20i A HISTORY OF LONGRIDGE. [Chap. 8. 



yard of the Lawnd. One old man, now living, aged eighty-three, 

 remembers it in ruins when he was a boy ; it was very small, and the 

 walls of great thickness, as was evident by the foundations, when 

 laid bare two years since (1871). This chapel would be in use at and 

 after the time of Eichard Shireburne's foundation, in the reign of 

 James II. About 1787, Thomas Weld, Esq., erected a larger one on 

 the site of the west wing of the old mansion, sixty feet in length and 

 twenty-five feet in width, with five long round-headed windows on one 

 side ; the inside being very plain, and the exterior more so. This 

 chapel again proving too small for the growing wants of the congrega- 

 tion, shortly after the late Mr. Weld and his family came to reside at 

 Leagram, a site was granted, with some land, by him, adjoining 

 Chipping village, and a large chapel and a priest's house erected thereon, 

 and opened for public worship in 1827. The old chapel at the Hall 

 continued to be made use of for some years as a domestic chapel, but 

 it eventually fell out of repair, a large portion of it was taken down, 

 and the present Gothic chapel erected in its place." — Extract from 

 "Diary and Pilgrim Book." — Foley. 



" Chipping. — This ancient manor was held by Richard de Chepin, 

 Lord of Chepin, soon after the Conquest. It subsequently passed to 

 the Knowles family, and afterwards to the Shireburns. Leagram Hall, 

 now the seat of John Weld, Esq., with the manor, was granted by 

 Queen Elizabeth to Dudley, Earl of Leicester, of whom Sir Eichard 

 Shireburn purchased it. This mission was served from a very early 

 period by the Fathers of the District, most probably from the mansion 

 of Stonyhurst, the seat of the Shireburnes. According to tradition, 

 Father John Penketh was missioner there. The mission ceased to be 

 served by the Society in 1857. The following is a copy of an ancient 

 Shireburn mortuary paper, and instructions for the priest at Chipping. 

 The original is preserved in the Archives of the College : — 



" 1. Hee is to celebrate three tymes a weeke, offering vpp one Masse 

 for Eichard Shirburn of Stonyhurst, Esqre., and Isabel, his wyfe. 

 Another for their children and grandmother, and aU whom they are in 

 dutie bound to pray for living. A third for their friends departed. 



