A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Instituted 

 25 Sept. 1662 

 14 Jan. 1662-3 

 3 May 1700 

 3 Mar. 1726-7 

 9 Sept. 1758 

 I Dec. 1797 



5 Apr. 1799 



7 May 1810 



1 6 May 1816 



May 1829 



31 Dec. 1870 



13 Feb. 1893 



1909 



Name 



Patron 



Lord Delamere 

 Earl of Warrington 



[Thomas Ellison, M.A. 161 . 



John Simon de la Heuze . 



John Penny, M.A. 16f 



Sir George Booth 16S T. Hunt 



Oswald Leycester, M.A. 164 . . . Earl of Stamford and'War- 



rington 



Hon. Anchitel Grey, M.A. 16S . . 

 John Hutchinson, B.A. 



I George Chetwode, M.A. 167 . 



Thomas (Thompson) Eager, M.A. 1M . . 



George Augustus Pugh, M.A. 169 . The Stamford Trustees 

 Frederick Robert Chapman Hulton, M.A. 



Cause of Vacancy 



ejec. J. Harrison 



d. T. Ellison 



d. J. S. de la Heuze 



d. J. Penny 



d. Sir G. Booth 



res. O. Leycester 

 res. A. Grey 



res. J. Hutchinson 



d. G. Chetwode 

 d. T. Eager 

 d. O. A. Pugh 



The rectors do not call for special notice. There 

 does not seem to have been any chantry or chapel of 

 ease in the parish before the Reformation, but the list 

 of ' ornaments ' existing in 1552 names three altars as 

 fully equipped. 170 In 1 542 the rector had two assis- 

 tant clergymen, one paid by himself and the other by 

 Sir Richard Ash ton. 171 In 1554 there was one curate, 

 who remained till 1565, though 'decrepit' in 1563 ; 171 

 and a new curate occurs in the Visitation list of 1565. 

 In 1559 it was presented that the rector did 'no 

 service in the church,' nor did he distribute to the 

 poor as former parsons had done. 173 There was prob- 

 ably no curate as a rule, unless when the rector was 

 non-resident, 174 and the recommendation of the sur- 

 veyors of 1650 that a new parish should be formed in 

 the northern half of Ashton was not carried out. 175 



There was a school, but of no settled foundation, 

 in 17 I7- 178 



In consequence of the growth of population a large 

 number of places of worship have been erected in 

 the parish-township since the middle of the i8th 

 century. The following belong to the Established 

 Church : St. John the Baptist's, Hey, 1 742 ; w 

 St. George's, Mossley, 1757, rebuilt 1882 ; 178 

 St. George's, Stalybridge, 1776 ; 179 St. Peter's, Ash- 

 ton, 1824 ; 18 the second or new St. George's, Staly- 

 bridge, i84o; 181 Holy Trinity, Bardsley, i844; 18 

 St. Stephen's, Audenshaw, 1846 ; 18S Christ Church, 

 Ashton, 1 848 ; 184 St. John the Evangelist's, Hurst, 

 1849, 185 enlarged 1862 ; St. James's, Ashton, 1865 ; 186 

 and Holy Trinity, Ashton, i878. 187 In addition 

 there are a number of mission churches and rooms, 



presented to the benefice ; Common-wealth 

 Ch. Sur-v. 21. He was a member of the 

 Manchester classis from its formation in 

 164.6. He signed the ' Harmonious Con- 

 sent' of 1648 as 'pastor' of Ashton. On 

 the other hand he paid his firstfruits on 

 2 April 1653, and exhibited a presentation 

 to the rectory, made by Sir George Booth, 

 as late as October 1655 ; Plund. Mins. 

 Accti. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 95. 

 He was a Royalist, and joined in the 

 abortive rising of 1659. He was ejected 

 for Nonconformity in 1662, and died in 

 1669. There is an account of him in 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



161 Thomas Ellison (Wadham Coll., 

 Oxford, B.A. 1665 ; Pemb. Coll., Camb., 

 M.A. 1668) was proposed for Presby- 

 terian ordination in 1660 ; Munch. 

 Classis (Chet. Soc.), iii, 347. His nomi- 

 nation to Ashton was intended to be 

 favourable to the expelled rector ; Neiv- 

 come's Diary (Chet. Soc.), 184. He 

 appears to have been buried in Dukinfield 

 Nonconformist chapel, the register giving 

 the date as 26 Feb. 1699-1700. 



i" 2 Of Christ Church, Oxford ; M.A. 

 1707 ; Foster, Alumni. 



i8 The patron was the devisee under 

 the will of George Earl of Warrington, a 

 cousin of the new rector. The rector 

 was created a baronet in 1790. 



164 King's College, Cambridge, M.A. 

 1777, rector of Stoke-upon-Terne 1806. 

 For pedigree see Ormerod, Cbes. (ed. 

 Helsby), i, 507. 



166 Third son of the patron. He was 

 educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 M.A. 1797 ; and became prebendary of 

 Durham in 1809, and rector of Thornton 

 in Craven in 1812. 



1M He was a ' warming pan,' and on 

 resigning the rectory became curate to his 



successor. He was afterwards first in- 

 cumbent of the new church of St. Peter, 

 1824. 



167 M.A., Brasenose College, Oxford. 

 He was nephew of the patron, and per- 

 petual curate of Chilton, Bucks, from 

 1829, a second institution to Ashton being 

 necessary. He scarcely ever visited Ashton, 

 though drawing a large income from it. 



16 M.A., T.C.D., 1840. He was a 

 native of county Derry and had been in- 

 cumbent of Audenshaw ; honorary canon 

 of Manchester, 1884. 



"9 Of Jesus College, Oxford, M.A. 

 1876. Vicar of Swindon, Staffs., 1882. 



tf<> Ch. Goods (Chet. Soc.), 16. The 

 church seems to have been well furnished; 

 among other things there were ' a pair 

 of organs,' a banner of green silk, and 

 a holy-water stock of brass. There were 

 then four churchwardens, and this con- 

 tinued to be the rule ; one was chosen by 

 the lord of the manor, another by the 

 rector, and the others by the parishioners ; 

 Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 5. 



!<! Clergy List of 1541-2 (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 1 3. 



i/ 2 Visitation lists in Chester Diocesan 

 registry. 



I? 8 Ch. Goods, 17, quoting S.P. Dom. 

 Eliz. x, 293. 



17 4 A ' lecturer,' Mr. Peabody, occurs 

 in 1622 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 66. 



!~ 5 Commoniv. Ch. Sur-v. 22. The 

 proposed bounds were thus described : To 

 begin at the division where Lancashire, 

 Yorkshire, and Cheshire meet in Mossley 

 hamlet ; following the brook between 

 Lancashire and Yorkshire as far as the 

 beginning of Oldham at Watergate Mill, 

 then along the boundary between Oldham 

 and Ashton to the Park, thence to Alt 



350 



Hill, to Lily Lanes, to Knot Hill, to 

 ' Otts ' upon Luzley, down to Barnard 

 Wild* to the water, including Mossley, 

 and thence back to the start. 



i? 6 Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 5. 



W7 Patron, the rector of Ashton. It 

 was consecrated in 1 744 ; Church P. 

 at Chester. A district was assigned to 

 it in 1860 ; Land. Gam. 30 Oct. For it* 

 history see Oldbam Notes and Glean, i, 



7~3- 



178 Patron, the rector of Ashton. A 

 district was assigned in 1865 ; Land. Gay. 

 19 May. 



179 Patrons, the trustees of the will of 

 the Earl of Stamford. A district was 

 assigned in 1864 5 Land. Gats. 12 Apr. 



iso Patron, the rector of Ashton. It 

 was built from a Parliamentary grant of 

 about ^"14,000. A district was assigned 

 in 1840 ; Land. Gax. 17 Apr. For 

 church bells see A', and Q. (Ser. 4), ix, 

 115. 



181 Patron, the rector of Ashton. A 

 district was assigned in 1847 ; Land. Gav. 



3 J ul 7- 



182 Patrons, Hulme's trustees. 



183 Patrons, the Crown and the Bishop 

 of Manchester alternately. A district 

 had been assigned to it in 1844 ; Land. 

 Gaz. 3 June. 



184 Patrons, the Crown and the Bishop 

 of Manchester alternately. A district 

 was assigned in 1846 ; Land. Gaz. 

 6 Mar. 



18* Patrons and district as in the last 

 case. 



186 Patrons, five trustees. A district 

 was assigned in 1866 ; Land. Gaz. 

 12 June. 



187 Patrons, five trustees. A district 

 was assigned in 1879 ; Land. Gaz. 

 14 Feb. 



