A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



de stipite. The visitation list of 1548 does not men- 

 tion the rector, but records the vicar and eleven 

 others, including the five cantarists and two of those 

 in the 1541 list. In 1554 the rector was absent, 

 three of the foregoing clergy were dead, one was absent, 

 another denied he was curate, and the vicar and four 

 others seem to have been in charge ; three had been 

 chantry priests at Walton and Liverpool, while the 

 other had migrated from Huyton. In 1562 the 

 rector appeared by proxy and the curate in person ; 

 another priest was absent, and the only other men- 

 tioned was the Formby chaplain. Thus it seems clear 

 that the services at Kirkby and West Derby were only 

 performed irregularly, as those at Liverpool would have 

 to be kept up by the curate of the parish church. 

 In the following year the rector was ' beyond the 

 sea,' the vicar was ill, but the curates at Liverpool 

 and Formby appeared. In 1565 again the rector 

 did not appear, the Liverpool curate's name is crossed 

 out, he having probably resigned, and the vicar seems 

 to have been in sole charge of this vast parish, with 

 its church and four chapels. 1 In 1590 the only 

 'preacher' in the parish was at Liverpool, the rector 

 and vicar of Walton and minister at Kirkby not 

 being such.* About 1610 the rector seems to have 

 been non-resident, the vicar was ' no preacher ' and 

 the four chapels, including Liverpool, were ' supplied 

 with reading ministers.' 3 



Under the Commonwealth an improvement was 

 manifest, the chapels-of-ease being attended to, and 

 the rector and vicar being 'godly, able ministers." 



The effect of the Restoration was to bring back the 

 old order to some extent ; the existing rector's pre- 

 sentation was judged invalid, and he was displaced in 

 1 660 ; two years later the vicar was expelled for non- 

 conformity, and Liverpool, which had been made a 

 separate parish, was reunited with Walton until 1699. 

 During the last century the parish has been divided 

 into a large number of separate districts, each with it& 

 own church and clergy. 



At Walton church there was only one regu- 

 larly endowed chantry ; it had been founded by 

 Mr. John Molyneux, rector from 1471 to 1485, 

 and part of the endowment was a charge of 

 1 3/. 4^. on the rectory ; various lands brought in 

 4O/. additional. 5 



Nothing further is known of the chapel of St. Pau- 

 linus mentioned in some thirteenth and fourteenth 

 century deeds. 6 



A grammar school was founded in or before 1613. 

 For the charities of the whole 

 CHARITIES parish there is no report later than 

 that of 1828; but official inquiries 

 were made in 1901 and 1903 for those portions not 

 included within the county boroughs of Liverpool and 

 Bootle. 7 Walton township shared several charities 

 with adjoining parts of the parish ;" the principal is 

 that of Thomas Fazakerley, who in 1696 gave several 

 closes of land in West Derby for the benefit of the 

 poor of Walton, Fazakerley, and West Derby. 9 There 

 are a number of endowments for the poor of Formby, 

 and some have been lost. 10 Kirkby has some special 



1 These facts are from the visit, lists in 

 the bishop's registry at Chest. 



' Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 249, quoting 

 S.P. Dom. Eliz. ccxxxv. n. 4. 



* Kenyan MSS. (Hist. MSS. Com.), 

 13. A 'reading minister' was a lay- 

 Evening Prayer. At the visit, of 1609 

 one Proudlove was a 'preacher' at 



Fish Street, but out of the rent they were 

 to pay 54*. a year to the churchwardens of 

 Walton, 521. for the provision of white 

 bread for twelve poor persons each Sun- 

 day, and 2J. to the churchwardens for 

 their pains ; also a further 501. to ' two 



but may soon be required for building. 

 Bread is still distributed weekly at Walton 

 church. About 12 a year is given to 

 each of the three participating townships 

 and distributed to the poor. 



tltbCb.Sur-v.Zl. 



' Vahr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 221 ; 

 Robert Kirkby, priest. Raines, Chant. 

 (Chet. Soc.), 80 ; Robert Fazakerley, 

 priest. There was no plate. In Canon 

 Raines' notes is a detailed account of 

 the founder's funeral expenses. 



The chantry lands were given by Queen 

 Mary to the 'Savoy Hospital, which she 

 refounded ; they were leased to the Ander- 

 tons of Lostock ; Anderton D. (C. 

 Stonor), . 8, 10. 



Kuerden MSS. (Coll. of Arms), iii, 

 W 10, n. 13, I, 10 ; ranging from 1240 

 to 1325. 



1 According to the 1828 report there 

 were no charities for Everton ; Kirkdale 

 and Bootle shared in some of the Walton 

 ones, as mentioned below. 



8 Benefactions amounting to 100, left 

 between 1630 and 1735, had been lost 

 before 1828. 



Ellen Johnson alias Jameson in 1775 

 left a charge of 201. on a house in Tithe- 

 barn Street, Liverpool, of which Walton 

 and Bootle were each to have 31., and 

 Kirkdale and Fazakerley 21. each. The 

 house was sold to the corporation for im- 

 provements, and the rent-charge was then 

 doubled, i still being paid by the cor- 

 poration to the rector of Walton, who 

 distributes it according to the will. 



Thomas Berry, by his will of 1601, left 

 the Red Cross tenement in Edward 

 street, Southwark, to the rector and 

 churchwardens of St. Mary Magdalen, Old 



which 305. was to be spent on a dinner 

 every St. Thomas's day in his brother 

 James's then dwelling-house in Bootle, 

 for all the householders and married 

 people of the said town as should please 

 to come thither,' and 201. for a supper for 

 the young people. In 1828 4 ICM. was 

 received by the vicar of Walton ; 2 7.. 



mainder was distributed in money doles to 

 poor persons in Bootle. 



Edward Tarleton in 1698 left 50 for 

 the poor of Walton and Liverpool ; in 

 1828 the capital was in the hands of the 

 corporation of Liverpool, and 121. 6</. as 



on and 



1 749, which sums were used to defray the 

 debt on Formby church. The above 

 charities were lost in 1869, when church 

 rates were abolished, the interest having 

 been paid out of them. The township, 

 however, should have taken steps to rein- 

 itate the capital. Richard Marsh and 

 eys for the poor, which 



the 



: W., 



1 given to the poor. 



1 The closes were called Robert 



v, Wheat hey, Rye hey, Ellin. 



ere, 



Cropps acre ; the present name is Stone- 

 crop farm. Out of the rent i 2 was to 

 be paid for an annual sermon, a weekly 

 distribution of bread, and otherwise for 

 the benefit of the poor ' of the communion 

 of the Church of England ' alone. If the 



tions were to be made. In 1828 the rent 

 was 35, and the whole, not merely the 

 12, was paid to the officers of the three 

 vnships for separate distribution among 



the 



poor, after 52 



had 



deducted for the bread, 211. for the annual 

 sermon on St. Thomas's day, and 131. 6d. 

 for expenses. The money was given in 

 sums of 31. to 201. In 1873 a portion of 

 the land was taken for the West Derby 

 sewage farm, and is represented by 402 

 consols ; the remainder is let for 30, 



IO 



in 1828 produced 6 18.. a year. Part 

 of this was received from the poor rate, 

 and has not been paid for fifty years ; but 

 3 a year, representing 50 lent to the 

 corporation of Liverpool, is still received 

 by the overseers, and divided among poor 

 women, mostly widows. 



The Rev. Richard Formby in 1825 left 

 85 for New Testaments, tracts, &c., to 

 be distributed in the neighbourhood ; the 



Prayer-books as prizes in the girls' 

 school. 



John Sutton in 1833 left a small sum 

 for a bread distribution at Formby church 

 to such of the Protestant poor as should 

 be most regular in attendance on public 

 worship. No interest has been drawn 

 since 1873 ; the Rev. Lonsdale Formby 

 advanced the 31. a 

 al dole, intending to 

 eimburse himself. He did not do so, 

 and since his death no distribution of 

 bread has taken place. 



Margaret Goore Brown, widow, in 

 1848 left 500 for bread and clothing for 

 the poor, irrespective of religious denomi- 

 nation ; the interest has in recent time* 



Mary Livesley in 1850 left 10 to the 



is supposed to have 

 year for the annual 



