BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



RIBCHESTER 



1829 George Parkin 



1831 Frederick Maude, M. A. (Brasenose Coll., Oxf.) 

 1843 Edward Pigot, M.A. 63 (Brasenose Coll., Oxf.) 

 1847 William Charles Bache, M.A. 64 (Brasenose 



Coll., Oxf.) 

 1 877 Fitzherbert Astley Cave-Browne-Cave, M.A. 64 



(Brasenose Coll., Oxf.) 

 1894 Thomas Martin Harrison, M.A. 66 (Brasenose 



Coll., Oxf.) 



For the Presbyterians Timothy Smith's house was 

 licensed in \6j2, 67 but no permanent congregation 

 seems to have resulted. About 1717 there was a 

 Quakers' meeting-place near Longridge Chapel. 68 



The Roman Catholic church of SS. Mary and 

 Michael, Alston Lane, serves a mission which can be 

 traced back to about ijoo.* 9 It was refounded in 

 1761, and the old church was built in 1765. This 

 was replaced by the present one in i857. ro 



tion in the meantime of the worst kind 

 as far as ministerial labour is concerned, 

 being universally poor, and consisting one 

 half of Romin Catholics and almost all 

 poor hand-loom weavers advanced from 

 about 400 to 2,000. During his in- 

 cumbency he enlarged his small chapel, 

 without any expense to the place, so as 

 to hold 700 worshippers, and left behind 

 him what he did not find a parsonage- 

 house. Nor was there erected (and this 

 is a singular exception in that district) 

 during his incumbency a single Dissenting 

 place of worship of any kind in his 



chapelry ' ; Old Church Clock, 189. There 

 are monuments in the chapel to him and 

 his two successors. 



68 Rector of Whittington 1857. 

 64 Rector of Alresford 1877. 



5 Vicar of Horton 1867, of Ellel 

 1869, and of Padiham 1874. 



66 Vicar of Briercliffe 1887-94. 



67 Cal. S. P. Dom. 1672, pp. 198, 200. 

 48 Gastrell, Noeitia, loc. cit. 



69 A. Hewitson, op. cit. 88-92. There 

 were many convicted recusants in the 

 township in the time of Charles II ; 

 Misc. (Cath. Rec. Soc.), v, 161-3. 



Sir Walter Vavasour, S. J., served there 

 at the beginning of the i8th century ; Gil- 

 low, Hay Jock P. 63. At that time there 

 was also a domestic chapel at Hothersall, 

 Sir Walter registered his estate as a ' Papist ' 

 in 1717, being described as 'of Alston ' 5 

 Estcourt and Payne, op. cit. 316. He 

 was 'a reputed priest' ; Smith, Rib- 

 chester, 63. A baptism by him in 1705 

 is recorded in the parish church register ; 

 ibid. 1 97. He was buried at Stidd, 1 740 ; 

 ibid. 203. 



70 Smith, Longridge, 77 ; a list of 

 priests in charge ii given. 



