BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



Bankes Minister. John Brigges, Robert Brennand, 

 Tho. Law, Chr. Hargreaves, Ch. Wardens ' ; a chalice 

 of 1828-9 'The gift of R. W. P. Earl Howe 

 22 Sept. 1829,' with his arms, supporters and 

 coronet and the town's arms of Clitheroe ; a paten 

 of the same date also given by Earl Howe ; and a 

 flagon. 



The registers begin in 1570. The first volume 

 (1570-1626) is well preserved and newly bound. 



The churchyard is principally on the south and 

 west sides, the east end of the building standing close 

 to the road some height above it. The entrance is 

 at the south-east corner, the ground falling rapidly to 

 the west. 



The following have been curates and vicars ; — 

 oc. 1 541 John Michcock "' 

 oc. 1562 John Bellet"' 



1569 Edward Lawson "' 

 1576 Thomas Haworth "' 

 1588 Martin Dickson '" 

 1 6 1 2 Edward Rostorne "' 

 oc. 1622 William Richardson '" 

 1645 Robert Marsden ™ 

 c. 1672 James Watmough "' 

 1675 William Banckes "' 

 1697 Stephen More, B.A."' (Christ's Coll., 



Camb.) 

 1 70 1 Thomas Taylor, B.A. 

 Camb.) 



1738 James Cowgill, B.A.™ 



Camb.) 



1739 James Cowgill '" 

 1743 James King, M.A.'" 



Camb.) 



(St. John's Coll., 

 (Emmanuel Coll., 



(St. John's Coll., 



1775 Thomas Wilson, B.D.'" (Trin. Coll., 

 Camb.) 



1 8 1 3 Henry Johnson, M.A."' 



1 814 Robert Heath, M.A.'" (Brasenose Coll., 



Oxf) 

 1826 John Taylor Allen, M.A."" (Brasenose 



Coll., Oxf.) 

 1835 Joseph Heywood Anderton, M.A."' (St. 



John's Coll., Camb.) 

 1878 Edward Hughes Thomas, M.A. '" 



(Queens' Coll., Camb.) 

 1892 Herbert Lafone Bellhouse, M.A. (Trin. 



Coll., Camb.) 

 1903 Joseph Henry Wrigley, M.A. (Manitoba) 

 At Edisford, on the Yorkshire side of the Ribble, 

 but within the borough of Clitheroe, was an ancient 

 hospital for lepers, known as St. Nicholas's.'" It 

 seems to have become useless as a hospital, but was 

 retained as a chantry until the Reformation."* The 

 lands were sold by the Crown in 1585.'" 



In recent times, in connexion with the Church of 

 England, St. James's, at the south end of the town, 

 was built in 1839, and St. Paul's, Low Moor, in 

 1870'"; the former, declared a rectory in 1868,"' 

 is in the gift of five trustees, and the latter of the 

 Bishop of Manchester. 



The Methodists are well represented. The Wes- 

 leyans have two churches, the first of which was built 

 in 1797, the Primitive Methodists one, and the 

 Free Church one in Clitheroe (1837) and one at 

 Low Moor. 



The Congregationalists built a chapel in 181 5, and 

 a church was formed in 1 8 1 7. A new chapel was 

 erected in Castlegate in 1863, being one of the 



128 Clergy List (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 18, as 'Mychotte,' He is named 

 in the visitation lists of 154.8 and 1554, 

 but in the latter mortuus is added to his 

 name. 



12^ Ibid. In 1563 he subscribed to the 

 queen's supremacy in religion ; Ches, 

 Sheaf [S^T. 3), i, 34.-5. 



125 whitaker, op. cit. ii, 91. He 

 became schoolmaster in 1594, and died a 

 few years later, having left 405. to the 

 repairs of the church ; Visit. Returns. 



•2« Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xx, 58. 



127 Whitalcer, loc. cit. Dickson was 

 still curate in 1601, when he was pre- 

 sented for not wearing the surplice ; so 

 also in 1605 ; Visit. Returns. About 1610 

 he was reported to be * no preacher'; 

 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 10. 



In 1592 Edward Lawson was named 

 as curate ; Raines, loc. cit. 



I2S whitaker, op. cit. ii, 92. 



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

 i, 68, From the parish register it ap- 

 pears he was still there in 1638. 



A Thomas Warriner is named in 1626 

 and 1629, but may have been at the 

 Castle chapel. 



1^" Robert Marsden was approved in 

 164.5 3"'' ^^ *° augmentation of ^23 

 allowed to him ; Whitaker, op. cit. i, 

 221. In 1650 he still had this allow- 

 ance and was considered * an able divine ' ; 

 Commoniv. Ch. Surv. 165. He occurs 

 again in 1657 and 1658 ; PlunJ. Mins. 

 Accts. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches,), ii, 

 20I, 227. He conformed at the Resto- 

 ration and was curate in 1671 ; Visit. 

 Lists. '" Ibid, of 1674 ; Reg. 



182 Visit, Lists, 1677, &e. j he was 

 licensed to St, Michael in the Castle in 



1683, He was ' conformable ' in 1689 ; 

 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 229. 



188 With this curate begin the Clitheroe 

 church papers at Chester Dioc. Reg. 



1^^ Fellow of his college ; B.D. in 1746. 



1^^ Called James Cowgill the elder ; 

 incumbent of Downham. 



136 Vicar of Guildford 1772 ; canon of 

 Windsor 1774 ; Dean of Raphoe ; d. 

 1795. He had several distinguished sons. 

 For pedigree and epitaph see Whitaker, 

 Craven (ed. Morant), 251. 



1®7 A famous master of the grammar 

 school 1775-1813 ; Whitaker, Whalley, 

 ii, 88-9, 93. He was also for a short time 

 rector of Claughton in Lonsdale. He is 

 said to have written some uncomplimen- 

 tary lines describing the town about 1775 ; 

 N. and Q. (Ser. 4), ii, 3 3. He wrote a poem 

 called The Birch ; ibid. (Ser. i), x, 432. 



188 Master of the grammar school. He 

 died by his own hand ; Whitaker, op. cit. 



95- 



189 Master of the grammar school ; 

 complaint was made of his neglect of 

 duty there from 1816 onward. 



i*** Master of the grammar school. He 

 was promoted to the rectory of Alresford 

 in 1834 and the vicarage of Stradbroke in 

 1841. He died in 1861. 



1^1 He became patron of the benefice. 



142 Previously incumbent of St. James's, 

 Latchford. 



148 whitaker cites early charters by 

 Orm de Hammerton and John son of 

 Ralph de Clitheroe ; op. cit. ii, 96. The 

 latter charter and one by Robert son of 

 Richard the Receiver of Clitheroe are in 

 Kuerdcn's fol. MS. 79. A grant by 

 Roger de Lacy is in Harl. MS, 2077, 

 fol. 322. 



In 1376 it was alleged that a chantry 

 had been founded at Edisford in the town 

 of Clitheroe by the free burgesses to pro- 

 vide a chaplain to celebrate on alternate 

 days and to sustain -a leper house, but 

 that the estate had passed into the hands 

 of the Abbot of Whalley, who had dis- 

 continued the chantry. The abbot re- 

 plied that the chantry had been main- 

 tained only by the devotion of the 

 burgesses, and that he had had the lands 

 on lease, but had surrendered them ; 

 Memo. R. (L.T.R.), 142, m. 5. 



By another inquiry in 1386-7 it was 

 found that Richard de Edisford, the warden, 

 had no lepers in the hospital, because he 

 was not bound to receive any unless they 

 belonged to the vill of Clitheroe ; Kuerden 

 MSS. iv, E 4. 



i" Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 97 ; Raines, 

 Chantries, 236-9. The chantry was void 

 in I 547 ; its lands were worth ^^4 8s. id. 

 a year. On the death of John Dinelay, 

 the chantry priest, William Kurd was in 

 1508 presented to it; he was still there 

 in 1535 ; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 230. 

 For William Kurd's prayer see Whitaker, 

 Whalley, ii, 247, and Colne Church below. 



In 1550 an annual rent of ,^4 was 

 allowed to Henry Couper, 'just as he 

 had when incumbent of the chantry in 

 the chapel of Edisford in the parish of 

 Clitheroe ' ; Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks, 

 xxiii, 61. 



i« Pat. 27 Eliz. pt. vi ; to Walter 

 Spendlow, &c. 



"^ For district see Lond. Ga%. 17 Jan. 

 1871. The late vicar of Low Moor, the 

 Rev. J. B. Waddington (d. 1910), was of 

 some note. 



"7 Ibid. 3 Apr. 1868. 



