AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



born in 1868, the present lord of the manor. The 

 principal residence of the family has been at Lytham 

 since early in the lyth century. Mr. Clifton's pos- 

 sessions include the whole of the township of Clifton- 

 with-Salwick, Westby-with-Plumptons, and Lytham 

 (ancient) ; also Little Marton, part of Great Marton 

 and much of Warton. Manor courts have long ceased 

 to be held, but juries of the farmers in the several 

 townships assemble yearly to make arrangements for 

 the clearing of the watercourses, and officials named 

 constables, byelaw-men, &c., are nominated as a 

 matter of form." 



The Cliftons being the only landowners in the 

 township, there is little to record besides. Richard 

 Clitheroe of Clifton paid 10 on declining knight- 

 hood in i63i. i5 One Thomas Threlfall had two- 

 thirds of his house and land sequestered for recusancy 

 in the Commonwealth time. 68 Several people of 

 Clifton and Salwick registered estates as ' Papists ' in 

 17 1 7, 57 in addition to the squire. 



Of Salwick there is little to record. 58 There were 

 disputes between the lords of Lea and Clifton as to 

 pasturage on Salwick Waste, Grimes Moss and Clifton 

 Marsh." William Duddell was a freeholder in 

 i6oo. 



LUND was the site of an oratory in 

 CHURCH i 349, as above stated. The chapel is 

 named again in the partition of the 

 Clifton estates in 1515. "' Nothing is known of its 

 earlier history ; it is not named among the chantries 

 suppressed in I 547-8, and probably ceased to be used 

 for service 6a till the time of the Commonwealth, 

 when, the Cliftons' estates being under sequestration, 

 Lund Chapel was rebuilt' 3 and occupied by one 

 Joseph Harrison, 'a godly, diligent and painful 

 pastor,' who received 40 a year from the Com- 

 mittee of Plundered Ministers. 64 Afterwards it re- 

 verted to the Cliftons, but in 1687 was claimed by 

 Mr. Clegg, vicar of Kirkham, 65 and this claim seems 



KIRKHAM 



to have prevailed, probably owing to the Revolution, 

 for in 1689 Thomas Ryley, 'conformable,' was 

 minister there. 6 * Bishop Gastrell about 1717 found 

 that there was an income from recent endowments of 

 6 1 8/. \J., and that the master of Kirkham School 

 preached and read prayers there ' every Sunday, 

 Sacrament days excepted.' " Curates were appointed 

 regularly from 1732. The chapel became ruinous,** 

 and was replaced by the present church of St. John 

 the Evangelist in 1825. A district parish was attached 

 to it in 1 840,*' and the vicarial tithes have been 

 assigned to the incumbent, who is presented by the 

 Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. 70 The 

 following have had charge 71 : 



1717 Edward Manwaring 



1726 Thomas Cockin 



1749 Benjamin Wright 



1774 Cuthbcrt Harrison 



1 790 Joshua Southward 



1790 Charles Buck, M.A. (St. John's Coll., 



Camb.) 



1808 Thomas Stephenson 

 1820 Richard Moore, M.A. 7S (Brasenose Co!'., 



Oxf.) 

 1886 Charles Fullerton Smith, M.A. (Christ 



Ch., Oxf.) 



Ward's House, near Salwick Hall, was formerly the 

 seat of a younger branch of the Clifton family, of 

 whom several became Jesuits, and mass was said in the 

 chapel there in the 1 7th 73 and I 8th centuries, 74 until 

 the chapel at Lea was built in i8oi. 7> 



NEWTON-WITH-SCALES 



Neutune, Dom. Bk. ; Neuton, 1242. 



This township occupies a long strip of ground 

 running north from the Ribble, with an area of 

 1,522! acres. 1 The village of Newton is near the 



M Information of Mr. Jamet S. Fiir. 



u Mia. (Rec. Soc. Lino, and Che*.), 

 i, 112. 



* Cal. Com. for Comf. v, 3202. Threl- 

 fall wat dead, bat had been succeeded by 

 another of the tame name. The claim 

 of Thomat Cottam in 1654 wat allowed 

 'unleti the County Cnmminionert find 

 that Margaret wife of Thomai Threlt'all 

 ii the Margaret Threlfall of Poulton who 

 hat been convicted of recusancy.' 



47 Of Clifton Robert Hnikar, Jamei 

 Hosk.ir and Robert Cradwell ; Ettcourt 

 and Payne, op. cit. 103, 133, 136. Of 

 Salwick Jame> Hardman and Anne 

 widow of John Charaock ; ibid. 91, 140. 



" The New Hall and the Old Hall in 

 Salwick are named in 1591 ; Ducatta 

 Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 256. 



H Ibid. 113, 313; Land. and Chei. 

 Kit. (Rec. Soc.), ii, 179. 



* Mac. (Rec. Soc. Lanc. and Chei.), 

 i, 232. 



" Quoted in a former note. See 

 Raines' notet in Notiria Ceitr. (Chet. 

 Soc.), ii, 424. 



11 The chantry chapel and iu land", 

 including three messuages in Kirkham 

 and the 4 acre* and a windmill in Clifton, 

 certainly came into the handi of the 

 Crown, for Jamei I fold them in 1606 

 to William Brown and other* (Pat. 

 3 Jas. I, pt. xvi), who no doubt told to 

 the lord of Clilton. 



"In 164; an allowance of 40 out 



of Thomai Clifton't sequestered tithet 

 wat voted for the maintenance of a 

 minister, 'when the laid chapel of Lund 

 hall be re-edified ' ; Plund. Mint. Accn. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanci. and Chei.), i, 9. The 

 grant became effective in 1648 ; ibid. 62. 



64 Commonly. Ch. Surv. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanci. and Chei.), 155. The allowance 

 wat increated to 50 ; Plund. Mini. Acctt. 

 i, 94, 245. 



Harrison wat 'a good scholar and a 

 methodical preacher ; fixed in a dark 

 corner, where he wat wonderfully fol- 

 lowed and very useful ' ; Calamy, Nonconf. 

 Mem. (ed. Palmer), ii, 97. For his 

 family see Lanci. and Chti. Hill, and Gtn. 

 Note h ii, 159. 



** Rainei, ut tup. quoting Cart-wright i 

 Diary (Camden Soc.), in which the 

 bithop states he dismissed the claim for 

 want of evidence. The claim must have 

 originated somewhat earlier, for in 1680 

 Alice Clitherall left c, towards an en- 

 dowment ; in 1682 John Dickson left 

 money, half the interest on which was 

 ' to be paid to such minister as should be 

 legally authorised to teach and preach in 

 the chapel of Lund, according to the 

 Church of England,' or in default to the 

 poor; and in 168; Thomat Smith left 

 20 for 'a lawful minuter' ; while in 

 1690 Alice Hankinton left 1 for the 

 use of the chapel ; End. Char. Ktf. 

 (Kirkham), I 8. 



The chapel was first repaired at the 



charge of the parish in 1688 ; Fishwick, 

 Kirkham (Chet. Soc.), 56. 



* Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iy, 

 229. Ryley is not named in Stratford's 

 visitation list, 1691, so that he did not 

 ttay long. 



" Notitia Ceitr. loc. cit. 



** The royal brief for a collection on 

 behalf of the rebuilding, dated 1822, it 

 printed in Lanci. and Chei. Antif. A'crti, 

 ii, zoo. 



Order in Council, Aug. 1840. 



' Raines' notet, Notitia Ceitr. The 

 benefice was declared a vicarage in 1866 ; 

 Load. GaK. 25 May. 



71 Thit lilt it from the church papers, 

 Chester Dioc. Reg. 



" Hewitson, Our Gauntry Churchei, 305. 



71 See the account of Kirkrum Church. 



74 Foley, Rec. S. J. Tii, 140-1. In 

 1716 it wat reported ' that Lowick 

 [? Salwick] Hall, the reputed inherit- 

 ance of Thomas Clifton etq. of Lytham, 

 about four milet from Preiton, belongs 

 to some popish priests or it appropriated 

 to tome other tuperstitiout ute ' ; Payne, 

 En el. Cath. Rec. 89. 



"John Clilton (d. 1831) tuppretsed 

 Salwick Chapel, and made an unsuccess- 

 ful claim for the plate and vestments ; 

 Cillow, Hay/lock Pa fen, 237, 207. 



1 The Cemut Ref. 1901 givet 1,472 

 acres, including 7 of inland water ; therr 

 are also I $ acres of tidal water and 40 of 

 foreshore. 



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