BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



1764 John Wadsworth, B.A. (Trinity Coll., 



Camb.) 

 1779 Thomas Baldwin, M.A. (Peterhouse, 

 Camb.) 

 783 Wilfrid Troutbeck 

 788 Edward Thelwall "' 

 813 James Quartley, M.A."" 

 815 William Gray 

 847 Nathaniel Morgan "" 

 849 Louis Henry Mordacque, M.A.'" (Brase- 

 nose Coll., Oxf.) 

 1870 Theodore Percival Wilson, M.A.'"' 



(Brasenose Coll., Oxf.) 

 1874 Weldon Champneys, M.A."' (Brasenose 



Coll., Oxf.) 

 1892 Abraham Spencer, M.A.'" (Brasenose 



Coll., Oxf.) 

 1906 Lewis Robbs, M.A.'" (Brasenose Coll., 

 Oxf.) 



At an inquiry in 1561 it was reported that Carter 

 Place had been held in trust to provide ' a chantry 

 priest to do service at our Lady's altar at the church 

 of Haslingden for ever.' ''° 



At the south end of the township St. Thomas's, 

 Helmshore, was built in 1851-2 '" ; the Crown and 

 the Bishop of Manchester present alternately. St. 

 Stephen's, Grane, was built in I 867 and consecrated 

 in 1883'-'; the Bishop of Manchester collates. 

 The vicar of Haslingden presents to St. John the 

 Evangelist's, Stone Fold, built in 1885-6, on the 

 northern border, ''' and to St. Peter's, Laneside, 

 1893.'™ There is a mission room in connexion 

 with St. James's. 



The Free Church of England has a place of 

 worship. 



Methodism took root in the latter half of the 

 1 8th century. The burial of Methodists is recorded 

 in the registers in 175 1 and 1 76 1. The original 

 Wesleyan chapel was rebuilt in King Street in 1797, 

 another was opened at Grane in 1815, and a third, 

 now the largest, in Manchester Road in 1856. A 

 Primitive Methodist chapel was opened in Grane 

 Road in 183 I ; another was built in 1893 at Irwell 

 Vale, to the north. The United Free Methodists 

 also have a church, and the Inghamites once had a 

 meeting-place.'" 



Nonconformity began with the Restoration. 

 Quakers were presented at the Bishop of Chester's 

 visitation in 1665, and other non-attenders in 

 1670. In 1689 Abraham Haworth's house was 

 licensed as a Presbyterian meeting-place,'" and 

 Gastrell in 171 7 records one for Independents, 

 perhaps its outcome.'" The cause may have failed, 



but by 1775 a meeting was held in a house in High 

 Street; this was in 1787 replaced by a chapel in 

 Deardengate, which in turn was succeeded by the 

 Congregational church in Grane Road in 1856.'" 



The Baptists have three chapels. Trinity Church, 

 in Blackburn Road, built in 1872, represents a cause 

 originating in 181 1,'" and formerly (1816) having a 

 chapel in Pleasant Street ; another church, called 

 Ebenezer, was built in 1845 and rebuilt in 1900. 

 There is also a Particular Baptist chapel called 

 AdulLim. 



The Swedenborgians have had a New Jerusalem 

 church for about sixty years. 



The Roman Catholic Mission was begun in 1854, 

 mass being said for some time in a poor garret, until 

 in 1859 the Church of the Immaculate Conception 

 was opened. 



A small sum for a schoolmaster was given in 



Inquiries into the charities were 

 CHARITIES made in 1826 and 1899. The 

 report of the latter, issued in 1900, 

 includes a reprint of the earlier one, and affords the 

 following details. The funds for education and 

 church purposes produce ^59 a year, and those for 

 the poor ^32 2/., distributed in kind. Benjamin 

 Holden, rector of Staveley in Yorkshire, in 1 7 1 6 

 bequeathed ^50 and a contingent ^£50 for the poor, 

 to be laid out at Christmas and Midsummer by the 

 minister and churchwardens of Haslingden. Other 

 benefactors increased the endowments, and in 1749 

 a total sum of ^^ 170'^' was spent on buildings which 

 were later used as workhouse and dwellings for the 

 poor. For these the overseer in 1826 was to pay 

 £j 4/. a year. The workhouse premises are let for 

 £'i(>, of which one-third is given to the poor in 

 respect of the charities of Holden and others ; doles 

 of calico or flannel are distributed at Christmas 

 time.''' Rachael Clegg, widow, in 1879 left stock 

 now producing ^^20 zs. yearly ; the income was to 

 be given quarterly in groceries and clothing to poor 

 people over sixty years of age,''' ' being Church 

 people.' The vicars of Haslingden, Haslingden 

 Grane, Stonefold and Laneside choose the recipients, 

 who number thirty-eight, and receive zs. 6d. each 

 quarterly in goods. 



HIGHER BOOTHS 



Croweshagh, Godeshagh, Lugheclogh and Luf- 

 clough, Gameleshevid, 1323. 



This composite township, taken out of the forest, 

 includes Crawshaw Booth, Goodshaw Booth with two 

 detached portions. Love Clough, Gambleside and 



lis He nominated assistant curates, and 

 was perhaps the Edward Thelwall of 

 Llanbedr. He resigned in 1813. 



'" Vicar of Ribchester ; on appoint- 

 ment to Haslingden he said he intended 

 to reside there for part of the year, and 

 desired therefore to be made a surrogate. 

 He had been assistant curate in 1794. 



120 One of this name was of Brasenose 

 Coll., Oxf. ; M.A. 1 843 ; Foster, 

 Alumni. 



12' Presented by the Hulme Trustees. 



^'^'^ Rector of Southcote 1862-70. 



"' Hon. canon of Manchester 1886. 



'3< Vicar of Goodshaw 1888-92; of 

 St. James's, Accrington, 1906. 



125 Vicar of Bardsley 1 898-1 906. 



1^* Duchy of Lane. Special Com. 33. 



At another inquiry Henry Ramsbottom 

 was said to have been * our Lady's 

 priest' ; ibid. 98. See Great Harwood. 



127 A district had been assigned in 

 1 844 ; Lond. Gax. 1 8 Sept. 



™ For district, ibid. 18 Dec. 1883. 



129 The district was assigned in 1889, 



130 District assigned in 1894. 



I'l Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf. ii, 146. 

 They still had a meeting-place about 

 1856. 



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

 231. Thomas JoUie of Wymondhouses 

 was the preacher, 



433 



^^^ Notitia Cestr. ii, 332. There were 

 five families of Independents. 



^3* Nightingale, op, cit. ii, 142-9. 



135 It originated partly in a secession 

 from the Congregationalists ; ibid. 14.6. 

 Sec also Parry, Cloughfold Bapt, Ck. 

 194. 



i^** There was no school in 1717 ; 

 Gastrell, loc. cit. 



'■'^ The school fund was included. 



'^^ The charity is applicable to the 

 whole of the ancient chapelry of 

 Haslingden. 



^^^ In the case of cripples there is no 

 age limit. 



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