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stration of Sacraments, it was therefore decreed, that John 
Aspden, the incumbent, should serve there, and should have for 
his wages the sum of £4 8s. 11d. The inhabitants, in the year 
1589, preferred a petition to the Chancellor and Council of the 
duchy, praying them to have consideration and care, that some 
godly minister and preacher might be had and provided for their 
better instruction; and they promised to make up the stipend of 
the minister to 20 marks yearly, at the least. This continued 
till the year 1683, when Robert Hartley, the minister, certified to 
the Commissioners, that the inhabitants of the Chapelry had not, 
for many years past, paid their sum of £8 17s. 9d., to make up 
the said 20 marks; whereupon, the Commissioners decreed that 
the sum should be paid in the following proportions :— 
£s. d 
Habergham-Haves ........sseseeeers 2 4 3 
IBurnleyiy civic sreevelslave’s sir ci siinie els eleteretels eis 112 5 
CEVA GOTH s cinisicieioisvals/ofelavatelo riolinielsier pleieletels 244 
Breancliite ein tele cleiievele sinicloleleisle!diaielsiviete 216 9 
Total, .osveecese £817 9 
This, says Whitaker, may be considered as the basis of the 
present endowment. 
Another source of income was the Easter roll, and a third, 
a number of successive benefactions, of which, perhaps, the most 
notable is one of £400 from Edmund Towneley, Rector of 
Slaidburn ; to which the governors of Queen Anne’s bounty 
added £400. With these two sums, the estate of Bankhouse was 
purchased from the devisees of Henry Halsted. For this con- 
sideration also, the advowson was conveyed by all proper parties 
to the said Edmund Towneley, as a benefactor. 
To the great and rapid increase of the town of Burnley may 
be attributed the vast increase of the income attached to the in- 
cumbency of St. Peter’s. The amount of the present income is 
not known to the public, but it is reported to be a very large sum, 
and no comment on the rise and progress of Burnley is more 
forcible than a comparison of the income of £4 8s. 11d. decreed 
to John Aspden, incumbent, and the ample revenue now en- 
joyed by his successor, in the person of the Rev. Canon Parker. 
In the 22nd year of the reign of Kdward I., Henry de Lacy, 
Earl of Lincoln, obtained a charter for a market every Tuesday, 
at his manor house of Burnley, as also on the eve, day, and 
morrow after the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul. It is not 
known how these fairs were altered, but in the early part of the 
present century there were six fairs yearly, which were held on 
March 6th, Easter Eve, May the 9th and 13th, July the 10th, 
and October 11th. There was also a market held every Monday, 
and an annual wool fair held on the second Thursday in July, 
and a horse fair on the third Thursday in October. 
