A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



beth's reign," and there exists a plan of the seats 

 made early in the 17 th century,'" from which time 

 can be traced a succession of curates and rectors. In 

 1650 the Parliamentary surveyors found the chapel 

 provided with a minister's house and an endowment 

 of I Is. %d. ; the remainder of the stipend came from 

 voluntary contributions." The same thing was re- 

 ported in 1707," but soon after this benefactors came 

 forward, and about 1 720 the income was ^^27 10/. 8<^." 

 The income is now stated to be ;£5oo. 



A district chapelry was formed in 1839." The 

 registers begin in 1655." The patronage is vested 

 in the Dean and canons of Manchester, and the 

 following is a list of incumbents : — ^ 



oc. 1 600 Thomas Paget " 



oc. 1632 William Rathband " 



oc. 1646 James Hall*' 



1648 James Walton " 



1652 Samuel Smith, B. A. " 



1653 Thomas Holland, M.A. (Edin.) " 

 1662 (?) James Booker '' 



oc. 1668 John Brereton " 



1669 John Dawson, B.A. " (Jesus Coll., Camb.) 

 oc. 1671 William Dunljabin " 

 oc. 1 674 Ichabod Furness, B. A. " 

 oc. 1677 William Bray, B.A. '^ (Emmanuel Coll., 

 Camb.) 

 1683 John Morton " (Magdalene Coll., Camb.) 

 1705 Nathaniel Bann, M.A." (Jesus Coll., 



Camb.) 

 171 2 William Whitehead, B.A. " 

 1 7 1 6 Edward Hulton, B.A. " (Brasenose Coll., 

 Oxf.) 



1763 

 1787 

 1809 



1838 



1869 



1874 



Peter Haddon, M.A. " 



John Griffith, M.A. " 



Richard Alexander Singleton, B.D. " (St. 



John's Coll., Camb.) 

 WUliam Robert Keeling, B.A." (St. 



John's Coll., Camb.) 

 John Leighton Figgins, B.A." (Queens' 



Coll., Camb.) 

 William Coghlan " 



In 1865 St. Andrew's, Higher Blackley,was built," 

 and more recently the district of Holy Trinity has been 

 formed, though a permanent church is wanting. 



The first school dates from 17 10, when money was 

 left for the purpose by Robert Litchford.™ 



There are six Methodist chapels. The Wesleyans 

 began with a Sunday school in 180 1, and built a 

 chapel in 1806." At Crab Lane Head, or Higher 

 Blackley, the New Connexion began meetings in 

 1815 ; Zion Chapel was built in 1830.™ The 

 United Free Methodists opened a small chapel in 

 1 836, rebuilt in 1853 •,^ they have two others. The 

 Primitive Methodists have a chapel at Barnes Green. 



The Baptists had a meeting-place in 1880." 



The minister of the parochial chapel in 1662, 

 Thomas Holland, was ejected for nonconformity ; 

 many of the people also dissented from the restored 

 services, and as early as 1668 a congregation met at 

 the house of a Mrs. Travis, Thomas Pyke, ejected 

 from Radcliffe, occasionally ministering to them.*** 

 A chapel was built in 1697, and was replaced by 

 the present one in 1884. The congregation has 

 been Unitarian since the middle of the i8th cen- 

 tury.** 



^' The warden and fellows of the col- 

 legiate church were responsible for the 

 chapels ; it is said that Oliver Carter, a 

 fellow, officiated at Blackley ; his son 

 Abraham has been mentioned already ; 

 Booker, B/acWg;, 65, 66. InijSi Joseph 

 Booth was presented for teaching without a 

 licence. In 1598 there was no curate, but 

 the chapel was served by the fellows of the 

 church ; Visit. Presentments at Chest. 



«" Booker (57, 58) prints plans of 1603 

 and a little later ; the names of the seat- 

 holders and the amounts paid are inserted. 

 The pulpit stood near the middle of the 

 north wall ; the communion table was at 

 the east end, but some scats intervened 

 between it and the wall. In 163 1 Bishop 

 Bridgeman authorized the allotments of 

 the seats and the payments for them ; 

 ibid. 53. 



About 16 10 Blackley was returned 

 among the chapels of ease which had 

 ministers supported by the inhabitants ; 

 Hut. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 11. 



^^ Common'wealtb Cb. Surv. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 9, 10. The 171. Sd. 

 came from a gift by Adam Chetham in 

 1625 : in 1838 the income from the same 

 property was £7 ; Booker, op. cit. 82. 



^^ See Warden Wroe's accoimt (ibid, 

 72), which states that George Grimshaw 

 of Manchester had left the interest of 

 j^ioo and the rent of a house after the 

 death of his servant. The house was in 

 Hunt's Bank, and sold in 1837 for £4.75, 

 the interest of which is part of the rector's 

 income ; ibid. 82. 



6» Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc), 

 ii, 81—3 ; the chief part of this sum was 

 j^20 a year charged by Jonathan Dawson 

 on an estate in Salford called Ringspiggot 



Hall, afterwards owned by the Bridgewater 

 trustees ; Booker, op. cit. 82. 



"ioHi/. Gax. 29 Mar. 1839 ; 16 June 

 1854. 



'* Some extracts are given by Booker, 

 op. -■•■. 83-92. 



^B T.ie li^t is taken mainly from Booker. 

 A dispute as to the patronage took place 

 in 1763, particulars of which will be 

 found in the work referred to, p. 74-7. 



S7 Ibid. 66-8 ; Miic. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 54. He was a Puritan, 

 cited for nonconformity in 1 6 17 and 

 suspended for the same in 1631. He 

 went over to Holland, but returned in 

 1646, becoming rector of Shrewsbury 

 and afterwards of Stockport. He died 

 in 1660. See also Loc. Glean. Lanes, 

 and Ches. i, Z75. 



*8 Booker, op. cit. 69. He also was a 

 nonconformist. See W. A. Shaw, Manch, 

 Classis (Chet. Soc), iii, 444. 



^' Plund. Mini. Accts. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 256, 264. 



^° Booker, op. cit. 69. In 1650 he had 

 * manifested disaffection to the present 

 government' in various ways ; Common- 

 •wealtb Cb. Surv. 10. He was ejected 

 from Shaw Chapel in 1662; Manch. Classis, 

 iii, 449. 



81 Booker, op. cit. 70 ; Manch. Classis, 

 ii, 199, 207. 



"' Booker, op. cit. 70 ; Mancb. Classis, iii, 

 433. He had an allowance of ^^40 from 

 the Parliamentary Committee ; Plund. 

 Mins. Accts. ii, 5 5, 77. 



*' Booker, op. cit. 70 ; ' assistant minis- 

 ter.' The chapel was vacant in 1665. 



*^ Ibid. 71. 6' Ibid. 



"6 Visit. List at Chester. 



" Booker. 68 ibid. 



258 



Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 



^ Ibid. ; two of his children left silver 

 communion flagons to the chapeL 



70 Ibid. 72 ; he became rector of St. 

 Ann's, Manchester, in 17x2. 



71 Ibid. 



72 Ibid. ; he was not ordained at the 

 time of nomination ; and seems almost 

 at once to have offended the warden and 

 fellows of Manchester, for they endeavoured 

 to expel him. 



7' Ibid. 74 ; he became vicar of Sand- 

 bach in 1773 and of Leeds in 1786. 



'i* Ibid. 78 ; he established a Sunday 

 school; ibid. 106. He was elected fel- 

 low of Manchester in 1793 ; Raines, 

 Fellows of Manch. (Chet, Soc), 290. 



?' Booker, op. cit. 75. 



76 Ibid. 79 ; he procured the building 

 of the present church. 



77 He had been incumbent of Lin- 

 thwaite, 1835 ; St. Matthew's, Liverpool, 

 1837 ; and St. Clement's, Manchester, 

 1843. 



78 Rector of St. James the Less, Man- 

 chester, 1870 to 1874. 



7' For district see Land, Gass, 29 June 

 1866. 



'" Notitia Cestr. ii, 82 ; Booker, op. cit. 

 102-7. 



81 Ibid. 106. 8« Ibid. 108, 



8»Ibid, no. 



8* Lond. Gaz. 20 Jan, 1880, 



8*' Mary CoUinge's house was licensed 

 as a Presbyterian meeting-place in 1689 ; 

 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App, iv, 232, 



8* Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf. v, 30- 

 36 ; Booker, op, cit, 92-102, The Rev, 

 John Pope, minister from 1766 to 1791, 

 was a man of some note 5 he died in 1802. 

 There are copies of the inscriptions in the 

 Owen MSS, 



