A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



councillors, elected by three wards North, South, 

 and West. 49 The gasworks are now owned by the 

 Corporation, and the water supply, formerly owned 

 by it, is now the property of the Heywood and 

 Middleton Joint Water Board, formed in 1898. 

 The corporation also own the free library, opened in 

 1873 ; the Queen's Park, 1879, the land a gift from 

 Queen Victoria ; M an infectious diseases hospital in 

 Birtle ; and a cemetery in Castleton. There is a 

 bench of magistrates for the borough. There are 

 a weekly market" on Friday, and fairs in April, 

 August, and October. 52 A Mechanics' Institute, 

 formed in 1840, existed more than thirty years. 

 There are two newspapers the Advertiser and the 

 News issued on Friday. 63 



A chapel existed at Heywood before 

 CHURCH the Reformation, but it appears to have 

 had no ' ornaments ' except a bell in 

 1552." It is said to have been rebuilt by Robert 

 Heywood about 1 640," and his descendant, a century 

 later, in selling the estates proposed to sell also the 

 site and advowson of the chapel. It appears, how- 

 ever, that the rector of Bury has always presented the 

 curate. The chapel has probably been used regularly 

 for public worship from the beginning of the I7th 

 century, when it was * maintained by the inhabi- 

 tants.' 56 The Commonwealth Commissioners in 1650 

 found that there was no endowment beyond ' the use 

 of 5,' left by William Holme. 57 Later contributions 

 raised the endowment to 8 io/. by I7I8. 58 The 

 registers begin in 1778. The church was rebuilt in 

 i86o, 59 and a separate district was assigned to it in 



i864. 60 The following have 



61 



been curates and 



vicars 



1692 Thomas Taylor 63 

 c. 1715 Thomas Ryder 63 

 1717 C. Barret 64 

 1719 Nathan Stock, 66 M.A. (Brasenose Coll. 



Oxf.) 



1729 James Bankes 

 1742 James Barton, B.A. (St. John's Coll. 



Camb.) 



1745 William Barton 66 

 1774 Richard Longford 67 

 1803 Richard Hood, LL.D. 68 

 Thomas Hill 69 

 1823 Joseph Bland Jameson, B.D. 70 

 1835 Robert Minnitt, M.A." (Trin. Coll., 



Dublin) 



1850 Julius Shadwell, B.A."(BalliolColl.,Oxf.) 

 1865 Thomas Ramsbotham, M.A. 73 (Christ's 



Coll., Camb.) 



1872 Thomas Julius Henderson, M.A. 74 (Wad- 

 ham Coll., Oxf.) 

 1878 John Spittall, M.A." (Trinity Hall, 



Camb.) 



1885 Richard William Perry Circuitt n 

 1900 Edward Basil Armstrong Hughes, M.A. 77 



(Wore. Coll., Oxf.) 

 1909 John Plumpton Wilson, M.A. 77a 



(Queen's Coll., Oxf.) 



St. James's, built in 1836-8, and restored in 1875 

 and 1884, was the second church within the town- 



49 A full description of the boundaries is 

 given in the Tear Bk. of the borough, lent 

 to the editors by the town clerk, Mr. George 

 G. Bouchier. 



40 It was the old park of Heywood Hall, 

 and was purchased out of moneys which 

 devolved to Her Majesty in right of the 

 duchy from the estate of Charles Martin 

 Newhouse, deceased ; Tear Bk. 



51 There were formerly two covered 

 markets, but both have long since been 

 converted to other uses ; Information of 

 Rev. B. Hughes, vicar. 



53 The Tear Bk. quoted gives particulars 

 of other municipal undertakings, as the 

 baths, technical school and classes, electric 

 lighting station, sewage disposal works, 

 &c. 



58 The first newspaper was the Observer, 

 in 1 844 ; Heywood N. and Q. i, 1 7. 



M Cb. Goods (Chet. Soc.), 46. The 

 chapel was purchased by the inhabitants ; 

 Raines, Chant. (Chct. Soc.), ii, 277. It 

 it marked in Saxton's map, 1577; and 

 Agnes RadclifFe of Marland left is. to 

 Heywood Chapel ; Raines in Notitia 

 Cestr. ii, 34. 



55 Gastrell, ibid.; it was 'never con- 

 secrated ; the designed endowment of 

 the founder was lost, and the estate 

 old.' 



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

 12. Mr. Buckley was 'lecturer' at Hey- 

 wood in i6z2, and Giles Clayton 'curate,' 

 1634-6 ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 66, 95. Robert Towne, 

 curate in 1640, averred that he did not 

 hold the opinions of the Grindletonians, 

 as had been alleged ; Raines MSS. (Chet. 

 Lib.), xxii, fol. 306. 



Jonathan Scholefield was curate from 

 1647 or earlier until 1659, when he 

 moved to Douglas chapel. He signed the 

 * Harmonious Consent* in 1648. In 



1647 he had some dispute with his con- 

 gregation, but it seems to have been ad- 

 justed ; Shaw's Bury Classis (Chet. Soc.), 

 i, 22, 40, 123 ; ii, 253. In 1650 he 

 was reported to be ' orthodox for divinity, 

 well qualified for life and conversation ' ; 

 Commonwealth Ch. Sur<v. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 42. George Thomason 

 is said to have been ejected from Heywood 

 in 1662 ; Calamy, Nonconf. Mem. (ed. 

 Palmer), ii, 94. 



W Common-wealth Ch. Surv. 42. 



58 Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. ii, 33-5. 

 Richard Whitehead of Pilsworth in 1671 

 gave money for the use of the minister 

 at Heywood ; and Richard Haworth of 

 Heap in 1704 made a bequest 'for the 

 sole use and benefit of such curate, minis- 

 ter, or preacher, as shall from time to 

 time be appointed to officiate and serve 

 at the chapel of Heywood, and as shall 

 be conformable to the liturgy and service 

 of the Church of England as by law now 

 established, and not otherwise. And if 

 any curate or minister shall be imposed 

 on the said chapel or shall officiate there 

 who shall not be conformable as aforesaid, 

 then my said trustees shall dispose of all 

 the said rents and profits as they shall 

 think fit ' ; ibid. 



69 There was a dial on the east side of 

 the chapel, bearing the date 1686, and the 

 initials of Robert Heywood ; also A.B. 

 1807. The column of the dial was 

 recently found ; Information of the Rev. 

 B. Hughes. A sundial was placed in the 

 churchyard in 1845. 



60 Land. Gam. 8 Jan. 1864. The 

 tithes of the township of Heap were in 

 1857 annexed to the chapelry, and the 

 incumbents have usually been styled 

 rectors, but it appears, by a ruling of the 

 Ecclesiastical Commissioners, that this is 

 incorrect. 



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61 The list is taken from the Church 

 P. at Chester, and Raines MSS. ix, fol. 

 8, 9. Few curates occur in the fifty 

 years following the Restoration ; but 

 Ichabod Furness was there in 1671; John 

 Battersby in 1677-9 5 Abraham Butter- 

 worth, B.A., in 1684 ; Church P. at 

 Chester, and Mr. Earwaker's notes. 



69 The regular Church P. begin with 

 him. 



68 Objection was made to him in 

 1717. 



64 Also at Holcombe. 



65 William Bamford and John Starky 

 gave 100 to the endowment in 1719 on 

 condition that Nathan Stock be appointed; 

 Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 35. 



66 An excellent ornithologist ; Raines. 

 6 ? A grave and devout clergyman of the 



old school ; Raines. 



68 Afterwards Dean of Kilmacduagh ; 

 Raines. 



89 Immoral, resigned ; Raines. 



7 He was long suspended by the bishop, 

 and died in an obscure beer-house where 

 he had taken shelter from the weather. 

 He was very poor, and left a widow and 

 family ; Raines. 



71 Afterwards vicar of Healey, Roch- 

 dale ; he died in 1884. 



7* Afterwards rector of Washington, 

 Durham. 



7 8 Resigned in 1872. 



1* Vicar of South Banbury, 1878; 

 vicar of Farley, 1883. 



7 s Exchanged the vicarage of South 

 Banbury with his predecessor ; became 

 vicar of Havenstreet, Ryde, I.W., in 

 1885. 



78 Previously vicar of Cholsey, Berks. 



77 To Mr. Hughes are due several of 

 the particulars in this account of Hey- 

 wood. 



77 Previously vicar of St. Paul, Peel. 



