238 A HISTORY OF LONGRTDGE. [Chap. 11. 



About 1740 the Newhouse Chapel was built ; it was small and irregular in shape, 

 and iledicated to St. Lawrence. The Rev. John Carter, from the English College 

 at Lisbon, was the first priest regularly stationed here. When Prince Charles 

 Edward passed by in 1745, on his march to Preston, Mr. Carter obtained an 

 assurance from him, that his troops should not molest either his person or the 

 mission property. In 1763, during the anti-Jacobite and no-Popery fermentation 

 at Preston, Newhouse Chapel narrowly escaped destruction. An infatuated mob, 

 after destroying St. Mary's Chapel, in Friargate, Preston, and burning that at 

 Cottam, moved in the direction of Newhouse for the purpose of demolishing the 

 Cliapel there. But a neighbouring Protestant, named Hankiuson, a descendant of 

 the family of the man who betrayed George Haydock, the Martyr, met the mob 

 near Hollo wforth Mill, and persuaded them not to touch the Chapel. He 

 entreated them not to molest Mr. Carter, whom he highly praised. He then 

 provided them with food and drink, which appeased them, and thus they marched 

 back to Preston. Mr. Carter died Oct. 11, 1789, but long before his death, about 

 17G2, his nephew, James Carter, came to assist him in the Mission. Mr. Carter, 

 in accordance with the general custom of priests, assnmed his mother's maiden 

 name (Mawdesley),by which he was always known. He remained at Newhouse for 

 52 years, and there died Feb. 4, 1S14, aged 78, a marble tablet within the Chapel 

 recording his memory. Towards the close of his life, he was assisted by his 

 nephew, the Rev. Henry Carter, younger son of Robert Carter, and his wife, Jane 

 Cope, or Cooper. He came to Newhouse in 1805 ; and through his exertions the 

 present Chapel was erected in 1806, near the old site. With a view to preventing 

 any ill-feeling or difficulty with the Protestants, whose Chapel at Carton, about a 

 mile distant, was dedicated to St. Lawrence, the old patron of Newhouse was 

 abandoned, and the new edifice dedicated to our Lady. In 1S26, Mr. Carter died 

 at Preston ; and was succeeded by the Rev. J. B. Marsh, who died in 1857, and 

 was buried at the north-east corner of the Chapel. It was he who erected the 

 Presbytery, adjoining the Chapel, soon after his appointment to the Mission. He 

 was succeeded m 18.54, by the Rev. Peter Holmes ; Mr. Holmes only stayed a 

 year. He was followed in 1855 by the Very Rev. Richard Canon Gillow, who has 

 been Vice-Rector of the English College at Rome, and twelve years Professor o£ 

 Theology at Ushaw College. He died at Newhouse, Nov. 3rd, 1867, and was 

 buried under a handsome stone, adjoining that to the memory of Mr. Marsh, 

 erected by his friend, Thomas Fitzherbert Brockholes, of Claughton, Esq. Soon 

 after he came to the Mission, Canon Gillow erected the Schools, a short distance 

 from the Chapel. He was succeeded by the Rev. W. H. Bradshaw ; then came 

 the Rev. Pierce Power, who cut down the fine old shrubs surrounding the house, 

 and destroyed its beauty. In May, 1869, Ibllowed the Rev. Austin Powell, who re- 

 decorated the Chapel, and did much to improve the place ; then in September, 

 1872, came the Kev. John Bilsborrow, a descendant of the donors of the 

 Bilsliorrow charity, of which the priest at Newsham should be a recipient ; and 

 lastly came the present incumbent, the Rev. Thomas Carroll. 



