172 A HISTORY OF LONGRIDGE. [Chap. 7. 



REV. W. INGHAM. 



Eev. Wm. Ingliam was Vicar of Ribchester for 30 years, although, 

 as I have said, he is not placed in their list of Vicars by Baines or 

 Whittaker. 



The following extract referring to him is taken from the parish 

 registers : — 



"Memorand. — It is ordered this 5th day of April, 1670, by ye 

 Gentlemen and foare and twentye of ye p'rsh of Eibchestr' y'at when- 

 ever Mr. "Will. Ingham, minister of the s'' p'rish 



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y'at he shall send word by ye churchwarden , bring ten shillings 

 eight pence : to comm'ce immediately from this day. 

 " Witness our hands." 



Among the "Institutions" contributed to Antiquarian JVotes is the 

 following : — " Stidd Chapel. "William Ingham, Clk., by the Bishop 

 of Chester, 23 Aug., 1661." The date given here should be, I con- 

 jecture, 1651. Certainly he was Vicar of Eibchester in the latter year. 



EEV. GEOEGE OGDEN. 



Dr. Whittaker makes a most serious error in the date of the Eev. 

 George Ogden's appointment to Eibchester. The Eev. W. Ingham 

 died in 1681, and Mr. Ogden was appointed Vicar in 1681, whereas 

 the historian of Whalley gives the date as 1699! 



Mr. Ogden, who was a Fellow of the Collegiate Church of Man- 

 chester, seems to have been most assiduous in improving the 

 temporal affairs of the parish over which he ruled for 25 years. He 

 built the vicarage at his own cost, gave the communion table at Stydd, 

 and in various other ways greatly improved the state of the church. 

 He also took a keen interest in the discovery of Eoman remains, as 

 Stukely, who visited Eibchester in 1752, testifies :— " The late minister 

 of Eibchester, the Eev. Mr. Ogden, collected all the coins, intaglios, 

 and other antiquities, found there in great quantities ; but his widow, 



' Illegible. Seems to refer to marriages. 



