorated  with  two 
wreathed  bands ;  and  on  the  sides  are  several  rude  figures,  supposed  to  represent 
Adam  and  Eve,  and  the  Twelve  Apostles. 

"  Kirby  olim  Kirkby  Vic.  Taxatio  Vicarise  per  Alexander  (de  Savenby,)  Cov.  et 
Litchf.  Epum.  Dat.  12  Kal.  Mart.  A.D.  1237.  Chartse  Miscellanise  in  the  Augment. 
Office,  marked  E.  34." — Ducarel's  Repertory  of  Vic.  But  it  may  be  doubted  whether 
this  Kirby  is  here  meant. 

In  the  year  1650  Kirkby  was  returned  as  an  antient  Parochial  Chapelry,  four  and 
a  half  miles  from  the  Mother  Church.  There  belonged  to  the  Chapel  a  little  house, 
an  orchard,  a  Chapel-yard,  and  a  small  croft  of  about  three  roods,  worth  altogether 
12s.  4d.  per  annum.  The  Tithes  of  the  said  Township  were  valued  at  £52.  10s.  per 


230  $otttta  ©eatrtensia, 


C&artttr*.  UH  tt»f  n  to  [the]  Poor  901,  by  sev.  [eral]  persons  ;  101  p.  [er] 
lH^  an.[num,]  now  called  a  Town's  Stock,  to  be  disposed  of  at 
ye  discretion  of  ye  Trustees  ;  51  •  10s  p.  [er]  an.  [num,]  in  Land,  to 
bind  out  poor  Children  in  Kirkby  and  Derby. 


400000    a^HIWiai  ******—"  —      Certif.[ied]    611.18*. 03d,  viz.  20», 
pr.AMo.Tib.  4    llli  3  Paid  b7    Lthel    Improp. [riator;]    V-4P,  rent  of  a  field 


6-  s  BIwslBla  given  by  Mr.  Barns;  Small  dues,  at  4d  a  house; 
Fam  765  'feSSlgSaaj  heath  ground,  [at]  1s  per  acre;  some  other  ground,  at 
[Pap!  Faro.  23]  4d  per  acre ;  wtb  other  small  Tyths,  Easter  Offerings,  and  Surp. 
D?sSSSFamP'92  Qice]  Fees,  451. 14s -03d.  (Ded.[uct]  51  charge  for  collecting  y™.) 

[P.  72.     Q.  11.     L         J 

annum,  of  which  the  Minister  had  received  after  the  rate  of  £41.  6s.  8d.  per  annum ; 
Mr.  Kaye,  the  Vicar  of  Walton,  had  received  23s.  4d. ;  and  Mrs.  Clare,  wife  of 
Dr.  Clare,  formerly  Rector  of  Walton,  and  a  delinquent,  had  had  the  residue  allowed 
for  her  fifth  part.  Mr.  Pickering,  the  late  Minister,  for  some  reason  not  assigned, 
had  left  his  Cure  there,  and  the  place  was  then  vacant.  The  Chapelry  was  recom- 
mended to  be  made  a  Parish.  —  Part.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

2  Simonswood  was  a  Forest,  and  enclosed  after  the  coronation  of  Henry  II.  In 
the  year  1227  it  was  stated  to  be  an  appurtenance  of  Kirkby  belonging  to  the  heirs  of 

Richard  Fitz  Roger.      The  heiress  of  Fitz  Roger  married Gernet,  from  whom 

Simonswood  came  to  the  family  of  Molyneux.  The  origin  of  this  payment,  which 
appears  to  be  of  some  antiquity,  is  unknown. 

1  Formerly  dedicated  to  St.  Elfin,  now  to  St.  Helen.  Value  in  1834,  £  .  Regis- 
ters begin  May  1581 ;  defective  from  October  1595  to  July  1599. 

Shortly  after  the  Conquest,  Roger  de  Poictou  stationed  his  own  Baron,  Paganus  de 
Villiers,  at  Warrington,  to  command  the  important  passage  of  Latchford.  Almeric 
Pincerna,  son  of  William  Pincerna,  who  died  about  the  year  1233,  acquired  the 
Barony  of  Warrington  in  marriage  with  Beatrice,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  Matthew 
de  Villiers,  son  of  Paganus  de  Villiers,  and  was  progenitor  of  the  Butlers  of  War- 
rington. Sir  William  Botyler,  son  and  heir  of  Almeric,  obtained  a  Charter  for  a 
Fair  on  St.  James's  Day,  within  his  Manor  of  Warrington  in  the  year  1254 ;  and 
was  Sheriff  of  Lancashire,  and  Governor  of  Lancaster  Castle,  in  the  year  1258.  The 
Manor  was  held  by  his  immediate  descendants  until  it  was  sold  by  Edward  Butler 
Esq.  (son  of  Sir  Thomas  Butler,)  who  died  s.p.  about  the  year  1586.  The  purchaser 
was  Robert  Dudley,  Earl  of  Leicester,  who,  by  his  Will  dated  the  1st  of  August  1587, 
empowered  his  Executor  to  sell  all  his  lands  in  Lancashire,  late  belonging  to  Sir 
Thomas  Butler,  and  Edward,  his  son,  for  the  benefit  of  Sir  Robert  Dudley,  his  base 


IBeanerg  of  OTarrington.  231 

Patron,  and  Improp.  [riator,  the]  Lord  of  Bewsey,  Mr.  Atherton. 

An.  [no]  34  H.[enry]  8,  the  Impropriation  was  granted  for  200 
years;  wch  term  expires  an. [no]  1742. 

Patron,  (an.  [no]  Edw.  [ard]  6.  3io)  of  ye  Church  of  Weryngton, 
Sr  Thomas  Butler.  Instit.[ution\  B.[pok^\  l}  p.  45. 

son.  The  Manor  of  Warrington,  and  its  appurtenances,  was  the  joint  purchase  of 
Eichard  Bold  of  Bold  Esq.  and  Sir  Thomas  Ireland,  afterwards  of  Beausy,  Knt.;  and 
the  Manor  was  confirmed  to  the  latter  by  the  Queen,  in  the  year  1599.  In  the  year 
1631  it  was  sold  by  Thomas  Ireland  of  Beausy  Esq.  to  William  Booth  Esq.  son  and 
heir  of  Sir  George  Booth,  afterwards  Lord  Delamer,  and  in  the  year  1736  was  trans- 
ferred by  Mary,  daughter  and  heiress  of  George,  second  Earl  of  Warrington,  to  her 
husband,  the  Eight  Hon.  Harry  Grey,  fourth  Earl  of  Stamford,  by  whom  it  was  con- 
veyed by  sale,  about  the  year  1766,  to  John  Blackburne  Esq.  the  maternal  descendant 
of  the  Irelands  of  Beausy.  It  is  now  Tested  in  his  great-grandson,  John  Ireland 
Blackburne  Esq.  late  M.P.  for  the  Borough  of  Warrington. 

A  Church  existed  here  at  the  Norman  Survey ;  and  by  a  deed,  without  date,  Mat- 
thew de  Villiers,  and  his  brothers,  granted  to  the  Priory  and  Canons  of  Thurgarton, 
in  the  county  of  Nottingham,  all  the  land  of  Lund,  the  service  of  Ealph  de  Sanchi, 
and  the  Church  of  Warrington.  This  donation  was  confirmed  by  Sir  William 
Boteler,  who  names  his  wife,  Dionysia,  and  Matthew  de  Villiers,  his  grandfather. 
He  was,  therefore,  the  son  of  Almeric  Pincerna,  and  is  mentioned  in  the  Butler  Pedi- 
gree as  a  ward  of  the  Earl  of  Ferrers,  in  the  year  1234.  The  Church  of  Werinton 
was  valued  at  £13.  6s.  8d.  in  the  year  1291.  On  the  10th  Kalends  of  July  1357,  John 
le  Butler  of  Warrington  presented,  and  Eoger,  Bishop  of  Coventry  and  Lichfield, 
instituted  John  de  Swynlegh  to  the  "  Vicarage"  of  Warrington ;  which  he  resigned 
before  the  5th  of  July  1358. — Lib.  2  fol.  134  A.  in  Cur.  lAchf.  The  Advowson  was 
sold,  with  the  Manor,  by  Edward  Butler  Esq.  to  Thomas,  afterwards  Sir  Thomas 
Ireland  of  Beausy,  whose  grand-daughter,  Margaret,  sole  heiress  of  Thomas  Ireland 
of  Grey's  Inn  Esq.  married  Sir  Gilbert  Ireland  of  Hutt  and  Hale  Knt.  but  dying  a 
widow,  s.p.  in  the  year  1675,  she  devised  this  Advowson  and  her  large  Estates  to  her 
cousin,  Eichard  Atherton,  son  and  heir  of  John  Atherton  Esq.  and  his  wife,  Eleanor, 
sister  of  the  above  named  Thomas  Ireland.  In  1797,  Henrietta  Maria,  daughter  and 
coheiress  of  Eobert  Vernon  Atherton  Esq.  conveyed  the  Advowson,  and  a  portion 
of  the  Estates,  to  her  husband,  Thomas,  second  Baron  Lilford,  and  they  are  now 
vested  in  her  son,  the  Eight  Hon.  Thomas  Atherton  Powys,  Lord  Lilford. 

The  Church  is  a  handsome  cruciform  structure,  with  a  tower  rising  from  the  inter- 
sections of  the  transepts.  It  is  said  to  have  been  rebuilt  in  the  reign  of  William  III. 
The  Chancel,  of  the  decorated  era,  is  one  of  the  finest  of  that  style  in  the  County. 
The  Crypt  beneath  the  Chancel,  is  an  interesting  relic.  There  are  two  Chapels  within 
the  Church  :  one  founded  by  the  Butlers,  and  called  "  Butler's  Chantry,"  in  the  year 
1548,  and  afterwards  "the  Bewsey  Chapel,"  containing  the  splendidly  decorated  tomb 
of  Sir  Thomas  Butler,  who  died  in  the  year  1522,  and  of  Margaret,  his  wife,  daughter 


232  ilotttta 

An.[no]  1684,  10s  p.[er]  an.[num,]  for  a  Sermon  upon  [the] 
Distribution]  of  30s  p.[er]  an.[num]  to  [the]  Poor,  given  by 
Josh  Barns. 

The  Parish  is  divided  into  4  Quarters.  Ttfe  2  Churchward, 
[ens]  who  serve  for  Warrington  Quarter  are,  by  Ancient  custom, 

of  John  Delves  of  Doddington  in  the  county  of  Chester.  In  the  year  1640,  when  Eandle 
Holme  visited  the  Church,  there  was  "  in  the  Chauncell  a  faire  marble  stone  inlayed 
with  brasse,  and  pillers  and  turretts,  and  in  brasse  therein  a  man  wth  a  curious  Cote, 
embrauthered,  prayinge,  and  standing  at  his  feete  Delues  Cote,  and  writt  under — '  Of 
your  charity  pray  for  the  soule  of  Mr.  Eichard  Delues,  Canon  in  the  Cathedral 
Church  of  Lichfeild,  and  parson  of  this  church  of  Warrington ;  dyed  the  22  of  Nou- 
ember  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God  1527.'  "  His  name  does  not  occur  in  Barnes's 
Catalogue  of  the  Rectors.  Holme  also  recorded  that  in  the  west  window  of  Butler's 
Chapel  is  written — "Orate  p  Anima  Tho.  Butler,  militis,  et  p'sp'o  statu  Margrete 
Butler,  Vidue,  ac  Tho.  Butler,  ar.  ac  omnium  filiar'  dicti  Margrete,  quse  Margreta 
hanc  fenestram  fieri  fecit  An0  D'ni  M.c.C.c.c.c.xxm." 

It  appears  probable  that  at  the  time  the  window  was  made  nearly  all  the  indivi- 
duals mentioned  were  living.  Sir  Thomas  Butler  died  in  the  year  1522 ;  his  son, 
Thomas  Butler  Esq.  (afterwards  Knighted,)  died  in  the  year  1550 ;  and  Margaret, 
the  widow,  afterwards  married  Eichard  Butler  of  EawcUffe  Esq.  The  daughters, 
eight  in  number,  were  married  into  the  best  families  in  Lancashire  and  Cheshire. — 
Lane.  Ped.  vol.  xii. 

The  other  Chapel  in  this  Church  was  founded  by  the  Masseys  of  Eixton,  and  was 
formerly  called  "the  Eixton  Chapel,"  and  afterwards  "Massey's  ChapeL"  In  the  year 
1640  Eaudle  Holme  noticed  here  "  an  auntient  monument  of  a  man  in  armour,  lyinge 
vnder  an  arch  in  the  wall,  and  reported  to  be  a  Massy."  The  Eixton  Estate  passed 
with  Katherine,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Alan  Eixton  of  Eixton,  in  the  16th  year  of 
Edward  III.  to  Sir  Hamon  Mascy,  second  son  of  Hugh  Mascy  of  Tatton  in  the  county 
of  Chester,  and  the  male  line  failed  in  the  year  1760,  on  the  death  of  Francis  Massey 
Esq.  one  of  whose  daughters  and  coheiresses  married  Dr.  Whitham,  by  whom  this 
Chapel  was  sold  to  Thomas  Patten  of  Bank  Esq.  The  Chapel  is  now  called  "  the 
Patten  Chapel,"  and  is  the  property  of  John  Wilson  Patten  Esq.  M.P.  A  third 
Chantry  existed  in  the  Church  at  the  Dissolution. 

The  Font  in  this  Church  was  the  gift  of  two  Stone-masons  of  the  Parish. 

In  the  year  1650  Warrington  was  returned  as  having  a  mansion-house,  barn,  and 
garden,  one  half  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Eobert  Yates,  Minister  of  Warrington 
Church,  and  worth  30s.  a  year ;  the  other  half  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Peter  Harrison, 
under  a  Lease  from  Mr.  Thomas  Ireland,  deceased,  and  worth  30s.  a  year.  The  whole 
Tithes  were  worth  £151.  Is.  8d.  "  The  said  Yates  came  in  by  the  gift  and  presentation 
of  Gilbert  Ireland,  Esq.  Patron,  and  also  by  the  free  election  of  the  Congregation. 
Mr.  Yates  is  a  man  of  a  good  life,  howbeit  he  doth  dissent  from,  and  not  submit  to 
the  present  Government,  and  did  neglect  to  observe  and  keep  the  days  of  Humiliation 


j  of  ^Harrington.  233 

named  by  Ld  Warrington,  and  Mr.  Legh  of  Lime ;  each  names 
one.  The  3  wch  serve  for  ye  other  Quarters  are  chosen  by  house- 
row.  4  Assistants. 

These  4  Quarters  contain  8  TownshP8.      Q.[uarter]    1,    [the]  (Tritons. 
Town?  of  Warrington.     Q.  [uarter]  2,  Burtonwood.     Q.  [uarter]  3, 
Bixton  and  Glasebrook.     Q.  [uarter]  4,  Woolston,  Poulton,  Mar- 
tinscroft,  and  Fearnhead. 

and  Thanksgiving  enjoyned  by  the  present  Parliament."  He  received  £20  per  annum 
from  the  said  Mr.  Ireland ;  and  Tithe  Corn  in  Warrington  liberties,  and  a  Tithe  barn 
belonging  to  George  Booth  of  Dunham  Massey  Esq.  which  are  conceived  to  be  worth 
£60  per  annum ;  and  some  small  Tithe  worth  20s.  per  annum.  Tithe  Hay,  worth 
£3  per  annum,  was  received  by  Gilbert  Ireland  Esq.  —  Part.  Inq.  MSS.  Lamb.  Libr. 
This  refractory  Minister  was  so  strongly  opposed  to  the  Engagement  that  he  was 
tried  for  his  life  at  Lancaster  for  speaking  against  it,  and  prepared  his  dying  speech, 
fully  expecting  that  he  should  be  capitally  convicted  and  executed.  —  Calamy,  vol.  ii. 
p.  380.  And  yet  on  the  9th  of  September  1650,  Oliver  Cromwell,  (and  he  was  no 
hypocrite,)  writing  to  the  Governor  of  Edinburgh  Castle,  said,  "the  Ministers  in 

England  are  supported,  and  have  liberty  to  preach  the  Gospel No  man 

hath  been  troubled  in  England,  or  Ireland,  for  preaching  the  Gospel."  —  Merle 
D'Aubigne's  Protector,  p.  184. 

In  the  year  1705  the  Rev.  Samuel  Shaw,  the  Eector,  stated  that  the  Tithes  were  all 
impropriated,  and  were  then  in  the  possession  of  the  Earl  of  Warrington,  John 
Atherton  of  Beausy  Esq.  and  the  Hospital  at  Warwick,  no  part  of  them  belonging  to 
the  Church.  At  the  making  of  the  impropriation  it  was  agreed  that  £20  a  year 
should  be  paid  to  the  Incumbent,  which  he  received  from  Mr.  Atherton,  the  Patron. 

24s.  a  year  was  given  to  the  Church,  by Unsworth,  [in  the  text,  Mr.  Barns.] 

"The  Valor  of  the  Living  is  two  years'  profits,  and  I  paid  the  £40."  —  Notitia  Paroch. 
Lamb.  Libr. 

Samuel  Shaw  was  instituted  to  the  Rectory  of  Warrington  January  10th  1690-1, 
on  the  presentation  of  James  Holte  Esq.  M.A.  of  Castletou  Hall,  near  Rochdale,  the 
Guardian  and  Uncle  of  John  Atherton  of  Atherton  Esq.  the  Patron,  then  a  minor. 
Mr.  Shaw  died  here  in  the  year  1717,  and  appears  to  have  bequeathed  a  Legacy  to  the 
Chapel  of  Hollinfare.  He  was  appointed  one  of  the  King's  Preachers  for  Lancashire, 
and  from  a  letter  of  his  to  Bishop  Stratford,  dated  October  27,  1693,  appears  to  have 
had  some  control  over  the  appointment  of  the  other  Preachers.  He  says,  "  During  the 
last  half  year,  by  me,  and  others  for  me,  above  40  sermons  have  been  preached."  He 
had  chiefly  preached  at  Hollinfare,  two  Sermons  in  each  month,  and  states  that  Mr. 
Hunter  formerly  preached  monthly  at  Hollinfare,  and  Mr.  Bell  did  so  before  him.  (See 
Huyton,  p.  179.)  The  following  account  of  James  the  First's  "Regulations"  of  these 
Preachers  or  Chaplains,  first  appointed  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  may  not  be  inappro- 
priately given  here,  in  the  words  of  the  original,  formerly  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
VOL.  II.]  H  H 


234  $otttta 

[There  are]  5  Wardens.  2  for  Warrington;  [and]  3  for  ye 
other  3  Quarters. 

Bewsey  Hall,3  (Atherton;)  Penketh,4  (Atherton;)  Bruch,5  (Mr. 
Legh  of  Lime ;)  Bradley,6  (Mr.  Legh  of  Lime ;)  Kixton.? 

Grammar  J^^J  ty  Free  School  here  was  Founded  an.  [no]  1526,  by  Tho.  [mas] 
<gg|  Butler  Esq  accora.  [ing]  to  ye  WiU  of  Sr  Tho.  [mas]  Butler 
of  Beusey,  and  Lands  were  purchased  for  ye  endowment  of  it,  wch 
amount  now  (1718)  to  601  p.  [er]  an.  [num.]  The  Master  is  to  be  a 
Priest,  in  order  to  say  Masse  for  his  Scholars.  He  is  named  by  ye 

Shaw :  "  Right  Reverend  Father  in  God  and  Trusty  and  well-beloved,  we  greet  you 
well.  Whereas  out  of  our  zeal  to  God's  Glory  and  care  of  the  souls  of  many  Thou- 
sands of  our  Subjects  within  the  County  of  Lancaster,  (there  being  great  want  of 
maintenance  for  Preachers  in  most  places  of  that  Shire,)  we  have  appointed  £200  of 
our  free  Gift  and  during  our  Pleasure  to  be  paid  yearly  to  four  Preachers,  who  are  to 
Preach  in  the  several  parts  of  that  County  among  the  Impropriations  there,  by  the 
appointment  of  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese.  We  now  understand  that  the  said 
Preachers,  after  they  are  admitted  to  those  Places,  do  accept  of  other  Benefices  re- 
mote from  these.  And  namely  James  Martin,  one  of  the  said  Preachers,  hath  now 
lately  accepted  of  the  cure  of  the  Town  and  Parish  of  Preston,  and  yet  intended  to 
hold  our  said  Pension  contrary  to  our  Gracious  Meaning  in  bestowing  the  same.  We 
have  therefore  thought  it  fit  to  let  you  know  that  our  Pleasure  is  that  henceforth 
those  Pensions  be  paid  to  none  but  such  as  do  wholly  and  only  attend  those  Impro- 
priations for  which  we  first  conferred  the  same.  And  if  any  of  those  four  Preachers 
now  have  or  hereafter  shall  have  any  Benefice  with  cure  of  souls  (unless  it  be  some 
Vicarage  lying  among  those  Impropriations  where  he  is  appointed  to  Preach)  that 
you  then  presently  nominate  and  assign  some  other  sufficient  and  conformable 
Minister  to  this  Pension.  And  our  Pleasure  is  that  you  our  Receiver  of  our  said 
County,  or  any  other  our  officers  whom  it  may  concern,  do  make  payment  and  allow- 
ance thereof  to  such  Preachers  only  as  our  said  Bishop  shall  appoint.  Given  at 
Westminster  the  2d  of  June,  1621." — Lane.  MSS.  A  Scotch  King  deploring  the 
spiritual  destitution  of  many  thousands  of  his  subjects,  and  acknowledging  the  great 
poverty  of  the  Church,  brings  forward  a  notable  project,  and  assigns  £200  a  year 
amongst  four  Preachers  to  meet  the  appalling  want !  It  is  said  that  there  are,  at  the 
present  time,  six  millions  of  Englishmen  altogether  destitute  of  religious  teaching, 
and  the  plans  suggested  to  remedy  the  evil  are  precisely  in  the  spirit  of  this  wise 
Monarch. 

Warrington,  eminent  for  its  Charities  and  the  number  of  its  valuable  Institutions, 
has  had  the  honour  of  giving  name  to  a  Society,  patronized  by  the  Diocesans  of 
Chester  and  Manchester,  which  appears  to  have  originated  in  the  benevolent  minds  of 


IBeanerg  of  Harrington.  235 

Lord  of  Beusey;  but  if  not  named  in  a  month,  then  ye  Rect.[or] 
of  Warrington  puts  in;  and  if  he  neglect  a  month  longer  to 
appoint,  then  ye  Warden  of  Manchester  has  ye  Nomination. 
V.[ide]  Found,  [ation.]  New  Reg. 

The  Schoolmr  to  take  of  any  Scholar  learning  Grammar,  four 
pennies  in  a  year,  viz.  in  the  quarter  after  Xmas,  a  cock  penny ; 
and  in  the  three  other  quarters,  one  potation  penny ;  and  for  the 
same  he  should  make  a  Drinking  for  all  the  Scholars  in  any  of  the 
sd  three  quarters.  And  every  Sunday,  Wednesday,  and  Friday, 
the  Master  and  Scholars  to  go  to  the  Parish  Church,  to  sing  and 
join  in  the  Service.  And  the  Master  shd  have  a  Common  Seal 
made,  to  he  delivered  from  Master  to  Master. 

Bishop  Stratford  and  Archdeacon  Entwisle,  in  the  year  1697,  having  for  its  pious  ob- 
ject the  relief  of  the  indigent  Widows  and  Orphans  of  meritorious  Clergymen  who 
have  officiated  within  the  Archdeaconries  of  Chester,  Manchester,  and  Liverpool. 
The  Charity  is  principally  supported  by  annual  subscriptions  and  donations,  amount- 
ing to  about  £1,500  a  year;  and  the  relief  is  judiciously  dispensed,  in  small  grants,  by 
a  Committee,  the  Diocese  of  Manchester  being  the  greatest  recipient  of  its  bounty  and 
the  smallest  contributor  to  its  funds.  —  See  Report  for  1849. 

2  I  have  not  been  able  to  discover  whether  this  Joseph  Barnes  was  of  the  same 
family  as  Richard  Barnes  D.D.  who  was  born  at  Bold  near  Warrington,  became  Fel- 
low of  Brasenose  College  in  the  year  1552,  was  appointed  Chancellor  and  Canon 
Residentiary  of  York  in  the  year  1561,  Bishop  of  Carlisle  in  the  year  1570,  and  in  the 
year  1575  Bishop  of  Durham,  "  and  ever  after  a  favourer  of  Puritanism."     He  died 
on  the  24th  of  August  1587,  aged  fifty-five.     He  once  suspended  that  apostolical  man, 
Bernard  Q-ilpin,  through  the  false  information  of  Chancellor  Barnes,  (his  brother,) 
but  afterwards  restored  him,  and  became  his  friend. — See  Life  of  Bernard  Oilpint  by 
the  Rev.  W.  Gilpin,  8vo.  1753. 

3  Bewsey  Hall,  surrounded  by  a  moat,  still  maintained  in  tolerable  preservation,  is 
now  a  building  partly  of  brick,  but  erected  anterior  to  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth. 
It  was  at  an  early  era  the  seat  of  the  Butlers,  and  Sir  William  Butler  lived  here  in 
the  year  1401 ;  and  upon  his  widow  the  flagrant  outrage  was  committed  by  William 
Pool  Esq.  in  the  year  1425,  alluded  to  by  Lord  Coke,  3  Inst.     In  the  year  1617, 
James  I.  visited  Thomas  Ireland  Esq.  at  this  place  in  his  royal  progress  from  Lathom 
House,  and  conferred  upon  him  the  honour  of  knighthood.      It  is  now  the  property 
of  Lord  Lilford. 

4  Penketh  Hall  is  in  the  Parish  of  Prescot,  though  adjacent  to  the  Parish  of  War* 
rington. — See  Note  7,  p.  204,  PEESCOT. 

5  Bruch  or  Birch  Hall,  the  old  Manor  House  of  Poulton-with-Fearnhead,  passed 
with  Joan,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Gilbert  Haydock,  in  marriage  to  Sir  Peter  Legh 


236  fiotttta 

Cfjarttorf.  (2(f^K  fy*  Benefactions  to  ye  Poor  are  contained  in  sev.[eral]  large 
%a§a  Tables  hung  up  in  ye  Church,  wch  are  laid  out  in  Land  by 
certain  Trustees,  and  amount  to  461  p.[er]  an.  [num.] 

There  is  likewise  1501  in  money,  [the]  Int.[erest]  of  which  is 
given  to  ye  Poor  at  ye  discretion  of  ye  Trustees. 

Certif.[ied]  an.  [no]  1725,  y*  ye  Estates  in  Land  vested  in  Trus- 
tees, for  ye  Education  of  Poor  Children  of  ye  Towns?  of  Warring- 
ton,  and  binding  ym  out  Apprentices,  was  481-5s-00d  p.[er]  an. 
[num;]  and  money  at  Interest,  given  by  sev.[eral]  persons  for  ye 
use  of  [the]  Poor,  was  2401-15s-0d,  besides  151  not  yet  put  out. 

Out  of  ye  Estate  given  to  ye  Poor,  51  p.  [er]  an.  [num]  is  paid  to 
ye  Master  of  ye  New  School  behind  Trinity  Chappell,  for  teaching 
20  poor  Boyes  to  read,  write,  or  cast  Accounts. 

of  Lyme  Knt.  who  received  his  death  wound  on  the  field  of  Azincourt,  and  died  after- 
wards at  Paris,  in  the  year  1422.  This  Manor  was  given  by  his  descendant,  Sir 
Peter  Legh  of  Lyme  M.P.  who  died  in  the  year  1636,  to  his  fourth  son,  Peter,  whose 
son  and  successor,  Piers  Legh  of  Birch  Esq.  living  in  the  year  1666,  left  issue  an 
only  daughter  and  heiress,  Frances,  who  married  her  kinsman,  Peter  Legh  of  Lyme 
Esq.  living  in  the  year  1728,  and  thus  conveyed  again  this  Manor  to  the  elder 
branch  of  the  family.  It  has,  however,  been  sold  by  the  family,  and  was  bought 
about  the  year  1825  by  Thomas  Parr  of  Warrington  Esq.  It  is  now  a  modern  brick 
house. 

6  Bradley  Manor  belonged  to  John  de  Heydock  in  the  3d  Eichard  II.  1379,  and 
Sir  Gilbert  Haydock,  in  the  year  1344,  obtained  a  License  for  free  warren  in  Bradele. 
The  Estate  passed  to  Sir  Peter  Legh  of  Lyme  in  marriage  with  Joan,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Sir  Gilbert  Haydock,  about  the  year  1412.     In  the  time  of  Leland  there 
was  a  Park,  which  has  now  disappeared ;  but  two  fields,  called  "  the  Parks,"  indicate 
its  former  existence.      The  moat  and  gateway  of  the  old  hall,  alone  remain.     The 
building  now  called  Bradley  Hall,  is  a  farm-house,  the  property  of  Thomas  Legh  of 
Lyme  Park  Esq.  L.L.D.  and  F.A.S. 

7  Rixton  Hall,  the  seat  of  a  family  of  the  same  name  in  the  time  of  King  John, 
whose  heiress  married  in  the  early  part  of  the  fourteenth  century,  Sir  Hamon  Mascy, 
whose  last  male  descendant  died  in  the  year  1760,  leaving  three  daughters  and  co- 
heiresses, the  eldest  of  whom  married  Stephen  Tempest  of  Broughton  in  the  county 
of  York  Esq. ;  the  second  married  Dr.  Whitham  of  the  same  county  ;  and  the  third 
married  Mr.  Scroope.     Dr.  Whitham  sold  the  Hall  to  Thomas  Patten  of  Bank  Esq. 
and  it  is  now  the  property  of  John  Wilson  Patten  Esq. — Baines's  Hist,  of  Lane. 

The  Hall  (which  contained  a  Domestic  Roman  Catholic  Chapel,)  was  formerly  sur- 
rounded by  a  moat,  part  of  which  still  remains.  This  house  was  rebuilt  in  the 
year  1822. 


Heanerg  of  ©saamnaton.  237 

Certif.[ied]   Fam 50 




that  nothing  certain  belongs  to  it,  but  Pap,  ram.  2 

41-19s-00d,  being  Int.  [erest]  of  money  given.     There  is  also  due    [P.  a  Q.  e.] 
21  •  5s,  rent  of  House  and  Orchard  during  a  Lease  for  Lives ;  and 
121-13s-4d  from  [the]  Inhab.  [itants,]  by  contract,  during  yelife  of 
Mr.  Shaw,  the  Rectour,  who  is  since  dead. 

There  was  a  piece  of  Land  given  by  Tho.[mas]  Bold  an.  [no] 
1605,  in  Trust,  for  ye  Building  a  Chappell  thereon,  to  be  called 
Burton- Wood,  for  Divine  Service  and  Teaching  School,  according 
to  the  Will  of  Tho.  [mas]  Derbyshire.  V.  [ide]  Reg.  [ister]  B.  [ook,~] 
2,  p.  285. 

An.  [no]  1627,  [an]  Inquis.  [ition  was  held]  cone,  [erning]  sev. 
[eral]  sums  of  money  given  tow.  [ards]  Founding  a  Chappell  near 
ye  Windebank  in  Burton-wood,  and  to  ye  maintenance  thereof, 
and  tow.  [ards]  ye  maintenance  of  a  Minister  and  Schoolmaster. 
MS.  Hulm.  98,  A.  16,  50. 

An.  [no]  1674,  1  Ward,  [en,  and]  1  Assist,  [ant.]  An.  [no]  1675, 
1  Ward,  [en  and]  1  Assist,  [ant.] 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.     Value  in  1834,  £50.     Registers  begin  in  1668. 

"  Burntwood  alias  Burtonwood,"  according  to  Ecton.  It  was  originally  one  of  the 
great  Lancashire  forests,  but  was  recommended  not  to  be  disafforested  by  the  twelve 
Knights  of  the  county  who  perambulated  the  forests  in  the  year  1227,  12th  Henry 
III.  Here  the  Butlers  had  the  privilege  of  getting  timber  for  their  castle,  buildings, 
and  fuel.  In  the  3d  Eichard  II.  1379,  John  Butler  had  lands  and  a  mill  in  Burton- 
wood. 

The  Chapel  was  founded  by  Thomas  Bold  of  Bold  Esq.  by  Deed  dated  the  27th 
of  September  1605,  by  which  he  conveyed  a  plot  of  land,  lately  improved  from  the 
waste  in  Burtonwood,  to  Trustees,  whom  he  directs  "  in  convenient  tyme  to  erect  a 
Chappell  or  house  of  praier  upon  the  said  lands,  which  from  henceforth  shall  be  called 
Burtonwood  Chappell ;"  and  the  Trustees  shall  "  at  all  tymes  after  the  buildinge 
thereof,  sufficientlie  repaire  and  upholde  the  same."  They  are  further  directed  to  "elect 
and  choose  lawfull  and  fit  p'sons  to  reade  dyvine  service  and  teache  Grammar  Schole 
at  the  said  Chappell,  within  convenient  time  after  the  same  is  erected,"  according  to 
the  intent  of  Thomas  Darbishire.  It  appeared  on  an  Inquisition  taken  before  Bishop 
Bridgeman  at  Wigan,  March  28th  1627,  that  Thomas  Darbishire  of  Burtonwood,  yeo- 
man, by  Will  dated  the  23d  of  January  1601,  had  designed  to  found  a  Chapel  at 
Windybank  in  Burtonwood,  and  for  this  purpose  bequeathed  to  Trustees,  threescore 


238  fiotttta  Ceatwnst*. 

The  Warden  who  serves  for  this  Quarter  is  Church  and  Chap. 
[el]  Warden  too. 

4m.[iles]  from  [the]  Par.[ish]  Ch.[urch,]  and  2  m.[iles]  from 
any  other  Ch.  [urch.] 


is  a  Scihool>  Free  to  C^6]  fr^ab-  [itants,  and  the]  Sal. 
[ary]  of  [the]  Master  91-  13s-  lld,  viz.  Int.[erest]  of  money 
2i.9s.gd.  Rent  from  house,  Orchard,  and  small  Field,  during  a 
Lease  for  Lives,  I1  •  2s  •  6d,  during  ye  life  of  Mr.  Shaw,  y6  Rect.  [or,] 
(since  dead;)  from  [the]  Inhabitants,)  61.l8-8d. 

[The]  Trustees  for  [the]  Chap,  [el]  and  School  name  ye  Master. 
Certif.[ied]  an.  [no]  1717.  V.[ide]  nom.  [ination]  of  a  Master, 
an.  [no]  1700.  Pap.  Eeg. 

An.  [no]  1627,  [an]  Inquis.  [ition  was  held]  conc.[erning]  sev. 
[eral]  sums  of  money  giv.[en]  tow.[ards  the]  maintenance  of  a 
Schoolmaster,  V.[ide]  Chappell. 

[The]  Trustees  for  [the]  Chap,  [el]  Stock  pay  ye  Master  one 
third  yearly.  His  whole  Sal.  [ary]  now  amounts  to  ab1  101  p.[er] 
an.  [num.]  Certif.[ied]  an.  [no]  1725. 

pounds,  to  purchase  land  or  a  rent  charge  for  the  maintenance  of  a  Minister  or 
Reader.  The  Jurors  found  that  a  Chapel  had  been  built  more  than  20  years,  accord- 
ing to  the  Testator's  intention,  at  the  common  charge  of  the  Town,  and  that  it 
remained  in  the  hands  of  the  Trustees  named  in  Mr.  Bold's  grant  of  the  site.  And 
they  also  found  that  about  £60  had  been  left  in  various  sums  for  the  use  of  the 
Minister  and  Schoolmaster.  —  Harl.  MSS.  1722,  fo.  49. 

Burtonwood  Chapel  in  the  year  1650  was  said  to  be  "  very  unconvenient  for  the 
use  of  the  Township,  and  ought  to  be  set  in  the  centre  of  the  said  Township  for  the 
conveniency  of  all  the  Inhabitants,  and  to  be  made  a  Parish,  and  parts  of  Prescott 
annexed  to  it."  There  were  several  donations  by  various  individuals  for  the  mainten- 
ance of  a  Minister,  amounting  to  £8.  6s.  8d.  the  benefit  of  which  being  13s.  4d.  was 
paid  annually.  The  Tithes  were  held  by  Gilbert  Ireland  Esq.  and  were  worth  £50 
per  annnm.  "  Mr.  Wm  Bagerley  [Baguley]  is  the  Minr  and  came  in  by  the  election 
of  all  or  most  part  of  the  Inhab".  We  find  him  to  be  weake  and  not  well  qualified 
to  teach,  and  that  he  doth  constantly  make  Marriages  contrary  to  the  Directory  and 
Rules  appointed  by  order  of  Parliament.  He  hath,  however,  £40  out  of  Sequestra- 
tions, by  order  of  the  Committee  of  the  County."  —  Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 
He  was  doubtless  an  Episcopalian,  and  was  soon  removed  by  the  Independents,  who 
brought  in  Mr.  Samuel  Mather,  born  at  Much  Woolton,  and  the  author  of  an  Ireni- 


of  Warrington.  239 

Poor's  Stock  is  551,  [the]  Int.  [erest]  of  wch  is  Distributed  Cljarttiwt. 
by  5  Trustees. 

Certif.  [ied]  an.  [no]  1725,  y*  1581  was  collected  at  Different 
times ;  2  thirds  chiefly  paid  to  ye  Curate,  and  one  to  [the]  School 
Master,  by  Trustees  for  [the]  Chappell  and  School. 


alias  HOLLINFERRY, 

HOLLEN'S  GREEN.      Certif.  [ied]    061-    Fam 
02s-  00d;    paid  out  of  ye  Dutchy  4M2«-OOdj    Int.  [erest]    of  301 
given  by  Mr.  Shaw,  [probably  Rector  of  Warrington,]  Moor,  and 
Pakeman,  (101  each,)  I1- 10s. 

This  Chap,  [el]  stands  in  ye  village  of  Glaesbrook,  4  m.  [iles] 
from  [the]  Par.[ish]  Church. 

cum. — See  Wood's  Athen.  Oxon.  voL  ii.  p.  357;  and  Calamy's  Noncon.  Mem.  vol.  ii. 
p.  355. 

In  the  year  1705,  the  Incumbent  stated  that  his  only  fixed  and  certain  income  from 
the  Chapel  was  £3.  15s.  and  that  the  residue  of  his  income  arose  from  the  contribu- 
tions of  his  congregation.  —  Notitia  Paroch.  Lamb.  Libr. 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.     Value  in  1834,  £136.     Registers  begin  in  1654. 

This  place  is  situated  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Mersey,  and  is  chiefly  memorable  as 
having  been  passed  by  the  Duke  of  Cumberland  when  pursuing  the  Rebel  forces  in 
the  year  1745.  The  old  Ferry  float  was  renewed  in  the  year  1823  at  a  cost  of  £120, 
raised  by  subscription. 

William  Massey  of  Rixton  Esq.  by  Will  dated  30th  Henry  VIII.  bequeaths  "to  the 
Chapel  of  the  Holyne-grene  on  [one]  Calfe,  to  mayntene  goddys  servyse  ther."  — 
Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xxiv. 

In  the  year  1548  the  Chapel  of  Hollingfare  was  returned  amongst  the  Chantries  of 
Lancashire,  and  was  afterwards  used  for  the  reformed  service  of  the  Church.  It  is 
mentioned  in  the  great  Inquisition  of  the  year  1650  as  "a  Chapel  in  Eixton  and 
Glazebrook,"  and  that  £4.  12s.  had  been  constantly  paid  out  of  the  Duchy  Revenues 
towards  the  maintenance  of  a  Minister  there.  Richard  Massie  Esq.  received  the  Tithe 
Corn  for  the  use  of  Mr.  Warde's  Children  of  Capesthorne,  by  virtue  of  a  Lease  made 
by  Sir  Thomas  Ireland  to  the  said  Mr.  Massie,  then  worth  22s.  per  annum,  and  re- 
ceived by  Gilbert  Ireland  Esq.  The  Cure  was  supplied  by  Mr.  Henry  Atherton,  who 
received  the  Pension  from  the  Duchy  and  £40  per  annum  from  the  Public,  paid  out 
of  the  Sequestrations  of  the  Hundred  of  Derby.  He  was  said  to  be  a  man  of  good 
life  and  conversation,  godly,  painful,  and  well  affected  to  the  Government,  but  that  he 


240  ilotttia  <£e8triett&ts, 

There  is  a  Chap,  [el]  yard  and  burying  in  it,  and  Children  are 
Baptized  in  ye  Chap,  [el]  and  [the]  Sacram*  administered. 

[The]  Chap,  [el  was]  rebuilt  ab*  20  years  agoe  by  Mr.  Massey2  of 
Wrexham,  [a]  Pap.[ist,]  who  was  obliged  by  ye  B?3  to  it,  he  being 
Ld  of  ye  Town,  who  repairs  it  alsoe,  the  Inhab.  [itants]  being  all 
his  Tenants.  It  was  built  at  first  by  his  ancestours,  and  sd  to  be 
Consecrated. 

An.  [no]  1674,  1  Warden,  [and]  1  Assistant.  The  Warden  for 
this  Quarter  serves  for  Church  and  Chap,  [el]  too. 

Augm.  [ented]  by  [the]  Inhab.  [itants]  and  Neighbours  wth  2001 
an.  [no]  1722. 

n.[no]  1713,  a  School4  was  erected  in  ye  Village  of  Glaes- 
brook  by  ye  Contrib.  [utions]   of  [the]   Inhab.  [itants]  and 

Neighb.  [ours ;]    but  there  is  no  endowing     The  Master  teaches  to 

read,  and  is  named  by  ye  Inhab.  [itants.] 

did  not  observe  Thursday  the  13th  of  June  1650,  appointed  for  a  Day  of  Humiliation 
by  Act  of^Parliament.  —  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

2  The  Masseys  of  Rixton  (in  the  text  erroneously  called  Wrexham)  were  the  feudal 
Lords  of  Bixton-cum-Glazebrook,  and  continued  members  of  the  Church  of  Home 
until  the  extinction  of  their  house  in  the  male  line  in  the  year  1760.     A  Pedigree  of 
twelve  descents  of  this  very  ancient  and  respectable  family  is  recorded  in  Lane.  MSS. 
vol.  xii. 

3  The  Prelate  who  appears  to  have  been  invested  with  these  large  and  somewhat 
remarkable  powers,  was  the  mild  and  unassuming  Bishop  Stratford,  who,  after  all, 
probably  "  obliged"  the  Manerial  owner  to  rebuild  the  Chapel  of  his  ancestors  more 
by  the  force  of  argument,  and  the  influence  of  station  and  character,  than  by  legal 
authority  or  compulsory  injunction. 

Baines  states  that  this  Chapel  was  built  in  the  year  1735,  which  is  not  in  accord- 
ance with  the  text,  and  appears  to  be  an  error.  The  Rector  of  Warrington  nominates 
the  Curate. 

4  The  first  Master  of  this  humble  School  was  the  Rev.  John  Collier,  Curate  of  Hollin- 
green,  ordained  Deacon  before  the  year  1715,  and  Priest  by  Bishop  Gastrell  on  the  20th 
of  June  1725.     He  married  Mary  Cook  of  Winwick,  and  had  issue  five  sons  and  four 
daughters.     His  wife  died  at  Hollingreen  in  the  year  1726 ;  and  he  died  at  Newton 
near  Mottram,  June  15th  1739.     His  second  son,  John  Collier,  memorable  as  a  Poet, 
Satirist,   Painter,   Engraver,   and   Humourist,   and  well  known  by  his   soubriquet 
of  "Tim  Bobbin,"  was  born  in  Urmston,  (according  to  his  own  statement  in  his 
family  Bible,  now  before  me,)  and  baptised  at  Flixton,  on  the  6th  of  January  1708. 


Beanen?  of  a&Earrmgton,  241 


a  Chappell  in  ye  Town. 
Certified]  I^-IO^OO^  viz.  101  in 
houses  and  shops  of  inheritance  in  Warrington ;  51  Rent  Charge 
upon  Lands  in  Disley,  both  given  by  Mr.  Legh2  of  Lime ;  given 
since  by  Mr.  Derbyshire,  Pp.f^er]  an. [mini;]  101  by  Mrs.  Patten;3 
151  by  3  other  persons,  [the]  Int.[erest]  of  wch  [is]  I1 -5s. 

He  became  Usher  to  the  Rev.  Robert  Pearson,  Incumbent  of  Milnrow,  in  the  year 
1729,  succeeded  to  the  Mastership  of  the  Free  School  there  in  the  year  1739,  and  died  at 
Milnrow  in  July  1786.  He  was  assisted  by  his  patron,  Colonel  Townley  of  Belfield, 
in  his  clever  attack  upon  the  Rev.  John  Whittaker,  the  historian  of  Manchester;  and 
is  mentioned  by  Dr.  Whitaker,  the  historian  of  Whalley,  as  a  good  Saxon  scholar. 
Collier  was  an  admirer  and  imitator  of  Hogarth,  and,  like  the  Distressed  Poet  of  that 
accurate  observer  of  mankind,  appears  to  have  been  engaged,  when  in  the  abyss  of 
poverty,  in  writing  an  Essay  on  the  Payment  of  the  National  Debt,  his  walls  being 
adorned  with  a  plan  of  the  mines  of  Peru!  His  father  became  blind,  and  was  obliged 
to  give  up  his  Curacy  and  School  at  Hollingreen;  and  neither  lived  himself,  nor 
taught  his  son  to  live  like  the  pupils  of  Pere  de  la  Salle,  and  the  Christian  brothers, 
but  rather  like  the  Otways,  Savages,  and  Chattertons.  Many  of  Mr.  Collier's  MSS. 
and  Paintings,  (including  portraits  of  his  father,  himself,  and  his  wife,)  are  in  the  pos- 
session of  his  great-grandson,  Mr.  James  Clegg  of  Milnrow. 

1  Dedicated  to  the  Holy  Trinity.     Value  in  1834,  £130.     Registers  at  the  Mother 
Church. 

The  site  of  this  Chapel  in  Sankey  Street,  and  the  houses  and  shops  named  in  the 
text,  were  given  by  Mr.  Legh.  The  edifice  was  originally  intended  as  an  Oratory  for 
the  purpose  of  having  Prayers  read  therein,  and  was  only  sixty  feet  by  thirty-three 
feet,  without  any  settled  fund  for  repairs.  It  was  therefore  proposed  about  the  year 
1760,  by  Peter  Legh  Esq.  and  the  Inhabitants  of  Warrington,  that  the  Oratory,  and 
the  adjoining  houses  and  shops,  which  belonged  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Chapel,  should 
be  taken  down,  and  the  Chapel  enlarged  and  galleries  erected.  The  Minister's 
Salary  to  be  £70  a  year  at  the  least,  arising  from  pews,  in  consideration  of  the  houses 
taken  down.  The  Minister  is  obliged  to  read  daily  Morning  and  Evening  Prayers  on 
week-days,  Festivals,  and  Fasts,  and  on  the  Evening  before  the  Holy  Sacrament, 
either  in  the  Chapel  or  Parish  Church.  He  is  to  preach  in  the  Chapel  forenoon  and 
afternoon  every  Sunday,  Summer  and  Winter,  administer  the  Eucharist  on  the  third 
Sunday  in  every  month,  and  to  assist  at  the  Mother  Church  on  the  Great  Festivals. 
The  Church  was  consecrated  by  Bishop  Keene  on  Sunday  the  20th  of  July  1760. — 
Lane.  MSS.  from  the  Registry,  Chester.  It  was  re-edified  about  1780. 

Thomas  Legh  Esq.  is  the  Patron. 

2  This  liberal  benefactor  was  Peter  Legh  of  Lyme  Esq.     He  was  the  eldest  son  of 

VOL.  II.]  I  I 


242 


$otttta 


This  Chappell  was  consecrated  an.  [no]  1709,  having  been  built 
a  little  before  by  [the]  contrib.  [utions]  of  Mr.  Legh  of  Lime  and 
sev.[eral]  of  ye  Inhab.  [itants,]  and  endowed  by  ye  said  Mr.  Legh 
wth  161  p.[er]  an.[num,]  in  consideration  of  wch  ye  Eight  of  Nona. 
[mating]  a  Chaplain  is  lodged  in  him  by  ye  Act  of  Consecr.  [ation,] 
who  has  leave  to  Preach  only  in  ye  4  Winter  months. 

Some  Disputes  betw.[een]  ye  Curate  and  Rectour  were  regu- 
lated an.  [no]  1714,  v.[ide]  Register]  B.[pok,~\  4.  Agreement 
then  Confirmed  by  BP. 


H.  so.i'o.fo 
PT.  A.  o.i3.  4 
Tr?;;:  o.'io.'  o 


Pflp. 


594 


above  3001  p.[er]  an.[num]  clear,  all  Curates 


paid. 


[The]  Rectour  is  Instituted  to  Wigan  cum  Capella 
de  Holland.     [A]  Pens.  [ion]2  of  30  marks  p.[er]  an. 
[num  is]  paid  to  [the]  B.[ishop]  of  Cov.  [entry]  and  Litchf.[ield.] 

v-[ide]  °-  K  P-  484- 

Richard  Legh  Esq.  and  liis  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Chicheley  of  Wimpole 
in  the  county  of  Cambridge  Esq.  He  married  his  relative,  Frances,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Piers  Legh  of  Birch  Hall  near  Warrington,  but  dying  s.p.  after  the  year 
,1728,  he  settled  his  large  Estates  upon  his  four  nephews. 

3  Mrs.  Patten  was  Rachel,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Hugh  Barrow,  Vicar  of  Lancaster. 
She  married  in  the  year  1668  William  Patten  of  Warrington,  Merchant,  who  died  in 
the  year  1698,  and  she  in  the  year  1721.  Their  daughter,  Dorcas  Patten,  married 
John  Worsley  M.A.  Incumbent  of  Trinity  Chapel,  Warrington. 

1  Dedicated  to  All  Saints.     Value  in  1838,  £2,230.     Registers  begin  in  1664. 

Wigan,  called  by  the  Saxons  UUibiSpn,  which  Camden  derives  from  Biggin,  a 
building,  shortly  after  the  Norman  invasion  was  held  as  parcel  of  Newton  Hundred 
by  Roger  de  Poictou,  and  the  Church  of  the  said  Manor  recorded  in  Domesday  STW- 
vey  as  endowed  with  a  carucate  of  land,  is  unquestionably  Wigan  Church.  The 
Barony  of  Newton  in  Makerfield  was  held  by  the  family  of  Banastre  from  the  time 
of  Henry  II.  if  not  earlier,  to  that  of  Edward  I.  The  subordinate  Manor  of 
Wigan  was  conferred  upon  the  Rector,  and  his  successors,  before  the  reign  of  Henry 
III.  as  in  the  year  1245,  30th  Henry  III.  a  Royal  Charter  granted  and  confirmed  to 
John  Maunsel,  Parson  of  the  Church  of  Wygan,  Chancellor  of  England,  and  the 
greatest  Pluralist  on  record,  (Lord  Campbell's  Lives  of  the  Chancellors,  vol.  i.  p.  135,) 
that  his  Town  of  Wigan  should  be  a  Borough  for  ever,  and  enjoy  sundry  exemptions 


i>  of  Wtavnngton.  243 

Patron  an.  [no]  1506  Thomas  Langton.  Institution]  B.[ook,~] 
1.  p.  3. 

V.  [ide]  Present,  [ation]  by  Sr  Thomas  Langton,  Baron  of  New- 
ton, an.  [no]  1558.  Ib.  p.  19. 

Patron,  [the]  Trustees  of  Sr  Orlando  Bridgmau,  who  bought 
the  Advowson,  and  conveyed  it  to  Gilbert,  Abp.  of  Cant.[erbury,] 
and  others,  in  Trust,  for  ye  sd  Sr  Orlando  and  his  heirs,  at  whose 
request  the  sd  Trustees  presented  Dr.  Hall,  B.[ishop]  of  Chester, 
after w.  [ards]  B.[ishop]  Wilkins,  then  B.[ishop]  Pearson.  This 
orig.  [inal]  Deed  is  said  to  be  lost,  (as  well  as  ye  Purchase  Deed,) 

and  privileges.  And  in  the  year  1257,  42d  Henry  III.  a  second  Charter  confirmed  to 
John  Maunsel,  Parson  of  Wigan,  and  his  successors,  for  ever,  a  weekly  market  every 
Monday,  at  their  Borough  of  Wigan,  and  two  annual  fairs  of  six  days'  duration. 

The  Rectors  of  Wigan  are  still  the  Manerial  Lords,  hut  their  dependence  upon  the 
Baronial  Court  of  Newton  is  recognised.  The  tolls  of  the  Monday  market  are  pay- 
able to  the  Rector,  and  those  of  the  Friday  market  to  the  Corporation.  The  Court 
of  the  former  is  held  at  Easter,  and  that  of  the  latter  at  Michaelmas  in  each  year. 

By  a  Judgment  delivered  in  the  year  1280,  9th  Edward  I.  it  appeared  that  in  the 
year  1277  the  right  to  the  Advowson  of  the  Church  had  been  disputed,  but  the 
Judges  of  both  Benches  then  decided  that  Robert  Banastre,  holding  of  the  King, 
was  the  true  Patron.  The  patronage  of  the  Church  passed  by  the  marriage  of  Alice, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  James  Banastre,  to  Sir  John  de  Langton;  and  in  the  year 
1349,  23d  Edward  III.  the  Judgment  given  in  favour  of  Robert  Banastre  in  the  year 
1280,  was  revoked  by  reason  of  errors,  and  the  King  was  adjudged  to  have  his 
action  against  Robert  de  Langton,  Barcn  of  Newton,  in  right  of  his  mother,  the 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  Banastre.  The  Advowson  appears  at  this  time  to 
have  been  obtained  by  the  Crown,  but  the  right  of  presentation  was  ultimately 
restored  to  the  Barons  of  Newton,  and  exercised  by  them. 

Anno  d'ni  1303,  die  dmca  in  crast.  S.  Mathei  Apli,  in  capit'l.  Lich.  p.  Ep'um, 
ibi'em  p'sent.  et  institut.  fuit  Robt.  de  Clederow,  in  ecc'lia  de  Wygan,  ad  p'sentacoem 
d'ni  Joh'nis  de  Langeton  patr.  ecc'lie. — Lib.  1/2  fol.  96,  Beg.  Langton,  Cur.  Lichf. 

On  the  17th  kal.  of  July  1334,  John,  son  of  John  de  Langeton,  Clerk,  was  admitted 
to  the  Church  of  Wygan,  and  instituted  on  the  presentation  of  Robert,  son  of  John 
de  Langeton,  the  Patron,  on  the  death  of  Dom.  Robert  de  Cliderhou.  Dated  at 
Hope.—  Lib.  2/3  fo.  109  b.  ex  Cartul.  Epi.  Lichf. 

On  the  4th  Ides  of  March  1349,  a  Commission  was  granted  at  Heywod  by  Roger, 
Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry,  to  Henry  de  Chaddesden,  Canon  of  Lichfield,  to 
institute  John  de  Winwick  to  the  Church  of  Wygan,  on  the  presentation  of  the  King. 
The  Letters  Patent,  for  his  institution  are,  however,  given  at  "  Wyndsore,  xxvi  Apr. 
24th  Edward  III."— Lib.  1/2  fo.  126/6,  ex  Cartul.  Epi.  Lichf. 


244  $otttta 

but  in  subsequent  Deeds  of  Trust  it  is  said,  that  Sr  John  Bridgman 
Knowing  his  Father's  intentions  to  be,  that  His  Heirs  should  not 
take  y6  same  to  their  own  use,  fyc.  pursuant  to  y6  pious  intention  of 
his  Father,  grants,  bargains,  and  sells  to  H.[enry,~]  B.[ishop]  of 
London,  fyc.  the  said  Advowson,  in  Trust,  y*  they  shall  present 
the  B.[ishop]  of  Chester,  or  some  other  person,  as  they,  in  yr 
judgment,  shall  think  fit,  fyc. 

Upon  Pearson' s  death  B.[ishop]  Cartwright  was  presented,  and 
after  him  B.[ishop]  Stratford;  then  Mr.  Edward  Finch,  (in  1700,) 
and  afterwards  (in  1714,)  Mr.  Samuel  Aldersey,  the  pres.fent] 
Eectour,  an.  [no]  1722,  [who  died  in  1740.] 

On  the  6th  Ides  of  July  1359,  Bichard  de  Langeton,  Clerk,  was  presented  to  the 
Parish  Church  of  Wygan,  then  vacant,  by  D.  Robert  de  Langeton,  the  true  Patron, 
Stephen  de  Chetaston,  Rector  of  Warrington,  haying  been  appointed  a  special  Com- 
missary for  the  institution,  which  took  place  in  the  Chapel  of  the  said  Sir  Robert,  at 
Newton,  in  his  presence,  and  he,  the  said  Richard,  made  oath  (juravit  tacto  libro) 
that  he  would  pay  an  annual  pension  of  xx1',  due  to  the  Cathedral  of  Lichfield,  by 
equal  portions,  at  Michaelmas  and  Easter. — Lib.  4,  fol.  6,  ib. 

On  the  4th  of  September  1359,  Robert  de  Lostock,  Presbyter,  was  instituted  to 
the  same  Church  on  the  resignation  of  Richard  de  Langeton,  the  Rector,  on  the  pre- 
sentation of  Sir  Robert  de  Langton,  Patron. — Ib.  fol.  6/6,  ib. 

On  the  4th  of  January  1361,  Dom.  Robert  de  Lostock  resigned  the  Rectory  to  R. 
BP  of  Cov.  and  Lichf.  and  Dom.  Walter  de  Campeden  was  instituted  on  the  presen- 
tation of  John,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  Patron  for  this  turn,  owing  to  the  minority  of 
his  ward,  Ralph  de  Langeton,  kinsman  and  heir  of  Robert  de  Langeton.  The  Rec- 
tor binds  himself  to  pay  xx1'  a  year  to  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Lichfield. — Ib.  fol. 
80  a,  ib.  [Langeton  must  have  been  at  this  time  aged  twenty,  for  he  was  forty-five 
in  the  year  1386,  (vide  Scrope  and  Grosvenor  Roll;)  and  his  grandfather's  Post 
Mortem  Inquisition  says  he  was  of  full  age.] 

On  the  10th  of  February  1366,  Campeden  obtained  a  Licence  from  the  Bishop  to 
absent  himself  from  the  Church  of  Wigan,  "  as  long  as  his  Lord  pleased."  —  Lib.  v. 
fol.  12/6,  ib. 

On  the  9th  kal.  of  August  1370,  at  Heywode,  James  de  Langeton,  "  habendo  ton- 
suram  clericalem,"  was  presented  to  the  Church  of  Wygan  by  Ralph  de  Langeton, 
Patron,  on  the  death  of  Walter  de  Campdene,  late  Rector,  and  he  swore,  after  insti- 
tution, to  pay  a  pension  of  20"  a  year,  due  to  the  Cathedral.  It  appears  by  a  record 
of  Roger  de  Yealand,  that  thirty  marks  per  annum  were  granted  out  of  the  endow- 
ment of  the  Church  of  Wygan,  by  "  that  noble  man  Sir  Robert  Banastre,  Patron"  of 
the  same,  and  Mr.  Richard  Reet  of  the  same;  and  it  is  covenanted  that  ten  marks 
should  be  annually  paid  towards  the  sustentation  of  the  fabric  of  the  Cathedral,  ten 


g  of  ^Harrington.  245 

An.  [no]  1618.  By  a  Decree  of  4  persons  to  whom  ye  King 
referred  the  Differences  betw.[een]  ye  Rect.[or]  of  Wigan  and  ye 
Corporation,]  (viz.  [the]  Abp.  of  Cant,  [erbury,]  the  B.[ishop] 
of  Ely,  and  2  Chief  Justices,)  upon  their  Petition  to  him  it  was 
adjudged  y*  Wigan  was  a  Manour,  of  Right  belonging  to  ye  Rec- 
tour,  and  it  was  ordered  y*  ye  Monday  Market  and  Holy-Thursday 
Fair,  with  all  profits,  &c.  should  be  ye  Parson's  in  his  own  Right ; 
and  y*  Fryday  Market  and  St.  Luke's  Fair  shd  be  ye  Town's ;  that 

marks  should  be  expended  in  bread  for  the  poor  and  be  distributed  by  the  Sacristan, 
and  the  residue  should  be  for  the  use  of  the  Sacristan;  and  if  at  any  time  the  See  of 
Lichfield  should  be  vacant,  the  Archdeacon  of  Chester  should  compel  the  payment  of 
the  said  sum.  This  donation  was  attested  and  dated  at  Lichfield  vith  Ides  of  July  a° 
d'ni  1265.— Ib.  fol.  85/6,  ib. 

In  August  1373,  the  Bishop  granted  a  Licence  of  non-residence  to  Mr.  James  de 
Langeton,  Hector  of  Wygan,  for  one  year. — Lib.  v.  fol.  28,  b.  And  on  the  llth  of 
September  1374,  a  similar  Licence  was  granted  to  him  on  payment  of  v  marks. — 
16.  fol.  30,  a. 

On  the  9th  of  August  1503,  Sir  Thomas  Langton,  Capell.  was  presented  to  the 
Rectory  of  Wigan  on  the  death  of  Sir  John  Langton,  the  last  Hector,  by  James 
Anderton,  William  Banastr,  Thomas  Langton,  brother  of  Gilbert  Langton  of  Lowe, 
and  William  Wodcokke,  Patrons  for  this  turn,  by  the  feoffment  of  Ealph  Langton 
Esq.  deceased. — Lib.  13,  fol.  53,  a,  ib. 

On  the  10th  of  August  1506,  Mr.  E.  Wyett  S.T.B.  was  instituted  on  the  death  of 
the  last  Incumbent,  on  the  presentation  of  Henry  VII. — Lib.  13,  fol.  54/6,  ib. 

On  the  10th  of  October  1519,  Thomas  Lynacre  M.D.  was  instituted  on  the  resig- 
nation of  Eichard  Wyott  S.T.P.  on  the  presentation  of  Thomas  Langton  Esq.  the 
true  Patron.— Lib.  13,  fol.  60/6,  ib. 

On  the  24th  of  March  1534,  D'n's  Eichard  Kyghley,  Clerk,  was  instituted  on  the 
death  of  Eichard  Langton,  the  last  Eector,  on  the  presentation  "  egregii  viri  d'ni 
Thome  Langton,  Militis."  He  made  oath  that  he  would  pay  to  the  Dean  and  Chap- 
ter of  Lichfield  an  annual  pension  of  xxlib,  at  the  Feast  of  the  Annunciation  of  St. 
Mary  the  Virgin,  and  St.  Michael  the  Archangel,  according  to  ancient  custom. — 
Lib.  13,  fol.  34,  ib. 

2  Ducarel  assigns  this  Pension  wholly  to  the  Sacristan  or  Sexton,  who,  at  the  time 
it  was  given,  was  the  Vestry  keeper  of  the  Cathedral,  and  had  the  care  of  the  Eccle- 
siastical vestments.  Ordinatio  Pensionis  xxx  marcar.  solvend.  Sacrist.  Eccles.  Cathedr. 
Lichf.  per  Eectorem  de  Wygan.  Dat.  Lichf.  6  Id.  July,  A.D.  1265. — Beg.  Stretton, 
fol.  85,  b.  —  Repertory,  Lamb.  Libr. 

On  the  10th  of  May  1558,  Sir  Thomas  Langton  Knt.  Baron  of  Newton,  the  true 
and  undoubted  Patron,  assigned  the  next  presentation  to  the  Eectory  to  John  Fleet- 
wood  of  Penwortham  and  Peter  Farington  Esqrs.  and  they,  on  the  6th  of  August 


246  llotttta  <£estrtettsts. 

ye  Easter  Leet  shd  belong  to  y6  Parson,  and  Mich.[aelma]s  Leet 
to  y6  Burgesses :  that  ye  use  of  y6  Moot-hall  shd  be  common  to 
both,  and  y*  ye  Prentice  Plea  and  Court  of  Pleas  shd  be  ye  Corpo- 
ration's. Reg. [ister]  B.[pok}']  2,  p.  90,  203,  &c. 

1558,  presented  to  Cuthbert,  Bishop  of  Chester,  for  institution,  "  the  Rev.  Father  in 
Christ,  Thomas  Stanley,  by  Divine  Providence,  Eishop  of  Sodor."  —  Original  Letters 
in  the  Registry,  Chester.  Lane.  MSS. 

Dr.  Bridgeman,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Chester,  was  presented  to  the  Living  by 
James  I.;  and  Sir  Orlando  Bridgeman,  the  Lord  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal,  the 
Bishop's  son,  purchased  the  Advowson,  shortly  after  the  Restoration,  of  Sir  Thomas 
Fleetwood  of  Calwich  and  Penwortham,  the  descendant  of  the  Langtons,  and  it  is  now 
vested  in  his  representative,  the  Eight  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Bradford. 

These  Episcopal  Sectors  are  all  omitted  in  Barnes's  Catalogue  of  the  Incumbents 
of  the  Parish. 

The  Living  was  valued  at  £33.  6s.  8d.  in  the  year  1291. 

The  Commissioners  of  the  year  1650  reported  that  there  was  a  mansion  house  cal- 
led the  Parsonage  of  Wigan,  and  certain  glebe  lands  worth  £30  per  annum,  chief 
rents  about  £30  per  annum,  and  Tithe  Corn  and  Privy  Tithe  in  the  town  worth  £40 
per  annum.  The  whole  Tithes  were  estimated  at  £417.  10s.  8d.;  but  there  was  a 
rent  charge  of  £20,  as  the  Commissioners  were  informed,  payable  out  of  the  Rectory 
to  the  Cathedral  of  Lichfield.  "  On  the  delinquency  of  Dr.  Bridgeman,  late  Bishop  of 
Chester  and  Rector  of  Wigan.  (appointed  to  the  Living  by  King  James  in  the  year 
1615,  and  not  in  the  year  1600,  as  stated  by  Baines,)  by  an  Order  from  the  Committee 
of  Plundered  Ministers,  Mr.  James  Bradshaw,  now  Incumbent,  came  in,  (about  the 
year  1645,  on  the  deprivation  of  Bishop  Bridgeman,  who  did  not  vacate  the  Benefice 
in  the  year  1604,  as  recorded  by  Baines,)  and  supplied  the  Cure  there,  and  is  a  painfull, 
able,  preaching  Minister,  and  hath  observed  the  Cure  upon  the  Lorde's  Dayes,  but 
that,  he  having  notice,  did  not  observe  the  Fast  on  the  13th  of  June  last,  contrary  to 
the  Order  of  Parliament."  Half  of  the  Tithes  of  Haigh  belonged  to  Roger  Brad- 
shaigh  Esq.  and  his  ancestors,  and  they  paid  £16  per  annum  to  the  Rectors  of 
Wigan,  for  divers  years,  and  also  to  Mr.  Bradshaw;  but  they  only  paid  £3.  6s.  8d. 
per  annum  before  Dr.  Massie's  time,  Rector  of  the  said  Parish  Church  [in  1604.] — 
Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  Bradshaw' s  offence,  shortly  afterwards  led  to  his  removal, 
and  he  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Charles  Hotham,  a  person  who  had  studied  Judicial 
Astrology,  and  who  searched  into  the  secrets  of  Nature. — See  Calamy's  Nonconf.  Mem. 
voL  ii.  p.  181. — See  HINDLEY  CHAPEL. 

Mr.  Henry  Prescott  of  Chester,  in  a  letter  to  Bishop  Gastrell,  then  at  Oxford, 
dated  November  9th  1717,  says,  "Ever  since  Mr.  Finch  took  down  the  Gallery  in 
the  Church  of  Wigan  where  the  Corporation  sate  together,  they  have  sate  promiscu- 
ously, or  absented  themselves  from  the  Church.  Mr.  Shakerley,  however,  has  now 
generously  offered  to  build  or  buy  a  proper  seat  for  them.  [It  is  built  wth  oak,  all 
finisht,  and  will  hold  80  persons. — Note.'}  A.  Gallery,  erected  by  voluntary  contri- 


UJeanerg  of  OTarrmgton.  247 

Wigan,    Pemberton,    Holland,    Dalton,    Winstanley,    Billing,  Cntuus.  12. 
Haigh,  Aspull,  Hindley,  Abram,  Ince,  Orrell. 

2  Wardens,  [and]  18  Assist,  [ants,]  who  serve  jointly  for  ye 
whole  Parish,  chosen  accord. [ing]  to  [the]  Canon;  seven  of  ye 
Assistants  are  for  ye  Town,  ye  rest  for  ye  Parish. 

butions,  at  the  west  end,  and  confirm'd  in  Trust,  to  the  Rector,  for  the  use  of  the 
Organ,  viz.  for  the  Repair  or  Beautifying  of  it,  (a  Salary  of  201  per  ann.  being  other- 
wise settled  on  the  Organist,)  is  the  place  fix'd  upon.  I  staid  at  Wigan  several  days 
after  the  Visit"  ended  on  this  affair.  Sr  Roger  Bradshaigh  solliciting  the  matter  on  ye 
behalf  of  Mr.  Shakerley  and  the  Corporat".  The  Gallery  when  sett  to  persons  who 
wanted  Seats,  made  uncertain  Bates,  sometimes  £5,  sometimes  £6,  and  at  others  but 
£4  p.  an.  Therefore  the  sum  of  £100  was  demanded  by  Mr.  Aldersey,  or  in  his  behalf, 
of  Mr.  Shakerley,  for  it,  for  hee  delights  to  have  it  his  own  Gift,  and  to  have  no  Contri- 
butor to  ye  Beneficence.  Hee  yet  hesitates  at  ye  sum,  and  thinks  itt  too  high.  If  the 
matter  proceed,  part  of  the  money  will  build  a  sufficent  Gallery,  with  Seats,  on  the 
north  side,  for  the  meaner  sort  who  want  Seats,  wch,  wth  the  rest  of  ye  money,  is  to  be 
converted  as  above  to  the  use  of  the  Organ.  And  this  will  be  a  means  to  reduce  the 
Corporation  to  a  good  Temper,  and  perhaps  to  make  Mr.  Shakerley  a  Representative 
of  it."  I  am  sorry  that  so  good  an  act  should,  in  the  end,  be  made  to  originate  in  so 
questionable  a  motive. 

The  present  Church  consists  of  a  Tower,  Nave,  Aisles,  Chancel,  and  two  Chantries, 
the  latter  being  dissolved  in  the  year  1548,  one  belonging  to  the  Bradshaighs,  and 
the  other  to  the  Gerards.  In  the  former  Chapel  stands  an  altar  tomb  containing  the 
effigies  of  Sir  William  Bradshaigh  and  Dame  Mabella  his  wife.  It  was  sketched  by 
Dugdale  in  the  year  1664.  The  Knight  appears  to  be  in  chain  mail,  cross  legged, 
with  his  sword  partially  drawn  from  the  scabbard  on  his  left  side,  with  a  shield 
charged  with  two  bends,  being  the  arms  of  Bradshaigh.  The  Lady  is  in  a  long  robe, 
veiled,  her  hands  elevated,  and  conjoined  in  prayer.  This  Chantry  of  St.  Mary  the 
Virgin,  was  founded  by  Dame  Mabella,  widow  of  William  de  Bradshaw  Knt.  with 
the  assent  of  Roger,  Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry,  the  Earl  of  Lancaster, 'Sene- 
schal of  England,  and  John  de  Langeton,  Rector  of  Wigan.  It  was  endowed  with  a 
messuage  in  Wigan,  then  in  the  tenure  of  Henry  Banastre,  and  with  premises  in 
Haghe.  The  attesting  witnesses  were  D'uo  Thoma  de  Lathum,  D'no  Robto  de 
Langeton,  D'no  Rico  de  Hoghton,  D'no  Willo  de  Lee,  Militibz.  D'no  Henr.  de 
Walsch,  p'sona  ecc'lie  de  Standish,  D'no  John  de  Langeton,  p'sona  ecc'lie  de  Wigan, 
Gilbert  de  Haydock,  Will'mo  de  Worchlu,  Will'mo  de  Kureton,  et  aliis.  Dat.  apud 
Haghe  die  d'm'ca  in  crastino  S'c'i  Jacobi  Apli,  a°  d'ni  mill0  cccmo  xxxmo  octauo,  et 
a°  r.r.  Edwardi  t'cii.  post  conq.  duodecimo.  —  Libr.  3,  fol.  58,  a,  59,  in  Cwr.  Lichf. 
being  an  Inspeximus.  On  the  2d  of  September  1338,  John  de  Sutton,  Presbyter,  was 
instituted  by  Roger,  Bishop  of  Lichfield,  to  the  Chantry  of  the  Altar  of  St.  Mary  in 
the  Parish  Church  of  Wigan,  founded  by  Dame  Mabella,  formerly  wife  of  Sir  William 
Bradshaw  Knt.  and  now  by  her  presented  to  the  same,  as  true  and  undoubted 


248  jlotttta  <£estv«njit8. 

Brickley,  (Sr  W.  Gerard;)  Haigh,3  (Sr  R.  Bradshaw;)  Win- 
stanley,4  (Mr.  Banks ;)  Ince,5  (Mr.  Walmsley ;)  Low,6  (Mr. 
Langton;)  Abram,7  Bamfurlong,8  Wigan.9 

Patroness. — Lib.  2  -3  fol.  112/6,  ib.  In  the  Gerard  Chapel  are  the  family  arms  and  an 
inscription  on  a  tablet  in  memory  of  the  Gterards  of  Ince  in  Makerfield,  Lords  of 
Ince  and  Aspull  for  centuries,  whose  remains  are  interred  here. 

Although  the  late  fabric  was  not  very  ancient,  being  in  the  third  pointed  style  of 
debased  architecture,  except  the  Tower,  the  Gist  stage  of  which  was  built  in  the  thir- 
teenth century,  the  foundation  is  of  an  early  period.  A  mutilated  monument  of  a 
Priest  of  the  Norman  era,  has  recently  been  discovered  and  exhumed,  having  been 
used  by  the  masons  about  the  year  1621  as  a  foundation  stone  of  the  late  Chancel. 
A  portion  of  a  Norman  arch,  probably  belonging  to  a  doorway,  has  also  been  found, 
together  with  the  bases  and  cylindrical  piers  of  the  Church,  in  the  first  pointed  style 
of  architecture.  The  Church  is  said  to  have  been  destroyed  by  fire  about  the  time  of 
the  Reformation.  The  whole  has  just  been  admirably  rebuilt,  except  the  Tower,  in 
the  third  pointed  style.  In  the  year  1845,  the  Chancel,  rebuilt  by  Bishop  Bridgeman 
in  the  year  1621,  in  a  debased  style,  having  become  dilapidated,  was  again  entirely 
rebuilt  of  free  stone,  along,  with  the  North  and  South  Aisles,  of  the  same,  (the  latter 
of  which  is  the  family  Chapel  of  the  Balcarres  family,)  the  whole  being  raised  about 
four  feet  in  height. 

The  East  Window  is  the  offering  of  the  Misses  Kenyon  of  Swinley  in  Wigan,  and 
the  stained  glass  is  executed  by  Mr.  Wailes.  Another  stained  Window  has  been 
erected  at  the  West  end,  representing  the  twelve  Apostles,  the  four  Western  and  four 
Eastern  Doctors,  and  four  English  Bishops  representing  the  ancient  British,  the 
Saxon,  the  Norman,  or  Middle  age,  and  the  Reformed  Church;  the  triangular  spaces 
being  filled  with  six  representations  of  four  Archangels.  Another  window  will  be 
shortly  set  up  near  the  Font,  representing  the  events  of  our  Lord's  childhood,  with 
symbols  of  Holy  Baptism  introduced.  The  Font,  designed  by  Mr.  Carpenter,  architect, 
and  sculptured  by  Mr.  Thomas,  sculptor  to  the  new  Palace  of  Westminster,  was  pre- 
sented to  the  Church  by  the  ladies  above  named.  The  Baptistery  Window  was  executed 
some  years  ago  by  Mr.  Wailes,  and  presented  by  a  former  Curate.  The  Pulpit  and 
Reredos  were  designed  by  Messrs.  Sharpe  and  Paley,  and  are  exquisitely  sculptured 
in  Caen  stone  by  Mr.  Thomas.  The  Roof  is  painted  in  colours,  and  gilded,  the 
panels  being  spangled  with  stars.  The  floors  of  the  Sacrarium  and  Chancel  are  laid  in 
encaustic  tiles,  and  on  each  side  are  carved  stalls  and  benches  for  the  Clergy  and 
Choir,  the  Organ  standing  in  the  first  bay  of  the  North  Aisle.  The  floor  of  St.  Mary's 
Chapel  will  be  laid  down  in  ornamented  tiles,  and  a  parclose  will  separate  the  Chapel 
from  the  Church.  It  is  intended  that  the  windows  shall  be  filled  with  stained  glass. 
These  extensive  restorations  are  to  be  attributed  to  the  devotion,  taste,  and  well-timed 
zeal  of  the  Hon.  Colin  Lindsay. 

3  Haigh  was  in  the  possession  of  the  Le  Norreys  family  in  the  reign  of  King  John, 
and  passed  with  Mabella,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Hugh  de  Norris,  Lord  of  Haigh 


>  of  ft&tamngtou.  249 

is  a  Free  Gram,  [rnar]  School  here,  built  and  endowed 
by  one  Banks  above  100  [years]  agoe.  W*  was  given  by 
him,  and  by  Bullok,10  and  [Edmund]  Molineux,  (in  1613,)  Citizens 
of  London,  and  some  late  Feoffees,  amounts  to  481-8s-4d,  viz.  201 
p.  [er]  an.  [num]  Rent  Charge,  out  of  a  Messuage  and  tenem*  in 
Billingsgate  Par.[ish,  in]  London,  called  the  Chalice  and  Shep- 
herd; 61-13s-4d  rent  charge,  out  of  an  Estate  called  Achurst 

and  Blackrod,  to  Sir  William  Bradshaigh,  Kniglit  of  the  Shire  for  Lancashire  in  the 
7th,  9th,  and  19th  Edward  II.  and  2d  and  4th  Edward  III.  and  Dame  Mabella,  who 
survived  him,  was  living  in  the  llth  Edward  III.  anno  1337,  exercising  the  rights 
of  the  Lady  of  the  Manor  of  Haigh,  and  in  the  following  year  presented  a  Priest 
to  her  Chantry  in  Wigan  Church.  Their  descendant,  Sir  Eoger  Bradshaigh,  was 
created  a  Baronet  in  the  year  1679.  Sir  Roger,  the  fourth  Baronet,  dying  without 
male  issue,  the  Estate  passed  with  Elizabeth,  his  eldest  sister,  to  John  Edwin  Esq. 
son  of  Sir  Humphrey  Edwin,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter  and  heiress,  Elizabeth 
Edwin,  married  to  Charles  Dalrymple  of  North  Berwick  Esq.  whose  only  child, 
Elizabeth  Dalrymple,  married,  in  the  year  1780,  Alexander  Lindsay,  sixth  Earl  of 
Balcarres,  father  of  the  present  Earl,  in  whom  the  Bradshaigh  Estates  are  now  vested. 
Leland,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  says,  "  Mr.  Bradshaw  hath  a  place  called 
Hawe,  a  myle  from  Wygan.  He  hath  founde  moche  Canal  like  Se  Coole  in  his 
Grounde,  very  profitable  to  him."  And  afterwards  he  adds,  "One  Bradshaw  dwellith 
at  Hawe."  The  old  house  of  the  Bradshaighs  has  been  superseded  by  a  splendid 
stone  mansion  built  by  the  present  noble  owner,  the  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Balcarres 
and  Crawford. 

4  Winstanley  was  purchased  by  William  Bankes,  second  son  of  Richard  Bankes  of 
Bank  Newton  in  Craven,  about  the  year  1585,  and  continued  in  the  direct  male  line 
until  the  death  of  William  Bankes  Esq.  (Sheriff  of  Lancashire,)  in  the  year  1800,  when 
the  Estates  passed  to  his  cousin,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Holme,  son  of  Hugh  Holme  of 
Upholland  House  Esq.  and  his  wife  Anne,  daughter  of  Thomas  Bankes  Esq.     He 
died  in  the  year  1803,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Meyrick  Holme,  who  relinquished 
his  patronymic,  and  assumed  the  surname  of  Bankes  only,  and  was  father  of  the  present 
owner,  Meyrick  Bankes  Esq. 

Winstanley  Hall  was  rebuilt  in  the  year  1618,  and  has  been  recently  much  en- 
larged and  improved.  A  sketch  of  the  old  hall  is  given  in  Gregson's  Fragments  of 
Lancashire. 

5  Ince  was  conveyed  to  John  Gerard  on  his  marriage  with  Ellen,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Richard  de  Ynce,  by  dispensation,  in  the  year  1399,  1st  Henry  IV.  being 
related  in  the  fourth  degree  of  consanguinity.     Eight  members  of  this  family  were 
Colonels  in  the  army  of  Charles  I.  and  others  of  them  suffered  for  the  Royal  Cause. 
Ann,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Gerard,  who  died  in  the  year  1673,  married 
John  Gerard  Esq.  son  of  Sir  William  Gerard,  the  third  Baronet,  but  dying  s.p.  the 

K  K 


250 

inOrrell,  [in]  Wig. [an]  Par.[ish;]  121-15s.00d  p.[er]  an.  [num,] 
from  a  tenem*  in  Aspull,  called  BackshaVs  Lands ;  3  small  Closes 
called  Brown  Meadows,  61  p.[er]  an.  [num;]  a  house  and  croft 
called  Boor's  H.[ouse]  and  Croft,  31  p.[er]  an. [num;]  all  in  ye 
Par.[ish]  of  Wigan.  Ded.[uct]  ev.[ery]  year  about  61  p.[er] 
an.  [num]  for  Taxes  and  Repairs. 

The  Master  and  Usher  are  nominated  by  the  Feoffees,  and  ye 
Writings  are  in  ye  hands  of  y6  Town  Clerk  of  Wigan.  Cert,  [ified] 
an.  [no]  1719. 

Manor  of  Ince  was  sold  by  Thomas  Gerard  Esq.  before  the  year  1673,  to  his  cou- 
sin, Colonel  Richard  Gerard,  son  of  the  second  Baronet.  The  Manor  was  sold  by 
William  Gerard  of  Ince  Esq.  to  Alexander,  sixth  Earl  of  Balcarres;  whilst  Ince  Hall 
passed  in  marriage  with  Mary,  sister  and  coheiress  of  William  Gerard  Esq.  to  John 
Walmesley  Esq.  and  is  now  the  property  of  John  Walmesley  Esq.  of  Bath,  a  stranger 
in  blood. 

Ince  Hall,  surrounded  by  a  moat,  is  a  picturesque  structure  of  wood  and  plaster, 
built  about  the  time  of  Henry  VII.  A  view  of  it  is  given  in  Gregson's  Fragments  of 
Lancashire,  p.  238. 

6  Lowe  Hall  in  Hindley,  which  Manor  was  a  subinfeudation  in  the  Makerfield  fee, 
is  now  a  farm  house.     This  branch  of  the  Langtons,  (descended  from  Robert,  second 
son  of  Sir  Robert  de  Langton,  Baron  of  Newton,  in  the  time  of  Edward  III.)  recorded 
their  Pedigree  at  Dugdale's  visitation.     Robert  Langton  Esq.  born  in  the  year  1657, 
was  the  fourth  in  descent  from  Richard  Langton  Esq.  and  Philippa,  his  wife,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Ralph  Leycester  of  Tabley  in  the  county  of  Chester,  and  lived  at  Lowe 
in  the  early  part  of  the  last  century.     Edward  Langton,  the  last  of  Lowe,  left  his 
property  to  Catharine  his  wife,  and  to  nephews  and  nieces,  named  Pugh,  by  Will  dated 
the  4th  of  September  1731 ;  probate  issued  the  22d  of  August  1733.     A  family  of 
the  same  name,  who  settled  at  Kilkenny  in  the  year  1486,  claimed  descent  from  the 
Langtons  of  Lowe,  as  appears  by  their  Pedigree  in  the  Office  of  Ulster  King  at 
Arms,  Dublin. 

7  Abram,  originally  Adburgham,  was  held  by  Richard  de  Adburgham  by  gift  of 
Henry  II.  in  fee  farm,  and  Isabella,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  John  Abram  of  Abram 
Esq.  having  married  temp.  Henry  VII.  James  Holt  of  Gristlehurst  Esq.  conveyed 
the  Estate  to  him.  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  ix.  p.  277.     The  house  is  moated,  and  is  the 
property  of  John  Whitley  Esq.  by  purchase. 

8  Bamfurlong  Hall,  a  building  of  timber,  plaster,  and  brick,  with  a  private  Roman 
Catholic  Chapel,  was  the  seat  of  the  Ashetons  in  the  fifteenth  century,  and  now 
belongs   to  William  Gerard  Walmesley  Esq.      Of  this   house  were  the  Ashetons 
of  Clegg  Hall  in  the  Parish  of  Rochdale,  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  —  See 
Assheton's  Journal,  pp.  102-3. 

9  Wigan  Hall  is  the  Rectory  House,  and  is  a  large  edifice  chiefly  of  brick,  at  the 


j?  of  a^larrmgton.  251 

An.  [no]  1629,  [An]  Order  made  relat.[ing]  to  [the]  Free 
School  here.  MS.  Hulm.  98,  A.  16,  39. 

1001  [was]  given  by  Mr.  Orl.fando]  Bridgman11  for  building  a 
new  School  house,  wch  is  now  made  use  of,  an.  [no]  1725. 

[There  is]  a  School  free  to  [the]  Inhab.  [itants]  of  Haigh  only, 
built  about  60  years  agoe  by  ye  town,  to  wch  was  given  by  Miles 
Turner  about  81  p.[er]  an.[num,]  in  land  at  Billing.  Sr  Rog.[er] 
Bradshaw  nom.  [inates]  ye  Master,  and  keeps  y6  Writings. 

A  School  house  was  built  in  Goose  Green  in  this  TownsP,  by 
Tho.  [mas]  Molineux  of  Pemb.  [erton ;]  no  endowing  only  a  house 
for  ye  Master. 

bottom  of  Hallgate  Street,  and  was  much  improved  by  the  Hon.  George  Bridgeman, 
the  late  Rector ;  and  also  by  the  Rev.  H.  J.  Gunning,  the  present  Rector,  who  has 
made  considerable  alterations  in  it. 

10  Hugh  Bullock,  Citizen  and  Haberdasher  of  London,  by  Will  dated  the  25th  of 
July  1618,  devised  five  Messuages  in  Mincing  Lane  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Dunstan  in 
the  East,  and  a  Messuage  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Botolph,  Bishopsgate,  to  Roger  Bul- 
lock of  Wigan,  his  nephew,  son  of  his  brother,   John  Bullock   of  Wigan,   in  fee, 
charging  the  Messuage  in  St.  Botolph's,  called  the  Chalice  and  Shepherd,  being  the 
corner  house,  with  an  annuity  of  £20  to  the  Corporation  of  Wigan,  towards  the 
maintenance  of  the  Free  School  there;  and  to  the  Parish  of  Barking  an  annuity  of 
40s.  for  four  Lectures,  yearly,  and  £5.  4s.  to  the  Poor  of  Barking.     These  premises 
were  afterwards  devised  by  Will  to  Ellen,  daughter  of  John  Bullock,  who  married 
William  Page,  and  the  houses  being  burnt  down  in  the  great  Fire  of  London,  and  the 
annuity  lost,  Sir  Roger  Bradshaigh  Knt.  Ralph  Markland,  and  William  Laithwayte, 
Aldermen  of  Wigan,  appeared  on  the  15th  of  April  1668,  before  the   Court,    (see 
p.  220,  Note,)  as  Defendants  against  the  Petitioners,  Page  and  his  wife,  and  the  Cha- 
rity was  maintained.     It  appeared  that  on  the  27th  of  November  1618,  Roger  Bul- 
lock the  nephew,  settled  the  annuity  by  Deed,  (Alice  Bullock,  widow,  having  her 
dower  out  of  the  premises,)  on  the  Corporation  of  Wigan ;  "  but  forasmuch  as  the 
said  Deed  is  in  paper,  and  the  distance  betweene  the  towne  of  Wigan  and  the  city  of 
London  is  so  great,  and  by  reason  whereof  it  is  very  hazardous  to  have  the  said  Deed 
carried  to  and  fro  as  oft  as  there  may  be  occasion  to  produce  it,"  the  Court  ordered 
it  to  be  enrolled. — Add.  MSS.  5,071,  No.  19,  Brit.  Miis.     Hugh  Bullock  appears  to 
have  given  £100,  in  his  life  time,  to  the  Poor  of  Wigan.     The  Charity  Commissioners 
were  unable  to  obtain  any  accurate  information  respecting  these  benefactions. — See 
their  Report,  Wigan,  pp.  263  —  287.    John  Bullock,  the  son  of  Roger,  charged  the 
Messuages  above-named  in  London  with  a  yearly  rent  charge  of  £5  to  the  Poor  of 
Wigan;  but  this  Charity  appears  to  be  lost. 

11  By  Indenture  dated  the  llth  of  January  1619,  James  Leigh  granted  to  Roger 


252  liotttta  Ceatriensis. 

CfjarttioS.  eft  to  ye  Poor  of  Wigan,  S^ICM-OO*1  p.[er]  an.  [num,]  by  one 

John  Guest  of  Abram,  (in  1653,)  charged  upon  Land  there, 
to  be  distributed  in  Linnen  Cloth ;  II1  p.[er]  an.[num]  in  Rain- 
ford,  (bought  with  Mason's  and  Bullock's  money;)  71  p.[er]  an. 
[num,  rent  of]  a  Meadow  in  Wigan,  bought  in  1639  with  j£140 
given  by  Henry  Mason,12  Clerk,  of  London;  Land  purchased  wtl1 
money  given  by  sev.[eral]  Persons  mentioned  in  Tables  hung  up 
in  ye  Church,  of  wch  2251  by  Mr.  Edward  Holt,  in  1704,  [the] 
Int.  [erest  to  be  given]  in  Bread ;  [1001  by  Henry  Mason,  Rector 
of  St.  Andrew,  Uudershaft,  London,  in  1632;  1001  by  Hugh 
Bullock  of  London;]  given  by  Rob.[ert]  Sixsmith,  (in  1688,) 
61  p.[er]  an.  [num;  by]  Aid.  [erman]  Mason  31  p.  [er]  an.  [num,] 
for  binding  out  Apprentices  ev.  [cry]  year ;  by  BP  Stratford,  201 ; 
Oliver  Markland,  Citizen  and  Innholder  of  London,  gave  Lands  in 
Furness  to  the  Poor;  John  Bullock,  by  Will  in  1642,  gave  £5 
per  annum,  charged  on  messuages  in  the  Parishes  of  St.  Dunstan 
in  the  East  and  St.  Botolph. 

An.  [no]  22  Jac.  1,   [an]    Inquis.  [ition  was   held]    ab1   money 

Dounes  Esq.  and  others,  as  Trustees,  and  their  heirs,  an  annual  rent  of  £6.  13s.  4d. 
issuing  out  of  a  Messuage  and  Lands  in  Orrell,  called  the  "Ackhurst,"  towards  the 
maintenance  of  a  Free  Grammar  School  at  Wigan,  for  bringing  up  poor  Scholars  of 
the  Town  and  Parish  of  Wigan,  for  ever.  In  the  year  1723,  £100  was  given  by  Sir 
John  Bridgeman  Bart,  and  not  by  Mr.  Orlando  Bridgeman,  as  stated  in  the  text, 
which,  with  £110  subscribed  by  the  Inhabitants,  purchased  half  an  acre  of  hind 
and  a  house  in  Mill  Gate,  Wigan,  and  a  new  School  was  built.  The  property  of  the 
School  was  regulated  by  an  Act  of  Parliament  in  the  year  1812,  and  fresh  Statutes 
were  made  for  its  government. 

12  The  Rev.  Henry  Mason  B.D.  was  born  at  Wigan  in  the  year  1573,  and  entered 
of  Brasenose  College,  Oxon,  in  the  year  1592.  In  the  year  1602  he  was  appointed 
Chaplain  of  Corpus  Christi  College.  He  afterwards  became  Chaplain  to  Dr.  John 
King,  Bishop  of  London,  and  Hector  of  St.  Andrew,  Undershaft,  in  that  city,  but 
was  ejected,  or,  as  Wood  says,  "  vexed  out  of  his  Living,"  by  the  Presbyterians  in  the 
year  1641.  He  retired  to  his  native  place  to  live  in  privacy,  but  was  much  harassed 
by  the  Republicans.  He  died  in  the  year  1647,  aged  seventy -four,  having  given  in  his 
life-time  the  Charities  named  in  the  text  to  the  Poor,  and  to  bind  indigent  children 
apprentices,  as  well  as  many  Bibles  to  the  Poor,  and  his  valuable  Library  to  the 
Grammar  School.  He  published  numerous  learned  controversial  Treatises  and  Ser- 
mons, and  appears  to  have  been  a  consistent  Member  of  the  Church  of  England.  He 


Heanerg  of  OTarrmgton.  253 

given  for  a  Workhouse  here,  and  [an]   Order  [made]    upon   it. 
MS.  Hulm.  98,  A.  16,  37. 

To  the  Poor  of  Winstanley  571,  all  or  most  of  it  Given  by  ye 
Ancestours  of  Mr.  Banks. 


Certified]  34  •  00* . 08d, 
viz.  paid  by  [the]  Rect.[or]  of  Wigan, 
61  p.[er]    an.[num;    an]   Estate  called   Edleston  house,   left   by  Fam. ......  173 

the  Will  of  Mr.  John  Edleston,  dated  14th  June  1672,  [worth]   [Pap.Fam^o] 

L  J     Diss.  Fam.  14 

151,  in  weh  is  a  Stone  Delf  set  for  21;   [an]  Estate  in  [the]  posses-  Cp-10-   Q-4-J 
sionofJ.  Woodward,  &.&•&;   [the]   Int. [erest]    of  1001  left  by 
Mr.  Wells,  51 ;   [the]  Int.  [erest]  of  941  in  sev.  [eral]  hands,  41  •  14s. 
Ded.  [uct]  I1  p.  [er]  an.  [num]  Chief  Rent  to  Mr.  Blackburn. 
This  Chappell  was  rebuilt  an.  [no]  1717. 

left  a  folio  volume  of  Theology,  in  MS.  in  the  hands  of  his  friend,  Dr.  Gilbert  Shel- 
don, afterwards  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  from  whom  it  passed  to  Dr.  Dolben, 
Archbishop  of  York.  He  was  younger  brother  of  the  very  learned  Francis  Mason, 
whose  "Vindicise  Ecclesise  Anglicanse,"  in  five  books,  and  other  Works,  are  not  likely 
to  be  forgotten. 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.     Value  in  1834,  £234.     Registers  begin  in  1696. 

In  the  reign  of  Edward  I.  Mary  de  Billinge,  the  heiress  of  the  chief  line  of  the 
local  family,  married  Henry  de  Heyton,  and  had  a  son,  Robert  de  Heyton,  who  held 
the  Manor.  His  four  daughters  and  coheiresses  left  descendants,  all  living  in  the 
20th  Henry  VI. ;  and  from  Avicia,  the  second  daughter,  whose  sole  issue,  Margaret, 
married  Roger  de  Bispham,  about  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  Henry  IV.  the  fourth 
part  of  the  Manor  of  Billinge  descended  to  Margaret,  (born  in  1701  and  died  in  1762,) 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Bispham  Esq.  who  married  Thomas  Owen,  whose 
two  coheiresses  married  Edward  Leigh  of  London,  and  Holt  Leigh  of  Whitley  Hall 
Esq.  whose  descendants  now  possess  the  Estate. 

The  Chapel  existed  anterior  to  the  Reformation,  and  in  the  year  1650  the  Com- 
missioners reported  that,  "by  a  late  Ordinance  of  Parl'  the  whole  town  of  Orrell, 
half  of  Billinge,  and  a  fourth  of  "Winstanley  is  divided  from  the  Parish  of  Wygan, 
and  annexed  to  the  Parish  of  Holland."  The  Tithes  of  Billinge  were  at  that  time 
worth  £46  per  annum,  and  were  received  by  Mr.  Richard  Bowden,  (spelt  Baldwin, 
under  Holland,)  Minister  of  Holland.  Mr.  John  Wright  supplied  the  Cure  of 
Billinge  Chapel,  being  honest  in  life  and  conversation,  but  kept  not  the  last  Fast, 
and  had  £50  per  annum  paid  by  Mr.  James  Bradshaw  of  Wigan ;  a  donation  of 


254  liotttta  Cestriensts. 

There  is  an  Estate  [of  the  value]  of  101  p.[er]  an.[num,]  left 
(by  Mr.  John  Eddleston  in  1672,)  to  ye  Chap,  [el]  School,  or  [to 
the]  Poor,  at  ye  discretion  of  ye  Feoffees ;  now  bestowed  upon  ye 
Curate,  an.  [no]  1705,  v.[ide]  Curate's  Account,  Pap.  Reg. 

Augm.[ented]  an.  [no]  1720,  wth  2001  by  Tho.[mas]  Banks, 
Esqe. 

1  Warden. 

Bispham.2 

3  m.[iles]  from  Wigan. 

eft  to  ye  Poor  by  Rich.[ard]  Atherton  261,  in  ye  hands  of 
Mr.  Banks  of  Winstanley;    by  Ma.[ry]   Corles,  51;    [by] 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Oakes,  I1- 10s. 


Certif.  [led]  381 . 13s .  06d, 

Fam \f3  viz.  Rent  Charge  upon  Lands  left  by 

[be?w?3and4oo]  John  Rauicars,  61;  Rent  Charge  upon  Lands  in  Mobberley,  left 
by  Mrs.  Frances  Duckenfield,  29th  Sep.  1662,  21.10s;  Rent  of 
Houses  and  Lands  given  by  R.  Collier,  lO1^3;  Charge  upon  Land 

46s.  8d.  to  the  said  Chapel  by  Mr.  Thomas  Billinge ;  and  £4  per  annum,  given  by 
the  Inhabitants  of  Billinge  and  Winstanley.  It  is  recommended  to  be  made  a  Parish, 
being  four  miles  from  Wigan,  and  two  and  a  half  miles  from  Holland.  —  Parl.  Inq. 
Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  On  its  being  rebuilt  in  the  year  1717,  Mr.  James  Seabroke  of 
Liverpool,  Merchant,  contributed  £200  towards  the  cost  of  the  erection ;  whilst 
Thomas  Bankes  of  Wigan  Esq.  second  son  of  William  Bankes  of  Winstanley  Esq. 
contributed  a  similar  sum  towards  improving  the  endowment.  The  Rector  of  Wigan 
is  the  Patron. 

2  Bispham  Hall  is  an  ancient  house,  the  residence  of  the  Bisphams  from  the  early 
part  of  the  fifteenth  century  until  the  middle  of  the  last  century,  and  now  the  seat 
and  estate  of  John  Holt  Esq. 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.    Value  in  1834,  £88.     Eegisters  begin  in  1698. 

In  the  time  of  Henry  II.  Swane,  the  son  of  Lofewine,  gave  to  Gospatric  half  a 
carucate  of  land  in  Hindle,  in  free  marriage,  and  Eoger,  the  son  of  Gospatric,  held 
that  land  of  Thomas  Burnhul,  in  the  reign  of  King  Henry.  Adam  de  Hindele  held 
two  bovates  in  Hindele,  of  ancient  feoffment.  Robert,  the  father  of  Richard  de  Hin- 
dle, gave  to  the  Hospital  [of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  ?]  thirty  acres  of  the  half  earn- 


of  (UElavvmgton.  255 

left  by  Mr.  Prescot,  10s;  out  of  an  Estate  left  by  Mr.  Crook  of 
Abram,  lls-6d;  crop  of  Hay  Grasse  in  [the]  Lower  Meadows  by 
H.  Platt,  15s;  Int.[erest]  of  501  given  by  Widow  Collier,  21-10S; 
Int.[erest]  of  301,  [given]  by  3  persons,  101  each,  I1. 10s;  Int. 
[erest]  of  1001  left  by  Mr.  Wells;  Int.  [erest]  of  money  improved 
during  sev.  [eral]  vacancyes,  51-14S;  Int.  [erest]  of  61  [given]  by  2 
persons,  6s;  for  a  Sermon  on  St.  Thomas's  day,  left  by  Tho.  [mas] 
Lythgo,  I1;  Manse,  21. 

This  Chappell  was  built  and  ye  Chap,  [el]  Yard  enclosed  an.  [no] 
1641,  by  [the]  contrib.  [utions]  of  [the]  Inhabit,  [ants,]  the  Ground 
for  y*  purpose  being  given  by  G.  Green,  Gent.  It  was  Consecrated 
an.  [no]  1698. 

cate,  in  the  time  of  King  Henry ;  and  the  same  Robert,  in  the  time  of  King  John, 
gave  two  acres  and  a  half  to  the  Hospital,  and  six  acres  to  the  Abbey  of  Cokersand. — 
Testa  de  NevilV,  fol.  406.  The  Manor  of  Hindley  was  granted  by  Eobert  Banastre, 
Baron  of  Newton,  temp.  Henry  III.  and  Edward  I.  to  Fulco  Banastre,  and  in  the 
following  reign  was  the  inheritance  of  his  son  Robert  Banastre,  who  held  of  John  de 
Langton,  husband  of  Alice,  the  grantor's  heiress,  by  homage  and  fealty,  and  the  ser- 
vice of  a  pair  of  gilt  spurs,  and  the  King's  scutage.  Banastre  alienated  the  property 
to  Jordan  de  Workesley,  whose  daughter  and  heiress,  Margaret,  with  her  husband, 
Thurstan,  son  of  Richard  de  Tildesley,  contested  their  right  to  it  with  Sir  Robert  de 
Langton.  It  appears,  however,  that  in  the  9th  Edward  III.  Robert,  then  Baron  of 
Newton,  son  of  John  de  Langton,  was  seized  of  the  Manor  of  "  Hindleigh,"  and  of 
twenty  messuages,  twenty  gardens,  three  hundred  acres  of  land,  one  hundred  acres  of 
meadow,  one  thousand  acres  of  pasture,  two  hundred  acres  of  moor,  and  lOd.  rent,  &c. 
within  the  same,  and  levied  a  fine  of  these  premises,  of  one-third  of  the  Manor  of 
Langton  in  Leicestershire,  (West  Langton,  whence  this  family  sprang,)  of  a  carucate 
of  land  in  Hendon  in  Middlesex,  of  half  the  Manor  of  Golburne,  and  of  premises 
in  Walton-le-dale ;  under  which  settlement  the  junior  branch  of  Langton,  residing  at 
Lowe,  inherited.  — Vide  Inq.  p.  m.  on  Robert  Langton  of  Lowe,  in  the  37th  Eliza- 
beth. The  tenure  of  the  Manor  of  Hindley  as  then  recorded,  was  of  the  Baron  of 
Newton,  in  free  soccage,  by  a  yearly  rent  of  three  peppercorns  for  all  service. 

A  family  of  the  name  of  Hindley  resided  in  this  Township  from  a  very  early  period 
in  uninterrupted  succession,  until  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  when  the 
Estate  is  found  in  the  possession  of  James  Dukinfield  Esq.  a  Barrister,  who  resided 
at  Hindley  Hall.  The  Hindleys  appear  to  have  remained  here  after  having  parted 

with  their  Estate ;  and  Thomas  Hindley  G-ent.  having  married ,  daughter  of 

the  Rev.  Thomas  Whalley  M.A.  of  Hindley,  and  Mary,  his  wife,  daughter  and 
coheiress  of  William  Walker  of  Lower  Place  near  Rochdale  Gent,  had  two  sons, 
John  Hindley  of  Hindley  Gent,  and  Mr.  Robert  Hindley,  Rector  of  Aughton,  both 
living  in  the  year  1703. 


256 

The  Dissenters  attempted  to  seize  this  Chapp.  [el]  and  to  per- 
vert ye  Gifts  and  Legacyes  to  it  to  different  Uses;  but  after  a 
long  and  obstinate  Suit,  they  were  cast  by  ye  BP,  who  obtained  a 
definitive  Decree  in  ye  Dutchy  Court  some  time  before  ye  Conse- 
cration. Reg.  [ister]  B.  [pok,~\  3,  p.  233. 

An.  [no]  1708,  some  of  ye  principall  Inhab.  [itants]  and  Feof- 
fees having  pretended  to  a  Right  of  nominat.  [ing]  ye  Curate, 
upon  farther  examination  of  ye  matter,  Renounced  that  Right  and 
Signed  an  Instrument  to  y*  purpose,  and  soe  it  continues  wthout 
dispute  in  ye  Rect.[or]  of  Wigan.  Reg. \ister~]  B.[ook,~\  4. 

[The]  whole  yearly  value  an. [no]  1705,  281.6s-7d.  Curate's 
Ace*-  Pap.  Reg. 

3  m.[iles]  from  Wigan. 

Hindley.2 

(jjPfitf  fy*1*  was  a  School  built  here  an.  [no]  1632,  by  Mrs.  Mary 
&ci)0nl.  gjgj  Abram.3     Sal.fary]  to  [the]  Master,  101  •  6s  •  6d,  viz.  ye  School 

In  the  year  1650  the  Inquisitors  returned  Hindley  Chapel  as  lately  erected,  and 
builded  upon  the  charges  of  many  of  the  Inhabitants,  as  well  as  of  some  of  the  Inhabi- 
tants in  Abram  and  Aspull.  Mr.  William  Williamson,  able,  godly,  and  painful,  exe- 
cuted the  Cure,  and  received  £80  from  the  Rector  of  Wigan,  or  in  default  the  Tithes 
of  Hindley  and  Abram  by  order  of  Parliament.  The  Chapel  was  said  to  be  three 
miles  and  forty  poles  from  the  Mother  Church,  and  ought  to  be  severed  from  the 
Parish  and  made  independent.  —  Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  The  Chapel  was 
held  in  the  year  1662,  by  Mr.  James  Bradshaw,  a  Presbyterian,  who  had  been 
removed  from  the  Rectory  of  Wigan  by  the  Independents,  and  who,  having  partly 
conformed  after  the  year  1662,  held  the  Chapel  of  Rainford  in  Prescot ;  but  engaging 
in  Monmouth's  Rebellion,  was  imprisoned,  and  is  classed  amongst  the  Noncon- 
formists. This  man,  to  the  dishonour  of  Braseuose,  which  had  given  him  more 
pious  and  sober  foundations,  took  occasion,  before  his  Patrons  at  Wigan,  to  profane 
Jeremiah,  xv.  14,  by  attempting  to  prove  that  Lady  Derby  was  the  scarlet  lady  of 
Babylon !  —  History  of  the  Siege  of  Lathoni  House,  1643—4,  p.  14.  About  the  time 
mentioned  in  the  text  a  Meeting  House  was  built  for  him  at  Hindley,  which  is  now 
possessed  by  the  Unitarians. 

Hindley  Chapel  was  rebuilt  in  the  year  1766,  partly  by  a  Brief  amounting  to 
£1,291,  and  it  probably  obtained  Parochial  rights  when  consecrated  by  Bishop  Strat- 
ford in  the  year  1698.  The  Rector  of  Wigan  appoints  the  Curate. 

2  Hindley  Hall,  a  massive  brick  edifice  of  the  last  century,  was  the  residence  and 
property  of  Sir  Robert  Holt  Leigh  Bart.  M.P.  for  Wigan,  son  of  Holt  Leigh  of 


D  ran rrn  of  OTamngton.  257 

Closes,  21;  Int.[erest]  of  1351  in  Mr.  Langton's  hands,  G^IS3; 
given  by  Mrs.  Duckenfield,  I1;  [by]  Mr.  Crook,  lls-6d. 

[The]  School  [is]  Free  only  to  [the]  Inhabitants]  of  Hindley 
and  Abram. 

[The]  Writings  [are]  in  [the]  hands  of  Mr.  Langton. 

An.  [no]  1627,  [an]  Inquis.[ition]4  was  held  ah*  misemployment 
of  money  given  tow.  [ards]  the  use  of  a  Free  School  for  Hindley 
and  Abram.  MS.  Hulm.  98,  A.  16,  50. 

tbett  by  Ran.[dal]  Collier,  401,  [the]  Iut.[erest]  to  be  laid  Cfjarttui. 

out  in  Linnen  Cloth,  [and]  the  Int.  [erest]  of  101  more  for 
a  Dinner  for  ye  Trustees ;  by  his  widow,  (Mary  Collier,  in  1684,) 
201  to  ye  same  Use ;  by  Rob.  [ert]  Cowper,  201 ;  [by]  Edw.  [ard] 
Green,  101;  left  by  Mrs.  Frances  Duckenfield,  alias  Croston,  in 
1662,  Lands  in  Mobberly  in  the  county  of  Chester,  [worth]  4l 
p.  [er]  an.  [num,]  for  poor,  aged,  needy,  or  impotent  Housekeepers 
in  Hindley  or  Abram ;  ye  share  to  Hindley,  by  agreement,  49sh 
p.[er]  an. [num;]  8s-8dp.[er]  an. [num,]  out  of  [the]  Charity  left 
by  Guest  of  Abram  to  [the]  Poor  of  Wigan  Par.  [ish.] 

Whitley  Hall  Esq.  and  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  Thomas  Owen  of 
Bispham  Esq.  He  was  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  graduated  M.A.  when  seventy 
years  of  age,  created  a  Baronet  by  Patent  dated  the  22d  of  May  1815,  with  remainder 
to  the  issue  male  of  his  father,  none  of  whom  surviving,  on  the  death  of  Sir  Robert 
on  the  21st  of  January  1843,  in  his  eighty-first  year,  unmarried,  the  title  became 
extinct.  The  Estates  are  now  in  the  possession  of  his  nephew,  the  Right  Hon. 
Thomas  Pemberton  Leigh,  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of  Cornwall. 

3  "  26th  Aug.  1656,  Mary  Abraham,  late  of  Abraham,  widow,  deceased,  towards 
the  maintenance  of  a  free  School  for  the  townships  of  Hindley  and  Abram  to  be 
free ;   hath  given  £100,  and  Abraham  Langton  of  Lowe  Esq.  hath  50U  thereof  in 
his  hands,  and  Abr,  Laurce  of  Abram  hath  the  other  501' ;  and  15U  is  remaining  in  the 
hands  of  Ann  Aspul  of  Hindley,  widow,  for  [the  purchase  of]  one  acre  of  ground, 
given  by  Mr.  Abram  Langton  and  Mr.  John  Culcheth,  for  the  use  of  the  free  School 
of  Hindley,  for  ever."  —  Kuerden's  MSS.  in  Chetham's  Library. 

The  following  inscription  is  upon  the  School :  — "  This  School  was  built  by  the 
Gift  of  Mary  Abram,  widow,  whose  soul,  I  trust,  triumpheth  now  among  the  Just. 
A.D.  1632." 

4  It  was  found  by  this  Inquisition,  taken  at  Wigan  on  March  28th  1627,  before 
Bishop  Bridgeman,  and  others,  that  "diverse  yeares  since  Mary  Abraham  of  Abraham 

VOL.  II.]  L  L 


258  fiotttta 

ar  SP  ©&3L&^1—  UP-HOLLAND,  Certif.- 

435'  HiR  [fed]  271. 2-.  8*,  viz.  25*,  paid  by  [the] 

p?3  Rect.[or]  of  Wigan;    21.0s-8d,  an  old  Bent  from   ye   House   of 

Ralph  Atherton  in  ye   Town;    Surp.[lice]    Fees,   21;    Contrib.- 

[utions]  from  the  sev.  [eral]  Towns,  [hips]  in  ye  Chappelry,  ah*  161 

p.[er]  an.  [num.] 

Church-rents,  3s -8d  Curate's  AccL  an.  [no]  1706,  Pap.  Reg.  but 
[there  was]  201  p.[er]  an.[num]  paid  by  [the]  Rect.[or,]  as  he  in- 
formed me.  1724. 

An.[no]  1310,  Sr  Rob.[ert]  de  Holland,  Patron.  MS.  Hulm. 
95,  /.  11,  ex  cartul.  Epl.  Cov.  et  Litchf. 

2  Wardens. 

3  m.[iles]  from  Wigan;  2  m.[iles]  from  [the]  next  Chap. [el.] 

in  the  Parish  of  Wigan,  did  lend  unto  Miles  Gerard,  late  of  Ince  Esq.  the  some  of 
Fourescore  Poundes,  in  Trust,  for  the  use  of  a  Free  School  to  be  erected  in  Hindley," 
and  the  misemployed  money  was,  consequently,  after  this  Inquisition,  rightly  appro- 
priated. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Thomas  &  Becket.     Value  in  1834,  £1 36.     Registers  begin  in  1620. 

Up-Holland,  so  called  in  contradistinction  to  Down-Holland  in  the  Parish  of  Halsall. 
Before  the  year  1310  a  Collegiate  Church  was  founded  here  by  Sir  Robert  de  Holland, 
but  afterwards  changed  into  a  Priory  of  Benedictine  Monks  by  Walter  de  Langton, 
Bishop  of  Coventry  and  Lichfield.  Sir  Robert  de  Holland  was  in  the  wars  in  Scot- 
land in  the  31st  Edward  I.  and  owed  his  advancement  to  his  becoming  Secretary  to 
Thomas  of  Woodstock,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  for  previously  he  had  been  but  "  a  Poor 
Knight."  In  the  1st  Edward  II.  he  obtained  large  territorial  grants  from  the  Crown, 
and  in  the  8th  Edward  II.  was  summoned  to  Parliament  as  a  Baron.  He  fell  into 
disgrace  with  his  Patrons,  the  Earls  of  Lancaster,  and  appears  to  have  been  murdered 
in  the  year  1328,  when  his  Estates  were  confiscated,  but  were  restored  to  his  family 
before  the  46th  Edward  III.  and  passed  in  marriage  with  Maud  Holland,  his  great- 
grand-daughter,  about  the  year  1374,  to  John  Lovel,  fifth  Lord  Lovel,  of  Tichmersh, 
K.G.  and  being  forfeited  by  the  attainder  of  Francis,  Viscount  Lovel,  after  the  battle 
of  Bosworth  in  the  year  1485,  were  granted  by  Henry  VII.  to  Thomas,  first  Earl  of 
Derby.  The  Manor  of  Holland  was  conveyed  by  sale,  in  the  year  1717,  to  Thomas 
Ashurst  of  Ashurst  in  this  Parish  Esq.  by  Henrietta  Maria,  Countess  of  Ashburnham, 
only  surviving  daughter  and  heiress  of  the  ninth  Earl  of  Derby,  and  being  sold  by 
Henry  Ashurst  Esq.  in  the  year  1751,  to  Sir  Thomas  Bootle  of  Melling  and  Lathom, 
has  descended  to  his  representative,  the  Lord  Skelmersdale. 


w  of  fwaarrmgton.  259 

is  a  School,  built  about  an.  [no]  1667  by  Rob.[ert]  Wai-  £cf)0al. 
thew2  of  Pemberton,  Gent,  and  endowed  by  him  (22d  March 
1668,)  by  a  messuage  and  lands  in  Holland,  [of  the  value]  of  91 
p.  [er]  an.  [num ;]  given  since  by  Edw.  [ard]  Leigh  of  the  Abbey, 
51  p.[er]  an. [num,]  Rent  Charge;  by  Jam.[es]  Marshall,  20sh 
p.[er]  an.  [num,]  Rent  Charge. 

[The]  right  of  Nominating  the]  Master  and  Usher  is  [vested] 
in  Mr.  Markland  of  Pemberton,  heir  to  Mr.  Walthew,  ye  Founder. 
V.[ide]  Nom.  [ination]  by  3  Trustees,  (Robert  Markland  one,) 
an.  [no]  1705.  Pap.  Reg. 

by   Edm.[und]    Molineux   an.  [no]    1613,    fr-lS8^  CljartttoS. 
secured  upon  Lands  in  Essex;  by  Hen.[ry]  Prescott,  an.- 
[no]    3638,  201;    [by]   J.  Crosse,  fr-lS8^,  secured  by  an  As- 
signment of  Tenemts  in  Leland;    [by]   Ri.  [chard]  Walthew,  (in 

This  ancient  Church,  now  degraded  to  a  Parochial  Chapelry,  but  formerly  the 
Church  of  the  Priory  of  Up-Holland,  was  transferred  at  the  Dissolution,  to  the  Inha- 
bitants of  Tip-Holland,  Orrell,  Billinge  Higher  End,  Winstanley,  and  Dalton ;  and 
these  Townships  are  liable  to  keep  it  in  repair.  It  consists  of  a  Tower,  Nave,  Aisles, 
and  Chancel.  The  Tower  is  low  and.  strong,  and  partly  covered  with  Ivy.  The 
noble  East  Window  is  the  glory  of  the  sacred  edifice.  All  the  windows  contain  a 
profusion  of  stained  glass,  but  broken,  and  irregularly  jumbled  together. 

In  the  year  1650  the  Ecclesiastical  Commissioners  found  that  "  the  Parish  Church 
of  Holland  was  formerly  a  Chapel  belonging  to  the  Parish  Church  of  "VVigan,  until 
by  a  late  Ordinance  of  Parliament  it  was  made  a  distinct  Parish  Church ;  having 
neither  Parsonage  nor  Vicarage  belonging  to  it,  only  in  the  same  Township  there 
is  a  Grlebe  worth  4s.  per  annum,  in  Tithe  Corn  £80,  and  small  Tithe  20s.  Mr. 
Richard  Baldwin  is  the  Incumbent,  a  very  able  Minister,  and  a  man  of  honest 
life,  but  kept  not  the  late  Fast  day,  and  has  for  his  maintenance  the  Glebe,  the 
small  Tithes,  and  £12.  13s.  4d.  out  of  the  profits  of  the  Tithe  Corn.  The  residue 
of  the  latter  was  formerly  received  by  the  Earl  of  Derby,  but  is  now  taken  by  the 
Agents  for  Sequestration.  The  Church  is  three  miles  from  Wigan  and  Billinge,  and 
fit  to  be  continued  a  Parish." — Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  In  the  year  1705  Mr.  William 
Birchall,  the  Curate,  stated  that  the  Chapel  was  founded  by Holland  of  Hol- 
land, and  converted  in  the  reign  of  Edward  II.  from  a  Collegiate  Church  of  Canons 
Secular,  into  a  Priory  of  the  Order  of  St.  Benet,  consisting  of  a  Prior  and  twelve 
Monks.  The  Tithes  were  partly  impropriated  to  the  Earl  of  Derby,  and  the  rest 
were  in  the  Rector  of  Wigan,  who  nominated  the  Incumbent,  whose  Income,  being 
about  £30  a  year,  arose  from  an  allowance  by  the  Rector  of  Wigan  and  Benefactions 


260  ilotttta  Cffttttengt*. 

1643,)  ISO1,  upon  Land  security;  [by]  Mrs.  Alice  Birch,  201,  (wch 
is  lost;)  [by]  J.  Guest,  9s -4d  p.[er]  an.[num,]  upon  Land;  [by] 
Th.[omas]  Eddleston,  101,  upon  Land;  [by]  Th.[omas]  Barton, 
(in  1674,)  S^es-S*1  p.[er]  an.[num,]  upon  Land;  [by]  A.[nn] 
Whalley,  201,  upon  Land  security;  [by]  Dr.  James  Fairclough, 
(in  1636,)  1001,  of  wch  501  [is]  upon  Land  security,  [and]  ye  other 
501  upon  a  Tenem*;  [by]  J.[ames]  Fairclough,  his  son,  2001, 
[the]  Int.ferest]  of  wch  before  it  was  paid  came  to  501  more,  wch 
sum  of  2501  is  out  upon  Land  Security  to  Dr.  Worthington. 


olij  EtfWE&l^1  reckoned  about  8001  p.[er]   an.[num;] 


Syno        o 
Tn.  ...o.io.o 


Curates  Paid-      Patron,   [the]  E.[arl]   of  Derby:  now 
Ld  Ashburnham's   daughter,   heiresse-at-Law,  by  her 
Fam.  ......  930  j  Mother,  to  [the]  E.  [arl]  of  Derby. 

[Pap.  Fam.  107] 

[P.  65.    Q.  5.]    from  the  People.  —  Notitia  Paroch.  Lamb.  Libr.     The  Hector  of  Wigan  is  still  the 
Patron. 

The  Priory  was  granted  in  the  28th  Henry  VIII.  to  John  Holcroft  Esq.  for 
£344.  12s.  with  all  the  demesne  lands  in  Holland,  Orrell,  Wigan,  Markland,  and 
Pemberton,  in  the  Parish  of  Wigan,  being  of  the  clear  yearly  value  of  £18.  11s.  2d. 
The  Priory  was  afterwards  sold  to  the  Bisphams  of  Bispham  and  Billinge,  from 
whom  it  descended  to  Sir  Robert  Holt  Leigh  Bart,  and  on  his  death  it  became 
vested  in  his  kinsman,  Thomas  Pemberton  Leigh  Esq. 

The  Castle  of  Holland,  formerly  the  residence  of  the  Lords  Holland,  and  which 
was  fortified  in  the  year  1307,  1st  Edward  II.  by  royal  license,  has  long  since  dis- 
appeared. 

•  Robert  Walthew  of  Walthew  House  in  Pemberton  Esq.  had  issue  Elizabeth,  his 
daughter  and  coheiress,  who  married  about  the  year  1647,  Ralph  Markland  of  the 
Meadows  in  Wigan  Esq.  eldest  son  of  Ralph  Markland  Esq.  M.P.  and  his  wife  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Giles  Gerard  of  Ince  Hall  Esq.  —  See  Nichols'  Lit.  Anecd.  vol.  iv. 
p.  657. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Oswald.     Value  in  1834,  £3,616.     Registers  begin  in  1563. 

At  the  Conquest  this  Church  was  endowed  with  two  carucates  of  land.  In  the 
reign  of  Henry  III.  Richard,  Parson  of  Winwick,  held  two  parts,  and  Robert 
de  Walton  the  third  part  of  this  land.  Alured  de  Ince  held  of  the  same  Robert 
four  bovates,  and  Hugh  de  Haidock  three  bovates  of  that  Church  land,  in  fee 
farm.  —  Testa  de  NevilT,  p.  405.  Robert  de  Walton  was  probably  Robert  Banastre. 


>  of  ^Harrington.  261 

An.  [no]  1306,  Winwick  Vicaria.  Patr.[on,  the]  Priory  of  St. 
Oswald  de  Nostell.  MS.  Hulm.  95,  /.  11,  ex  Cartul.  Epi.  Cov. 
et  Litchf. 

Baron  of  Newton,  so  named  from  his  other  residence  and  Manor  of  Walton-le- 
Dale. 

The  Sector  is  still  the  Manerial  owner,  and  the  whole  Township  of  Winwick 
belongs  to  the  Church,  with  the  exception  of  half  an  acre  which  belongs  to  the  Free 
School.  By  the  4th  Victoria,  c.  9,  this  extensive  Parish  was  divided,  by  a  splendid 
act  of  liberality  on  the  part  of  the  munificent  Rector,  and  the  modern  Parish  of  Win- 
wick, with  a  reduced  Income,  and  a  smaller  Rectory  House,  consists  of  the  Town- 
ship of  Winwick  and  Hulme,  Hoghton  and  Arbury,  which  contained  in  the  year 
1845,  a  population  of  838  souls. 

The  Church  of  "  Wyneswyk"  was  valued  in  the  year  1291  at  £26.  13s.  4d.  On  the 
8th  of  February  1306,  at  Carlisle,  John  de  Bambourg,  Presbyter,  was  instituted  to 
the  "  Vicarage"  of  Wynquike,  on  the  presentation  of  the  Prior  and  Convent  of  St. 
Oswald  of  Nostel ;  and  after  his  admission  he  was  sworn  to  residence  within  the  said 
Vicarage.  —  Lib.  1/2  fol.  11  a,  in  Cur.  Lichf.  On  the  llth  Ides  of  December  1349, 
Roger,  Bishop  of  Coventry  and  Lichfield,  addressed  a  letter  from  Eccleshall  to 
Geffrey  de  Burgh,  "  Vicar"  of  Wynwyk,  respecting  pensions,  &c.  and  also  a  pastoral 
letter  to  the  Prior  and  Convent  of  St.  Oswald  of  Nostel,  the  Patrons  of  Winwick. — 
Lib.  2/3  fol.  125,  b,  ib.  On  the  10th  kal.  July  1357,  John  de  Swynlegh,  "Vicar"  of 
the  Church  of  Wynwyk,  was  presented  to  the  Church  of  Warrington,  by  John  le 
Botyler.  —  Lib.  2/3  fol.  134,  a,  ib. 

A  Vicarage  does  not  appear  to  have  been  ordained  in  this  Church,  notwithstand- 
ing these  references  to  the  Vicar  of  Winwick :  — "  Processus  habitus  super  refor- 
matione  certarum  rasurarum  in  Registro  Roger  de  Northbur.  et  Walter  de  Langton 
concernent.  Vicar,  de  Wynwyk.  Dat.  apud  Heywoode  8th  Kal.  Oct.  A.D.  1376. 
Ordinatio  Alexandri  Cov.  et  Lichf.  Epi.  super  diet.  Eccl.  de  Wynwyk.  Dat.  Lich.  5 
non.  Martii  A.D.  1231. — Reg.  Stretton,  fol.  59,  b,  ad  fol.  61,  b. 

Modus  for  Hay  and  Small  Tithes  of  the  Rectory.  See  the  case  of  Finch  v. 
Maisters,  et.  al.  Apr.  7,  1724.  Bunbury,  231. — Ducarel's  Eepert.  of  Vic.  Lamb.  Libr. 

In  the  year  1433,  12th  Henry  VI.  the  Priory  of  Nostell  sold  the  Advowson  of 
Winwick  to  Sir  John  Stanley  of  Lathom  K.G.  with  a  reservation  of  an  annual 
pension  of  100s.  to  the  Prior,  since  which  period  the  Living  has  been  in  the  noble 
family  of  Derby,  having  descended  in  the  year  1732,  on  the  death  of  Lady  Henrietta 
Bridget,  unmarried,  to  Sir  Edward  Stanley  Bart,  who  succeeded  to  the  honours  of 
his  ancestors  as  the  eleventh  Earl  of  Derby. 

In  the  year  1334,  8th  Edward  III.  Sir  Gilbert  Haydock  of  Haydock  in  this  Parish 
founded  a  Chantry  in  the  Church  of  Winwick,  as  appears  by  his  Petition  to  the 
Bishop  of  Coventry  and  Lichfield,  to  which  Chantry  in  the  year  1542,  his  descendant, 
Sir  Peter  Legh  of  Lyme  and  Haydock  presented  a  Priest. 

On  the  South  side  of  the  Nave  in  the  Legh  Chapel  is  a  sepulchral  monument  of 


262  $otttta 

-  [The]  Chantry  of  the  Trinity  in  Winwick  Church  [was]  Insti- 
tuted by  Gilbert  Haydock,  an.  [no]  1334.  Ib. 

An.  [no]  1405,  Licence  [was  granted]  to  Rob.[ert]  Langtoii  to 

brass,  having  incised  figures  of  a  male  and  female,  being  effigies  of  Ellen,  (who  died  in 
the  year  1491,)  wife  of  Sir  Peter  Legh,  and  daughter  of  Sir  John  Savage  Knt.  and 
also  of  Sir  Peter  Legh,  Knight  and  Priest,  who  died  at  Lyme  on  the  12th  of  August 
1527. — See  Illustrations  of  Monumental  Brasses,  published  by  the  Cambridge  Camden 
Society,  and  also  Waller's  Series  of  Monumental  Brasses  from  the  13th  to  the  16th 
Century,  for  engravings  of  this  beautiful  monument. 

Kobert  Banastre,  Lord  of  Makerfield,  in  the  year  1284,  gave  to  God  and  St. 
Oswald,  an  annual  rent  of  12d.  on  the  feast  of  St.  Oswald  the  King,  to  procure  wax 
for  the  light  of  St.  Mary  the  Virgin  in  the  Church  of  Winwick,  in  consequence  of  his 
having  had  permission  granted  to  have  a  Chantry,  or  free  liberty  to  have  masses  cele- 
brated, in  his  Chapel  of  Rokedene.  —  Dodsworth,  vol.  cxxxviii.  p.  121. 

On  the  North  side  of  the  Nave  is  the  Chapel  of  the  Gerards  of  Bryn,  described  in 
the  year  1492,  as  "  the  burial  place  of  their  ancestors  ;"  and  on  the  oak  gate  is  a  gro- 
tesque and  rudely  executed  carving,  exhibiting  the  crest  and  initials  of  Sir  Thomas 
Gerard  and  his  wife,  — 

"T.G.  E.G.  IN  THE  YERE  OF  OVR  LORD  M.C.C.C.C.LXXI." 

The  characters  do  not  appear  older  than  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  the  year 
was  probably  intended  to  be  1571,  and  the  record  was  designed  to  commemorate  Sir 
Thomas  Gerard  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Port  of  Etwall.  Baines 
concludes  it  to  be  the  monument  of  Sir  Thomas  Gerard,  Knight  of  the  Shire  in  the 
17th  Richard  II.  1394 ! !  and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  or  Mien  ! 

In  the  year  1650  the  Commissioners  reported  that  there  was  a  Parsonage  House, 
Glebe,  and  Housing,  of  the  yearly  value  of  £161 ;  three  water  Corn  Mills,  worth  £30 
a  year ;  the  Rents  of  some  Tenements,  worth  £28  a  year ;  and  the  Tithe  of  Corn, 
and  Small  Tithe,  worth  £445.  2s.  a  year.  Mr.  Charles  Herle  was  the  Incumbent,  an 
orthodox,  godly,  preaching  Minister,  but  did  not  observe  Thursday,  the  13th  of  June 
inst.  as  a  day  of  Humiliation.  He  was  presented  by  the  Earl  of  Derby,  who  claimed 
to  be  Patron.  —  Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

Croft,  with  Southworth,  was  constituted  a  separate  Parish  and  Rectory,  (for  all 
Ecclesiastical  purposes,)  by  the  4th  Victoria,  c.  9,  and  Christ  Church,  built  there  in 
the  years  1832-3,  was  made  the  Parish  Church,  and  endowed  with  the  Tithes  of  the 
Townships  of  Croft  and  Southworth.  The  population  in  the  year  1845  comprised 
1,155  souls. 

By  the  8th  and  9th  Victoria,  c.  6,  the  Townships  of  Lowton  and  Golborne  were 
constituted  a  distinct  and  separate  Parish  and  Rectory.  The  Chapel  of  Lowton,  built 
in  the  year  1732,  and  enlarged  in  the  year  1813,  was  made  the  Parish  Church,  and 
the  Tithes  of  Lowton  were  annexed  to  the  Rectory,  with  a  condition  in  the  event  of 
Golborne  being  hereafter  made  a  Parish.  In  the  year  1845  the  population  of  Lowton 
was  2,150,  and  that  of  Golborne  1657.  A  Church  is  now  ready  for  Consecration  in 


of  iSaarrington.  263 

have  Divine  Service  performed  in  [the]  Chap,  [el]  of  Rokedene  in 
[the]  Parish  of  Winwick.  Ib. 

An.[no]  1551,  [the]  E.[arl]  of  Derby  presented.  Inst.  \itution] 
B.lpok,']  1,  p.  39.  An. [no]  1610,  D°,  Mr.  John  Ryder.2 

Golborne,  which  Township  will  thenceforward  be  a  separate  Parish  (under  the  Win- 
wick  Rectory  Act)  endowed  with  its  own  Tithes,  commuted  for  £158  per  annum. 
The  Church  has  been  built  by  subscription,  principally  of  two  manufacturing  houses, 
the  one  giving  £500,  the  other  £250.  The  population  is  now  nearly  2,000. 

In  the  years  1847-8  the  Chancel  of  Winwick  Church  was  built  anew  on  the  old 
foundations,  and  was  completely  restored  in  its  original  form,  and  in  more  than  its 
original  beauty  and  propriety. 

The  old  edifice  furnished  instances  of  every  portion  of  chastened  Christian  archi- 
tecture, except  the  exact  patterns  of  the  tracery  of  the  windows.  These  were 
destroyed  in  the  wars  of  the  Commonwealth,  and  had  been  replaced  in  the  coarsest 
way,  without  any  regard  to  retrospective  art.  The  date  (about  the  year  1370)  indi- 
cated the  era,  and  certain  stone  remains  in  the  East  window  suggested  the  character 
of  the  style  to  be  adopted.  In  every  other  portion  of  the  building  the  ancient  designs 
and  models  which  remained  have  been  accurately  followed  and  replaced.  The  Chancel 
windows  are  filled  with  resplendent  stained  glass  by  Hardman  of  Birmingham,  the 
East  containing  figures  of  the  Holy  Evangelists  and  Inspired  Writers  of  the  Canonical 
Epistles,  with  appropriate  emblems  and  devices ;  in  the  other  three  principal  windows 
are  seen  three  several  emblematical  representations  of  Christ,  who  is  everywhere  in 
the  Chancel  the  capital  figure.  The.  fourth  window  is  "a  memorial  of  a  true 
son  of  the  Church,  a  loyal  subject  of  the  Crown,  a  faithful  soldier  of  Christ,  —  one 
who  died  in  the  cause  of  his  Church,  his  King  and  his  Country,  —  one  in  whom  this 
our  Parish  claims  a  personal  interest,  and  with  whose  blood  it  is  an  encouraging 
admonition  to  the  noble  race  that  springs  from  him,  to  be  allied.  James,  seventh 
Earl  of  Derby,  long  a  Christian  hero,  was  glorified  as  a  martyr  in  a  holy  cause. 
Here,  where  doubtless,  in  the  days  of  his  flesh,  he  has  worshipped,  and  partaken  of 
the  Christian  sacrifice ;  here,  fitly  we  commemorate,  by  the  blazonry  of  his  armorial 
bearings,  that  he  was  the  heir  of  all  but  Royal  nobility,  and  by  the  record  of  his  last 
words,  that  in  true  and  perfect  allegiance  he  was  better  ennobled  by  the  King  of 
kings."  —  Extract  from  a  Sermon  preached  in  Winwick  Chwrch  on  the  Opening 
of  the  New  Church,  by  the  Rev.  J.  J.  Hornby  M.A.  Sector,  (printed,  but  not 
published,)  1848.  The  Chancel  screen  is  of  richly-carved  oak,  and  the  "seats"  are 
placed  stall-wise ;  the  reredos  is  elaborately  sculptured  in  Caen  stone ;  and  the  sedilia 
are  of  the  same,  after  the  pattern  of  the  old  ones.  The  Communion  Table  is  of 
carved  oak,  and  the  pavement  is  laid  with  rich  encaustic  tiles.  The  roof  is  of  fine 
carved  oak,  beautifully  decorated  with  paint  and  gilding.  The  stone  was  obtained 
from  the  Stourton  Hill  quarry,  near  Eastham  in  Cheshire. 

These  noble  works  of  faith  have  been  undertaken  in  a  reverent  spirit  by  the  Rector, 
who  has  faithfully  observed  the  command  of  the  Church,  that  "  Chancels  (and 


264  ilotttta  4ft0ttt'en0t0. 

[The]  Tenants  of  ye  Glebe  renew  wth  every  new  Rect.  [or,]  and 
once  in  21  y.  [ears,]  if  he  continue  Rect.  [or]  soe  long. 

W*  is  paid  by  tenants  upon  every  renewall  amounts  to  abt  10001, 
but  [the]  Rect.  [or]  is  not  obliged  to  renew. 

4  Wardens,  [and]  4  Assist,  [ants,]  chosen  ace.  [ording]  to  [the] 
Canon,  who  serve  for  ye  4  quarters  they  live  in,  viz.  Winwick, 
Haydock,  Ashton,  [and]  Culcheth. 

Winwick-cum-Hulme,  Ashton,  Culcheth,  Lowton,  Newton  in 
Makerfield,  Croft-cum-Southworth,  Golborne,  Haydock,  Hough- 
ton,  Middleton  and  Arbury,  and  Kenyon. 

Wiuwick,3  Haydock  Lodge,4  Byrom,5  Kenion,6  Culcheth,7  Hol- 

Churches)  shall  remain  as  they  have  done  in  times  past ;"  and  Mr.  Pugin  would 
seem  to  have  caught  the  unrivalled  spirit  of  the  ancient  models,  and  to  have  pre- 
served not  only  the  architecture,  but  also  the  Christian  character  of  this  interesting 
Church. 

2  John  Eyder  D.D.  was  born  at  Carrington  in  Cheshire,  entered  of  Jesus  College, 
Oxford,  in  the  year  1576,  became  Rector  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene,  Bermondsey,  near 
London,  Rector  of  Winwick  before  1606,  Archdeacon  of  Meath,  Dean  of  St.  Patrick, 
and  in  the  year  1612  Bishop  of  Killaloe.     He  was  much  reverenced  for  his  religion 
and  learning.     He  resigned  Winwick  before  the  year  1616.     Wood  gives  a  list  of 
some  of  his  Writings.      He  died  on  the  12th  of  November  1632.  —  Athen.  Oxon. 
vol.  i.  p.  495. 

3  Winwick  Hall  is  the  Rectory  House,  and  has  all  the  marks  of  being  a  Manorial 
residence. 

4  The  Manor  of  Haydock  was  held  by  Hugh  de  Eydock,  one  of  the  Jurors  on 
the  Gascon  Scutage  for  West  Derby,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  III.  and  the  superior 
Lord  was  the  Baron  of  Newton.      In  the  18th  Edward  III.  Gilbert  de  Haidoc, 
the  descendant  of  Hugh  de  Eydock,  had  a  License  for  Imparking  Haydok,  and  for 
free  warren  in  Bradele.     The  Manor  passed  with  Joan,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir 
Gilbert  Haydock,  in  marriage  to  Sir  Peter  Legh  of  Lyme,  who  died  in  the  year  1422, 
and  is  now  the  property  of  his  descendant,  Thomas  Legh  Esq. 

6  Byrom  Hall  is  a  brick  mansion  of  the  seventeenth  century.  In  the  reign  of  Henry 
VI.  it  was  the  seat  of  Henry  de  Byrom,  and  continued  in  the  direct  line  until  the 
death  of  John  Byrom  Esq.  when  it  became  the  property  of  Edward  Byrom  Esq.  who 
dying  unmarried  in  the  year  1724,  it  descended  to  his  next  and  only  brother,  John 
Byrom  M.A.  F.R.S.  of  Kersall,  near  Manchester,  the  poet  and  philosopher.  He  was 
the  younger  son  of  Edward  Byrom  of  Manchester  Gent,  who  married  at  Bury,  on  the 
19th  of  April  1680,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Mr.  John  Allen  of  Redivales,  and  whose 
son,  Edward  Byrom  Esq.  (founder  of  St.  John's  Church,  Manchester,)  dying  in  the 
year  1773,  without  issue  male,  the  Estate  descended  to  his  daughters  and  coheiresses, 


Heanerg  of  OTarnngton.  265 

croft,8  Old9  and  New  Hall,10  Pesfurlong,11  Risley,12  Southworth,13 
and  Peel14  of  Houghton. 

f)e  School  here  was  built  an.  [no]  1618,  by  Sr  Peter  Legh  of 
Lime,   and  by  him  and  Walter  Legh,    (his  great  uncle,) 
jointly  endowed  wth  201  p.[er]  an.  [num,]  wch  is  now  augmented 
r]  an.  [num]  by  ye  pres.  [eut]  Mr.  [Peter]  Legh  of  Lime, 


Ann  and  Eleanora.  The  latter  died  unmarried  in  the  year  1838;  and  the  former 
married  in  the  year  1780,  Henry  Atherton  of  the  Middle  Temple  Esq.  by  whom  she 
had  two  daughters,  Miss  Eleanora  Atherton,  now  of  Kersall  Cell  ;  and  Lucy,  who 
married  on  the  17th  of  July  1819,  Eichard  Willis  of  Halsnead  Park  Esq. 

6  Kenion  Hall  is  a  house  of  the  seventeenth  century,  recently  enlarged.     Jordan, 
son  of  William  de  Lauton,  held  the  Manor  of  Kenion,  and  was  called  Jordan  de 
Kenion,  23d  Henry  III.  and  18th  and  20th  Edward  I.     Ameria,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Adam  de  Kenyon,  married  in  the  year  1358,  Sir  Eichard  Holland  of  Denton  in 
the  county  of  Lancaster,  and  conveyed  the  Manor  to  her  husband,  in  whose  male 
descendants  it  continued  until  it   passed  in  marriage  about  the  year  1682,  with 
Elizabeth,    [who  ob.  31st  May  1701,]    daughter  of  William,   and  sole  sister  and 
heiress  of  Edward  Holland  of  Heaton  and  Denton  Esq.  to  Sir  John  Egerton  of 
Wrinehill  Bart,  [who  ob.  4th  Nov.  1729,  aged  seventy-three,]  whose  descendant, 
Eleanor,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Thomas  Grey  Egerton,  first  Earl  of  Wilton, 
having  married  Eobert,  first  Marquess  of  Westminster,  the  Manor  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  his  Lordship's  second  son,  the  Eight  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Wilton. 

7  Culcheth  was  held  in  the  time  of  King  John  by  Henry  de  Culcheth,  who  gave,  by 
Deed,  all  his  lands  in  Hindley  to  his  eldest  son,  Eichard  de  Culcheth;  and  his  de- 
scendant, Gilbert  de  Culcheth,  according  to  Dr.  Whitaker,  left  two,  but  according  to 
an  original  Deed  among  the  Culcheth  Papers,  four  daughters  and  coheiresses,  one  of 
whom,  Margaret,  married  William  de  Badclyfle  of  Eadclyfie  Tower,  who,  in  her 
right,  was  siezed  of  Culcheth  20th  Edward  I.      The  Manor  appears  to  have  been  sold 
in  the  6th  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  by  Sir  Thomas  Eadclifle,  K.G.  grandson  of  Eobert 
Eadcliffe,  Baron  Fitzwalter,  to  John  Culcheth  Esq.     He  was  descended  from  Mar- 
gery, elder  daughter  and  coheiress  of  Gilbert  de  Culcheth,  who  married  in  the  year 
1272,  Eichard  de  Culcheth,  son  of  Hugh  de  Hindley.     The  family  was  much  harassed 
and  severely  fined  by  the  Eepublican  party  in  the  seventeenth  century,  and  for  some 
years  reduced  to  dependency  on  their  friends,  but  recovered  some  of  their  property 
at  the  Eestoration.     On  the  death  of  Thomas  Culcheth  Esq.  s.p.  about  the  beginning 
of  the  last  century,  (after  the  year  1725,)  the  Estate  passed  to  his  aunt,  Katherine, 
fifth  and  youngest  daughter  of  Thomas  Culcheth  Esq.     She  married  in  the  year  1688, 
John  Trafford  of  Croston  Esq.  and  conveyed  the  Estate  to  him.     It  is  now  the  pro- 
perty of  Ellames  Withington  Esq.  having  been  purchased  by  his  father. 

8  Holcroft  was  obtained  in  marriage  in  the  reign  of  Edward  I.  by  Thomas,  second 

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266  liotttta 

(an.  [no]  1719,)  who  nominates  ye  Master,  v.[ide]  Nom.[inatiou] 
an. [no]  1705,  and  an. [no]  1696,  Pap.  Reg™ 

There  is  a  Charity  School  lately  built  for  20  poor  Children. 
Certified]  an.  [no]  1719. 

Cfjarttt'rtf.  t'bftt  by  J.  Guest,  601,  of  wch  61  was  spent  in  ye  recovery  of 

iis^j  it;  by  Ricb.[ard]  Sherlock  D.D.  late  Rcctour,  by  AYill 
dated  14th  June  1689,  2011  •  10s  •  00d,  (the  sum  was  £235  in  1698;) 
[by]  Joh.[n]  Brotherton,  45l;  [by]  Mrs.  Barbara  Visitelli,  201, 

son  of  Hugh  de  Hindley,  (who  assumed  the  name  of  Holcroft,)  with  one  of  the  four 
coheiresses  of  Gilbert  de  Culcheth.  It  was  the  seat  of  Sir  John  Holcroft,  the  memo- 
rable and  rancorous  spoliator  of  Church  property  in  the  time  of  Henry  VIII.  The 
unhallowed  violence  of  this  successful  Court  minion  was  short  lived.  By  injustice 
and  vituperation,  he  added  to  his  paternal  Estate ;  but  the  additions  were  unhappy, 
and  the  whole  Estate  soon  passed  from  his  family.  The  house,  which  is  a  stone 
fabric,  is  now  occupied  by  a  yeoman. 

9  Old  Hey  Hall  was  long  the  residence  of  a  family  of  respectable  gentry  of  the  name 
of  Brotherton,  who  recorded  a  Pedigree  of  a  few  descents  at  the  last  Visitation.    The 
property  was  sold  by  Mr.  Brotherton  at  the  beginning  of  the  present  century  to 
Thomas  Legh  of  Lyme  Esq.     Dr.  C.  Leigh  notices  several  curious  experiments  in 
Natural  History  by  Thomas  Brotherton  of  Hey  Esq.  in  the  year  1671. — Book  ii. 
p.  29. 

10  New  Hall  was  built  by  the  Launders  about  the  year  1692,  and  was  purchased  by 
Sir  William  Gerard,  the  eleventh  Baronet,  who  died  in  the  year  1826,  and  is  now  the 
residence  of  his  nephew  and  successor. 

11  Pesfurlong  Hall  is  now  a  farm  house.     Adam,  third  son  of  Hugh  de  Hindley, 
obtained  Pesfarlong,  and  assumed  the  surname,  by  marriage  with  one  of  the  four 
daughters  and  coheiresses  of  Gilbert  de  Culcheth.     It  was  the  property  of  the  Barn- 
fords  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth.     The  present  owner  is  William  S.  Standish  of 
Duxbury  Park  Esq. 

12  It  appears  from  the  Culcheth  Pedigree,  accurately  deduced  and  substantiated  by 
Deeds,  that  in  the  early  part  of  the  reign  of  Edward  I.  Robert,  fourth  son  of  Hugh 
de  Hindley,  who  had  obtained  lands  from  Robert  Banastre,  married  one  of  the 
four  daughters  and  coheiresses  of  Gilbert  de  Culcheth,  and  having  obtained  Risley 
with  his  wife,  assumed  that  surname.     The  Estate  continued  in  that  family  until  the 
last  century,  when  it  was  sold  by  John  Riseley  Gent,  and  is  now  held  by  John  Ireland 
Blackburne  Esa-  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xxiv. 

13  Southworth  was  a  Manor  held  of  the  Baron  of  Newton  by  Gilbert  Sothworth 
in  the  10th  Edward  II.  and  his  son,  Sir  Gilbert,  before  6th  Edward  III.  having  mar- 
ried the  daughter  and  heiress  of  Nicholas  de  Ewyas,  Lord  of  Samlesbury,  appears  to 
have  made  the  latter  place  his  chief  residence.     The  Manor  of  Southworth  was  in  the 


ij  of  OTarringtou.  267 

(and  for  Communion  Plate,  201;)  [by]  Tho.[mas]  Firth,  ^-lO8; 
[by]  Tho.[mas]  Brothertou,  21.  For  all  wch  money  there  are  six 
Feoffees  in  Trust.  William  Leadbeater,  in  1685,  gave  his  Estate 
in  Lowton  and  Golborne  to  the  Poor.  In  1712  Nicholas  Turner 
gave  20s  a  year,  in  linen. 


Certified]    IL^-OO1,  Fam 200 

viz.   I1  for   [an]   Anniv.  [ersary]   Ser.-     [about  GO.] 
[mon;]   12s,  Int. [erest]  of  or  given  by  sev.[eral]  persons;  but  the    [about  100.] 
Rect.  [or]   being  obliged  to  provide  for  it,  allows  the  Curate  501 
p.[er]  an.[num;]  and  the  Inhabitants]  have  Subscribed  71  p.  [er] 
an.[num]   for  a  Curate,  to  reside  among  ym,  and  read  prayers 
ev.[ery]  Wednes.  [day,]  Fryday,  and  Holiday. 

possession  of  Sir  John  Southworth,  an  intractable  subject  of  the  State,  in  the  begin- 
ning of  Queen  Elizabeth's  reign,  (Whitaker's  Whalley,  p.  431,  Note,)  and  also  of  his 
grandson,  John  Southworth  Esq.  who  died  in  the  12th  James  I. ;  but  was  alienated 
by  Thomas  Southworth  before  the  llth  Charles  I.  Having  passed  through  many 
hands,  by  purchase  and  sale,  it  is  now  the  property  of  John  Greenall  of  Middleton 
Esq.  Southworth  Hall  existed  in  the  time  of  Henry  VI.,  and  in  the  reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth  contained  a  Roman  Catholic  Chapel.  It  is  now  a  farm  house,  of  wood, 
plaster,  and  brick. 

14  Peel  Hall  within  Houghton,  was  held  by  the  Southworths  as  of  the  Barony  of 
Newton,  and  continued  in    the  possession  of  the  family  at  the  death  of  Sir  John 
Southworth  in  the  39th  Elizabeth.     It  appears  to  have  been  sold,  with  Southworth, 
by  Thomas  Southworth  Esq.  who  married  Ann,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Tildesley  of 
Uflbrd,   and  died  in  the  year   1636.      The  Estate  is  now  the  property  of  John 
Greenall  Esq.     The  Hall  has  been  removed,  but  the  moat  and  a  deep  well  remain  to 
indicate  its  site. 

15  This  statement  varies  from  that  of  the  Charity  Commissioners  in  their  20t7t  Report 
in  the  year  1828. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Thomas.  Value  in  1834,  £181.  Registers  of  Baptism  begin  in 
1698,  and  of  Marriages  in  1712. 

Ashton-in-Makerfield,  or  in  the  Willows,  is  the  most  populous  township  in  the 
Parish  of  Winwick.  In  the  reign  of  Henry  III.  Alan  le  Brun  held  here  two  bovates 
of  land  of  Sir  Henry  do  Lee,  who  was  Sheriff  of  Lancashire  in  the  years  1274  and 
1282.  The  Manor  passed  in  marriage  with  Joan,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Peter 
de  Bryn,  to  William  Gerard  Esq.  in  the  reign  of  Edward  III.  and  his  descendant, 


268 

This  Chappell  was  rebuilt  an. [no]  1716,  upon  Sr  W.  Gerard's 
ground,  (as  'tis  said,)  who  Has  let  a  lease  of  ye  Chap,  [el]  yard, 
^alltf.       Bryn,2  Garswood.3 

tt  this  Chappelry  there  is  a  Free  School,  Built  by  Rob.[ert] 
Birchall,  Yeoman,  (in  1588,)  for  teaching  English  and  Latin, 
and  Endowed  by  Him  wth  601,  afterwards  increased  and  laid  out 
in  1629  in  a  house  and  land  [of  the]  val.[ue  of]  81  p.[er]  an. 
[num,]  to  wch  is  since  given  by  sev.[eral]  persons,  2001,  [the]  Int.- 
[erest]  lO1^8  p.[er]  an.  [num.]  Ded.[uct]  21  from  ye  whole  for 
Taxes,  to  [the]  Church,  and  Poor,  and  Lord's  rent.  The  Nom. 

Sir  Thomas  Gerard,  in  the  tenth  generation,  was  created  a  Baronet  in  the  year 
1611.  The  Manor  is  now  held  by  Sir  John  Gerard,  the  twelfth  Baronet,  Sheriff  of 
Lancashire  in  the  year  1835. 

The  Chapel  was  in  existence  in  the  year  1577.  In  the  year  1650  Ashton  was 
returned  as  being  four  miles,  one  hundred  and  thirty-two  poles,  and  two  yards  from 
the  Parish  Church.  The  Minister  was  Mr.  James  Woods,  a  very  godly  preacher,  but 
he  did  not  keep  the  last  Fast,  "for  he  had  no  orders."  He  received  the  Tithes  of  Ash- 
ton, being  worth  £120  a  year,  by  order  of  the  Committee  of  Plundered  Ministers, 
"and  came  in  by  the  free  election  of  the  whole  town."  He  had  also  a  donation  of 
9s.  6d.  paid  by  John  Humfryson.  It  was  recommended  to  be  made  a  separate  Parish 
Church.  —  Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  Baines  mentions  that  the  edifice  was 
rebuilt  in  the  year  1715,  which  is  a  year  earlier  than  the  date  in  the  text ;  that  it 
was  enlarged  in  the  year  1784,  and  again  enlarged  in  the  year  1816.  The  latter  date 
should  be  1815. 

By  the  Act  8th  and  9th  Victoria,  to  amend  the  4th  Victoria,  c.  9,  entitled  "  An 
Act  for  the  Division  of  the  Rectory  of  Winwick,"  it  is  enacted  that  from  the  21st  of 
July  1845,  that  part  of  the  Township  of  Ashton-in-Makerfield  called  the  Town  End, 
and  the  whole  of  the  Township  of  Haydock,  shall  form  a  separate  Parish  and  Vicar- 
age, to  be  called  "  the  Parish  and  Vicarage  of  St.  Thomas,  in  Ashton-in-Makerfield," 
and  that  the  present  Church  of  St.  Thomas  in  Ashton  shall  be  the  Parish  Church, 
and  be  endowed  with  the  Tithes  of  Haydock. 

By  the  same  amended  Act,  the  whole  of  the  Township  of  Ashton,  except  the  Town 
End,  is  constituted  a  separate  Parish  and  Rectory,  and  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Tri- 
nity, built  in  the  year  1837,  is  made  the  Parish  Church  of  Ashton-in-Makerfield,  and 
endowed  with  the  Tithes  of  that  Township,  charged  with  a  perpetual  payment  of  £50 
per  annum  to  the  Vicar  of  St.  Thomas's,  which  was  heretofore  charged  upon  the 
Tithes  of  the  Rectory  of  Winwick.  The  Rector  of  Ashton  to  be  the  Patron  of  St. 
Thomas's. 

2  Bryn  Hall  was  visited  in  the  latter  part  of  the  last  century  by  Mr.  Barrett,  the 


Drancvt)  of  TOarrmston.  269 

[ination]  of  the  Master  is,  by  [the]  Founder's  Will,  in  12  Feo- 
ffees, the  most  substantiall  men  of  the  Lordship.  The  Writings 
are  kept  by  them  in  a  Chest,  made  for  that  purpose. 

Btrtfjall,  in  1588,  gave  £14;  1620,  James  Byrom,  Cfjartttcj*. 
£5;  1636,  Mr.  Charles  Herle,  £20;  1647,  Tho.[mas]  Hey, 
£10;  Tho.[mas]  Harrison,  in  1692,  gave  £50,  [the]  Int.  [erest] 
to  buy  grey  woollen  cloth,  to  be  made  into  Coats  called  Jumps, 
edged  down  the  seams  with  Red,  and  with  a  Red  Cross  upon  the 
right  shoulder,  to  be  dealt  yearly,  at  the  house  he  then  inhabited 
in  Ashton,  to  the  most  poor  and  aged  men  and  women.  James 
Pilkington  devised  his  lands  in  Blackley,  in  1671,  for  binding  poor 
apprentices. 


Certified]   y*  Fan, so 

nothing  belongs  to  it  but  [the]  Int.- 
[erest]  of  501.     The  Rect.[or]   allows  ye  Curate  501  p.[er]   an.- 
[mim.]     Not  known  who  gave  ye  501. 
5  m.[iles]  from  [the]  Par.[ish]  Church. 

Manchester  antiquary,  who  described  it  as  in  ruins.  A  spacious  court-yard  was 
approached  by  a  bridge  over  a  moat  with  a  gate-house.  Over  the  entrance-hall 
chimney  were  the  arms  of  England  of  the  reign  of  James  I.  On  one  side  of  the  hall 
was  a  railed  gallery  supported  by  double  pillars  in  the  front  of  pilasters,  forming 
open  arches,  or  passages  to  the  various  rooms.  The  pillars  and  arches  were  richly 
carved,  but  the  wood  was  decayed  by  age  and  moisture.  Some  painted  glass  remained 
in  the  windows  of  the  age  of  Henry  VIII. ;  and  a  private  Chapel,  in  the  house,  was 
then  used  by  the  neighbouring  Roman  Catholics.  Sir  William  Grerard  Bart,  resided 
here  at  the  beginning  of  the  eighteenth  century ;  but  the  house  was  shortly  after- 
wards deserted. 

3  Garswood  Hall,  with  a  Domestic  Chapel,  was  the  seat  of  Sir  Thomas  Gerard,  the 
eighth  Baronet,  in  the  last  century ;  but  it  was  taken  down  about  fifty  years  ago, 
when  New  Hall  was  purchased. 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.     Value  in  1834,  £101.     Registers  begin  in  1591  — 1599. 

The  New  Church  in  Culcheth  existed  shortly  after  the  Reformation,  and  Sir  John 
Holcroft  of  Holcroft  senr.  Knt.  by  Will  dated  the  2d  of  December  1559,  says,  "I  will 
that  if  the  tenants  of  Culcheth  purchase  vi1  xiiis  iiiid  of  land  to  be  made  suer  for  ever, 


270 

£clj0ol.  JUH  &ri)OOH)0tt8e  in  Culcheth  on  ye  Common,  built  by  John 
Guest  of  Abram. 


C&arttu*.  ttltam  Srnttf)  of  Culcheth,  gave  by  Will  in  1626,  £60; 

Richard  Garton,  in  1670,  gave  £5  a  year. 

to  hyer  a  pryst  with,  and  that  he  shall  have  for  his  wages  vi1  xiii8  iiiid,  and  the  Clarke 
xv%  then  I  wyll  and  gyve  towards  the  same  my  best  Cheane  of  Gold;  and  in  case 
that  they  wyll  bye  no  hind,  then  I  gyve  them  x1'  of  money  towards  ye  hyering  of  a 
Pryst."  —  Lane.  MSS.  It  was  rebuilt  in  the  year  1743,  (Baines  says  1733,)  by  sub- 
scription, and  a  Brief  to  defray  the  expense  was  obtained  in  the  year  1742.  In  the 
year  1691  the  pious  and  apostolic  Bishop  Wilson  was  the  Curate  of  this  humble 
foundation.  Bishop  Cartwright,  on  the  10th  of  February  1687,  gave  a  License  to 
Thomas  Wilson  B.A.  Deacon,  to  be  Curate  of  Newchurch  in  Winwick,  upon  Dr. 
Sherlock's  letter.  —  Diary,  p.  31.  See  Note  4,  p.  160,  Notitia  Cestriensis,  vol.  i.  The 
Tower  was  rebuilt  a  few  years  before  Bishop  Wilson's  appointment  to  the  Curacy, 
and  is  now  in  its  original  state  ;  and  the  Communion  Plate  and  Table,  hallowed  by 
his  use,  also  remain. 

The  Committee  of  Plundered  Ministers  recommended,  and  the  Parliament  ordered 
on  the  2d  March  1646,  that  £40  per  annum  should  be  paid  out  of  the  Tithes  of  Cul- 
cheth, sequestrated  from  John  Culcheth  Esq.  a  Papist  and  Delinquent,  for  the  increase 
of  the  maintenance  of  the  Minister  of  the  Chapel  of  Newchurch  in  Winwick,  there 
being  but  £5  a  year  belonging  to  the  said  Chapel.  After  wrongfully  depriving  the 
brothers  and  sisters  of  Mr.  Culcheth  of  these  Tithes,  which  had  been  settled  by  their 
father,  John  Culcheth  senr.  Esq.  by  Deed  dated  the  14th  of  July  16th  Charles,  1640, 
on  his  younger  children,  this  plundering  order  was  rescinded  on  the  29th  of  August 
1648,  although  the  grossly  injured  parties  did  not  receive  the  benefit  of  the  tardy  and 
reluctant  justice  which  was  done  them  until  the  year  1650.  —  Culcheth  Papers,  Lane. 
MSS.  vol.  xxiv. 

In  the  year  1650  Mr.  William  Leigh  was  the  godly  and  painful  Minister  of  Cul- 
cheth Chapel,  but  had  not  observed  the  Fast  on  the  13th  of  June.  He  received 
£3.  19s.  9d.  as  a  donative,  but  the  donor  was  unknown,  from  Jeffrey  Holcroft  Esq. 
Ellis  Hey,  and  Thomas  Richardson,  as  Trustees  ;  and  £40  from  the  Sequestrations  of 
Derby  Hundred  ;  and  £10  a  year  from  Mr.  Herle,  Parson  of  Winwick.  The  Tithe  of 
Culcheth  was  worth  £53  per  annum,  but  sequestered,  owing  to  the  delinquency  of 
John  Culcheth  Esq.  who  claimed  it  by  prescription,  "as  we  conceive."  Fit  to  be 
made  a  separate  Parish,  being  four  miles  and  a  Quarter  and  two  poles  from  Winwick 
Church.  —  Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

By  the  Winwick  Rectory  Act  of  the  year  1845,  the  Townships  of  Culcheth  and 
Kenyon  arc  constituted  a  distinct  Parish  and  Rectory,  to  be  called  "  the  Parish  and 
Rectory  of  Newchurch,"  and  not  to  be  a  Vicarage  as  originally  intended,  and  so 
made  by  an  Order  in  Council,  dated  the  28th  of  November  1844.  The  Rectory  is 


of  Warrtngton.  271 


Certified]  SB1-  09s-  00*,  M.B.T. 
viz.  Pens,  [ion]  out  of  ye  Dutchy,  set- 
tled by  Edw.[ard]  6*,  S1-!3^;  Rent  of  Common  or  Waste 
grounds  in  Newton,  inclosed  by  Rich,  [ard]  Legh  of  Lime  and  ye 
Charterers  of  the  Borough,  an.  [no]  1684,  wch  is  now  (an.  [no] 
1718,)  SS^.fer]  an.[num;]  Int.[erest]  of  2151  given  by  sev.[eral] 


endowed  with  the  Tithes  of  Culcheth  and  Kenyon.      In  the  year  1845  the  former 
contained  2,193,  and  the  latter  323  souls. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Peter.     Value  in  1834,  £114.     Eegisters  begin  in  1735. 

Newton  in  Makerfield,  or  Newton  in  the  Willows,  gave  name  to  one  of  the  Hun- 
dreds of  Lancashire  before  the  Conquest  and  the  distinction  was  retained  after  the 
Norman  Survey  ;  but  subsequently  this  Hundred,  with  the  neighbouring  one  of  War- 
rington,  merged  into  that  of  West  Derby.  Roger  of  Poictou  was  the  first  siiperior 
Lord  after  the  Conquest  ;  but  at  the  date  of  Domesday,  his  lands  were  in  the  King's 
hands.  In  the  time  of  Henry  II.  we  find  Robert  Banastre  invested  with  the  Maker- 
field  fee,  otherwise  the  Barony  of  Newton,  probably  by  grant  of  the  Earl  of  Chester, 
who  had  succeeded  to  a  large  portion  of  Earl  Roger's  possessions  in  these  parts. 
The  descents  of  the  family  of  Banastre  are  given  in  a  Note  at  p.  113  of  the  CoucTier 
Book  of  Whalley,  vol.  x.  CHETHAM  SOCIETY'S  publications.  Robert  Banastre,  the 
last  Baron  of  that  name,  died  about  the  14th  Edward  I.  and  his  son,  James  Banastre, 
had  issue  a  daughter  and  heiress,  Alice,  who  married  (1)  John  de  Byron,  by  whom 
she  appears  to  have  had  no  issue  ;  and  (2)  Sir  John  de  Langeton,  who,  in  the  29th 
Edward  I.  obtained  Charters  for  Markets,  Fairs,  and  Free  Warren  in  Newton  and 
Walton-le-Dale.  The  Langtons  continued  to  hold  the  Barony  of  Newton,  in  unin- 
terrupted succession,  until  the  death  of  Sir  Thomas  Langton  K.B.  in  the  year  1604. 
His  grandfather,  Sir  Thomas  Langton,  having  made  a  settlement  of  his  Estates  to 
the  exclusion  of  the  issue  of  his  second  wife,  Ann,  daughter  of  Thomas  Talbot,  a  cadet 
of  the  Talbots  of  Salesbury,  the  Barony  then  passed  to  Richard,  grandson  of 
John  Fleetwood  of  Penwortham  Esq.  who  had  married  Joan,  the  eldest  daughter 
of  the  first  Sir  Thomas  Langton  Knt.  Sir  Thomas  Fleetwood,  the  second  Baronet, 
sold  the  Barony  of  Newton  to  Richard  Legh  of  Lyme  Esq.  who  died  in  the  year. 
1687.  Henrietta,  sole  daughter  of  Thomas  Fleetwood  Esq.  and  grand-daughter  and 
heiress  of  Sir  Richard  Fleetwood,  the  third  Baronet,  conveyed  other  Estates  in  mar- 
riage to  Thomas  Legh  of  Bank  Esq.  younger  brother  of  Peter  Legh  of  Lyme  Esq.  and 
great-grandfather  of  Thomas  Legh  of  Lyme  Esq.  the  present  Baronial  owner. 

The  original  Chapel  of  Newton  is  supposed  to  have  been  known  by  the  name  of 
Rokeden,  and  to  have  been  situated  where  the  present  Church  stands.  In  February 
1284,  Richard,  (de  Wavertree,  who  died  in  the  year  1291,)  Prior  of  St.  Oswald  of 
Nostell,  granted  to  Sir  Robert  Banastre,  and  his  heirs,  in  consequence  of  his  distance 


272  liotttta  Cestrtensts. 

persons,  lOMS8;  besides  which  the  Rect.[or]  allows  201  p.[er] 
an.  [num.] 

An.  [no]  1620,  Curate  admitted,  "ad  Curam,  sive  Locu  prsedica- 
toris  perpetui,  in  Cap.  de  Newton."  Subscr. [iptiori]  B.[pok~\  that 
year. 

from  the  Mother  Church,  a  License  to  have  a  Chantry  in  his  Chapel  of  Rokedene 
within  the  Parish  of  Winwick,  saving  all  the  rights  of  the  Mother  Church,  and  em- 
powering the  "  Vicar"  of  the  same,  for  the  time  being,  to  suspend  the  Chaplain  of 
Rokeden  if  he  should  withhold  the  accustomed  rights  and  obventions. — Dodsworth's 
MSS.  vol.  cxxxviii.  p.  432.  For  this  privilege  Sir  Robert  Banastre  gave  an  annuity 
of  12d.  towards  the  Light  of  St.  Mary  the  Virgin  in  the  Mother  Church  of  Winwick. 
See  p.  262. 

The  Licence  was  renewed  on  the  12th  of  December  1405,  when  the  Bishop  of  Lich- 
field,  then  at  Eccleshall,  granted  to  Sir  Eobert  de  Langton,  Baron  of  Newton,  the 
privilege  of  having  divine  offices  celebrated  before  him  and  other  faithful  Christians, 
in  the  Chapel  of  Rokeden  within  the  Parish  of  Winwick,  by  fit  Chaplains,  without 
entailing  any  burden  on  the  Mother  Church.  —  Lib.  v.  fol.  157,  in  Cur.  lAchf. 

The  Chapel  of  Rokeden  does  not  appear  to  have  superseded  the  supposed  necessity 
of  having  an  Oratory  in  the  Manor  House  of  Newton,  as  an  Episcopal  Licence  for 
that  purpose  was  obtained  for  three  years  on  the  8th  Ides  of  April  1367.  —  Ib.  fol. 
16,  a,  ib. 

In  the  year  1650  it  is  styled  "  an  antient  Chappell,"  two  miles  from  the  Parish 
Church,  and  fit  to  be  made  a  Parish  of  itself.  There  was  a  stipend  of  £3.  Is.  7d.  per 
annum,  paid  out  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster ;  and  a  donation  of  £20  per  annum, 
given  by  Mr.  Richard  Blackburne,  late  of  Newton,  for  a  Preaching  Minister.  The 
Tithes  of  Newton  were  valued  at  £60  per  annum ;  and  £83.  Is.  3d.  was  lately  re- 
ceived by  Mr.  Thomas  Norman,  deceased,  as  his  Salary.  The  Minister  was  Mr.  Tho- 
mas Blackburne,  who  came  to  the  place  by  the  general  consent  of  the  whole  Chapelry. 
He  was  a  Preaching  Minister,  and  supplied  the  Cure  diligently,  but  did  not  observe  the 
last  Fast.  He  had  £23.  Is.  7d.  as  his  Salary.  —  Part.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  The 
Chapel  was  rebuilt  by  Richard  Legh  of  Lyme  Esq.  M.P.  eldest  son  of  the  Rev.  Tho- 
mas Legh,  Rector  of  Sefton  and  Walton,  (who  died  in  the  year  1639,)  and  his  wife 
Lettice,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  Sir  George  Calveley  of  Lea.  Mr.  Legh,  succeeded 
his  uncle,  Francis  Legh  Esq.  in  the  Estates,  and  dying  the  30th  of  August  1687,  was 
buried  at  Winwick.  By  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Chicheley  of 
Wimpole  in  the  county  of  Kent,  he  had  issue  Peter  Legh  Esq.  his  heir. 

Baines  states  that  the  Chapel  was  rebuilt  in  the  year  1682,  which  date  disagrees 
with  the  text,  the  accuracy  of  which  may  probably  be  relied  on,  although  the  Chapel 
was  stated  to  be  small  and  ruinous  in  the  year  1680,  and  efforts  were  then  made  to 
enlarge  and  rebuild  it.  It  was  not  consecrated,  however,  in  the  year  1686,  as  Bishop 
Cartwright  records,  December  14th :  —  "I  received  a  Letter  from  Mr.  Legh  of  Lime 
that  his  Chapel  could  not  be  ready  for  Consecration  till  my  return  from  London, 


of  Warrmgtott.  273 

[A]  Borough  Town2  and  Market  by  Charter  from  Edward  1,  but 
[the]  Market  is  now  discontinued. 

[The]  Chap. [el  was]  rebuilt  by  Mr.  Legh  of  Lime  an. [no] 
1684;  the  old  Chap.[el]  joined  to  ye  Court-house,  and  had  a  door 
open,  [ing]  into  it. 

Newton  Hall.3 

n.[ttO]  1646,  John  Stirrup  built  a  School  here  upon  a  small 
parcell  of  Barren  Land,  and  soon  after  dying,  left  ye  Int. 

[erest]    of  501  to  a  Master,  in  ye  hands  of  Mr.  Legh  of  Lime. 

Nothing  else  belongs  to  it.     The  Town  choose  ye  Master. 

tt  1634  James  Low,  and  others,  gave  for  the  Poor's  Stock,  Cljarttterf. 
£273. 

because  of  the  Lord  Derby's  not  being  there,  who  is  Patron  of  Wigau,  (Winwick,) 
and  must  consent  to  it."  —  Diary,  p.  18.  In  June  1687,  the  Bishop  wrote  to  Mr. 
Richard  Legh  of  Lyme  about  the  Chapel  consecration.  —  p.  59.  Thomas  Legh  Esq. 
M.P.  enlarged  the  Chapel  in  the  year  1819,  and  it  was  still  further  enlarged  and  im- 
proved in  the  year  1835.  By  an  Order  in  Council,  dated  the  3d  of  February  1845,  a 
district  was  assigned  to  this  Chapel,  and  all  Ecclesiastical  rights  allowed  and  con- 
firmed to  it. 

By  the  4th  Victoria,  c.  9,  intituled  "An  Act  for  the  Division  of  the  Rectory  of 
Winwick,"  it  was  enacted  that  the  Township  of  Newton  in  Makerfield  should  become 
a  distinct  Parish  and  Rectory,  and  that  the  Church  of  Emanuel,  (built  in  the  year 
1841,)  should  be  thenceforth  the  Parish  Church,  and  be  endowed  with  the  Tithes  of 
that  Township.  The  population  in  the  year  1845  amounted  to  3,126. 

Leland  describes  the  place  as  "  Newton  on  a  Brooke,  a  litle  poore  Market,  whereof 
Mr.  Langton  hath  the  name  of  his  Barony."  The  Market  having  been  long  disused, 
the  ancient  and  chartered  privilege  was  some  years  ago  revived. 

2  This  was  not  amongst  the  ancient  Lancashire  Parliamentary  Boroughs,  as  the 
earliest  exercise  of  the  elective  privilege  was  in  the  year  1558,  and  the  right  was  taken 
away  by  the  2d  William  IV.  cap.  45,  commonly  called  the  "Reform  Act." 

3  The  Baronial  Mansion  of  Newton  has  entirely  disappeared,  but  its  site  must  have 
been  on  the  same  eminence  where  the  Church  and  Parsonage  House  now  stand.     Sir 
Robert  de  Langton  in  the  time  of  Edward  III.  obtained  a  Licence  to  embattle  it, 
[kernellare.]      The  period  of  its  demolition  is  unknown,  but  some  vestiges  of  the 
ancient  materials  are  supposed  to  have  existed  until  a  recent  period.     Newton  Hall 
is  the  property  of  Thomas  Legh  of  Lymo  Esq. 

VOL.  II.]  N  N 


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Pr.  A.  1 . 
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£  s.  d. 
08.01.08 
M.  T. 


0.  0 
3.   0 


8.10 
1800 


Fam. 

in  [the]  whole 
Parish. 

Pap 532 

[In  Par.  1024.] 

Pap.  M.  3. 

Diss.  M.  3  P. 

Diss.:  844  P. 


about    1501   p. 

[er]  an.  [num.]  John  Lacy,  E.[arl] 
of  Lincoln,  Grandson  to  John,  the 
Founder  of  Stanlaw  Mon.  [astery,] 
gave  ye  mediety  of  this  Church  to 
that  Mon.  [astery,]  and  Edmund  his 
son,  gave  the  other  mediety.  D.  [ug- 
dale's]  Mon.[asticon,~]  v.  1,  p.  906. 
An. [no]  1555,  [a]  Vicar  [was]  presented  by  K.[ing]  Ph.[ilip] 

and  Q.[ueen]   Mar.[y.]     Institution]   B.[pok,~]   1,  p.  47.     Ever 

since  by  [the]  AP  of  Cant,  [erbury.] 

1  This  Deanery  appears  to  have  been  at  an  early  period  an  independent  Shire,  being 
called  Blackburnshire ;  but  it  is  now,  and  has  long  been,  recognized  as  one  of  the 
seven  Hundreds  of  Lancashire. 

2  Dedicated  to  St.  Mary.    Value  in  1834,  £893.     Registers  begin  in  1600. 
According  to  the  Status  de  BlagbomesMre,  there  was  a  Church  at  Blackburn,  the 

chief  town  of  the  Shire,  in  the  year  596,  —  in  the  sixth  century  after  the  introduction 
of  Christianity  into  this  country.  The  Manor  was  held  by  Edward  the  Confessor, 
and  granted  by  William  the  Conqueror  to  Roger  de  Poictou,  from  whom  it  passed  to 
his  mesne  tenants,  Roger  de  Busli  and  Albert  de  Greslet,  and  shortly  afterwards 
became  vested  in  the  Crown,  owing  to  the  attainder  of  Eoger,  the  chief  Lord.  In 
the  year  1160  Henry  de  Blackburne,  Clerk,  held  the  Manor  and  Church  as  they  had 
been  held  by  Gamaliel,  Gilbert,  and  John,  three  of  his  predecessors  by  hereditary 
succession,  being  severed  during  the  existence  of  the  Deanery  from  the  original 
Parish  of  Whalley.  This  clerical  Manorial  owner  had  two  sons,  Bichard  and 
Adam,  between  whom  the  property  was  divided  in  equal  moieties.  Roger,  the 
son  of  Adam,  sold  his  moiety  to  John  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  who,  in  the  year 


of  Blatfciwm  275 

An  Award  [was  made]  cone,  [erning]  an  Oratory  or  Chap,  [el] 
in  this  Church,  10  Jam.  [es]  1 ;  [and]  confirmed  by  ye  BP  an.  [no] 
1617.  Register]  B.[ook,~]  2,  p.  342,  344. 

The  Right  of  choosing  the  Par.[ish]  Clerk  adjudged  to  Alex. 
[ander]  Osbaldeston  Esq.  accord,  [ing]  to  ancient  custom,  an.  [no] 
1662.  Register]  B.[pok,~\  3,  p.  10. 

The  Vicar  names  ye  Curates  of  all  ye  Chappells. 

In  Balderston,  [the]  Inhab.  [itants]  pretend  to  pay  a  prescrip- 
tion Rent  in  Lieu  of  all  Tyths. 

Given  to  this  Church  by  AbP  Juxon,  beyond  the  old  Pension 
of  261-13s-4d,  701  p.[er]  an.  [num.]  Kennett  of  Improp.  [nations,] 
256. 

1251,  assigned  half  of  the  Advowson  to  the  Abbey  of  Stanlaw,  as  he  had  previously 
given,  about  the  year  1230,  the  other  half  of  his  moiety  to  the  same  religious  house. 

The  other  mediety  of  Henry  de  Blackburne's  Estate  descended  from  Richard  to 
his  son  Adam,  who  left  two  daughters  and  coheiresses,  Agnes,  the  wife  of  David  de 
Hulton ;  and  Beatrice,  the  wife  of  William  de  Hulton.  From  Richard,  son  of  David 
and  Agnes,  this  portion  of  the  Manor,  which  had  absorbed  the  privileges,  passed  in 
the  8th  Edward  III.  to  Robert,  younger  son  of  Richard  de  Radcliffe  of  Radcliffe 
Tower,  and  from  his  family  to  the  Bartons,  first  of  Holme,  and  afterwards  of 
Smithills.  In  the  seventeenth  century  it  was  conveyed  with  the  heiress  of  that 
family,  to  Henry,  first  Viscount  Fauconberg,  whose  descendant,  Thomas  Bellasys, 
sold  it  in  the  year  1721,  to  William  Baldwin,  Henry  Feilden,  and  William  Sudell, 
Gents,  for  £8,650.  The  "so  entitled"  Manor  remained  in  the  representatives  of 
these  three  families  until  the  whole  is  said  to  have  become  vested,  by  subsequent 
purchase  of  the  remaining  shares,  in  Joseph  Feilden  of  Witton  House  and  John 
Feilden  of  Mollington  Hall  Esqrs. ;  the  latter  being  grandson,  and  the  former  great- 
grandson  of  Henry  Feilden  Gent,  above  named,  and  of  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Mr.  Sudell.  It  will  be  observed  that  in  the  text  "the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
and  the  ancestor  of  Lord  Fauconberg,  about  one  hundred  years  ago,"  viz.  in  the 
year  1617,  "  are  recognised  as  the  two  Lords  of  this  Town."  The  Manor  is  still  a 
dependency  of  the  Honor  of  Clitheroe,  and  pays  an  acknowledgment  to  the  superior 
court. 

The  Rectory  of  Blackburn,  "together  unquestionably  with  half  the  Manorial 
rights  as  well  as  half  the  ancient  Manorial  demesnes  of  the  town  of  Blackburn," 
continued  part  of  the  possessions  of  the  Abbey  of  Whalley  until  the  year  1537,  when, 
on  the  attainder  of  Abbot  Paslew,  they  passed  to  the  Crown,  and  were  given,  inter 
alia,  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  along  with  the  Advowson  of  the  Vicarage,  in 
exchange  for  other  Manors  and  Advowsons  belonging  to  that  See,  in  the  year  1547. 
See  Notitia  Cestriensis,  vol.  ii.  part  i.  p.  130,  Note  16. 


276  liotttta 

The  Vicar,  [age]  house  was  rebuilt  by  Fran.[cis]  Price,  Vicar, 
and  ye  building  [was]  approved  by  ye  BP  [in]  1680.  Reg.  \ister~] 
B.lpok,]  3,  p.  96. 

Patron  and  Improp.  [riator,  the]  AbP  of  Canterbury. 

About  100  years  agoe  the  AbP  of  Cant,  [erbury]  and  the  ances- 
tour  of  Ld  Falconberg,  the  2  Lords  of  this  Town,  agreed  to 
enclose  ye  Common  Lands,  and  the  Vicar,  as  Charterer,  had  22 
Acres  for  his  share,  wch  are  now  in  possession  of  5  tenants,  who 
pay  only  12d  an  Acre  p.[er]  an.[num]  to  ye  Vicar,  wch  they  call 
a  Prescriptive  Rent;  but  His  said  they  have  alwayes  paid  small 
Fines  at  ye  death  of  every  Vicar  or  Tenant,  and  all  of  them  paid 
the  present  Vicar  Fines  at  his  coming  in :  But  ye  person  to  whom 

The  appropriation  of  a  mediety  of  this  Church  to  the  Abbey  of  Stanlaw  by 
Roger,  Bishop  of  Coventry  and  Lichfield,  (saving  20  marks  to  the  Vicar,)  is  printed 
from  the  original  in  the  Augmentation  Office,  in  Madox's  Formulare,  p.  311.  Dat. 
London  in  Crast.  St!  Luce  Evangel.  A.D.  1259.  —  Ducarel's  Bepert.  And  see  the 
Charter  for  the  Triple  Ordination  of  the  Vicarages  of  Rochdale,  Eccles,  and  Black- 
burn, by  Roger  de  Meuland,  Bishop  of  Coventry  and  Litchfield,  dated  apud  Hey- 
wood,  14th  kal.  Maii  1277,  in  the  Coucher  Book  of  WJialley  Abbey,  vol.  i.  p.  85. 
In  the  year  1309  William  de  Lach,  perpetual  Vicar  of  Blackburn,  obtained  a  Licence 
of  absence  from  his  said  Vicarage,  to  enable  him  to  travel  for  one  year.  Dated 
London,  2d  kal.  May  in  the  13th  year  of  the  Consecration  of  Walter  de  Langton, 
Bishop  of  Coventry  and  Lichfield.  —  Libr.  1/2  fol.  57,  Reg.  Langton.  William  de 
Lench,  or  Lenches,  according  to  Whitaker,  was  the  first  Vicar,  and  occurring  in  the 
year  1289,  and  dying  in  the  year  1317,  was  probably  the  same  person.  In  the  year 
1291  the  Church  and  Chapels  were  valued  at  £33.  6s.  8d. 

The  Church  was  rebuilt  about  the  reign  of  Edward  III.  in  the  51st  of  which  reign, 
1377,  William  Wetherley,  the  Vicar,  was  the  Gustos  Regalitatis  of  the  Duchy  of 
Lancaster,  in  which  office  he  was  succeeded  by  Henry,  Earl  of  Derby.  The  Nave 
and  Choir  were  re-roofed,  in  compartments,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  and  va- 
rious alterations  were  subsequently  made.  In  the  year  1820  the  old  Church  was 
taken  down,  and,  in  the  walls  of  the  Aisles,  several  fragments  of  Norman  architecture 
were  discovered,  consisting  of  sculptured  capitals,  and  portions  of  arches,  evidently 
the  remains  of  a  door-way.  —  See  Palmer's  Architectural  Description  of  Manchester 
Collegiate  Church.  In  the  year  1826  a  Church,  on  a  large  scale,  adapted,  in  some 
measure,  to  the  wants,  and  suited  to  the  wealth  and  importance  of  the  Parish,  was 
consecrated. 

The  Chantry  of  our  Lady  in  the  South  Aisle  of  the  Church,  was  founded  by  the 
second  Earl  of  Derby  in  the  year  1509,  1st  Henry  VIII.  (Whitaker  says  in  the 
year  1514,  from  a  defective  copy  of  the  Foundation  Deed,)  for  the  souls  of  Thomas, 


of  Blackburn  277 

5  Acres  were  lest  [leased]  in  May  last,  refuses  to  pay  any  Fine  to 
ye  Vicar,  or  to  Give  him  possession.  Vicar's  Account,  Dec. 
1717. 

All  ye  dues  ye  Vicar  pretends  to  in  Harwood,  Lango,  Law,  and 
Samlesbury,  are  Surp.[lice]  Fees,  and  a  half-penny  for  every 
Communicant,  wch  he  Allows  the  Curates  to  take.  Vic's.  Ace*-  an. 
[no]  1705.  Pap.  Reg. 

4  Wardens,  [and]  4  Assist,  [ants.]  1  "Warden  [is]  chosen  by 
Ralph  Livesey  (of  Livesey  Esq.;)  1  by  Alex.[ander]  Osbaldeston 
of  Osbaldeston  Esq. ;  1  by  John  Warren  of  Dinkley  Esq. ;  1  by 
[the]  AbP  of  Cant,  [erbury,]  Mr.  (Win.)  Baldwin,  Mr.  (Henry) 
Feilden,  and  Mr.  (Wm.)  Sudell,  Gentn. 

Earl  of  Derby,  deceased,  and  his  Lady,  George  Stanley,  Lord  Strange,  the  Lady 
Jane,  and  their  children,  their  posterity,  and  all  the  Parishioners.  It  was  endowed 
with  Lands  for  the  maintenance  of  a  Priest,  who  should  sing  and  say  Mass  and  teach 
a  Grammar  School  and  Song  School,  if  such  a  one  could  be  had,  and  if  not, 
for  a  Song  School  in  the  town  of  Blackburn.  The  Chantry  was  dissolved  by 
Edward  VI.  and  the  lands  granted  for  life  to  Thomas  Burgess,  then  Chantry 
Priest ;  it  was  restored  by  Queen  Mary,  and  sold  in  the  reign  of  her  successor.  It 
was  divided  in  the  year  1614  between  the  Talbots  of  Salesbury,  who  had  the  North 
part,  and  the  Walmsleys  of  Dunkenhalgh,  to  whom  the  South  part  was  appropriated. 
The  Rushtons  of  Dunkenhalgh,  descendants  of  the  feudal  Rectors  of  Blackburn,  are 
supposed  to  have  had  some  beneficial  interest  in  this  portion  of  the  Church  before 
the  foundation  of  this  Chantry. 

In  the  North-east  Aisle  of  the  Church  was  a  Chantry,  founded  by  the  Osbaldestona 
of  Osbaldeston,  and  their  place  of  sepulture.  Elena,  widow  of  Sir  Alexander  Osbal- 
deston, directed  by  Will  dated  1560,  that  three  stones,  with  inscriptions  in  brass, 
should  be  laid  in  her  family  Chapel  within  Blackburn  Church,  over  the  remains  of 
herself,  her  husband,  and  Sir  Thomas  Tyldesley  of  Morleys,  her  brother. 

By  Inquisition  made  at  Blackburn  on  the  21st  of  June  1650,  it  was  found  that 
the  Vicarage  was  presentative  by  the  late  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  (Laud,)  the 
Appropriator ;  that  Mrs.  Mariana  Fleet  wood  was  farmer  of  the  Tithes,  by  lease  from 
the  said  Archbishop ;  that  there  was  a  demesne,  called  Hadley,  then  in  lease  under 
the  said  "  Bishop,"  to  the  said  Mrs.  Fleetwood,  for  eight  years,  or  thereabouts,  de- 
mised for  £80  per  annum  and  an  old  rent  of  £35.  14s.,  besides  fines  of  tenements  and 
one  Water  Corn  Mill,  all  then  in  lease,  and  the  Tithes  in  various  Townships.  There 
was  one  Vicarage-house  and  thirty  acres  of  land,  worth  £20  per  annum ;  other  an- 
cient tenements  which  prescribed  to  pay  a  rent  of  £2.  16s.  lOd.  per  annum  to  the 
Vicar ;  and  £26.  13s.  4d.  from  the  said  Mrs.  Fleetwood ;  and  an  augmentation  of 
£50  a  year  from  the  Committee  of  Plundered  Ministers ;  "  but  as  yett  Mr.  Leonard 


278  liotttta 

Haudley,3  Pleasington,4  Showley,5  Little  Harwood,6   Livesey, 
Salisbury}  Carr.8 

19.  Blackb.  [urn,]  Billington,  Balderston,  Clayton-le-Dale,  Upper 
Darwen,  Lower  Darwen,  Great  Harwood,  Little  Harwood,  Livesey 
cu  Tockholes,  Mellor  cu  Eccleshill,  Pleasington,  Rishton,  Rams- 
grave,  Salisbury,  Witton,  Walton,  Wilpshire  cu  Dinkley,  Yate- 
bank,  Piccop-bank. 

Clayton  M.A.  the  Vicar,  hath  received  no  benefit  thereby."  The  Parish  contained 
nineteen  Townships  and  seven  Chapels.  —  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

Archbishop  Juxon,  by  Indre  dated  18th  Febr.  14th  Car.  2d.  gave  to  Blackburn 
£70  for  Vicars,  beyond  the  old  pension  of  £26.  13s.  4d.  Confirmed  by  another 
Indre  dated  24th  Dec.  28th  Car.  2d.  Lambeth  Leases.  —  Ducarel's  Mepert.  Lamb. 
Libr. 

There  are  now  twenty-three  Chapels,  all  more  or  less  dependent  on  the  Mother 
Church  of  Blackburn,  scattered  over  this  extensive  and  populous  Parish. 

3  Haudley  Hall  was  the  mansion  of  the  Rectory  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII. ;  and 
in  the  3d  Edward  VI.  was  in  Lease  to  Sir  Thomas  Talbot,  who  prosecuted  Alice 
Livesey,  and  others,  in  the  Duchy  Court  of  Lancaster,  for  setting  fire  to  the  Par- 
sonage Barn,  and  to  the  Mansion  House  called  Hawdley. — Cal.  Plead.     Sir  Thomas 
Talbot  of  Hawdley,  in  his  Will  dated  the  27th  of  September  1557,  names  his  Lease  of 
the  Parsonage  of  Blackburne,  which  he  bought  of  John  Comberford,  and  Robert 
Bellet  Gent,  and  which  was  then  valued  at  £300.      In  the  years  1616  and  1647  the 
house  is  described  as  being  built  of  stone,  timber,  and  brick,  half  a  mile  from  Black- 
burn, and  having  certain  lands  called  Hadley  Demesne,  being  143a.  Or.  lOp.  — Lane. 
MSS.  vol.  ix.  p.  220.     It  is  now  called  Audley,  and  is  a  farm  house. 

4  Pleasington  was  the  property  of  Henry  de  Plesyngton,  living  in  the  reign  of 
Henry   III. ;    and  his   descendant,   Eobert   de   Plesyngton,   was   living   in  the   2d 
Edward  III.     Pleasington  Priory  is  a  modern-built  house. 

5  Showley  was  the  residence  of  Richard,  second  son  of  Thomas  Wahnsley  of  Dun- 
kenhalgh  Esq.  in  the  time  of  Henry  VIII. ;  and  his  descendant,  Richard  Walmsley 
Esq.  living  at  the  time  of  Dugdale's  Visitation,  had  a  son  Richard,  who   married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Southworth  of  Samlesbury  Esq.  by  whom  he  had 
issue  a  daughter  Elizabeth,  living  in  the  year  1666,  and  afterwards  married  to  Mr. 
Thomas  Cottam  of  Dilworth. — Lane.  MSS.  Ped.  vol.  xiii.  p.  55.     This  fine  old  house 
is  tenanted  by  a  farmer. 

6  Little  Harwood  has  been  the  property  of  the  Clayton  family  since  the  reign  of 
Edward  III.  and  was,  probably,  vested  in  Henry  de  Clayton,  Steward  of  Blackburn- 
shire  in  the  time  of  Edward  I.     It  passed,  by  Will,  on  the  death  of  Thomas  Clayton 
of  Carr  Hall  Esq.  in  the  year  1835,  to  his  daughter  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  Edward 
Every  Esq.  second  son  of  Sir  Henry  Every  Bart,  who  assumed  in  August  1835,  by 
Sign  Manual,  the  surname  of  Clayton.     Colonel  Clayton  was  the  last  male  represen- 


of  Blaritfwrn.  279 

Free  Gram,  [mar]  School  here  was  Founded  by  Q.  [ueen]  (grammar 
Eliz.[abeth,]  au.[no]  R.[egni  sui]  9.  The  endowment 
amounts  to  451-17s-04d,  viz.  [a]  Pension  of  41-7s-4d  Given  by 
Q.  [ueen]  Eliz.  [abeth,]  (having  been  recommended  by  Sir  Walter 
Mildmay  to  Edward  VI.  but  not  claimed  by  the  Master,)  and  pay- 
able out  of  ye  Dutchy,  and  Confirmed  by  a  Decree  of  Chancery ; 
201  p.  [er]  an.  [num]  Rent  Charge  upon  [the]  Manour  of  Farnhill, 
Yorks.  [hire,]  purchased  (with  certain  arrears  due  to  the  School, 
601  given  by  the  Queen,  and  subscriptions,)  by  ye  Gov.  [ernors]  of 
ye  School,  an.  [no]  36  (32)  Eliz.[abeth,]  of  Edmund  Eltoftes  Esq. 
the  same  year  her  [Majesty's]  Pension  was  Given,  [and]  now  in 
[the]  possession  of  Lord  Bingley;  29  acres  of  Land  in  Mellor, 
purchased  (with  money  left  by  John  Astley  in  1608,  and  other 
sums,)  by  [the]  Gov.  [ernors]  an.  [no]  1  Char.[les]  1,  Leased  now 
for  21  years,  for  [a]  clear  Rent  of  121  p.[er]  an. [num;]  Int. 
[erest]  of  1901  given  by  Sr  Edw.[ard]  Asheton  and  other  Gentle- 

tative  of  his  house  resident  at  Little  Harwood  in  unbroken  lineal  succession  for  more 
than  four  centuries,  when  the  principal  family  residence  was  transferred  to  Carr  Hall 
near  Colne,  which  was  obtained  in  the  year  1754,  by  John  Clayton,  in  marriage  with 
Margaret,  daugher  and  heiress  of  Richard  Townley  Esq.  the  eighth  in  descent  from 
John  Towneley  of  Towneley  Esq.  Colonel  Clayton  was  fifty-eight  years  in  the  Com- 
mission of  the  Peace  for  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster,  and  was  the  father  of  the 
Magistracy  and  Deputy  Lieutenancy  of  the  County.  He  was  nominated  by  George 
III.  to  succeed  the  Earl  of  Wilton  as  Colonel  of  the  Royal  Lancashire  Volunteers, 
and  served  with  his  regiment  many  years  in  Ireland,  before  the  Union.  He  was 
High  Sheriff  of  Lancashire  in  the  year  1808 ;  and  in  the  year  1821,  received  the  pub- 
lic thanks  of  the  Hundred  of  Blackburn,  together  with  a  Service  of  Plate,  valued  at 
five  hundred  guineas,  raised  by  subscription,  as  an  acknowledgment  of  his  active 
exertions  in  the  preservation  of  the  peace  of  the  district  during  a  period  of  great 
insubordination.  He  was  born  on  the  16th  of  May  1755,  and  died  on  the  12th  of 
February  1835. 

7  Salesbury  was  held  by  Award  de  Salebury,  who  granted  lands  in  Salebury  to  the 
Monks  of  Stanlaw  about  the  time  of  Edward  I.  It  passed  to  John  Talbot,  Esq. 
living  in  the  year  1414,  in  marriage  with  Isabel,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  Sir 
Richard  Mauliverer,  by  Sybil  his  wife,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Robert  Clitheroe 
of  Salebury.  Of  this  family  were  Thomas  Talbot  of  Salesbury  Esq.  who  perfidiously 
betrayed  Henry  VI.  to  the  Yorkists,  whilst  he  was  at  dinner  at  Waddington  Hall,  in 
the  year  1461 ;  and  Thomas  Talbot,  Clerk  of  the  Tower  Records  in  the  year  1580, 
the  friend  of  Camden,  and  himself  a  celebrated  antiquary. 


280  ilotttia 

men,  wn  they  were  chosen  Governours,  (between  1685  and  1696,} 
91-10S  p.[er]  an.  [num.]  The  Governours  are,  by  ye  Patent  of 
Q.[ueen]  Eliz.[abeth,]  to  be  chosen  out  of  ye  FREEHOLDERS  AND 
CHIEF  INHAB  [ITANTS]  of  ye  Parish  not  exceeding  50;  and  [they 
are]  to  nominate  the  Master  and  Usher.  V.[ide]  Nomination] 
of  a  Master,  an.  [no]  1703,  Pap.  Reg.  and  an.  [no]  1706,  Ib.  V. 
[ide]  Nomination]  of  an  Usher,  1690  and  1705.  Ib* 

eft  to   ye   Poor  by   a  Person  unknown,   long  agoe,   20U; 

fta.[lph]  Clayton  of  London,  Grocer,  (before  1703,)  SO11; 
Mr.  Edw.  [ard]  Clayton,  (Master  of  the  Free  School  of  Manches- 
ter, by  Will,)  6L1 3s- 8d,  half  of  wch  is  lost;  Mr.  [Wm.]  Yates,  in 
1694,  2011 ;  Jo.  [seph]  Yates  Esq.  of  Manchester,  and  his  sisters, 
Mrs.  Mary  Mosley,  and  Mrs.  Abigail  Drake,  at  the  Funeral  of 
their  Mother  in  1696,  20U  ;  Mr.  Jos.  [eph]  Yates  of  Blackburn, 
in  1710,  100U;  Mr.  Wm.  Yates,  his  brother,  by  Will,  in  1711, 
10511;  Mrs.  [Elizabeth]  Wilkinson,  in  1706,  20U,  at  the  Funeral 
of  her  brother,  Mr.  Francis  Price,  late  Vicar  of  Blackburn; 
Joseph  Yates  of  Manchester  Esq.  by  Will,  in  1704,  10U;  Mr. 
[Henry]  Maudisley  (of  Ousbooth,  at  the  funeral  of  his  brother, 
Thurstau  Maudisley,)  1011,  to  wch  311  Interest  has  since  been 
added ;  all  wch  summs,  except  251  wch  is  now  in  the  hands  of  the 
Vicar,  and  ye  last  named  131  (in  the  hands  of  Mr.  John  Sudell  of 
Blackburn,)  are  let  out  upon  Land  security,  and  [the]  Int.[erest 

8  Carr,  formerly  the  seat  of  the  Townleys,  and  now  the  residence  of  Edward  Every 
Clayton  Esq.  by  marriage  with  the  heiress  of  Colonel  Clayton,  the  descendant  and 
representative  of  the  Townleys  of  Carr. 

9  The  School  will,  perhaps,  always  be  memorable  as  having  laid  the  foundation  of 
the  astonishing  learning  of  Robert  Bolton,  born  at  Blackburn  in  the  year   1572, 
of  mean  parents,  educated  here  by  Mr.  Yates,  and  pronounced  "  the  best  scholar  in 
the  School."     He  wrote  Greek  better  than  either  English  or  Latin,  and  disputed  in 
Greek  with  as  much  facility  as  in  Latin.     In  the  year  1602  he  became  Fellow  of 
Brasenose,  and  in  the  year  1609  Rector  of  Broughton  in  Northamptonshire,  where 
he  died  on  the  17th  of  December  1631.     His  published  works,  chiefly  on  Practical 
Divinity,  are  very  numerous.    There  is  an  old  portrait  of  him,  on  panel,  at  the 
Holme.      His  son,  Dr.  Samuel  Bolton,  died  Prebendary  of  Westminster,  in  the 
year  1668. 


Heanerg  of  Blacfeiwrn.  281 

is]  distributed  every  Christmas  by  the  Vicar,  Curate,  and  Church- 
wardens. An  Account  of  wch  is  entered  by  the  present  Vicar  in  a 
book  kept  for  that  purpose,  and  shewed  to,  and  allowed  of  by,  the 
Gentn  of  ye  Parish  every  year.  Certif.  [icate]  of  [the]  Rev.  John 
Holme,  Vicar,  and  [the]  Churchwardens,  28th  Oct.  an.  [no]  1718. 


Certif. [ied]  that  ^.-- 

no  Endowment  belongs  to  it.  An.  Pap.M.' 
[no]  1705  Certif.  [ied]  y*  71  belonged  to  it,  viz.  51  from  Thornly, 
aud  21  from  [the]  Rect.  [or,]  wch  was  divided  among  ye  Curates  of 
ye  other  Chappells,  who  supply  this  Chap,  [el]  in  their  turns,  only 
the  first  Sunday  in  every  month,  at  wch  time  there  is  no  Service 
in  their  own  Chappells.  V.[ide]  Vic's  Ace1  an.  [no]  1705.  Pap. 
Reg. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Leonard.     Value  in  1834,  £90.     Registers  begin  in  1767. 

Balderstone  afforded  a  name  to  a  family  at  an  early  period,  of  which  was  William  de 
Balderstone,  living  in  the  8th  Henry  III.  supposed  to  be  descended  from  the  Osbal- 
destons  of  Osbaldeston  in  this  Parish.  In  the  28th  Henry  VI.  William  Balderstone 
died,  leaving  by  his  wife  Margaret,  daughter  of  William  Stanley  Esq.  two  coheiresses, 
of  whom  Isabel  married  before  the  26th  of  May  1461,  Sir  Robert  Harrington  of  Bads- 
worth  and  Hornby  Castle;  and  Jane  was  betrothed  or  married  to  (1)  Sir  Ralph  Langton, 
and  (2)  Sir  John  Pilkington.  By  Will  dated  January  2d  1497,  this  Lady  Pilkington, 
then  a  widow,  bequeaths  her  body  to  be  buried  in  the  Nun's  Quier  of  Monkton,  in 
her  Habit,  holding  her  hand  on  her  breast  with  her  Ring  upon  her  finger,  "  having 
taken  in  my  resoluis  the  Mantle  and  the  Ring,"  (i.e.  having  actually  taken  the  Vows, 
which  Dodsworth  says  she  took  in  the  Church  of  Wakefield,  from  William,  Bishop 
of  Dromore.)  She  gives  her  moiety  of  the  Manor  of  Balderstone,  and  other  Lands, 
to  Sir  James  Harrington  Knt.  her  sister's  son,  for  his  life ;  and  after  his  decease,  her 
Trustees,  Sir  Henry  Huntingdon,  Priest,  and  Roger  Radcliff'e  Gent,  were  to  stand 
seized  of  the  same  to  the  use  of  Thomas  Talbot  of  Bashall,  son  and  heir  of  Edmund 
Talbot  Esq.  and  Jane  his  wife,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  Sir  Robert  Harrington  of 
Hornby  Castle,  Knight,  and  Isabel  his  wife,  sister  of  the  Testatrix,  and  the  heirs  of 
the  body  of  the  said  Thomas  Talbot,  [who  ob.  a  minor,]  for  ever ;  and  to  the  use  of 
Richard  Radcliffe  [of  Wimmersley,]  and  Ellen  his  wife,  sister  of  William  Balderstone, 
father  of  the  Testatrix,  and  to  the  use  of  Richard  Osbaldeston,  [ob.  37  Henry  VII.] 
son  and  heir  of  John  Osbaldeston  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  [married  1st  Edward  IV.] 
another  sister  of  the  said  William  Balderstone,  and  their  heirs  for  ever.  Sir  Robert 
Harrington  was  attainted  at  Leicester,  in  the  1st  Henry  VII.  and  ob.  ante  the  2d  of 
VOL.  II.]  O  O 


282  liotttta  <£e8tttensts. 

The  six  other  Chappells  in  this  Par.[ish]  are  supplyed  by  3 
Curates ;  those  two  wch  ly  nearest  to  one  another  being  annext  by 
AbP  Bancroft's  order,  viz.  Darwen  and  Tockholes,  Harwood  and 
Lango,  Law  and  Samlesbury.  V.[ide]  Vic's  Acd-  an.  [no]  1705. 
Pap.  Reg. 

The  Lands  given  to  these  Chappels  were  bought  by  AbP  San- 
croft  in  Thornly  cu  Wheatly.  V.  [ide]  Pap.  Reg.  Ib. 

4  m.  [iles]  from  [the]  Par.  [ish]  Church ;  [and]  2  m.  [lies]  from 
any  other  Chap,  [el.] 

[The]  Inhab.  [itants]  of  Bald,  [erston,]  Osbaldeston,  and  part  of 
Mellor  resort  to  it.      Circumf.  [erence]   about   7  m.[iles.      No 
Warden.] 
^aflte.  Bald,  [erston,]  and  Osbald.  [eston.]  2 

No  School. 

f&aDclttfe  gave  two  Cottages  and  ^  an  acre  of  Land, 
for  poor  house-keepers;  in  1716  Michael  Waterhouse  gave 

January  1497.  His  son,  Sir  James  Harrington  D.D.  afterwards  Dean  of  York,  above- 
named,  petitioned  the  King  and  Council  for  the  forfeited  Estate,  in  the  19th  Henry 
VII.  and  appears  to  have  regained  this  portion  of  it,  notwithstanding  the  claims  of 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Derby,  and  Sir  Edward  Stanley.  The  Dean's  Will  is  dated  the  2d 
of  September  in  the  13th  Henry  VII.  He  died  in  the  year  1512. 

The  other  moiety  of  the  Manor  passed  to  the  Dudley  family ;  and  on  the  execution 
of  Sir  Edmund  Dudley,  along  with  Empson,  for  high  treason,  in  the  1st  Henry  VIII. 
the  Manor  was  returned,  on  an  Inquisition,  as  an  Escheat  of  the  Crown.  It  became 
the  property  of  Joseph  Eeilden  of  Witton  House  Esq.  by  purchase,  about  the 
year  1821. 

The  Chapel  of  Balderstone  is  of  uncertain  antiquity,  but  probably  somewhat  earlier 
than  the  Reformation.  In  the  reign  of  James  I.  it  had  gone  to  decay,  but  has  since 
been  repaired. — Whitaker's  Whalley,  p.  431.  It  is  named  in  the  year  1559;  and 
was  without  endowment  and  Minister  in  the  year  1650,  although  eighty  families  re- 
sorted to  it.  It  was  enlarged  in  the  year  1755,  and  again  in  the  year  1818. 

2  Osbaldeston  Hall  was  the  property  and  residence  of  one  of  the  first  and  oldest 
families  in  Lancashire,  seated  here  immediately  after  the  Conquest,  and  supposed  by 
Dr.  Leigh  to  be  derived  from  Osalveden,  signifying  Oswald's  Town,  a  Roman  vill  in 
this  neighbourhood  in  the  time  of  Tacitus,  and  continued  in  the  direct  male  line  until 
the  death  of  Edward  Osbaldeston  Esq.  in  the  year  1689,  his  son,  Thomas  Osbaldeston 
Esq.  dying  a  minor  in  the  year  1701 ;  after  whose  decease,  "  the  remains  of  the 
Estate"  passed  to  a  collateral  branch  of  the  family,  and  being  sold  in  the  middle  of 


Oranrvi?  of  Blacfciwrtt,  283 

10s  a  year ;  John  Livesey  of  Balderston  gave  to  the  Poor  of  Bal- 
derston  151,  now  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Osbaldeston  of  Sunderland, 
and  the  Int.[erest]  is  distrib.[uted]  on  St.  Thomas'  Day,  by  John 
Jackson  of  Preston,  the  Trustee.  Certif.  [ied  by]  Mr.  Holme  [in] 
1718. 


1 — UPPER  DARWEN,  Certif. 

[ied]  91  •  16s .  8d,  viz.  out  of  [the]  AbP  Fam 95. 

of  Canty'8  Lands  at  Thornley,  51;  Rect7  of  Blackburn,  2i.6".8dj     Diss- M-p- 
Int.[erest]   of  501,  21.10».0d. 

9i.4s.gd  Vic's  Account,  an. [no]  1704.     Pap.  Reg. 
[The]  same  Curate  serves  Darwen  and  Tockholes. 
Circumf.  [erence]   about  12  m.[iles.]       Upper   Darwen,   Yate- 
Bank,  Piccop  Bank,  Eccleshill,  and  part  of  Lower  Darwen,  resort 
to  it. 

the  eighteenth  century,  to  the  Warrens  of  Poynton,  are  now  held  by  their  noble 
representative,  the  Lord  de  Tabley. 

The  Park  is  destroyed ;  but  the  shell  of  the  old  House,  a  large,  though  irregular 
pile,  remains  nearly  entire.  —  Whitaker's  Whalley,  p.  432.  Dame  Elena,  widow  of 
Sir  Alexander  Osbaldeston,  in  the  year  1560,  gave  by  Will,  to  her  son,  John  Osbal- 
deston Esq.  certain  things  belonging  to  the  Altar  in  the  Chapel  at  Osbaldeston,  "  to 
remayne  as  erlomes." 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  James.    Value  in  1834,  £125.     Eegisters  begin  in  1829. 

Darwen  was  a  member  of  Walton,  and  granted  in  the  reign  of  Henry  II.  to  Robert 
Banastre,  and  passed  in  the  thirteenth  century  by  the  marriage  of  Alice,  his  grand- 
daughter and  heiress,  to  Sir  John  de  Langton  the  first  Baron  of  Newton.  —  See  p. 
271.  In  the  5th  Henry  VIII.  the  Manor  of  Nether  Derwyn  was  held  by  William 
Bradshaw ;  and  in  the  17th  Elizabeth,  by  his  descendant,  John  Bradshaw.  In  the 
13th  Charles  I.  "  the  Manor  of  Netherdarwynd  and  Lowerdarwent"  is  found  amongst 
the  possessions  of  Sir  Thomas  Walmsley  of  Dunkenhalgh  Knt.  and  is  now  the  pro- 
perty of  his  descendant,  Henry  Petre  of  Dunkenhalgh  Esq.  —  Baines's  History  of 
Lancashire,  vol.  iii.  p.  333.  Whitaker  states  that  the  Manor  of  Overderwen  belonged 
to  the  Osbaldestons. 

A  Chapel  existed  here  probably  before  the  Reformation,  and  is  mentioned  by  Har- 
rison in  the  year  1577.  In  the  year  1650  the  population,  including  part  of  the  Forest 
of  Rossendale,  consisted  of  four  hundred  families,  and  they  desired  to  be  made  Pa- 
rochial. Their  Chapel  was  without  endowment,  but  the  Committee  of  Plundered 


284 

All  Div.[ine]  Offices  [are]  performed  every  other  Sunday. 

[No  Warden.] 

White-Hall. 

Augmented]  an.  [no.]  1719  with  2201,  by  Mr.  Eccles,  and 
others. 

3m.[iles]  from  [the]  Par.[ish]  Ch.[urch;  and]  2  [miles]  from 
any  other  Ch.  [urch.] 

No  School. 

No  Charities. 


Fam 126  &Xt88ta$19^&&tfg(,1  Certif.[ied] 

it§li  141-15s-04d,  viz.  from  ye  Exchequer, 
41-6s-8d,  [given  out  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  by  Edward  VI.;] 
Thornley,  61;  Rect.[or,]  21-6s-8d;  given  by  [the]  Ancestours  of 
Mr.  Tho.[mas]  Cockshutt,  401,  [being]  21-2s.0d  a  yr. 

Ministers  allowed  Mr.  Joseph  Barnard,  their  Curate,  "a  very  able  Divine,"  £40  a 
year. — Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS. 

A  Brief  was  obtained,  and  Is.  6d.  collected  at  Milnrow,  for  Upper  Darwen  Chapel 
in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  September  22d  1722. — Milnrow  Register. 

St.  James's  Church  at  Lower  Darwen,  and  Trinity  Church  at  Over  Darwen,  built 
by  her  Majesty's  Commissioners,  were  consecrated  in  the  year  1829. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Bartholomew.     Value  in  1834,  £126.     Registers  begin  in  1560. 

Henry  de  Lascy  granted  the  whole  Manor  of  Great  Harwood  to  Elchard  flytton, 
Justice  of  Chester,  in  the  year  1233,  which  grant  was  confirmed  by  his  son,  Robert 
de  Lascy,  who  died  in  the  year  1193.  Richard,  son  of  John  flytton,  brother  of  the 
original  grantee,  had  the  Manor  conveyed  to  him  by  his  kinsman,  Edmund  flytton, 
and  was  living  in  the  year  1237.  —  Couclier  Book,  pp.  845-6.  He  left  three  daugh- 
ters and  coheiresses,  of  whom  Matilda  married  Sir  William  Hesketh,  living  in  the 
23d  Henry  III.  seized  of  two  Carucates  of  land  in  Magna  Harwode,  which  Hugh 
flytton  formerly  held  of  the  Earl  of  Lincoln ;  Amabel,  the  second  daughter  and  co- 
heiress, married  Edmund  Leigh  of  Croston;  and  Elizabeth,  the  third,  married  Roger, 
son  of  Adam  de  Nowell  of  Great  Mearley ;  and  the  Manor  became  divided  into  three 
portions.  Of  these  the  Heskeths  purchased  that  of  the  Leighs ;  and  the  Netherton 
portion  of  the  Nowells  continued  in  that  family  until  it  was  alienated  by  Alexander 
Nowell  Esq.  who  died  in  the  year  1772.  The  present  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Great 
Harwood  is  James  Lomax  of  Clayton  Hall  Esq.  who  succeeded  to  it  in  the  year 
1849,  on  the  death  of  his  elder  brother,  John  Lomax  Esq. 


of  Blarttbum  285 

1  li.l 5s- 4d  (endowment.)     Vic's  Accf-  1704.     Pap.  Reg. 

[The]  Curate  has  Surp.[lice]  Fees,  and  [a]  half-penny  for 
every  Communicant.  Ib. 

[A]  Caveat  [was]  entred  by  ye  Vicar  agst  Granting  a  License 
to  Harwood  and  Lango,  an.  [no]  1690.  V.  [ide]  Subs.  \cription\ 
Book. 

Harwood-magna,  Tottleworth,  and  [the]  East  end  of  Rishton 
resort  to  it. 

[The]  same  Curate  serves  Harwood  and  Lango. 

2  Wardens ;  chosen  by  [the]  Min.  [ister]   and   [the]   principall 
Inhabitants.] 

Martholme  Hall.2 

3  m.[iles]  from  [the]  Par.[ish]  Church;   [and]  2  m.[iles]  from 
any  other  Ch.[urch.] 

is  a  School,  built  by  Coll.  Nowell,3  but  not  endowed; 
and  there  is  no  teaching  in  it,  [for  a  Master  cannot  get  a 
maintenance.] 

In  the  13th  Bichard  II.  1389,  John  Nowell  Esq.  did  homage  for  his  Estate  of 
Netherton  to  Thomas  Hesketh  Esq.  in  the  Chapel  of  Harwood,  which  proves  a 
higher  antiquity  for  the  foundation  of  the  Chapel  than  that  assigned  to  it  in  Ecton's 
Thesaurus,  viz.  of  the  year  1505  ;  or  by  the  Liber  Regis,  of  the  year  1507.  It  was 
apparently  rebuilt  about  the  latter  period.  On  the  North  side  the  original  Windows 
remain ;  but  the  rest  appear  to  have  been  renewed  along  with  the  roof,  in  the  reign 
of  Queen  Elizabeth.  In  the  East  Window  of  the  South  Aisle  are  three  panes  of 
stained  glass,  with  the  garbs  and  the  letters  I.  H. — Whitaker's  Whalley,  p.  434. 

In  the  year  1631  Mr.  Eichard  Hargreaves  was  Curate  of  Harwood ;  but  in  the 
year  1650  there  was  "  noe  Minister  nor  maintenance,  except  £4  a  yr  pd  out  of  the 
Duchy  lands,"  although  there  were  two  hundred  families,  and  their  Chapel  Paro- 
chial. — Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

2  Martholme  was  the  ancient  Manor  House  of  the  ffyttons,  and  occasionally  the 
residence  of  their  successors  the  Heskeths,  by  one  of  whom  it  seems  to  have  been 
nearly  rebuilt  about  the  year  1561,  that  date,  with  the  arms,  and  cypher  T.  H.  still 
remaining  on  the  gateway.     On  the  North  side  are  some  ancient  trefoil  lights.     The 
whole  was  surrounded  by  a  moat,  and  the  house  is  a  handsome  specimen  of  an 
Elizabethan  Hall  of  the  second  order.     It  is  now  occupied  by  a  farmer. 

3  Roger  Nowell  Esq.  was  born  in  the  year  1605,  married  at  Rochdale  in  the  year 
1626,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Robert  Holte  of  Stubley  and  Castleton  Esq.  and  died  in 


286  liotttta 

Cljarttj).       g{g|  foett  to  ye  Poor  by  Sr  Edm.[und]  Asheton,  (before  1691,) 
301,  secured  by  Trustees.    Curate's  Ac&  8br  27,  1718. 


ram 100  &N©©,1  Certif . [led]  71-68-8d,  viz.  out 

of  Thornly,  51;  Rect.[or,]  gi.fr.Sd. 

This  Chappell  in  K.[ing]  Jam.[es]  2d's  time  was  seized  by  Mr. 
Walmesley,  a  Papist ;  but  upon  [the]  Petition  of  Mr.  Price,  Vicar 
of  Blackburn,  to  ye  King,  the  Case  was  referred  to  Ld  Chancellor 
Jeffereys,  and  he  Ordered  the  Chap,  [el]  to  be  restored  to  the 
Petitioner.  V.[ide]  O.[ld]  R.[egister,~\  p.  491. 

the  year  1695  aged  ninety.  He  was  an  active  Magistrate,  a  zealous  Churchman,  and 
a  warm  supporter  of  the  royal  cause,  being  a  Colonel  in  the  army  of  Charles  I.  His 
Portrait  is  in  the  possession  of  his  representative,  Mrs.  Nowell  of  Netherside  in 
Craven. 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.  Value  in  1834,  £125.  Registers  begin  in  1733.  Mar- 
riages at  Blackburn. 

In  the  year  798,  Duke  Wada  unfortunately  engaged  Ardulph,  King  of  the  North- 
umbrians, at  Billangho,  now  contracted  into  Langho.  In  the  year  1836,  as  Thomas 
Hubbersty,  the  farmer  at  Brockhall,  was  removing  a  large  mound  of  earth  in  Brock- 
hall  Eases,  about  five  hundred  yards  from  the  bank  of  the  Kibble,  on  the  left  of  the 
road  leading  from  the  house,  he  discovered  a  Kist-vaen,  formed  of  rude  stones,  con- 
taining some  large  human  bones  and  the  rusty  remains  of  some  spear  heads  of  iron. 
The  whole  crumbled  to  dust  on  exposure  to  the  air.  Tradition  has  uniformly  recorded 
that  a  battle  was  fought  about  Langho,  Elker,  and  Buckfoot,  near  the  Kibble ;  and 
this  tumulus  was  opened  within  two  hundred  yards  of  a  ford  of  the  Kibble,  (now 
called  Bullasey-ford,)  one  of  the  very  few  points,  for  miles,  by  which  that  river  could 
be  crossed.  The  late  Dr.  Whitaker  repeatedly,  but  in  vain,  searched  for  remains  of 
this  battle,  as  he  appears  to  have  erroneously  concluded  that  the  scene  of  it  was 
higher  up  the  river,  and  near  Hacking  Hall,  at  the  junction  of  the  Calder  and  Kibble. 
In  the  reign  of  Stephen,  the  Manor  of  Billington,  in  which  Langho  is  situated,  was 
granted  by  Henry  de  Lascy  to  Hugh,  son  of  Leofwine,  whose  descendant,  William, 
Lord  of  Alvetham,  granted  it  to  Ralph,  son  of  Geoffrey  de  Billington.  Adam  de  Bil- 
lington, probably  son  of  Ralph,  was  one  of  the  Jurors  on  the  grand  Inquest  in  the 
13th  John,  and  held  the  moiety  of  a  Knight's  fee  in  Billington,  which  he  conveyed 
to  Adam  de  Huddleston  in  the  year  1288,  (Coucher  Book,  p.  973,)  whose  nephew, 
Sir  Richard  de  Huddleston,  in  the  year  1322,  conveyed  the  reversion  of  it  after  the 
death  of  Thomas,  son  of  Sir  Geoffrey  le  Scrop,  to  the  said  Sir  Geoffrey,  who,  in  the 
year  1332  granted  it,  in  fee,  to  the  Abbey  of  Whalley.  After  the  Dissolution,  it 


of  BlatcWmrn.  287 

Sal.[ary]  6i.l3«-4d;  131  Stock  lost.  Vic's.  Actf-  an. [no]  1704. 
Pap.  Reg. 

Circumf.  [erence,]  about  9  m.  [iles.j 

[The  inhabitants  of]  Billington,  Dinkley,  and  Whilpshire  re- 
sort to  it. 

Div.  [ine]  Service  performed  every  other  Sunday. 

was  obtained  by  Sir  Thomas  Holcroft,  along  with,  the  other  moiety,  which,  being 
granted  for  life  to  Adam  de  Huddleston  by  Henry  de  Lascy,  the  reversion  was  con- 
veyed to  the  Abbey  by  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  in  the  12th  Edward  II.  —  Coucher 
Book,  p.  937.  The  Manor  soon  passed  from  the  Holcrofts  to  Ralph  Asheton  of 
Great  Lever  Esq.  and  was  given  by  him,  in  marriage  with  Ann  his  daughter,  in  the 
year  1554,  to  Edward  BraddyU  of  Portfield  Esq. 

Langho  Chapel  was  in  existence  shortly  after  the  Reformation,  and  is  supposed  to 
have  been  built  with  materials  brought  from  Whalley  Abbey.  In  the  year  1650  it 
was  without  any  endowment,  but  Mr.  Churchlowe,  the  Minister,  had  £40  allowed  by 
the  County  Committee.  It  was  said  to  be  six  miles  from  the  Parish  Church;  and 
Langho  then  consisted  of  three  hundred  families,  who  desired  to  be  made  a  separate 
Parish,  and  to  have  a  settled  allowance  for  a  Minister.  —  Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  Libr. 
Nearly  a  century  later  the  population  was  returned  to  the  Bishop  as  being  four  hun- 
dred, and  the  Church  two  miles  nearer  to  Langho.  King  James  the  Second's  famous 
declaration  in  favour  of  Liberty  of  Conscience  induced  Bartholomew  Walmesley  of 
Dunkenhalgh  Esq.  to  seize  upon  Langho  Chapel  and  fit  it  up  for  the  service  of  the 
Church  of  Rome,  and  Mass  was  actually  celebrated  in  it  in  1687-8.  On  this  intru- 
sion Mr.  Francis  Price,  the  Vicar  of  Blackburn,  petitioned  the  King,  and  stated  that 
the  Chapel  of  Langho  had,  time  out  of  mind,  been  a  Chapel  of  Ease,  wherein  Prayers, 
Preaching,  and  Sacraments  had  been  celebrated  by  the  Vicar  of  Blackburn,  and  his 
Curates  ;  that  the  said  Chapel  had  been,  from  time  to  time,  repaired,  both  walls  and 
roof,  and  the  seats  uniformly  placed,  and  the  Bell  thereof  bought,  at  the  cost  of  the 
adjacent  Townships ;  that  some  other  endowments  had  been  given  to  it  according  to 
the  abilities  of  the  neighbourhood,  and  that,  particularly,  seats  in  it  had  been  assigned 
to  ancient  families  and  Estates :  that  Mr.  Bartholomew  Walmesley,  a  neighbouring 
gentleman,  had,  notwithstanding,  seized  on  the  said  Chapel,  pretending  a  right  to  it, 
and  had  dispossessed  the  Petitioner  of  his  just  and  undoubted  right,  as  appeared  from 
ancient  records,  and  he  prayed  to  have  the  case  referred  to  competent  authority.  At 
the  Court  at  Whitehall,  on  the  29th  of  May  1688,  Lord  Sunderland  stated  that  his 
Majesty  referred  it  to  the  Lord  Chancellor,  who,  on  the  16th  of  June  following,  decreed 
that  the  Chapel  should  be  forthwith  delivered  to  the  Vicar  of  Blackburn ;  and,  as 
Mr.  Walmesley  had  expended  several  sums  of  money  on  the  repairs  of  the  Chapel,  the 
Bishop  of  Chester  (Cartwright)  should  determine  what  portion  of  the  same  should  be 
refunded  by  Mr.  Price  and  his  Parishioners.  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xxx.  Bartholomew 
Walmesley  Esq.  left  England  on  the  5th  of  February  1685,  in  the  train  of  Roger, 


288  ilotitta 

Sev1  of  [the]  Inhab.  [it ants]  are  said  to  goe  to  Mass  to  Sr  Nich. 
[olas]  Shireburn's  at  Stonihurst.2 

Bradyll,3  Hacking,4  Dinkley  Hall.5 

4m.[iles]  from  [the]  Par.[ish]  Church;  [and]  2  m.[iles]  from 
any  other. 

No  Warden. 

Earl  of  Castlemain,  who  was  sent  as  Ambassador  from  James  II.  to  Pope  Innocent 
XI.  at  Rome.  His  chief  attendants  were  Thomas  Arundel  Esq.  grandson  of  Lord 
Arundel  of  Wardour,  (Privy  Seal;)  Henry,  eldest  son  of  Sir  Henry  Tichborne  Bart. 
(Lieutenant  of  Ordnance ;)  the  Hon.  Thomas  Batcliffe,  son  of  the  Lord  Ratcliffe ; 
and  Thomas  Eccleston  of  Eccleston  Esq.  It  was  on  his  return  from  Rome  that  he 
obtained  the  forcible  possession  recorded  in  the  text. 

2  Stonyhurst  was  conveyed  by  Margaret,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  Sir  Richard  de 
Sherburn,  to  Richard  de  Bayley,  before  the  46th  of  Edward  III.  whose  son  Richard 
assumed  the  surname  of  Sherburn.     The  building  of  this  "  princely  mansion  of  the 
Sherburnes5'  was  probably  begun  by  Sir  Richard  Sherburne,  who  died  in  the  year 
1594,  and  finished  by  his  son.      A  Licence  for  an  Oratory  was  granted  to  Richard  de 
Bayley  in  the  year  1372,  and  the  Domestic  Chapel  remained  above  the  gateway  until 
the  middle  of  the  last  century.     The  Estate  was  conveyed  in  marriage,  in  the  year 
1709,  by  Maria  Winifreda  Francesca,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Nicholas  Sherburne 
Bart,  to  Thomas  Howard,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  on  her  Grace's  decease  in  the  year 
1754,  s.p.  it  passed  to  Edward  Weld  of  Lulworth  Castle  Esq.  grandson  of  William 
Weld  Esq.  who  married  in  the  year  1672  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Sherburne 
of  Stouyhurst  Esq.      Stonyhurst  was  converted  into  a  Roman  Catholic  Seminary  by 
Thomas  Weld  Esq.  who  died  in  the  year  1810,  and  his  son  and  successor  obtained  a 
Cardinal's  Hat  in  the  year  1829. 

3  Braddyll  is  situated  on  the  warm  and  fertile  bank  of  the  Ribble,  and  was  the 
residence  and  parent  house  of  the  Braddylls  from  the  reign  of  Henry  II.  to  the 
beginning  of  the  last  century,  when  Conishead  Priory  came  into  the  family  by  the 
marriage  of  John  Braddyll  Esq.  with  Sarah,  daughter  of  Miles  Dodding  Esq.     On 
the  death  of  his  grandson,  Thomas  Braddyll  Esq.  in  the  year  1776,  the  Estates 
passed  by  Will  to  his  kinsman,  Wilson  Gale  of  High-head  Castle  in  the  county  of 
Cumberland  Esq.  who  assumed  the  name  of  Braddyll,  and  dying  in  the  year  1818, 
was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Thomas  Richmond  Gale   Braddyll  Esq.      The  present 
owner  of  Braddyll  is  John  Taylor  of  Moreton  Hall  and  Whalley  Abbey  Esq. 

4  Hacking  Hall  was  the  residence  of  Bernard  de  Hacking  about  the  year  1200, 
whose  great-grandson,  William  de  Hacking,  in  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  Edward 
III.  left  a  daughter  Agnes,   married  to   Henry  de  Shuttleworth,   and   the   eighth 
descendant  of  this  marriage,  Ann,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Richard  Shuttleworth 
Esq.  having  married  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Sir  Thomas  Walmesley  Knt. 
Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  conveyed  the  Estate  to  that  family.     Catherine,  sole 
heiress  of  Bartholomew  Walmesley  Esq.  who  died  in  the  year  1701,  married  in  the 


3Bean*r$  of  Blackburn.  289 

IV  lEBmunlJ  &Sf)CtOtt  of  Whalley  Bart,  and  others  whose 
names  are  not  known,  gave  to  the  Poor  of  Billington  1001, 
with  wch  an  Est.  [ate]  called  Dinkloe  Moor  is  purchd,  and  the  rent 
is  yearly  distribd  by  Mr.  Wm.  Hayhurst,  Mr.  Edward  Chew,  John 
Smalley,  Richard  Ryding,  and  Richard  Craven  of  Billington. 


or  IK&ajaei&TOKm1  as 

WALTON    IN   LE   DALE.       Certif.[ied]   Fam 220 

151 . 18s .  08d,  viz.  from  Thornly,  ff;    Vic.[ar]   of  Blackburn,  4;   P^u.°l5' 
Rect.[or,]  21.6*. 84;  Int. [erest]  of  501  given  by  Henry  Houghton    [R1'  A'L] 
Esq.  21.10s;  out  of  Mr.  Crook's  Estate  at  Whittingham,  21-28.0d. 

Sal.  [ary]  1 71  •  03s  •  03d.     Vic's.  Ace1-  an.  [no]  1 704.     Pap.  Reg. 

30s  p.  [er]  an.  [num]  given  by  [the]  Will  of  Mr.  Crook  of  Abram 
to  Law  and  Samlesbury.     Id. 

Circumf.  [erence]  about  11  m.[iles.] 

Walton  and  Cuerdale  resort  to  it. 

year  1712,  Robert,  seventh  Lord  Petre,  whose  great-grandson,  Henry  Petre,  of  Dun- 
kenhalgh  Esq.  is  the  owner  of  this  Estate,  possessed  by  his  ancestors  seven  centu- 
ries ago.  The  house  is  beautifully  situated  at  the  confluence  of  the  rivers  Eibble  and 
Calder,  and  remains  as  it  was  left  by  Judge  Walmesley,  who  rebuilt  it. 

5  Dinkley  Hall  was  the  property  of  Robert  Morley  in  the  20th  Edward  IV.  and  his 
descendant,  Thomas  Morley  died  seized  of  it  in  the  24th  Henry  VIII.  It  was,  how- 
ever, in  the  9th  Elizabeth  in  the  possession  of  Roger  Nowell  of  Read  Esq.  and  after- 
wards passed  to  the  family  of  Talbot.  Dorothy,  daughter  and  heiress  of  John 
Talbot  of  Salebury,  married  in  the  seventeenth  century,  Edward  Warren  of  Poynton 
Esq.  and  conveyed  the  Estate  to  him.  This  gentleman  resided  here,  and  is  justly 
commended  by  Dr.  Stukeley  for  his  care  of  the  Roman  Altar,  then  at  Dinkley,  (Itiner. 
Curios,  vol.  ii.  p.  158,)  but  which  has  since  been  removed  to  Stonyhurst.  Sir  George 
Warren  K.B.  his  son  and  heir,  died  in  the  year  1801,  and  his  daughter  and  heiress 
having  married  Thomas  James,  Viscount  Bulkeley,  this  Estate  is  now  in  the  posses- 
sion of  her  Ladyship's  representative,  George  Warren,  Baron  de  Tabley. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Leonard.    Value  in  1834,  £156.     Registers  begin  in  1653. 

The  Manor  of  Walton  was  granted  by  the  first  Henry  de  Lascy,  about  the  year 
1130,  to  Robert,  son  of  Robert  Banastre,  whose  descendant,  Alice  Banastre,  conveyed 
it  in  marriage  to  Sir  John  de  Langton,  (see  NEWTON,  p.  271,)  whose  son,  Sir  Robert 
de  Langton,  was  knighted  in  the  12th  Edward  III.  The  Manor  was  surrendered  by 
his  descendant,  Thomas  Laugton,  about  the  year  1592,  to  the  family  of  Thomas 
VOL.  II.]  P  P 


290 

Div.  [ine]  Service  [is]  performed  every  forenoon  one  Sund.  [ay,] 
and  ev.[ery]  afternoon  ye  other,  in  Summer  time;  and  ev.[ery] 
other  Sunday  in  Winter. 

[The]  same  Curate  serves  Law  and  Samlesbury. 

2  Wardens;  one  chosen  by  Sr  H.[enry]  Houghton  of  Houghton 
Bart,  [and]  one  by  [the]  Min.  [ister]  and  [the]  principal!  Inhab. 
[itants.] 

Walton,2  and  Cuerdale  Hall.3 

Hoghton  of  Hoghton  Esq.  as  a  peace  offering,  owing  to  his  haying  accidentally  slain 
Mr.  Hoghton,  in  a  riotous  affray,  (and  not  "  in  a  duel,"  according  to  Whitaker,)  at 
Lea,  in  November,  32d  Elizabeth,  1589. 

This  Chapel  is  the  only  one  on  the  old  foundation,  that  is,  of  the  twelfth  century, 
under  Blackburn,  and  was  endowed  like  most  of  the  rest  with  two  oxgangs  of  land, 
being  about  thirty  Lancashire  acres.  It  was  called,  at  a  very  early  period,  Law 
Chapel.  Adam  de  Blackburn,  at  the  request  of  John  de  Lascy,  his  Lord,  granted  to 
the  Abbot  and  Convent  of  Stanlaw,  in  the  year  1229,  the  Chapel  of  Walton,  .with  the 
lands,  tithes,  and  obventions  belonging  to  it,  subject  to  a  payment  of  twenty  marks 
per  annum,  to  Richard,  son  of  the  Dean  of  Whalley,  until  he  should  be  promoted  to 
a  similar  or  better  benefice  by  the  said  John  de  Lascy. — Coucher  Book  of  Whalley 
Abbey,  p.  83.  In  the  year  1238  the  Abbey  obtained  the  Advowson  of  the  Chapel, 
without  any  condition,  from  the  same  bountiful  Patron. 

Ralph  Langton,  Baron  of  Newton,  who  died  in  the  18th  Henry  VII.  left  by  his 
Will,  twenty  marks,  to  make  and  repair  the  Lawe  Church,  if  the  Parishioners  would 
build  the  same  while  his  son  was  under  age. 

The  South  part  of  the  Chancel  belongs  to  the  Hoghtons  of  Hoghton  Tower,  and 
was  repaired  by  Sir  Gilbert  Hoghton  Bart,  who  died  in  the  year  1647.  There  are 
many  monuments  of  the  family  in  this  Chapel.  The  North  part  of  the  Chancel  be- 
longs to  the  Asshetons  of  Downham  and  Cuerdale. 

In  the  year  1650  Law  was  styled  a  Parochial  Chapelry,  nine  miles  from  the  Parish 
Church,  containing  two  hundred  families.  The  Inhabitants  complained  that  £40  a 
year  had  been  allowed  them  for  a  Minister  by  the  Committee  of  Plundered  Ministers, 
out  of  the  Sequestered  Tithes  of  James  Anderton  Esq.  a  delinquent  Papist;  but  that  in 
regard  of  other  Charges  laid  upon  these  Tithes  for  the  maintenance  of  other  Ministers, 
the  Order  had  done  the  Inhabitants  no  good.  In  addition  to  which  they  had  formerly 
had  £4  per  annum  paid  to  their  Minister  by  the  Vicars  of  Blackburn,  but  which  for 
three  years  last  past  had  been  detained,  so  that  they  were  both  without  Minister  and 
maintenance.  The  Inhabitants  desired  to  be  made  Parochial. — Parl.  Inq.  Lamb, 
MSS.  vol.  ii. 

The  Vicar  of  Blackburn  is  the  Patron. 

5  Walton  Hall  was  the  Manorial  residence  of  Robert  Banastre,  and  became  succes- 
sively the  principal  mansion  of  the  Langtons,  and  of  the  Hoghtons,  when,  about 


Drattrn?  of  BlacUtwrn.  291 

7  m.[iles]  from  [the]  Par.[ish]  Ch.[urch;]  and  2  m.[iles]  from 
any  other  Ch.[urch.] 

School  here,  (wch  is  free  only  to  [the]  Inhabitants]  of  g>cf)0ol. 
the  Town,)  was  built  by  [the]  Inhab.  [itants]  upon  ground 
Given  by  Sr  Rich.[ard]  Houghton,4  an.  [no]  1672,  (the  Children 
being  taught  in  ye  Chap,  [el]  before.)  Given  to  [the]  Master  by 
Pet.[er]  Burscough,  an.  [no]  1614,  (1624,)  1001,  out  of  the  Int.[er- 
est  of  which]  was  raised  301  more  during  ye  vacancy  of  ye  School 
in  ye  [time  of  the]  Rebellion.  By  Mr.  And.  [rew]  Dandy,  Citiz. 
[en]  of  Lond.[on,]  1001;  byTho.[mas]  Hesketh  of  Walton,  201 ; 
by  Mr.  Crook  of  Abram,  the  tenth  part  of  his  Estate  in  Auston 
[Alston]  and  Whittingham,  Leased  for  H1-10s.00d  p.[er]  an. 
[num.]  No  Governours  being  appointed  by  ye  Beuefactours, 
(except  ye  heirs  of  Mr.  Crook  for  w*  was  given  by  him,)  the  Inhab. 
[itants]  have  named  six  Trustees,  but  they  keep  ye  Right  of  Nomi- 
nat.  [ing]  ye  Master. 

to  ye  Poor,  an.  [no]  1624,  by  [the  Will  of]   Pet.[er] 
Burscough    (of  Walton-le-Dale,   Yeoman,)    101   p.[er]    an. 

twenty  years  since,  it  was  abandoned  and  pulled  down.     Sir  Henry  Bold  Hoghton 
Bart,  is  still  the  Manerial  owner. 

8th  Ides  of  Apr.  1367,  a  Licence  wan  granted  to  Ralph  de  Langton  to  celebrate 
Divine  Offices  in  his  Oratories  of  Walton  and  Newton  for  three  years.  —  Lib.  v.  fol. 
16  a,  in  Cur.  Lichf.  4th  Ides  of  Oct.  1372,  a  Lie.  was  gr.  to  Ralph  de  Langton  for 
his  Oratories  within  his  Manors  of  Newton  and  Walton  for  three  years.  —  Ib.  fol.  27 
b,  ib.  27th  of  Oct.  1375,  a  similar  Licence  to  the  same  for  two  years. — Ib.  fol.  30 
a,  ib.  16th  Dec.  1398,  a  similar  Licence  from  the  Vicar  General  to  Ralph  de  Lang- 
ton  to  celebrate  Divine  Offices  in  his  Oratories  within  the  Diocese,  for  two  years.  — 
Ib.  fol.  14  I/a,  ib.  24th  Oct.  1401,  a  Licence  was  granted  to  Sir  Henry  de  Lange- 
ton,  and  Agnes  his  wife,  to  celebrate  Divine  Offices  within  all  and  singular  their 
Oratories.  —  Ib.  fol.  146  o,  ib.  In  1545,  a  Licence  was  granted  by  John,  Bishop  of 
Chester,  to  Sir  Thomas  Langton  for  an  Oratory  in  his  Manor  House  of  Walton. 

3  Cuerdale  was  held  by  Alex,  de  Keuyrdale  in  the  time  of  Edward  I.  and  was  pur- 
chased by  Radcliffe  Assheton  Esq.  second  son  of  Ralph  Assheton  of  Great  Lever 
Esq.  in  the  time  of  James  I.  and  has  been  ever  since  in  his  family,  the  present  owner 
being  William  Assheton  of  Downham  Hall  Esq. 

4  Sir  Richard  Hoghton  of  Hoghton  Tower,  the   third   Baronet,   Knight   of  the 


292 

[num,  to  be  distributed  on  Good  Friday.  Trustees,  Sir  Henry 
Hoghton,  Edward  Winckley  Gent.,  James  Woodcock,  and  Thomas 
Wiuckley.]  Given  since  by  Mr.  Crook  of  Abram,  (his  Will  bear- 
ing date  an.  [no]  1688,)  a  tenth  part  of  an  Estate  in  Auston 
[Alston]  and  Whittingham,  [of  the]  val.[ue  of]  23s -6d  p.[er] 
an.  [num.]  Given  by  Cath.  [arine  wife  of  Richard]  Park  [of  Wal- 
ton, with  her  husband's  consent,  in  1710,]  201.  Certificate]  of 
John  Hull,  Cui\  27th  Oct.  1718. 


Certified]    14'. 

Fam 144  fzs    16s.08d,  viz.  out  of  Thornly,  61;  Rect. 

Pap'M>       [or,]  ^-Gs-Sd;  Vic.[ar,]  41;  Int.[erest]  of  501  given  by  Hen.[ry] 
HoughtonEsq.  21-10S. 

(Stip.  [end] )  W  - 18*  •  05d.    Vicar's  Ace*-  an.  [no]  1 704.    Pap,  Reg. 

Shire  for  Lancaster,  died  in  the  year  1677-8,  having  married  Lady  Sarah  Stanhope, 
daughter  of  Philip,  Earl  of  Chesterfield. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Leonard.    Value  in  1834,  £110.     Eegisters  begin  in  1722. 

Gospatric  de  Samlesbury  held  this  Manor  at  the  latter  end  of  the  reign  of  Henry 
II.  and  his  grandson,  Sir  William  de  Samlesbury,  left  three  daughters  and  coheiresses, 
who  conveyed  the  Estate  to  their  husbands.  Margery  married  Roger  de  Haunton, 
and  appears  to  have  had  no  issue.  Cecily  married  Sir  John  de  D'Ewyas,  before  the 
43d  Henry  III.  and  had  half  of  the  Manor  of  Samlesbury ;  whilst  the  other  moiety 
passed  with  Elizabeth,  the  youngest  daughter,  to  Sir  Robert  de  Holland  of  Hale, 
knighted  in  the  10th  Edward  I.  and  grandfather  of  Sir  Robert  Holland,  whose  widow, 
Joanna,  married  Edward  the  Black  Prince,  father  of  King  Richard  II.  Sir  Robert 
Holland,  by  Joanna,  Countess  of  Kent,  had  a  son  Robert,  who  died  in  his  father's 
life-time,  leaving  issue  one  daughter  and  heiress,  who  married  Sir  John  Lovel,  fifth 
Baron  Lovel  K.G.  of  Tichmersh,  to  whom  livery  of  her  lands  was  made  in  the  47th 
Edward  III.  On  the  death  of  their  son,  Sir  John  Lovel,  Baron  Holland  in  right 
of  his  mother,  and  Lord  Lovel  of  Tichmersh,  in  the  year  1414,  William,  Lord  Lovel 
and  Holland,  his  son  and  heir,  succeeded  to  the  lands,  which  appear  to  have  been 
confiscated  by  John,  Lord  Lovel,  an  adherent  of  Henry  VI.  and  the  Lancastrians. 
He  died  in  the  4th  Edward  IV. 

Nicholas,  the  son  or  grandson  of  Sir  John  D'Ewyas  and  Cecily  de  Samlesbury, 
died  without  male  issue,  leaving  a  daughter  married  to  Sir  Gilbert  de  Southworth, 
[see  p.  266,  Note  13,]  and  her  portion  of  the  Manor  thus  conveyed  continued  in  this 
family  until  the  year  1677,  when  John  Southworth  Esq.  sold  it  and  the.  old  Hall  to 


of  iJUuUtnmt.  293 

Circumf .  [erence]  about  10  m.[iles.] 

[The]  Inhab.  [itants]  of  Samlesbury  and  Cuerdale  resort  to  it. 

Div.[ine]  Service  performed  every  morning  one  Sund.[ay,]  and 
every  afternoon  the  other,  in  Summer;  and  ev.[ery]  other  Sun- 
day in  Winter. 

2  Wardens;  chosen  by  [the]  Min.[ister]  and  [the]  principall 
Inhab.  [itants.] 

Higher2  and  Lower  Hall,3  [Salesbury.4] 

No  School. 

Thomas  Braddyll  Esq.  for  little  more  than  £2,000,  and  it  descended  to  his  represen- 
tative, T.  R.  G.  Braddyll,  now  of  Conishead  Priory,  Esq. 

Gospatric  de  Samlesbury  founded  the  Chapel  here,  (why  so  remote  from  the  Manor 
House  it  is  difficult  to  conjecture,)  which  was  at  first  a  Chapel  of  Ease  merely  to 
Law,  without  a  Cemetery,  the  dead  of  Samlesbury  being  buried  at  Law ;  but  we  are 
told  in  the  Coucher  Book,  that  in  the  absence  from  England  of  Hugh  de  Nonant, 
Bishop  of  Lichfield,  who  held  the  See  from  the  year  1185  to  the  year  1198,  (Le 
Neve,)  two  itinerant  Irish  Bishops  having  taken  up  their  residence  with  Gospatric, 
were  by  him  prevailed  upon  to  consecrate  a  Cemetery,  which  act  was  supposed  to 
render  the  Chapel  Parochial.  Hugh,  on  his  return,  irritated,  as  he  had  cause  to 
be,  at  this  infringement  of  his  Office,  annulled  the  sentence  of  Consecration ;  but, 
after  some  time,  was  prevailed  upon  by  the  entreaties  of  Gospatric  to  confirm  it. — 
Coucher  Book,  vol.  i.  pp.  89,  90. 

This  Chapel,  though  the  burial  place  of  the  Lords  of  Samlesbury  from  that  time  to 
their  extinction,  contained  not  a  single  memorial  of  the  family  except  the  knightly 
ensigns  of  a  Southworth ;  and  nothing  worthy  of  observation,  but  an  alabaster  slab, 
covering  William,  son  of  Sir  William  Atherton,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Balder- 
stone,  and  died  at  that  place  about  the  19th  of  Henry  VI.  — Whitaker's  Whalley, 
p.  430. 

The  Chapel  was  falling  into  decay  in  the  year  1558,  when  Edward,  Earl  of  Derby, 
issued  the  following  circular :  —  "13  May  1558,  Edw.  E.  of  Derby,  to  al  his  louing 
frends.  As  I  am  credibly  enformed  the  Church  at  Sambery  is  in  mine  and  indanger- 
ing  people  that  resort  to»heare  God's  worde,  I  haue  thought  good  to  moue  my  louing 
frends  to  help  with  there  charity  towards  the  re-edifying  thereof." — Kuerden's  H£SS. 
p.  497,  Chetham's  Library. 

In  the  year  1650  the  Parochial  Chapelry  of  Samlesbury  was  reported  as  having  had 
"anciently"  a  pension  of  £4  per  annum,  paid  by  former  Vicars  of  Blackburn,  but 
then  detained.  The  inhabitants  stated  that  they  numbered  one  hundred  families,  that 
they  were  six  miles  from  the  Parish  Church,  and  were  desirous  of  being  separated 
from  Blackburn  and  made  a  distinct  Parish.  Mr.  Richard  Smethurst  was  their 
Minister,  and  had  £40  a  year  allowed  him  by  the  County  Committee.  — Parl.  Inq. 
Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 


294  ilotttta 

Cfjarttjj.  9JJJ&  0  other  Charity  but  8sh  or  108h  paid  by  Mr.  Whittingham  of 
fgljjl  Whittingham.  [Richard  Houghton,  in  1613,  conveyed  to 
Thomas  Whittingham  of  Whittingham,  and  others,  a  Close  called 
Wood  Crook,  in  Whittingham,  being  five  acres;  the  rent  to  be 
distributed  amongst  the  Poor  of  Alston,  Preston,  and  those  at 
Samlesbury  Church  or  Chapel.]  Certif.  [icate]  of  John  Hull,  cur. 
27th  Oct.  1718. 

2  Higher  Hall  was  moated  round,  and  has  enclosed  three  sides  of  a  large  quad- 
rangle, the  centre  of  which  containing  the  great  hall,  a  noble  specimen  of  most  rude 
and  massy  wood  work,  though  repaired  in  the  year  1532  by  Sir  Thomas  Southworth, 
whose  name  it  bears,  is  of  very  high  antiquity,  probably  not  later  than  Edward  III. 
The  principal  timbers  are  carved  with  great  elegance,  and  the  compartments  of  the 
roof,  painted  with  figures  of  saints,  while  the  outsides  of  the  building  are  adorned 
with  profile  heads  of  wood,  cut  in  bold  relief,  within  huge  medallions.  It  is  curious 
to  observe  that  the  inner  doors  are  without  a  pannel  or  a  lock,  and  have  always  been 
opened,  like  those  of  modern  cottages,  with  a  latch  and  string.  The  remaining  wing, 
which  is  built  of  wood  towards  the  quadrangle,  and  brick  without,  (and  the  earliest 
specimen  of  brick  work  in  the  Parish,)  is  of  the  time  of  Edward  III.  The  House 
had  a  Domestic  Chapel,  and  in  the  year  1400  a  Licence  was  granted  by  the  Bishop  of 
Lichfield  to  Thomas  Southworth  Esq.  and  Johan  his  wife,  to  have  service  celebrated 
in  their  mansions  of  Sothelworth  and  Samesbury.  —  Lib.  ix.  fol.  3,  in  Cur.  Lichf. 
The  roof  of  the  Hall  was  arched,  and  the  staircase  narrow  and  mean.  On  a  finely 
carved  wainscot  in  the  hall,  is  this  inscription,  —  "  Thomas  Southworth,  Baronete." 
On  the  south  side  there  are  two  very  massive  chimnies,  and  the  remains  of  the  Domes- 
tic Chapel.  In  the  year  1835  the  house  was  restored  with  much  good  taste,  and  was 
then  used  as  an  Inn.  It  has  lately  been  sold  by  Colonel  Braddyll. 

Sir  John  Southworth  of  Samlesbury  Knt.  at  the  early  part  of  the  reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  distinguished  himself  by  his  Recusancy,  and  was  placed  in  the  families  of 
Archbishop  Parker,  Dean  Nowell,  (his  kinsman,)  and  others,  for  the  purpose  of  being 
reclaimed;  but  without  effect.  He  is  said  to  have  been  altogether  unlearned  and 
obstinate,  his  principal  grounds  being  these  only,  that  he  would  follow  his  fathers, 
and  die  in  the  faith  in  which  he  had  been  baptized. — Strype's  Grindal,  p.  138 ; 
Strype's  Life  of  Parker,  chap.  xix.  p.  525;  and  Archdeacon  Churton's  Life  of  Dean 
Nowell,  p.  149. 

Sir  John  Southworth  died  in  the  year  1595,  his  Will  being  dated  the  17th  of  Sep- 
tember in  that  year,  and  proved  in  the  month  of  January  following,  having  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Assheton  of  Middleton.  There  is  much  unmerited 
sympathy  expressed  for  this  very  disloyal  person  in  Baines's  History  of  Lancashire, 
vol.  iii.  pp.  630,  631.  Notwithstanding  the  professed  subjection  of  Sir  John  to  a 
foreign  Sovereign,  his  family  was  remarkable  for  their  contentions  with  the  Abbey 
of  Whalley,  (see  Whitaker's  History  of  Whalley,  p.  431  Note ;)  and  not  less  remark- 


Dcanrrn  of  iJIacUlwvu.  295 

George  Talbot  of  Dinkloe  Esq.  gave  to  the  Poor  of  Clayton-le- 
Dale  and  Salisbury,  £20;  [the]  Int.  [erest  to  be]  yearly  distributed 
by  George  Entwisle  of  Clayton,  the  Trustee.  Anthony  Shaw  of 
Clayton  gave  £10;  [the]  Int.  [erest  to  be  distributed]  on  Good 
Friday  to  the  Poor. 

able  for  their  vulgar  dread  of  the  superstitions  of  Witchcraft,  another  Sir  John 
averring  that  his  relation,  Jane  Southworth,  was  a  veritable  witch,  and  that  he  did 
for  the  most  part  forbear  to  pass  her  house,  fearing  that  she  would  bewitch  him.  — 
See  Potts' s  Discoverie  of  Witchcraft,  L.  3.  The  tradition  of  the  neighbourhood  is 
that  the  last  male  representative  of  the  Southworths  died  in  a  workhouse. 

3  Lower  Hall  was  sold  in  the  reign  of  James  I.  by  Thomas  Southworth  Esq.  to  Sir 
Thomas  Walmesley  of  Dunkenhalgh,  and  is  now  the  property  of  Henry  Petre  Esq. 
one  of  the  descendants  of  the  Walmesleys. 

4  Salesbury  Hall  was  a  quadrangular  house  of  wood  and  stone,  and  passed  from 
the  Salesbury  to  the  Clitheroe  family,  before  the  fourteenth  century.      It  contained  a 
Domestic  Chapel,  and  on  the  6th  Ides  of  September  1371,  a  Licence  was  granted  by 
Robert,  Bishop  of  Lichfield,  to  Sir  Robert  de  Cliderhow  Knt.  and  Sibilla  his  wife,  to 
have  an  Oratory  at  Salebury  for  the  space  of  two  years.  —  Lib.  v.  fol.  285  b,  in  Cur. 
Lichf.     27th  October  1376,  a  Licence  was  granted  to  Dame  Sibilla,  relict  of  Sir 
Robert  de  Cliderow  for  an  Oratory  at  Salebury  for  two  years. — Ib.  fol.  31  a,  ib.    The 
Estate  passed  with  Sybilla,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Robert  de  Clitheroe,  to  Sir 
Richard  Mauliverer,  whose  daughter  and  coheiress  conveyed  it  to  her  husband,  John 
Talbot  Esq. ;  and  his  descendant,  Dorothy,  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Talbot  Esq. 
having  married  about  the  year  167-,  Edward  Warren  of  Poynton  Esq.  it  became 
vested  in  that  family.     There  is,  however,  much  obscurity  respecting  the  fate  of 
Sibilla,  Lady  of  Salesbury  and  Clayton-le-Dale.     According  to  a  MS.  Pedigree  by 
William  Radclifle  Esq.  Rouge  Croix,  she  also  married  Sir  Roger  Fulthorpe  Knt. 
Lord  Chief  Justice  of  Ireland,  and  afterwards  Richard  Radclyffe  of  Ordsall  Esq. 
Escheator  of  Lancashire,  drowned  in  Rossendale  Water  in  the  year  1380,  by  whom 
she  had  issue,  Joan  Radclyfle,  her  sole  heiress,  who  married  Sir  Henry  Hoghton  of 
Pendleton,  jwre  uxoris,  but  dying  s.p.  gave  her  Manor  of  Salebury  to  Richard  Hogh- 
ton, her  husband's  natural  son,  living  at  Lathgreen  in  the  3d  Henry  VI.     Sibilla  de 
Clitheroe  is  stated  to  have  survived  all  her  husbands,  and  to  have  been  living  in  the 
10th  Henry  IV. ;  but  see  Wbitaker's  Whalley,  p.  282,  on  the  difficulties  of  the  Rad- 
clifie  and  Clitheroe  Pedigrees.  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  is.  p.  267. 


296 


ram so  ^  ©dt^^lES.1  Certif. [led]  15L 

l».8*j  out  of  Thornly,  51 ;  Rect.[or,] 
21-6".8d;  Int.[erest]  of  1401,  71;  Dwelling-house,  15sh. 

IS^OSs-OSd  (endowment).  Vic's.  Accf-  au.[noj  1704.  Pap. 
Reg. 

The  money  is  in  ye  hands  of  Presbyt.  [erian]  Trustees,  who  will 
give  no  ace*  of  ye  Benefact8,  but  pay  ye  Curate  punctually,  viz. 
[with  the]  Int.[erest]  of  1401,  except  wn  ye  Chap,  [el]  wants 
repairing,  wn  they  apply  it  to  that  use  to  save  themselves. 

Circumf.  [erence]  about  9  miles. 

[The]  Inhabitants]  of  Tockholes,  and  part  of  Livesey,  repair 
to  it. 

Div.  [ine]  Service  ev.  [ery]  other  Sund.  [ay.     No  Warden.] 

3  m.[iles]  from  [the]  Par.[ish]  Ch.[urch;  and]  2  m.[iles]  from 
any  other  Chap,  [el.] 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Stephen  the  Martyr.  Value  in  1834,  £95.  Eegisters  begin 
in  1813. 

Tockholes  is  a  scattered  tract  in  the  Township  of  Livesey,  which  latter  place,  at  an 
early  period,  (for  here  lived  in  the  time  of  Henry  III.  Henry  de  Livesey,  and  in  the 
next  reign  Roger  his  son,)  gave  name  to  a  family  the  owners  of  the  greater  part  of  the 
land.  In  the  2d  Edward  VI.  James  Livesey  Gent,  held  "  the  Manor  of  Livesey," 
which  Dr.  Whitaker  observes  was  never  granted  or  conveyed  as  such ;  and  his 
descendant,  James  Livesey  Gent,  in  the  year  1612,  also  held  the  same,  and  dying 
without  issue  devised  his  Estate  to  his  kinsman,  Ralph  Livesey,  whose  descendant, 
Robert  Bell  Livesey  Esq.  living  in  the  year  1824,  sold  the  ancient  possessions  of  his 
family  in  Tockholes,  Pleasington,  and  Balderstone,  to  Henry  Feilden  of  Witton 
House,  and  William  Feilden  of  Eeniscowles  Esqrs.  in  whose  family  they  are  now 
vested ;  whilst  the  Manor  of  Tockholes  is  held  by  Laurence  Brock  Hollinshead  Esq. 

"  Adam,  Clerk  of  Livesay,"  occurs  as  an  attestor  hi  the  reign  of  Edward  I. 

The  Chapel  of  Tockholes  was  a  low  antique  structure  built  before  the  Reformation. 
Over  the  east  window  were  the  initials  of  Sir  John  Radcliffe,  and  over  the  door  the 
date  1620.  The  base  of  an  ancient  Cross  is  in  the  Chapel-yard.  In  the  year  1650 
one  hundred  and  four  families  belonged  to  the  Chapel  of  Tockholes,  including  With- 
nell,  which  adjoined  it,  and  was  distant  seven  miles  from  the  Parish  Church  of 
Leyland.  The  inhabitants  of  Withnell  desired  to  be  annexed  to  Tockholes,  and  to 
be  constituted  a  Parish.  There  was  no  settled  endowment ;  but  the  County  Com- 
mittee allowed  £40  per  annum  for  a  Minister. — Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

A  new  Church,  built  in  the  place  of  the  ancient  dilapidated  Chapel,  and  dedicated 


of  UlarUlwvn.  297 

Livesey  Hall,2  Hollinghead  Hall.3 

is  a  School-house  lately  erected  in  Tockholes ;  the  only 
endowm*  is  20s,  the  Int.[erest  of  which]  is  applied  to  the 
repairs  of  the  builds  by  the  Trustees,  "William  Walmsley,  James 
Marsden,  Jas.  Walmsley,  and  Rob.  [ert]  Aytock :  (The  three  last 
are  Presbyterians,)  and,  as  might  be  expected,  Wm.  Sanderson,  a 
Presbyn,  is  lately  come  to  teach  at  the  sd  School. 

ijomag  Sijarplea  gave  51  to  the  Poor  of  Livesey  and  Tock- 
holes, now  in  the  hands  of  Ralph  Livesey  of  Livesey  Esq. 
[and]  the  Int.  [erest  is]  distributd  by  him. 


8Qi  p.  [er]  an.[num,]  viz.  Old  Sal.[ary]  p<*  U.      .„** 
by  [the]  Abp's  Tenant,  281;  augmented  by  AbP  Juxon,  f^;  *;  3]  o 
10l;  paid  by  ye  sev.[eral]   Curates  of  ye  Chappelryes  Tn'  "  2<  ° 
for  East.[er]  Dues  and  Surp.[lice]   Fees,  pursuant  to  [H™u8'.".'"  202 

a  Decree  agst  them  obtained  by  Mr.   Gey,  the  late  Vicar,   421.  Dis's.  M.' ind. 

[£4>.  8s.  lid.  was  payable  to  the  Clerk  in  the  Church  of  Whalley, 

in  1588,  out  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster.] 

to  St.  Stephen,  was  consecrated  here  in  1833.  The  expense  of  the  building  amounted 
to  £2,400,  of  which  sum  six  Prelates  contributed  £300,  the  Inhabitants  of  Blackburn 
£1,000,  the  Church  Commissioners  and  the  nobility  and  gentry  of  the  realm  having 
furnished  the  remainder. 

2  Livesey  Hall  is  now  the  property  of  Sir  William  Feilden  of  Feniscowles  Bart. ; 
but  there  are  very  few  remains  of  the  original  house,   long   the  residence   of  the 
Liveseys. 

3  HoUinshead  Hall  is  a  small  house,  situated  in  a  remote  district  among  the  Moors, 
and  not  occupied  by  the  owner,  Laurence  B.  Hollinshead  Esq. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Wilfred ;  or  to  All  Saints,  according  to  Ecton,  and  the  Status 
de  Blag.  Value  in  1834,  £137.  Registers  begin  in  1538. 

Whalley,  called  by  the  Saxons,  UUalaleg,  was  a  member  of  the  Hundred  of  Black- 
burn, at  the  Domesday  Survey,  and  was  held  by  Edward  the  Confessor.  William 
the  Conqueror  gave  the  whole  Hundred  to  Roger  of  Poictou,  and  the  mesne 
lords  were  Roger  de  Busli  and  Albert  Greslet.  On  the  defection  of  Earl  Roger, 
VOL.  II.]  Q  Q 


298  jlotitia 

Improp.  [riator]  and  Patron,  [the]  AbP  of  Cant,  [erbury.] 
Here  was  a  Church  in  the  time  of  K.[ing]  Ethelbert,  (who 
began  his  reign  an.  [no]  596,  wn  S*  Aug.  [ustin]  came  into  Eng*1, 
then  called  the  White  Church  under  Legh,  to  wch  belonged  all 
Blackburnshire  and  Boland;  and  soe  it  long  continued,  till  3 
other  Churches  were  built  in  Blackburnshire,  viz.  Blackburn, 
Chepin,  and  Blbblechester,  each  of  ym  having  then  ye  same  limits 
it  now  has.  There  was  then  no  other  Church  or  Chappell,  nor 
was  there  any  Lord  who  claimed  ye  Patronage  of  any  of  these, 
but  every  Rectour  held  the  Land  and  Town  where  his  Church 
stood  as  ye  endowment  of  it  and  his  own  inheritance,  and  he  ap- 
pointed one  of  his  sons  or  kinsmen  his  successour ;  and  ye  Min. 
[ister]  of  Whalley  was  called  DEAN  not  Rectour,  and  he,  and  the 
Rectours,  were  mostly  married  men.  Thus  were  these  Churches 
ordered  till  Will,  [iam  the]  Conquer'8  time,  and  from  his  time  till 
the  Council  of  Lateran,  an.  [no]  1215.  The  first  Lord  of  all 

liia  lands  reverted  to  the  Crown ;  and  this  Hundred  was  again  conferred  by  William 
the  Conqueror  on  Sir  Ilbert  de  Lacy,  Lord  of  the  Honor  of  Pontefract.  In  the 
20th  Edward  I.  Henry  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  proved  his  claim  to  the  Wapen- 
take  of  Blackburn  from  the  time  of  the  Conquest,  having  had  a  confirmation  of  it 
from  Henry  III.  The  marriage  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  in  the  year  1310,  with 
Alice,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Henry  Lacy,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  transferred  the  large 
possessions  of  the  Lacys  to  the  House  of  Lancaster,  whose  heiress,  the  Lady  Blanch, 
mother  of  Henry  IV.  added  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  to  the  English  Crown. 

According  to  the  Status  de  Blaglornskire,  supposed  to  have  been  written  in  the 
fourteenth  century,  by  John  Lindley  Abbot  of  Whalley,  Churches  were  built  at 
Whalley,  Blackburn,  Chipping  and  Ribchester,  about  the  year  596.  The  inhabitants 
of  this  region,  which  would  include  Rochdale  and  Saddleworth,  are  described  as  being 
few,  intractable,  and  uncivilised,  the  country  over-run  with  wild  beasts,  and  in  a 
great  measure  inaccessible  to  men,  which  induced  the  Bishops  of  Chester  and  Lich- 
field  to  relinquish  the  jurisdiction  of  Ordinary  in  these  parts  to  the  Incumbents  or 
DEANS.  This  state  of  things  continued  for  four  hundred  and  seventy  years,  —  until 
the  Norman  Conquest.  At  this  era  there  was  a  Church  at  Whalley  dedicated  to  St. 
Mary,  and  probably  to  All  Saints,  with  two  carucates  of  land,  free  from  all  customs ; 
and  the  Saxon  privileges  of  the  Deans  continued  unimpaired  until  the  Council  of  La- 
teran in  the  year  1215. 

The  Parish  Church  of  Whalley  appears  from  the  Status  de  Blagbornshire  to  have 
been  called  Alba  Ecclesia  subtw  Legh,  and  from  the  three  Crosses  of  Paulinus,  not 
of  Augustine  as  stated  in  the  text,  still  remaining  in  the  Church-yard,  "and  from 


i)  of  BlacUlwvu.  299 

Blackburushire,  was  made  by  ye  Coiiquerour.  V.[ide]  Dugd. 
[ale's]  Monasticon,  v.  1,  p.  899. 

This  Church  was  given  to  Whalley  Abbey  by  Hen.[ry]  Lacy, 
Earl  of  Lincoln,  Ld  of  Blackburnshire,  who,  an.  [110]  1296,  Trans- 
lated this  Abbey  from  Stanlaw  hither. 

An.  [no]  1330  upon  complaint  y*  ye  Vicar  had  too  great  a  share 
of  ye  profits,  to  ye  prejudice  of  ye  Abbey,  to  wch  this  Church  was 
appropriated,]  the  BP  of  Cov.  [entry]  and  Litchf.  [ield]  ordered 
y*  for  ye  Future  the  Vic.  [ar]  shd  receive  only  66  marks,  4  quarters 
of  Oats,  and  Hay  sufficient  for  his  Horse.  This  Decree  was  con- 
firmed by  [the]  A.[rch]  D.[eacon]  of  Chester,  an.  [no]  1332. 
V.[ide]  O.\ld]  Register, ~\  D.D.D. 

This  Church  is  ded.[icated]  to  All  Saints. 

which  no  sacrilegious  hand  will,  I  trust,  ever  remove  them,"  (see  Potts's  Discoverie  of 
Witches,  p.  39,  Note  1,)  seems  to  have  been  erected  as  early  as  the  sixth  or  seventh 
century.  This  ancient  edifice  has  entirely  disappeared.  The  present  Church  was 
built  about  the  year  1283,  by  Peter  de  Cestria,  the  first  and  only  Hector,  a  man  of 
great  ecclesiastical  and  political  influence,  and,  probably,  a  natural  son  of  John  de 
Lacy.  He  was  Provost  of  Beverley,  and  Rector  of  Slaidburn,  and  held  the  Living 
of  Whalley  from  the  year  1235  to  the  year  1293. 

The  Patronage  of  the  Church  was,  after  the  Conquest,  in  the  Manorial  owners, 
although  the  succession  was  hereditary  and  the  Incumbents  continued  to  be  styled 
Deans  until  the  year  1215,  when  the  marriage  of  Ecclesiastics  was  forbidden  by  the 
Council  of  Lateran.  Whalley  then  became  a  Rectory  in  the  patronage  of  John  de 
Lacy,  Constable  of  Chester.  In  the  year  1291,  "  the  Church  of  Whalley,  with  the 
Chapels,"  was  valued  at  £66.  13s.  4d. ;  and  it  was  found  by  Inquisition  dated  in  the 
year  1296,  that  eight  parts  of  the  Mother  Church  of  Whalley,  the  Chapel  of  the 
town  of  Cliderhou,  and  the  Chapel  of  Dounom,  belonged,  according  to  law  and  cus- 
tom, to  the  Church  of  Blakeburn.  The  Advowson  of  Whalley  was  given,  by  Deed, 
by  Hugh  de  la  Val,  a  connection  of  the  Lacy  family,  along  with  the  Chapel  of  the 
Castle  of  Clitheroe,  to  the  Prior  and  Convent  of  Pontefract,  who  exercised  the  pa- 
tronage for  a  short  time.  Afterwards  the  patronage  was  given  by  Henry  Lacy,  Earl 
of  Lincoln,  by  Deed  dated  on  the  Feast  of  the  Circumcision,  January  1st  1283,  to  the 
Abbey  of  Stanlaw,  and  the  number  of  the  Monks  was  increased  from  forty  to  sixty. 
These  conflicting  claims  to  the  Advowson  caused  much  litigation,  and  it  was  not 
until  the  year  1358  that  the  Prior  of  Pontefract  released  for  himself,  and  his  succes- 
sors, all  the  right  which  he  had  to  the  Advowson.  The  Monks  of  Whalley,  notwith- 
standing, appear  to  have  paid  £100  sterling  for  the  possession  of  the  Church.  On 
the  4th  nones  of  October  1298,  Dom.  John  de  Whalleyc,  Presbyter,  obtained  a 
Licence  at  York,  from  Walter  de  Langton,  Bishop  of  Lichfield,  addressed  to  the 


300 

Whalley  Abbey  succeeded  to  ye  Eight  of  presenting  to  this 
Church  after  ye  death  of  Peter  de  Cestria,  who  was  ye  first  called 
"  Parson"  of  this  Church,  and  presented  as  such  to  ye  BP  by  Rog. 
[er]  Lacy,  to  whom  Roger,  ye  last  Dean,  and  a  Relation  to  y6  sd 
Lacy,  E.  [arl]  of  Lincoln,  gave  up  y6  Right  of  Patronage,  wn,  by  ye 
Councill  of  Lateran,  ye  Living  could  no  longer  be  held  by  Here- 
ditary Right  of  Succession  as  formerly ;  but  Peter  de  Cestria  had 
only  601  p.[er]  an.[num,]  by  way  of  Pension,  during  ye  life  of 
Roger,  who  kept  all  ye  rest  to  himself,  as  belonging  to  his  Vicar- 
idge.  In  the  cession  of  this  Right  of  Patronage  [the]  Chappells 
are  mentioned  wth  ye  Church.  Out  of  [a]  MS.  in  Sr  Fran.[cis] 
Worthy. [_'s  possession,']  coll.\ecte<T\  by  [Dr.  White]  Kennett,  B. 
\ishop]  of  Pet.  [erboroughJ\ 

After  ye  death  of  Roger  de  Whalley,  ye  Parsonage  and  Vicaridge 
were  consolidated  by  [the]  B.[ishop]  of  Litchf .  [ield]  and  Cov. 
[entry,]  and  Pet.  [er]  de  Cestria  put  in  possession  of  both.  Ib. 

[A]  Vicar  [was]  presented  by  Q.[ueen]  Eliz.[abeth]  an.  [no] 
R.[egni]  1.  Inst.\itution\  J3[oo£,]  1,  p.  51.  Ever  since  by  ye 
Abp.  of  Cant.[erbury.] 

Dean  of  Warrington,  and  Robert,  Rector  of  the  Church  of  Standish,  to  institute  him 
canonically  to  the  Vicarage  of  the  Parish  Church  of  Whalley,  on  the  presentation  of 
the  Abbey  and  Convent  of  the  same.  —  Lib.  1/2  fol.  8  b,  in  Cur.  Lichf. 

Notwithstanding  this  clear  recognition  of  a  Vicarage,  and  the  mention  of  "  John, 
the  first  Vicar,"  (p.  147,)  and  "  John,  Vicar  of  Whalley  in  1303,"  by  Whitaker, 
(p.  150,)  Ducarel  states  that  "  the  Vicarage  was  ordained,  by  Walter  de  Langton, 
Bishop  of  Coventry  and  Lichfield,  on  the  12th  kal.  April  A.D.  1330. — Reg.  Northbw. 
fol.  43  a.  A  copy  of  this  Endowment,  confirmed  by  Richard  de  Haveringge,  Arch- 
deacon of  Chester,  (whose  Confirmation  is  dated,  Ebor,  7  Id.  Aug.  A.D.  1332,)  is 
extant  in  the  Lieger  SooJc  of  Bishop  Bridgeman.  This  Church  is  called  Qualleye  in 
the  Register  Book  of  Archbishop  Winchelsea,  at  Lambeth,  where  I  find  the  follow- 
ing instrument: — "Inquisitio  de  Valore  Eccles.  de  Qualleye  Conventui  de  Stanlow 
appropriate  et  de  oneribus  eidem  incumbentibus." — Reg.  Winchelsea,  fol.  185  a,  MSS. 
Lambeth;  Ducarel's  Repertory.  The  patronage  of  the  Vicarage  continued  in  the 
Abbot  and  Convent  of  Whalley  until  the  year  1537,  when  it  was  confiscated  by  the 
attainder  of  John  Paslew  B.D.  the  last  Abbot.  The  impropriate  Rectories  of  Whal- 
ley, Blackburn,  and  Rochdale,  with  the  Advowsons  of  their  Vicarages  and  dependent 
Chapels,  were,  in  fulfilment  of  an  incomplete  arrangement  made  between  Henry  VIII. 
and  Archbishop  Cranmer,  conveyed  to  the  See  of  Canterbury,  in  exchange  for  more 


of  Btacfcfcurn.  301 

Given  to  [the]  Curates  in  this  Parish  by  AbP  Juxon,  1201. 
Kennett  on  Improp.  [nations, ~\  p.  257.  But  I  find  only  601  p.[er] 
an.[num]  given  to  [the]  Vicar  and  Curates.  V.[ide]  Old  Sal. 
[ary]  and  Augm.  [entatiori]  of  Vic.  [ars]  and  Curates. 

The  AbP,  in  his  Lease  of  this  Rect.[ory,]  reserves  to  himself 
and  [his]  succ.  [essors]  ye  Right  of  Nominating  ye  Vicar  and  all 
ye  Curates  of  y6  sev11  Chappells  wch  are  therein  named,  viz.  Padi- 
ham,  Colne,  Burnley,  Church,  Altham,  Haslingden,  Bowland, 
Pendle,  Trawden,  Rossendall,  and  [the]  Chap,  [el]  of  [the]  Castle 
of  Clithero. 

All  ye  Chappells  named  in  [the]  AVS  Lease  were  granted  in  a 
Lease  made  by  H.[enry]  8,  soon  after  [the]  Dissolution]  of 
[the]  Mon.  [astery.] 

There  are  8  Towns,  [hips]  wch  contribute  equally  to  ye  Repairs 
of  ye  Church,  viz.  Whalley,  Wiswall,  Read,  (Mitton,  Henthorn,  and 
Coldecotes,)  Pendleton,  Simondstone,  Padiham,  Hapton ;  for  which 
there  are  8  Churchwardens. 

[The]  Par.[ish]  Clerk  [is]  chosen  as  the  91st  Canon  directs, 
and  his  Salary  is  40s  p.[er]  an.  [num.] 

valuable  Church  property,  by  Edward  VI.  by  Indenture  dated  the  1st  of  June  1547. 
Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xi.  pp.  220-1. 

The  Primate  continued  to  be  the  Patron  of  the  Vicarage  of  Whalley  until  its 
alienation  to  the  Feoffees  of  William  Hulme  Esq.  in  the  year  1846,  although 
his  Grace  never  exercised  his  right  of  nominating  the  Curates  to  the  Chapels,  as 
named  in  the  text.  This  clause,  in  the  last  century,  gave  rise  to  a  very  animated  cor- 
respondence on  the  part  of  the  Rev.  William  Johnson,  the  Vicar,  with  Archbishop 
Seeker  and  Bishop  Keene,  which  led  to  the  establishment  of  the  right  of  the  Vicar  to 
the  patronage  of  the  Chapels.  Mr.  Johnson  was  the  brother  of  Alan  Johnson  Gent, 
a  distinguished  attorney  at  Wakefield,  and  uncle  of  the  Rev.  Croxton  Johnson,  Fel- 
low of  the  Collegiate  Church  of  Manchester,  and  Rector  of  Wilmslow.  These  John- 
sons were  near  connections  of  Archbishop  Potter. 

The  Rev.  Stephen  Gey,  Vicar  from  the  year  1663  to  the  year  1693,  "a  discreet 
and  prudent  man,"  and  constantly  resident.  His  Will  is  dated  the  4th  of  April  1692, 
and  was  proved  at  Chester  on  the  22d  of  November  1693.  He  devised  his  entire 
Estate  to  his  wife  Dorothy,  and  appointed  her  the  guardian  of  his  only  child,  Martha 
Gey. — See  Not.  Cestr.  vol.  ii.  part  i.  p.  108,  Note  2. 

By  Indenture  dated  10th  Sept.  14th  Car.  2,  and  another  dated  5th  Aug.  24th 
Car.  2,  Archbishop  Juxon  gave  £120  per  annum  among  the  Curates  of  this  Parish  — 


302  liotitia  (Eestrtensts. 

The  Church  is  3  m.[iles]  from  any  Chap,  [el]  in  ye  Par.[ish.] 
There  are  several  Gentlemen's  seats;    [but]  none  remarkable 
besides  Whalley  Abbey. 

is  a  School  Founded  by  Edw.  [ard]  6,  an.  [no]  R.  [egni] 
2,  at  which  time  it  was  stated  that  "a  Gramr  School  had 
been  kept  continually  at  Whalley,"  and  endowed  wth  20  marks 
p.[er]  an.[num,]  payable  out  of  ye  Exchequer.  Given  since  by 
Sr  Edm.  [und]  Asheton,  at  severall  times,  701,  and  by  John  Chewe 
Gent,  in  1629,  101,  [the]  Int.[erest]  to  be  pd  to  ye  Usher;  but 
there  being  no  Usher,  the  Master  receives  it. 

The  Vicar  and  Gentlemen  nominate  ye  Master. 

[The]  Writings  [are]  in  ye  hands  of  Mr.  Chew  of  Whalley. 

[There  are]  13  Scholarships  in  Brazenose  Coll.[ege]  given  to 
Scholars  that  come  from  [the]  Schools  of  Whalley,  Middle- 
ton,  and  Burnley.  V.[ide]  Case  conc.[erning]  the  Sal.[ary]  of 
131-6s-8d.  Pap.  Reg.  V.[ide]  MIDDLETON. 

Charities,  iff)!  m  *s  a  ^oor  Stock,  of  w011  Mr.  Thos.  Whitaker  of  Symond- 
tjjIM  stone,  and  Mr.  Obadiah  Chew  are  Trustees,  belonging  to  ye 
8  Towns  chargeable  wth  ye  Repair  of  ye  Par.  [ish]  Church,  amount- 

Lambeth  Leases;  Ducarel's  Rep.  of  Vic.;  Lamb.  Libr.  How  the  benevolent  inten- 
tions of  the  Archbishop  were,  if  at  all,  frustrated  appears  to  be  unknown ;  but  on 
the  renewal  of  these  leases,  his  Grace  reserved  out  of  the  Rectory  of  Whalley,  the 
Easter  Roll  and  Surplice  Dues,  which  he  gave  to  the  Vicarage  of  Whalley  and  to  the 
Parochial  Chapelries,  on  condition  that  the  Incumbents  of  the  latter  should  receive 
the  same  within  their  respective  Cures,  and  should  pay  the  Vicars  of  Whalley  £42  a 
year,  in  various  proportions.  This  arrangement  still  exists. 

The  Church  of  Whalley  is  partly  late  Perpendicular,  although  the  Tower  is  sup- 
posed to  be  the  work  of  Peter  de  Cestri&,  the  long-lived  Rector.  The  interior  con- 
sists of  a  Nave,  Aisles,  and  Choir,  the  latter  built  in  the  first  age  of  Pointed  Archi- 
tecture, containing  eighteen  of  the  splendidly  carved  oak  Stalls  rescued  from  the 
spoils  of  the  Abbey,  and  which  have  lately  been  carefully  restored  by  John  Taylor 
of  Moreton  Hall  Esq.  The  Chantry  of  St.  Mary  in  the  South  Aisle  is  appropriated 
to  the  Abbey,  and  here  the  daily  service  was  read  for  more  than  one  hundred  years 
during  the  building  of  the  Abbey ;  and  that  in  the  North  Aisle  to  the  Manor  of  Little 
Mitton,  and  was  the  burial  place  of  the  Catteralls.  The  East  Window  in  St.  Mary's 
Chapel  has  been  restored,  with  much  taste,  at  the  expense  of  William  Cunlifie  Brooks 


of  Blackburn.  303 

ing  to  2451,  given  by  sev.  [eral]  persons  at  sev.  [eral]  times,  of  wch 
681  odd  money,  by  Mr.  John  Chew  of  Whalley ;  [Peter  Ormerod, 
Vicar,  in  1631,  10' ;]  and  7®  by  S*  Edm.  [Ralph]  Asheton,  [by 
Will  in  1679.]  Given  to  Whalley  only,  by  [Mr.  Richard  Wad- 
dington,  or]  Mrs.  [Ellen]  Wadington,  (in  1672,]  301;  [Elizabeth] 
Lady  Asheton,  (in  1684,)  20l;  Mrs.  [Alice]  Kenyon,  (in  1683,) 
201 ;  Mr.  [Robert]  Edwards,  Merchant  Taylor  in  London,  (before 
1681,)  1061,  for  putting  out  apprentices.  Certificate]  of  James 
Matthews,  Vicar,  llth  of  April  1722. 

Esq.  M.A. ;  and  Mr.  Taylor  proposes  to  substitute  oak  benches,  with  ornamented 
heads,  in  the  same  Chapel,  instead  of  the  unsightly  modern  pews  which  now  disfigure 
it.  It  is  also  intended  to  remove  the  stone  work  of  the  Clerestory  Windows,  and 
restore  them  to  their  ancient  state  by  filling  them  with  stained  glass.  A  handsome 
monument  of  Caen  stone,  being  a  cumbent  effigy  on  an  altar  tomb,  was  placed  in  the 
year  1842,  on  the  North  side  of  the  Chancel,  to  commemorate  the  learning  and  worth 
of  the  Rev.  T.  D.  Whitaker  L.L.D.  the  Vicar  and  Historian  of  this  Parish,  who  died 
January  15th  1822,  in  his  sixty-third  year.  The  very  elegant  inscription  is  from  the 
pen  of  the  Eev.  Dr.  Cardwell,  Principal  of  St.  Alban's  Hall,  Oxford. 

In  the  year  1650  it  was  found  that  the  Vicarage  had  been  presented  to  by  the  late 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  the  Appropriator.  Mr.  Nicholas  Asheton  was  the  farmer 
of  the  Tithes  by  demise.  There  was  an  old  Vicarage  House,  and  £38  per  annum 
paid  to  Mr.  William  Walker  M.A.  an  able,  orthodox  Divine,  being  his  whole  Salary. 
The  Parish  contained  thirty-five  Townships  and  fourteen  Chapels.  —  Parl.  Inq. 
Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  There  are  now  not  fewer  than  forty-five  Chapels,  including 
those  of  Clitheroe,  Colne,  and  Burnley,  within  the  Parish  —  I  had  almost  written 
Diocese — of  Whalley.  At  the  Vicarage  is  kept  a  Record  called  the  "Liber  Ecclesise 
de  Whalley,"  of  all  facts  and  letters  relating  to  the  Mother  Church  as  well  as  to  the 
different  Incumbencies.  The  first  Volume  bears  the  following  Dedication,  in  the 
hand- writing  of  Dr.  Whitaker :  — 

"  Hunc  Librum 

Ex  schedis  disjectis 

Concinnatum  &  compactum 

Successoribus  Commendat 

D.  T.  Whitaker 

Unaque  memoriam 

Haud  jure  interituram 

Wilhelmi  Johnson 

Quondam  Vicarii  de  Whalley. 

A.D.  1809." 


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Fam  .......  105  ^H^f  <£$MN<Sr  2T  <&  N,  1     UNDER    Al/THAM, 

il|ijf  AcRiNGTON-NovA.  Certif.  [led]  15sh, 
being  ye  Int.[erest]  of  151,  of  wch  101  was  left  by  A.[nn]  Kenyon, 
the  Interest  to  be  pd  to  the  Minr  of  Acer,  [ington]  Chapel,  now 
in  the  hands  of  George,  son  of  Mr.  John  Lonsdall,  her  Executor  ; 
and  51  by  John  Gryme,  (now  in  the  hands  of  Nathanael,  grandson 
of  Nathanael  Haworth,  his  Executor.)  Subscrip.  [tions]  are  said 
to  amount  to  8l-12s. 

This  Chap,  [el]   is  served  by  ye  Curate  of  Church  Kirk,  who 
preaches  here  once  a  month. 

5  m.[iles]  from  Whalley,  [and]  1  m.[ile]  from  ye  next  Chap,  [el.] 
[Lower  Antley,2  Hollins,3  and  Dunnishope.4] 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  James.     Value  in  1834,  £158.     Registers  begin  in  1766. 

Akerington  was  granted  to  Hugh,  son  of  Leofwine,  by  Henry  de  Lacy,  in  the  time 
of  Henry  II.  but  having  been  released  by  the  Grantee,  the  Till  was  afterwards  given 
to  the  Abbey  of  Kirkstall  near  Leeds,  by  his  son,  Robert  de  Lacy,  who  died  in  the 
year  1193,  "  pro  amore  Dei  et  pro  salute  animse  mese  et  Ysabel  uxoris  mese  hseredum 
et  antecessorum  meorum."  This  was,  however,  rather  an  exchange  than  a  gift  as  it 
appears  that  the  Grange  of  Clivacher,  which  had  been  given  to  Kirkstall  by  Robert 
de  Lacy,  was  rightfully  claimed  by  Sir  Richard  de  Elland,  and  being  relinquished  by 
the  Monks,  the  vill  of  Akerington  was  conveyed  to  them  in  its  stead.  In  the  15th 
Edward  I.  the  Abbot  and  Convent  released  all  their  right  in  Accrington,  Clivacher, 
and  Handcotes,  to  Henry  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  in  consideration  of  a  yearly  pay- 
ment of  fifty  marks  sterling.  Like  the  other  Estates  of  the  Earls  of  Lincoln, 
Accrington  merged  in  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  ;  and  after  having  been  leased  by  the 
Crown  to  the  Sherburnes  of  Stonyhurst,  was  subsequently  granted  out  to  different 
purchasers. 

The  Chapel  is  supposed  by  Dr.  Whitaker  to  have  been  originally  an  Oratory  for 
the  Grange,  but  of  no  high  antiquity.  It  was  styled  a  Chantry  in  the  1st  Edward  VI. 
and  was  sold,  with  one  Bell,  in  the  7th  Edward  VI.  by  Sir  Richard  Sherburne, 
Edmund  Trafford,  and  Francis  Bold  Esqrs.  Commissioners  of  Chantries,  to  the 
Inhabitants,  for  46s.  8d.  as  a  Chapel  for  Divine  Service.  Baines's  statement  that  this 
Chapelry  was  taken  out  of  Altham  and  erected  in  the  year  1577,  is  incorrect,  (vol.  iii. 
p.  182.)  Dr.  Whitaker  merely  states  that  it  was  in  existence  in  the  year  1577,  being 
called  in  that  year  by  Harrison,  "Alkington  Chapel."  In  the  year  1650  the  Chapelry 
was  returned  as  not  being  Parochial,  but  consisting  of  one  large  Township,  vet.  et  nova, 
comprising  two  hundred  families,  six  miles  from  the  Parish  Church,  and  without  any 
endowment.  Mr.  Roger  Kenyon,  an  able  and  orthodox  divine,  received  £40  per 
annum  from  the  late  County  Committee.  The  inhabitants  desired  to  be  made 


of  Blacfciwrn.  305 

is  a  School,5  [but]  not  endowed. 


eft  to  ye  Poor  by  John  Gryme,  51,  [in  the  hands  of  Emor  Cf)arttto». 

Eishton;  the  Rev.]  Mr.  [Ellis]  Cunliffe,  20  nobles,  [the 
Interest  to  be  paid  to  the  Poor  every  Good  Friday,  now  in  the 
hands  of  Mr.  John  Hindle,  upon  Bond ;]  Mrs.  [Katharine]  Cun- 
liffe,  51,  [the]  Int.[erest]  to  buy  a  Bible  to  be  given  every  New 
Year's  Day  to  that  Parish  Child  which  can  read  best :  the  money 
is  now  in  the  hands  of  Mrs.  Jane  Cunliffe. —  Certif.  \_icate]  of  Mr. 
H.  Rishton,  Curtate,]  1718. 

Parochial.  —  Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  The  Chapel  was  rebuilt  in  the  year 
1763,  enlarged  in  the  year  1804,  and  again  rebuilt  in  the  year  1827,  when  two  hun- 
dred and  forty-six  additional  sittings  were  obtained. 

The  Rev.  Eoger  Kay  M.A.  Prebendary  of  Sarum,  and  Rector  of  Fittleton,  the 
second  Founder  of  Bury  School,  (see  Not.  Cestr.  part  ii.  p.  31,  Note  11,)  gave  by 
Will  dated  the  10th  of  April  1729,  £100  towards  obtaining  the  Queen's  Bounty  for 
augmenting  the  endowment  of  the  Chapel  of  Accrington,  provided  £100  was  raised  by 
the  Inhabitants  of  that  Chapelry,  to  finish  and  complete  the  said  augmentation  within 
three  years  from  the  death  of  the  testator,  otherwise  the  legacy  to  lapse.  Mr.  John 
Hopkinson  of  Antley  Hall,  gave  £100,  and  on  the  24th  of  August  1731  the  Governors 
carried  Mr.  Kay's  pious  intention  into  effect. 

2  Lower  Antley  was  the  seat  of  Ralph  Rishton  in  the  15th  Henry  VII.  and  is  now 
a  farm  house.      It  passed  by  the  Will  (dated  2d  Jan.  1666,)  of  Geoffrey  Rishton  Esq. 
M.D.  of  St.  Mary's  Hall,  Oxon,  and  M.?.  for  Preston,  to  his  son,  Edward  Rishton 
Esq.  who  married  (Cov.  dated  22d  Sept.  1675,)  Lucy,  daughter  of  George  Pigot  of 
Preston  Esq.  and  whose  sons,  the  Rev.  George  Rishton  of  Halton,  Clerk,  and  the 
Rev.  Edward  Rishton  of  Mitton,  (afterwards  of  Almondbury,)  Clerk,  conveyed  the 
Estate,  by  sale,  to  their  brother-in-law,  John  Hopkinson  of  Blackburn,  Chapman,  in 
the  year  1721 .     The  Estate  was  mortgaged  in  the  year  1728  to  the  Rev.  Roger  Kay, 
Rector  of  Fittleton,  and  being  charged  by  him  with  an  annuity  of  £25  to  the  Go- 
vernors of  the  Grammar  School  of  Bury,  was  sold  to  his  nephew,  Roger  Kay  Gent,  in 
the  year  1733.     It  is  now  the  inheritance  of  Robert  Nuttall  Esq.  by  descent  from  the 
Kays.  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xxxi.  p.  308,  et  seq. 

3  Hollins  is  a  large  and  ancient  mansion  which  became  the  property  of  Robert  Cun- 
liffe in  the  latter  part  of  the  sixteenth  century.     Elh's,  second  son  of  his  descendant, 
John  Cunliffe,  was  the  father  of  Foster  Cunliffe  of  Liverpool,  merchant,  whose  son, 
Sir  Ellis  Cunliffe  M.P.  for  Liverpool,  was  created  a  Baronet  in  the  year  1759.     This 
Estate  was  mortgaged  in  the  year  1723  by  Nicholas  Cunliffe  of  Wycollar  Esq.  to  the 
Rev.  Roger  Kay,  and  lost  to  the  family  on  a  foreclosure  by  his  brother,  Mr.  Richard 

VOL.  II.]  R  R 


306  liotttta  <£e»trtettsts. 


Certif.  [led]   111  .  i5s  . 
viz.  paid  by   [the]   Abp.    [out  of  the 
ram  .......  ro  Tithes,]  101;  Surp.[lice]  fees,  li.5".8d. 

Served  by  ve  Curate  who  officiates  at  Goodshaw,  who  Preaches 


H.  174  ,i_ 

Diss.  M.  indep.  here  once  a  month. 

An.  [no]  1299,  Pet.[er]  de  Cestria  being  possessed  of  ye  Eec- 
tory  of  Whalley  obtained  this  Chappell  by  a  definitive  Sentence 
as  dependent  upon  his  Church.  MS.  Wortley.  V.  [ide]  WHALLEY. 

Kay  of  WoodMll.  It  passed  in  marriage,  in  the  year  1734,  with  Mary,  daughter  and 
coheiress  of  Roger  Kay  Gent,  and  great  niece  of  the  Rev.  Roger  Kay,  to  Robert 
Nuttall  of  Bury,  merchant,  and  is  now  the  property  of  his  great-grandson,  Robert 
Nuttall  of  Kempsey  House  in  the  county  of  Worcester  Esq.  —  Lane.  MS  8,  vol.  xxxi. 
p.  308,  et  seq. 

4  Dunnishope  became  the  residence  and  property  of  Robert  Rushton,  fourth  son  of 
Ralph  Rushton  of  Antley,  in  the  time  of  Henry  VIII.    There  are  few  remains  of  the 
old  Hall,  which  is  now  the  property  of  J.  Piccup  Esq. 

5  This  School  was  built  in  the  year  1716,  and  endowed  by  Jonathan  Peel  Esq.  in 
the  year  1820,  with  £1000. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  James.    Value  in  1834,  £117.     Registers  begin  in  1596. 

Hugh  de  Alvetham  held  the  Manor  in  the  reign  of  King  John,  by  the  eighth  part 
of  a  knight's  fee,  being  the  descendant  of  Hugh,  son  of  Leofwine,  to  whom  it  was 
granted  by  the  first  Henry  de  Lacy.  John  de  Alvetham,  great-grandson  of  William, 
and  the  brother  and  heir  of  Hugh,  left  a  daughter  and  heiress,  Johanna,  who,  about 
the  10th  Richard  II.  married  Richard,  son  of  John  Banastre,  and  from  this  marriage 
descended,  in  a  direct  line,  Nicholas  Banastre  Esq.  who,  dying  in  the  year  1694,  was 
succeeded  by  his  two  sisters,  Mary  and  Isabella.  The  former  married  Ambrose  Walton 
of  Marsden  Hall  Gent,  by  whom  she  had  issue  two  sons  and  six  daughters.  The 
younger  son  died  unmarried  ;  and  Henry,  the  elder,  married  Elizabeth  Wainhouse, 
and  left  issue  Banastre  and  Ambrose,  who  both  dying  without  issue,  the  Estates 
passed,  under  the  Will  of  the  former,  in  the  year  1784,  to  his  cousin,  the  Rev. 
Richard  Wroe  M.A.  Rector  of  Radcliffe.  Mr.  Wroe  was  the  only  son  of  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Wroe,  Fellow  of  the  Collegiate  Church  of  Manchester,  (son  of  Dr.  Wroe 
the  Warden,)  by  his  wife  Mary,  younger  daughter  of  Ambrose  Walton  and  Mary 
Banastre,  their  eldest  daughter,  Mrs.  Lonsdale,  having  died  s.p.  in  the  year  1771. 
On  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Richard  Wroe,  who  had  assumed  the  surname  and  arms  of 
Walton,  the  Estate  and  Manor  passed  to  his  son,  R.  T.  Wroe  Walton  Esq.  who  died 
unmarried  in  April  1845,  and  are  now  in  the  possession  of  his  sister,  Miss  M.  A. 
Wroe  Walton  of  Marsden  Hall. 

The  Chapel  of  Alt  ham  was  founded  by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Leofwine,  with  four 


Ocanrvn  of  Blacfcbwn.  307 

Geoffrey,  Junior,  the  last  Dean  of  Whalley  before  Roger  his 
son,  gave  ye  Chappell  of  Aluetham  to  Robert  his  Brother,  nomine 
Vicariae  de  Whalley.  IB. 

Old  Allowance  from  [the]  Abp.  pd  by  ye  Tenant  of  ye  Rect.[or,] 
4l;  added  by  Abp.  Juxon,  61,  as  appears  by  Receipt,  an.  [no]  1663. 

[A]  Curate  [was]  Licensed  to  Altham  and  Church-Kirk  an. 
[no]  1690.  Subs,  [cription]  Book. 

Mr.  Curzoii2  gave  10001  tow.  [ards]  the  Aug.  [mentation]  of  this 
and  4  other  Chappells  in  this  Parish,  an.  [no]  1722,  viz.  2001 
to  each,  by  taking  10001  from  ye  Queen's  Bounty,  and  settling 
1001  p.[er]  an.[num]  in  Land,  to  be  divided  among  ye  Curates  of 
ye  5  Chappells.  In  consideration  of  wch  the  Right  of  Nominating 

bovates  of  land,  intending  it  for  a  Parish  Church,  having  obtained  the  consent  of 
Geoffrey,  Dean  of  Whalley,  who  appointed  his  son  to  the  Rectory  of  Altham.  The 
erection  of  this  intended  Parish  was  opposed  by  Peter  de  Cestria,  Rector  of  Whalley, 
who,  in  the  year  1241,  obtained  a  Papal  decree  pronouncing  it  a  dependency  of 
Whalley.  This  act  did  not  settle  the  dispute,  as  William  de  Staundon,  official  of  the 
Archdeacon  of  Chester,  stated  to  Robert,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  (the  See  of 
Lichfield  being  vacant  by  the  death  of  Roger  de  Meuland,)  on  the  4th  of  June  1296, 
that  the  Parish  Church  of  Altham  had  been  considered  Parochial  from  a  remote 
period,  but  that  the  religious  contended  it  was  a  Chapel  dependent  upon  the  Church 
of  Whalley,  and  that  the  right  of  patronage  of  the  Church  of  Altham  was  then  in 
dispute  between  the  Lord  of  Altham  and  the  Monks. — Coucher  Book  of  Whalley. 
The  contention  was  ended  in  the  year  1301  by  Simon  de  Altham  surrendering  his 
right  to  the  Advowson  in  consideration  of  £20,  and  300s.  for  the  expenses  of  the  suit. 
Sir  John  Radcliffe  was  the  last  Curate  presented  by  the  Abbey,  and  was  living  in 
the  year  1535.  From  the  year  1547  to  the  year  1722,  the  patronage  of  the  Church 
was  vested  in  the  Vicar  of  Whalley,  and  was  transferred  to  Mr.  afterwards  Sir 
Nathanael  Curzon,  in  the  manner  stated  in  the  text.  The  Advowson  was  sold  by 
Lord  Howe  to  R.  T.  Wroe  Walton  Esq.  the  late  Manerial  owner,  and  is  now  vested 
in  his  sister. 

*  Nathanael  Curzon  of  Keddleston  Esq.  was  returned  M.P.  for  Clitheroe  in  the  year 
1722,  in  which  year,  and  not  "  about  the  year  1720,"  (according  to  Dr.  Whitaker,)  he 
augmented  these  Chapels,  and  succeeded,  as  fourth  Baronet  of  the  family,  in  the  year 
1727.  He  married  at  Middleton,  on  February  the  19th  1716-17,  Mary,  daughter 
and  coheiress  of  Sir  Raphe  Assheton  Bart,  and  died  in  the  year  1758,  leaving  issue 
two  sons,  Sir  Nathanael,  created  Baron  Scarsdale,  in  the  year  1761 ;  and  Assheton, 
created  Baron  Curzon  in  the  year  1794,  Viscount  Curzon  in  the  year  1802,  and  dying 
in  the  year  1820,  was  succeeded  by  his  grandson,  Richard  William,  who  inherited  his 
mother's  Barony  of  Howe,  and  was  created  Earl  Howe  in  the  year  1821,  assuming 


308  liotitia 

to  these  5  Chappells  was  granted  to  him  hy  [the]  Ordinary,  Pa- 
tron, and  Vicar,  and  vested  in  him  by  [the]  Govern,  [ors.] 
Altham.3 

2  Wardens. 

3  m.[iles]  from  "Whalley;  2  m.[iles]  from  [the]  next  Chap,  [el.] 
No  School  nor  Charities.     Certificate]  of  Nich.  \plas~]  Houghton 

Cur.  ib'm  &r  17,  1718. 


Certif.[ied]    23M6*. 
09d,  viz.  Given  by  two  AbP8,  II1-  10s; 

Fam. 200  by  ]\fr>  Nicholas  Townley  of  Royle,  charged  upon  Cuckowridge 

Hapam'M577  tenemS  I1 -3s- 9*;   Pens,  [ion]  from   [the]   Dutchy,  41;   Ded.[uct] 
D[about  120.^  Fees,  31-18s-4d;    Surp.[Hce]  Fees,  61-188.0d;   Keeping  the  Regis- 

[Q.5o'."lnd.  4.]ter,  6«-8d. 

the  name  and  arms  of  Howe.  This  excellent  nobleman,  who  is  Lord  Chamberlain  to 
the  Queen  Dowager,  succeeded  to  the  Patronage  of  these  Livings,  thus  obtained  by 
his  ancestor ;  but  has  since  disposed  of  the  Advowsons. 

The  South-East  Aisle  of  the  Church  belonged  to  the  Manor-house,  and  was  pro- 
bably a  Chantry,  dedicated  to  "  our  Ladye  of  Alvetham,"  as  such  a  Patroness  occurs 
in  the  year  1461.  It  is  the  burial  place  of  the  Althams,  Banastres,  and  Waltons. 

In  the  year  1650  Altham  was  described  as  a  Parochial  Chapelry,  four  miles  from  the 
Parish  Church,  and  comprising  one  hundred  and  fifty  families.  Mr.  Thomas  Jolly, 
an  able  Divine,  received  £10  from  the  Farmer  of  the  Rectory ;  £30  by  order  of  the 
late  County  Committee;  and  a  grant  of  £50  from  the  Committee  of  Plundered  Minis- 
ters, out  of  the  sequestered  Estate  of  Thomas  Clifton  Esq.  a  Papist  delinquent ;  but 
had  no  benefit  from  it  in  regard  of  a  Rent  due  to  Christ  Church  College,  Oxford, 
which  was  yet  in  arrear.  The  Inhabitants  desired  to  have  a  Parish  formed  distinct 
from  that  of  Whalley. —  Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  Libr. 

In  the  year  1705  Mr.  John  Taylor,  the  Incumbent  of  Altham  and  Churchkirk, 
received  £10  for  each  of  his  Livings  from  Sir  Ralph  Assheton  of  Whalley  Bart, 
which  was  all  his  Income.  He  stated  that  there  was  a  Chapel  under  Altham,  with- 
out any  endowment  at  all. — Notitia  Pa/roch.  Lamb.  Libr. 

3  Altham  Hall  was  originally  surrounded  by  a  deep  quadrangular  moat ;  and  the 
present  farm  house  was  built  with  the  materials  of  the  old  Hall.  It  is  the  property 
of  Miss  Wroe  Walton. 

,   '  Dedicated  to  St.  Peter.    Value  in  1834,  £770.     Registers  begin  in  1562. 
Dr.  Whitaker  conjectures  that  Burnley  was  a  Roman  settlement  upon  a  vicinal 


of  Blackburn,  309 

Given  for  Reading  Prayers,  20s,  by  Rob.[ert]  Hartley,  out  of 
Copyholds,  but  for  want  of  Surrender,  Dubious;  It. [em,]  given 
by  Mr.  Townley — Shuttleworth  —  Haydock,  I1.3s-6d,  precarious. 

Old  Allowance  from  [the]  Abp.  and  pd  by  [the]  Tenant  of  [the] 
Rect.[or,]  41;  added  by  AbP  Juxon,  71-10S,  as  appears  by  receipt, 
1663. 

The  Curate  is  Nominated  by  3  Justices  of  ye  Peace,  inhabiting 
next  to  ye  Chappell,  according  to  a  Decree  in  Q.[ueen]  EhYs 
time.  Rich.[ard]  Kippax  was  thus  nominated,  to  ye  BP,  an.  [no] 
1690 ;  but  he  declared,  under  his  hand,  y*  he  accepted  ye  Curacy 
in  ye  Right  of  ye  AbP  of  Cant,  [erbury,]  and  had  a  Licence  granted 
him  wth  ye  consent  of  the  Vicar  of  Whalley.  V.  [ide]  Pap.  Reg. 

way  between  Ribchester  and  Almondbury ;  and  the  number  of  Roman  coins  found  in 
the  neighbourhood  strengthens  the  conjecture.  Adjoining  the  Church,  and  contigu- 
ous to  a  field  called  "  Bishop  Leap,"  is  a  Cross  of  very  great  antiquity,  supposed  to 
commemorate  the  preaching  of  Paulinus.  This  venerable  relic  is  of  large  size,  bound 
by  simple  fillets,  and  terminating  at  the  apex  in  a  spiral  form.  In  the  reign  of  King 
John,  Roger  de  Lacy  granted  to  Geoffrey,  Dean  of  Whalley,  progenitor  of  the  Towne- 
leys,  (Coucher  Book,  p.  1074,J  common  of  pasture  in  Brunleia,  as  parcel  of  the  Honor 
of  Clitheroe;  and  in  the  35th  Henry  III.  Edmund  de  Lacy  held  the  Manor.  In  the 
22d  Edward  I.  Henry  de  Lacy  obtained  a  Charter  for  a  Market  every  Tuesday,  at  his 
Manor  of  Bruiiley  in  Lancashire ;  and  also  for  a  Fair,  to  be  held  annually  on  the  Eve, 
Day,  and  Morrow  after  the  Feast  of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul.  The  Manor  became  vested 
in  the  Crown  as  parcel  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  and  was  subsequently  granted  by 
Charles  II.  to  Monk,  Duke  of  Albemarle.  whose  son  having  bequeathed  his  Estates  to 
his  wife,  she  devised  them  to  her  second  husband,  Ralph,  Duke  of  Montagu,  and  the 
Manorial  rights  are  now  exercised  by  Lord  Montagu,  second  son  of  Henry,  Duke  of 
Buccleuch,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  sole  child  of  George,  Duke  of  Montagu,  Lord  of 
the  Honor  of  Clitheroe. 

The  greater  Perpetual  Curacies  [Parochial  Chapelries]  are  often  called  Parishes, 
and  so  Burnley  (itself  a  member  of  the  Parish  of  Whalley,)  is  called  to  this  day, 
as  it  is  written  in  the  Life  of  Dr.  William  Whitaker,  by  Abdias  Asheton,  [Fellow 
of  St.  John's,  Cambridge,  and  Rector  of  Middleton,]  in  the  year  1599 ;  and  by 
Nowell  himself,  in  the  reversionary  grant  of  the  Hart's  Horn  Inn,  to  "William 
Whittacre  of  the  Holme  in  the  Parishe  of  Burneley,  and  now  Student  in  th'  uniuer- 
sitye  of  Cambridge."  —  Churton's  Life  of  Dean  Nowell,  Note  p.  325.  The  Church  of 
Burnley  was  granted  in  the  reign  of  Henry  I.  by  Hugh  de  la  Val,  to  the  Monks  of 
Pontefract ;  but  failing  to  establish  their  right  to  the  Advowson,  it  reverted  on  the 
reversal  of  the  attainder  of  Robert  de  Lacy,  to  the  Abbey  of  Stanlaw,  the  Parent  of 
Whalley.  In  the  year  1296  the  Altarage  of  the  Chapel  of  Brunl.  amounted  to 


310  iHotttta 

The  Decree  of  Q,.[ueen]  Eliz.[abeth]2  was  made  in  Affirmance 
of  a  former  Decree  made  2  Edw.[ard]  6,  wch  settles  41-8s-lld 
upon  ye  Curate  of  Burnley;  and  now  ye  Inhabitants]  promise 
to  make  that  summe  20  marks,  for  ye  better  maintenance  of  a 
Curate  to  be  chosen  by  3,  or  at  least  2  Justices,  next  Inhab. 
[iting]  and  dwelling  to  ye  sd  Chappell.  V.[ide]  Decree  in  Reg. 
\istry.~] 

Mr.  Edm.[und]   Townley  and  [the]   Inhab.  [itants]  bought  41 

xx  marcs ;  and  the  Tithes  of  the  various  Townships  constituting  the  Chapelry  at 
that  early  period,  are  stated  with  much  distinctness  in  the  Whalley  Chartulary. 
A  Chaplain  was  appointed  to  Burnley  by  the  Incumbent  of  the  Mother  Church, 
with  an  allowance  of  four  marcs  a  year.  In  the  reign  of  Edward  III.  the  Church 
was  re-edified,  and  the  East  Window  is  supposed  to  be  of  that  age.  In  the  24th 
Henry  VIII.  a  contract  was  made  for  rebuilding  the  North  and  South  "  hylings"  of 
the  Church,  and  eighteen  buttresses,  for  the  sum  of  £LX.  The  North  Aisle  and  the 
Nave  appear  to  have  been  rebuilt ;  but  the  South  Aisle  remained  in  its  original  state 
until  the  year  1789,  when  it  was  rebuilt,  with  a  gallery  over  it,  at  a  cost  of  £1,000. 
The  style  of  the  architecture  is  debased.  The  Patron  is  Robert  Townley  Parker 
Esq. 

Burnley  was  returned  in  the  year  1650  as  a  Parochial  Chapelry,  comprising  three 
hundred  families,  and  seven  miles  distant  from  the  Parish  Church.  Mr.  Henry 
Morres,  an  able  and  orthodox  Divine,  received  £11.  10s.  Od.  from  the  Farmer  of  the 
Rectory ;  £4.  8s.  4d.  out  of  the  Duchy  lands ;  and  £24.  Is.  lid.  by  order  of  the  late 
County  Committee.  The  Inhabitants  desired  that  they  might  have  a  distinct  Parish. 
— Parl.  Ing.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  Briarclifle-cum-Extwisle  desired  that  they  might 
be  allowed  to  erect  a  Chapel  "within  themselves,  being  100  families,"  and  that  a  com- 
petent maintenance  for  a  Minister  might  be  allowed  by  the  Government. — Parl.  Inq. 
Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

2  It  appears  from  this  Decree  of  Queen  Elizabeth  mentioned  in  the  text,  and  dated 
the  31st  of  her  reign,  (1588,)  that  in  the  2d  Edward  VI.  a  Commission  under  the 
great  Seal  was  directed  to  Sir  Walter  Mildmay,  and  others,  for  the  establishment  and 
maintenance  "  of  Scholes,  Prechers,"  &c.  and  reciting  that  Burnley  was  a  Chapel  of 
Ease,  and  contained  four  Chantries ;  that  John  Aspden,  Minister,  officiated  from  the 
2d  Edward  VI.  to  the  8th  Elizabeth,  when  he  died ;  since  which  time,  being  twenty- 
two  years,  there  had  been  no  Minister  nor  allowance.  The  Inhabitants  prayed  that 
another  Minister  might  be  appointed,  with  the  consent  of  three  neighbouring  Jus- 
tices of  Peace,  and  that  £4.  8s.  lid.  being  a  pension  allowed  by  Edward  VI.  and  all 
arrears,  should  be  paid,  by  instalments,  to  Laurence  Habergham  of  Habergham  Esq. 
and  others :  the  Queen,  with  the  advice  of  the  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy,  continued 
the  allowance  of  the  pension,  but  whether  the  "  three  Justices"  obtained  the  desired 
veto  seems  more  than  doubtful.  —Lane.  MSS. 


Drawn  of  BlacUiwrn.  311 

p.[er]  an.[num]  in  pres1,  and  81  p.[er]  an.[num]  in  reversion,  and 
gave  [it]  towards  [the]  Augment,  [ation;]  valued  at  2001.  Augm. 
[ented]  an.  [no]  1716. 

This  is  supposed  to  have  been  a  Chantry,3  as  appears  by  [an] 
Inscript. [ion]  in  ye  Chap. [el]  cut  in  wood,  viz.  "Quod  ego  Joh's 
Townley  miles  Fundavi  et  Ordinavi  hanc  Cantariam  in  honorem 
beatse  Mariae  Virginis  pro  bono  statu  meo  et  Isabellas  uxoris  meae 

dum  vixerimus  et "     And  in  ye  Register  Book 

are  these  words,  viz.  "Sr  Gilbert  Fairbanck,  Chantry  Priest  of 
Burnley,  sepult.  fuit  29  day  of  Jan.  1565." 

4  Wardens,  [and]  4  Assist,  [ants.] 

5  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  2  m.[iles]  from  [the]  next  Chap,  [el.] 

On  the  23d  of  November  1716,  John,  Bishop  of  London,  issued  a  commission 
to  William  Ferrers  Esq.  Dr.  Whalley,  Pierce  Starkie,  Thomas  Townley,  and  Robert 
Parker,  Esqrs.  Dr.  Henry  Halsted,  the  Revds.  Mr.  Matthews,  Mr.  Holme,  Mr. 
Barlow,  and  Mr.  Haughton,  or  any  three  of  them,  to  enquire  into  the  Talue  of 
certain  Estates  belonging  to  Mr.  Edmund  Townley,  who  had  proposed  to  give  £200, 
and  also  to  release  his  title  during  his  life,  to  a  tenement  in  Burnley,  of  the  yearly  value 
of  £4,  which  he  had  already  settled  upon  that  Curacy  after  his  decease ;  and  also  to 
convey  the  reversion  of  a  messuage  in  Higham  within  the  Rectory  of  Whalley,  of  the 
value  of  £8,  (in  which  there  was  only  one  life,  aged  above  sixty-eight  years,)  on  con- 
dition of  £200  being  given  by  the  Governors  of  Queen  Anne's  Bounty,  and  the  Ad- 
vowson  conveyed  to  him. — Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xxx. 

3  At  the  Reformation  the  Church  contained  four  Chantries,  and  that  to  which 
reference  is  here  made  was  founded  in  the  15th  Henry  VII.  and  endowed  with  a  rent 
of  seven  marks.  Sir  Richard  Towneley  of  Towneley,  by  Will  dated  the  26th  of  July 
1553,  says,  "  I  give  my  Sowle  to  Aim.  God  my  Maker  and  Redeemer,  by  whose  grace 
and  mercy,  and  by  the  meritts  of  Christ's  passion,  I  trust  to  be  saved,  and  my  body 
to  be  buryed  in  ye  p'ish  Church  of  Burnley,  within  the  Chappel  on  ye  North  side  of 
ye  Church,  commonly  called  our  Lady's  Chappel,"  and  founded  by  his  grandfather,  Sir 
John,  eldest  son  of  Sir  Richard  Towneley. — Lane.  MSS.  Certain  lands  and  tene- 
ments, parcel  of  the  possessions  of  the  late  dissolved  Chantry  in  the  Church  of 
Burnley,  were  conveyed  to  Richard  Towneley  Esq.  December  5th,  in  the  2d  Edward 
VI.  and  are  mentioned  in  his  Will.  The  Chapel  is  situated  at  the  East  end  of  the 
North  Aisle,  within  a  parclose,  being  the  burial  place  of  the  Towneley  family,  and 
commonly  called  the  "  Towneley  Choir."  It  contains  numerous  monuments  of  the 
family.  The  other  Chantries  were  the  Rood  Altar  in  the  Rood  Loft,  now  removed ; 
and  the  Altars  of  SS.  Peter  and  Anthony ;  but  the  founders  appear  to  be  unknown. 

Whitaker  says  that  Sir  Gilbert  Fairbank  was  properly  the  Incumbent  of  the 
Church,  (p.  327,)  and  that  he  survived  to  the  year  1566.  In  the  year  1535  George 


312  jHotttia 

$}alte.          Habergham,4    Towneley,5    Hesandforth,6    Rowley,7    Extwisle,8 
Hurstwood,9  Ormerod,10  Barcroft,11  Royle,12  Healey.13 

is  a  School,14  Free  only  to  ye   Inhab.  [itants]    of  this 
Chappelry.     [The]  Sal.[ary]  of  [the]  Master  is  201  p.[er] 
an.[num,]  clear  of  all  charges,  who  is  nominated  by  4  Feoffees, 
the  Curate,  and  substautiall  Inhab.  [itants.     The]  Writings  are  in 
ye  hands  of  Rob.[ert]  Parker  of  Extwisle  Esq. 

Hargrevys  was  the  Incumbent,  and  Sir  Gilbert  Fayrbank,  Peter  Adlyngton,  and 
John  Ryley,  were  Chantry  Priests  of  Burnley. — Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xiv.  p.  45.  And 
from  the  year  1548  to  the  year  1565  John  Aspden  was  the  Minister,  so  that  Sir 
Gilbert  was  merely  a  Chantry  Priest,  as  stated  in  the  text. 

4  Habergham  Hall  was  the  residence  of  a  family  of  the  same  name  in  the  year  1201, 
of  which  Alina  and  Sabina  de  Haubringham  litigated  the  possession  of  four  bovates  of 
land  against  their  sister  Eugenia.     Roger  de  Lacy,  who  died  in  the  year  1211,  gave 
to  Matthew  de  Hambringham  two  bovates  of  land  in  Hambringham.     The  last  heir 
male  of  this  ancient  family  was  John  Habergham  Esq.  who  was  born  in  the  year 
1650,  and  died  issueless  in  the  beginning  of  the  last  century.     The  Estate  passed,  by 
the  foreclosure  of  a  mortgage,  to  George  Halsted  of  Manchester,  M.D.  whose  son 
devised  it  to  the  Rev.  Henry  Halsted,  Rector  of  Stansfield  in  Suffolk,  and  he,  after 
the  death  of  his  son,  without  issue,  to  the  Halsteds  of  Rowley,  by  whom  it  was 
sold.     It  is  now  the  property  of  Preston  Holt  of  Mearley  Hall.  Esq.      There  are  still 
considerable  remains  of  the  old  halL 

5  Towneley,  the  seat  of  a  family  of  the  same  name,  descended  from  Spartlingus,  the 
first  Dean  of  Whalley  upon  record,  who  lived  before  the  Conquest.     Tunleia  was 
granted  between  the  years  1193  and  1211,  to  Geoffrey  the  Elder,  by  Roger  de  Lacy, 
in  marriage  with  his  daughter.     Richard  de  Tonley,  the  last  heir  male  of  the  Deans 
of  Whalley,  left  issue  two  daughters,  of  whom,  Cecilia,  married  about  the  4th  Edward 
III.  John  de  la  Legh,  who  assumed  the  name  of  Townley,  and  was  the  progenitor 
of  Charles  Towneley  Esq.  the  present  owner.     The  Park  was  enclosed  in  the  year 
1490. 

The  Hall,  at  the  beginning  of  the  last  century,  was  a  complete  quadrangle,  of  which 
the  South  side  still  remaining,  has  walls  more  than  six  feet  thick,  constructed  with 
grout  work.  The  side  opposite  to  this  was  rebuilt  by  Richard  Towneley  Esq.  imme- 
diately before  his  death  in  the  year  1628 ;  but  the  new  building  applied  to  it  on  the 
North,  was  the  work  of  William  Towneley  Esq.  who  died  in  the  year  1741.  On  the 
North-East  side,  now  laid  open,  were  two  turrets  at  the  angles,  a  gateway,  a  Chapel, 
and  a  sacristy,  with  a  library  over  it,  the  work  of  Sir  John  Towneley,  in  the  time  of 
Henry  VII.  Opposite  to  the  side  of  the  quadrangle,  now  demolished,  is  the  hall,  a 
lofty  and  luminous  room,  of  modern  style,  rebuilt  in  the  year  1725,  by  Richard 
Towneley  Esq.  The  house  is  a  large  and  venerable  pile,  with  two  deep  wings,  and  as 


of  ttlacfclwvn.  313 

S1-!^3  a  year  from  lands  in  Alverthorpe,  Yorks.  [hire ;]  5  marks 
a  year  on  lands  given  by  Mr.  Sager ;  [in]  1696  [the]  Rev.  Edm. 
[und]  Townley,  Rector  of  Slaidburn,  gave  Ackerley's  Ten*;  Rich. 
[ard]  Townley  Esq.  of  Royle,  gave  in  1699,  a  ten*  called  Cockridge, 

many  towers,  embattled  and  supported  at  the  angles  by  strong  projecting  buttresses, 
all  of  which  contribute  to  give  it  a  formidable  and  castellated  appearance. — Whitaker's 
Whalley,  p.  341.  Baines  erroneously  states  that  the  Townleian  Collection  of  Marbles 
was  "  presented  to  the  British  Museum  for  the  gratification  of  the  nation,  by  Pere- 
grine Edmund  [Edward]  Townley,  [Towneley]  Esq.  the  owner  of  this  Manorial  man- 
sion" The  collection  was  not  presented,  but  sold  by  that  gentleman,  (who  died  at 
Towneley  on  the  31st  of  December  1846,  aged  eighty-four,)  for  £20,000,  apparently 
contrary  to  the  wish  of  Charles  Towneley,  who  left  by  his  Will,  £4,000,  to  build  a 
Museum  at  Standish,  for  its  reception. — See  Gent's  Mag.  Feb.  1805,  p.  184.  The 
Estate  has  no  Manorial  rights. 

6  Hesandforth,  commonly  called  Phesantford,  was  granted  by  Robert  de  Merclesden 
to  Robert  de  Swillington,  by  whom  it  was  sold  before  the  4th  Edward  II.  to  Oliver 
de  Stansfeld,  descended  from  Wyon  de  Maryous,  a  follower  of  Earl  Warren.     In 
the  15th  Henry  VII.  Geoffrey  Stansfeld  died  seized  of  the  Manor  of  Haysandforth, 
held  by  military  service,  and  his  son  Giles,  dying  without  male  issue,  left  a  daughter 
Johanna,  who  married  Simon  Haydock  Esq.  and  conveyed  it  to  this  family.     She 
died  in  the  year  1562,  and  her  husband  in  the  year  1568.     Their  descendant,  John 
Haydock  Esq.  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  died  seized  of  the  Manor  in  the  year  1745, 
which  afterwards  was  purchased  by  Mr.  Hargreaves  of  Ormerod,  and  is  now  held  by 
his  representatives. 

7  Rowley  Hall  has  long  been  the  property  of  the  Halsteds,  a  branch  from  High 
Halsted.     In  the  year  1193  an  essart  called  Ruhlie,  was  granted  by  Robert  de  Lacy 
to  Oswald  Brun.     The  present  house  wa?  built  in  the  year  1593,  and  is  forsaken  by 
its  owners.      On  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Halsted,  unmarried,  in  the  year  1833, 
the  Estate  passed  to  his  sisters,  and  in  the  year  1846  they  obtained  the  royal  permis- 
sion for  their  nieces,  Eliza  and  Amelia,  daughters  of  Robert  Holgate  and  his  wife 
Ellen,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Halsted  Esq.  to  assume  the  surname  of  Halsted.      In  the 
Pedigree  of  the  family  in  p.  383  of  the  History  of  Whalley,  two  sons,  both  named 
Laurence,  and  both  married  men,  are  given  to  Banastre  Halsted.      The  latter  Lau- 
rence was  son  of  Nicholas,  and  cousin  of  Laurence  Halsted,  who  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Arthur  Asheton. — Norf.  viii.  Coll.  Arm.  Lane.  MSS. 

8  Extwisle  was  the  property  of  the  Lacys  shortly  after  the  Conquest ;  and  Adam  de 
Preston,  in  the  reign  of  King  John,  held  the  tenth  part  of  a  knight's  fee  here  of  the 
Earl  of  Lincoln,  which  was  afterwards  held  by  the  Abbot  of  Kirkstall  of  Henry,  Duke 
of  Lancaster.     At  the  Dissolution,  the  Manor  was  granted  to  John  Braddyll  Esq. 
who  afterwards  alienated  it  to  the  Parkers,  who  were  lessees  under  the  Abbey  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  IY.  although  John  Parker  Gent,  dying  in  the  2d  Henry  VIII.  1510, 
was  found  to  hold  the  Manor  of  Extwisle  of  the  King  by  knight's  service,  and  his  son 

VOL.  II.]  S  S 


314  liotttta  Cestrtntsta. 

in  Briercliffe,  equally  to  the  Church  and  School;  9s  a  year  from  a 
Farm  called  Dalton,  near  Huddersfield,  given  26th  Eliz.[abeth;] 
10s  from  an  Est.[ate]  called  Wanles,  near  Colne. 
V.[ide]  Nominat.[ion]  an.  [no]  1693.     Pap.  Reg. 

and  heir,  John  Parker,  was  then  aged  eighteen.  The  Hall,  a  large,  handsome,  and 
lofty  pile,  apparently  of  the  age  of  James  I.  is  abandoned  to  dilapidation ;  whilst  the 
Manor  is  vested  in  Robert  Townley  Parker  of  Cuerden  Esq.  son  of  Thomas  Townley 
Parker  Esq.  who  died  Sheriff  of  Lancashire,  in  the  year  1794,  and  whose  father, 
Robert  Parker  of  Extwisle  Esq.  married  Ann,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas 
Townley  of  Royle  Esq. 

9  Hurstwood  is  situated  in  the  hamlet  of  Worsthorn ;  and  the  Hall,  a  strong,  well- 
built  house,  bears  on  its  front  the  name  of  Bernard  Townley,  who  married  Agnes, 
daughter  and  coheiress  of  George  Ormerod  of  Ormerod,  Gent,  and  died  in  the  year 
1602.     His  descendant,  John  Townley  Gent,  died  in  April  1704,  leaving  two  daugh- 
ters and  coheiresses,  of  whom,  Katherine,  who  was  living  in  the  year  1743,  conveyed 
Hurstwood  and  Dunnockshaw  to  her  husband,  Richard  Whyte  Esq.  Deputy  Go- 
vernor of  the  Tower  of  London,  who  devised  the  former  to  his  nephew,  Richard 
Chamberlain,  from  whom  it  passed,  after  an  intermediate  descent,  by  purchase,  in  the 
year  1803,  to  Charles  Towneley  of  Towneley  Esq.  in  whose  representative  it  still 
remains. 

10  Ormerod  remained  in  the  family  of  the  same  name  from  the  year  1311  until  the 
year  1793,  when  Laurence  Ormerod  Esq.  died  aged  thirty-nine,  leaving  by  his  wife, 
Martha  Ann,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Ashburnham  Legh  M.A.  Rector  of  Davenham  in 
the  county  of  Chester,  a  sole  daughter,  Charlotte  Anne,  who  married  John  Hargreaves 
Esq.  whose  only  son,  John,  dying  a  minor,  in  the  year  1824,  (and  not  in  1804,  as 
stated  by  Baines,)  the  Estates  passed  in  the  year  1834,  on  the  death  of  Colonel 
Hargreaves,  to  his  daughters  and  coheiresses.     The  elder  daughter,  Eleanor  Mary, 
married  the  Rev.  William  Thursby  M.A.  and  conveyed  to  him  the  Estate  of  Ormerod. 
The  house,  built  in  the  year  1595,  was  much  enlarged  and  improved  by  Colonel  Har- 
greaves, and  presents  the  appearance  of  an  extensive  picturesque  mansion  in  the 
debased  Elizabethan  style  of  architecture,  having  two  towers  with  large  sashed  win- 
dows.    It  is  now  the  residence  of  Mr.  Thursby.     Of  this  family  was  the  Rev.  Oliver 
Ormerod,  Rector  of  Huntspill  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  the  author  of  two  rare 
polemical  works,  the  Picture  of  a  Papist,  and  the  Picture  of  a  Puritan,  and  who  died 
in  the  year  1626 ;  the  same  house  has  also  produced  one  of  the  best  County  historians 
of  the  present  day. 

11  Barcroft  became  the  property  of  the  Barcrofts  in  the  time  of  Henry  III.  and 
continued,  in  the  direct  male  line,  until  the  death  of  Thomas  Barcroft  Gent,  in  the 
year  1668,  when  it  was  conveyed  by  his  daughter  and  coheiress  Elizabeth,  to  Henry 
Bradshaw  of  Marple  Hall  in  the  county  of  Chester  Esq.      Mary  Bradshaw,   his 
daughter  and  heiress,  married,  first,  William  Pimlot  Esq.  and  had  a  son  John,  who 
possessed  the  Estate,  but  died  s.p.  in  the  year  1761.     The  second  husband  of  Mrs. 


of  BlacWwrn.  315 

for  ye  Poor  of  this  Chappehy,  3001,  wch  is  lodged  in  the  C^artttoS. 
hands  of  Mr.  Townley  of  Townley,  Townley  of  Ryle,  [Royle,] 
Parker  of  Extwisle,  Esqrs.  and  Mr.  Hormerod,   [Ormerod,]  Trus- 

Mary  Pimlot  was  Nathaniel  Isherwood  of  Bolton-le-Moors,  whose  grandson,  Thomas 
Bradshaw  Isherwood  Esq.  came  into  possession  of  the  Estate  on  the  death  of  the  last 
Pimlot,  and  died  unmarried  in  the  year  1791.  His  Executors,  in  the  year  1795,  sold 
the  Hall  and  demesne  of  Barcroft  to  Charles  Towneley  Esq.  ancestor  of  the  present 
owner.  Some  parts  of  the  house  are  of  the  time  of  Henry  VIII. ;  the  principal  front 
was  added  in  the  year  1614,  and  the  embattled  Gateway  in  the  year  1636.  — Lane. 
MSS.  vol.  v.  p.  296,  where  there  is  a  sketch  of  the  Hall,  and  notices  of  the  family. 

12  Koyle  became  the  property  of  Richard  Townley  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  on 
his  marriage  with  Margaret,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Mr.  John  Clarke;  and  passed  on 
the  death  of  Edmund  Townley  Esq.  (the  last  heir  male,)  in  the  year  1796,  to  his  niece, 
Ann  Townley,  who  married  Robert  Parker  of  Extwisle  Esq.  grandfather  of  Robert 
Townley  Parker  Esq.  the  present  owner.     Much  of  the  present  house  was  built  in 
the  seventeenth  century  by  Nicholas  Townley.     It  is  the  residence  of  the  Rev.  R.  M. 
Master  M.A.  Incumbent  of  Burnley. 

13  Healey  Hall,  in  Habergham  Eaves,  was  the  residence  of  the  Whitakers  in  the 
time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  descended  to  Robert  Whitaker  G-ent.  M.D.  said  to  be 
"  of  a  very  ancient  family,"  and  a  person  who  took  an  active  part  in  the  religious 
movement  of  the  seventeenth  century.     His  Will  is  dated  the  4th  of  October  1703, 
and  he  devises  his  Estates  to  his  eldest  son,  Nicholas  Whitaker  Grent.  and  provides 

for  his  daughters,  Ann,  wife  of  Mr.  Richard  Talbot  of  Burnley,  and ,  wife  of 

Mr.  John  Parker  of  Holdeu  Clough.     Of  his  sons  Robert  and  Thomas,  the  latter  was 
educated  at  the  Schools  of  Blackburn  and  Manchester,  and  afterwards  M.A.  of  the 
University  of  Edinburgh.     He  was  thirty-four  years  a  Nonconformist  Minister  at 
Leeds,  and  died  in  the  year  1710,  leaving  a  son  William,  a  physician  in  London,  a 
son  Laurence,  and  three  daughters.     His  Sermons  were  published  by  Timothy  Jollie 
and  Thomas  Bradbury,  8vo.  1712.  —  See  Memories  Sacrum.     Robert,  son  of  Robert, 
and  grandson  of  Nicholas  Whitaker,  had  an  only  daughter  and  heiress,  Mary,  who 
married  Mr.  John  Fletcher  of  Ightenhill  Park,  whose  grand-daughter  Ann,  daughter 
of  Mr.  John  Fletcher  junr.  conveyed  the  Estate  to  her  husband,  James  Roberts  of 
Burnley  Esq.     It  was  sold  in  the  year  1826  to  P.  E.  Towneley  Esq.  in  whose  son  it 
is  now  vested.      There  are  considerable  remains  of  the  old  house.  —  See  Lane.  MSS. 
vol.  xxvii ;  the  Surey  Demoniacfc,  4to.  1697 ;  the  Surey  Impostor,  by  Zachary  Taylor 
M.A.  4to.  1697 ;  and  a  Vindication  of  the  Surey  Demoniaclc,  4to.  1698,  for  scattered 
notices  of  this  family. 

14  The  Grammar  School  of  Burnley  appears  to  have  been  founded  on  the  Dissolu- 
tion of  the  Chantries  in  the  time  of  Edward  VI. ;    and  a  small  house  belonging  to  the 
Chantry  Priest  of  St.   Mary's  Altar,  on  the  West  side  of  the  Church-yard,  now 
removed,  was  used  as  the  School-house  until  the  year  1693,  when  the  present  Gram- 
mar School  was  built,  according  to  the  date  on  the  porch,  on  a  site  given  by  Robert 


316  iletttta 

tees ;  but  how  it  is  laid  out  or  disposed,  no  Just  account  can  be 
Got.  Certificate]  of  Rd-  Kippax,  Curate,  17th  Nov.  an.\nd]  1719, 
at  the  Visit"  held  at  Blackburne. 

Parker  of  Extwisle  Esq.  On  the  4th  of  April  1558  Richard  Woodroffe  of  Burnley 
granted  to  Roger  Habergham,  and  others,  an  annual  rent  of  3s.  4d.  out  of  lands  in 
Barnoldswick  in  Craven  in  the  county  of  York,  for  the  use  of  a  Grammar  School 
erecting,  or  about  to  be  erected,  in  Burnley.  On  the  4th  of  February  1577,  John 
Ingham  of  Whalley  granted  to  Richard  Towneley  Esq.  and  others,  a  rent  of  £3,  out 
of  a  messuage  called  "Alfrethes,"  in  Farnham,  Essex,  which  had  been  assured  to  him 
for  that  purpose  by  Sir  Robert  Ingham,  Clerk,  his  uncle,  for  the  maintenance  of  a 
Free  Grammar  School  at  Burnley,  or  Colne,  for  ever.  "Who  had  ever  heard  of 
Hartgraves  in  Brunley  School  but  because  he  was  the  first  that  did  teach  worthy 
Doctour  Whitaker." — Asheton's  Life  of  William  Whitaker  JD.D.  p.  29;  Fuller's 
Holy  State,  b.  ii.  p.  102,  1648.  A  room  in  the  School  contains  a  valuable  Library, 
bequeathed  by  the  Rev.  Edmund  Townley,  Rector  of  Slaidburn,  and  the  Rev.  Henry 
Halsted  B.D.  Rector  of  Stansfield  in  Suffolk,  The  latter,  (when  in  his  eighty-eighth 
year,)  by  Will  dated  the  5th  of  August  1728,  (proved  at  Doctors'  Commons,  on  the 
20th  of  September  following,)  after  requesting  burial  in  the  Parish  Church  of  Stans- 
field, devised  very  large  Estates  in  Lancashire  to  Thomas  Townley  of  Royle  Esq.  and 
Edmund  Townley,  Rector  of  Slaidburn,  in  Trust,  for  the  use  of  his  (Testator's)  son, 
Henry  Halsted  of  Bank  House  in  Burnley  Gent,  for  life,  and  the  reversion,  in  fee,  to 
his  "  kinsman"  Captain  Charles  Halsted  of  Rowley.  He  gave  to  the  Churchwardens 
and  Overseers  of  Stansfield  £20,  to  purchase  lands  for  the  benefit  of  the  Poor  of  that 
Parish,  "  to  be  answered"  by  the  Churchwardens  and  Overseers.  He  also  gave  to  the 
said  Churchwardens,  at  his  death,  £20,  to  be  distributed  amongst  the  Poor  the  day 
after  his  burial.  Also  to  the  Widows  and  Orphans  of  deceased  Clergymen  who  had 
preferment  in  the  Archdeaconry  of  Sudbury  in  Suffolk,  £50,  to  be  paid  to  the  Stew- 
ard, or  his  successor,  at  their  General  Meeting  at  Bury  St.  Edmund's,  which  would 
be  in  June  next  after  the  death  of  the  Testator.  "  I  give  and  bequeath  to  the  Master 
and  ffeoffees  of  the  Free  School  in  Burnley  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  all  my  Library 
of  Books  in  my  possession  in  Stansfield  as  shall  be  set  down  and  left  in  a  Catalogue 
thereof  made,  to  be  used  and  taken  care  of  by  the  Protestant  Master  and  ffeoffees  of 
the  said  School  in  Burnley,  and  their  successors,  for  ever,  to  be  sent  to  them  at  the 
charge  and  expense  of  my  Executors,"  the  Rev.  John  Tisser  of  Ketten,  [Kenton  ?] 
and  the  Rev.  Arthur  Kinsman  of  Bury  St.  Edmund's.  The  son,  by  Will  proved  on 
the  29th  of  March  1731,  left  a  Legacy  to  the  Poor  of  Burnley,  to  be  disposed  of  by 
Banastre  Halsted  of  Rowley  Gent,  and  others,  and  appointed  his  "  friend  and  kins- 
man," Charles  Halsted  of  Rowley  Esq.  his  Executor.— Lane.  MSS. 


Oraucnj  of  13larhi)urn.  317 

In  Brief  Observations] 
an.[no]  1604,  this  is  reckoned  a  Parish, 
and  said  to  be  a  Donative,  wth  these  4  Chappels  under  it,  Pendle, 
Whitewell,  Rossendale,  [and]  Goodshaw.  V.[ide]  MS. 

An.  [no]  1365,  Capella  Sti  Mich,  infra  Castrum  de  Clithero  an- 
nexa  fuit  per  Hen.  Ducem  Lancastrise  Ecclesise  de  Whalley,  by  a 
Grant  bearing  this  date;  wch  Grant  was  confirmed  by  another 
Deed  from  [the]  AbP  of  Cant,  [erbury]  to  [the]  Abbot  of  Whalley. 

There  is  also  a  Testimoniall  that  ye  Forests  of  Trawden,  Ros- 
sendale,  Bolland,  and  Pendle,  are  within  ye  Chappelry  of  S1 
Michael  in  Clithero  Castle,  parcell  of  Whalley  Rectory,  an. 
[no]  1480;  wch  Deeds  are  now,  (an.  [no]  1717,)  in  ye  hands  of 
Mr.  Hammond,  Steward  to  ye  late  Sr  Edm.[und,]  and  Sr  Ralph 
Asheton. 

Roger,  the  last  Dean  of  Whalley,  (before  1296,)  gave  to  his 

1  The  Castle  of  Clitheroe  has  been  referred  to  an  age  anterior  to  the  Norman  Inva- 
sion, when  it  was  given,  along  with  the  Honor  or  Seignory  of  Clitheroe,  consisting  of 
a  number  of  dependent  Manors,  to  Sir  Ilbert  de  Lacy,  who  accompanied  William  I. 
from  Normandy.  This  fortress  was  probably  re-edified  by  the  Lacies,  and  Ro- 
bert, son  of  Henry  de  Lacy,  built  the  Chapel  of  St.  Michael  the  Archangel  in  the 
Castle,  with  the  consent  of  Geoffrey,  Dean  of  Whalley.  Dying  intestate,  and  with- 
out issue,  in  the  year  1193,  the  male  line  terminated,  and  his  possessions,  including 
the  Honor  of  Clitheroe,  were  inherited  by  his  maternal  sister,  Albreda,  daughter  of 
Robert  de  Lizours,  the  wife  of  Richard  Fitz  Eustace,  Lord  of  Halton  and  Constable 
of  Chester.  His  son,  John  Fitz  Eustace,  Constable  of  Chester,  and  Founder  of  the 
Abbey  of  Stanlaw,  in  the  year  1175,  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Roger,  who  assumed 
the  name  of  De  Lacy,  and  inherited  the  Honor  of  Clitheroe.  Alice  de  Lacy,  the  last 
of  the  line,  married  Thomas  Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  who,  rebelling  against 
Edward  II.  was  executed  for  High  Treason,  March  22d  1321-2,  and  his  large  posses- 
sions were  given  to  Edmund,  the  King's  brother ;  but  the  Act  of  Attainder  being 
afterwards  reversed,  Henry,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  succeeded  to  the  Honor  of  Clitheroe. 
He  died  on  the  24th  of  March  1360,  and  his  daughter  and  coheiress,  Blanch,  married 
John  of  Gaunt,  (fourth  son  of  Edward  III.)  whose  son  Henry,  Duke  of  Bolingbroke, 
succeeded  to  the  Crown  as  Henry  IV.  The  extensive  possessions  of  the  Dukes  of  Lan- 
caster thus  became  vested  in  the  Crown,  and  this  Honor  was  conferred  by  Charles  II. 
on  Monk,  Duke  of  Albemarle,  from  whom  it  has  descended,  through  the  Montagu 
family,  to  Henry  James  Montagu  Scott,  Lord  Montagu,  second  son  of  Henry, 
Duke  of  Buccleuch. 


318  $otttta 

Bro.[ther]  Richd,  afterwards  called  of  Townley,  the  Chap.[el]  of 
S*  Michael  in  ye  Castle  of  Clyderhow,  wth  ye  consent  of  Rog.  [er] 
de  Lacy,  Ld  of  Blackb.[urn]sh.[ire,]  cum  decimis,  oblationibus 
et  proventibus,  eidem  capellae  assignatis.  MS.  Wortley,  V.[ide] 
WHALLEY. 

Pd  to  [the]  Curate  for  serving  ye  Cure  here,  an.  [no]  1663,  the 
old  allowance  of  41  p.[er]  an.[num,]  wth  [the]  augm.  [entation] 
of  21  p.  [er]  an.  [num]  by  AbP  Juxon,  as  appears  by  [the]  Curate's 
receipt. 

Certified]  to  B.[ishop]  Stratford  an.  [no]  1707,  6l  p.[er] 
an. [num.] 

This  Chap,  [el]  soon  after  ye  Dissolution]  of  Whalley  Abbey, 
was  Endowed  wth  41  p.  [er]  an.  [num,]  and  in  AbP  Juxon's  time,  wn 
new  Augmentations  were  made  to  Vic.  [arages]  and  Chappells, 
21  more  was  given  to  this  Chap. [el]  tho  ruined  in  ye  Civill  War; 

This  Chapel  is  not  named  in  the  Valor  of  Pope  Nicholas  IV.  in  the  year  1291,  and 
is  probably  included  amongst  "the  Chapels"  under  Whalley. 

The  Castle  originally  consisted  of  a  Keep,  with  a  Tower,  entered  by  an  arched 
gateway,  and  surrounded  by  a  strong  and  lofty  wall,  placed  on  the  margin  of  a  rock. 
Its  dimensions  appear  to  have  been  inconsiderable.  Grose  well  describes  it  as 
"  situated  on  the  summit  of  a  conical  insulated  crag  of  rugged  limestone  rock,  which 
suddenly  rises  from  a  fine  vale,  in  which,  towards  the  North,  at  the  distance  of  half  a 
mile,  runs  the  Kibble ;  and  a  mile  (three  miles  to  the  S.E.)  to  the  South,  stands  Pen- 
die  Hill,  which  seems  to  lift  its  head  above  the  clouds." 

In  the  year  1649  the  Castle  was  dismantled  by  order  of  Parliament,  the  Chapel 
has  totally  disappeared,  and  nothing  now  remains  of  the  feudal  edifice  but  the  square 
Keep,  and  some  portion  of  the  strong  wall  by  which  the  whole  was  surrounded. 

The  demesne  of  the  Castle  is  considered  to  be  extra- Parochial,  although  "the 
Boundary  of  the  Castle  Parish  of  Cliderhoe"  was  recognized  as  early  as  the  time  of 
Henry  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  who  died  in  the  year  1312,  "  at  his  mansion-house 
called  Lincoln's  Inn,  in  the  suburbs  of  London,  which  he  himself  had  erected  in  that 
place,  where  the  Blackfriars'  habitation  anciently  stood."  In  the  4th  Edward  III. 
an  Inquest  was  held  to  enquire  whether  the  Chapel  of  St.  Michael,  in  Clitheroe 
Castle,  was  an  appurtenant  of  the  Mother  Church  of  Whalley,  for  after  the  death  of 
Peter  de  Cestria,  Rector  of  Whalley,  Henry  de  Lacy  seized  this  Chapel  and  detached 
it  from  that  Church;  "not  by  right,"  says  Abbot  Topclyfle  in  his  Petition  to  Edward 
III.  "but  by  force  and  the  magnitude  of  his  dominion,"  and  he  gave  the  Chapel  to 
Henry  de  Walton,  "  at  the  peril  of  his  soul."  With  great  zeal  the  Abbot  urged  his 
suit  to  the  King  and  Parliament,  and  at  length  recovered  the  Chapel  in  the  year 


of  Bladdwnt.  319 

wch  gi  was  Quickly  after  granted  to  [the]  Curate  of  Clithero,  he 
taking  care  to  procure  Preaching  once  a  month  at  Whitewell : 
But  that  being  neglected,  AbP  Sheldon,  an.  [no]  1667,  ordered  y* 
61  p.  [er]  an.  [num]  to  be  pd  to  ye  Curate  of  Downham,  upon  ye 
same  condition:  But  an. [no]  1707,  Downham  being  vacant,  AbP 
Tennison  annexed  this  61  p.[er]  an.  [num,]  and  ye  Chap,  [el]  of 
Whitewell,  to  ye  Curate  of  Clitheroe,  and  so  it  continues.  Vic.  [ar] 
ofWhalley's  Acd-  an.  [no]  1717.  Nothing  but  ye  Walls  of  this 
Chap,  [el]  are  now  remaining,  and  these  are  much  decayed. 


Certified]  22M2*.06d,  OT!)ap.$ar. 
viz.  paid  by  [the]  AbP  of  Cant,  [erbury,]      &UJJttt. 
1 11  •  10"  •  00d ;  charged  upon  Land  by  Will  of  ,5^  ^  B-  \w 

Debenture  money,  (paid  out  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,)  31  •  9s  •  3d,  —  a  -  20° 
Fees  ded.[ucted,]  SLO-l^;  Surp.[lice]  fees,  21- 12s- 4d;  for  keep- 
ing the  Register,  10s. 

1334 ;  but  it  was  not  conveyed  to  the  Abbey  by  Henry,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  until  the 
24th  of  August  1349.  —  See  Coucher  Book,  p.  1169,  et  seq.  where  the  Earl's  reasons 
for  claiming  the  patronage  are  stated.  From  this  time  to  the  Reformation  the 
Abbots  collated  to  the  Living,  which  was  however  styled  a  Chantry  only,  in  the  year 
1548.  The  Chaplain  of  the  Castle  Parish  and  his  successors  for  ever,  were  ex- 
cluded from  celebrating  Divine  Service  in  Pendle  Church  by  the  Sentence  of  Conse- 
cration of  the  latter  Church,  dated  the  1st  of  October  1544. — Bishop  Bird's  Register, 
vol.  i. 

Mr.  Prescott  of  Chester  wrote  to  Bishop  Grastrell  at  Oxford,  on  the  9th  of  Novem- 
ber 1717,  "  I  saw  not  Mr.  Matthews,  (Vicar  of  Whalley,)  at  Blackburn,  but  writt 
thence  to  him  for  your  Lordship,  about  the  certificates  of  Castle  Chapel  or  Church, 
and  Whitewell,  which  he  had  ignorantly  represented  to  be  the  same,  directing  him  to 
persons  who  well  understood  them ;  and  to  Mr.  Holme,  if  he  was  in  difficulty  about 
a  Form." — Lane.  MSS. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Mary  Magdalen.    Value  in  1834,  £127.    Registers  begin  in  1574. 

The  Manor  of  Clitheroe  was  held  by  Hugh  de  Clyderhou,  one  of  the  assessors  of 
the  County,  in  the  25th  Edward  I. ;  and  his  descendant,  Sir  Robert  de  Clyderow 
M.P.  for  the  County  of  Lancaster,  dying  without  surviving  issue  male,  Sybil,  his 
daughter  and  coheiress,  married  her  second  husband,  Richard  de  Radclyffe  of  Ord- 
shall,  and  carried  at  least  a  portion  of  the  Estates  into  his  family.  William  Radcliffe 
of  Wimbersley  Esq.  in  the  year  1561,  settled  his  Manors  of  Wimbersley,  Astley,  and 


320  iiotttta  <£e»trtett8t8. 

Old  Allowance  from  [the]  Abp.  pd  by  [the]  Tenant  of  [the]  Rect. 
[or,]  41  p.[er]  an.[num;]  added  by  AbP  Juxon,  71-1QS,  as  appears 
by  receipt  [in]  1663.  The  same  Curate  who  then  served  ye  Cure 
at  ye  Castle  was  Likewise  Curate  here.  [The]  Curate  [is]  obliged 
to  preach  at  Whitewell  once  a  month,  for  wch  he  receives  [the]  61 
p.[er]  an.[num]  wch  formerly  belonged  to  Castle  Chapel.  V.[ide] 
CASTLE. 

Six  Wardens. 

Great  Mearley,  and  Pendleton. 

3  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  2  m.[iles]  from  [the]  next  Chap,  [el.] 

Augm.[ented]  wth  2001  by  Mr.  Curzon,  an.  [no]  1722,  who 
nominates  ye  Curate.  V.[ide]  ALTHAM. 

Clitheroe,  upon  the  issue  of  his  iiiece,  Ann,  wife  of  Sir  Gilbert  Gerard,  whose  son, 
Sir  Thomas,  the  first  Baron  Gerard  of  Gerard's  Bromley,  sold  the  Manor  House 
called  "  The  Alleys,"  in  Clitheroe,  and  the  South  Choir  of  Clitheroe  Church  to  the 
Heskeths  of  Martholme,  in  the  44th  of  Elizabeth ;  since  which  time  the  property  has 
frequently  changed  hands. 

A  Chapel  existed  here  in  the  reign  of  Henry  II.  as  Hugh,  Chaplain  of  Clyderhow, 
occurs  in  that  reign ;  and  it  was  confirmed  to  the  Monks  of  Pontefract  in  the  14th 
Henry  III.  In  the  year  1296  the  Altarage  of  the  Chapel  of  "  Cliderhou"  amounted 
to  £8 ;  and  the  Chaplain  was  appointed  by  the  Hector  of  Whalley,  with  a  stipend  of 
four  meres  a  year. — Coucher  Book  of  Whalley,  p.  206.  On  the  llth  of  July  1515, 
the  Curate  of  Clythero  paid  xxd  for  his  admission,  to  the  Archdeacon  of  Chester.  — 
Lane.  MSS.  vol.  ix.  p.  292.  In  the  year  1535  Sir  Thomas  Sylcock  was  the  Minister, 
and  the  two  Chantry  Priests  were  John  Dukedale  and  William  Burd.  —  Lane.  MSS. 
vol.  xiv.  p.  45. 

The  old  Church,  with  a  good  square  Tower  and  fine  perpendicular  East  Window, 
was  taken  down  in  the  year  1828,  and  the  present  fabric  erected.  The  original 
Church,  according  to  Dr.  Whitaker,  had  nothing  remarkable  about  it  except  the  fine 
Saxon  Arch  between  the  Nave  and  the  Choir,  —  one  of  the  oldest  remains  of  archi- 
tecture in  the  Parish,  and  a  complete  specimen  of  the  style  which  prevailed  till  the 
time  of  Henry  I.  The  North  Chapel  was  appropriated  to  Great  Mearley  ;  and  the 
South  Choir  to  the  Radcliffes,  in  right  of  the  Cliderhows.  In  this  Choir  were,  until 
very  recently,  two  alabaster  figures,  said  to  represent  Sir  Richard  Radclifle,  who  died 

in  the  19th  Henry  VI.  and  Katherine  his  wife,  daughter  of Booth  of  Barton. 

In  the  year  1650  Clitheroe  was  returned  as  a  Parochial  Chapelry  comprising  four 
hundred  families.  Mr.  Robert  Marsden,  an  able  Divine,  received  £11.  10s.  from  the 
Farmer  of  the  Rectory ;  £3.  10s.  out  of  the  Duchy  Rents ;  and  £25  a  year  from  the 
late  County  Committee.  The  Inhabitants  desired  to  have  a  Parish,  and  also  a  com- 
petent maintenance  settled  for  their  Minister. — Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 


of  iHacWwrn.  321 

[A]  Charter  [was]  granted  to  [the]  Borough  of  Clithero  by 
K.[ing]  Edw.[ard]  3,  an. [no]  R.[egni]  20.  MS.  Hulm,  96  I. 
14,  20. 

®ram.[mar]   &fi)00l2  was  founded  here  by  K.[ing] 
Phil.[ip]  and  Q.fueen]  Mary,  and  Endowed  wth  Lands  for 
ye  Maintenance  of  a  Master  and  Usher. 

In  B.  [ishop]  Bridgman's  time  great  abuses  were  Discovered  in 
ye  management  of  ye  Revenue,  which  he  endeavoured  to  rectify. 
O.[ld]  R.[egister,~\  345,  and  341,  where  [also]  is  a  Copy  of  ye 
Statutes  made  for  ye  Government  of  ye  School,  by  ye  Advice  of 
B.  [ishop]  Bridgman  and  ye  Governours  of  ye  sd  School,  (dated  2d 
May)  an.  [no]  1622,  upon  a  Decree  of  ye  Ld  Keeper,  to  whom  it 
appeared  y*  ye  BP  was  appointed  Visitour  of  ye  School  by  ye  Foun- 
dation of  it.  V.[ide]  p.  339  [and]  337.  V.[ide]  Lett.[er]  of 
B.  [ishop]  Bridff.  [man,]  Coll.  Wilton,  p.  103. 

The  Endowment  is  now  751-7s-6d  p.[er]   an.  [num.]  in  Lands 

The  present  Church  was  consecrated  by  Dr.  Sumner,  Bishop  of  Chester,  in  the 
year  1829,  and  the  expense  of  its  erection,  amounting  to  £8,500,  was  defrayed  by 
private  offerings,  and  by  a  grant  from  the  Incorporated  Society  for  building 
Churches.  The  East  Window  is  embellished  with  fourteen  heraldic  bearings,  in 
stained  glass,  —  amongst  which  are  the  arms  of  Whalley  Abbey,  the  Sec  of  Canter- 
bury, and  the  Manorial  Lords  of  Clitheroe,  including  Lacy,  Clitheroe,  Montagu, 
Buccleuch,  Assheton,  Brownlow,  and  Curzon.  The  Advowson  was  recently  adver- 
tised for  sale  by  the  Rev.  J.  H.  Anderton,  the  Patron  and  Incumbent. 

In  the  year  1558-9  the  1st  Elizabeth,  the  elective  franchise  to  return  two  Members 
to  Parliament  was  granted  to  this  borough ;  but  the  number  was  reduced  from  two 
to  one,  by  the  2d  William  IV.  c.  45,  commonly  called  the  "  Reform  Act." 

2  The  School  was  founded  by  Queen  Mary  on  the  9th  of  August  1554,  and  endowed 
with  the  Rectorial  Tithes,  and  the  Advowson  of  the  Vicarage,  of  Almondbury,  in  the 
West  Riding  of  the  county  of  York,  then  lately  belonging  to  the  College  of  Jesus 
of  Rotheram,  the  Vicarage  being  ordained  by  Archbishop  Rotheram,  the  Founder  of 
the  College,  on  June  15th  1488 ;  and  also  with  certain  lands  in  Craven,  formerly 
belonging  to  the  Chantry  of  St.  Nicholas,  in  Skipton  in  the  same  county ;  which,  at 
that  time,  produced  an  annual  income  of  xx1  and  xxd.  There  is  a  long  account  of  the 
various  Chancery  Suits  between  the  Governors  of  this  School  in  the  time  of  James  I. 
in  Bishop  Bridgeman's  MS.  Leiger  in  the  Registry  at  Chester,  p.  341,  et  seq.  These 
suits  appear  to  have  originated  in  some  of  the  old  Governors  having  been  irregularly 
superseded  by  the  appointment  of  younger  men,  of  whom  Sir  Raphe  Assheton,  Richard 
VOL.  II.]  T  T 


322  iiotttia 

and  Tithes;  401  of  wch  [is  paid]  to  ye  Master;  201  to  ye  Usher; 
I1  •  10s  for  a  Dinner  on  Mids.  [ummer]  day ;  and  10s  for  a  Sermon 
ye  same  day :  the  rest  [is  used]  for  Repairing  ye  School  and  pre- 
ferring Poor  Boys. 

The  Master  is  Nom.[inated]  by  six  Governours;  [and]  if  y6 
Gov*s  doe  not  Nom.[inate  the]  Master  or  Usher  wthin  9  weeks 
after  ye  place  is  void,  the  B.[ishop]  of  Chester  shall  nom.  [inate.] 

[The]  Writings  are  kept  by  [the]  Treas.[urer,  who  is]  annually 
chosen  from  among  [the]  Gov.[ernors,]  in  a  Chest  at  Clithero. 
Certificate  of  Tho.  [mas]  Taylor,  Curate. 


==  It  $  i&  It,1   called   only 
CHURCH,  in  Ancient   Deeds ;    Certif. 
Fam w   [ied]  121-17s-08d.  viz.  paid  by  [the]  Abp.  of  Cant,  [erbury,]  101; 

138 

Diss 58 

scarce  any.  Shuttleworth  and  John  Greenacres  Esqrs.  were  especially  obnoxious  to  Christopher 
Nowell  and  Thomas  and  Christopher  Kendall.  These  trifling  disputes,  which  had 
been  carried  on  for  years,  were  at  length  settled  in  the  year  1622,  by  Bishop  Bridge- 
man,  as  Visitor,  making  a  body  of  Statutes  for  the  Government  of  the  School.  In  the 
year  1825  the  Income  of  the  School  amounted  to  £452.  8s.  8d.  The  School  House, 
formerly  in  the  Church-yard,  has  been  removed,  and  a  new  School  House  has  been 
built  in  the  town. 

"Alys  Kadclyff  of  Thalleys  in  Clederow,  late  wyeff  of  Thorn's  Eadclyff  of  Wymn'legh 
esquier,"  gave  by  Will  dated  October  5th  1554,  the  year  in  which  the  School  was 
founded,  "  to  the  high  awlter  at  Garstange,  iijs  iiiid ;  to  the  church  of  Clederow,  x» ; 
and  to  the  fundament  of  the  fire  Schole  at  Clederhow,  xs."  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xiii. 
p.  229. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  James.    Value  in  1834,  £218.     Eegisters  begin  in  1633. 

In  the  4th  Edward  II.  Robert  de  Rishton  held  a  carucate  of  land  in  Chirch,  and 
William  de  Radcliffe  held  two  carucates  by  thegnage.  The  Manor  of  Church  passed 
from  the  Bushtons  of  Dunkenhalgh,  by  sale,  in  the  hitter  part  of  the  reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  to  Sir  Thomas  Walmesley ;  and  was  conveyed  in  the  year  1712,  by  his 
representative,  Catherine,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Bartholomew  Walmesley  Esq.  in 
marriage  to  Robert,  seventh  Lord  Petre,  and  is  now  in  the  possession  of  her  descend- 
ant, Henry  Petre  Esq. 

The  Manor  of  Oswaldwisle,  which  is  a  Township  in  the  Chapelry  of  Church,  was 
granted  by  Philip  de  Oswaldwisle  to  Adam  de  Radcliffe,  by  deed  s.d.  Richard,  great- 
grandson  of  Adam  de  Radcliffe,  granted  the  premises  to  William  his  son,  before  the 


Drancvn  of  ttltidiimvn.  323 

a  small  Close  left  by  [the  Will  of]  Mrs.  [Alice]  Ains worth  [of 
Oswaldwisle,]  worth  19s -6d  p.[er]  an.[num,]  clear  to  ye  Curate, 
16s;  Easter  Roll,  10s;  Surp.[lice]  Fees,  li.lls.8d. 

Old  Allowance,  41  p.[er]  an.[num;]  added  by  Abp.  Juxon,  61, 
as  appears  by  [the]  Curate's  Receipt,  an.  [no]  1663. 

Service,  and  [a]  Sermon  [preached,]  once  a  fortnight.     V.  [ide] 
ALTHAM. 

4  Wardens. 

4  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  one  from  [the]  next  Chap,  [el.] 

Augmented  by  Mr.  Curzon  wth  2001,  an.  [no]   1722;   and  he 
nominates  the  Curate.     V.[ide]  ALTHAM. 

Dunkenhalgh.2 

32d  Edward  I.  and  William  the  son,  conveyed  the  Manor  to  Richard  his  son,  apud 
Bury,  16th  Edward  III.  On  the  death  of  John  Radcliffe  of  Radcliffe  Tower  Esq. 
in  the  year  1518,  the  Manor  and  other  Estates  passed,  by  entail,  to  Robert  Radcliffe, 
Lord  Fitzwalter,  afterwards  Earl  of  Sussex  K.G.  His  son,  the  second  Earl,  sold  this 
Manor  to  Andrew  Barton  of  Smithills,  in  the  3d  Edward  VI.  by  whose  representa- 
tive, Thomas,  second  Viscount  Fauconberg,  it  was  sold  about  the  year  1722,  to  James 
Whalley  of  Sparth,  and  Christopher  Baron  of  Oswaldwisle  Gents.  The  Manor  passed 
from  the  late,  to  the  present,  Sir  Robert  Peel  Bart.  M.P. 

The  Church  was  founded  anterior  to  the  reign  of  Henry  III.  In  the  year  1296  the 
Tithe  of  Corn  in  "  Chirche"  amounted  to  iiii  marcs,  and  the  Altarage  of  the  Chapel 
to  v  marcs,  (Coucher  Book  of  Whalley  Abbey,  p.  206,)  the  Chaplain  being  appointed 
by  the  Rector  of  the  Mother  Church,  who  was  bound  to  allow  him  four  marcs  a 
year.  It  was  entirely  rebuilt  about  the  end  of  the  fourteenth  or  beginning  of  the 
fifteenth  century  —  History  of  Whalley,  p.  415.  The  date  seems  to  be  accurately 
fixed  by  a  Monition  dated  9th  Edward  III.  1335,  issued  by  William  de  Appeltree, 
Commissary  General  of  Roger,  Bishop  of  Lichfield,  to  the  Dean  (Rural)  of  Blackburn, 
requiring  him,  after  public  sentence,  to  proceed  against  the  parishioners  of  the  Chapel 
of  Cherch  for  the  costs  of  rebuilding  and  repairing  the  Chancel  and  other  parts  of 
their  Chapel. — Lib.  3  c,  incipit  1322,  termin.  1358 ;  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xiv.  p.  21.  On 
the  llth  of  July  1515  the  Curate  of  Church  paid  xxd  for  his  admission  to  the  Curacy. 
Archdeacon  of  Chester's  Act  Book.  In  the  year  1650  Church-Kirk  was  returned 
as  a  Parochial  Chapelry,  which  included  two  hundred  families,  being  five  miles  from 
the  Parish  Church.  Mr.  James  Rigby  M.A.  was  the  Minister,  and  received  £10  from 
the  Farmer  of  the  Rectory ;  £30  from  the  County  Committee ;  and  had  an  Order  for 
£50  out  of  the  Tithes  of  Thomas  Clifton  Esq.  a  Papist  delinquent,  but  received  no 
advantage  from  it.  The  Inhabitants  desired  that  they  might  have  a  distinct  Parish 
assigned  them.  — Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  The  Nave  was  rebuilt  and  enlarged 
in  the  year  1804.  The  Feoffees  of  William  Hulme  Esq.  are  ihe  Patrons. 


324  liotitta 

No  School,  nor  Charities.     Certificate]  of  H.  Rishton,  Cur. 
1718. 


Certif.[ied]  301  •  16*  -  02d,  viz. 

Fam 550  Ssl&   by  [the]  Lessee  of  [the]  Abp.  II1 -10s; 

DEsSSF^Q29  Rent  Charge  upon  Land  called  Hollingreave,  G^IG8^;  Land 
24 Q.  sAnab.  of  Mrs  starkey,  31;  Land  of  Widow  Robinson,  2*  •  13«.  4*;  Land 
called  Gibhills,  I1- 19s;  Land  of  Mr.  Folds,  10s;  Land  called  Vie- 
pens,  7s -6d;  Given  by  J.  Hargreaves  for  Preaching  4  Fun.[eral] 
Sermons  21;  Easter  Dues,  21,  over  and  above  71-lls  pd  to  [the] 
Vicar. 

2  Dunkenhalgh  passed  from  the  Eushtons  to  Sir  Thomas  Walmesley,  the  Judge,  in 
the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  was  conveyed  in  marriage  by  Miss  Catherine 
Walmesley,  to  Robert,  Lord  Petre,  ancestor  of  Henry  Petre  Esq.  the  present 


1  Dedicated  to  St.  Bartholomew.     Value  in  1834,  £179.      Registers  begin  in  1599. 

Colne,  or  Colunio,  is  stated  by  the  Rev.  John  Whittaker,  the  historian  of  Man- 
chester, to  have  been  founded  by  Agricola,  in  the  memorable  campaign  of  A.D.  79,  when 
he  subdued  the  county  of  Lancaster ;  and  Dr.  Whitaker,  the  historian  of  Whalley,  and 
Mr.  Bargreave,  the  learned  Rector  of  Brandesburton,  and  a  native  of  Colne,  coincide 
in  the  opinion,  although  Bishop  Gibson  and  Dr.  Leigh  doubt  whether  this  has  been  a 
Roman  station  or  not,  on  the  slender  ground  of  the  few  Roman  discoveries  which 
have  hitherto  been  made. 

The  Manor  was  at  an  early  period  vested  in  the  family  of  Lacy,  and,  like  their 
other  possessions,  being  parcel  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  merged  in  the  Crown,  and 
Colne  being  a  member  of  the  Honor  of  Clitheroe,  passed,  on  the  death  of  Lord  Mon- 
tagu, to  Walter  Francis,  Duke  of  Buccleuch,  the  present  Lord  Paramount. 

The  Church  of  Colne  probably  existed  at  the  Domesday  Survey,  and  is  expressly 
named  in  the  Charter  of  Hugh  de  la  Val  to  the  Monks  of  Pontefract,  about  sixty 
years  posterior  to  that  Inquest.  In  the  year  1296  the  Rector  of  Whalley  was  bound 
to  find  a  Chaplain  for  the  Chapel  of  Colne,  and  to  pay  him  four  marcs  a  year.  The 
Altarage  was  then  valued  at  £10,  and  the  Tithe  Corn  of  Colne  and  Alkancotes  at 
eight  marcs.  Three  massy  cylindrical  columns  on  the  North  side  of  the  Nave,  are 
genuine  remains  of  the  original  structure,  although  much  of  it  was  rebuilt  about 
the  time  of  Henry  VIII.  On  the  8th  of  July  1515,  the  Archdeacon  of  Chester 
issued  a  Commission  to  Edmund  Braddyll  and  Henry  Towneley  Gents,  authorizing 
them  to  rebuild  certain  parts  of  the  Chapel  of  Colne,  then  dilapidated.  —  Archdeacon 
of  Chester's  Act  Book,  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  ix.  p.  292.  On  the  North  side  of  the  Choir 


of  iSlatfcfcuro.  325 

Old  Allowance  41 ;  added  by  Abp.  Juxon  71  •  10s,  as  appears  by 
[the]  Receipt  from  ye  Tenant,  an.  [no]  1663. 

[The]  Inhab.  [itants]  of  Colne,  Fouldridge,  Barrowford,  Mars- 
den,  and  Trawden  resort  to  it. 

Service  performed  ev.  [ery]  Sund.  [ay,]  twice  a  day,  except  one 
Afternoon  ev.[ery]  month,  wn  [the]  Curate  officiates  at  Marsden. 

An.  [no]  1713,  left  by  JohnMilner  31  p.[er]  an.[num,]  after  the 
death  of  his  sister  Mary  Milner. 

An.  [no]  1716,  left  by  John  Smith,  [the]  Int.[erest]  of  401  to  ye 
Curate,  he  Preaching  a  Fun.  [eral]  Sermon  ev.  [ery]  year. 

is  a  Chantry  formerly  belonging  to  the  Banastres  of  Park  Hill,  and  now  claimed  by 
Mr.  Parker  of  Alkincoats,  Mr.  Mitchell  of  Heptonstall,  and  the  Devisees  of  the  late 
Mr.  Swinglehurst  of  Park  Hill ;  and  on  the  South  is  another  founded  by  the  Town- 
leys  of  Barnside,  and  is  probably  the  "  St.  Cytes'  Quire,"  (St.  Osythe  ?)  men- 
tioned in  the  year  1576,  and  commonly  called  "the  Townley  Choir."  It  is  now 
the  property  of  E.  Every  Clayton  Esq.  In  the  year  1535  the  two  Priests  of  these 
Chantries  were  John  Fielden  and  Robert  Blakey;  and  the  Curate  of  the  Church  was 
Sir  John  Hegyn. — Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xiv.  p.  46.  Blakey  is  named  in  the  Will  of  Sir 
William  Fairbank,  Chaplain  of  Colne,  dated  June  10th  1520: — "I  give  to  Sir  Robert 
Blakey,  Chapleyn,  vis  viiid,  to  praye  for  my  Sawle  wheresoever  ye  hee  wyll,  and  to  the 
said  Sr  Kobert  a  Gown  of  Cloth  wth  lyning,  &c.  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  ix.  p.  289. 

Colne  was  returned  in  the  year  1650  as  a  Parochial  Chapelry,  ten  miles  from  the 
Parish  Church,  and  embracing  four  hundred  families.  Mr.  John  Horrocks,  "a  very 
able  Divine,"  received  £11.  10s.  from  the  Farmer  of  the  Rectory  of  Whalley,  and 
£28. 10s.  from  the  late  County  Committee.  The  Inhabitants  desired  to  have  a  Parish. — 
Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  Horrocks,  (called  Horroths,  by  Walker,  in  his  Sufferings  of 
the  Clergy,  p.  400,)  was  put  in  by  the  Parliament  in  the  year  1645,  on  the  expulsion 
of  Mr.  John  Warriner  M.A.  who  had  been  recommended  by  Archbishop  Laud  in  the 
year  1636,  but  who  was  so  obnoxious  to  the  Puritans,  that,  although  of  unexception- 
able life,  and  advanced  in  years,  he  was  dragged  from  the  Reading  Desk  by  two  sol- 
diers in  the  time  of  Service,  hurried  down  the  Aisle,  and  was  only  prevented  being 
fired  on  by  the  interference  of  the  Congregation.  Horrocks  is  said  to  have  been  so 
immoral  a  man  that  he  plainly  told  the  people  "  to  do  as  he  said,  and  not  as  he  did." 
He  remained  here  until  his  death  in  the  year  1670.  Several  of  the  rent  charges 
enumerated  by  Bishop  Gastrell  were  due,  but  withheld  during  the  Commonwealth. 
In  the  year  1632  the  Pious  Use  Commissioners,  who  sat  at  Bolton-le-Moors,  decreed 
that  certain  rents  were  charged  on  lands  which  had  been  originally  given  to  super- 
stitious purposes,  and  were  seized  for  the  King  in  the  year  1547;  but  that  the 
owners,  to  whom  the  lands  had  been  conveyed  by  the  Crown,  were  not  exempt  from 
the  ancient  payments  to  the  Incumbents  of  Colne. 


326  $otttta 

7  Wardens ;  2  Assist,  [ants.] 

4  m.[iles]  from  any  Church  or  Chap,  [el,]  except  Marsden. 
$?aIIjS.         Barnside,2  Emmott,3  Alkincoats,4  [and]  Wycoller.5 

is  a  School,  Free  for  4  Poor  Boyes ;  Sal.  [ary]  21  p.  [er] 
an.  [num,  the]  Int.  [erest]  of  401,  left  by  one  Thomas  Blakely, 
[Blakey  of  Marsden,]  about  20  years  agoe,  [by  WTill  dated  the 
16th  of  February  1687.]  There  is  about  10s  p.  [er]  an.  [num]  paid 
from  severall  Cottages,  but  how  given  at  first  is  not  known.  (Left 
by  [the]  Will  of  John  Milner  in  1713,  £3  per  annum.)  Left  by 
John  Smith  (of  Barrowford,)  an.  [no]  1716,  201,  [the]  Int.  [erest] 

In  a  letter  to  Bishop  Gastrell,  dated  Colne,  May  17,  1720,  the  Rev.  John  Barlow, 
says,  "  Dec.  1,  1713,  was  buryed  at  Coin,  John  Milner,  who  had  a  Freehold  Estate  of 
the  value  of  £15  or  £16  a  year,  and  on  that  left  a  rent  charge  of  £3  a  year  to  the 
Minister  of  Coin,  for  the  time  being,  for  ever,  and  £3  a  year  to  the  Schoolmaster  of 
Coin,  for  ever ;  the  first  payment  to  commence  after  the  decease  of  Mary  Milner  his 
sister,  who  is  still  living,  and  aged,  as  I  conjecture,  betwixt  40  and  50  years.  Like- 
wise Nov.  26,  1716,  John  Smith,  a  Tradesman  within  this  Chapelry,  was  then  buried, 
who,  by  Will,  left  £40,  the  Interest  to  be  paid  annually  to  the  Minister  of  Coin,  (who 
is  obliged  to  Preach,  every  year,  a  Funeral  Sermon ;)  the  said  John  Smith  also  left 
£20  to  the  Coin  School,  the  Interest  to  be  paid  yearly  to  the  Master ;  and  also  the 
Interest  of  £20  to  the  Poor  of  Coin.  Now  Thomas  Butterfield  being  Executor  to 
John  Smith,  and  not  over  honest,  doth  say  that  the  assets  of  the  said  Testator  will 
not  extend  to  pay  more  than  £10  to  the  Curate,  and  £10  to  the  School  and  Poor ; 
but  the  said  John  Smith  having  had  both  a  Real  and  Personal  Estate,  the  Chapel- 
wardens  have  thought  it  fit  to  commence  a  Suit  in  Chancery  against  the  said  Execu- 
tor, which  Suit  hath  been  depending  for  two  years  and  never  as  yet  come  to  a  Trial, 
but  is  undetermined.  Neither  of  the  said  Testators  were  married,  but  died  in 
cselibacy."  These  two  sums  of  £3  per  annum  each,  are  paid  to  the  Minister  and 
Schoolmaster.  The  Suit  was  determined  in  the  Duchy  Court  in  the  year  1720,  when 
the  Executor  was  decreed  to  pay,  to  Trustees  named,  £30  for  the  Minister,  £15  for 
the  School,  and  £15  for  the  Poor  of  Colne. 

2  Bernesete  or  Barnside,  was  recovered  at  York,  in  the  29th  Edward  I.  by  the  Prior 
and  Convent  of  St.  John  of  Pontefract,  from  Simon  Nowell.  For  some  time  the 
Manor  was  held  under  the  Priory  by  the  Townleys,  but  at  the  Dissolution  it  was 
granted  in  the  36th  Henry  VIII.  to  John  Braddyll  of  Whalley  Gent,  by  whom  it  was 
conveyed  to  the  Townleys.  It  passed  in  the  year  1754,  in  marriage  with  Margaret, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Richard  Townley  Esq.  to  John  Clayton  of  Harwood  Esq. 
father  of  Colonel  Thomas  Clayton.  —  See  p.  278,  Note  6.  One  part  of  the  house 
is  attributed,  by  Whitakcr,  to  the  age  of  Edward  IV.  or  a  little  later.  It  is  now 


g  of  Bladtfcum  327 

to  [be  paid  to]  ye  Master ;  but  ye  Executor  refusing  to  pay  this, 
and  another  sum  given  to  ye  Poor,  the  Min.[ister]  and  Chap,  [el] 
wardens  have  commenced  a  Suit  in  Chancery  wch  is  not  yet  ended. 
An.  [no]  1720.  The  Master  is  nominated  by  the  Curate  and 
Heads  of  the  Chapelry. 

to  ye  Poor  a  Meadow  called  Lord's  Ing,  (before  1671,) 
val.[ue]  20s  p.[er]  an.[num,]  by  Mr.  Henry  Shaw;  given 
by  Mr.  Ambrose  Walton,  701 ;  [by]  Mr.  William  Rycroft  of  the 
Haug,  501;  Mrs.  Alice  Hartley  of  Laund,  gave  601,  (in  the  42d 

occupied  by  a  farmer,  and  has  been  sold  since  the  death  of  Colonel  Clayton,  for 
£22,000,  to  Mr.  Eobert  Halstead  Hargreaves  of  Ardwick,  and  is  now  the  pro- 
perty of  his  son. 

3  Emmott  was  in  the  possession  of  Robert  de  Emot  in  the  4th  Edward  II.  and 
continued  in  the  male  line  until  the  death  of  John  Emmott  Esq.  in  the  year  1746, 
(the  Founder  of  a  Free  School  at  Laneshaw  Bridge  near  Emmott,)  when  the  Estate 
passed  to  his  nephew,  Eichard  Wainhouse  Gent,  who  assumed  the  name  of  Emmott, 
and  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Eichard  Emmott  Esq.  who  died  in  the  year  1819,  with- 
out legitimate  issue,  when  the  Estate  passed  by  devise  to  his  two  nieces,  of  whom 
Harriet  Susanna  Eoss,  married  Q-eorge  Green  Esq.  and  at  her  death  in  the  year  1839, 
she  was  succeeded  by  her  son,  George  Emmot  Green  now  of  Emmot  Esq.  who  suc- 
ceeds to  this  Estate  on  the  death  of  his  Aunt  Caroline,  wife  of  Edward  Parkins  Esq. 

4  Alcancoats  or  Alkincoats,  was  held  by  John  le  Parker  in  the  35th  Edward  III. 
but  appears  to  have  been  purchased  by  Eobert  Parker  Esq.  second  son  of  Thomas 
Parker  of  Browsholme  Esq.  at  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century.     Thomas  Parker 
Esq.  his  great  great-grandson,  formerly  Captain  in  the  Eoyal  Horse  Guards  Blue, 
dying  without  issue  in  the  year  1832,  devised  Browsholme  Hall,  (which  he  had  pur- 
chased of  his  cousin,  Thomas  Lister  Parker  Esq.  in  the  year  1820,)  and  Alkincoats, 
to  his  nephew,  Thomas  Goulbourn  Parker  Esq.  second  son  of  his  brother,  Edward 
Parker  of  Newton  Hall  Esq. ;  and  in  the  year  1841,  the  latter  became  the  owner  of 
Alkincoats,  by  purchase. 

8  Wycoller  or  Wykeoller,  was  in  the  possession  of  Piers  Hartley  Gent,  in  the  22d 
Henry  VII.  and  passed  in  marriage  with  the  heiress  of  that  family,  about  the  middle 
of  the  sixteenth  century,  to  Nicholas  Cunlifie  of  Hollins  Gent,  whose  descendant, 
Henry  Owen  Cunliffe  Esq.  dying  in  the  year  1819,  the  Estate  of  Wycoller  was  pur- 
chased, under  a  Decree  of  Chancery,  by  the  Mortgagee,  the  Eev.  John  Oldham,  the 
present  owner. 

The  Hall  contains  a  remarkable  fire-place,  surrounded  with  stone  benches,  and  is 
said  to  be  as  old  as  the  time  of  Henry  VI.  Gregson  gives  a  drawing  of  it,  and  says 
the  house  was  built  between  the  years  1550  and  1560. — Fragments  of  Lancashire. 


328  liotttta 

Elizabeth;)  [by]  Mr.  Lau.[rence]  Manknowles  of  Town  House, 
(in  1660,)  101  p.[er]  an.[nmn]  Rent  Charge;6  by  a  Benefact.[or] 
unknown,  50s  p.[er]  an.[num,]  Rent  Charge  on  Lands  near 
Bradford,  Yorkshire;7  and  by  another  person  unknown,  I^IS8^, 
upon  some  lands  near  Birchenley.  [The]  Writings  are  in  ye 
hands  of  ye  Chap. [el]  wardens  and  Overseers;  and  the  several 
sums  are  justly  distributed  as  the  Wills  of  the  Donors  and  Duty 
require.  Certificate]  of  John  Barlow,  Cur.  Oct.  25,  1718. 


Cf)ap.$ar.  |||  ©OTN3&&I&,1  Certified]  101.15*. 

flucpn.  tlSBBR  04d,  viz.  paid  by  [the]  Abp.  of  Cant. 

Fam se   [erbury,]    101 ;  Surp.[Hce]  fees,  15s -4d;  old  allowance,  41  p.[er] 

Diss.  ......  00 

6  This  Rent  Charge  after  having  been  regularly  paid  by  the  Mancknolls'  family  for 
one  hundred  and  seventy  years,  has  been  withheld  since  the  year  1837,  under  the  pre- 
tence that  it  was  barred  by  the  Mortmain  Act. 

7  Thomas  Smith  of  Edge,  by  Will  dated  1642,  left  the  interest  of  £50  to  the  Poor 
of  Colne ;  and  Christopher  Smith,  his  Executor,  in  the  year  1699,  invested  it  in  a 
Kent  Charge  of  50s.  a  year  on  the  Estate  of  Eobert  Craven  of  Erizinghall  in  the 
Parish  of  Bradford.     This  Rent  Charge  has  been  withheld  for  upwards  of  twenty 
years.     The  conjecture  of  the  Charity  Commissioners  as  to  the  origin  of  this  charity 
was  erroneous. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Leonard.    Value  in  1834,  £129.     Registers  begin  in  1653. 

The  Manor  of  Downham  was  held  at  and  anterior  to  the  Conquest,  by  Aufray  or 
Alfred,  a  Saxon,  and  was  granted  by  him  to  Hbert  de  Lacy,  who  confirmed  it  to  his 
brother,  Ralph  le  Rous.  It  afterwards  reverted  to  the  chief  Lords  of  the  Fee,  and  in 
the  year  1353  Henry,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  granted  it  to  John  de  Dyneley,  in  whose 
family  it  continued  until  it  was  sold  by  Henry  Dineley  Esq.  in  the  year  1545,  to 
Richard  Greenacres  and  Nicholas  Hancock,  who  again  sold  it  to  Ralph  Greenacres, 
who,  in  the  year  1558,  alienated  it  to  Richard  Assheton  Esq.  He  devised  it  to  his 
great  nephew,  Richard  Assheton,  second  son  of  Ralph  Assheton  of  Lever  Esq.  and 
Richard,  his  grandson,  dying  unmarried  in  the  10th  Charles  II.  devised  his  Estates 
in  Downham  and  Worston  to  Sir  Ralph  Assheton  of  Whalley  Bart,  whose  son  having 
no  issue  settled  the  Manor  of  Downham,  in  the  year  1678,  upon  his  cousin,  Richard 
Assheton  of  Cuerdale  Esq.  the  lineal  ancestor  of  William  Assheton  Esq.  the  present 
Manorial  owner,  and  the  only  known  male  representative  of  this  feudal  and  aristo- 
cratic house. 

The  Chapel  of  Downham  existed  prior  to  the  foundation  of  Whalley  Abbey,  and 


Drnnmj  of  BlacMmrn.  329 

an.[num;]  added  by  Abp.  Juxon,  31  p.[er]  an.[num,]  as  appears 
by  [the]  Curate's  receipt  an.  [no]  1663.  [A]  Curate  [was]  Nom. 
[inated]  to  Downham  and  Whitewell,  an.  [no]  1702.  V.[ide] 
Pap.  Reg.  V.[ide]  Subs.[cription\  B.[ook,~\  an. [no]  1693. 

4  Wardens. 

5  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  2  m.[iles]  from  [the]  next  Chap.[el.] 
Augm.[ented]  wth  2001  by  Mr.  Curzon  an.  [no]  1722;    [and]  he 

nominates  the  Curate.     V.[ide]  ALTHAM. 
Downham.2 

is  a  School,  Free  to  ye  Poor  Children  of  Downham  only, 
Endowed  by  Ralph  Asheton  Esq.  with  51  p.[er]  an.[numj 
being  [the]  Int.[erest]  of  1001  left  by  his  Will  about  ten  years 
agoe,  [in  1703.]  The  Feoffees  have  purchased  wth  this  money  a 
Copyhold  Estate  [of  the  value]  of  e^lO3  p.[er]  an.[num,]  but 
[when  the]  repairs  and  chief  rents  [are]  deduct,  [ed]  ye  Master 

consists  of  a  Tower,  Aisles,  and  North  and  South  Chapels.  The  Altarage  of  the 
Chapel  of  "  Dounom  was  estimated  at  four  marcs  on  Friday  next  before  the  Feast  of 
St.  Gregory,  1296,"  (Coucher  Book  of  Whalley  Abbey,  p.  205,)  and  which  Altarage 
belonged  of  right  to  the  Church  of  Blackburn,  which  allowed  the  customary  stipend 
of  four  marcs  a  year  to  the  Chaplain  nominated  by  the  Rector  of  Blackburn.  The 
South  Chapel  was  rebuilt  by  the  late  William  Assheton  Esq.  Sheriff  of  Lancashire. — 
Whitaker's  Whalley.  Baines  says  that  in  the  year  1800  the  Chapel  was  rebuilt  at 
the  cost  of  Lady  Assheton  of  Downham,  who  left  £1000  for  that  purpose.  There 
was  no  such  person  at  Downham. 

The  North  Chapel  is  the  property  and  burial  place  of  the  Starkies  of  Twistou,  de- 
scended from  the  Dineleys.  In  the  1st  Edward  III.  John  de  Dineley  granted  Twiston 
to  Richard  de  Greenacres,  whose  descendant,  Sir  Richard,  left  two  daughters  and  co- 
heiresses, one  of  whom,  Joanna,  married  Henry  de  Worsley,  whose  grandson  died  in 
the  3d  Edward  IV.  leaving  coheiresses,  the  youngest  of  whom,  Alice,  married  Thomas 
Starkie,  brother  of  Edmund  Starkie,  the  first  of  Huntroyd,  and  conveyed  to  him  a 
moiety  of  the  Manor  of  Twiston,  which  descended  to  Thomas  Starkie  Esq.  M.A. 
Fellow  of  S.  Catherine  Hall  Cambridge,  and  Downing  Professor  of  Laws,  who  died 
April  5,  1849,  leaving  issue  two  daughters. 

John  Dyneley  of  Downham  Gent,  by  Will  dated  the  10th  of  July  1501,  leaves 
"  his  body  to  be  buried  in  his  burial  place  within  the  Chapel  of  S.  Leonard  of  Down- 
ham  ;"  and  gives  vs,  and  his  best  beast  for  a  mortuary,  to  the  Abbey  of  Whalley.  — 
Lane.  MSS.  vol.  is.  p.  54.  In  the  year  1535  Sir  Richard  Dugdale  was  the  Minister, 
and  Robert  Whytehead  the  Chantry  Priest  of  Downham. — Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xi.  p.  45. 
VOL.  II.]  V  V 


330  liotftia 

receives  only  51  p.  [er]  an.  [num.]  The  Curate  is  to  be  [the]  Mas- 
ter, and  is  nominated  by  [the]  Vicar  of  Whalley  :  If  [the]  Curate 
refuses,  the  Trustees  are  to  dispose  of  ye  51  p.[er]  an.[num]  as 
they  see  fit.  101  more  [is]  given  by  ye  said  Mr.  Ashetou,  [the] 
Int.  [erest]  to  buy  Books.  The  Children  to  be  taught  are  such 
whose  Parents  are  farmers  of  the  Township,  and  doe  not  Rent 
above  101  p.  [er]  an.  [num.] 

Cfjarittetf.  tbett  to  ye  Poor  by  Mr.  R.  [ichard]  Waddington  [of  Whalley, 

by  Will  dated  August  28th  1671,]  201;  given  by  that  Honble 
and  Good  Lady  the  Lady  Eliz.[abeth]  Asheton  [of  Downham 
Hall,  in  1686,]  201;  [by]  Mrs.  Mar.[garet]  Sclater  [of  Swains- 
clough  in  the  Parish  of  Gisburn,  in  the  county  of  York,  on  the  9th 
of  May  1702,]  51.  This  Stock  is  now  in  the  hands  of  Christopher 
Tattersall  Junr.  of  Downham,  but  only  until  one  can  be  procured 
who  will  give  good  security  for  it.  Certif.  [icate]  of  James  Long- 
field,  Curate,  Oct.  27,  1718. 

The  Choir  on  the  South  is  appropriated  to  the  Manor-house,  and,  in  a  vault  built 
by  Sir  Ralph  Assheton  Bart,  in  the  year  1655,  rest  many  of  the  Asshetons  of  Down- 
ham.  The  three  Bells  of  the  Church  are  said  to  have  been  removed  from  Whalley 
Abbey  Church  by  one  of  the  earlier  Asshetons,  a  supposition  far  from  being  impro- 
bable. 

Downham  was  returned  in  the  year  1650  as  a  Parochial  Chapelry  consisting  of 
three  hundred  families.  Mr.  George  Whitaker  M.A.  received  £10  from  the  Farmer 
of  the  Eectory,  and  £30  a  year  from  the  late  County  Committee.  The  Inhabitants 
desired  that  Twiston,  having  forty  families,  might  be  annexed  to  Downham,  and  be 
constituted  a  Parish,  with  a  competent  allowance  for  a  Minister. — Parl.  Inq.  Lamb. 
MSS.  vol.  ii. 

The  Advowson  is  vested  in  the  Feoffees  of  William  Hulme  Esq.  by  purchase  from 
Earl  Howe. 

2  Downham  Hall  existed  in  the  year  1308 ;  the  centre  and  one  wing  were  rebuilt 
about  the  year  1775,  and  the  other  wing  was  afterwards  added  by  William  Assheton 
Esq.  Dr.  Whitaker  well  observes,  that  in  point  of  situation,  it  has  certainly  no  equal 
in  the  Parish  of  Whalley. 


of  ttlarftfcurn.  331 


Certif.[ied]    that  Fam 120 

there  is  no  endowment.  The  Inhab. 
[itants]  allow  some  inconsiderable  contrib.[utions,]  which  are 
ill  paid. 

Divine  Service  [is  performed]  and  [a]  Sermon  [preached]  once 
a  fortnight  by  [the]  Curate  of  Altham. 

Goodshaw,  a  Chappell  within  Haslingden.  I  preach  there 
sometimes,  but  have  nothing  for  my  pains.  Curate  of  Hasling- 
den's  AccL  an.  [no]  1704.  V.[ide]  Pap.  Reg. 

Served  by  [the]  Curate  of  Haslingdeu,  an.  [no]  1724. 

[There  is]  one  Cottage  belong,  [ing]  to  [the]  Chappell,  let  for 
10s  p.  [er]  an.  [num.]  Certif.[ied]  an.  [no]  1725. 

8  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  2  m.[iles]  from  [the]  next  Chap, 
[el.] 

Neither  School  nor  Charities. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Mary  and  All  Saints.  Value  in  1834  £121.  Itegisters  begin  in 
1732. 

Goodshaw  is  situated  in  Higher  Booth,  and,  although  in  the  Chapelry  of  Has- 
lingden, is  dependent  upon  Whalley,  and  not  Haslingden  as  stated  by  Baines.  The 
Chapel  was  built  here  in  the  year  1540,  32d  Henry  VIII.  and  rebuilt  in  the  years 
1817-18.  In  the  year  1650  Goodshaw  was  returned  as  not  Parochial,  though 
having  seventy  families,  and  being  eleven  miles  from  the  Parish  Church.  It  had  then 
neither  Minister  nor  maintenance  "  save  one  Messuage  and  a  back-side  worth  10s  per 
ann."  The  Inhabitants  desired  to  have  a  Parish,  and  a  competent  allowance  for  a 
resident  Minister. — Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  It  has  now  a  district  assigned  to 
it  comprising  Morrell  Height,  where  it  is  situated,  Crawshaw  Booth,  Gambleside, 
Goodshaw,  and  Love  Clough.  There  is  a  Parsonage-house,  a  resident  Incumbent 
with  a  Curate,  and  Schools  in  active  operation, — all  forming  a  pleasing  contrast  to  the 
gloomy  picture  drawn  by  Bishop  Gastrell  and  the  Curate  of  Haslingden  in  the  text, 
and  to  the  still  more  touching  and  miserable  picture  of  the  Eepublican  and  Puritan 
era.  The  Minister  is  appointed  by  the  Trustees  of  William  Hulme  of  Hulme  and 
Kearsley  Esq. 


332  liotitta 

aaWNfcMN,1   Certified]   171- 

Fam          7  08s-7d-3(ir;   paid  ann*y  by  [the]  Abp. 

IM^'M  f9  of  Cant,  [erbury,]  II1-  10s;  every  Easter  a  rent  charged  upon  Land 
&)&££: if  by  [the]  WiU  of    ....     12";  surp.[Uce]  fees,  4i.6«.7d-3V; 

[Q.lO.Ind.5.]   Eagter  RoU)  11. 

Old  Allowance,  41  p.[er]  an.[num;]  added  by  Abp.  Juxon, 
71-10S,  as  appears  by  [the]  receipt  of  [the]  Curate,  an. [no] 
1663. 

Vie'3  Nominat.  [ion]  of  a  Curate,  an.  [no]  1695.  V.[ide]  Pap. 
Reg. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  James.    Value  in  1834,  £176.     Kegisters  begin  in  1685. 

Haslingden  is  not  a  distinct  Manor,  but  a  member  of  the  Manor  of  Accrington 
within  the  Honor  of  Clitheroe.  In  the  53d  Henry  III.  Robert  de  Haslingden  held 
lands  here,  and  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  Robert  de  Holden  to  whose  son  Adanij 
in  the  56th  Henry  III.  Henry  de  Lacy  granted  the  lands  of  W.  de  Reelin,  and  William 
his  son,  which  reverted  to  the  Grantor  by  the  felony  of  William  de  Reelin,  who  was 
executed  at  Lancaster  in  the  year  1272.  The  same  Earl  granted  to  Robert  de  Holden 
all  the  lands  which  Robert,  son  of  Gilbert  de  Holden  and  William  le  Mordrimer  held 
of  him  in  the  town  of  Haslingden ;  in  the  year  1307  he  conveyed  to  Adam,  son  of 
Adam  de  Holden,  part  of  his  waste  of  Tottington  Frith ;  and  in  the  year  1328  the 
Earl  quit  claimed  to  Robert  de  Holden  a  piece  of  land  named  "Brodlieux,"  which  he 
had  by  the  gift  and  feoffinent  of  Alan  Bold.  The  Estate  descended  to  Robert  Holden 
of  Holdeu  and  Stockport  Esq.  who  died  in  the  year  1730,  aged  twenty-nine,  having 
by  Will  dated  the  20th  of  March  1729,  devised  his  Estates,  in  Trust,  to  his  wife, 
Martha,  (daughter  of  Thomas  Gilbody  of  Heap  Ridings  Gent.)  and  Henry  Har- 
greaves  of  Haslingden,  clothier,  (who  afterwards  married  the  widow  Holden,  bis  co- 
trustee,)  to  dispose  of  the  same  by  sale,  or  otherwise,  to  enable  them  to  pay  sundry 
mortgages  amounting  to  £3,600.  A  long  minority  enabled  the  Trustees  to  preserve 
Holden,  which  consisted  of  108a.  3r.  and  valued  in  the  year  1721  at  £30  per 
annum,  for  Ralph  Holden  (the  only  son  of  this  improvident  individual,)  on  whose 
death  in  the  year  1778,  the  Estate,  (augmented  by  the  addition  of  Palace  House, 
which  he  obtained  in  marriage  with  Mary,  sole  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Holden 
Esq.)  descended  to  his  only  son,  Ralph  Holden,  who,  dying  unmarried  in  the  year 
1792,  it  passed  to  his  two  sisters,  the  younger  of  whom  died  in  the  year  1817  s.p. ; 
and  Betty,  the  elder,  married  in  the  year  1788,  Henry  Greenwood  of  Burnley  Esq. 
whose  son  and  heir,  John  Greenwood  of  Palace  House  Esq.  dying  in  the  year 
1834  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Henry,  who  obtained  the  Royal  License  in  the  year 
1840,  to  assume  the  surname  and  arms  of  Holden,  and  is  now  the  owner  of  Holden 
Hall  and  Palace  House. — Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xxxi.  pp.  250 — 263. 


Oranmj  of  BlacUtwvu.  333 

Recommendation  of  a  Curate  by  [the]  Inhabitants,]  wth  ye 
approbation  and  appointment  of  [the]  Vicar,  1704.  Ib. 

Worth  but  12l  p.[er]  an.[num;]  Easter  Dues  are  paid  to  ye 
Vicar;  contrib. [utions]  very  insignificant.  Curate's  Actf-  an. [no] 
1704.  Pap.  Reg. 

Aug.[mented]  an.  [no]  1719  wth  2001,  by  Mr.  George  Har- 
greaves,2  and  others. 

6  Wardens. 

In  the  year  1296  there  was  a  Chapel  here,  as  the  Tithe  Corn  was  then  valued  at 
v  marcs,  and  the  Altarage  of  the  Chapel,  with  lands  pertaining  to  the  Lords,  at  iiii 
marcs,  and  the  Eector  of  Blackburn  was  bound  to  find  a  Chaplain  and  to  pay  him 
four  marcs,  "according  to  the  custom  of  the  country." — Coucher  Book  of  Whalley, 
p.  206.  In  the  year  1535  Sir  John  Holden  was  the  Curate,  and  Christopher  Jackson 
the  Chantry  Priest  of  Haslingden.  — Lane.  MSS.  vol.  ix.  p.  46.  In  the  year  1650  it 
was  described  as  a  Parochial  Chapelry,  eight  miles  from  the  Parish  Church,  the 
Inhabitants  being  desirous  of  having  a  Parish  and  a  competent  endowment.  Mr. 
Robert  Grilbody,  the  Minister,  was  at  that  time  suspended  by  the  Divines.  —  Parl. 
Inq.  Lamb.  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

The  old  Church  was  rebuilt  in  the  year  1780,  with  funds  partly  raised  by  a  Brief 
dated  the  1st  of  March  1773,  but  the  Tower,  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  was  per- 
mitted to  stand.  It  was  taken  down,  however,  and  rebuilt  in  the  year  1828,  and  a 
musical  peal  of  eight  Bells  presented, : —  six  of  them  by  private  individuals,  and  two 
purchased  by  subscription.  The  Church  was  also  considerably  enlarged  at  the  same 
time,  in  a  style  of  architecture  which,  unfortunately,  does  not  admit  of  descrip- 
tion. 

In  the  old  Church  was  an  Aisle  on  the  North  side  of  the  Choir  belonging  to  the 
family  of  Rawstorne  of  Newhall,  and  another  on  the  South  belonging  to  the  Holdens 
of  Holden,  but  purchased  by  the  Inhabitants,  in  order  to  preserve  the  uniformity  of 
the  new  erection. — Whitaker's  History  of  Whalley,  p.  417.  "A  Quire,  within  the 
Chancel  of  the  Church  or  Chapel,  which  of  right  belonged  to  the  ancient  and  capital 
messuage  called  Ewood  Hall  in  Haslingden,  late  the  Inheritance  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
G-artsyde  of  Newington  in  the  county  of  Kent,"  is  named  in  a  Deed  dated  the  1st  of 
October  1617.  — Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xxxi.  Ewood  Evid.  Robert  Deurden  of  Hasling- 
den, yeoman,  by  Will  dated  the  10th  of  October  1608,  bequeathed  "  xxs  to  the  setting 
forth  of  an  He  at  the  Church  of  Haslingden,  if  the  same  be  sett  furth  within  fyve 
yeres  next  following." — Lane.  MSS.  vol.  iv.  p.  265. 

The  patronage  is  now  vested  in  the  Trustees  of  William  Hulme  of  Hulme  and 
Kearsley  Esq. 

2  Mr.  George  Hargreaves  of  Haslingden,  mercer,  the  benefactor  to  the  Church,  by 
Will  dated  the  25th  of  December  1723,  gave  £30  to  the  industrious  Poor  of  Hasling- 
den, the  interest  to  be  expended  yearly  in  Linen  Cloth,  by  his  Executors. 


334  iiotttta  Cestrtensts. 

7  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  3  from  [the]  next  Chap.  [el.  J 
Holden  and  Todd3. 

m  is  a  School  endowed  wth  [the]  Int.  [erest]  of  1001  left  by 
Mr.  Ashton,4  late  Curate  here.     The  Curate  to  be  Master. 

Presentm'  1716. 

An.  [no]  1718,  Isaac  Place,  Curate,  certifyes  y*  there  is  not  any 

School  in  this  Chappelry. 


92  Wjjl.  (QHIft,1  under  BURNLEY,  Certif.[ied] 

ilfji  that  nothing  belongs  to  it.     A  Sermon 
[is  preached]  once  a  Quarter  by  [the]  Curate  of  Burnley. 

3  Todd  Hall,  in  Haslingden,  was  a  Copyhold  Estate,  and  in  the  year  1569  Adam 
Holden  Gent,  second  son  of  Gilbert  Holden  of  Holden  Esq.  stated  in  a  Deposition, 
that  he  had  lived  at  Todd  Hall  for  twenty-one  years.     Andrew  Holden,  by  Will  dated 
August  8th  1590,  mentions  his  father  and  mother,  Adam  and  Margaret,  and  his  bro- 
brother,  Ealph  Holden,  and  states  that  Todd  Hall  had  been  surrendered  to  Trustees 
for  his  (testator's)  use,  and  as  he  by  Will  should  devise,  by  Robert  Holden  Esq.  whom 
he  appointed  an  Executor  along  with  Charles  Gregory.     The  Estate  descended  to 
Thomas  Holden  Esq.  by  whom  it  was  mortgaged  in  the  year  1722  to  the  Rev.  Roger 
Kay,  Rector  of  Fittleton ;  and  the  mortgage  being  afterwards  assigned  to  Godfrey 
Wentworth  of  Woolley  Esq.  M.P.  he  filed  his  bill  in  the  Court  of  Chancery  in  the 
year  1741  against  Thomas  Holden  Esq.  who  was  debarred  and  foreclosed  of  and  from 
all  right  and  equity  of  redemption  in  the  Estate,  and  in  the  year  1746  it  was  sold. 
His  son,  Thomas  Holden,  was  then  living.  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  TTTI. 

4  Bishop  Gastrell  is  incorrect  in  stating  that  this  benefactor  was  Mr.  Ashton,  — 
nor  was  his  informant  right  in  stating  that  the  sum  was  left  for  the  endowment  of  a 
School.    The  benefactor  was  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Holden  M.A.  (fourth  son  of  Andrew 
Holden  of  Todd  Hall  Esq.)  who  married  at  Middleton,  on  the  1st  of  December  1686, 
Dorothy,  daughter  of  John  Hopwood  of  Hopwood  Esq.  and  subsequently  became 
Rector  of  Staveley  in  the  county  of  York.    By  Will  dated  the  9th  of  July  1716,  he 
gave  £50  to  be  invested  for  the  Poor  of  Haslingden  not  receiving  Parish  relief,  and 
the  interest  to  be  distributed  by  the  Minister  and  Churchwardens  at  Christmas  and 
Midsummer ;  and  a  further  sum  of  £50  to  the  Poor,  as  aforesaid,  if  Mary  Chadwick 
(of  Carter  Place,)  or  her  two  sons,  should  die  before  him  or  his  wife,  —  which  event 
occurred. 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.     Value  in  1834,  £101.     Registers  begin  in  1742. 
Holme  was  part  of  a  carucate  of  land  in  Cliviger  belonging  to  the  Abbey  of  Kirk- 


Heanerg  of  BJacfciwvn.  335 

9  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  2  from  [the]  next  Ch.[apel.]     Cer. 
tif.[icate\  of  R.  Kippax,  Cur,  [ate J  1719. 
[The  Holme.]2 

stall,  and  used  as  a  Grange.  It  was  afterwards  restored  by  the  Monks  to  the  chief 
Lord,  and  re-granted  in  the  year  1302  by  Henry,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  to  William  de 
Midlemore,  and  Margery  his  wife,  daughter  of  Gilbert  de  la  Legh,  the  first  of  Hap- 
ton  Tower.  They  were  both  living  in  the  year  1321 ;  but  before  the  year  1380  the 
Holme  had  passed  to  Peter  Tattersall,  having  previously  belonged  to  Edward  Legh, 
probably  a  kinsman  of  Margery  Midlemore.  In  the  9th  Henry  VI.  1430,  Thomas 
Whitaker  of  Holme  occurs ;  and  the  Estate  has  descended,  uninterruptedly,  to  the 
present  occupier,  Thomas  Hordern  Whitaker  Esq.  grandson  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Dunham  Whitaker  L.L.D.  the  classic  and  elegant  historian,  whose  character  and 
attainments  have  been  delineated  with  singular  felicity  by  a  native  of  the  same 
county,  who  has  himself  imbibed  the  spirit  and  successfully  cultivated  the  tastes  of  his 
highly  gifted  friend.  —  See  the  Appendix  to  Remarks  on  English  ChtircJies,  by  James 
Heywood  Markland  Esq.  D.C.L.  4th  edition. 

The  Chantry  of  Holme  was  founded  about  the  year  1537,  and  dissolved  in  the  year 
1547,  1st  Edward  VI.  when  a  pension  of  £1. 10s.  4d.  was  granted  to  Hugh  Watmough, 
the  stipendiary  Priest,  who,  in  the  3d  Elizabeth,  sold  a  portion  of  the  Chantry  lands 
within  Cliviger,  to  Thomas  Whitaker  of  Holme  Gent,  probably  the  Founder,  as  the 
site  was  taken  out  of  the  demesne  lands,  and  adjoined  the  house. 

Harrison,  in  his  Description  of  Britain,  (1577,)  alludes  to  this  Chantry.  He  says, 
"  this  brooke  riseth  above  Holme  Church,  goeth  by  Towneley  and  Burnley  —  bye  and 
bye  —  meeteth  with  the  Calder,  and  being  thus  enlarged,  runneth  forth  to  Reade, 
where  Mr.  Nowell  dwelleth,  to  Whalley,  and  soon  after  into  Ribble."  In  the  year 
1650  Holme  was  returned  as  a  Chapel,  not  Parochial,  four  miles  from  Burnley,  and 
eleven  from  Whalley,  without  any  maintenance. — Lamb-  MSS.  vol.  ii. 

Having  continued  without  a  stated  Minister  two  hundred  years,  though  never 
reduced  to  a  ruin,  it  was  in  the  year  1742  again  used  for  Divine  Service  by  the  nomi- 
nation of  an  Incumbent,  although  the  building  was  only  forty-two  feet  by  eighteen, 
within.  In  the  year  1788  it  was  rebuilt,  at  an  expense  of  £870,  more  than  a  moiety 
of  which  was  defrayed  by  Dr.  Whitaker,  and  consecrated  in  the  year  1794.  It  is  to  be 
regretted  that  no  regard  was  had  to  the  true  principles  of  Ecclesiastical  Architecture  in 
the  re-erection  of  this  Chapel,  but  that  it  remains  to  posterity  as  a  reflection  upon 
the  taste  of  an  individual  whom  all  Church  Antiquaries  are  well  disposed  to  honour, 
and  a  practical  commentary  upon  his  extraordinary  observation,  "  that  a  spirit  of  or- 
namental architecture  in  new  built  Churches  should  by  all  means  be  discouraged ;  by 
this  step  Religion  would  gain  much,  and  Taste  would  suffer  nothing ;  for  in  all  mo- 
dern edifices  of  this  kind,  the  point  required  has  been  (and  very  properly)  to  compress 
the  greatest  number  of  people  into  a  given  space,  and  that  end  is  scarcely  compatible 
with  graceful  form  or  elegant  proportion !"  —  History  of  Whalley,  p.  392. 

2  The  Holme  was  originally  built  of  timber,  and  the  centre  and  east  wing  were 


336  jHotitta 


74  (Hffl>  ^H&JoiBiEN,1   within  COLNE,   Certif. 

ilEkali  [ied]  that  no  more  belongs  to  it  than 
16s-8dp.[er]  an.  [num.]  A  Sermon  [is  preached]  once  a  month 
by  [the]  Curate  of  Colne. 

7  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;    2  [miles]  from  [the]  next  Chap,  [el.] 

rebuilt  in  the  year  1603.  The  West  end  remained  of  wood  until  the  year  1717.  It 
has  recently  been  much  improved  by  the  present  owner.  The  house  will  always  be 
interesting  to  the  Scholar,  the  Divine,  and  the  Antiquary,  from  the  high  associations 
which  connect  it  with  at  least  two  distinguished  and  learned  men. 

1  Patron  Saint  unknown.  Value  in  1834,  £94.  Eegisters  begin  in  1813 ;  pre- 
viously entered  at  Colne. 

Marsden,  formerly  Merclesden,  and  a  Forest,  gave  name  at  an  early  period  to  a 
family  of  which  was  Eichard  de  Merclesden,  Clerk,  who,  at  a  time  when  Concubinage 
was  as  much  avowed  as  Marriage,  gave  lands  in  Alcancoats,  in  the  year  1314,  to 
Robert  his  son,  whose  son  Richard,  living  in  the  year  1363,  had  three  sons,  John, 
Peter,  and  Gilbert,  Henry,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  in  the  second  year  of  his  Duchy, 
(1353,)  granted  all  the  lands  which  he  held  in  Colne  and  Marsden  to  Richard  de 
Walton :  and  again  the  Duke,  in  the  fourth  year  of  the  Duchy,  granted  to  the  same 
individual  other  lands,  in  Colne  and  Marsden.  Dr.  Whitaker  very  reasonably  conjec- 
tures this  to  have  been  the  origin  of  the  property  of  the  Walton  family  ;  and  the  pri- 
vilege of  appointing  the  Bell-man  of  Colne,  still  continued  in  the  family,  appears  to 
have  originated  in  the  feudal  office  of  "Staurator,"  or  Summoner,  of  the  Courts  of  the 
Duke  of  Lancaster.  The  family  did  not  appear  at  the  Heralds'  Visitations ;  but  in 
the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Henry  Walton  Gent,  had  two  sons,  Ambrose,  who  died 
s.p.  on  the  llth  of  March  1669-70,  when  his  brother  Henry  was  found,  by  Inquisi- 
tion, his  next  heir,  being  born  on  the  23d  of  August  1603,  and  buried  in  the  Church 
of  Colne  on  the  13th  of  June  1684,  leaving  issue  one  son  and  heir,  Henry  Walton, 
(ob.  1724,  set.  eighty,)  who  had  issue  Elizabeth,  ob.  unmarried  in  April  1688,  set. 
twenty -one;  Mary,  born  in  the  year  1669,  and  married  in  the  year  1698,  John 
Pearson  of  Wycoller  Gent,  (whose  descendants  still  survive ;)  and  Ambrose  Walton, 
his  only  son,  born  in  the  year  1671,  and  died  intestate  in  the  year  1710,  having  by 
his  wife,  (married  in  the  year  1692,)  Mary,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Henry  Banastre 
of  Altham  Esq.  two  sons,  Henry  and  Ambrose,  and  several  daughters.  Of  the  sons, 
Ambrose,  of  his  Majesty's  ship  Britannia,  died  unmarried  in  the  year  1741-2,  aged 
thirty-eight ;  and  Henry  succeeded  to  the  Estate  as  heir  general  of  his  grandfather, 
father,  and  mother.  His  two  sons  dying  issueless,  the  Estate  was  devised  by  the 
elder,  in  the  year  1784,  to  his  cousin,  the  Rev.  Richard  Wroe,  who  assumed  the  sur- 
name of  Walton,  and  died  on  the  3d  of  December  1801,  leaving  a  son,  who  was  suc- 
ceeded in  the  year  1845  by  his  sisters,  as  his  co-heiresses.  In  the  year  1849,  on  the 


J3eantr$  of  ttladtftufit.  337 

There  never  was  any  School  in  the  Chapelry  of  Marsden,  nor 
hath  any  one  taught  in  the  Chapel,  or  near  it,  for  some  years  last 
past,  except  a  poor  woman  that  in  the  Township  of  Marsden 
teacheth  some  small  children.  Certif.  [icate]  of  John  Barlow,  Cur. 
late  of]  Colne,  May  17,  1720. 

[Marsden  Hall.2] 

death  of  Jane,  the  younger  sister,  relict  of  Frederick  Maw  Esq.  the  Marsden  and 
Altham  Estates  devolved  on  Miss  Maria  Ann  Wroe  Walton,  the  present  excellent 
owner. — See  p.  306,  Note,  under  ALTHAM. 

A  Chapel  existed  here  as  early  as  the  reign  of  Edward  I.  certainly  anterior  to 
the  year  1296,  (Coucher  Book  of  Whalley,  p.  206,)  and  a  small  and  mean  structure, 
supposed  by  Dr.  Whitaker  to  have  been  consecrated  in  the  year  1544,  was  taken 
down  and  rebuilt  in  the  year  1809.  At  this  time  the  monthly  service  mentioned  by 
Bishop  Gastrell  had  been  extended  to  one  service  in  each  fortnight,  and  had  been 
immemoriably  performed  by  the  Minister  of  Colne.  Dr.  Whitaker' s  account  of  the 
method  he  adopted,  as  Vicar  of  Whalley,  to  remedy  this  evil,  cannot  be  read  without 
feelings  of  deep  admiration.  There  is  now  a  spacious  Church,  a  resident  Incumbent, 
and  a  large  congregation  twice  every  Sunday ;  whilst  in  the  year  1845,  a  Church  was 
erected  in  the  Township  of  Great  Marsden,  which  had  been  constituted  a  new  Parish 
by  the  Ecclesiastical  Commissioners,  Miss  Walton  and  Mrs.  Maw  having  given  £2,000 
towards  the  building.  The  same  ladies  also  contributed  £300  towards  the  erection  of 
a  National  School  and  Master's  House,  having  permanently  endowed  the  School  with 
£30  per  annum.  Nor  ought  it  to  be  omitted  here  that  the  same  benevolent  indivi- 
duals considerably  augmented  the  Living  of  Altham,  provided  a  good  Parsonage- 
house  for  the  Incumbents,  and  having  built  at  their  own  cost,  endowed  with  £30  a 
year,  a  National  School  at  Altham. 

2  Marsden  Hall  was  rebuilt  about  the  year  1740  by  Henry  Walton  Esq.  who  was  bap- 
tized on  the  22d  of  August  1698,  and  was  a  minor  on  the  death  of  his  mother,  the 
heiress  of  the  Banastres,  in  the  year  1718.  He  died  in  the  year  1754.  There  is  a 
fine  portrait  of  him  at  Browsholme,  Edward  Parker  and  Thomas  Lister  of  Gisburn 
Park  Esqrs.  having  been  his  Trustees.  Dr.  Whitaker  states  (p.  403  Note,)  that  the 
Manor  of  Altham  was  divided  between  the  two  co-heiresses  of  Henry  Banastre  in  the 
year  1699,  and  that  the  younger  sister  received  £1,200,  as  a  moiety,  holding  the 
whole  Estate  until  that  sum  was  discharged.  It  appears,  however,  that  Henry 
Banastre  of  Altham  Esq.  by  Will  dated  1684,  entailed  his  Manors  of  Altham, 
Easington,  &c.  on  his  son  Nicholas,  and  his  (Nicholas's)  sons,  in  tail  male,  and  in 
failure  of  issue  male,  on  his  (the  testator's)  elder  daughter,  Mary,  (afterwards  wife  of 
Ambrose  Walton,)  for  life,  and  on  her  sons  in  tail  male ;  in  failure,  on  his  younger 
daughter,  Isabella,  and  her  sons  in  tail  male ;  in  default  of  male  issue,  then  on  the 
daughters  of  his  son  Nicholas,  &c. ;  and  in  default  of  issue  of  all  his  said  children, 
the  remainder  over  to  the  use  of  his  nephew,  Francis,  son  of  Henry  Malham  of  Ree- 
diford  near  Colne,  (by  Dorothy  Banastre,  the  testator's  sister,)  and  his  heirs  male : 
VOL.  II.]  X  X 


338  idotttia 


Cf)ap.  $ar.  ffijil  lEOTO^SttC?!?,1  in  PENDLE,  called 

Uugm.  TC0G  formerly  the  Chappell  of  ye  Blessed 

Fam  230  Virgin  of  Pendill,  by  wch  name  it  was  Consecrated  an.  [no] 
1544.  In  ye  Act  of  Consecrat.  [ion]  ye  BP  does  exonerate  the 
Vicar  of  Whalley  a  qudcunq.  curd  et  Regimine  within  ye  Dis- 
trict belonging  to  this  Chappell  or  Parish  Church.  He  settles 
likewise  a  certain  allowance  for  ye  Curate,  wth  ye  Consent  of  ye 
Vicar  and  Churchwardens,  and  he  prohibits  ye  Curate  of  Castle 
Chap. [el]  in  Clithero  from  officiating  here.  R.[egister~]  B.[ook)']  2, 
p.  232. 

and  the  testator  provided  that  in  case  his  elder   daughter  should  succeed  to  his 
Estates,  the  younger  should  receive  £1,200.  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xxix. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Mary.    Value  in  1834,  £135.     Eegisters  begin  in  1574. 

The  Forest  of  Pendle,  in  and  surrounding  this  Chapelry,  takes  its  name  from  the 
hill  so  called,  and  was  one  of  the  four  divisions  of  the  great  Forest  of  Blackburnshire. 
This  forest  covered  an  extent  of  no  less  than  twenty-five  miles,  or  fifteen  thousand 
statute  acres.  As  early  as  the  year  1311,  it  was  divided  into  eleven  vaccaries,  of 
which  the  principal  names  as  they  appear  in  a  Commission  of  Henry  VII.  are 
preserved. 

The  Chapel  was  erected  here  by  the  Inhabitants  of  the  five  booths  of  Grouldshaw, 
Bareley,  Whitley,  Roughlee,  and  Ouldlawnde,  and  the  sentence  of  Consecration 
by  John  Bird,  Bishop  of  Chester,  bears  date  October  1st  1544,  (and  not  in  the  year 
1543,  as  given  by  Baines,)  thereby  decreeing  "  that  all  the  fruits,  oblations,  and  obven- 
tions  of  the  said  Chappel  should  goe  to  the  support  of  a  fit  Chaplayn  for  celebratynge 
Devine  Service,  and  for  repayringe  the  said  Chappel,  without  contradiction  or  decla- 
mation of  the  Vicar  of  Whalley,  and  saving  the  rights  of  the  Rectory."  —  Towneley 
MSS.  vol.  iv.  p.  2,  quoted  by  Whitaker.  A  Copy  of  the  Sentence  is  preserved  in 
Tol.  i.  in  the  Registry  at  Chester,  in  which  "the  late  Chappell  of  the  blessed 
V.  Mary  of  Pendle"  is  mentioned,  and  "the  Church  or  Chappell"  then  erected  is 
to  be  consecrated  "  for  the  Exercissing  of  Divine  offices  and  the  celebration  of  the 
Sacraments  and  Sacramentals  by  a  fitt  Chapleyne ;"  the  Inhabitants  of  the  said  ham- 
lets are  to  repaire  the  said  Church  or  Chapel,  and  in  default  to  be  cited ;  and  the 
Chaplain  of  the  Chapel  within  the  Castle  of  Clitheroe  is  not  to  celebrate  Divine  Ser- 
vice in  the  said  Church  of  Pendle ;  and  because  the  Bishop  had  not  his  Seal  at  hand, 
he  caused  the  Seal  of  his  Vicar  General  to  be  affixed  to  the  Deed,  36th  Henry  VIII. 
and  the  third  year  of  the  Bishop's  translation.  In  the  year  1650  it  was  stated  to  be 
Parochial,  embracing  one  hundred  and  fifty  families,  and  situate  five  miles  from  the 
Parish  Church ;  being  one  of  the  few  instances  in  which  the  distance  given  in  this 


Dcanrnj  of  BUirUtium.  339 

Certif.[ied]  011.12s.00d,  viz.  paid  from  Downham,  I1,  left  by  Sr 
Edm.[und]  Asheton;  12s,  [the]  Int.[erest]  of  101;  Subscrip. 
[tions,]  about  131. 

Augm.  [ented]  wth  2001  by  Mr.  Curzon,  an.  [no]  1722;  he  nomi- 
nates the  Curate.  V.[ide]  ALTHAM. 

4  Wardens. 

5  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  3  m.[iles]  from  [the]  next  Ch.[apel.] 


,  but  no  endowment.  5>tf)00I. 


to  ye  Poor2  by  John  Hargreaves,  10s  p.  [er]  an.  [num ;]  Cfjarttterf. 
Int.[erest]   of  money  by  Wm  Bullock,  3s;  by  John  Peel, 
1s -4d;  by  Hen.[ry]  Fearnside,  5s  a  year;  but  by  whom  the  money 
was  left  [is]  not  known. 

great  Inquisition  agrees  with  that  in  the  text.  The  Inquisitors  haying  an  object  in 
view,  placed  the  Chapels  as  remote  from  the  Mother  Church  as  possible,  and  not 
always  in  accordance  with  fact.  The  Inhabitants  desired  that  their  Chapelry  might 
be  made  a  distinct  Parish,  and  that  an  endowment  might  be  granted,  as  Mr.  Edward 
Lappage,  their  Minister,  who  is  described  as  "  an  able  Divine,"  had  only  £39  a  year, 
by  Order  from  the  County  Committee.  —  Part.  Inq.  Lamb.  Libr.  vol.  ii.  May  8th 
1737,  collected  on  a  Brief  for  Pendle  Chapel  in  Whalley,  2d.  —  Milnrow  Register. 
The  Chapel  had  been  rebuilt  in  the  year  1735,  at  a  cost  of  £1,268. 

The  Nave  and  North  Aisle  of  the  Chorch  were  rebuilt  in  the  year  1788 ;  but  the 
low  squat  Tower,  with  the  date  1712,  containing  one  bell,  was  allowed  to  remain. 
There  was  formerly  in  the  Chapel-yard  a  low  plain  cross  called  "  Pendle  Cross,"  at 
which,  in  the  29th  Henry  VI.  Rauf  Holden,  Abbot  of  Whalley,  with  the  Charterers 
and  Customers  of  the  Forest  held  a  meeting  to  enquire  into  encroachments  and 
abuses. 

The  Trustees  of  William  Hulme  Esq.  nominate  the  Incumbent. 

Malkin  Tower,  in  Pendle  Forest,  was  the  scene  of  pretended  Witchcraft  in  the  year 
1612,  and  again  in  the  year  1633,  when 'some  of  the  most  distinguished  individuals  in 
this  part  of  the  county  were  employed  in  the  investigation  of  it ;  amongst  others, 
John  Starkie  of  Huntroyd  Esq.  whose  grandfather  suffered  in  the  year  1594  from  a 
similar  delusion  at  Cleworth,  (see  p.  184 ;)  and  the  parties  implicated  in  the  popular 
mythology,  were  afterwards  examined  by  Bishop  Bridgeman,  and  also  by  Charles  I. 
in  person. 

G-eorge  Fox,  the  Founder  of  Quakerism,  asserted  that  he  received  his  first  Illumi- 
nation on  the  top  of  Pendle  Hill,  "a  very  high  mountain  in  Yorkshire."  —  See 


340  ilotttta 


Fam 235  fSH|  5E®5E©|^  H-llC^,1     in    RoSSENDALE. 

IMSS.  M.' An.  !i&i  The  Forrest  of  Rossendale  was  in  ye 

"  times  of  H.[enry]  7  and  H.[enry]  8  Disforrested,  and  ye  Land 
was  improved,  soe  y*  in  40  years  time  from  20  persons  ye  people 
were  encreased  to  1,000,  who  built  a  Chap,  [el]  for  themselves  and 
maintained  a  Minister.  V.  [ide]  Deed  [in]  New  Reg.  \ister.~] 

Leslie's  Snake  in  the  Grass,  p.  325  ;  Fox's  Journal,  p.  72.     This  was  before  the  year 
1647,  when  he  first  preached  in  Manchester.  —  Sewell,  p.  13. 

2  On  referring  to  the  original  Certificates,  it  seems  doubtful  whether  these  small 
sums  were  originally  given  to  the  Incumbent  or  to  the  Poor ;  and,  as  they  are  not 
noticed  by  the  Charity  Commissioners,  the  probability  is  that  they  were  gifts  for  the 
endowment  of  the  Chapel.  Mr.  J.  Glasbrook,  the  Curate,  states  on  May  15th  1720, 
that  Sir  Edmund  Asheton  of  Whalley  gave  £10,  and  that  he  could  not  learn  who 
gave  £20,  being  the  residue  of  the  endowment.  Christopher  Grimshaw  and  John 
Hartley,  the  Church-wardens,  afterwards  gave  "  a  particular  account  of  the  Charities 
belonging  to  the  Chapel  of  Pendle,"  and  said  that  "  Sir  Edmund  Asheton  Bart,  gave 
the  interest  of  £10  to  our  Chapel,  for  ever,  which  is  paid  by  John  Robinson  of  Bar- 
ley, yearly,  10s. ;"  and  then  follow  the  four  sums,  making  £1,  which  is  paid  in  the 
proportions  and  by  the  individuals  mentioned  by  Bishop  G-astrell. 

1  Dedicated  to  the  Holy  Trinity.    Value  in  1834,  £231.     Registers  begin  in  1654. 

The  name  of  this  place  is  obviously  derived  from  the  Church,  which  was  built  here 
in  the  year  1511,  and  was  the  first  Place  of  Worship  erected  in  the  Forest  of  Rossen- 
dale. The  hitter  name  is  probably  formed  from  the  British  word  rhos,  expressive  of 
the  dusky  colour  of  the  heath  grass. 

The  Chase  of  Rossendale  in  the  4th  Edward  II.  1310,  was  divided  into  eleven 
vaccaries,  or  cow  pastures;  and  in  the  22d  Henry  VII.  1506,  the  number  of  vaccaries, 
now  called  booths,  had  increased  to  nineteen.  The  names  are  still  preserved,  and 
form  the  townships  and  hamlets  of  the  Forest. 

Mr.  Baines  states  that  the  Chapel  was  dedicated  to  St.  Nicholas,  and  sufficiently 
large  for  eighty  persons,  being  the  existing  population ;  both  of  which  assertions  are 
inconsistent  with  the  text,  although  the  latter  assertion  is  made  on  the  authority  of 
Dr.  Whitaker.  On  the  llth  of  July  1515,  the  Curate  of  "  Rossyngdale"  paid  xxd  to 
the  Archdeacon  of  Chester,  for  his  admission  to  the  Curacy.  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  ix_ 
p.  292.  In  the  year  1561  the  population  was  found  to  be  too  large  for  the  Church, 
which  was  rebuilt  in  that  year,  and  again  in  the  year  1825.  The  Chapel  appears  to 
have  been  originally  called  "  Sedenayse  Chapel,"  and  there  is  still  on  the  North  of  the 
village  a  high  ground  called  "the  Seedenase,  or  Seeton-heys."  On  the  5th  of  April 
1548,  "  Sr  George  Gregore  of  Rossondayle,  p'st,"  after  directing  his  "  boddye  to  be 
buryd  in  ye  parysh  churche  yorde  of  haslyngden,"  bequeaths  by  Will  (proved  at 

—    V 


of  Blacfcfcum  341 

Au.  [no]  3  H.[enry]  8,  Lettice  Jackson,2  Widow,  Surrendred 
Lands  for  ye  Use  of  this  Chap,  [el]  now  worth  (an.  [no]  1718,)  401 
p.[er]  an.  [num.]  Only  201  of  wch  is  now  enjoyed  by  ye  Curate, 
the  Case  being  still  depending  in  [the]  Dutchy  Chamber.  V.  [ide] 
Commission  of  Char,  [itable]  Uses,  an.  [no~\  1665.  New  Reg.  [isterJ] 

An.  [no]  1724,  [The]  Chanc.  [ellor]  of  ye  Dutchy,  wth  Ld  Ch.  [ief ] 
J.  [ustice]  King  and  Mr.  Reeves,  Assistants,  unanimously  Decreed 
ye  Lands  in  Question  (being  by  Estimation  150  Statute  acres,)  to 
ye  Church,  wth  mean  profits  and  costs. 

This  Chap,  [el,]  wch  is  sd  to  belong  to  ye  Parish  of  Clithero,  from 
wch  it  was  12  m.[iles]  distant,  was  made  Parochiall  by  K.[ing] 
Edw.  [ard]  6,  and  called  by  ye  name  of  ye  Chap,  [el]  of  our  Saviour, 
wth  a  parcell  of  Ground  enclosed  wth  a  hedge,  called  ye  Chap,  [el] 
Yard,  to  have  all  Offices  performed  in  it  as  in  any  Par.  [ish] 
Church :  [The]  People  to  maintain  that  Curate  who  is  to  be 
named  by  [the]  B.[ishop]  of  [the]  Diocese.  V.[ide]  Order  of 
[the]  Dutchy  Court,  New  Reg.  [ister. ,] 

Chester,)  "to  ye  Sedenayse  chappell  in  Rossondayle  that  ye  S'uice  and  decaez  [decays?] 
yr  of  may  be  bettr  uphuldyne  &  my  saylle  prayde  fore  yre  for  eu,'  iij8  iiiid."  He 
appears  to  have  had  a  share  in  a  few  bee-hires, — some  of  which  stood  at  Wolfen- 
den-booth ;  and  the  whole  of  his  worldly  goods  amounted  to  50s.  Amongst  the  debts 
owing  to  him  are,  "  the  Chappell  ryres  of  Rossondayle,  iij5 ;  ward5  wagges,  y*  is  to  say 
Wyllyh'm  hasworth,  viii5  iiid ;  John  Nuttow,  ixd ;  Alex,  haworth,  viii8  iijd ;  John 
tatt'sall,  viii5  viid  ob. ;  Rye.  wytteworth,  vii5  xd  ob. ;  X'pofer  bryche,  vii8  xd  ob.  The 
Inhabitants  stated  in  the  4th  Edward  VI.  to  the  Commissioners  of  Pious  Uses,  that 
they  had  about  thirty-eight  years  before,  (1511,)  "made  a  Chapell  of  essement  in  ye 
middest  of  the  forrest,  the  way  to  their  parysshe  Chapell  of  Clithero  from  the  forrest 
being  penefull  and  p'ilous ;  and  that  ever  since  there  had  bene  an  honest  Minister, 
whom  they  had  supported,  as  well  as  the  said  Chapell,  wthout  any  detriment  to  ye 
parson  of  Clithero ;  and  they  pray  that  the  Inhabitants  of  Lenches,  Cowpe,  &c.  may 
be  annexed  to  the  said  Chapel  of  or  Saviour  within  the  forrest  of  Rossendale,  reserving 
the  right  of  appointing  the  Minister  to  the  Bishop. — Ex  archiv.  Ep.  Cestr.  This  was 
merely  a  Petition,  but  a  Decree  appears  to  have  been  grounded  upon  it, — the  Bishop, 
however,  never  exercising  his  right. — See  History  of  Whalley,  pp.  152-3. 

2  Dr.  Whitaker  expresses  some  surprise  that  the  Commissioners  of  Chantries  did  not 
seize  upon  these  lands ;  but  he  appears  to  have  forgotten  that  Newchurch  was  not  a 
Chantry,  but  a  Chapel  of  Ease  to  the  Castle  Church  of  Clitheroe,  and  therefore  the 
Chantry  Commissioners  had  no  power  to  divert  the  pious  gift  of  Lettice  Jackson. 

In  the  year  1664  Thomas  Sanders,  Clerk,  Minister  of  Kossendale,  was  complainant, 


342  i&otitta  (Eestmnats. 

Certif.[ied]  231-10s-00d,  viz.  201  Rent  Charge  upon  Copyhold 
Lands,  part  of  wch  being  now  Mortgaged  is  dubious ;  Surp.  [lice] 
fees,  SMO. 

8  Wardens. 

8  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  2  m.[iles]  from  [the]  next  Ch.[apel.] 

a  School  endowed  by  John  Kershaw,  after  his  wife's 

death'  (who  died  an-M  ™s>)  wth  Lands  worth  lo1-10" 

p.  [er]  an.  [num.]  For  ye  2  first  years  after  her  death,  the  Rents 
were  applied  by  ye  Feoffees  to  ye  building  of  a  School-house,  wch 
was  finished  an.  [no]  1711;  since  which  they  have  been  given  to 
ye  Master,  who  is  nominated  by  ye  Feoffees. 

[The]  Writings  are  in  ye  hands  of  ye  Steward  of  ye  Honour  of 
Clithero. 

att&  given  to   [the]   School,    [which]    contains   30  Statute 
Acres.     Left  also  by  John  Kershaw,  801.3 

and  Christopher  Nuttall  and  Lydia  his  wife,  defendants,  in  a  Plea  before  the  Com- 
missioners for  Charitable  Uses.  The  defendants,  in  their  answer,  deny  that  Lettice 
Jackson  had  power  to  give  the  lands  in  question  to  the  said  charitable  use ;  and  stated 
that  there  being  a  Suit  pending  in  the  Duchy  Court  between  James  Kershaw,  Clerk, 
Curate  of  Newchurch,  plaintiff,  and  John  Nuttall,  (father  of  the  said  Lydia,  wife  of 
the  said  Christopher,)  defendant,  the  same  came  to  a  hearing  on  the  4th  of  May,  5th 
James,  (1607,)  and  the  Chancellor  decreed  that  the  lands  should  be  surrendered  to 
the  said  John  Nuttall  and  his  heirs,  for  ever,  charged  with  twenty  marks  a  year  to 
the  said  Kershaw,  so  long  as  he  should  be  Minister  there ;  and  afterwards,  that  £20 
a  year  should  be  paid  to  every  succeeding  Minister  who  should  say  and  read  Divine 
Service  there.  This  decision  was  reversed  in  the  year  1724.  In  the  year  1650  this 
Newchurch  is  described  as  a  Parochial  Chapelry,  embracing  three  hundred  families, 
and  being  twelve  miles  from  the  Parish  Church.  Mr.  Robert  Dewhurst,  an  able 
Minister,  "  hath  no  allowance  at  all  from  the  State  but  what  the  Inhabitants  bestowe 
uppon  him  on  their  own  accord."  They  humbly  desire  that  their  Chapelry  may 
be  made  a  Parish,  and  a  competent  maintenance  allowed  for  a  Minister. — Parl.  Inq. 
Lamb.  MSS.  Here  is  no  mention  of  the  lands  which  were  doubtless  withheld  from 
the  Church  at  this  time  by  the  Trustees,  and  not  restored  until  the  year  1724,  which 
is  the  "worse  than  neglect"  alluded  to  by  Dr.  Whitaker,  (Whalley,  p.  224,)  who 
observes  that  the  lands  were  valued  at  the  latter  end  of  the  last  century  but  one,  (the 
seventeenth,)  at  £50  per  annum ;  whilst  Mr.  Baines,  omitting  the  words  "  but  one,'' 
gives  that  as  their  value  in  the  eighteenth  century. 


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Certif. [ied]    151.19s-7|d,  f^ ™ 

viz.    Debenture    money,    61  •  19s  •  2d:  Jp*-,!*'^* 

J '  '    Diss.  Fam.    6 

given  by  K.[ingJ  Edw.fard]  6,  (12s- 6d,  ded.[ucted]  by  them  that  W-3- 
pay  it,}  61'6s-8d;  Rent  Charge  upon  Ollerbotham  left  by  Mr. 
Pierce  Starkie,  [in  1666,]  31 ;  House  and  Ground  in  Padiam  left 
[given]  by  Joh.[n]  Starkey,  [Starkie,]  Esq.  [in  1697,]  21-10S; 
Rent  Charge  out  of  an  Estate  at  Symondstone  left  by  [the  will 
of]  Mr.  Will.[iam]  Starkey,  [in  1703,]  I1;  Int.[erest]  of  101  left 

The  Vicar  of  Whalley  is  the  Patron. 

3  Baines  styles  the  founder  "  Sir  John  Kershaw."  He  was  a  yeoman,  and  died  at 
Wolfenden  Booth  Fold,  in  the  year  1701,  aged  eighty-five.  The  School  was  rebuilt 
in  the  years  1829-30. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  Leonard.     Value  in  1834,  £131.     Registers  begin  in  1573. 

Padiham  is  said  to  have  derived  its  name  from  the  resemblance  of  its  site  to  that 
of  Padua,  which  was  first  noticed  by  the  Emperor  Antoninus  Caracalla  in  a  royal 
progress  between  York  and  Ribchester.  Dr.  Whitaker,  from  the  Catalogue  of  the 
Nativi  belonging  to  the  Abbey  of  Cokersand,  supposes  it  to  have  been  the  abode  of 
the  Sons  of  Pad. 

Edmund  de  Lacy  had  a  Charter  for  Free  Warren  in  his  lands  of  Padiham  in  the 
35th  Henry  III.  and  it  was  described  as  a  Manor  at  his  death  in  the  42d  Henry  III. 
but  in  the  4th  Edward  II.  it  appeared  that  the  Manor  had  never  been  granted  out ; 
and  the  land  is  now  held  under  the  Courts  of  Burnley  and  Higham,  subject  to  the 
Lord  of  the  Honor  of  Clithero. 

This  Church  was  originally  a  Chantry,  founded  before  the  year  1451  by  John 
Marsshall  L.L.B.  and  the  original  Tower,  and  little  Choir,  probably  rebuilt  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  VIII.  still  remain.  The  Nave  was  rebuilt  in  the  year  1766,  in  a 
debased  style  of  architecture.  The  East  window  contains  the  arms  of  Abbot 
Paslew,  and  also  eight  paintings,  beautifully  executed.  The  Font  was  probably  pre- 
sented by  Abbot  Paslew  about  the  year  1525,  and  bears  his  arms  upon  it.  At  this 
time  the  Chapel  is  supposed  to  have  obtained  the  rights  of  Baptism  and  Sepulture, 
and  thus  to  have  become  Parochial.  In  the  year  1650  it  is  styled  a  Parochial  Cha- 
pelry,  four  and  a  half  miles  from  the  parent  Church,  comprising  two  hundred  and 
thirty-two  families,  of  these,  one  hundred  and  six  persons  lived  far  remote  from 
Whalley.  They  humbly  desired  that  their  Chapelry  might  be  made  a  Parish.  Mr. 
John  Breares  M.A.  their  Minister,  had  £6.  19s.  2d.  paid  him  by  the  Receiver  of  the 
Revenues  of  the  Duchy,  and  £33  per  annum  from  the  late  County  Committee.  — 
Parl.  Inq.  Lamb.  Libr.  vol.  ii. 

The  Advowson  of  the  Church,  or  Parochial  Chapel  of  Padiham,  is  named  in  the 
Will  of  Pierce  Starkie  of  Huntroyd  Esq.  dated  the  1st  of  May  1758,  and  was  ob- 

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344  |iotttta 

by  SrEdm.[und]  Asheton,  10s;  Surp.[lice]  fees,  2l-9s-5%d;  East. 
[er]  dues,  3s -6d. 

Only  61-19s-00d  paid  out  of  ye  Dutchy  Rents,  an.  [no]  1704. 
Vic.[ar~\  of  Whalley' s  Accf-  v.[ide]  Pap.  Reg. 

An.  [no]  1503,  a  person  was  Instituted  and  Inducted  into  the 
Chantry  of  Padiam.  Inst.[itutiori\  B.[ook,~]  1. 

4  Wardens. 

3  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  2  m.[iles]  from  [the]  next  Ch.[apel.] 

Huntroyde,2  Read,3  Hapton,4  Shuttleworth,5  [Pendle,6  Gaw- 
thorp.7] 

tained  by  him  in  the  year  1730,  as  a  Benefactor  of  £200,  under  the  Act  of  George  I. 
Dr.  Whitaker  erroneously  states  that  it  was  obtained  by  L.  P.  Starkie  Esq.  the  grand 
nephew  of  this  benefactor. 

The  following  Incumbents  of  this  Church,  from  the  Register  at  Chester,  will  com- 
plete Dr.  "Whitaker's  Catalogue,  History  of  Whalley,  p.  267,  and  Addenda,  p.  533 :  — 
"March  26,  1503,  Trystram  Yate  inst.  to  ye  Chantry  of  Padeam  vac.  per  mort 
William  Hesketh  ad  present.  Guidonis  Marschall."  "  April  21,  1505,  Thomas  Broke 
inst.  to  ye  Chantry  of  S.  Leonard  of  Padiham  vacat.  per  mort.  Tristram  Yate  ad  pres. 
Richard  Marschall."  "  April  21,  1515,  for  a  Curate  admitted  to  Padyham,  xxd." — 
Archdeacon  of  Chester's  Act  SooJc. 

2  Huntroyd  became  the  property  of  Edmund  Starkie  Gent,  son  of  William  Starkie 
of  Barnton  in  the  county  of  Chester  Esq.  in  the  year  1464,  on  his  marriage  with 
Elizabeth,  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  de  Symondstone,  and  is  now  in  the  pos- 
session of  his  descendant,  Le  Gendre  Nicholas  Starkie  Esq.  brother  and  heir  of  Le 
Gendre  Starkie  Esq.  who  died  without  issue  in  the  year  1822,  and  son  of  Le  Gendre 
Piers  Starkie  Esq.  and  his  wife  Charlotte,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Preedy  D.D.  Rector 
of  Brinkton  in  the  county  of  Northampton.     The  house  is  a  modern  building,  situated 
in  the  midst  of  richly  diversified  and  picturesque  grounds. 

3  Read  was  at  a  very  early  period  in  the  possession  of  the  Church  of  Whalley,  but 
was  afterwards  alienated ;  and  in  the  37th  Edward  III.  Laurence  Nowell  Esq.  ex- 
changed the  Manor  of  Great  Mearley  with  Sir  Richard  Greenacres,  for  a  moiety  of 
the  Manor  of  Read,  which  continued  in  this  family  until  the  death  of  Alexander 
Nowell  Esq.  in  the  year  1772,  and  being  afterwards  sold,  by  a  Decree  of  the  Court  of 
Chancery,  to  J.  Hilton  Esq.  it  was  conveyed  by  sale  in  the  year  1805,  to  Richard 
Fort  Esq.  whose  son,  Richard  Fort  Esq.  M.P.  rebuilt  the  house,  and  whose  grandson 
is  the  present  owner. 

The  Nowell  family  is  represented  by  Margaret,  niece  of  Alexander  Nowell  Esq. 
M.P.  of  Underley  Park,  (ob.  1842,  s.p.)  and  relict  of  the  Rev.  Josias  Robinson  M.A. 
Rector  of  Alresford  in  the  county  of  Essex,  who  died  in  the  year  1843.  Mrs. 
Robinson  has  assumed  the  surname  of  Nowell. 


j?  of  Blacfetwrn.  345 

is  a  [good]  School- [house,]  built  about  40  years  agoe 
[by  contributions,]  but  not  endowed.     Certif.[ied~]  Oct.  27 
an.[no]  1718,  by  Mr.  John  Grundy,  Curate. 

4  Hapton  Tower  was  sold  to  Gilbert  de  la  Legh,  in  the  3d  Edward  III.     He  was 
son  of  John  de  la  Legh,  who  married  Cecilia,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  Richard  de 
Towneley,  and  his  grandson  is  styled  Richard  de  Towneley,  alias  De  la  Legh,  Sheriff 
of  Lancashire  in  the  year  1375.     In  the  12th  Henry  VII.  his  descendant,  Sir  John 
Towneley  had  a  License  for  making  a  Park  at  Hapton,  and  in  the  6th  Henry  VIII. 
he  emparked  or  enclosed  all  the  wastes  and  open  fields,  being  one  thousand  Lanca- 
shire acres.      Hapton  was  sequestered  after  the  Battle  of  Marston  Moor,  and  the 
Tower  and  Castle  fell  into  decay  after  the  Restoration. 

5  Shuttleworth  Hall,  in  Hapton,  was  the  residence  of  the  family  of  that  name  before 
the  3d  Edward  III.  when  Henry  de  Shuttleworth  died  seized  of  it,  and  eight  oxgangs. 
It  has  long  been  the  property  of  the  Starkies  of  Huntroyd.      The  house  is  a  large 
irregular  building,  of  the  time  of  James  I.  and  probably  does  not  occupy  the  original 
site,  as  an  adjoining  field  has  long  been  known  by  the  name  of  "  the  Old  Hall."      The 
lands  annexed  to  the  Hall  amount  to  upwards  of  eleven  hundred  acres.     It  is  oc- 
cupied by  a  farmer. 

6  Pendle  Hall  is  a  large  Tudor  house,  built  about  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and, 
with  upwards  of  seven  hundred  and  seventy-six  acres  of  land,  was  conveyed  in  mar- 
riage with  Ann,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Nicholas  Hancock  G-ent.  to  Edmund  Starkie 
of  Huntroyd  Esq.  in  the  year  1560,  in  whose  descendant  and  representative  it  is  now 
vested. 

7  Gawthorp  has  been  the  seat  of  the  Shuttleworths  since  the  43d  Edward  III. 
when  Agnes,  daughter  and  heiress  of  William  de  Hacking,  conveyed  it  to  her  hus- 
band, Ughtred,  son  of  Henry  de  Shuttleworth.     From  him,  the  Estate  descended, 
uninterruptedly,  to  Robert  Shuttleworth  of  Barton  Lodge  Esq.  who  died  on  the  29th 
of  January  1816,  and  by  Will  dated  the  24th  of  October  1815,  gave  all  his  Manors 
and  Lands  in  Lancashire  and  Westmoreland,  in  Trust,  to  John,  Lord  Crewe,  and 
Abraham  Henry  Chambers  of  Bond-street  in  the  county  of  Middlesex  Esq.  for  the 
use  of  his  second  son,  Robert  Shuttleworth  Esq.  Barrister-at-Law,  and  Chairman  of 
the  Quarter  Sessions  at  Preston,  who  married  at  Edinburgh,  November  5th  1816, 
Janet,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Marjoribanks  of  Lees  in  the  Shire  of  Berwick  Bart,  and 
died  on  the  6th  of  March  1818,  having,  by  Will  dated  the  12th  of  February  1818, 
devised  his  Estates  to  his  only  child,  Janet  Shuttleworth,  then  an  infant  under  the 
age  of  one  year.     It  is  erroneously  stated  by  Baines,  that  this  lady  married  Frederick 
North  Esq.      She  married,  February  24th  1842,   James  Phillips  Kay  Esq.   M.D. 
(a  native   of  this   county,)    distinguished  by  his  active   exertions  in  the  cause  of 
popular  Education,  and  who,  upon  his  marriage,  assumed  the  surname  and  arms  of 
Shuttleworth.      The  widow  of  Robert  Shuttleworth  Esq.  married  Frederick  North  of 
Hastings  Esq.  —  Indenture  of  settlement,  previous  to  marriage,  dated  the  10th  of 
June  1825.     The  Hall,  of  which  a  view  is  given  in  Whitaker's  History  of  Whalley, 

VOL.  II.]  Y  Y 


346  ilotitta 


&U&m.  SUtt  Itfk&^WtiffitfL?  in  BOLAND  FOREST, 

Fam        J07  mi  called   "Bolland   Chap,  [el,]"   in    old 

Fam'.Di™.'  i  Leases  ;  part  of  ye  Chappelry  is  in  Yorks.  [hire,]  part  in  Lane. 

[2  pr.  i  QJ    [ashire^  and-j  tne  Chappell  [is]  in  Yorkshire.    Certif.  [ied]  &  .  O  •  Od; 

this  is  paid  by  [the]  Abp.  of  Cant,  [erbury  ;]    no  other  profits. 

This  61  does  properly  belong  to  Castle  Chap,  [el]  in  Clithero,  and 

is  given  to  [the]   Curate  of  Clithero  for  Preaching  here  once  a 

month.     V.[ide]  CASTLE  CHAP.  [EL.] 

Rob.[ert]  Parker  of  Carlton,  Yorks.[hire,]  has  given  Lands 
worth  4001  towards  the  augmentat.  [ion]  of  this  Chap,  [el,]  an.  [no] 
1717. 

These  Lands  [are]  about  5  m.[iles]  from  Whitewell,  in  York 
Dioc.[ese,]  and  let  now  (1724)  for  191  p.[er]  an.[num  :]  He  gave 
also  a  Rent  upon  a  House  in  Clithero  of  34sh  p.[er]  an.[num;]  in 
consid.  [eration]  of  wch  the  Gov.[ernors]  of  [Queen  Anne's]  Bounty 
gave  2001,  not  yet  laid  out  in  Land:  an.  [no]  1724.  The  Curate 
now  enjoys  also  y6  61  p.[er]  an.[num]  given  formerly  to  Castle 
Chapel. 

was  rebuilt  about  the  year  1600,  and  is  a  gloomy,  though  fine,  specimen  of  an  Eliza- 
bethan house. 

1  Dedicated  to  .    Value  in  1834,  £88.     Registers  begin  in 

Bowland  consists  of  part  of  the  Parish  of  Whalley,  and  of  the  Parishes  of  Slaid- 
burn  and  Mitton,  together  with  the  Forest,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Honor  of  Cli- 
theroe.  One  of  its  principal  officers  was  the  bow-bearer  and  chief  steward,  called  in 
a  patent  of  Henry  IV.  granted  to  Sir  James  Harington,  "the  Forester."  At  a 
later  period  the  bow-bearer  was  called  "the  Park-er  ;"  and  this  feudal  office  has  been 
held  for  three  centuries  by  the  family  of  Parker  of  Browsholme. 

The  Chapel  stands  on  the  East  bank  of  the  Hodder,  near  the  Keeper's  Lodge,  and 
is  a  plain  and  simple  fabric,  originally  built  about  the  time  of  Henry  VII.  It  is  men- 
tioned as  existing  in  the  year  1521.  A  sketch  of  it  is  given  in  Whitaker's  History  of 
Whalley,  p.  236.  In  the  year  1650  it  was  returned  as  not  being  Parochial,  but  haying 
one  hundred  and  sixteen  families,  eight  miles  from  the  Parish  Church,  and  having 
"neither  Minister,  nor  maintenance  for  any."  The  Inhabitants  desired  to  have  a 
Parish  and  Minister,  and  an  endowment.  —  Part.  Inq.  Lamb.  Libr.  vol.  ii.  In  the  year 
1818  the  Chapel  was  rebuilt,  and  a  memorable  Consecration  Sermon  preached,  in  trou- 
blous times,  by  Dr.  T.  D.  Whitaker,  from  the  words,  "  Sound  an  alarm,"  Joel  ii.  1. 


Dranmj  of  Bladdwnt.  347 

Towns.  2.  Great  Bolland,  (in  Yorkshire ;)  Little  Bolland,  in 
Lancashire. 

7  m.[iles]  from  Whalley;  2  [miles]  from  Chipping;  [and]  3m. 
[iles]  from  [the]  next  Ch.[apel,]  viz.  Wiresdale. 

No  Wardens. 

[The]  Chap. [el  is]  very  small;  [it]  will  not  hold  above  200 
people. 

Browsholm  Hall,2  belong,  [ing]  to  Mr.  Parker,  in  Great  Bol- 
land. 

2  Browsholme  is  a  large  house  of  red  stone,  with  a  centre,  two  wings,  and  a  small 
facade  in  front,  and  appears  to  have  been  either  wholly  or  principally  built  in  the  year 
1604.  Thomas  Lister  Parker  Esq.,  a  gentleman  of  refined  taste  and  literary  attain- 
ments, expended  large  sums  in  improving  this  interesting  mansion,  and,  under  the 
direction  of  Jeffrey  Wyatt,  produced  some  handsome  modern  apartments  without  in- 
juring the  original  appearance  of  the  house.  —  See  an  Account  of  Srowsholme,  pri- 
vately printed  by  T.  L.  Parker  Esq.  The  interior  of  the  house  is  rich  in  paintings, 
oak  furniture,  and  curiosities  of  olden  times.  Mr.  Parker  sold  the  Estate  in  the  year 
1820  to  his  cousin.  —  See  p.  327,  Note  4. 


Btanrp  of  S*calanlr,  in 


i&.  m. 

£.   a.  d. 

T l.  5.10 

Pr.A.  0.13.  4 
Syn...  0.  1.  0 
Tri.  ...  0.  3.  4 

Fam 110 

170 

Pap.  Fam.  50 
Diss 00 


Certified]  49' • 15*. 
06d,  viz.  Glebe,  5l-8s;  Prsediall  Tyths 
for  7  years  past,  about  401;  Rents  paid 
by  some  [of  the]  Inhab.  [itants,]  5s- 
10d;  East.[er]  Roll  and  other  Dues, 
3i.6*-8d;  Surp.[lice]  fees,  I1  .  10s; 
Ded.[uet]  Proc.  and  Syu.  15s. 

An.  [no]    1603,   Will.pam]    Caven- 
dish Esq.  Patron.     Inst.[itution\  B.[ook,~]  2,  p.  35. 

An.  [no]  1630,  [the]  E.[arl]  of  Devon,  [shire]  Patron.  Ib. 
p.  116.  Ib.  in  1662.  Ecton. 

Patron,  [the]  Duke  of  Devonshire. 

1  Dedicated  to  St.  James.  Value  in  1834,  £515.  Parish  Kegisters  begin  in  1558 ; 
but  are  wanting  from  1668  to  1688,  and  from  1693  to  1713. 

Thomas  de  Burnul  held  lands  here  in  the  reign  of  Henry  III.  under  Grelly,  Baron 
of  Manchester,  who  acquired  part  of  the  hundred  of  Leyland  in  the  division  of  lands 
made  between  him  and  Roger  de  Busli.  In  the  22d  Edward  I.  the  Manor  was  in 
wardship,  owing  to  the  death  of  Peter  de  Burnhulle ;  and  in  the  26th  Edward  III. 
it  passed  with  Joan,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Peter  de  Bryn  of  Brynhill,  to 
William  Gerard  Esq.  whose  descendant,  in  the  eighteenth  century,  sold  it  to  the 
Duke  of  Devonshire,  and  the  Manor  is  now  vested,  by  an  exchange,  in  the  Earl  of 
Burlington. 

This  Church  is  not  mentioned  in  the  Valor  of  1291 ;  and  is  supposed  to  have  been 
taken  out  of  the  Parish  of  Leyland  subsequently  to  that  period.  It  is  called  by 
Ecton  "Brinhill,  alias  Brindle."  In  the  time  of  Edward  I.  it  was  written  "  Burn- 
hulle," and  afterwards  "  Brandhill,"  and  may  derive  its  name  from  Burnt-hill. 

In  the  24th  Henry  VII.  the  Advowson  was  held  by  Sir  Thomas  Gerard  of  Bryn 


?  of  HegtanB.  349 

2  Wardens,   [and]  2  Assist,  [ants,]   chosen   [according  to  the]  Cotomi.  1. 
Can.  [on.] 

No  ancient  Seat. 

is  a  School,  built  by  ye  town  upon  ye  Glebe,  free  to  ye  gxfyaal, 
Children  of  all  Legall  Inhab.  [itants]  who  are  born  in  ye 
Parish.  All  ye  Revenue  belong,  [ing]  to  it  is  ye  Int.[erest]  of 
177L128,  of  wch  1001  was  given  by  Mr.  Peter  Burscough  (of  Wal- 
ton,) an.  [no]  1623;  101  by  Edw.[ard]  Blackledge,  [in]  1657;  101 
by  Tho.[mas]  Sharrock,  [in]  1695;  [1658?]  and  10*  by  Tho. 
[mas]  Sharrock  ye  younger,  [in]  1700;  and  171-12S  by  persons 
unknown,  at  sev.  [eral]  times.  There  are  seven  Trustees,  in  whose 
hands  are  lodged  ye  Decree  and  other  Writings  relating  to  ye 
Government  of  ye  School ;  but  ye  Master  is  nominated  by  y^  Rect. 
[or]  of  Brindle. 

and  Bryndyll  Knt. ;  and  another  Sir  Thomas  Gerard  presented  to  the  Living  in  the 
year  1567,  although  in  the  year  1549  he  had  settled  the  Advowson  upon  the  wife  of 
Sir  John  Port  of  Etwall  in  the  county  of  Derby,  whose  daughter  and  coheiress  he 
had  married.  In  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Sir  Thomas  Gerard  was  imprisoned  in 
the  Tower  on  a  charge  of  being  implicated  in  the  design  of  liberating  Mary,  Queen  of 
Scots,  and  to  procure  his  release  he  alienated  and  mortgaged  several  Manors ;  and 
about  this  time  the  Advowson  of  Brindle  passed  to  Sir  William  Cavendish,  father  of  the 
first  Earl,  and  has  descended  to  his  representative,  the  present  Duke  of  Devonshire. 

The  Church  is  a  small  structure  consisting  of  a  Tower,  Nave,  and  Chancel,  without 
Aisles  or  Chapels.  There  were,  however,  probably  two  Chantries  in  the  Church,  as 
in  the  year  1535  Sir  John  Hampton  and  Sir  Owen  Gerard  were  Priests,  and  Sir 
Thomas  Buckley  Rector  of  Bryndhull. — Lane.  MSS.  vol.  ix.  p.  46.  The  Tower,  with 
its  castellated  battlements,  crocketed  pinnacles,  and  strong  buttresses,  seems  to  be  part 
of  the  original  fabric.  The  old  Nave  was  removed  in  the  year  1815,  and  rebuilt  by 
the  Parish  at  a  cost  of  £1,650.  The  free  seats  in  the  Choir  are  of  oak,  and  dated 
1582  and  1634. 

In  the  year  1650  Brindle  was  described  as  an  entire  Parish  of  itself,  having  a  Parson- 
age-house with  several  other  buildings ;  four  acres  of  Glebe ;  and  five  cottages  of  the 
yearly  rent  of  6s.  8d.  The  Tithe  Corn,  small  and  other  Tithe,  valued  at  £75  per  an- 
num. "  Mr.  William  Walker  is  the  present  Incumbent,"  (omitted  in  Baines's  Cata- 
logue of  the  Eectors,)  "  and  is  to  receive  the  profits  of  the  Parsonage.  He  is  con- 
formable to  the  present  Government,  and  was  presented  by  William,  Earl  of  Devon- 
shire, Patron,  as  is  presumed,  and  had  the  assent  of  above  forty  of  the  Inhabitants 
of  the  said  Parish." — Part.  Inq.  Lamb.  Libr.  vol.  ii. 


350  ilotttta  <£e8triett8t8. 

[The]  Revenue  of  [the]  School  [was]  certified]  an. [no]  1724 
to  be  SOOLG3,  viz.  given  by  Pet.[er]  Burscough,  1001;  [by]  Ed. 
ward  Blackledge  (in  1722,)  1001;  [by  the]  two  Tho.[mas]  Shar- 
rocks/  101  each;  [by  the]  Rev.  Mr.  Henry  Pigot2  B.D.  Rector,  401, 

2  Henry  Pigot,  descended  from  a  respectable  Cheshire  family,  was  born  on  the  llth 
of  March  1628,  being  the  second  son  of  Geoffrey  Pigot  of  Fortun  in  the  county  of 
Stafford  Gent,  and  his  wife  Judith,  daughter  of  Mr.  John  Davenport  of  Bulley  Hall 
in  the  county  of  Chester.  He  was  a  Scholar  of  Lincoln  College  Oxford,  B.A.  in  the 
year  1650,  M.A.  in  the  year  1654 ;  and  being  a  Deacon  "  of  exemplary  life,  well  com- 
mended for  his  virtues,  and  thoroughly  instructed  in  the  knowledge  of  sacred  litera- 
ture," was  ordained  Priest  at  Soothill  Hall  near  Dewsbury,  on  Thursday  the  27th  of 
September  1654,  by  Henry,  (Tilson,)  Bishop  of  Elphin,  then  an  exile  from  his 
See. 

On  the  7th  of  August  1660,  (according  to  Wood,  1661,)  Pigot  graduated  B.D. 
being  at  that  time  Rector  of  Brindle ;  and  as  he  held  the  Living  upwards  of  seventy- 
one  years,  he  must  have  been  instituted  about  the  year  1650-1,  and,  probably,  by 
the  ruling  powers.  He  continued  Rector  during  the  various  changes  of  the  times, 
although  adverse  to  them  all,  except  the  last,  by  which  he  obtained  the  Vicarage  of 
Rochdale  from  Archbishop  Juxon  in  the  year  1662.  In  the  Church- wardens'  Account 
Books  of  the  latter  Parish,  there  are  many  notices  of  him  through  a  long  series  of 
years ;  from  which  it  might  seem  that  he  was  generally  resident  at  Rochdale.  Imme- 
diately upon  his  being  collated,  the  Church- wardens  were  required  to  procure  "  two 
Holland  Surplices  and  a  Hudd  for  Mr.  Pigott,"  as  it  afterwards  appeared  that  he 
maintained  the  use  of  the  Surplice,  as  the  dress  of  the  Parochial  Clergy  in  all  the 
Offices,  preaching  included,  and  discarded  the  Gown  or  Cloak  of  his  predecessor  Mr. 
Bath,  as  fitting  only  to  be  worn  by  Preachers  licensed  by  the  Universities.  In  the 
year  1662  he  ordered  that  furniture  for  the  Church  should  be  bought  at  Manchester, 
consisting  of  "  broad  Green  Cloth,  taffety,  fringe,  and  silk,  for  the  Pulpit,  Quishion, 
and  Communion  Table,"  and  that  the  latter  should  have  "  the  frame  sett  about  it." 
In  the  year  1665,  by  his  order,  the  Clerk  was  paid  3s.  "  for  writeing  ye  Territoryes  of 
the  Gleabe  Land,  to  be  kept  in  the  Church."  In  the  year  1667  the  Church-wardens 
"paid  for  Mr.  Pigot's  dinner,  and  others  with  him,  at  Todmorden;"  but  the  Parish 
disallowed  the  item.  In  the  year  1676,  "  paid  for  mending  Mr.  Pigot's  tippet,  2s." 
In  this  year  he  published,  in  London,  a  Sermon  preached  at  the  Assize  at  Lancaster, 
on  the  19th  of  March  1675,  having  been  Chaplain  to  his  parishioner,  Alexander  But- 
terworth  of  Belfield  Esq.  when  High  Sheriff.  He  was  a  humble  imitator  of  South 
and  Theed,  and  "  a  whimsical  textuary."  In  the  same  year  he  was  the  Chairman  on 
the  day  of  auditing  the  Parish  Accounts,  and  stated  that  he  should  not  allow  them 
to  pass  as  the  Wardens  had  not  shewn  what  sums  had  been  levied,  nor  for  what  pur- 
pose, and  yet  had  accounted  for  losses  from  several  persons  whom  everybodv  knew  to 
be  solvent — such  as  John  Entwisle  Esq.  4s.;  Mr.  Gabriel  Gartside,  2s.;  Mr.  Richard 
Milne  senr.  of  Milnrow,  Id. ;  and  others ;  so  that  he  would  not,  willingly,  have  them 


of  tUglanO.  351 

in  1720;   [by  the]  Town  of  Brindle,  201,  (raised  to  obtain  Mr. 

Pigot' s  gift;)    [by]  Pers.[ous]  unknown,  201-68. 

to  ye  Poor  by  Hen.[ry]  Gorton  (in  1684,)  921;   [by]  Cfjaritio*. 
Th.[omas]  Sharrock  (in  1697,)  301;   [by]  Joh.[n]  Stanfield 
(in  1688,)  301,  [the]  Int.[erest  of  which]  to  [be  given  to]  Poor 

recorded,  but  desired  the  old  Wardens  to  amend  their  accounts  by  that  day  se'nnight, 
or  else  he  thereby  authorized  the  new  Wardens  to  present  them. 

In  the  year  1677  the  Vicar  again  laments  the  forbearance  of  the  Wardens  to  pre- 
sent several  of  the  leading  parishioners,  and  refused  to  pass  the  accounts.  In  the 
year  1678  Mr.  Entwisle,  and  others,  were  presented  to  the  Court,  and  after  much 
vexatious  resistance,  were  reduced  to  order,  to  the  evident  satisfaction  of  the  inde- 
pendent Yicar.  In  the  year  1686  "  the  persons  called  Quakers  were  presented,"  for 
refusing  to  pay  their  legal  proportions  "  for  the  repairation  of  the  Church  and  School 
of  Rachdale ;"  but  again  Mr.  Pigot  would  not  allow  the  accounts  to  pass  until  the 
disbursements  had  been  inspected  and  allowed,  not  only  by  himself  but  by  the 
parishioners.  In  the  year  1678  he  has  recorded  that  he  made  collections  amounting 
to  £20.  Is.  lljd.  at  the  Church,  and  all  the  Chapels  except  Todmorden,  towards  the 
rebuilding  of  St.  Paul's  [Cathedral]  Church  in  London.  In  December  1690,  he  has 
noticed  that  he  was  present  when  the  daughter  of  his  ejected  predecessor  was  married, 
and  that  although,  as  a  Surrogate,  he  did  not  issue  the  Licence,  he  did  not  take  the 
accustomed  fees.  In  this  year  died  Ralph  Webb,  the  memorable  Parish  Clerk,  who 
kept  the  Registers,  had  filled  his  office  nearly  sixty  years,  and  "who,  in  his  time, 
buried  1,100  persons." — Thoresby's  Correspondence,  p.  322. 

In  the  year  1696  his  name  was  introduced  into  an  acrimonious  controversy,  which 
arose  out  of  a  Visitation  Sermon  proached  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Gipps,  Rector  of 
Bury,  in  the  Collegiate  Church  of  Manchester,  and  which  continued  for  several  years; 
one  of  the  combatants  throwing  the  odium  of  a  report  unfavourable  to  the  Presby- 
terians, upon  Mr.  Pigot,  (who  first  had  it  from  the  Hon.  Colonel  Fairfax,)  adding, 
"it  depends  upon  Mr.  Pigot's  single  testimony,  and  some  say  this  is  not  the  first  brat 
he  has  imposed  on  the  world,  —  while  the  suspicion  is  just  that  the  whole  story  was 
invented  in  Rochdale,  at  a  Public-house !" 

In  the  year  1700  he  appears  to  have  built,  at  his  own  expense,  the  present  hand- 
some Porch  of  Rochdale  Church,  and  his  initials  still  remain  incised  on  the 
stone. 

He  married  Elizabeth,  youngest  daughter  of  Thomas  Fyfe  of  Wedacre  Gent,  and 
had  a  daughter  Judith,  and  two  sons  :  (1)  Thomas,  born  at  Brindle  in  the  year  1656, 
of  Wadham  College  Oxford,  M.A.  and  F.R.S.  Vicar  of  Yarnton  near  Oxford,  in  the 
year  1679,  and  Chaplain  to  James,  Earl  of  Ossory,  at  whose  house  in  St.  James's 
Square,  Westminster,  he  died  on  the  14th  of  August  1686,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Chancel  of  St.  James's  Church.  He  published  in  the  Philosophical  Transactions, 


352 

Housekeepers,  at  Xtmas  and  Easter :  the  said  sums  are,  by  Deed 
of  feoffment,  intrusted  wth  six  persons  of  ye  Parish.  Edward 
Blackledge  in  1722,  gave  by  Will,  £20,  to  buy  Books  for  poor 
Children. 

No.  151,  an  Account  of  the  Earthquake  at  Oxford,  on  the  17th  of  September  1683 ; 
and  also  discovered  certain  phenomena  in  Music,  printed  by  Dr.  Wallis,  in  No.  134  of 
the  same  Transactions,  dated  March  14th  1676.  Wood  says  he  was  a  forward  and 
mercurial  man,  and  speaks  coldly  of  his  merits. 

The  father  was  a  musical  amateur,  and  first  introduced  Chanting  into  the  Church 
of  Rochdale  (after  the  Restoration,)  about  the  year  1696 ;  receiving  also  in  the  year 
1703,  from  the  Church-wardens,  £45,  towards  liquidating  the  sum  he  had  expended 
in  procuring  an  Organ  for  the  Church. 

The  Vicar's  younger  son,  (2)  Henry  Pigot,  was  of  Wadham  College,  M.A.  in  the  year 
1683,  B.M.  in  1687,  D.M.  in  1692,  and  was  living  the  year  1725. 

In  addition  to  the  benefaction  recorded  in  the  text,  Mr.  Pigot  founded  several 
Scholarships  at  Oxford,  and  vigorously  and  successfully  defended  the  right  of  the 
Mother  Church  of  Rochdale  to  the  Patronage  of  the  Chapels ;  so  that  Whitaker 
unjustly  censures  him  as  "  deservedly  memorable  for  nothing  but  his  long  Incum- 
bency and  life."  Dr.  Kuerden  appears  to  have  been  his  friend,  and  observes  that  adja- 
cent to  Brindle  Church  is  "  a  Parsonage-house,  part  whereof  lately  re-edifyed  with  a 
fayr  stone  building,  erected  by  the  worthy  and  learned  Parson,  Mr.  Henry  Pygot, 
likewise  Chappelain  to  the  Right  Honorable  the  Earl  of  Derby,  and  is  Vicar  of 
Ratchdale,  a  doubly  qualifyed  Peter,  both  for  souls  and  fishes,  and  a  complacent 
associate  to  the  gentry  and  all  learned  persons."  He  died  and  was  buried  at  Roch- 
dale, April  10th  1722,  in  the  ninety-fourth  year  of  his  age,  having  been  Rector  of 
Brindle  seventy-one  years  and  nine  months,  and  Vicar  of  Rochdale  fifty-nine  years 
and  seven  months.  Elizabeth  his  wife,  died  on  the  17th,  and  was  buried  on  the  20th 
of  February  1691.  On  their  black  marble  grave-stone  these  arms  are  incised,  — 
ermine,  three  lozenges  conjoined,  in  fesse,  sable,  a  canton.  He  died  intestate,  and 
Letters  of  Administration  of  his  Effects,  were  granted  at  Chester,  on  the  26th  of  April 
1722.  —  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  ii.  p.  155,  et  seq.;  Ellas  Hall's  MS.  History  of  the  Oldham 
Singers ;  Wood's  Fasti,  pp.  809  —  881 ;  Plot's  Natural  History  of  Oxfordshire,  cap. 
ix.  p.  199;  Rochdale  Vicarage  Papers ;  Whitaker' s  Whalley,  p.  446,  where  the  mo- 
numental inscription  is  incorrectly  given. 


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