A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



PARKINSON of 

 snape. Gules 



Hazelhurst 11 and Oakenclough 1S were other vac- 

 caries. 14 The messuage called Brooks was in 1720 

 sold by Richard Blackburne 

 and Elizabeth his wife to 

 Robert Lawson of Lancaster. 1 * 



William Garnett of Lark 

 Hill, Salford, acquired a lease 

 of the manor or forest from 

 the Crown and greatly im- 

 proved the district, converting 

 wild lands into meadow and 

 pasture. He built Bleasdale 

 Tower, and was high sheriff 

 of the county in 1843. At 

 his death in 1863 he was 

 succeeded by his son William 

 James, who continued the 

 work of improvement, and, 



dying in 1873, was followed by his eldest son, 

 Mr. William Garnett of Quernmore, who served as 

 high sheriff in i879- 16 



More than half the area of the moorlands remains 

 uninclosed. The pasture rights have been purchased 

 from the duchy by the landowners. 



The chapel at Admarsh existed in the 

 CHURCH time of Elizabeth, 17 but is of unknown 

 origin and invocation. In 1610 it was 

 described as ' a chapel, without service, in the king's 

 chase,' and the stipend was said to be detained by 

 Robert Parkinson, commissary of Richmond. 18 In 

 1650 it had 'neither minister nor maintenance,' and 

 the people were declared to be ignorant and careless, 



Fair- 

 on a 



cheveron between three 

 ostrich feathers argent at 

 many mullets sable. 



knowing nothing of the worship of God, but living in 

 ignorance and superstition. 19 Nothing seems to have 

 been done at that time, but in 1689 Richard White 

 of Chipping had the Bishop of Chester's licence to 

 preach in Admarsh Chapel, 20 and in 1702 Christopher 

 Parkinson of Hazelhurst gave $ lev. a year for the 

 wages of a minister." In 1717 there was 'service 

 every first Sunday in the month and no other.' 2 * 

 Afterwards an augmentation was obtained, and from 

 1749 there seems always to have been a curate in 

 charge. The church was rebuilt in 1835, and called 

 St. Eadmor's 13 ; it was restored and enlarged in 1897. 

 The vicar of Lancaster is patron. The following 

 have been curates and vicars M : 



1 749 John Penny 



1764 John Braithwaite 



1767 Thomas Smith ** 



1778 Joseph Stuart 



1825 James Bleasdale 



1828 Osborn Littledale 



1833 William Fenton 



1837 James Robinson 



1 846 Henry Short * 6 



1851 David Bell, M.D. (Glas.) w 



1855 William Shilleto, B.A.' 8 (Univ. Coll., Oxf.) 



1864 Robert Charles Colquhoun Barclay, B.A. 

 (T.C.D.) 



1891 John Frederick Heighway Parker 19 



The above-named Christopher Parkinson also be- 

 queathed money to pay a schoolmaster 10 a year. 30 

 The once-existing charities have failed ; they 



amounted to less than 4 a year. 31 



and heir of Henry Parkinson) and Richard 

 Parkinson (brother of Henry). This 

 Richard was grandfather of Canon Parkin- 

 son of Manchester. See his Old Church 

 Clock (ed. 1880), pp. xii, Ixxv-lxxvii. 



John Clifton of Fairsnape and Thomas 

 his son were burgesses of the guild of 

 1662 ; Preston Guild R. 142. See the 

 account of Clifton in Kirkham. 



13 This also was held by Parkinsons ; 

 Ducatus Lane, iii, 275. So also was 

 Stake House ; ibid, ii, 42. 



18 Ibid, iii, 294, 363. 



14 In 1622 thevaccaries appear to have 

 been Falsnape (Fairsnape), Blindhurst, 

 Hazelhurst, Brooks, Calder and Oaken- 

 clough, with land called Scoring Moss ; 

 Pat. 20 Jas. I, pt iii. 



In 1670 John Sturzaker paid 2 a 

 year rent for Oakenclough, Peter Black- 

 burne 2 i u. for Brooks, Richard Par- 

 kinson 2 in. 8</. for Falsnape and 

 John Fanshaw 2 for Calder ; ibid. 22 

 Chas. II, pt. ii, no. i. 



"Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 

 206, from 2nd-3rd R. of Geo. I. at 

 Preston. 



16 Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1870), ii, 540 ; 

 Burke, Landed Gentry. 



17 Raines in GastrelTs Notitia Cestr. 

 (Chet Soc.), ii, 438. 



18 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 8. 



19 Common-it). Ch. Surv. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 126. 



80 Stratford's Visitation List, 1691, at 

 Chester. 



81 Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 437-8 ; Parkin- 

 son gave a rent-charge of ^4 a year for a 

 ' preaching minister who should officiate 

 monthly." 



22 Ibid. 



23 The name Admarsh was perhaps 

 thought to be connected with Eadmer, 

 the friend of St. Anselm and historian of 

 his time. 



14 Ch. Papers at Chester Dioc. Reg. 



25 Richard Parkinson, named in a 

 former note, 'who had twelve children, 

 engaged the Rev. Mr. Smith to become 

 a permanent resident in his house and 

 teach his children and officiate in the 

 chapel, giving him for his labours board 

 and lodging and 12 a year' ; Old Church 

 Clock, p. xiv. 



96 Afterwards rector of Stockton Forest, 

 Yorks. 



87 Afterwards vicar of Goole. 



88 Afterwards vicar of Goosnargh. 



29 Mr. Parker has assisted in the com- 

 pilation of this list. 



30 End. Char. Rep. for Lancaster, 1903. 

 Formerly the curate of the chapel was 

 often the schoolmaster also. 



31 Ibid. Richard Blackburn in 1743 

 gave ,50 for the poor. The capital 

 passed to John Lawson and A. R. Ford, 

 and in 1826 the interest, 2 IQJ., was 

 still paid. Nothing is now known of it. 

 Thomas Parkinson in 1728 left 10 to 

 the poor ; interest of 9*. a year was paid 

 by Henry Parkinson down to 1794, when 

 his heirs were two daughters married to 

 John Garner of Crookhall in Cockerham 

 and to William Taylor of Berwick 5 a 

 moiety of the interest was paid by William 

 son of John Garner down to his death in 

 1817, when the entire legacy failed. 



A dole of 1 31. q^d. was in 1826 

 received from Brabin's charity, of which 

 an account is given under Chipping. It 

 is now applied to the school there. 



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