SALFORD HUNDRED 



FLIXTON 



00.1563 Robert Radcliffe I9 



1565 Richard Smith so 

 oc. 1588 Nicholas Higson " 

 oc. 1604 William Hodgkinson" 

 c. 1 6 1 o Jones 33 

 oc. 1613 George Byrom" 

 oc. 1622 Edward Woolmer, 35 B.A. (Oriel 

 College, and All Souls, Ox- 

 ford) 



1660 Thomas Ellison M 

 oc. 1663 Barrett" 

 oc. 1664, 1691 John Isherwood, B.A. W 

 oc. 1709 Edward Sedgwick* 9 

 1723 John Jones, M.A. 40 

 1752 Samuel Bardsley, B.A.* 1 

 1756 Humphrey Owen, B.A." (St. 



John's College, Oxford) 

 1764 Timothy Lowten, M.A. 48 (St. 



John's College, Cambridge) 

 1771 Thomas Beeley " 

 1807 Samuel Stephenson, M.A. 

 (Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge) 

 1816 Henry Burdett Worthington, 46 



M.A. 



1823 William Asteley Cave Brown 

 Cave, 46 M.A. (Brasenose Col- 

 lege, Oxford) 47 



1842 Arthur Thomas Gregory, 43 B.A. 

 (Lincoln College, Oxford) 



RECTORS 



1863 Charles Barton, 49 B.A. (Dublin) 

 1873 Richard Marsden Reece, 50 B.A. 

 (St. John's College, Cambridge) 

 1906 Arthur William Smith 



The ecclesiastical history calls for little comment. 

 There were no chantries, and the curate appears to 

 have been the only resident ecclesiastic. At the 

 Reformation the prebendaries of Flixton were con- 

 formists," but the curates seem to have changed with 

 each visitation. The church was fairly well provided 

 with 'ornaments' as late as 1552." 



In 1592 the only charges against the curate and 

 wardens were that no collectors for the poor were 

 appointed and that the \^d. fine for not attending 

 church was not levied. 53 In 1641 the curate reported 

 that there were no * delinquents ' in the parish, the 

 people ' being all protestants and no papist ' among 

 them. 64 The curate in 1680 was suspended for three 

 years for refusing to read the prayer for the queen, 

 the Duke of York, and the royal family." 



Land for a schoolhouse was leased in 1643, but 



the school seems to have been built in 1662 upon a 



patch of land by the roadside." It was sold in 1 86 1 . M 



Each of the townships in the parish 



CHARITIES has some small charitable endowment, 



the total income being li ii/. 8</., 



of which 7 1 5/. zd. is for the poor. A few old 



benefactions have been lost. 69 



89 Visit. List, 1 563. A Robert Radcliffe 

 was made subdeacon at Bishop Scott's last 

 ordination, 1558; Ordin. Bk. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 113. 



80 Visit. List, 1565; T. Jerman, the 

 prebendary, is duly given as rector. 



81 Buried at Flixton 9 July 1588 ; Reg. 

 sa Buried 12 Feb. 1603-4. 



88 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 12; 

 he was ' a preacher.' Possibly the John 

 Jones who about this time was made 

 vicar of Eccles. 



84 From a list prepared by the late Mr. 

 Earwaker. 



84 He was 'lecturer' at Flixton in 

 1622 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 66 ; curate in 1634-6 ; ibid. 95. He 

 took the Parliamentary and Presbyterian 

 side, and signed the ' Harmonious Con- 

 sent' of 1648. In 1647 he was accused 

 of celebrating ' clandestine marriages' 

 i.e. possibly according to the Prayer Book 

 form ; Mane A. Classis (Chet. Soc.), i, 79. 

 About the same time the churchwardens 

 were ordered to remove the font; ibid, i, 46. 

 Woolmer was described as 'an able and 

 godly minister' in 1650; Commonwealth 

 Ch. Sur-v. 17. He remained in charge 

 till his death, just before the Restoration, 

 being buried 8 May 1660. 



86 Manch. Classis, iii, 342-7 ; after- 

 wards rector of Ashton under Lyne. 



W Named by Baines. 



88 He signed the registers as minister 

 in 1664. He was 'conformable* in 

 1689 ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 

 229. He appears in the Visitation List 

 1691. He was buried at Eccles as 'late 

 minister of Flixton,' 8 May 1715. 



89 Buried at Flixton, Oct. 1722 ; see 

 also Noritia Cestr. ii, j6n. One of these 

 names was of Jesus College, Cambridge ; 

 B.A. 1685. 



40 He died 8 Sept. 1751, having been 

 more than twenty-eight years the ' faith- 

 ful and diligent pastor ' of the place ; 



M.I. The Church Papers at Chester 

 begin with him. 



41 Probably the Samuel Bardsley of 

 University College, Oxford, B.A. 1 748 ; 

 Foster, Alumni. 



42 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxii, 102. 

 Also rector of St. Mary's, Manchester, 

 1756-89 ; died 1790. 



48 Scott, Admissions St. John's C. iii, 1 50. 

 He graduated as second wrangler in 1761, 

 and afterwards settled in America; Baines, 

 Lanes, (ed. Croston), iii, 308. ' There 

 appears to have been some difference of 

 opinion between Mr. Lowten and some 

 of the parishioners, according to an un- 

 dated copy of a document I have seen, and 

 which appears to be a petition . . . that as 

 Mr. Lowten, to end the matter, was 

 willing to resign, Mr. Beeley might be his 

 successor. Mr. Lowten was evidently the 

 possessor of a large amount of land in 

 Davyhulme, as i ,070 was yielded from the 

 sale of it in 1769' ; R. Lawson, Flixton, 20. 



44 Died 25 Feb. 1807, aged 69 ; M.I. 

 Probably the Thomas Beeley of Stock- 

 port, who matriculated at Oxford (Trinity 

 College) in 1760, aged 21, but did not 

 graduate ; Foster, Alumni. For notice 

 of John Sudlow, curate about 1794, see 

 R. Lawson, 20. 



4i Became vicar of Grinton, Yorkshire, 

 in 1822. 



48 Son of Sir William Cave, ninth 

 baronet ; born 1799. 



4 ? Educated at Brasenose College, Ox- 

 ford; M.A. 1824; rector of Stretton en 

 le Field, Derbyshire, 1843 ; died 1862. 



48 Exchanged Flixton for the rectory of 

 Trusham, Devon. 



49 Previously incumbent of Brom- 

 borough, 1850 ; and rector of Trusham 

 1860. Exchanged for Cheselbourne, Dor- 

 set, in 1873. 



60 Rector of Cheselbourne, 1872. In- 

 hibited 17 June 1884, the church being 

 served by curates in charge. 



45 



81 They were Nicholas Darington 

 1530-53 (?), and Thomas German 1553- 

 68 ; Le Neve. 



sa Ch.Gdt. (Chet. Soc.), 9, 10. There 

 were two bells in 1552 ; the number was 

 afterwards doubled, two of the bells bear- 

 ing date 1624 and 1633 ; ibid. ii. 



83 Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xiii, 63. 

 A piper and his host were censured for 

 playing in a house at evensong on a holi- 

 day and giving the sworn man ' bad 

 words.' 



54 R. Lawson, op. cit. 149. 



65 Ibid, quoting ' Raines MS.' 



*7 Lawson, Flixton 48 ; Gastrell, 

 Noticia, ii, 57. James Birch was licensed 

 as the master in 1684 ; Stratford's Visit. 

 List. 



68 Endowed Charities Rep. Flixton, 1900, 

 p. 5. 



59 An official inquiry was made in Dec. 

 1899 ; the report, issued the following 

 year, includes a reprint of the report of 

 1826. The following is a summary : 



For Flixton Peter Warburton in 1769 

 left 60, half for the schoolmaster and 

 half for the poor. This was laid out on 

 the workhouse at Flixton, and in 1826 

 the overseers paid 3 as interest, 1 los. 

 going to the poor. On the sale of the 

 workhouse in 1861 the guardians paid 

 ,60 to the official trustees ; the interest, 

 now only 351. %d. t is paid to the national 

 school. The workhouse building still 

 exists in 'Moorside Road. Three other 

 benefactions of 10 each, made at the 

 end of the I7th century, were lost by 

 1807; and 30 for the school by John 

 Wood in 1779 was lost in 1815 in law 

 expenses. 



Peter Gregory, before 1786, left 10 

 for bread for the Urmston poor; land, now 

 called Manchet Field, was purchased with 

 it, and in 1828 the rent of 2 a year was 

 distributed according to the benefactor's 

 wishes under the superintendence of the 



