BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



Instituted 



oc. 1472-80 



oc. 1481 



30 Apr. 1523 . 

 4 Aug. 1530 . 

 12 Feb. 1531 



oc. 



8 Feb. 

 5 Oct. 

 c. 1622 

 1 6 Oct. 



12 Aug. 



23 Dec. 

 19 Aug. 

 29 May 

 19 Feb. 

 1 1 Mar. 

 3 Aug. 



2! NOV. 



IO May 



28 Nov. 



8 Nov. 



21 Dec. 



1 562 

 1589-90 



1616 . 



1672 

 1692 

 1701 



1721 . 



1738 . 

 1738-9. 



1778 . 



1779 . 

 1786 . 

 1807 . 

 1816 . 

 1864 . 

 1886 



Name 



Thomas Swift 40 . . . 

 James Straitbarrell 41 . 

 Thomas Mawdesley ** . 

 Thomas Westby 43 . . 

 George Wolset, LL.D" 



Patron 



VICARS 



John Marsden 4 ' . . 



Richard Parker 44 Up. of Chester . . 



William Armitstead 47 . . 



John King 48 



Richard White, M.A.< .... 



Humphrey Briscoe, B.A. 61 ... . . 



Thomas Atherton, M.A/' 1 . ... . . 



Thomas Clarkson, M.A. S -. ... . 



William Rawstorne 53 . . 



John Milner, M.A." 



Thomas Pearce, M.A." .... 



William Stockdale M 



John Carlisle" 



James Penny, M.A.' 8 . . 



Edmund Wilkinson 



Richard Robinson, B.A. 60 .... Bp. of Manchester 



John Birch Jones, B.D. 81 .... 



CHIPPING 



Cauir of Vacancy 



d. J. King 

 res. R. White 

 d. H. Briscoe 

 res. T. Atherton 

 d. T. Clarkson 

 res. W. Rawstorne 

 d. J. Milner 

 res. T. Pearce 

 d. W. Stockdale 



d. J. Penny 

 d. E. Wilkinson 

 res. R. Robinson 



40 He was in 1472 summoned to answer 

 Hugh RadclitTe regarding a claim for 

 8 I jj. 4*1. ; Pal. of Lane. Writs Proton. 

 I Aug. iz Edw. IV. In 1480 the Abbot 

 of Whalley claimed 40 from him ; Add. 

 MS. 32108, no. 1464. 



41 Acting as trustee he was described 

 as 'chaplain' in 1479 and as 'rector of 

 Chipping' in 14(1 ; Kuerden MSS. iii, 

 H 3. He held various other benefices, 

 including the rectory of St. Mary-by-the- 

 Castle, Chester, 1506-23; Earwaker, 

 Si. Mtry'l, 79. 



There are full accounts of the rectors 

 and vicars from this time in T. C. Smith's 

 Chiffitf, 84-108. Several particulars in 

 the following notes have been taken from 

 that work. 



The next presentation to the rectory 

 was in 1515 granted to James Worsley ; 

 L. and P. Hen. yill, ii (i), 1 157. 



" There was formerly an inscription 

 on one of the church windows, asking 

 for prayers for the soul of Master Thomas 

 Mawdesley, founder of the chantry, and 

 his parents, dated 1530; Ducarut Lane. 

 (Rec. Com.), ii, 132. 



4 He held various other benefices and 

 was one of the king's chaplains (Smith), 

 and became Archdeacon of York 1540-3 ; 

 Le Neve, t'ttti, iii, 134. 



44 This name may be Wolfet or 

 Wolflet ; he is noticed further under 

 Ribchester, of which parish he became 

 rector in 1543. 



At the visitation of 1554 the bishop 

 was recorded as parson, and a 'Thomas 

 Manitem* (?), beneficed elsewhere, seems 

 to have been in charge. 



41 Alias Marston. Little is known of 

 this vicar, recorded at the visitation of 

 1562, when he appeared but did not sub- 

 scribe. He may be identical with the 

 above-named 'T. Manstem.' The will 

 of 'Sir John Marsden, clerk, vicar of 

 Chipping,' was proved at Chester in 1588. 

 An abstract is given by T. C. Smith 

 (op. cit.) j it names 'John Parker alias 

 Marsdtn, my bastard son.' 



* Act Bk. at Chester, fol. 1 8/>. No 

 first-fruits were paid by the vicars, but 

 the institutions have, when possible, been 

 compared with those in the Institution 



Books (P.R.O.), as printed in Lanes, tnd 

 Cats. Antsy. Notes, See also Baines, 

 Lanes, (ed. Croston), iv, 79. 



Richard Parker, son of Reynold Parker 

 of Greystonelee in Bowland, copied the 

 early volume of the registers, in which 

 his own baptism (1563) is recorded. He 

 was Dean of Amounderaess, but was 

 described as 'no preacher' in 1590, and 

 again about 1610 ; S. P. Dom. Eliz. 

 xxxi, 47 ; Hist. MSS. Com. Ref. xiv, 

 App. iv, 9. 



In 1610 it was returned that Richard 

 Parker, vicar, had ' but one benefice of 

 404. by year, and no vicarage house ' ; 

 Chester Consistory Ct. Papers. 



47 Act Bk. at Chester, fol. 63. The 

 name is otherwise given as Armitsdale. 

 Nothing seems to be known of him, but 

 the baptism of Margaret daughter of 

 William Armistead is recorded 8 Apr. 

 1628. 



'" His name occurs in the registers 

 from 1625. His burial on 23 Sept. 

 1672 is thus recorded: 'John King, 

 clerk, minister of God's word at Chip- 

 ping for fifty years last past departed this 

 life September the twenty-second Anno 

 Dom. 1672 and was buried in the south 

 side of the chancel in the parish church 

 of Chipping aforesaid.' 



In 1624 John King paid 4 8;. to the 

 clerical subsidy for Chipping, possibly as 

 agent of the Bishop of Chester ; Misc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 81. 



He accepted the Presbyterian discipline 

 without hesitation, for in 1646 he was a 

 member of the third classii ; Baines, 

 Lanes, (ed. 1868), i, 227. In 1650 he 

 was commended as 'an able, orthodox 

 divine'; Common*. Ck. Surv. 170. 

 He seems to have conformed as readily 

 in 1662, remaining at Chipping till his 

 death. 



The inventory of his goods (Smith, 

 op. cit. 91-1) shows a considerable farm- 

 ing stock, but no books. 



" Educated at Emmanuel ColL, Camb. ; 

 M.A. 167;. Was appointed to Whalley 

 in 1694, and died in 1703. 



w Educated at Jesus Coll., Camb. ; 

 B.A. 1689. His will was proved at 

 Richmond in 1702. 



25 



" Educated at Trin. Coll., Camb. ; 

 M.A. 1698. He was promoted to the 

 rectory or Aughton near Ormskirk in 

 1721 (q.v.) 



H Educated at Queen's ColL, Oxf. ; 

 M.A. 1714. He became rector of Hey- 

 sham in 1735. At Chipping he had 

 quarrels with his parishioners. He 

 published some books, one being a 

 treatise on confirmation. He seems 

 to be the 'Mr. Kelly, High Church 

 parson,' of a local squib of which a full 

 account is printed in Smilh's Chipping, 

 171-8. 



* Resigned on being promoted to the 

 rectory of Badsworth, Yorks. 



" Educated at Jesus ColL, Camb. ; 

 M.A. 1745. He was a friend and fellow 

 worker of John Wesley, and frequently 

 mentioned in his diaries. He was also 

 one of the king's preachers in Lanca- 

 shire. 



" Educated at Oriel Coll, Ot ; 

 M.A. 1771 ; D.D. 1793 ; Foster, 

 Alumni. He became prebendary of 

 Chester, rector of Coddinpton, and then 

 of West Kirby, and sub-dean of the 

 Chapel Royal. 



M He was also curate of Samlesbury, 

 where he resided. He was a king's 

 preacher. 



a He was also master of Brabin's 

 School and king'i preacher. In 1790 

 there were 'three Sacrament days' 

 yearly ; T. C. Smith, op. cit. 66. 



M Educated at Brasenose and Hertford 

 Colls., Oxf.; M.A. 1784; Foster, 

 Alumni. In 1809 he was appointed 

 vicar of Preiton (q.v.), and retained both 

 benefices till death. 



" ' A man of considerable power and 

 influence, an able preacher, and deservedly 

 esteemed by his parishioners ' ; Croston 

 in Baines' Lanes, iv, 81. He was also 

 master of the free school from 1817 to 

 1837. 



M Educated at St. Bees ; B.A. at 

 Trinity Coll., Dublin, 1867. Preferred 

 to the vicarage of Carlton on Trent in 

 1886. 



' Educated at Lampeter ; B.D. 1889. 

 Exchanged Chipping for AH Saints', 

 West Gorton, in 1891, 



