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CHAPTEE VIII.— CHIPPING. 



The De Chepyns— Earls of Derby— Welds— Origin ot name— Thoriiley— Lord of the 

 Manor -" History of Chipping" — Indvistries— Brabin's School— Old houses — 

 Hesketh End— E. Kirk— Newlands and ''pig eating"— Agricultural Statistics- 

 Population— Non-jurors in 1715— The Parish Church: Font— Value of living: 

 1244-92— 1535— 1647— List of Vicars -Rev. John Milner— Rev. John Wesley — 

 Rev. E. Wilkinson— Church registers— Rev. R. Robinson— Rev. J. B. Jones— 

 Thornley School— Catholic Church : List of Priests— Rev. Fr. I. J. de Gryse - 

 Lee House Church— List of Priests— Peter Walkden : Extracts from diary- 

 Agricultural Notes— Leagi-am HaU— Rev. Fr. Penketh— Foley's Z)!ar7/— Ancient 

 mortuary paper— Anniversaries-Stole and Maniple— John Weld, J. P. — Death of 

 Mr. Weld— Obituary isotice— Stonphurst Magazine. 

 Chipping, or as it was anciently written "Chepin," is five miles 

 distant from Longridge, in a north-westerly direction. The Eoman 

 road from Eibchestor to York passes through a portion of the parish. 

 According to the " Status de Blaghorne;shire," ChepjTi was one of 

 the thi-ee parishes which branched from that of WhaUey some years 

 before the reign of Edward the Confessor (1041). 



Chipenden is mentioned in Domesday as having three carucates of 

 land. According to the Lansdowne MSS., the heir of Thomas de 

 Osbaldestone held in service one carucate of land in Wetheley and 

 Thorneley. The heir of John del Hall, of Chipyn, also held a certain 

 tenement in Chepyn for the fortieth part of one fee. The De Chepyns 

 were Lords of the Manor down to 1348, when they were succeeded by 

 the KnoUes. In 1515, the Sherburnes became Lords of the Manor, 

 from whom it passed into the family of the Welds. 



Michael Doughtie, who was elected M.P. for Preston in 1588, was 

 also one of the Clerks of the Kitchen in the semi-regal household of 

 Edward, the 3rd Earl of Derby, and Henry, the 4th Earl of Derby, 

 and, according to Mr. Payne Collier, "was an influential and very 

 rich man." He purchased the manor of Thornley- with-Wheatlej', 

 lands in Chipping, and was succeeded by his son, John Doughtie, 

 whose daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married Thomas Patten, Esq., 

 M.P. for Preston, an ancestor of Colonel Wilson-Patten, M.P. (Lord 

 Winmarleigh). Mr. Patten's only daughter was married to Sir Thomas 

 Stanley, Bart., an ancestor of the present Earl of Derby ; the Earl, 

 who has royal blood in his veins, thus also deriving his descent from 

 a squ're who was Clerk of the Kitchen to two of his ancestors at 

 Knowsley. 



