A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



also had estates there, the former having ferry rights 

 over the Wyre." A few other names occur in the 

 inquisitions and pleadings.* 6 



Cockersand Abbey" and Lancaster Priory* 8 had 

 lands in Hambleton. 



Some estates were registered by ' Papists 'in 171 7." 

 The chapel of St. Mary probably 

 CHURCH existed from an early date, and may 

 have been the oratory at Hambleton for 

 which Robert Shireburne of Stonyhurst obtained a 

 licence in I4.$6.* It was in 1567 licensed for the 

 administration of the sacraments and for burials. 31 

 In 1717 it was ' duly served by a curate who preaches 

 and reads prayers every Sunday, sacrament days 

 excepted.' 3 * The ancient endowment was 5 a year, 

 paid by the lord of the manor out of the profits of 

 a windmill 3S ; but this was increased by other gifts. 34 

 In 1650 the Committee of Plundered Ministers 

 had allowed 40 a year out of sequestrations. 55 

 The church was rebuilt in 1 749 ; there is a sundial 



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with the inscription , ' A separate parish was 

 formed in 1 846. 37 The vicar of Kirkham appoints 



the incumbents. The following have been in 

 charge 38 : 



1699 Christopher Jackson, B.A. (T.C.D.) 



1706 Richard Crombleholme 3? 



1717 Richard Rauthmell, B.A. 



1717 William Whitehead, B.A. 40 (St. John's 

 Coll., Camb.) 



1737 John Field (Queen's Coll., Oxf.) 



1765 Robert Tomlinson 



1803 Thomas Butcher, B.A. (St. John's Coll., 

 Camb.) 



1835 Charles Beaumont Howard, B.A. 



1836 William Hough 



1882 James Henry Bumstead 



The Congregationalists, who first began a preaching 

 station in 1830, erected a small chapel in 1870 ; it 

 is annexed to Poulton. 41 There was at one time a 

 small congregation of Particular Baptists. 4 * 



GOOSNARGH-WITH-NEWSHAM 



Gusansarghe, Dom. Bk. ; Gunanesarg, 1205 ; 

 Gosannesareghe, Gosanesarwe, 1226 ; Gosenargh, 



inheritance, was included in the grant to 

 the first Earl of Derby in 1489, and after 

 the death of the second earl the 1522 

 rental (at Lathom) shows that lands there 

 paid 3C. -jd. yearly. 



Robert de Singleton has been named as 

 a landholder in 1292. It may have been 

 his estate which descended to Sir William 

 Leyland of Morleys, who died in 1547 

 holding lands in Hambleton of the king 

 as of his duchy by the tenth part of a 

 knight's fee and a rent of 141. 8</. ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. ix, no. 43. 

 The same tenure is recorded in later 

 inquisitions, e.g. Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc.), ii, 262. 



In 1596 Robert BickerstafFe purchased 

 a messuage, &c., from George Singleton, 

 Mary his wife, Thomas Gudlaw the 

 younger, Richard Wilkinson and Margaret 

 his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 59, m. 142. 



35 Henry Butler of Rawcliffe died in 

 1621 holding six messuages, four salt- 

 cotes, lands, moor, marsh, fishery, &c., and 

 a ferry boat on Wyre ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xxvi, no. 36 ; xxx, no. 18. 



26 In 1323 John de Lancaster purchased 

 a messuage and an oxgang and two-thirds 

 from Richard son of Robert de Inskip and 

 Alice his wife ; Final Cone, ii, 57. This 

 may have been the estate of John de 

 Hambleton already referred to. 



Alice widow of Robert Hesketh in 

 14901 left lands in Hambleton to her 

 sons Hugh and Richard ; Towneley 

 MS. C8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), H 300. The 

 tenure of Thomas Hesketh's lands was 

 not known in 1523 ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. v, no. 16. Sir Richard Shire- 

 burne seems to have purchased them in 

 1556 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 16, 

 m. 15. 



The lands of Thomas Boteler of 

 Warrington (1522) and Alexander Goos- 

 nargh (1524) were held as parts of an 

 estate in Stainall in socage ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. v, no. 13, 55. 



George Allen in 1567 purchased a 

 messuage, &c., from Nicholas Sumner, 

 Alice his wife, Thomas Wilkinson, Ellen 

 his wife, Anthony Garstang and Elizabeth 

 his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 19, m. 8 1. Other parts of the same 

 estate were sold to Sir Richard Shireburne 



and Henry Thompson ; ibid, bdles. 34, 

 m - 595 35 m - I 5 2 - George Allen's 

 tenement was in 1579 found to be held 

 of Sir Richard Shireburne in socage ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xiv, no. 80. 



Robert Finch of Mawdesley (1610) had 

 land, but the tenure was not stated ; 

 Lanct. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc.), i, 156. 



27 Simon son of Henry de Hambleton 

 gave to Cockersand, together with the 

 body of his wife Alice, half an acre in 

 Sandirland field, having land of Robert de 

 Shireburne on the south side ; Cockersand 

 Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), i, 141. 



For rental see ibid, iii, 1268-9 ; and 

 for grants of the Cockersand lands see 

 Pat. 21 Eliz. pt. xi ; 42 Eliz. pt. xvi. 



3S John son of Geoffrey Arbalaster gave 

 to the priory 2 oxgangs of land, one of 

 which had been held by Richard Colmore 

 and another by Richard son of Siward, 

 but reserved a part of the appurtenances, 

 viz. in a field called Thornhole and in the 

 Wyre fishery; Lane. Ch. (Chet. Soc.), 

 ii, 378. This was confirmed by his son 

 Geoffrey de Hackinsall ; ibid. 377. 



It was perhaps this land which was 

 held by Thomas Fleetwood of the queen 

 in 1576 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, 

 no. 2. 



29 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. 

 Nonjurors, 93, 1 1 6, 134. The names 

 were : John Lickfold, London, in right 

 of his wife Dorothy (widow of Richard 

 Sharpies), Mabel Hodgkinson, and John 

 Charnley. 



Mary Holland of Wigan in 1757 

 bequeathed to Mrs. Winifred Eccleston 

 of St. Helens a messuage in Hambleton 

 which she had had from her aunt Anne 

 Hesketh; Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 iii, 288, from R. 31 of Geo. II at Preston. 



30 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxii, 



379- 



31 In 1567 the inhabitants petitioned 

 that their chapel ' commonly called Our 

 Ladie Chapell ' might be ' consecrated ' 

 for divine service and administration of 

 the sacracotnts by fit chaplains as curates, 

 approved by the vicar of Kirkham, and 

 for the burial of the bodies of their dead ; 

 Reg. Bk. at Chester, i, fol. 40 3 b. The 

 Bishop of Chester gave ' licence ' accord- 

 ingly, ordering that the chapel wardens 

 should take his permission once every 



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three years to the parish church, where it 

 was to be read through, after the Gospel, 

 on Whit Monday; ibid, ii, fol. 231. 

 Thus an old chapel was not 'con- 

 secrated,' but licensed for use. It seems 

 likely that the vicar of Kirkham had 

 objected, but as the place was 7 miles 

 from the parish church its use was 

 convenient for baptism and burial. 



In 1 60 1 an agreement as to the chapel 

 was made by Richard Shireburne on one 

 part and John and Thomas Carter on 

 the other ; Shireburne Abstract Bk. 



Gabriel Tyldesley was curate in 

 1611-22 ; Visit. P. at Chester Dioc. Reg. 



38 Gastrell, Nofitia Ceslr. (Chet. Soc.), 

 ii, 423. In 1705 the curate certified 

 that the only revenue was 5 a year and 

 that there was 'preaching there one 

 afternoon in three Sundays ' ; ibid. 422. 

 This shows that there was a curate in 

 1705 ; there does not seem to have been 

 one in 1689 and 1691. 



33 This is mentioned in the time of 

 James I ; Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 268. The 

 amount points to a pre-Reformation 

 endowment. 



34 About 1717 there was 8 151. rent 

 of land and 2 los. interest of 50 ; 

 Gastrell, loc. cit. The rent-charge of 

 ,5 appears to be paid still. 



35 Common-w. Ch. Surv. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 156. The 5 paid by 

 the lord of the manor is named. 



The minister in 1651-2 was Robert 

 (Noble) Cunningham, and in 1654 Roger 

 Sherburn ; Plund. Mini. Accts. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 239, 246, 142. 

 The latter had an increased allowance of 

 50. 



36 Fishwick, Kirkham, 59-62. 



37 By Order in Council 21 Jan. 1846. 



38 From the Diocesan Registry, Chester. 



39 William Bushell of Goosnargh wrote 

 to the Bishop of Chester, 18 Sept. 1706 : 

 'The bearer Richard Crombleholme has 

 been educated as a Presbyterian and 

 intended to have been a dissenting 

 minister.' 



40 Son of Robert Whitehead, clerk, one 

 of the masters of Kirkham School ; 

 Admissions to St. John's Coll. ii, 2OI. 



41 Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf. i, 135, 

 167. ** Hewitson, op. cit. 508. 



