A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Instituted 



7 Dec. 1576 

 20 May 1606 

 9 Jan. 1610-1 1. 



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19 Nov. 1662 

 25 July 1671 . . 

 24 Aug. 1678 

 10 Jan. 1721-2 . 



8 Jan. 1724-5 . 

 27 Nov. 1725 



27 July 1726. . 



9 Mar. 1747-8. 

 3 June 1765. . 



27 Dec. 1768. . 

 31 Oct. 1792 . 



9 Apl. 1 8 1 8 . . 



8 Apl. 1837. 



Name 



Thomas Williamson, M.A." . 

 John White, D.D. 46 . . . 

 John Jones, D.D. 67 .... 

 Edmund Jones, B.A. 6S . . . 

 Robert Hartley, M.A. 5 ' . . 

 Thomas Usherwood 60 . 

 Thomas Hall, M.A. 61 . . . 

 Thomas Chaddock, B.A. 6 '. . 



Thomas Bell 



William Crooke M . . . . 

 Thomas Vaughan, M A. 64 

 Benjamin Nicholls, M.A. 65 . 

 Cudworth Poole M .... 

 John Crookhall, B.A5 . . 

 John Clowes, M.A . . . 

 Thomas Blackburne, M.A. 9 . 

 William Marsden, B.D. 70 . . 



Patron 



The Crown 



The Crown . 



Cause of Vacancy 

 d. E. Pendleton 

 d. T. Williamson 

 res. J. White 



exp. E. Jones 



d. T. Usherwood 



d. T. Hall 



d. T. Chaddock 



d. T. Vaughan 

 d. B. Nicholls 

 d. C. Poole 

 d. J. Crookhall 

 d. J. Clowes 

 res. T. Blackburne 



(Chet. Soc.), 247 ; and graduated at Ox- 

 ford, B. Gram, in 1547-8; Foster, 

 Alumni. Anthony Wood calls him ' the 

 famous schoolmaster of Manchester" ; 

 Athenae (ed. 1691), i, 700. He was pre- 

 sented by Philip and Mary to the vicarage 

 of Eccles in 1557 and made one of the 

 fellows of Manchester when it was re- 

 stored. He conformed to the Elizabethan 

 changes and was instituted to Eccles a 

 second time in 1559; he married, re- 

 tained his charges at Manchester and 

 Eccles, and died in 1576. His will is 

 printed in Chantries, 249. 



65 Mancb. Fellows, 80-3. He was 

 made fellow of the church of Manchester 

 in 1578 ; he was also vicar of Childwall 

 for a brief time, 1589. In 1590 he was 

 described as 'a preacher,' but ' insuffi- 

 cient' ; S.P. Dom. Eliz. xxxi, 47. He 

 was a member of the Ecclesiastical Com- 

 mission for the North, which conducted a 

 vigorous persecution of recusants in the 

 last quarter of the i6th century. A 

 Thomas Williamson, born in Westmor- 

 land and educated at Sedbergh, entered St. 

 John's Coll. Cambridge in 1567 ; B. Wil- 

 son, Sedbergh Reg. 6 1. 



58 Son of Peter White, vicar of St. 

 Neots, Hunts. ; educated at Gonville and 

 Caius Coll. Cambridge ; Venn, Admissions, 

 6 1. He was a chaplain to King James, 

 had a benefice in Suffolk, was a fellow of 

 Manchester 1606 ; Mancb. Fellows, 104- 

 8 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. At Eccles he showed 

 himself a Puritan, and was presented for 

 not wearing the surplice in 1608, but in 

 1609 he and the curate ' sometimes ' wore 

 it; Visit. P. at Chester. About 1610 he 

 was reported to be ' a preacher ' ; Hist. 

 MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 12. He 

 was brother of Dr. Francis White, suc- 

 cessively Bishop of Carlisle, Norwich, and 

 Ely (162638), who printed his works, 

 including the Way to the True Church 

 (issued in 1608) in 1624. 



*7 From this time the institutions have 

 been taken from the Institution books, 

 P.R.O., as printed in Lanct. and Ches. 

 Antiq, Notes } there were no payments of 

 first-fruits. 



Mr. Jones contributed to the ship 

 money and other exactions of Charles I 

 from the clergy, though in 1639 he was 

 described as ' poor ' ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 123, &c. He was a 

 Puritan. In 1622 it was reported that 

 he gave the communion to those who sat; 

 and though nobody stood at the creed or 

 bowed at the name of Jesus, no present- 

 ments were made at the visitation ; Papers 



at Chester Dioc. Reg. He adopted Pres- 

 byterianism when established by law, and 

 signed the ' Harmonious Consent ' of 

 1648. In 1650 he was assisted by his 

 son Edmund Jones ; Commoniv. Cb. Sur-v. 

 13. He was still 'minister of Eccles' in 

 April 1659 ; Plund. Mins. Accts. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 312. He is 

 called D.D. by Piccope (xvi, 35) ; note by 

 Dr. W. A. Shaw. His son John matricu- 

 lated at Oxford (Brasenose) in 1626, being 

 sixteen years of age ; M.A. 1631 ; Foster, 

 Alumni. 



88 Edmund Jones, son of the pre- 

 ceding vicar, entered St. John's Coll. 

 Cambridge as a sizar in 1645, being 

 twenty-one years of age ; Admissions, 

 i, 73. In Manch. Classis (Chet. Soc.) 

 his ordination is recorded, 123, 131, 

 132. He was ejected from Eccles in 

 1662 for nonconformity, but continued to 

 minister in the district until his death. 

 He is mentioned in Oliver Heywood's 

 Diaries, i, 197 ; iii, 81. 'Good Mr. Jones 

 of Eccles walked out, was tolerably well 

 though he had been distempered, went to 

 bed at nine o'clock, was dead before 

 twelve ; 2 May 1674' ; ibid, iii, 137. 

 He is also mentioned frequently in Henry 

 Newcome's Diary and Autobiog. (Chet. 

 Soc.), being described as ' a true-hearted, 

 serious man, and a faithful minister.' 



M He entered Brasenose Coll. Oxford, 

 in 1650, being described as 'plebeian'; 

 M.A. 1655 ; Foster, Alumni. He was 

 nominated as vicar 25 Sept. 1662 ; Pat. 

 14 Chas. II, pt. 19, no. 143. He is 

 mentioned in Newcome's Diary, 153. 



60 The name is also spelt Isherwood. 

 He was of Christ's Coll. Cambridge, and 

 was ordained in 1654 to the charge of 

 Blackrod ; Bury Classit (Chet. Soc.), 237. 

 Of his death Oliver Heywood records : 

 ' I could not but reflect on my old school- 

 fellow, Mr. Thomas Isherwood, vicar of 

 Eccles, that had been drinking with some 

 gentlemen, returning home fell off his 

 horse, was drowned in a ditch that scarce 

 covered all his head' ; Diaries, iii, 331. 



61 Also fellow of the Collegiate Church, 

 Manchester, 1688 ; educated at Corpus 

 Christi Coll. Cambridge; M.A. 1688; 

 Manch. Fellows, 192. He was 'con- 

 formable' in 1689; Hist. MSS. Com. 

 Ref>. xiv, App. iv, 229. 



68 He was of Brasenose Coll. Oxford ; 

 B.A. 1692 ; and had been licensed to 

 Ellenbrook in 1709. 



68 Mentioned in a petition by John 

 Bridge of Eccles, printed in Eccles Ch. 

 Notes, 33. A William Crooke was pre- 



360 



bendary of Chichester from 1727 to 1753; 

 Le Neve, Fasti, i, 273, 276. One of 

 these names matriculated at Oxford in 

 1716 ; another or the same was M.A. at 

 Cambridge, 1724. 



84 Educated at Brasenose Coll. Ox- 

 ford ; B.A. 1712 ; and St. Catharine's, 

 Cambridge; M.A. 1719; vicar of Pawlett, 

 Somerset, 1723-6 ; Foster, Alumni. A 

 letter of his, dated Edingdale, 1727, to 

 the parish clerk shows him to have been 

 non-resident, for the vicarage was let ; he 

 remarks, ' I suppose the surplice fees rise 

 high this sickly time' ; Eccles Ch. Notes, 34. 



65 Probably the Benj. Nicholls who 

 matriculated at Jesus Coll. Oxford, in 

 1734; M.A. 1740. He is supposed to 

 have attracted favourable notice in high 

 quarters by a vehement sermon against the 

 rebels of 1745. He lived twenty miles 

 from the church, which he seldom visited, 

 performing duty there not above two or 

 three days a year ; Eccles Ch. Notes, 36. 



66 Cudworth and Edward Poole, aged 

 eighteen and seventeen respectively, sons 

 of Edward Poole of Woolden, but born at 

 Newhall in Cheshire, entered St. John's 

 Coll. Cambridge, in 1734; Admissions, iii, 

 75. Cudworth Poole died at Woolden, 

 8 Nov. 1768. 



*7 Probably the John son of James 

 Crookhall of Clifton, who matriculated at 

 Queen's Coll. Oxford, in 1743 ; B.A. 

 1747 ; Foster, Alumni. In 1789, having 

 fallen into debt, his benefice was seques- 

 tered for a time ; Eccles Ch. Notes, 39. 

 He was also rector of Woodchurch in 

 Cheshire from 1747 to 1792. His will 

 (1788) is in the Manchester Reference 

 Library ; note by Mr. E. Axon. 



68 Educated at Trin. Coll. Cambridge ; 

 M.A. 1774. He died at the vicarage 28 

 Mar. 1818 ; he was also incumbent of 

 Trinity Church, Salford. He had a son, the 

 Rev. Thomas Clowes, who lived at Eccles. 



69 Son of John Blackburne of Orford ; 

 educated at Brasenose Coll. Oxford ; M.A. 

 1815 ; Foster, Alumni. He was also 

 rector of Crofton, Yorks, 1817, and on 

 being presented to the rectory of Prest- 

 wich in 1836, he resigned Eccles. 



7 Educated at Brasenose Coll. Oxford ; 

 M.A. 1796; B.D. 1811; incumbent of 

 St. Michael's, Angel Meadow, Manches- 

 ter. He died 15 Feb. 1861, and was 

 buried at Chelmorton ; there is a monu- 

 ment to him in Eccles Church. His son, 

 John Howard Marsden, fellow of St. 

 John's Coll. Cambridge, became a canon of 

 Manchester. Foster, Alumni ; Manch. 

 School Reg. (Chet. Soc.). 



