192 A HISTORY OF LONGRIDGE. [Chap. 8. 



" The figures, whicli were printed in the Gentleman'' s Magazine and 

 the first editions of the Uisfonj of Wludlei/, were not only reversed, 

 but were incorrect and out of proportion. Mr. Brooke-Herford, editor 

 of the second volume of the second edition of Baines, who discovered 

 this periistent and loKg-standing error, says : ' The artist has com- 

 mitted the complicated mistake of placing the figures together, as if 

 they formed a single inscription, and of making the small figures 

 about the pedestal larger than the devices with shields.' " 



The five shields not shown in the figure of the font bear the 

 implements of the Passion and initals explained by Mr. Brooke- 

 Herford as H., I.B., and J.B., relating to the Hoghtons, Lords of the 

 Manor, and the Bartons and Browns, landholders in Chipping, during 

 the sixteenth century. The letters in the x'odestal which are here 

 reversed as on the font were explained by Mr. J. G. Nichols as P.D.T., 

 A.M.G., signifying: Ave Maria Gratia Petena Dominus Tecum.^ 



In the Church are also tablets to the memory of the Rev. E. 

 Wilkinson, Mr. James Dil worth, and otheis; and a brass to the 

 memory of the Parkinsons, of Fairsnape. 



Mr. Pearson says that, in 1241, the Prior of Lancaster claimed the 

 right of presentation to Chipping Church, a claim which was, however, 

 disallowed. 



"In 1241, Emeric de Eoches " also claimed "the Church of 

 Chyppindale " as " a Chapel of his own, at Preston, but subsequently 

 remitted his claim, on the grounds that the living had been last pre- 

 sented by the Earl of Lincoln." 



"At the inq., p. m., of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, 28 Ap., 1361, it 

 was found that he held the adowson of the Church of Chipen, Valor 20 

 Marcas. The Church of Chippyng was valued at £10 13s. 4d. by the 

 taxation of Pope Nicholas IV., 1244-92; and by the new taxation 

 made in 1318, on account of the invasion of the Scots, at £5. By 

 inqiiisition taken at Lancaster, 26th Feb., 1341, it was found that, 

 although the Church at Chypyn ' taxata sit ah antiqua a xvj. marcas isto 

 tamen tempore nona garharum ejiisdem parochie juxta verum valorem valet 

 nisi Cs. et non plus, mule villata de Chi/pi/n respoudet de Ls. et Thorneleij 



•Whitt. Whalley. 



