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two hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, to be paid 

 to them or their certain Attorneys, Executors, Administrators or 

 Assigns, for which Payment well and truly to be made I bind 

 myself, my Heirs, Executors and Administrators firmly by these 

 Presents, sealed with my seal and dated the Eleventh day of 

 September in the twenty-first year of the reign of our Sovereign 

 Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, 

 France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and so forth, 

 and in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and 

 Eighty One. 



" Whereas the Inhabitants of Goodshaw Chapelry intend to 

 raise the salary of the said chapel from its present salary of twenty- 

 six pounds and fifteen shillings per annum, to forty pounds 

 exclusive of the Fees accruing from the Performance of Parochial 

 Duty, in order to induce a Clergyman to reside amongst them and 

 teach a school there upon such a plan and on such conditions as 

 shall hereafter be agreed upon. Now the Conditions of the above 

 written Obligation is such that if the above-bounden Richard Ortt 

 shall be nominated and ordained to the Curacy of Goodshaw 

 aforesaid, and the said curacy shall be augmented to forty pounds 

 per year by the inhabitants thereof exclusive of the Fees above- 

 mentioned within twelve months from the date hereof. And if at 

 or before the expiration of the said twelve months the said Richard 

 Ortt shall become a resident Clergyman and Schoolmaster there, 

 or shall decline, give up and resign the said Curacy at the 

 expiration of the said twelve months or at any time after he 

 becomes resident, or happen to die within or after that time, then 

 this Obligation shall be void otherwise it shall be and remain in 

 full force and virtue in the law." 



Whether Mr. Ortt became the Minister, however, and, if so, how 

 long he remained at Goodshaw, is uncertain. 



The Benefice is a Perpetual Curacy in the gift of the Trustees of 

 William Hulme, called the " Hulmeian Trustees." The Vicar of 

 Whalley was formerly the patron. 



