SALFORD HUNDRED 



ROCHDALE 



descended regularly from father to son, and in 1889 

 was the residence of Dr. John Chadwick. 69 ' 70 



The names of some other of the more ancient 

 owners can be obtained from inquisitions 71 and 

 from the Survey of i6z6J a In this year the com- 

 mon measured 590 acres stinted and 915 acres 

 unstinted, and contained two coal mines, very bene- 

 ficial to the occupiers. 73 There was no copyhold 

 land. 



The most considerable landowners in 1787 were 

 John Entwisle and the Misses Halliwell, but together 

 they paid less than a fifth of the land tax." 



The chapel of ST. JAMES at M UN- 

 CHURCH ROW was built, it is supposed, about 

 1497." It was in 1548 seized by the 

 Crown as a chantry chapel, but purchased by the 

 inhabitants for 36*. 8</. 76 The list of curates is 

 almost complete from 1590, but there was no 

 endowment. 77 In 1715 the stipend paid was 

 .13, partly out of tithes and partly out of 

 pew rents ; 78 but afterwards some additional endow- 

 ment was obtained. 79 The old chapel, having be- 

 come ruinous, was abandoned in 1798, and a new 

 one built, which had to be rebuilt in 1815. It was 

 taken down when the present church was built in 

 i86g. so The old chapel bell is now at Hollinworth 

 school ; 81 the sundial, dated 1664, is in the vicarage 



garden. 82 Entries in the registers begin in 1715. 

 The district was formed in 1858. The vicar of 

 Rochdale presents the incumbents, who are styled 

 vicars. The following is a list of those since 

 1693: 8S 



1695 James Lawton 

 oc. 1 696-9 John Halliwell 



1699 Thomas Milne, M.A. (Brasenose Coll. 



Oxf.) 



c. 1702 Peter Ashton, B.A. (Peterhouse, Camb.) 

 1718 Robert Pearson, B.A. (St. John's Coll. 



Camb.) 

 1739 Joshua Tillotson, M.A. (Emmanuel Coll. 



Camb.) 

 1745 Joseph Sutcliffe, B.A. (St. John's Coll. 



Camb.) 

 1759 Joseph Haigh, B.A. (Magdalene Coll. 



Camb.) 

 1795 John Hutchinson, B.A. (Corpus Christi 



Coll. Camb.) 

 1800 William Hodgson 



1832 Francis Robert Raines, M.A. (Lamb.) 84 

 1878 Howard Augustus Crosbie, M.A. (Trinity 



Coll. Camb.) 85 

 1883 Frank Parkin Wright, M.A. (St. John's 



Coll. Camb.) 



9_70 Fishwick, op. cit. 384-5 ; see also 

 Raines MSS. iii, 93. 



7 1 Roger Holt of Bridge Hall near Bury 

 in 1 594 held 2 acres in Whit acre in Clegg ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xvi, no. 6. 



James Buckley, of Whitfield in Cromp- 

 ton, by his will of 1627, left his farm at 

 Ogden to George his younger son ; ibid, 

 xxvii, no. 51. 



Thomas Warburton the elder, Ellen his 

 wife, and Thomas his son, made settle- 

 ments of an estate in Butterworth in 

 1558 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 16, 

 m. 3 5 ; 1 9, m. 2 3 . Thomas Warburton, who 

 died in 1 634 at Stubbins, held messuages in 

 Little Clegg, Hollinworth, and Butter- 

 -worth ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxx, 

 no. 93. 



Ottiwell Greave died in April 1627, 

 holding messuages and lands in Butter- 

 worth of the heir of Geoffrey de Butter- 

 worth by the rent of a ginger-root ; James 

 his son and heir, was thirty-six years of 

 age ; Towneley MS. C, 8, 1 3, p. 460. 



Ralph Taylor, who died in 1631, held 

 a messuage and land of the Earl of Derby 

 as of his manor of Much Woolton, lately 

 belonging to the dissolved Hospital of St. 

 John ; Robert his son and heir was over 

 forty in 1635 ; ibid. 1182 ; see also Fish- 

 wick, op. cit. 338. 



A number of fines are extant relating 

 to the holding of the Collinge family ; 

 e.g. Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 1 2, m. 78 ; 

 53, m. 29 ; 56, m. 92. In the I7th cen- 

 tury a family of this name held a moiety 

 .of Birchinley; Fishwick, Rochdale, 36970. 



7 a Robert Holt had 109 acres in Clegg 

 by grant of Gerard Scholefield to his 

 father, John Holt of Stubley. Jordan 

 Chadwick produced a charter of 1294 by 

 .Richard son of Hugh de Belfield to 

 Henry his brother, as his title to 45 acres. 

 William Butterworth, ' the rich butcher,' 

 held 34 acres formerly the Hospitallers' 

 land ; and Robert Taylor had 33 acres, 

 also the Hospitallers'. 



7 8 Surv. ut sup. 58. 



7-1 Land-tax returns at Preston. 



? 5 There is a good account in Fish- 



wick's Rochdale, 20215, from which the 

 details in the text are in the main taken. 



In 1497 Edward Butterworth the elder 

 conveyed to his son Robert and others a 

 plot of land called Gooseholme, in Bel- 

 grene, close to which plot, or upon it, the 

 chapel was built ; Fishwick, quoting the 

 original deed in the church chest. In 

 1514 a house 'near the chapel of St. 

 James the Apostle ' was given to John 

 Clegg, the chaplain, for life that he might 

 say mass for the donor, Edward Butter- 

 worth, and his parents ; ibid. 



In 1521 Robert Butterworth of Clegg, 

 son and heir of Richard Butterworth of 

 the Holt and grandson of the said Edward, 

 gave Gooseholme and Halgh Green to 

 feoffees to fulfil his grandfather's will ; 

 Towneley MS. GG, no. 645. 



In some later proceedings it was alleged 

 that the chapel had been built on the 

 waste by the inhabitants generally ; Fish- 

 wick, op. cit. 204, quoting Duchy Plead. 

 Eliz. xxii, B, 12, iza. 



7* Buckley D. in Add. MS. 32107, 

 no. 408 ; but 1 31. 4</. is the price in Raines, 

 Chantries (Chet. Soc.), ii, 277 ; a chalice 

 was taken away by the commissioners ; 

 ibid, ii, 269. In 1552 Henry Ferror was 

 the priest ; there were only a chalice and 

 vestment in the chapel ; Ch. Gds. 

 (Chet. Soc.), 49. Henry Ferror occurs in 

 the lists of clergy from 1541 to 1565 ; 

 in the latter year he was ' decrepit.' 



77 The minister in Elizabeth's time was 

 paid chiefly by the contributions of the 

 people, but the Archbishop of Canterbury 

 as rector allowed him 401. out of the 

 tithes ; Fishwick, op. cit. 203-4. 



About 1610 Milnrow Chapel was sup- 

 ported by the inhabitants; Hist. MSS.Com. 

 Rep. xiv, App. iv, 12. In 1650 the Parlia- 

 mentary Commissioners reported that Sir 

 John Byron, as farmer of the tithes, had 

 been accustomed to pay 4 los. a year to 

 the minister ; out of the sequestrated 

 tithes an additional 50 had been allowed ; 

 Commoniv. Ch. Surv. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 2 1 ; Plund. Mint. Accts. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 38, 90 ; ii, 290. 



221 



It was recommended that a parish be 

 formed for it. 



7 8 Gastrell, Notitia (Chet. Soc.), ii, 139; 

 from the tidies 3 6s. 8<, from seats 

 ^8 1 8i. 6d., and from the loft or gallery, 

 i 8*. 4</. There were no surplice fees, 

 and the contributions were small. There 

 were two chapel wardens and an assistant, 

 chosen by the curate and vestry. 



79 Samuel Chetham (of Castleton) in 

 1717 gave ,200 ; ibid, ii, 142. 



80 Fishwick, op. cit. 205-6 ; a view of 

 the building in 1772 is given ; ibid. 202. 



81 Ibid. 206 ; the date is 1654. 



82 Ibid. 207. 



83 The church papers at Chester Dioc. 

 Reg. begin in 1693. The list is taken in 

 great part from Fishwick, op. cit., where 

 some earlier curates' names will be found; 

 they do not appear to have stayed more 

 than a year or two in most cases. John 

 Pollett, who was there from 1647 to 1657, 

 was in 1650 described as 'godly, orthodox, 

 and well qualified,' but appears to have 

 been a Royalist in sympathies; see W. A. 

 Shaw, Bury Classis (Chet. Soc.), 250 ; 

 Commoniv. Ch. Surv. 21. James Hulme 

 was curate in 1671 ; Visitation list. 



84 He was born at Whitby in 1805 and 

 apprenticed to a surgeon, but afterwards 

 went to St. Bees College and was ordained 

 in 1828. He died at Scarborough 17 Oct. 

 1878. He was one of the founders of 

 the Chetham Society, and contributed to 

 it some of its most important publica- 

 tions, as the editions of Gastrell's Notitia, 

 the Lanes. Chantries and Stanley Papers ; 

 he was elected F.S.A. in 1843, and received 

 the degree of M.A. from the Archbishop 

 of Canterbury in 1845, Hon. Canon of 

 Manchester in 1849. He was also zealous 

 as a parochial clergyman. He bequeathed 

 his manuscript collections, forty-four 

 volumes and miscellaneous deeds, to the 

 Chetham Library. There is a monument 

 to him at Milnrow; see Diet. Nat. Biog.\ 

 Fishwick, Rochdale, 214 ; and Sir H. H. 

 Howorth's Introd. to Vicars of Rochdale. 

 (Chet. Soc.). 



85 Vicarof Trumpington, 1885. 



