Forest of Rossendale. i 79 



dissention shall so happen betwixt them, and for the performance 

 of the covenants, grants, and articles covenanted, granted, and 

 declared in these Indentures, the said parties stand bounden party 

 to party by their several obligations in the sum of Twenty pounds 

 , sterling, which obligations bear date the day of the date of these 

 Indentures. In witness whereof the said parties to these Indentures 

 Interchangeably have set their seals upon the day and year above 

 written." 



"(26 Augt. 1656. — A true copy of the Original Indenture 

 remaining in the hands of John Howorth, of Crawshawbooth) 

 (saving what is wanting above and could not be read.) 



'' Examined by me, 



" ANDR. HOLDEN." 



The dimensions of the Chapel as given in the above Deed are 

 curious ; the width being somewhat out of proportion to the length 

 and height. The walls, which were only nine feet high, must have 

 been unpleasantly low, though the building inside was probably 

 open to the thatched roof. In the year 181 7-18 the Chapel was 

 rebuilt and enlarged, but the modern erection is almost as void of 

 architectural pretensions as its humble forerunner. There is room 

 for regret here, as no site in the Forest of Rossendale is better 

 adapted for displaying the architectural beauties of a Building. 



In the year 1584, or 42 years after the erection of the Chapel at 

 Goodshaw, certain of the inhabitants of Rawtenstall, Newhallhey, 

 Gambleside, Loveclough, Crawshawbooth, Constablee, Oakenhead 

 Wood, and Dunnockshaw prayed to be separated from Newchurch 

 and to be allowed to betake themselves to the Church at Hasling- 

 den, or, for their ease, to the Chapel at Goodshaw, for the hearing 

 of Divine Service, and the prayer was granted, as appears by the 

 following : — 



AN ORDER FOR SEPARATEING PART OF Ye FORREST OF 



ROSSENDALE FROM NEWCHURCH, & BETAKING 



THEMSELVES TO HASLINGDEN— 27TH YEAR OF Ye 



REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZth. 



" At a Commission holden at Manchester in the Collegiate Church there 



