SALFORD HUNDRED 



ROCHDALE 



was confirmed by his successor and by others inter- 

 ested. The Bishops of Lichfield also concurred, it 

 being decreed that after the death of the rector in 

 possession a vicarage should be instituted, to which a 

 stipend and the 4 oxgangs of church land should be 

 annexed, and the consent of three of the popes was 

 obtained. 94 A later bishop in 1277 made a fresh 

 decree regarding the vicarage ; in addition to the 4 

 oxgangs, the vicar, who was to reside in his church, 

 was to have a fit house and a stipend of 1 8 marks. 95 

 This arrangement was sanctioned by the capitular 

 bodies 96 and the Archbishop of Canterbury. 97 



The value of the church was returned as 23 6s. %d. 

 in 1 29 1, 98 but the ninth of sheaves, wool, &c., in 

 1341 amounted to no more than io." In 1535 

 the value of the rectory was estimated as 49 1 3*. 4^., 100 



and that of the vicarage as l I 4/. 8</. 101 These sums 

 were probably much below the actual value, for in 

 1650 the yearly value of the glebe lands, rents, and 

 profits of the vicarage was stated as 1 60 a year, 10 * and 

 seventy years later was 'about J ^3OO.' 103 The glebe 

 land having been utilized for building, 104 the income 

 has greatly increased ; but the land is now in the 

 hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who pay 

 1,500 a year o the vicar. 105 



After the confiscation of the possessions of Whalley 

 Abbey, the advowoon of Rochdale came to the Crown, 

 and Henry VIII gave it to Archbishop Cranmer in 

 exchange for a much more valuable estate. 106 The 

 tithes were sold in i8i3, 107 and the right of presenta- 

 tion was in 1848 transferred to the new Bishop of 

 Manchester, whose successor holds it. 



The following is a list of the vicars : *' 



Institution 

 C. 1 2 10 . . 



c. 1230 . . 

 c. 1260 . . 

 oc. 1304 

 oc. 1307 . . 



9 Dec. 1312 

 25 Oct. 1317 . 

 22 May 1350 



I Jan. 1361-2 



Name 



Geoffrey the Dean 109 . . 

 William de Dumplington 11(> 

 John de Blackburn m . . 



Richard 11 * 



Roger m 



Richard de Parbold " . . 

 Thomas de Bolton 115 . . 

 Ralph de Dewsbury m . . 

 Ralph de Trumpington 117 . 



Patron 



Cause of Vacancy 



Whalley Abbey . . . res. Geoffrey 



Whalley Abbey . . 



d. R. de Parbold 

 d. T. de Bolton 



M The documents are given ibid, i, 

 135-153, &c. ; Roger de Lacy's grants 

 are on pp. 135, 137 ; his son John's con- 

 firmation, p. 138 ; John de Eland's re- 

 lease of any claim, p. 141 ; and John de 

 Lacy's of Cromwellbottom, p. 145; Assize 

 R. 408, m. 74 ; Final Cone, (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 179. In addition, 

 Geoffrey son of Geoffrey the Dean of 

 Whalley resigned his title to the church to 

 his lord John de Lacy ; Whalley Coucher, 

 i, 141. Richard son of the same Geof- 

 frey the Dean released all land belonging 

 to the church for an annuity of 201. (p. 

 153); and Geoffrey de Buckley resigned 

 his right to a third part of the tithes, 

 which he had received from his patron 

 Geoffrey the Dean (p. 142). 



The assent of William, Bishop of Lich- 

 field, who died in 1223, with his ordina- 

 tion of a vicarage, to come into force after 

 the death of the then rector, is given, 

 ibid, i, 139; the Prior and convent of 

 Coventry gave their consent in 1222 

 (p. 140), and Alexander, ihe succeeding 

 bishop, also ratified it (p. 140). 



Geoffrey the Dean resigned his 'vicar- 

 age ' to the same bishop, who united it to 

 the rectory (p. 143), and afterwards, on 

 the presentation of the abbot and convent, 

 admitted William de Dumplington to the 

 new vicarage (p. 145). As Alexander de 

 Stavenby died in 1238 the who'e trans- 

 action must have been completed by this 

 year. 



The popes who confirmed the arrange- 

 ments were Honorius III, in 1218 (to 

 take effect 'after the death of Geoffrey, 

 Dean of Whalley '), Innocent IV, about 

 1250, and Alexander IV, in 1255 and 

 1259 ; ibid, i, 168, 170, 169, 174. 



95 The bishop was Roger de Meulan in 

 1277 ; ibid, i, 69, 85. The vicar was to 

 provide that the chapels dependent on his 

 church should be served by fit priests and 

 clerks. 



96 Ibid, i, 86, 87. 



7 John de Peckham, 1280 ; ibid, i, 88. 



98 Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 249. 



99 Inq. Non. (Rec. Com.), 39 ; Castle- 

 ton was answerable for 261. %d., Spotland 

 for 50*., Butterworth for 501., and Hun- 

 dersfield for 731. ^d. 



10 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 229. 

 The glebe lands produced 201., the tithes 

 34 6s. 8</., oblations, Easter roll, &c., 

 14 6s. %d. 



101 Ibid, v, 227. The lands produced 

 4, and a pension of '8 was received 

 from the Abbot of Whalley ; but 151. $d. 

 was due to the Archdeacon of Chester. 



* M Commonwealth Ch. Surv. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 19. 



108 Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc.), 

 ii, 121 ; 'the vicar has a large glebe, and 

 all the houses of two of the best streets in 

 the town belong to him 130 houses'; 

 ibid, ii, 123. 



104 A plan of the glebe in 1754-7 is 

 given in Fishwick, Rochdale, 56. In 

 1764 the vicar was authorized by Act 

 of Parliament to grant building leases of 

 ninety-nine years ; it is printed in Raines, 

 Vicart of Rochdale (Chet. Soc.), 202. A 

 terrier of 1783 is printed in full; ibid. 



235. 



10a This was in accordance with an Act 

 passed in 1866 (29 & 30 Viet. cap. 86, 

 and 3 1 & 32 Viet. cap. 114), by which 

 the glebe was given to the Ecclesiastical 

 Commissioners, who were to pay the then 

 vicar 4,000 a year and his successors 

 1,500, the remainder to be used for 

 church purposes ; see Raines, Vicart, 

 361, &c. 



In the Manor Survey of 1626 the glebe 

 is estimated as 208 acres. 



106 Ibid. 32-6. 



W The sum realized was 63,426. 

 The purchasers were in general the owners 

 of the titheable estates. The sale was in 

 virtue of an Act passed in 1807, and some 

 particulars may be seen in Raines, Vicart 

 of Rochdale, 282, 283. 



197 



108 Detailed accounts of the vicars, 

 which have been used in these notes, will 

 be found in Canon Raines, Vicart of Roch- 

 dale, with additions by the editor, Sir H. H. 

 Howorth ; also in Fishwick, Rochdale, 

 223-49. 



109 He is spoken of as ' vicar,' and in 

 his resignation mentions the charter he 

 had from the abbot and convent and the 

 confirmation of the bishop ; Whalley 

 Coucher, i, 146, 141. He was son of that 

 Geoffrey the Dean who was ' rector ' in 

 1195. It is doubtful whether he was in 

 orders. He succeeded his father at Whalley 

 and at Rochdale, and may have had a 

 share of the revenues of the latter assigned 

 to him (as a ' vicarage ') when the church 

 was given to Stanlaw. In 1218 as Geoffrey 

 the Dean he was certainly in possession, 

 as appears by the confirmation of Pope 

 Honorius ; see note 94 above. 



110 Ibid, i, 145 ; as ' W. vicar of Roch- 

 dale ' his name appears as witness to 

 several charters in the same volume, one 

 of which appears to be as late as 1260 ; 

 ibid, ii, 614. 



111 Ibid, i, 144 ; he promised to claim 

 from the monks of Stanlaw nothing but 

 the land which his predecessor William 

 had held, the pension of 5 marks, and the 

 tithes of corn and beasts upon his own 

 land. This vicar also frequently occurs 

 as attesting charters. 



113 Ibid, ii, 632, as witness to a char- 

 ter. 



118 He was amerced for a breach of the 

 forest laws; Wakefield Ct. R. (Yorks. 

 Arch. Soc.), ii, 77. 



114 Lich. Epis. Reg. i, fol. 32*; he is 

 described as a chaplain. 



116 Ibid, i, fol. 85 ; a chaplain. In his 

 time, in 1330, the bishop held an ordina- 

 tion at Rochdale ; ibid, i, fol. 162. 



118 Ibid, ii, fol. 127 ; a chaplain. 



u " Ibid, iv, fol. 80 ; a priest. In 1365 

 he was made penitentiary for the deanery 

 of Manchester ; ibid, v, fol. lib. 



