SALFORD HUNDRED 



occur. A survey of the township was made in 1623." 

 The moors were surveyed in 1640." 



In 1787 the principal individual owner was 

 Mr. Pickford of Royton, who contributed about a 

 seventh part of the land tax. 23 



SHAW seems to have given a name to a landowner 

 in 1370.** The people of the place are noted for 

 their love of vocal music ; a musical society was 

 formed in 1 740, and continued almost to the present 

 time. 15 



The 'free chapel' at Shaw, now 

 CHURCH known as Holy Trinity, is said to have 

 been called anciently St. Patrick's Chapel- 

 on-the-Moor. J6 Its origin is unknown, and the orna- 

 ments found there in 1552 show it to have been but 

 poorly furnished.* 7 There was no endowment, but 

 after the Reformation it appears to have remained in 

 occasional use, a 'reading minister' being supplied, and 

 a lecturer being added, probably by the contributions 

 of the people. 28 The Commonwealth authorities took 

 advantage of the 'delinquency ' of Edmund Ashton 

 of Chadderton, who had the tithes of Oldham, to 

 make him settle an endowment on the chapel.* 9 This 

 of course lapsed at the Restoration. 



The Nonconformist Oliver Heywood preached at 

 Shaw Chapel several times between 1663 and 1669 ; 

 but ten years later he was molested after the conclu- 

 sion of the services and brought before the magistrate. 30 

 At the Bishop of Chester's visitation in 1669 it was 

 reported that considerable numbers of Nonconformists 

 assembled constantly at Shaw Chapel, forcing the 

 doors open when locked. On one Sunday, being 

 prevented, they adjourned to Royton Hall. In 1671 

 Joshua Wilde, ' pretended clerk,' was presented for 

 presuming to preach. 



In 1719 it was recorded that ' no certain salary be- 

 longs to the curate, but the rector generally allows 



PRESTWICH WITH 

 OLDHAM 



5 per annum, and the neighbouring inhabitants 

 about 13 ; augmented 1718 with 200 given by 

 Mr. Ashton, rector of Prestwich.' 31 Grants from 

 Queen Anne's Bounty were secured and laid out in 

 lands, which in 1778 were producing 46 a year ; 

 the chapel was then regularly served every Lord's 

 Day. 3 * The chapel was rebuilt in 1739 and enlarged 

 in I798, 33 and again rebuilt in 1870. A district was 

 assigned to it in l835. 31 The following have been 

 curates and vicars, the rector of Prestwich present- 

 ing : 



1693 Jas. Lawton 



1699 James Makon 35 



1 701 John Halliwell, M.A. 36 (Brasenose Coll. Oxf.) 



1712 John Kippax, 37 M.A. (St. John's Coll. Camb.) 



1727 Joshua Stopford, B.A. (Brasenose Coll. Oxf.) 



1761 James Wild, B.A. (Brasenose Coll. Oxf.) 



1766 James Mashiter 38 



1 795 Joseph Hordern, M.A. (Brasenose Coll. Oxf.) 39 



1819 Joseph Hordern, M.A. (Brasenose Coll. Oxf.) 40 



1823 James Hordern, B.A. (St. Mary's Hall, Oxf.)" 



1841 Daniel Brammall, B.A." 



1866 Samuel Edwin Bartleet, M.A. 4S (Trin. Coll. 



Camb.) 



1875 James Hamer Rawdon, M.A. 44 



1877 Samuel Edwin Bartleet, M.A. 



1878 George Allen, M.A. (St. John's Coll. Camb.) " 

 1902 James Wilkinson Pinniger, M.A. (Wadham 



Coll. Oxf.) 



1907 Walter Muirhead Hope, M.A. (Hertford 

 Coll. Oxf.) 



The registers date from 1704. 



St. James's, East Crompton, 46 was built in 1 847 ; 

 the Crown and the Bishop of Manchester present 

 alternately ; there are auxiliary services at Crompton 

 Fold and St. George's Schools. St. Mary's, High 



21 The principal proprietors were : 

 Chatham, 259 acres ; Chadderton, 

 225 ; Sir John Byron, 169 ; Edmund 

 Ashton, 161 ; Lever, 1345 Cromp- 

 ton, 114 ; the others, holding from 30 to 

 50 acres, were : Wrigley, Prestwich, 

 Scholefield, Kershaw, Buckley, Wild, and 

 Tetlow. The total, 1,124 acres (large 

 measure), corresponds nearly with the 

 2,865 acres of the township. Details of 

 Sir John Byron's holding were: Inland 

 no acres ; on Shaw and Hathershaw 

 Moor, 16 ; Beal Moor, 6 ; High Moor, 

 30, with turbary on 6 acres ; and I acre 

 stone and coal ; Shaw, Oldkam, 63, 66. 



M Oldham Notts and Gleanings, ii, 5 3-5 ; 

 they were : Shaw Moors (4), High 

 Moor, Beal Moor, and Hathershaw. 



23 Land-tax returns at Preston. The 

 proportion is about the same as the Byron 

 holding in 1623. 



24 In 1370 Thomas de Shaw settled 

 lands in Crompton on his son Alexander, 

 with remainders to Thomas and Henry, 

 brothers of Alexander ; Raines in Gastrell's 

 No tin a, ii, 119. 



25 Oldham Notes and Gleanings, i, 125. 



26 Canon Raines in Gastrell's Notitia, 

 ut supra. He states : 'The chapelry is 

 parochial, and a chapel rate is levied 

 [1849] and collected independent either 

 ot Prestwich or Oldham.' 



W Ch. Gds. (Chet. Soc.), 43 ; Lawrence 

 Hall was the priest there. The chapel 

 was valued at 135. 4</. on its confiscation 

 by the king, and purchased by the in- 

 habitants ; Raines, Chantries (Chet. Soc.), 

 ii, 277. 



28 Hugh Burdman, literate, was licensed 

 to be the reader at Shaw in July 1575 ; 

 Pennant's Note-book (Chest. Reg.), foL 

 4. John Yareley was there in 1587, and 

 William Plant in 1636 ; Mr. Earwaker's 

 notes. It was ' supplied by a curate ' 

 about 1610; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, 

 App. iv, n. A Mr. Worthington was 

 lecturer there in 1622 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 66. Lemuel Allen 

 was curate in 1625 ; Shaw, Oldham, 70. 



29 Out of the impropriate rectory of 

 Oldham, part of his estate, 40, was in 

 1646 ordered to be paid for 'increase of 

 the maintenance of a minister in the 

 chapel of Shaw ' ; Plund. Alins. Accti. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 39. This 

 was afterwards agreed to by Edmund Ash- 

 ton and James his son and heir ; ibid, ii, 

 117. 



In 1650 the Commissioners recom- 

 mended that it be made a parish church ; 

 Commoniv. Ch. Sur-v. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 22. 



In 1649 Robert Symonds had been the 

 minister, but like his superior, the rector 

 of Prestwich, he did not pay much respect 

 to the Manchester Classis, and left in 

 1650; he was rector of Dalbury from 

 1652 to 1662, and then, conforming, be- 

 came rector of Middleton ; Manch. Classis 

 (Chet. Soc.), ii, 134, 137; iii, 446; 

 Raines, in Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 120. James 

 Walton was minister in 16556 ; Plund. 

 Mins. elects, ii, 118. He remained till 

 1662, when he was ejected ; Mane A. 

 Classis, iii, 449. 



The following is mentioned as curate 



III 



in Shaw's Old/tarn : 1674, Benjamin Gil- 

 body, B.A. No curate is named in Strat- 

 ford's Visitation List, 1691. 



80 O. Heywood's Diaries, i, 184, 259, 

 264, 265 ; ii, 90. 



81 Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. ii, 119. 



82 Rector Harris in Booker, Prestwich, 

 8 5 . 



88 An account of Shaw Chapel, by John 

 Higson, is printed in Oldbam Nous and 

 Gleanings, i, 1 1 2, 122. 



84 Land. Gas. J May 1835. 



85 The church papers at Chest. Dioc. 

 Reg. begin at this time. 



36 Afterwards curate of Oldham. Ox- 

 ford degrees are taken from Foster, 

 Alumni. 



W Admissions to St. John's Coll. ii, 148. 



88 There was a Richard Mashiter, of 

 Pembroke College, Oxford; B.A. 1742. 

 For his son see E. Butterworth, Oldham 

 [ed. 1856], 60. 



89 Father of his two successors, and of 

 Rev. Peter Hordern, librarian of the 

 Chetham Hospital. 



40 Afterwards vicar of Rostherne (1821) 

 and Burton Agnes (1855). 



41 Senior magistrate of Oldham Ses- 

 sions ; had a school at Royton Hall and 

 then at Failsworth Lodge ; vicar of Dod- 

 dington, Kent, 1841. 



42 Vicar of Chislet, Kent, 1833. 



48 Perp. curate of Ringley 1875-7 > ' n 

 1878 exchanged Shaw for Brockworth, 

 Glos. ; of St. Mark's, Gloucester, 1885. 



44 Vicar of Preston, 1877. 



45 Vicar of Brockworth, Glos., 1871-8. 

 44 For district, Land. Gam. 14 Jan. 1845. 



