LEYLAND HUNDRED 



S T A N D 1 S H , 



three standing 

 argent. 



Sable 

 dukes 



the manor or moiety of the manor of later records, was 



in 1 300 sold to Hugh de Standish,' ancestor of the 



Standish of Duxbury family, 



and descended like Duxbury,^ 



being still, it would appear, 



retained in the heirs of the 



Standish family. Sir Frank 



Standish was sole landowner 



in 1783.^ This manor was 



formerly said to be held of 



the king as Duke of Lancaster 



by the sixth part of a knight's 



fee.^ 



The Hospitallers at one 

 time had' land in Heapey.^ 

 The place occurs very seldom 

 in the records, but lands v\ere held by the families of 

 Green,'^ Haydock,^ and Molyneux.* Roger Hay- 

 dock of Heapey in 1 649 compounded ' for delinquency 

 in the first war, in adhering to the forces raised 

 against Parliament.' ^ 



A chapel may have existed at Heapey 

 CHURCH from an early date, but the earliest 

 notice of it is about 1553, when, having 

 been seized by Edward VI, it had been valued at 

 25/. id., and apparently sold to the people of the 

 district.!" It is unlikely that services of any kind 

 were regularly maintained there,!i for there was no 

 endowment, and in 16 10 it was reported to be an 

 old chapel, without a curate.'^ During the Civil 

 War period the Parliament placed John Wigan in 



LEYLAND 



charge, paying him ^i a week out of the sequestrations 

 of Royalists in Leyland Hundred. In May 1644, 

 however, he fled before the approach of Prince 

 Rupert, and settled at Birch, the people not desiring 

 his return. 13 By 1650 an 'allowance from the state' 

 of /,4o had been secured,!"" but this was not considered 

 a competency, and there were frequent changes of 

 ministry." The Commonwealth surveyors recom- 

 mended that it be made a parish church."' 



The old arrangements would return with the 

 Restoration, but a new chapel — now known as St. 

 Barnabas' — is said to have been built about the end 

 of the century and enlarged in 1740 and more 

 recently. About 171 7 Bishop Gastrell found that 

 the income was £j 9^., the interest on various 

 donations, and that the vicar of Leyland or his curate 

 supplied the cure.^' The vicar of Leyland present? 

 to the incumbency. The registers begin in 1833. 

 The following have been curates and vicars !* : — 

 1 6 7 1 James Threlfall 



1692 Thomas Sollom, B.A. (Emmanuel College, 

 Camb.) 



Farrand Hodgson '^ 



John Smyth, B.A. (Jesus Coll., Camb.) 



Richard Walmsley, B.A.^" (Christ's Coll., 

 Camb.) 



William Farington 



John Armetriding 



James Sugden, B.A. 



Allanson Hollinshead, B.A. (Brasenose Coll., 

 Oxf.) 



Heapey the service of 51. due for 4 

 oxgangs of land ; Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 

 14.5^. Cecily widow of Richard dc 

 OUerton in 1260 claimed dower in an 

 oxgang in Heapey against Ranulf ; Curia 

 Regis R. 169, m. 12. Ranulf de Heapey 

 and Peter his son were witnesses to a 

 Withnell charter about the same time ; 

 Whalley Coucher^ iii, 860. Peter de 

 Heapey obtained various grants ; Kuer- 

 den, loc. cit. ; while to Richard his 

 grandson he gave part of his land in 

 Heapey, together with a third part of the 

 waste in Wheelton ; ibid. I^ter and 

 ftobert de Heapey occur in 1291 ; 

 Whalley Coucher, iii, 867. 



^ Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 190. The vendor was Robert 

 son of Robert de Heapey ; he then held 

 two-thirds of the manor, the other third 

 being held in dower by Margery wife 

 of Richard de Haydock. 



Robert de Heapey in 1337 claimed 

 the manor from Richard de Standish ; 

 De Banc. R. 309, m. 266. 



^ See the account of Duxbury. 



Sir Christopher Standish died in 1495 

 holding a moiety of the manor, with 

 eight messuages, 200 acres of land, &c., 

 by the sixth part of a knight's fee ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 107. 

 In 1599 the manor and lands were 

 stated to be held by the twentieth part 

 of a knight's fee ; ibid, xvii, no. 54, 



^ Land tax returns at Preston. 



* See the Inq. p.m. above quoted ; 

 also Duchy of Lane. Misc. Books, cxxx, 

 fol. 2ii. The proportion of a knight's 

 fee was unknown in 1623 ; Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 399. 



s Plac. de Quo Warr, (Rec. Com.), 



375- 



^ A settlement of the succession to 

 two messuages and 17 acres of land in 

 Heapey and Chorley was made by Thur- 



stan and William Green in 1470 ; Final 

 Cone, iii, 135. Somewhat earlier a 

 Richard Green of Heapey had been 

 accused of coining ; see the account of 

 Chorley. 



^ Richard son of Richard de Haydock 

 of Heapey occurs in 1 347 ; Cal. Cloie^ 

 1346-9, p. 49. 



In 1555-6 Richard Haydock, as 

 executor of Richard Green, who had died 

 without heirs, claimed Green Hall in 

 Heapey against Lord Mounteagle, who 

 asserted that it had escheated to him j 

 Dueatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), ii, 186. 

 Afterwards James Haydock as son of 

 Richard claimed land in Heapey against 

 William Haydock as cousin and heir of 

 Richard 5 ibid, ii, 243, 311. 



Ewan and then Simon Haydock in 

 1530 and later complained of a trespass 

 at Shakerley in Heapey by James 

 Standish ; ibid, ii, 41 ; 1, 206 ; ii, lOi. 

 In 1560 a settlement of land in Shakerley 

 and Heapey was made by Simon Hay- 

 dock and Evan his son ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 22, m. 96. 



Simon Haydock died in 1632 holding 

 a messuage and land in Heapey of 

 Thomas Standish as of his manor of 

 Heapey ; his heir was his son, aged 

 eleven years in 1639 } Towneley MS. 

 C8, 13 (Chet. Lib.), p. 500. 



It should be noticed that Shakerley 

 was also described as in Wheelton ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 6, m. 2 d. 



^ The tenure is not stated. The 

 land may have been that formerly held 

 by the Hospitallers, See Lanes. Inq. 

 p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 

 388-90; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xxvii, no. 59. 



^ Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), iii, 137. 



1^ Raines, Chantries (Chet. Soc), 277. 



^^ Henry Elberton (?) was curate in 



51 



1563, but does not occur in other visita- 

 tion lists of the time. John Horroclcs 

 is said to have been at Heapey in 1594 j 

 note by J. P. Earwaker. 



A marriage licence was granted to 

 Hugh Pincock and Margaret Whitehead 

 in 1576, available for Leyland or the 

 church of Heapey ; Pennant's Acct. 

 Book, Chester. 



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

 II. 



" Plund. Mins. Accts. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 58, 251. At that time 

 Wigan was ' a godly and orthodox 

 divine.' 



^^ Comtnoniv. Ch. Sur-v. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 103-4. John Bradley, 

 then the incumbent, was ' an orthodox, 

 godly, preaching minister,' who *came 

 into that place by the general consent of 

 the whole chapelry.' 



'* A Mr. Booker was there 1654-6 ; 

 Plund. Mins. Accts. ii, 160. John Breres 

 became minister in 1657, °'^^y £i° 

 being then allowed ; ibid, ii, 203. 



^^ Commoniv. Ch. Sur-v. ut sup. 



" Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc), ii, 386. 

 Sir Richard Standish of Duxbury gave 

 ^60, Henry Hoghton ^^50, R. Croston 

 £'2.0, and others £1^. 



There was an endowment of j^8o in 

 1687 ; ibid, note by Canon Raines. 



1* From the Diocesan Registry papers, 

 Chester. Benjamin Cooper seems to 

 have been the first permanent curate ; 

 he stayed till his death. 



^^ He was schoolmaster of Leyland 

 and wished to be ordained. There was 

 £6 yearly belonging to Heapey, at which 

 chapel the late schoolmaster had officiated 

 once in three weeks. 



2" The vicar of Leyland in giving him 

 a title to orders nominated him to 

 Heapey, being ' moved the rather to it at 

 this time because if I could' [he writes! 



