AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



GARSTANG 



The incumbents, styled vicars, are appointed by 

 the vicar of St. Michael's. The following is a list of 

 them 67 : 



oc. 155262 Nicholas Lawrenson 68 

 oc. 160413 John Hollinworth 69 

 oc. 1 6 1 4 R . . . Lomax 70 



oc. 1621 Roger Farrand 71 



oc. 1629-30 John Dugdale 72 

 oc. 1637-41 JohnGregge 73 

 oc. 1 646-7 Peter Jackson 7 * 

 oc. 1650 John Wright 76 



1651 John Haydock 78 



oc. 1669 Robert Wayte 77 



oc. 1676-80 John Harrison 



1684 Thomas Kirkham, B.A. 78 



c. 1695 Thomas Cockshutt, B.A. 79 (Pembroke 



Coll., Camb.) 

 1700 Timothy Corles, B.A. 80 (Emmanuel 



Coll., Camb.) 

 1704 Ralph Loxam, B.A. 81 (Jesus Coll., 



Camb.) 



1708 Robert Butterworth 



oc. 1735 Matthew Worthington 82 



1797 Charles Buck, M.A. 83 (St. John's Coll., 



Camb.) 



1803 Henry Foster 



1836 Isaac Mossop 8t 



1884 William Henry Ramsbottom M 



1889 Ernest Turner Millard 



A free school was founded at Catforth in i66i-6. 86 



Roger Kitchen's house in Woodplumpton was 

 licensed in 1689 as a meeting-place for Noncon- 

 formists, 87 but the congregation does not seem to have 

 continued. 



The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel at Wood- 

 plumpton, erected in iSig 88 ; the Primitive Metho- 

 dists appeared at Catforth in 1815, and soon afterwards 

 a chapel was built there, replaced in 1863 by the 

 present one. 89 



St. Andrew's Roman Catholic church, at the south 

 end of the township, is known as Cottam Chapel, as 

 representing the old mission maintained by the Hay- 

 dock family at Cottam Hall, close by. This had to 

 be given up in ijij, on the estate passing into the 

 hands of Protestants, but a new chapel was soon after- 

 wards opened in Woodplumpton. It was destroyed 

 in 1 746, after the defeat of the Young Pretender, and 

 again in 1768 by mobs from Preston. The present 

 church succeeded it in I793. 90 St. Robert's, Catforth, 

 was opened in i877. 91 



NETHER WYRESDALE 

 HOLLETH 

 CLEVELEY (PART) 

 CABUS 

 WINMARLEIGH 



GARSTANG 



NATEBY 



GARSTANG 



KIRKLAND 



BARNACRE-WITH-BONDS 



CATTERALL 

 CLAUGHTON 

 BILSBORROW 

 PILLING 



The parish of Garstang has an area of 28,88 1 acres, 

 and the population in 1901 numbered 5,896,* 

 employed for the most part in agriculture, though 

 there are some scattered factories. 



The northern boundary is peculiar, Holleth being 

 quite detached from the main body of the parish and 

 having a small part of its area within the parish of 

 Cockerham, in which also is contained about three- 

 fourths of Cleveley. Some evidences of the Roman 

 occupation have been found. 2 Before the Conquest 



only three manors existed Garstang, Catterall and 

 Claughton and these three, with the addition of 

 Bilsborrow, were all the townships existing in 

 1 3 27-41. 3 It was only slowly that the other town- 

 ships became separate. In 1624 the county lay was 

 apportioned as follows : Garstang, 10 f,s. 3^. ; 

 Catterall, 1 i$s. ^\d. ; Claughton, iBs. y\d. ; and 

 Bilsborrow, l \s. 6J., making a total contribution 

 of 14 2s. ^d. towards the 100 levied upon the 

 hundred. 4 The older fifteenth was of similar pro- 



67 Much of the list is due to Col. Fish- 

 wick, who gives biographical notices, op. 

 cit. 80-8. It will be seen that the 

 curates changed very frequently, the 

 chapel being often vacant, until the iSth 

 century. 



68 His name occurs in the inventory of 

 church goods and in the visitation lists of 

 1554 and 1562; Chet. Miic. (new ser.), 

 i, 10. 



69 His name appears in the registers. 

 He was 'no preacher" ; Hist. MSS. Com. 

 Rep. xiv, App. iv, 8. 



70 In 1619 the name occurs as George 

 Lomas ; he was presented to the Bishop 

 of Chester for making clandestine 

 marriages ; Visit, records at Dioc. Reg. 

 He seems to have moved to Broughton. 



71 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 69. Afterwards at Broughton. 



73 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxii, 70. 



73 Misc. (Rec. Soc.), i, 124. 



74 Registers. 



75 Plund. Mitts. Accts. i, 235. 



76 Ibid. 236. Haydock was still there 

 in 1654 ; ibid. 140. 



77 Afterwards of Bispham. The curacy 

 was vacant in 1674; Visit. Paper* at 

 Chester. 



78 Visit. Papers at Chester, 1686. 

 Kirkham was curate and ' conformable ' 

 in 1689 ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. 

 iv, 230. In 1691 he was at Garstang 

 and in 1693 at Melling. 



79 The church papers in Chester Dioc. 

 Reg. begin with this curate. 



80 Afterwards of Longton. 



81 Afterwards rector of North Meols. 



82 Afterwards vicar of Childwall. 



85 He had been vicar of St. Michael's. 



84 For the church in his time see A. 

 Hewitson, Our Country Churches, 59. 



85 Formerly a solicitor, 1877-80. Went 

 to South Africa, 1890. 



88 Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. ii, 45 5 ; End. 

 Char. Rep. From the visitation present- 



291 



ments at Chester (Dioc. Reg.) it appears 

 that George and Robert Boulton were 

 teaching school, unlicensed, in 1622. 



87 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 

 232. 



88 Fishwick, op. cit. 132 ; Hewitson, 

 op. cit. 554. 



89 Fishwick, loc. cit. ; Hewitson (op. 

 cit. 551) states that it originated in a 

 camp meeting at Great Eccleston. 



90 Gillow, Haydock Papers, 53-6, 76, 

 &c. ; Liverpool Cath. Annual ; Hewitson, 

 op. cit. 55. A priest was labouring in 

 the district in 1653, as appears by the 

 story of John Baines of Woodplumpton, 

 admitted to the English College, Rome, 

 in 1674 ; Foley, Rec. S. J. v, 425. 



91 Liverpool Cath. Annual, 



1 This does not include any in Cleveley. 

 * Pal. ftote-Bk. v, 15. 

 8 Subs. R. of 1332 ; Inq. Nonarum, 37. 

 4 Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 



