158 History of the 



About Ihe date of the erection of the origuial building, a 

 beneficent widow lady, by name Lettice Jackson, vested in 

 feoffees for the use of the New Church of our Saviour in 

 Rossendale, certain lands in different parts of the district. 



" An. [no] 3 H.[enry] 8, Lettice Jackson, Widow, Surrendered Land for yc 

 Use of this Chap. [el] now worth (an. [no] 171S,) 40I. p.[er] an. [num.] Only 

 20 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.[istei:} 



"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." (g) 



"These," remarks Dr. Whitaker, "the commissioners of 

 chantries, either from their inconsiderable value at that time, or for 

 some other reason which we are not acquainted with, forbore to 

 seize upon, (an instance of forbearance never practised by them in 

 any other case), and decreed that Lawrence Ashworth should hold 

 and occupy the place of parson of the said Church. 



" These lands, though some part of them appears to have been 

 lost by the neglect, or something worse than neglect, of the 

 feoffees, were valued in the latter end of the last century but one, 

 at ^50 per annum ; and form the endowment of the Chapel, the 

 most valuable curacy in the patronage of the vicar of Whalley." (//) 



I am favoured with a communication from Mr. Phillips, the late 

 Rector, which satisfactorily accounts for the non-seizure of the New 

 Church lands by the Chantry Commissioners. Mr. Phillips 

 states that, — 



"The lands in question were surrendered to King Henry VIII., 

 the then lord of the manor, by Lettice Jackson, the owner, to be 

 delivered again to certain Trustees for the use of herself and 

 Richard Whit worth — whom she afterwards married — and the 



(g) Bishop Gastrell's Nolitia Cestriensis, Chetham's Society's Pub., vol. 

 xxi. p. 341. 



(h) Hist. Whalley, 3d Ed., p. 224. 



