Forest of Rosseitdale. i6i 



-Moor. 

 -Davis. 



Robert Dewhurst. mentioned 1650. 

 Thomas Sanders, Dec. 16, 1662. 

 Thomas Leigh, B.A., Nov. 1695. 



John Welsh, July 2g, 1726. 



John Shorrock, M.A., Feb. 1767. 



Nicholas Rigby Baldwin, M.A., 1802. 



Philip Abbot, 1825; resigned, 1833; died 1S52. 



Edward Burrow, 1833. 



John Bartholomew Phillips, M.A., 1850; resigned 1891. 



Herbert Bury, .M.A., 1891 (the present Rector). 



The late Rector, the Rev. J. B. Phillips, M.A., to who.se 

 politeness I am indebted for the foregoing list, observes that there 

 does not appear to have been any fixed Incumbent from 1641, 

 till Dewhurst was confirmed in his position by a Lambeth 

 Inquisition, held in the year 1650; but that Armistead, Brown, 

 Moor, and Davis, appear to have officiated between Horrocks's 

 death in 1641, and Dewhurst's appointment. By the Inquisition 

 referred to, it is found " that the Chapel of Newchurch in 

 Rossendale is parochial, the chapelry consisting of Dedwen 

 Clough, Tunsted, Wolfenden Booth, and part of AVolfenden and 

 Bakcop, which contain, in all, 300 families, desiring to be made a 

 parish : thatjthe minister received no allowance but what was paid 

 by the inhabitants." 



This list differs in some respects from that given by Dr. 

 Whitaker in his History. With reference to this latter, Mr. 

 Phillips remarks that he has a copy of the Document from whiph 

 the Doctor seems to have derived his authority, but that evidence 

 in his possession proves this to be incorrect : amongst other proof, 

 a monogram which he found inserted in a wall of the old 



the appointment at Newchurch. Further, that this said Mr. Kippax resigned 

 the living on the passing of the Act of Uniformity in the latter year, and 

 that he either formed, or had a hand in forming, the Nonconformist Church 

 in Rossendale. I have diligently searched the Registers at Newchurch for 

 the year 1662, and for many years both before and after, and can find no 

 record whatever of the name, Kippax. 



