A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



oc. I 532-7 George Hargreaves ^*' 



Richard Mar.den ^^^ 

 oc. 1542 John Aspden '^' 



c. I 567 Bernard Harger ^^- 

 oc. 1573 William Duibury ^^^ 



1583 Thomas Ryley ^^ 

 oc. 1633 Roger Brereley ^^* 

 oc. 1638 Henry Morris ^^® 

 F 1664 John WaUwork 157 



1 67 1 John Kenyon ^^^ 

 oc. 1674 Robert Hartley 1^^ 

 1688 Thomas Kay 160 



1 690 Richard Kippax ^^^ 



1724 James Matthews, B.A.^^^ 



1744 Turner Standish, B.A.^'^' (Brasenose Coll., 



Oif.) 

 1787 Thomas CoUins, D.D. ^^ (Worcester CoU., 



Oxf.) 

 18 17 Edmund Stringfellow RadclifFe, B.C.L.ies 



(Brasenose Coll., Oxf.) 

 1826 Robert Mosley Master, M.A.^^^ (Balliol 



Coll., Oxf.) 



Rectors 

 185s Arthur Townley Parker, M.A.'^^'' (Trinity 



Coll., Camb.) 



Bishops 

 1 90 1 Edwyn Hoskyns, D.D.^^- (Jesus Coll., 



Camb.) 

 1905 Alfred Pearson, D.D."-' (Lincoln Coll., 



Oxf) 

 1 909 Henry Henn, M.A.^^^ (Trinity Hall, 

 Camb.) 



The list of names calls for little comment, except 

 in the case of Roger Brereley, founder of the 

 Grindletonians, so called from his curacy at Grindleton 



in Craven. 17^ Richard Hartley, in 1687, left zos. a 

 year to the curate of Burnley * if he shall read 

 Morning Prayer in the church of Burnley every 

 morning, except he be hindered upon urgent occasions 

 or sick or impotent ; the occasion to be judged of 

 and allowed by two of the next neighbouring 

 ministers, if any dispute arise.' ''^ In 1724 there 

 was a double presentation, William Halsted, vicar of 

 Thornborough, being nominated by Ralph Assheton 

 and other justices, while James Matthews, son of the 

 vicar of Whalley, was nominated by Thomas Stanlc) 

 and other justices. The latter prevailed, the vicar 

 of Whalley claiming the right to nominate 'as by 

 custom during 60 years last past ' ; but next year the 

 people complained to the Bishop of Chester that he 



having several times preached in our chapel and being a 

 very little man, delivers his discourse* with so low, inarticulate 

 and perplexed volubility or nimblcness of speech that such as sit 

 in the remoter parts . . . cannot possibly hear or understand 

 his discourses to edification. But the Rev. Mr. William Halsted 

 whenever he preached in our chapel delivered his discourses to 

 the greatest satisfaction of the whole auditory. Wc therefore 

 humbly hope your lordship will exert your wonted zeal for this 

 your chapel, that it may be filled as formerly, for though sectaries 

 swarm in our neighbouring chapelries they have not hitherto 

 been able to get any footing in our parish, our chapel having 

 been well supplied for sixty years last pjist j but now to our great 

 grief we hear that two conventicles are got licensed within our 

 chapelry since the death of our late curate. ^"^ 



Under the non-resident incumbents little or 

 nothing seems to have been done to minister to the 

 rapidly increasing population ; but Mr. Master, 

 appointed in 1826, applied himself to the task, and 

 his successor imitated his example. After a new 

 church had been opened in Habergham Eaves, St. 

 James's in Burnley proper was built in 1849,^^'* and 

 St. Paul's, Lane Bridge, in 1852-3 ^^^ ; to these the 



'*^ Hargreaves was * curate of Burnley ' 

 in 1532; Duchy of Lane Dep. Hen. 

 Vni, XX, B 12 k. See also Act Bk. of 

 ff^haileyy 1 99, in which volume the 

 * church ' of Burnley is often named as a 

 place of public penance ; ibid. -4., 165, Ac. 



'^ He had removed to Ribchester by 

 1 £;42 ; Clergy List^ loc. cit. 



'^' His name appears in the Clergy Liu 

 of 1541—2 as successor to Marsden, and 

 in the visitation lists to 1565, in which 

 it has been crossed out and another in- 

 serted, no doubt in preparation for the 

 next visitation. Aspden subscribed to 

 the royal supremacy in 1563 ; Chei. 

 Sheaf (Ser. 3), i, 34-5. He died in 

 I^6-, being buried 30 June ; Reg. 

 According to the story told in 1588 there 

 was no (regular) minister for twenty years 

 after his death. *^^ Visit. List 



'^ The will of Thomas Barcroft was 

 in August 1573 proved before William 

 Duxbun-, clerk, curate of Burnley. He 

 occurs similarly as curate again in Sept. 

 1575; Pennant's MS, Acct. Bk. He 

 W.13 buried 14 May 1583 ; his widow's 

 burial was on 24 May 1597 ; Reg. 



1^ Mary Ryley was baptized at Elland 

 in Yorkshire 9 Sept. 1582, and is entered 

 at the foot of a page in the Burnley 

 register as daughter of Thomas Ryley, 

 minister of Bumley. Probably, there- 

 fore, he succeeded Duxbury. A son was 

 baptized at Elland 26 Xot. 1584 and a 

 daughter at Burnley In 1589. Ryley 

 was buried i May 1631 ; Reg. 



In 1592 there were no pews, and in 

 i^gS the church needed repair; Visit. 

 Rcturni. 



'" Brereley's name occurs in the Burnley 

 registers from 1633 till his burial 13 June 

 1637. His will names his wife Ann, 

 eldest son Thomas and six other children. 

 He held on lease a farm at Marland. 



*^ Henry Morris's name appears in 

 Apr. 1638, and he was still curate in 

 1653; Reg. Under June 1645 he re- 

 corded * Here the Directory began.' He 

 was a member of the Presbyterian Classis 

 in the following year, and in 1650 was 

 reputed *an able and orthodox divine.' 

 His name occurs in the registers in 1661 

 and 1662 as • minister.' The hand- 

 writing changes in 1664, but Henry 

 Morris was still curate in April that 

 year, as appears from a Starkie marriage 

 licence at Chester. 



'*' Wallwork signed the registers as 

 curate at the end of 1666. He was 

 buried 9 May 1671. '^^ Visit. List. 



'*^ He signed the registers for 1673 

 as curate, and was buried 9 Feb. 1687—8. 



^« Buried at Whalley 6 July 1690. In 

 1689 he was reported 'conformable'; 

 Hist. AdSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 228. 



^*' Previously at Padiham. The church 

 papers at Chester begin with his appoint- 

 ment. Anthony Parker, Thomas Braddyll 

 and Christopher Wilkinson, justices of 

 the peace, nominated him. He was 

 buried 25 Sept. 1724- 



^^ As stated in the text there was a 

 double nomination. 



^^ Nominated by Thomas Townley of 

 Royle. The new curate was son of Sir 

 T. Standish of Duxbury; he had been 

 chaplain of H.M.S. Monmouth and stayed 

 at Burnley ti.l his death. 



452 



'** Nominated by Edmund Townley of 

 Royle. Collins was rector of Compton 

 Valence, but did not reside there or at 

 Burnley, being chaplain and steward to 

 Lord Ribblesdale ; Whitaker, op. cit. 11, 

 170, The Rev. John Raws, master of 

 the grammar school, was in charge 1788- 

 i8u. 



"'' Nominated by Robert Townley 

 Parker of Cuerdcn and Royle, Mr. Rad- 

 cliffe was curate of Walton-lc-Dale 1798- 

 1826, and did not reside at Burnley. 



^^ Nominated by R. T. Parker. Mr. 

 Master resided at Burnley till his suc- 

 cessor was ready, and then became incum- 

 bent of St. James's, Leyland, and rector of 

 Croston. He was hon. canon and arch- 

 deacon of Manchester. He died in 1867. 



'^^ Hon. canon of Manchester 1866, 

 rector of Burnley 1867. He was the 

 youngest son of R. Townley Parker and 

 lived at Royle. He died soon after his 

 resignation, on 17 Aug. 1902. 



'^^ Rector of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, 

 1886, vicar of Bolton-le-Moors 1896, 

 Bishop of Southwell 1904. 



169 Previously vicar of St. Mark's, 

 Broomhall, 1896, and canon of \'"\k 

 1903. He was the author of several 

 theological works. He died after a brief 

 illness on 19 Mar. 1909. 



170 Previously vicar of Bolton-le-Moors. 

 "• Diet. Nat. Biog. 



*''' Whitaker, op. cit. 11, 169. 



*^ Church papers at Chester Dioc. 

 Rtg. 



'< For diitrict see Z-oii Gc%. 3 Dec. 

 1844. 



^'^ A district was asiigncj io 1853. 



