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of our ancient Duchy of Lancaster; and all that our Manor of 
Ightenhull with its rights, members, and appurtenances in our 
county of Lancaster; and all our messuages, mills, farms, lands, 
tenements, mines of coals and hereditaments whatsoever in the 
county aforesaid parcel of that Manor; and all the rents as well 
—of the fee as of the customary tenants of the same manor, and 
all other rents and yearly payments for tle same manors, farms, 
tenements, hereditaments, and other the premises aforesaid, or 
any of them or any part or parcel thereof, or for any licences, 
liberties, commodities, or profits whatsoever heretofore given or 
granted, or in future within that manor to be had and enjoyed 
to us our heirs and successors, reserved or payable with their 
appurtenances, and the appurtenances of each of them. Which 
same Manor of Ightenhull and other the premises last aforesaid 
by the particulars thereof to and are estimated to be of the yearly 
value of one hundred and twenty-six pounds and five shillings 
per annum.” 
The same grant gives many other Manors, as also the offices 
of Master Forester of Blackburnshire, Collector of Blackburnshire, 
of the Wapentake, of Blackburn, and of the Master Forester of 
Bowland. ; 
The Merrie Monarch had certainly little or no idea of the 
vast revenue which would be enjoyed by the representative of his 
faithful cousin and councillor—General Monk—by virtue of this 
grant, in the reign of Her Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria. 
But the antiquity of the town is, perhaps, most abundantly 
proved by the history and records of the Parish Church. It is 
not my purpose to attempt to give, within the limits of this paper, 
any historical account of the Parish Church ; but it is impossible 
to treat of the rise and progress of Burnley, without touching 
upon some of the many changes and vicissitudes, undergone by 
the mother church of the chapelry, in the stirring and changeful 
times which have elapsed since a chapel-of-ease was opened on 
the banks of the river Brun, more than eight hundred years ago. 
The existence of the Parochial Church can be traced back to the 
reign of Henry I. In the Church were four chantries: first, 
the Rood Altar; second, the Altar of St. Peter, or the High Altar, 
the officiating priest of which was, properly, the incumbent of the 
Church; third, the Altar of St. Mary, and fourth, the Altar of St. 
Anthony. Referring to this order of things, Dr. Whitaker states 
that Burnley, though but a chapelry, resembled a little college of 
priests, and had no less than four altars well endowed. 
At the dissolution of the Chantries, in the reign of Edward VI, 
the whole of these endowments were taken away; but it being 
certified to the commissioners, that the Chapel of Burnley was a 
chapel-of-ease far distant from the Church, and, therefore, very 
necessary to be continued, for diverse services, and for admini- 
