A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Osbaldestons." Some smaller estates are known," 

 and the family of is'aden is distinguished by the Rev. 

 Thomas Naden, a benefactor of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge. 47 William Rogerson of Hothersall regis- 

 tered a small estate in I 7 1 7 as a ' Papist.' 48 



The chapel of ST. LAWRENCE at 

 CHURCH Longridge is of unknown foundation, 

 but is named in the rental of the Earl 

 of Derby's estates in 1522." A few particulars of 

 its ' ornaments ' at the time of the Reformation 

 have been preserved, 50 but it does not appear to have 

 had any endowment. It probably ceased to be used 

 for a time," but was not destroyed or desecrated, 

 though even in 1650 there was 'neither minister 

 nor maintenance.' M One, Timothy Smith, was 

 appointed in 1657,** but ejected in 1662." Various 

 small endowments were afterwards given to it, 45 and 

 it was rebuilt in 171 6. Bishop Gastrell at that time 

 found that there was an income of £\ 1 3/. \d. for 

 the minister, received by the vicar of Ribchester, 

 who held service there once a fortnight. 56 Grants 

 from Queen Anne's Bounty were obtained in 1730 

 and later. 57 The Hoghton family claimed to present, 58 

 but the advowson was purchased in 1829 by the 

 Hulme Trustees. 59 



The church stands on the south side of the town 



of Longridge. The old chapel was rebuilt in 1 7 16 

 and again in 1822, the building of the latter year 

 being rectangular in plan with galleries and two 

 tiers of windows at each side. A west tower con- 

 taining two bells was added in 1841. A restora- 

 tion, which was begun in 1899 and was completed 

 in 1906, practically took the form of a further re- 

 building, only the tower and the main walls being 

 left standing. A chancel and vestry were added, the 

 galleries done away with, 60 and the interior of the 

 building was entirely remodelled. The churchyard, 

 which slopes away from the building on the south 

 side, was enlarged in 1878. It contains some frag- 

 ments of the 1 8th-century church. There is a clock, 

 given in 1 892, with dials on the north and west 

 sides of the tower. The register of births begins 

 in 1760, that of burials in 1789 and of marriages 

 in \%i%.^ 



A district chapelry was formed for it in i86i. Mb 

 The present income is .£400. A chapel of ease, 

 St. Paul's, was built in 1890. The following have 

 been curates and vicars 61 : — 

 1701 Thomas Felgate 

 1730 Richard Dixon 

 1743 John Sharpe 

 1780 Robert Parkinson *' 



Hothersall from Sir Thomas Hesketh 

 and Alice his wife ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of 

 F. bdle. 16, m. 12. 



Thomas Bradley of Bradley in Thornley 

 in 1564 held a messuage, &c, in Hother- 

 sall of John Hothersall by a rent of \zd.; 

 Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, no. 37 ; 

 xvii, no. 28. 



45 Land. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 179. 



46 John Seed the elder in 1596 pur- 

 chased messuages, Sec, in Hothersall from 

 Robert Dobson and Isabel his wife ; Pal. 

 of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 59, m. 229. 

 Dying in 1629 John Seed was found to 

 have held his estate in Hothersall of the 

 king ; John his son and heir was fifty 

 years of age ; Towneley MS. C 8, 13 

 (Chet. Lib.), 1073. 



The Kuerdens of Ribchester had lands 

 in Hothersall, Adam de Hoghton having 

 granted a parcel in Ravenhacclough to 

 Richard de Kuerden at a rent of 6d. ; 

 Add. MS. 32109, fol. 17, no. 57. This 

 or adjoining land was in 1336 given to 

 Nicholas son of Thomas de Hothersall ; 

 Towneley MS. C 8, 1 3 (Chet Lib.), K 18. 

 William son of John de Walton, perhaps 

 as trustee, secured a messuage and land 

 from Adam son of Roger de Kuerden and 

 Agnes his wife in 1352 ; Final Cone, ii, 

 132. The same Adam son of Roger 

 made an exchange of lands with Sir Adam 

 de Hoghton in 1383-4; Add. MS. 32109, 

 fol. 57, no. 29. 



Adam de Threlfall has been named 

 above. In 1425 Adam Hothersall re- 

 leased to 'his brother' John Threlfall of 

 Goosnargh the elder all right in a mes- 

 suage in the hamlet of Hothersall in the 

 vill of Alston ; Add. MS. 32108, no. 880. 

 Edmund Threlfall of Ashes in Threlfall 

 in 1617 held land of John Hothersall by 

 a rent of lzeL ; Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 92. 



Richard Towneley of Towneley held 

 land in Hothersall in 1408-54 ; Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 59. William 

 Cottam of Dilworth in 1475 granted land 

 received from Ughtred Hothersall to 

 Richard Towneley ; Towneley MS. C 8, 

 13 (Chet. Lib.), C 108. 



47 Smith, op. cit. 250 ; A. F. Torry, 

 Founders and Benefactors, 68. Thomas 

 son of Edmund Naden of Hothersall was 

 admitted to St. John's Coll., Camb., in 

 1669 ; M.A. 1676. He died in 1714 

 and bequeathed his lands in Alston and 

 Hothersall to found an exhibition in the 

 college for students in divinity. The 

 lands, known as the College farms, were 

 sold in 1870 and the money invested in 

 consols ; the income, about /. 240 a year, 

 is given to three ' Naden students.' 



48 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. 

 Non-jurors, 105. 



49 There is entered ' \d. of new rent of 

 a parcel of land from the lord's waste near 

 the chapel of Longerygge, containing 

 J rood of land, enclosed by Richard Fair- 

 clough.' 



s0 Raines, Chantries (Chet. Soc), 262, 

 277. 



sl Robert Cottam, priest, and John 

 Tomlinson, church reeve, are named at 

 Longridge in 1 554; yet in Raines' note 

 Robert Cottam is called a ' deacon only ' 

 in 1556. 'He was grave and chaste, 

 could play on the musiques, and was no 

 tippler nor diceman' 5 ibid. 262. His 

 name is not given in the visitation lists. 

 It was one of the suspicious points in the 

 story of John Shireburne, rector of Brindle, 

 that Robert Cottam, once curate of Long- 

 ridge, had paid him a visit during an 

 illness ; see the account of Bury Church. 



The chapel is named, without any 

 account of its use, in 16 10 ; Hist. MSS. 

 Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 9. 



s2 Commoniv. Ch. Surv. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 169. 



58 Plund. Mins. Acets. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), ii, 202. He was nominated 

 by the inhabitants, and a stipend was 

 provided out of the tithes of Ribchester ; 

 ibid. 223. He had formerly been stationed 

 at Rainford. 



54 The income would cease at the 

 Restoration, so that the traditional ' ejec- 

 tion ' in 1662 was little more than 

 nominal. Timothy Smith continued to 

 preach in Longridge Chapel occasionally 

 till his death in 1679 i T - c - Smith, 

 Longridge, 64, 



66 



From entries in the Ribchester church- 

 warden's accounts it appears that ' the 

 king's minister' and others occasionally 

 preached at Longridge from 1679 onwards ; 

 Smith, Ribchester, 108-9. 



66 In a dispute as to the liability for 

 repairs in 1702 it was stated that for 

 sixty years past it had had ' prayers, 

 sermons and both sacraments in it.' 

 Three benefactors had given £5 a year 

 to a * preaching minister,' and for that 

 Mr. Hargrave (curate of Ribchester) 

 preached there every fortnight in the 

 afternoon and had 'a very great congre- 

 gation ' 5 Chester Dioc. Reg. 



66 Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc), ii, 4.74. 

 A rent-charge of 13*. 4^. was given in 

 1657 for a preaching minister ; £30 was 

 given in 1673 and £50 in 1701 and 

 later. 



67 Smith, Longridge, 60. The later 

 grants were in 1743-5 ant * x 75*>- 



68 They probably gave money to meet 

 the grants from the Bounty. Sir Henry 

 Hoghton presented Richard Dixon in 

 1730. 



69 Smith, op. cit. 59. Since the 

 trustees acquired the patronage the vicars 

 have been Hulmeian Exhibitioners of 

 Brasenose College, Oxford. 



60 The two tiers of windows were re- 

 tained, though the windows themselves 

 were modernized. 



A description of the church in 1870 

 is given in A. Hewitson's Our Country 

 Churches, 93-9. 



60:1 From 1730 baptisms * at Longridge 

 Chapel' are recorded in the Ribchester 

 registers; in 1702 there was a burial at 

 Longridge ; Smith, Ribchester, 1 98, 202. 



«* London Gaz. 8 Feb. 



61 The list is taken from papers at the 

 Diocesan Registry, Chester, with additions 

 from Smith's Longridge, 61—73, wncrc 

 notices of the incumbents are given. 



The curates have been styled vicars 

 since 1866 5 Lond. Gax. 10 July. 



62 His nephew, Canon Parkinson of 

 Manchester, wrote of him : 'His income 

 from his living rose during the time r,f 

 his incumbency from about /40 a year 

 to £140, where it stopped. The popula- 



