SALFORD HUNDRED 



Institution Name 



23 Sept. 1818 . Geoffrey Hornby, LL.B." . . . 



28 Mar. 1850 . Edward James Geoffrey Hornby, 



M.A. 40 



10 Sept. 1888 . Frank Edward Hopwood, M.A." . 



13 Feb. 1894 . Foster Grey Blackburne, M.A. 51 . . 



27 Apr. 1909 . John Charles Hill, M.A. i:i . . . 



Patron 



Earl of Derby . 



Little is known of the condition of the pre-Refor- 

 mation clergy. There was no endowed chantry at 

 the parish church, but probably each of the chapels of 

 ease, at Holcombe, Edenfield, and Heywood, had a 

 curate of its own. Richard Smith, rector in 1 542, 

 paid a curate, and the stipend of another assistant 

 priest was contributed by Charles Nuttall and others. 53 

 In 1548, however, only the rector and these two 

 assistants are named in the bishop's visitation list ; in 

 1554 there were four, a curate having been found for 

 Edenfield; the same names reappear in 1563, when 

 the rector was ' excused,' perhaps for absence, and two 

 years later there are five names in the list showing 

 an increase in the number. This extraordinary state- 

 ment is somewhat modified by the fact that two of 

 those named did not appear, and that another's name 

 was marked out, the active clergy being reduced to 

 the rector and his curate, Roger Hodgkinson. 44 It 

 was reported to the royal commissioners in 1559 that 

 the curate of Bury did not read the Gospel, Epistle, 

 Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments, according to 

 the proclamation. 45 A similar indifference or hostility, 

 though perhaps from other causes, appears in 1592, 

 when the rector and curate were ordered to use the 

 Catechism, go the perambulations, and * observe her 

 majesty's injunctions in all things ' ; the church- 

 wardens were to provide Jewell's Reply and Apology:* 

 About 1 6 10 the incumbent was 'a preacher,' and the 

 three chapels were ' maintained by the inhabitants.' w 



BURY 



Cause of Vacancy 



d. Sir W. H. Clerke 

 d. G. Hornby 



d. E. J. G. Hornby 

 d. F. E. Hopwood 

 d. F. G. Blackburne 



During the sequestration under the Commonwealth 

 the curates in charge preached constantly every Sabbath 

 day and once every Thursday, the market day, keeping 

 a constant lecture there, as had been accustomed ; 

 they lived in the parsonage house. 48 The Restoration 

 appears to have been quietly accepted in Bury itself, 

 where the two landowners, the Earl of Derby and the 

 rector, were both Royalists. Nonconformists, however, 

 were numerous, and in 1669 the vicar reported to the 

 Bishop of Chester that he heard that several con- 

 venticles were 'constantly kept at private houses of 

 Independents, Presbyterians, Dippers and other such 

 like jointly, of the bset rank of the yeomanry and 

 other inferiors.' 49 The matter became evident after 

 the Revolution, 60 and Bury has now, like other Lanca- 

 shire parishes, provision for a great variety of worship 

 and doctrine. 



Apart from the grammar school at 

 CHARITIES Bury, founded in 1625 and refounded 

 in 1 726,' and some other endowments 

 for ecclesiastical and educational purposes, the general 

 charitable funds have an income of about 190 a 

 year. 61 Some ancient benefactions have been lost. 

 The whole parish participates in the sums given by 

 John Guest in 165 3," Thomas Rothwell in 1737,** 

 and Rector Bankes in I743. 64 The old manor or 

 township of Bury, including Bury, Heap, Elton, and 

 Walmersley, benefits under the will of Samuel 

 Waring, I742. 66 Bury proper had in 1828 two small 



49 Son of Geoffrey Hornby, rector of 

 Winwick ; educated at Peterhouse, Cam- 

 bridge ; LL.B. 1809; rector of Felbrigg- 

 with-Moulton in Norfolk, 1813. 



60 Son of the preceding rector ; edu- 

 cated at Merton College, Oxford ; M.A. 

 1843 ; incumbent of Christ Church, Wal- 

 mersley, 1841 ; vicar of Ormskirk, 1846; 

 Hon. Canon of Manchester, 1855. 



81 Son of Canon Hopwood, rector of 

 Winwick ; educated at Christ Church, 

 Oxford; M.A. 1 868; incumbent of 

 St. James's, Congleton, 1869 ; rector of 

 Badsworth, 1879. 



88 Son of Rev. Thomas Blackburne, 

 rector of Prestwich ; educated at Brase- 

 nose College, Oxford ; M.A. 1864 ; rector 

 of Nantwich, 1872 ; Hon. Canon of Man- 

 chester, 1898 ; Archdeacon of Manchester, 

 1905 ; died I Feb. 1909. 



63a Educated at Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge ; honorary canon of Worcester. 



48 Clergy Litt (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 12. 



84 From the visitation lists at Chester. 



The church ornaments existing in 1552 

 included four sets of vestments for the 

 priest to say mass in, three great bells in 

 the steeple and a little sanctus bell, a veil 

 to hang before the altar in Lent, &c. ; 

 Cb. Gds. (Chet. Soc.), 45, 46. 



Roger HoHgkinson was one of the old 

 clergy, having been ordained priest in 

 1547 ; Ordin. Bk. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 80. He was still curate in 1575 ; 

 Pennant's Acct. Bk. Thomas Duerden 

 was curate in 1599. 



54 Ck. Gds. 47, quoting S.P. Dom. 

 Eliz. x, 288. The depositions of John 

 Shireburne in 1572, already cited, have 

 some suggestive features. 



88 W. F. Irvine in Lanes, and Chtt. 

 Antij. Soc. xiii, 57. 



*7 Hitt. MSS. Com. Rep. v, App. iv, 12. 

 Each chapel had its own curate in 163.4 ; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 95. 



58 Commonw. Ch. Sur-v. 40. At this 

 time there were no ministers at Holcombe 

 and Edenfield, 'for want of mainten- 

 ance' ; 44. 



i9 Visit. P. at Chester Dioc. Reg. 



60 Quakers were presented at the 

 bishop's visitation of 1671 ; ibid. 



81 The original founder, Henry Bury 

 (d. 1636), who was a native of the place, 

 also gave a number of books, three or four 

 of which are still preserved ; Old Lanes. 

 Libraries (Chet. Soc.), 139. A school 

 magazine called the CLi-vian is published. 



62 The details given are from the End. 

 Char. Rep. for Bury, published in 1901 ; 

 the county borough of Bury was not in- 

 cluded. The report of 1828 is reprinted. 



63 John Guest gave rent - charges of 

 3 15*. each to the ministers of the 

 parish churches of Winwick, Leigh, Wi- 

 gan, Deane, RadclifFe, Bolton, Bury, and 

 Middleton, to be spent in linen cloth for 

 the poor. His estate being insufficient 

 for the fulfilment of the bequests, an Act 

 was passed in 1663 under which this 

 parish received 60, Bury having 40 and 

 Tottington the rest. The rectors appear 

 to have had charge of the capital, but 



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owing to the insolvency of one of them 

 only 30 remained in 1828, for which 

 Rector Hornby allowed 30.1. interest, ex- 

 pended in linen cloth. It appears that 

 3 131. 4t/. was then independently held 

 for the benefit of the township of Cowpe 

 Lench in the Hundred of Blackburn ; it 

 has since been lost. 



64 As in the preceding charity, half of 

 the capital of 10 had been lost before 

 1828, and the 51. given as interest by the 

 rector was expended on fourpenny loaves 

 for poor persons attending church. The 

 testator had named ' sixpenny jannocks.' 



The Guest and Rothwell Charities are 

 now represented by 64 consols, and by a 

 scheme approved in 1863 the income, 

 351. 4</., is spent on clothing or other 

 necessaries for the poor of the ancient 

 parish. 



65 The capital of 60 is represented by 

 a rent-charge of 3 still paid by the owner 

 of the Winstanley estate. The income is 

 distributed in flannels, &c., by the incum- 

 bents of the different ecclesiastical parishes. 



A benefaction of the Rev. John Lo- 

 max, 1694, had been lost by 1786. 



65 He left 20, which was increased by 

 unknown benefactors to 84. In 1828 

 George Ormerod, the historian of Cheshire, 

 as heir of Thomas Johnson, who had held 

 the capital, granted a rent-charge of 4 41. 

 a year ; this is still paid, and a guinea each 

 is sent to the rector of Bury, and the 

 vicars of Elton All Saints, Walmersley, and 

 Heywood St. Luke, for distribution to the 

 poor. The original gift was for linen cloth. 



