Chap. 8. PARISH OF CHIPPIXG. 19S 



dc Zs. ; ' that there were no lambs or wool in tlio parish belonging to 

 the King, nor any merchants or other men living without agriculture 

 who give the fifteenth of their goods ; that the glebe was worth xxs. a 

 year, ' decimm fniis et alie minute decime, ohlationes et alia spectancia ad 

 altaragium qui valent communiter per annum iij marcas. Et etiam dicta 

 parochia destructa fuit per Scottas. Ita quod ratione ejusdem destrucionia 

 jacent in eadcm parochia terre vaste et inculte in diminutione dicte taxe 

 singulis annis per xls.'' 



"The Eectoi-y of Cliipping, an impropriation belonging to the Bishop 

 of Chester since 1542, was valued in 1535, in the King's books, at 

 £24 16s. 5id."— Whit. WhaUey, II., 480. 



" Sciant, etc., quod ego Hog. deLacye Constahl. Cestr. Bodi etc. Johanni 

 de Dunkekanlega j. hovatum terre cum pertiiienciis in Villa {de'] Chippin, 

 illam scilicet quam Alexander de Chppin prius tcnuit — habendum illi et 

 heredihts snis de me et heredibus meis lihere, etc. — reddendo inde annnatim 

 mihi et heredibus meis 12d. ad fe stum Sancti Egidii, etc., testibus, Galfrido 

 decano de Walleia, Mug. de Button tunc. Senescallo, Tlio. Lispensatore, Raid, 

 de Rossa, Ricardo Ponfe Garde, Tho. de Verdon, et multis aliis." 



In the report, dated 28 Sept., 1647, of the survey of lands, the 

 following statement is made regarding Chipping : — 



" The same Eectory or Personage, with all Messauges, Cottages, 

 Glebe and Demeasne lands, 20 Sejjt., 40 Elizabeth [1598], was leased 

 by Eichard, Bishopp of Chester, to Eobei-t Swindlehurst for his owne 

 life; Thomas Swindlehiu-st, his brother, and Eichard Swindlehurst, 

 the said Eobert's younger Cozen, and the longest lives of them. 

 Eichard is onely liveing, aged 57, and in health. 



" M™- Mary Harris, a Papist, now wife of Christopher Harris, a 

 Papist in armes, is sole daughter and heir of the said Eobert Swindle- 

 hurst, the Lessee, and is yet living, but the Eectory stande sequestred. 



"Mr. Edward Parker, a Lawyer living at Brownsholme, in County 

 York, hath the lease, intending to drawe the said Eobert Swindlehui-st 

 his will by it, but did it not before he died. The Parrish consists of 

 Towues, viz., Chippin, Thornely, Wheately, etc. 



" There is a faire Parsonage house, and about five acres of gleable, 

 great measure, with liberty to gitt turbary, all which is valued to be 



