Institution 



1 6 Dec. 1625 

 27 Nov. 1630 



1644 . . 

 25 Nov. 1657 



1662 . . 

 10 Aug. 1671 

 16 June 1673 



I Dec. 1691 

 14 Sept. 1721 

 23 Nov. 1737 



4 May 1789 

 27 Nov. 1793 



9 Mar. 1 8 1 1 

 23 Sept. 1817 



7 Feb. 1857 



1887 . . 



1896 . . 

 21 Jan. 1902. 



1909 . . 



A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Name Patron 



Robert Parke i3 Bishop ot Chester . . 



William Gregge M ... 



John Harpur 55 Parishioners 



Richard Goodwin, M.A." . . . Trustees 



Robert Harpur 57 Bishop of Chester . . 



Michael Stanford, M.A. 58 .... ... 



John Lever 59 ... 



Peter Haddon, M.A. 60 ... 



Thomas Morrall, M.A. 61 .... ... 



Edward Whitehead, M.A. 6S ... ... 



Jeremiah Gilpin, M.A. 63 .... ... 



Thomas Bancroft, M.A. 64 .... ... 



John Brocklebank, B.D. 65 .... ... 



James Slade, M.A. 66 ... 



Henry Powell 67 Bishop of Manchester . 



James Augustus Atkinson, M.A. 68 . 



Edwyn Hoskyns, M.A. 69 ... 



Henry Henn, M.A. 70 ...... 



Thomas Alfred Chapman, B.D. . . 



Cause of Vacancy 

 d. E. Saunderson 

 res. R. Parke 

 d. W. Gregge 

 d. J. Harpur 

 ejec. R. Goodwin 

 res. R. Harpur 

 res. M. Stanford 

 d. J. Lever 

 d. P. Haddon 

 d. T. Morrall 

 d. E. Whitehead 

 d. J. Gilpin 

 d. T. Bancroft 

 res. J. Brocklebank 

 res. J. Slade 

 res. H. Powell 

 res. J. A. Atkinson 

 prom. E. Hoskyns 

 prom. H. Henn 



58 A native of Bolton, and educated at 

 Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he became 

 a Nonconformist, and took refuge in Hol- 

 land in 1630 ; he returned to Bolton in 

 1 644 and was appointed lecturer, but ex- 

 pelled in 1662, after which he continued 

 to minister to the Nonconformists of the 

 district ; Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 

 257-61. There is also a notice of him in 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



The institutions from this time have 

 been compared with the list in Lanes, and 

 Cbet. Antiq. Notes from the Institution 

 Bks. P.R.O. 



64 He was probably the William Gregge 

 of Brasenose College, Oxford, who gradu- 

 ated as B.A. in 1622 ; Foster, Alumni. 

 This vicar seems to have been appointed 

 to restore some sort of discipline in the 

 parish, a large number of excommunica- 

 tions taking place in the early years of 

 his ministry. He died at the beginning 

 of 1 644. The church was then desecrated, 

 being used as a military store-house ; see 

 Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 261-4. For 

 pedigree, Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby),ii,34. 



55 He had been lecturer for some years. 

 He was a Puritan, and appointed vicar 

 by the election and consent of the people ; 

 he was ' a man of able parts and a godly 

 preaching minister," constantly preaching 

 on Sundays, &c., but had not observed 

 the fast appointed by Parliament in 

 1650 ; Commonwealth Ck. Surv. 30 ; 

 Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 265-9. He 

 signed the 'Harmonious Consent* in 

 1648 as 'pastor of Bolton.' 



56 He was admitted on a presentation 

 from the Trustees for the Maintenance of 

 Ministers ; Plund. Mins. Accts. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 173, 208. He was 

 of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and al- 

 though ordained deacon ' after the Epis- 

 copal manner,' became a zealous adherent 

 of the Presbyterian discipline. He refused 

 to conform to the Prayer Book on the 

 Restoration, and as the parishioners re- 

 fused to pay Easter dues when the Lord's 

 Supper was not celebrated, the farmer of 

 the rectory complained to the bishop. He 

 was expelled from the vicarage in Aug. 

 1662, and continued his labours undei 

 difficulties among the persecuted Noncon- 

 formists ; Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 

 269-75. He signed the ' Harmonious 

 Consent' in 1648 as 'minister of the 

 Gospel at Bolton,' and was described by 

 the 1650 Commissioners in the same 

 terms as John Harpur. 



*' He was also lecturer, and seems to 

 have had a troubled course ; Scholes and 

 Pimblett, op. cit. 275, 320. 



48 Ibid. 276. He was a fellow of 

 Christ's College, Cambridge ; M.A. 1661. 

 He left Bolton for Aldingham in Fur- 

 ness. 



89 Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 276-8; 

 he built the vicarage house. At the Re- 

 volution he was ' conformable ' ; Hist. 

 MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 228. 



60 He graduated at Oxford (Wadham 

 College and Hart Hall), M.A. 1687, and 

 became vicar of Wolston, Warwick, his 

 native place, in 1680 ; Foster, Alumni. 

 *,A worthy, pious, and learned man,' ac- 

 cording to the entry in the register. He 

 was a cousin of Bishop Cartwright and 

 had acted as his chaplain. In his time 

 two galleries were erected, and other 

 alterations and repairs made in the church; 

 Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 278, 142. 



61 He was of St. John's College, Ox- 

 ford, and then of All Souls ; M.A. 1699 ; 

 Foster, Alumni. 



The work of restoring the church 

 fabric was continued by him, and a 

 chapel of ease was built in Little Bolton ; 

 Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 279. Ju- 

 dith, his daughter and heir, married 

 Richard Rothwell, rector of Sefton, and 

 died in 1756, aged twenty-five; Manch. 

 School Reg. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 49. 



62 A Memoir of this vicar by James C. 

 Scholes was printed at Bolton in 1889. 

 He was educated at Balliol College, Ox- 

 ford ; M.A. 1736. He had a dispute with 

 the parishioners in 1764 as to the liability 

 to repair the chancel. He was made a 

 justice of the peace in 1766, and a king's 

 preacher in 1780 ; Scholes and Pimblett, 

 op. cit. 280, 157 ; a portrait is given. 



68 He was educated at St. John's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge; M.A. 1777. He was 

 also curate of Broughton-in-Furness. 



64 He was one of the most distinguished 

 vicars of Bolton, and has a memoir in 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. He was educated at 

 Manchester School and Brasenose College, 

 Oxford, but failed to obtain a fellowship ; 

 M.A. 1784. He was appointed head 

 master of the King's School, Chester. 

 The story of his romantic marriage, and 

 of his works as author and vicar, is given 

 in Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 283-96, 

 where there is also a portrait. Mr. Ban- 

 croft was one of the high churchmen of 

 the time, and controverted the Calvinism 

 of the Evangelical party. 



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65 He was of Pembroke College, Cam- 

 bridge ; B.D. 1814. He left Bolton to 

 become rector of Teversham, near Cam- 

 bridge, remaining there from 1817 till 

 his death in 1843, holding also the bene- 

 fices of Melbourne and Willingham in 

 succession. 



66 Educated at Emmanuel College, 

 Cambridge, of which he became fellow ; 

 M.A. 1807. He was appointed canon of 

 Chester in 1816 by his father-in-law, the 

 Bishop of Chester, and next year ex- 

 changed the rectory of Teversham for 

 Bolton with Mr. Brocklebank, and soon 

 after was made one of the king's preachers. 

 He held other benefices, being rector of 

 West Kirby in Cheshire from 1829 till 

 his death in 1860. He was a moderate 

 Evangelical, and an active and liberal 

 man, who earned the esteem of the in- 

 habitants generally ; Scholes and Pimblett, 

 op. cit. 288-307. He published sermons, 

 &c. There is a notice of him in Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. 



67 He was educated at the Church Mis- 

 sionary College, London, and was from 

 1837 to 1844 a missionary in Ceylon. 

 He was vicar of Bispham from 1851 to 

 1857. The rebuilding of Bolton Church 

 took place while he was vicar. He was 

 appointed to an honorary canonry at 

 Manchester in 1868; see Scholes and 

 Pimblett, op. cit. 307-10. He be- 

 came rector of Eaglescliffe, Durham, in 

 1886. 



68 He is a son of James Atkinson, 

 translator of the Shah Ndmeh of Firdausi, 

 and was educated at Eton and at Exeter 

 College, Oxford ; M.A. 1856. He was 

 incumbent of Hollinwood, Oldham, from 

 1858 to 1861, when he was appointed 

 rector of St. John's, Longsight. In 1884 

 he was made an honorary canon of Man- 

 chester. He became vicar of Gedney in 

 1896 and of St. Michael's, Coventry, in 

 1900. He has written a biography of his 

 predecessor, Canon Slade. 



69 Educated at Jesus College, Cam- 

 bridge ; M.A. 1880 ; was rector of Step- 

 ney 1886 to 1896 ; hon. canon of Man- 

 chester 1899 ; consecrated Bishop of 

 Burnley 1901 ; translated to Southwell 

 1904. 



' The date is that of induction. Canon 

 Henn was educated at Trinity Hall, Cam- 

 bridge, of which he was a fellow ; M.A. 

 1884. Honorary canon of Manchester 

 1903. Bishop suffragan of Burnley from 

 1909. 



