A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Thomas Blackburne 91 



John Walker " 



Ralph Nuttall 9 ' 



[Thomas] Abbott 94 



Samuel Newton 9i 



Thomas Blackburne (restored) M 



Samuel Newton 97 



? John Walker 98 



John Battersby, M.A. 99 



Joshua Dixon, B.A. 100 



Andrew Gray I01 



John Waddington, B.A. 10 * (Trinity Coll. 



Camb.) 

 William Walsh, M.A. 103 (Brasenose Coll. 



Oxf.) 



John Fisher, B.A. 104 (Peterhouse, Camb.) 

 William Heaton, B.A. 105 (Queen's Coll. 



Oxf.) 



James Jackson 106 

 Thomas Sutcliffe lor 

 William Ritson, M.A. 108 (Pembroke Coll. 



Camb.) 



Nonconformity dates from the Restoration. The 

 principal inhabitants adhered to the Presbyterian 

 system, and though the minister was ejected from the 

 church he is said to have returned to it after a short 

 interval, and it seems to have remained practically in 

 the hands of the Nonconformists for many years. 

 Some separate meeting-place appears to have been 

 used also, and in 1693 Thomas Anderton of Great 

 House gave 100 or a rent-charge of $ los. a. year 

 for the endowment of the minister. Ten years later 

 the present chapel was built ; it contains a monument 

 to the Willoughbys of Parham, who were concerned 

 in its erection. Unitarian doctrine gradually pre- 

 vailed in the latter part of the i8th century, and the 

 building is now a recognized Unitarian Chapel. 109 



The grammar school was founded in I566. 110 



oc. 1647 

 1648 

 1649 

 ? 1654 

 1657 

 1662 



oc. 1674 



1686 



oc. 1701 

 oc. 1725 

 oc. 1728 



1755 



1763 

 1813 



1823 

 1856 

 1879 



ANGLEZARKE 



Andelevesarewe, 1202 ; Milafosharh 1212 (an error 

 of transcription) ; Anlauesargh, 1225 ; Anlewesearche, 

 Anlawesaregh, 1246; Alaseharghe, 1288; Aneles- 

 argh, Anelesaregh, Anlesarath, Anlesaragth, 1292 ; 

 Anlaghesarghe, 1302 ; Anlasargh, 1351 ; Anlazarghe, 



1559- 



The greater part of this township is a high moor- 

 land area, a spur of the eastern hills 1,000 ft. high 

 projecting into the centre, from which point the sur- 

 face descends to the north, west, and south. The area 

 is 2,793 acres, 1 and the measurement about 2^ miles 

 from east to west, by something less than 2 miles 

 across. The greater part of the western border is 

 occupied by one of the reservoirs of the Liverpool 

 Waterworks, formed in 1847-57 ; the Yarrow reser- 

 voir, to the east, was formed in 1868-77. The 

 population in 1901 numbered 93. 



Almost the only road is that along the western 

 border from Rivington to Heapey. There is no 

 village of Anglezarke, but a hamlet called White Cop- 

 pice lies in the north-west corner, and another called 

 Hempshaws in the south-east. 



There are numerous quarries, worked and disused ; 

 the stone is largely used for road-making. Lead mines 

 were formerly worked here. 2 There is a cotton-mill 

 at White Coppice. 



The moors abound with grouse. 



In 1 666 only twenty-five hearths were liable to the 

 tax. Robert Shaw's house, with five, was the largest.* 

 The earliest record of ANGLEZARKE 

 MANOR shows that it was a dependency of the fee 

 or barony of Manchester, and that Albert 

 Grelley the younger 4 gave 2 oxgangs of land appa- 

 rently the whole of it to Robert son of Henry de 

 Lathom to hold by annual rent of 3/. 5 The Lathom 

 family and their successors, the Stanleys, Earls of 



91 Bury Classis (Chet. Soc.), i, 8-10, 

 &c.j ii, 213 ; there were various charges 

 against him of want of ordination, neg- 

 lect of his charge, kneeling down on 

 coming into the desk and pulpit, keeping 

 ' profane company,' &c. 



99 Ibid, i, 42, &c.; ii, 265 ; afterwards 

 of Newton Heath. 



93 Ibid, i, 99, &c. : ' a godly, orthodox, 

 and painful minister," according to the 

 Commonwealth Ch. Surf, of 1650 (p. 35). 

 He removed to Stretford. 



94 Bury Classis, ii, 148, 149, 205. 



95 Irvine, Ri-vington, 73. He was 

 ejected in 1662. 



96 Bury Classis, ii, 214. 



9 < It is possible that he continued to 

 minister as a Nonconformist, with the 

 connivance of the bishop and others in 

 authority ; see Irvine, op. cit. 74. For 

 his will, ibid. 175. 



98 Newton died in 1682, and his suc- 

 cessor, according to Calamy, was the 

 foregoing John Walker, a Presbyterian, 

 ejected from Newton Heath in 1662 ; 

 ibid. 76. He is said to have died in 1684, 

 and to have had a son John, also a minister 

 in Rivington ; see his will, ibid. 181. 



99 Ibid. 77 ; he does not occur in the 

 visitation lists of 1691 and 1696, so that 

 his stay was very brief. 



100 Ibid. 77 ; he had been curate of 

 R : nelev. 



101 Ibid. 78 ; previously vicar of Mot- 

 tram, Cheshire. 



102 Ibid. 79. 



"8 Ibid. The Church P. at Chester 

 begin with him. 



104 Ibid. In 1778 he reported that 

 there were in his parish, out of sixty-eight 

 families in all, twenty-seven families of 

 Presbyterians (one a gentleman, viz. 

 Andrews), one Quaker, four families of 

 Methodists, and none of other denomina- 

 tions. There was an unlicensed meeting- 

 house. 



los Irvine, Ri-vington, 81. 



106 Ibid. 



107 Ibid. 82 ; there was a contested 

 election, accompanied by much unseemly 

 conduct, and it was thought better to ask 

 the bishop's nomination at the next 

 vacancy. 



108 Ibid. 82. 



109 A full account, with a view and a 

 list of the ministers and description of 

 the monuments, is given in Mr. Irvine's 

 work, 90-111; see also Nightingale, 

 Lanes. Nonconf. iii, 8198. There is a 

 library, begun in 1821. Some efforts 

 of the Methodists are narrated in the 

 latter work, 97. 



110 End. Char. Rep. for Bolton, 1904, 

 ii, 31 ; a summary of the statutes made 

 by Bishop Pilkington, the founder, is 

 given. These statutes were also printed 

 by Mr. Septimus Tebay, then head 

 master, in 1864. Since 1875 the school 

 has been the Rivington and Blackrod 

 Grammar School. See also Irvine, 



294 



Ri-vington, 112-22. A list of the first 

 scholars is printed in Tebay's Statutes, and 

 in Col. Pilkington's Pilkington Family ; 

 see also Local Glean. Lanes, and Cbes. 

 ii, 107. The school library is described 

 in Old Lanes. Libraries (Chet. Soc.), 189, 

 106. 



1 The Census Rep. of 1901 gives 2,792, 

 including 167 of inland water. 



2 A description of the lead mines in 

 1789 is in Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. 

 Manch. iii, 598. 



For a dispute as to the lead mine in 

 1694-5 see Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, 

 App. iv, 356, 380. 



8 Subs. R. Lanes, bdle. 250, no. 9. 



4 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 58 ; the date of 

 the grant is between 1162 and 1180. In 

 the Manchester Extent of 1322 the 

 tenants of Anglezarke were among others 

 in the upper bailiwick charged with pro- 

 viding food and lodging for the master 

 Serjeant ; Mamecestre (Chet. Soc.), ii, 



374- 



s Inq. and Extents, loc. sup. cit. In 

 1202 an oxgang of land in Anglezarke 

 was assigned as dower to Amabel, daugh- 

 ter of Simon, by Richard de Lathom; and 

 in 1224 the 2 oxgangs in Anglezarke 

 were included in a grant of Richard de 

 Lathom to Simon de Grubbehead ; Final 

 Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 

 11,45. 



