SALFORD HUNDRED 



ECCLES 



The chapel of ELLENBROOK"' 

 CHURCH owes its foundation to the lords of Wors- 

 ley, and has remained to the present day 

 a donative in their gift. The Abbot of Stanlaw, as 

 rector of Eccles, between 1272 and 1 295, granted his 

 licence to Richard de Worsley to have a free chantry 

 in his chapel of Worsley, provided that no loss was 

 caused to the mother church, to which 6ii. was to 

 be paid yearly as oblations."' There is no con- 

 tinuous record of the chapel's existence, but in 1549 

 Sir Richard Brereton complained that his son Richard, 

 among other lawless deeds, had recently taken a 

 chalice from his chapel in the manor of Worsley, 

 which chalice the inhabitants had purchased for use 

 in divine service.'" The fate of the chapel in the 

 Reformation period is uncertain, but as the lords of 

 Worsley appear to have conformed to the Elizabethan 

 system without difficulty, service was probably con- 

 tinued in it with but little interruption. Dame 

 Dorothy Legh in 1638 left the interest of ^^50 for its 

 maintenance, and other small gifts were made ; "' 

 but in 1650 it was found that there was no certain 

 income, and that it sometimes had a preaching minis- 

 ter and sometimes not.'^* 



In 1677 the Bishop of Chester made an order as to 

 the payment of seat rents, the endowment of the 

 chapel not exceeding ^^20 a year.'" Lord Willoughby, 

 on coming to live at Worsley about 1693, appears to 

 have had a design to use this as a Nonconformist 

 place of worship ; he locked out the curate in charge 

 and put a Mr. Cheney in as preacher, but was de- 

 feated by the feoffees, headed by Roger Kenyon, and 

 the bishop."' In 1719 Bishop Gastrell found the 

 income to be £2^ 6s. 3<^., of which j£ 17 was the rent 

 or value of the house and ground attached to the 

 chapel.'^' Though it was a donative the curates 

 appear at times to have been licensed to it by the 



The followmg are the names of some of 



— Hunt'" 

 Thomas Johnson "^ 

 Roger Baldwin, M.A. (Edin.) '" 

 Hugh Taylor, M.A. (Edin.) '« 



— Boate "« 

 James Valentine '" 

 James Bradshaw "' 

 William Coulburn, B.A.'" (St. John's 



Coll., Camb.) 

 Joseph Hanmer, M.A. (Trin. Coll., 



Camb.) 

 Samuel Hanmer"" 

 Miles Atkinson '" 

 Thomas Chaddock, B.A.'" 

 John Key '" 

 John Crookhall, B.A.'" 

 John Clowes, M.A."» 

 Wilson Rigg 

 St. Vincent Beechey, M.A.'" (Caius 



Coll. Camb.) 

 Constantine Charles Henry Phipps,'" 



Earl of Mulgrave 

 Frederick Carslake Hodgkinson, M.A. 

 Thomas Harrison 



Since 1854 this chapel has been held with St. 

 Mark's, Worsley, which was built by the first Earl of 

 EUesmere and opened in 1846 ; it has an effigy of 

 the founder. St. Mark's is a vicarage, the Earl of 

 EUesmere being patron. Several other churches have 

 been erected for the Established worship. St. Peter's, 

 Swinton, built in i86g, replaces an older building 

 erected in 1781 ; the vicar of Eccles is patron."* 

 Holy Rood, Moorside, and the school-chapels of All 

 Saints and St. Stephen, are also in Swinton. At 



122 TJig dedication is now given as St. 

 Mary the Virgin. 



^^ EUesmere D. no. 127. The chap- 

 lain to be provided was to be presented 

 to the abbot at Eccles and swear fidelity 

 and obedience to the abbot and the,church, 

 and thus receive the ministry of the 

 chapel. 



124 Duchy of Lane. Plead. Edw. VI, 

 XXV, B, 15. Though the chapel is called 

 Sir Richard's the gift of a chalice by the 

 people is evidence that it was not a private 

 chapel at Worsley Hall. 



^^End. Char. Rep. Eccles, 1904, pp. 

 6, 34 ; Dame Legh in 1638 gave ;^4oo 

 for charitable uses to trustees, one of 

 whom in 1654 deposed that *her intention 

 was that it should go for the maintenance 

 of a minister at the chapel of ** Ellen- 

 borough," 30 that the bishop should have 

 no hand in the putting in, placing or dis- 

 placing of the minister there . . . and 

 for so long time as the Lord Bridgewater 

 should suffer the chapel to Btand.* 



126 Comtnoniv. Ch. Surv, 140. It ap- 

 pears that j^40 a year had in 1646 been 

 ordered to be paid to the minister at Ellen- 

 brook, out of Christopher Anderton's se- 

 questered tithes, but the order had to be 

 renewed in 1650; Plund, Mitts. Accts. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 88, 

 252. 



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

 104. 



128 Ibid. 275, 289, 290 {* Perhaps if 

 you told my Lord Bridgewater of the Lord 



Willoughby*8 designing to make Ellen- 

 brook Chapel into a bam, to conventicle 

 it, it might do good service'), 417, 418. 

 The endowment is stated to have been 

 then j^33 a year. 



129 Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc), ii, 53. 



i*" Ibid. 54 ; nominations in 1669 and 

 1709 are mentioned to the 'free chapel' 

 of EUenbrook. 



181 xhis list is due in part to the late 

 Mr. Earwaker. 



»5a Hist, MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 

 1 2 ; he was ' a preacher.' 



183 Piccope, ff^illsf iii, 207 ; Misc. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 1, 54, 66, 

 where he is called ' curate ' and ' lecturer/ 

 He was presented in 1622 for not wearing 

 the surplice ; Visit. P. at Chester. 



I'" Plund. Mins. Accts. i, 265. Accord- 

 ing to Calamy he became vicar of Pen- 

 rith, and losing this at the Restoration, 

 was afterwards minister of the Noncon- 

 formist congregation at Monks* Hall, 

 Eccles, 



155 Ibid. ; Manch. Classis (Chet. Soc), i, 



53- 



"6 Plund. Mint. Accts. i, 260, 266. 



137 Ibid, i, 88, 242. 



^^ Mancb, Classis, iii, 419; ejected 

 from Hindley in 1662 ; life in Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. 



1*5 Manck. Classis, ii, 266 ; iii, 423. 

 He conformed in 1662. 



l^*" There was a vacancy in July 1668 ; 

 Hist. MSS, Com, Rep. xiv, App. iv, 82. 



1*^ Visit. List of 1691, He was 'com- 



391 



formable' in i6gi ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. 

 xiv, App. iv, 229. It was he who was lock- 

 ed out in 1697 by Lord Willoughby, and 

 Roger Kenyon, writing to the Bishop of 

 Chester, says : * Mr. Atkinson has been 

 our minister, 1 think, at least a dozen 

 years,and his local licence was exhibited and 

 allowed at your Lordship's late visitation, 

 as it had often been before ; but he now 

 saith he is willing to resign when your 

 Lordship and the minister of the parish 

 and the feoffees have a person such as they 

 approve of, ready for the place,' Lord 

 Willoughby had put in ' one Cheney, who, 

 as is said, never saw an university, but 

 has been a justice of the peace his clerk, 

 and proving a gifted brother, used to 

 preach to all the conventicling barns about 

 liim, and now frequently uses so to do ' ; 

 ibid. 417. 



"^ Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 54. He became 

 vicar of Eccles in 1721, and died three 

 years later. 



'■" End. Char. Rep. Eccles, 7. 



i« Vicar of Eccles 1768-92; probably 

 held EUenbrook chaplaincy also. 



l« Vicar of Eccles 1792-1818. 



146 Previously vicar of Fleetwood ; one 

 of the founders of Kossall School. 



"7 Now Marquess of Normanby; canon 

 of Windsor. He revived the May Day 

 festivities at Worsley ; Pal. Note Bk. ii, 

 131. 



"8 For district assigned in 1865, see 

 Lond. Gax. 10 Jan. 



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