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A HISTORY OF LONG RIDGE. 



[Chap. 7. 



Jesus ministered both physical and spiritual food to the five thousand, 

 who sat down because there was much grass in the place. Everything 

 seemed to be in harmony with the situation. For miles around there 

 was lovely scenery, the trees waving on the banks of the Ribble, the 

 hUls, the valley, and the birds of the air aU seemed to add their share 

 of praise and to magnify the Lord." 



The living of the Eectory of Eibchester with the Vicarage of Stydd 

 is returned at £300 with a residence. The present value of the tithes 

 is £198 10s. The Bishop of Manchester is patron of the living. The 

 number of sittings is : Eibchester 610, of which 366 are free ; Stydd 

 250, all of which are free.' 



List of Eectoes and Vic.uis of Eibchester. 

 (According to Baines and Whittaker). 



Drogo. — Drowned in the Eibble. 



Imbertus. 



Eobert de PokeUngton. 



Walter de Wodehouse. — Resigned. 



William de Wakefield. 



William de Horuebj'. 



John de Lincoln.— Resigned. 



Lambert de Thirkynham. 



WiUiam Bolton. 



John Farmer. — Resigned. 



John del More. — Resigned. 



Richard Coventre. 



John Ellyswyk. 



Robert Bromlaw. 



William Talbot. 



Robert Crombilholme. — Eesiffued. 



William Clayton. — Died. 



Thomas Thirelby. 



'" Ribchester was formerly in the 

 Ijarish of Whalley, but it was separate^l 

 from the parent stock in Saxon times." 



It was also in the hundred of Amoun- 

 derness down to modern times : it is 

 now in the hundred of Blackburn. 



