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they the said Trustees and their Executors may apply and dispose 

 of the Interest and Increase of the forty pounds to such of the said 

 Ministers as the Trustees or the major part of them shall think fit, 

 a fourth part for the use of the said William Mitchel only excepted.*' 



On the nth February, 1705, "Robert Lichford, formerly of 

 Blakely, in the County of Lancaster, gentleman, surrendered into 

 the hands of the Lord and Lady of the Manor of Accrington, all 

 that edifice or building standing within Cloughfold in the said 

 Manor, heretofore purchased by him from one James Townend, to 

 the use and behoof of Richard Holden, Richard Ashworth of 

 Tunstead, Simeon Lord and John Hartley, who shall at all times 

 for ever thereafter stand and be seised of the said edifice, for the 

 use and benefit of -all such Protestant Dissenters called Anabaptists, 

 or Independents, within the Forest of Rossendale, and the places 

 adjacent, as shall there from time to time assemble for religious 

 worship, when the same shall be made fit and commodious for a 

 chapel or meeting-house." The same liberal donor by his last 

 Will and Testament, dated January 28th, 17 10, gave and 

 bequeathed unto the said Trustees for ever, the sum of one 

 hundred and fifty pounds upon trust, that they should lay out and 

 dispose of, or invest at interest or in an annuity, or otherwise to 

 best advantage, the said sum, at their discretion, and from time to 

 time employ and dispose of all the rents and profit^, or increase 

 thereof, (save and except the yearly sum of forty shillings to be 

 given to the poor as directed,) for the use and benefit of such 

 person or persons, as from time to time should be the minister, 

 pastor, or teacher of the said congregation, provided they should 

 not at any time thereafter neglect or forbear to assemble themselves 

 at the said chapel for the exercise of religious worship by the space 

 of six weeks in any one year. 



No mention is here made of Bacup, the bequest being to 



Cloughfold alone. By this time the two sections of the original 



Baptist Church in Rossendale had become distinct and separate 

 Societies. 



