Chap. 7.] 



PARISH OF RIBCHESTER. 



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Georg(3 Wolfytt. — Resigned. 



H. Norcrosse. 



E. Learoj'de, B.A. — Resigned. 



Chris. Hyndle.' —Ejected. 



George Ogden. — Died. 



Thomas Johnson, A.B. — Died. 



John Heber, A.M. 



John Griffiths, A.B.— Died. 



John Atkinson. 



Isaac Relph. 



James Quartley. — Died. 



B. T. Haslewood, B.A. 

 In several works in which reference to Eibchester is made, attention 

 is called to the fact that there have been onhj twelve vicars of Ribchester 

 from the Reformation down to 1876, the date of Mr. Haslewood's 

 death. Certainly, it would have been a noteworthy thing, and deserving 

 of being placed on record, onlj', unfortunately, the statement turns out to 

 be pure fiction.* Of course, I do not attribute over much blame to Mr. 

 Baines, the historian of Lancashire, for it would be manifestly impossible 

 for the writer of such a stupendous work as " The History of Lan- 

 cashire" to verify all the information he received. It wouldbe interesting, 

 however to know who was ]\h-. Baines' informant. I venture to hazard 

 the conjecture that he simply copied the list of vicars from Whittaker's 

 "Whalley." 



And, therefore, the learned Dr. Whittaker must be held to be guilty 

 of the grievous fault (in an historian) of unreliability. For Dr. Wliit- 

 taker was very familiar with Ribchester.' To this village he paid many 

 visits, and of its antiquities he largely treats. Did it never occur to 

 him to look through the parish registers for the names of the vicars ? 



'In a note to Baines' "Lancashire," 

 edit. 1870, signed Brooke Herford, is 

 the following: "There is, however, a 

 gap in the list of Vicars, as C. Hindle 

 died iu 1657, and it is possible that 

 Ingham's name should come in between 

 Hindle and Ogden." — Not only 

 " possible," but " really," as I show. 



'"rormerly Incumbent of Chipping." 



"1800 according to Whittaker. 



'The additional ministers of Ribches- 

 ter which I have discovered were, it is 

 true, oijy curates, but as two of them, 

 at least, were " curates in charge," the 

 above criticism holds good. 



»For 12 years, 1809-22, Dr. Whittaker 

 was Vicar of Whalley. 



