SALFORD HUNDRED 



DEANE 



100 was given by the vicar of Deane and 100 by 

 Lady Moyer, and in the following year 200 for the 

 old chapel stock was recovered from the trustees by a 

 decree of the Commissioners for Charitable Uses. 29 



The old chapel was rebuilt in I779, 30 and the new 

 one having fallen into decay was taken down when 

 the present church of the Holy Trinity was opened 

 in 1831 sl on an adjacent site. It is in the decorated 

 Gothic style, with western tower. A separate ecclesi- 

 astical district was assigned to it in 1853." The 

 patronage is vested in the vicar of Deane, and the in- 

 come is 370 a year. 



The following is a list of curates and vicars 3S : 



00.1671. John Barton 



1702. John Horobin, B.A. (Jesus College, 

 Cambridge) 



1720. Nathan Pierpoint, B.A. 



1724. Robert Harvey, B.A. 34 



1732. John Norcross, B.A." (St. John's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge) 



1765. John Norcross, B.A. 16 



1788. Samuel Johnson, M.A. 37 (Brasenose 

 College, Oxford) 



1826. David Hewitt, B.A. (Trinity College, 

 Cambridge) 



1853. Henry Septimus Pigot, M.A.* 8 (Brase- 

 nose College, Oxford) 



1901. George Henry St. Patrick Garrett 39 



1908. Samuel Sheppard 



A school church was erected in 1889, and enlarged 

 in 1 897 ; this was in 1 902 replaced by St. Catherine's, 

 a chapel of ease. St. Elizabeth's iron mission church 

 was built in 1902. 



Methodism was introduced into Horwich by a 

 preacher from Bolton about the beginning of last 

 century. A room in a mill at Wilderswood was used 

 for a time ; but a chapel was opened in or about 

 i8io. 40 The Independent Methodist chapel in Lee 

 Lane was built in 1867, the congregation having 

 originated some years earlier in a gathering of tee- 

 totallers. 41 The Primitive Methodists once had a 

 chapel on Horwich Moor, 42 and the Independent 

 Methodists also have a place of worship. 



A Baptist church was built in 1890. 



A large proportion of the population refused to 



conform at the Restoration, but nothing is known as 

 to their ministers or organization, 43 until, as stated 

 above, the chapel at Horwich came into their hands 

 about the Revolution. 44 On being ejected in 1716 

 the Dissenters erected a meeting-house called the New 

 Chapel ; this was enlarged in 1805, and other altera- 

 tions have been made more recently. It is now in 

 the hands of the Congregationalists, though for a short 

 period in the 1 8th century the ministers are said to 

 have been Unitarian/ 5 A second Congregational 

 church, known as Horwich Lee Chapel, was erected 

 in 1856, replacing one built in I774- 46 



A Unitarian church was erected in 1 896. 



The Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of the 

 Rosary was built in 1886. 



HEATON 



Heton, 1302 ; Heyton, xvi cent. 



This township is usually known as Heaton-under- 

 Horwich to distinguish it from the other Heatons in 

 the neighbourhood. It has an area of 1,743^- acres. 

 The highest point, just over 1,000 ft., is in the 

 north-west corner. The River Croal forms the 

 southern boundary. 



Two roads between Bolton and Horwich cross 

 Heaton from east to west. The Lancashire and York- 

 shire Company's railway from Bolton passes along the 

 southern boundary, and has a station called Lostock 

 Junction at the western end, where there is a junction 

 of the Preston and Wigan branches. 



The most thickly populated part of the township is 

 the eastern end, it being a suburb of Bolton. In 1901 

 the population was returned with Halliwell. 



Coal and slate-flags are found, but not in great 

 abundance. 



A School Board was formed in I883. 1 



The township was incorporated with the borough 

 of Bolton in 1898. 



Fifty-six hearths were liable to the tax in 1666 ; 

 the largest house was that of ^Thomas Lomax, with 

 five hearths. 1 



In the 1 2th century HE4TON, 



M4NOR assessed as one plough-land, appears to have 



been held in moieties by knight's service of 



M Notitia Cestr. ii, 41-4. The letter of 

 the vicar of Deane states that he had put a 

 conformable clergyman into the chapel as 

 soon as the Nonconformists had left ; he 

 allowed him the surplice fees and 2 

 besides, which with offerings gave an in- 

 come of about ,14. As to the chapel 

 stock, he had witnesses to prove that the 

 interest had been paid to ' episcopal con- 

 forming clergymen ' in the reigns of 

 Charles II and James II, and till some 

 time after the Revolution. 



Gastrell states that a curate was licensed 

 to Horwich in 1702. There was one 

 warden for the chapel, chosen by house 

 row. 



Lady Moyer was Rebecca daughter of 

 Alderman Sir William Joliffe and wife of 

 Sir Samuel Moyer of Pitsea Hall in Essex, 

 who died in 1716 ; Canon Raines in Gas- 

 trell, loc. cit. 



80 See Hampson, Harwich, 55. A brief 

 for collections was issued in 1777. 



81 The building was assisted by a Par- 

 liamentary grant. Joseph Ridgway of 

 Ridgmont, one of the principal land- 



5 



owners, contributed. An account of this 

 family is given in Hampson, op. cit. 181 

 203. 



82 Lond. Gaz. 10 Jan. 1854. 



88 Church Papers at Chester. 



84 Also curate of Westhoughton. 



85 R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John's 

 College, iii, 44, 311. John Norcross was 

 also master of Rivington School. 



86 Son of the preceding ; ibid, iii, 121, 

 565. Succeeded his father as master of 

 Rivington School. An abstract of his 

 will is given by Hampson, op. cit. 

 62. 



87 Foster, Alumni Oxon. For his father 

 Henry see James Hall, Nantwich, 349. 



88 Son of a former incumbent of St. 

 Helens. 



89 Formerly vicar of St. Paul's, Prince's 

 Park, Liverpool. 



40 Hampson, Harwich, 98-102. 



41 Ibid. 1 02. For a charity in connexion 

 with this chapel see Endowed Charitiet 

 Rep. (Deane) of 1903, p. 39. 



42 Hampson, op. cit. 103. 



48 A preaching-place at the house of 



Thomas Welsby was licensed in 1672, 

 during the brief Indulgence ; Nightingale, 

 op. cit. iii, 99. Bishop Gastrell in 1717 

 recorded that half the small population 

 were Dissenters ; Notitia, ii, 41. 



44 In 1689 Horwich Chapel was already 

 in the hands of the Nonconformists, and 

 was so certified and recorded ; Hist. A/55. 

 Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 231. 



45 Nightingale, op. cit. iii, 98-1 10. The 

 first minister ejected from the old chapel 

 was John Walker, who is said to have 

 received 100 a year from the govern- 

 ment on account of his services at the 

 rising of 1715. An account of the en- 

 dowments and charities may be seen in 

 the Endowed Charities Rep. (Deane) of 



I93 PP- 33- 6 - 



46 Nightingale, op. cit. iii, 110-15. 

 The erection of this second meeting-place 

 is supposed te have been due to the 

 Unitarianism of the older chapels at Hor- 

 wich and Rivington. For endowment, 

 &c., see Endowed Charities Rep. 39. 



1 Lond. Can. 26 Oct. 1883. 



2 Subs. R. bdle. 250. no. 9, Lanes. 



