A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



old stipend of jlo, lla a share of the rectorial tithes, 

 sequestered from a * delinquent,' Mr. Anderton of 

 Lostock. 12 Bishop Gastrell recorded the income as 

 18 1 9/., of which 5 was from surplice fees and 

 10 was paid by the impropriator of the tithes; 



The following is a list of the vicars : 



20 



Institution 



Feb. 1541-2 

 oc. 1563 . . 



15 Oct. 1575 . 

 31 Mar. 1593 



- 1597 . . . 

 i Mar. 1636-7 . 

 Aug. 1643. . . 

 19 Nov. 1662 



2 June 1663 

 22 Nov. 1673 



4 Dec. 1673 

 13 Jan. 1712-3 . 

 29 May 1767 

 13 June 1776 



16 April 1818 . 



6 Feb. 1830 . 



7 April 1855 . 

 May 1868 . 



7 April 1877 . 



Name 



William Rothwell 16 . 



Richard Ormishaw K . 



David Dee, M.A. IS . 



Lancelot Clegge 19 . . 



James Pendlebury 10 . 

 Richard Hardy, M.A." 

 John Tilsley, M.A. 



I John Angier, M.A. n . 



[Richard Hatton 14 . . 



James Rothwell, B.A. K 

 Thomas Withnell, M.A. 



but in 1714 money and lands to the value of 700 

 were given in augmentation. 13 The value of the 

 benefice is now stated as 400 a year." 



In 1724 there were eleven churchwardens, each 

 hamlet choosing one by house-row. 15 



Patron Cause of Vacancy 



King d. last inc. 



Queen d. last inc. 



King 



King 



. . . Queen d. R. Hatton 



. . . King d. J. Rothwell 



Robert Lathom, M.A. " , ...:.. d. last inc. 



Thomas Brocklebank l8 . . . . d. R. Lathom 



Edward Girdlestone, M.A. w . . res. T. Brocklebank 



Francis Henry Thicknesse, D.D. so . Queen res. E. Girdlestone 



William Bashall, M.A. S1 . . . . res. F. H. Thicknesse 



Henry Sheridan Patterson M . . . Simeon's Trustees . . . res. W. Bashall 



lla It does not seem to be known when 

 this 10 was granted by the tithe owner. 



12 Commoniv. Cb. Stint. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 37. The remainder 

 of the parochial tithes was divided among 

 the chapelries. 



In 1723 Sir Lawrence Anderton sold to 

 Francis Loggin (Colston) the rectory (i.e. 

 the tithes, &c.) ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. 

 bdle. 289, m. 93. Francis Coulston sold 

 it to James Edge in 1734; Piccope MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), iii, 250 (from Roll 5, Geo. II 

 at Preston); and in 1735 Ralph Banks pur- 

 chased it from James Edge ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 313, m. 39. By 1782 a 

 moiety seems to have been acquired by the 

 Kenyons ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 635, m. 2. 



18 Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 37, 38. 

 The augmentation consisted of 107 in 

 money and a house and lands worth 420, 

 held for that or other charitable use at the 

 discretion of the trustees ; 200 was added 

 by Queen Anne's Bounty. 



Giles Marsh, by his will of 1615, left 

 10 towards the procuring of a yearly 

 stipend for the curate at the Deane 

 Church, for a school; Harl. MS. 2176, 

 fol. 32. 



14 Munch. Dioc. Dir. 



15 Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 39. 



16 Act Bks. at Chester. Paid first- 

 fruits 28 June 1542; Lanes, and Ches. 

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

 408. William Rothwell was one of the 

 king's chaplains ; Ch. Gds. (Chet. Soc.), 

 28. He was still vicar in 1552 ; ibid. 



*' Nothing is known of the clergy at 

 Deane between 1552 and 1563, when 

 Richard Ormishaw's name is recorded in 

 the visitation list. A Richard Ormishaw, 

 vicar of Acton in Cheshire, died 1559. 



18 The Church P. at Chester Dioc. 

 Reg. begin here. The surname is other- 

 wise given as Dewhurst. He was ' no 

 preacher* in 1590; S.P. Dom. Eliz. 

 xxxi, 47. 19 Church Papers. 



20 In 1 60 1 he was charged with drunken- 

 ness, fornication, and other offences ; he 

 was in addition ' suspected not to be of 

 sound religion ' ; Visit. P. at Chester. 



About 1612 he was described as 'a lewd 

 (i.e. unlearned) minister, neither preacher 

 himself, nor will suffer any other to 

 preach ' ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. 

 iv, 12. Nothing is said of any chapelries. 



He contributed 131. 4</. to a subsidy in 

 1622, the lecturer (or curate), Mr. Hor- 

 rocks, paying 3 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 66. 



81 The institutions from 1636 to 1776 

 are taken from the Inst. Bks. P.R.O. as 

 printed in Lanes, and Cbes. Antiq. Notes. 



Richard Hardy signed the Protestation 

 early in 1642 but is said to have been 

 expelled as a Royalist. 



22 Educated at Edinburgh, laureated 

 1637 ; a minister at Deane under Alex- 

 ander Horrocks of Westhoughton in 1641 5 

 married Margaret daughter of Ralph 

 Chetham and niece of Humphrey Chet- 

 ham ; showed himself a zealous and in- 

 tolerant Presbyterian on the outbreak of 

 the Civil War ; promoted to the vicarage 

 of Deane in August 1643 ; signed the 

 'Harmonious Consent,' 1648; described 

 as ' a painful, godly, preaching minister ' 

 in 1650, about which time he, like many 

 other Presbyterians, refused to take the 

 engagement and suffered a temporary loss 

 of his benefice. He assisted in the forma- 

 tion of the Chetham Library, having been 

 nominated a trustee by the founder. 

 Ejected from the vicarage in 1662, he was 

 allowed to reside in the house, and with 

 the goodwill of the new vicar and the 

 tolerance of Bishop Wilkins afterwards 

 preached in Deane Church, as the 

 'lecturer,' until Bishop Pearson silenced 

 him in 1673. After this he retired to 

 Manchester, where he died in Dec. 

 1684. From a full account by J. E. 

 Bailey in Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Notes, i, 

 191, 205 ; ii, 102 ; see also Diet. Nat. 

 Biog.) ; will in ffills (Chet. Soc. new ser.), 

 i, 169. 



28 Only son of the celebrated John 

 Angier of Denton (see Diet. Nat. Biog.] ; 

 born 1629 ; sent to Emmanuel College, 

 Cambridge, and being (as it is supposed) 

 expelled, went to New England, graduat- 



ing M.A. at Harvard in 1655. Return- 

 ing to England he was ordained in 1657 

 and placed at Ringley. Conforming he 

 was made vicar of Deane in 1663, where 

 it is supposed he stayed till his death ; 

 Manch. Classis (Chet. Soc.), 408-10. 



24 This vicar seems to have been a 

 Presbyterian at heart ; the second institu- 

 tion was necessary because he had not re- 

 nounced the Covenant. He connived at 

 the occupation of Horwich Chapel by 

 a Nonconformist ; Notitia Cestr. (Chet. 

 Soc.) ii, 42, 43 ; Ch. P. at Chester. He 

 was, of course, 'conformable' in 1689; 

 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 229. 

 His will was proved at Chester, 1712. 



25 Son of Ralph Rothwell of Bolton ; 

 educated at Brasenose College, Oxford ; 

 B.A. 1711 ; Foster, Alumni Oxon. He 

 purchased the advowson of Sefton, to 

 which his son and grandson succeeded. 

 He died 1 6 May 1766. 



26 Educated at Brasenose College, Ox- 

 ford ; M.A. 1755; Foster, Alumni; 

 Manch. Sch. Reg. (Chet. Soc.), i, 31. His 

 presentation is dated 2 June 1766. 



27 Son of Nicholas Lathom of Wigan ; 

 educated at Brasenose College, Oxford ; 

 M.A. 17763 Foster, Alumni. 



28 He had been curate of Bradshaw. 



89 Educated at Balliol College, Oxford ; 

 M.A. 1829. In 1854 he was appointed 

 residentiary canon of Bristol, and resigned 

 Deane. He was beneficed in the west of 

 England, and distinguished himself by 

 his interest in the condition of the agri- 

 cultural labourers. He died at Bristol in 

 1884; see Diet. Nat. Biog.; Baines, 

 Lanes, (ed. Croston), iii, 131. 



80 Educated at Brasenose College, Ox- 

 ford ; M.A. 1854; hon. canon of Man- 

 chester 1863 ; vicar of Brackley 1868 ; 

 Bishop of Leicester (suffragan of Peter- 

 borough), 1888. 



81 Educated at St. John's College, Ox- 

 ford ; M.A. 1855 ; left Deane to be curate 

 at St. Barnabas's, Kensington. 



32 Educated at the Church Missionary 

 College, Islington, and served in India 

 1862-6 ; rector of Bartlow, 1872-7. 



