A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



1536 

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1877 



John Clerk" 



Ralph Thornhurgh " 



Cf RATES 



Henry Craven " 



William Booth" 



Thomas Lawson " 



William Morvell ° 



Edmund Scholefield " 



[ohn Baxter " 



Walter Boriet " 



Robert Hill " 



Samuel Akeroyde »' 



John Breres, M-A.** 



Roger Barton " 



Eliiha Clarkson " 



Robert Sheffield, M.A." 



Richard Kippax, B.A." (Brasenose Coll., 



Oxf.) 

 John Grundy " 



John Holmes, B.A. ' (Balliol Coll., Oxf.) 

 James Fishwick " 

 John .\JamiOn '"' 

 Sanford John Cyril Adamson " 

 Henrv Arthur Starkie, MA." (Trinity 



Hall, Camb.) 



\'lCARS 



Joseph Hamilton Fox" 



Fitzlierbert Astley Cavc-Browne-Cave, 



M.A.»" (Brasenose Coll., Oxf.) 

 James Alexander Maxwell Johnstone, 



M.A." (Pemb. Coll., Camb.) 



I 886 James Tyas, B.A." (Lond.) 



1 S96 Henry Hauorth, M.A.'^ (St. John'i Coll., 



Camb.) 

 1905 Arthur Everard Mills " 



Services are also held at St. Matthew's iron church, 

 Partridge Hill, built 1871, by the clergy of St. 

 Leonard's. 



At Slade there was a Nonconformist meeting to 

 which Thomas Jollie ministered, but it seems to have 

 died out about 168S." 



The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel at Padiham 

 in 1779 ; ^^^y afterwards built one at Cross Hill in 

 1847. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel. 



The Baptists have two churches. That in Burnley 

 Road was built in 1 846 ; Mount Zion dates from 

 I 866. There is a Congregational chapel. 



The large Unitarian chapel was built in 1S22. 



A schoolhouse was built about 1680,*^ but no en- 

 dowment was provided until about 1756, when a 

 fund was raised by the efforts of Richard Webster of 

 Hargreave. 



The charities of this chapelry were reported upon 

 in connexion with those of Whalley, as above. More 

 recently the National school has received a gift of 

 /500 under the will of W. R. Chew, who died in 

 1906, for prizes for good conduct and efficiency in 

 work and play. 



SIMONSTONE 



Simundestan, c. 1230 ; Simondiston, 1258; 

 Symoundeston, 1327 ; Symonstant, Symonstone, xiii 

 cent. ; the forms with 'd ' inserted were the more usual ; 



is named in 15^ as * chaplain of Padi- 

 ham'; ibid. 171. He also appears in 

 the rii.':r E,cl. (Rcc. Com.), v, 230, the 

 income of the chantry being recorded as 

 ^4 131.4^. 



Early in 1535 Thomas Marshall (the 

 patron) and others one day entered the 

 chafcl while Hugh Hargreaves was hold- 

 ing service there and dragged him from 

 the altar, demanding the exidences of the 

 found. ition ; Pal. of Lane. Indictment*, 

 Lent, 26 Hen. VHI, bdle. 1. 



-'^ Lich. Epi^. Reg. xii-xiv, fol. 35^. 

 Thomas Mjrshall of Padiham, the patron, 

 had assigned the next presentation to the 

 Abbot of Whaicy, but in Aug. 1536 

 I lent)- VHI presented on the death of 

 11. H.irgrea\es. 



^'^ Ibid. fol. 38 ; Thomas Marshall 

 presented on the death of John Clerk. 

 As stated in the text, Thornburgh appears 

 in the visitation li&tt d( wn to 1563, his 

 being the only name in those of 1562-3. 



" Visit. List at Chester. In 1568 his 

 host, John Towneley, said that he had 

 kept Craven or Crane in his house for six 

 years, during four of which he had served 

 [h; cure of Padiham, but had resigned on 

 account of health ; Gibson, Lyd.dtd Rally 

 208. There were no doubt more serious 

 reasons for his resignation, and when 

 Craven, 'a priest in his lifetime suspected 

 of religion,' was buried at Whalley, 

 secretly as was alleged and with the 

 ancient rites, E'shop Chadderton ordered 

 inquiry to be made ; Cket. I\l::c. (Chet. 

 Soc.\ vi (i), 24. 



^ Named in Robert Xowell's accounts 

 (ed. Crosart, p. 328). 



«> Henry Pennant's MS. Acct. Bk. fol. 

 ^4/'. He was probably appointed ia 

 15^5 i ibid. fol. 6, "Visit. List. 



*8 Named as * sometime parson' ; Hiit. 

 MSS. Com. Rep. x\\^ '^pp. i^i > 5- Perhaps 

 earlier than Morwcll. 



^ His name occurs in the list com- 

 piled about 1610 as * the stipendiary 

 minister .... maintained by the 

 king ' J ibid. 10. He was married as 

 curate on 1 5 Apr. 1599. One of his sons 

 was buried 25 Feb. 1605-6 and another 

 so 1 John was baptized at Padiham 2 Feb. 

 1606-7 J Reg. He was himself buried 

 there 7 Mar. 1616-17 i 'l^'*^' 



** He signed the registers from 1619 to 

 1626. The name is also given as Burfct 

 and Burfoot. He was described as * lec- 

 turer' in 1622 ; Mnc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Chcs.), i, 68. In the same year he 

 was presented to the bishop, because he 

 * doth not use the sign of the cross in 

 baptism ; doth not read service according 

 to the form prescribed in the Book of 

 Common Prayer \ denied to christen a 

 child of Roger Waring's which was very 

 weak and which died the same day ' ; 

 Visit. Returns. 



'" He signed the registers in 1627. 

 John Bartonwood, ' clerk ' of Padiham, 

 occurs in the registers in 1633. 



*^ Ibid. He remained curate during 

 the Commonwealth time, becoming a 

 member of the Presbyterian Classis in 

 1646 and signing the 'Harmonious Con- 

 sent' in 1648. He was still at Padiham 

 in 1653, but was perhaps the Mr. John 

 Breres appointed to Heapey in 1657 ; 

 Plund. Mins. Accti. i, 248 ; ii, 201. 



*^ Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 50. Roger 

 Barton is named as curate in Apr. 1664 

 in a marriage licence at Chester ; he died 

 in 1667. 



'• Note by Mr. Earwakcr. Clarkion 



was also curate of Altham. He probably 

 succeeded Barton, whose name appears 

 (cancelled) in the visitation list of 1671. 

 Clarkson's name appears in 1671 and 

 1674. 



'1 Visit. List. 



^2 Ibid. He was * conformable ' in 

 1689 ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 

 229. In the following year he went to 

 Burnley and no one is recorded as curate 

 of Padiham in 1691. 

 '» Visit. List. 



" The church papers at Chester Dioc. 

 Reg. begin here. Holmes was presented 

 by P. Starkie of Huntroyde on the death 

 of John Grundy. He went to Hasling- 

 den in 1739. 



^^ For pedigree see H. Fishwick, Goot- 

 nurgh, 154. He was nominated by 

 P. Starkie. 



'^ He was nominated by Le Gcndre 

 P. Starkie on the death of J. Fishwick. 



'' He was son of the preceding incum- 

 bent and was nominated by the king on 

 account of the lunacy of Piers Starkie, 

 the patron. 



^^ He became incumbent of Staniforth 

 in 1865 and rector of Radcliffe in 1867. 



" The district chapelry was formed in 

 1868 and then the benefice was declared 

 a vicarage ; LonJ. Gaz. 6 Mar., 7 Apr. 

 80 Afterwards vicar of Longridgc. 

 8> Vicar of Astley 1885. 

 ^ The surname was originally Tyass. 



85 Vicar of Altham 1891. 



8^ Vicar of Read i 893. Mr. Mills has 

 assisted the editors in compiling the list 

 of Incumbents and in other ways. 



^ Jollie! Note B{. (Chet. Soc), 7, 7*. 



86 Gastrell, A'o;,/;j, ii, 345 ; EnJ. Char. 

 Rep. of 1826. 



496 



