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When the Rev. Henry Carter had erecteil the new Chapel in 1806, he opened a 

 1 urial ground to the great ire of the parson of Goosnargh, the Rev. Joshua 

 Southward, who demanded the interment fees, and began to assume a threatening 

 attitude. 



' ' Hold ! I forgot — one said, a parson's dues 



Was the same thing with rhyming badge of Jews. " 



— John Byrom. 

 At length on September 10, 1810, he wrote the following letter to Mr. Carter: — 



"Reverend Sir, — I hear not from you, nor what you mean to do, concerning 

 sepultures in a piece of ground near to your Chapel. You must know that you 

 have no right to deposit bodies there, under a heavy penalty, and that at present, 

 as minister here, I am cheated of the usual fees. Suppose your Chapel was con- 

 secrated according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, corps 

 (sic.) could not then be interred in the consecrated ground adjoining, to the 

 deprivation of our fees here. You prob.ably may not be aware, by your improper 

 conduct, what mischief you are doing to your body and the Catholic cause, both 

 here and in Ii-eland. The State has already been kind and indulgent to you, and 

 you may still go on to look for more privileges, but you may depend upon this, 

 that the higher powers will not long remain unacquainted with the undue 

 advantage you at present take of the Established Church, and which must be a 

 great check for anything more to be done for you. At present I have a corre- 

 spondence with the Bishop of Chester upon this business, and unless I soon, to my 

 satisfaction, hear from you, I shall write to your Romish Bishop, Dr. Gibson, upon 

 the subject — nor sliall I cease from exerting my right in our Ecclesiastical Court. 



All I want is primarily the fees paid here, and then it is nothing to me how much 

 you can get afterwards. — I am, with all due reverence and respect, etc., South- 

 ward, Minister of Goosnargh." 



It was the burial of Mrs. Haydock, of Leach Hall, and the Rev. James Hay- 

 dock, of Lea, which excited the avarice of this characteristic follower of the loaTes 

 and fishes. 



REV. CANON RICHARD GILLOW. 



A brief account must be given — exigences of space voluctantly 

 compelling the author to make tlie notice as concise as possible — of the 

 Eev. Eichard Gillow, who for twelve years was the honoured and loved 

 priest of Newsham. He was one of those men, "whose mission was 

 toilsome and onerous, who had to sow in tears, but had at length the 

 satisfaction of reaping in joy. The lopped tree grew again beneath 

 their fostering care ; it threw out new roots and new branches, and 

 spread its umbrageous arms over the length and breadth of the land.'' 



The subject of this sketch was bom at Newton, in the Fj'lde, on the 

 18th July, 1794. Educated at Ushaw College, he soon became noted 



