AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



Instituted Name Patron 



30 Apr. 1743 . Randal Andrews, B. A. 210 .... William Shaw . . . . 



30 Oct. 1782 . Humphrey Shuttleworth, M. A." 1 . Sir H. Hoghton . . . 



6 Sept. 1809 . James Penny, M.A. 212 Sir H. P. Hoghton . . 



1 Mar. 18 17 . Roger Carus Wilson, M.A. 8 ' 3 . - . . W. W. Carus Wilson . 



14 Apr. 1840 . John Owen Parr, M.A. 21 ' . . . . Hulme's Trustees . . . 



12 July 1877 . James Hamer Rawdon, M.A. ,s . . „ . . . 



9 Apr. 1 900 . Hercules Scott Butler, M.A. 216 . . „ ... 



PRESTON 



Cause of Vacancy 

 res. S. Peploe 

 d. R. Andrews 

 res. H. Shuttleworth 

 d. J. Penny 

 d. R. C. Wilson 

 d. J. O. Parr 

 res. J. H. Rawdon 



The rectory, having been in the patronage of the 

 kings or lords of the honour of Lancaster, was filled by 

 a series of royal clerks or busy officials, most of whom 

 probably never resided, discharging their priestly 

 duties by curates. Hence it was an advantage to the 

 church, and no doubt to the parish, when the rectory 

 was appropriated to the New College at Leicester and 

 a responsible vicar placed in the cure. In addition 

 to the chapel at Broughton there seem to have been 

 two or three others in the parish, 217 and for these and 

 the chantries there was no doubt a competent staff of 

 chaplains. A list of twelve clergy was recorded about 

 I 53°> 21S but tne visitation list of 1548 names only 

 the vicar, two chantry priests and three others ; in 

 1562 there were still the vicar, his curate, the curate 

 of Broughton and another. 219 Nothing seems to be 

 known of the first Elizabethan vicars, but from the 

 character of the district the conformity with the 

 religious legislation of the time was little more than 

 nominal, and when a convinced Protestant was 

 appointed in 15 72 he was soon 'in great perplexity ' and 

 ' many ways threatened of his life for his well doing,' 

 i.e. in particular because at Easter he had ' taken the 



names of all such as would not receive the blessed 

 communion,' 22 ° and because he had captured a ' false 

 priest at mass.' 221 The curate or parish priest whom 

 he found in charge, a married man of openly evil 

 life, 222 had winked at every abuse and insulted the 

 vicar, causing the ' bells to be rung for souls ' when 

 the vicar was preaching and telling him to come down 

 from the pulpit. The parish clerk was a ' popish 

 boy,' who never appeared at church except to make 

 such a noise on the organ on Sunday that no one 

 could understand the singing. 223 The communion 

 table was formed from an old altar, and ' altar stones 

 and idols' seats ' were still in their places ; even a 

 ' great number of alabaster imnges ' which had been 

 taken down in accordance with the queen's commands 

 had been carefully buried in the vicarage garden, but 

 the vicar had found and destroyed them. 



This incumbent stayed but a few years and his 

 successor, who was ' no preacher,' had tried many 

 occupations before becoming a minister. His successors, 

 and in particular John Paler, may have been those 

 who influenced the Protestant population towards 

 Puritanism, so that Vicar Martin seems to have been 



being collated to Tattenhall in Cheshire. 

 He died in 1781. 



210 William Shaw presented by grant of 

 Sir Henry Hoghton. The new vicar was 

 educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxf. ; B.A. 

 1732 ; Foster, Alumni. He was curate 

 of St. George's, Preston. Being a Whig 

 he had many enemies in the town, who 

 asserted he had paid for the presentation. * 

 He died at the Bull's Head, Manchester, 

 4 Aug. 1782. His son became vicar of 

 Ormskirk,' 



211 Educated at Christ Church, Oxf. ; 

 M.A. 1760 ; Foster, Alumni. Vicar of 

 Kirkham, 1 77 1, king's preacher 1790, 

 Canon of York 1791. He resigned 

 Preston in 1809, but retained Kirkham 

 till his death in 1812. He published 

 Lectures on the Creed of Pius IV and 

 some anti-Popery tracts. See Fishwick, 

 Kirkham (Chet. Soc), 84.-5. 



212 Educated at Oxf.; M.A. 1784. 

 Rector of Chipping (q.v.) 1807-16. 



213 Educated at Trinity Coll., Camb. ; 

 M.A 1818. A monument to him was 

 erected in the chancel by public subscrip- 

 :ion. 



214 Educated at Brasenose Coll., Oxf. ; 

 M.A. 1830; Indian chaplain 1821, 

 vicar of Durnford 1834, hon. canon 

 of Manchester 1853. He was also a 

 county magistrate. There is a monument 

 to him in the chancel. 



215 Educated at Brasenose Coll., Oxf. ; 

 M.A. 1861 ; incumbent of Shaw 1875, 

 hon. canon of Manchester 1890, rector 

 of Yelverton 1900. 



216 Educated at Brasenose Coll., Oxf. ; 

 M.A. 1877 ; vicar of St. Barnabas', 

 Holbeck, 1 883, of Farnworth near Bolton 

 1894. Hon. canon of Manchester 1908. 



217 As at Fernyhalgh and Barton. 

 Kuerden, about 1680, speaks of a foot 

 passage 'through the churchyard south- 



ward by the public school and ancient 

 place called Chapel of Avenham, over 

 the Swillbrook,' &c. ; Hardwick, Preston, 

 210. Nothing else seems known of this 

 chapel. A John ' de Capella ' occurs 

 c. 1240; Cockersand Chartul. i, 217. A 

 lease of the rectory made in 1545 (quoted 

 in a petition of 1572) speaks of ' the 

 glebe and demesne lands belonging to the 

 said church and rectory together with the 

 chapels of Broughton, Ribbleton, Ashton 

 Bank and Lea, and three burgages in 

 Preston,' &c. ; but there has probably 

 been some mistake in quoting ; Duchy 

 of Lane, Plead. Eliz. xci, F 15. 



218 Smith, op. cit. 20, citing ' a subsidy 

 book in the Record Office.' The names 

 given fix the date as between 1527 and 

 1535. In the same work (p. 19) is 

 given a list of seven names, dated 1525, 

 from ' the Chapter House Book, B 2/ 1 5 

 (R.O.) ' ; this is incomplete, as it does 

 not contain Thomas Bostock's name. 



219 Visitation lists at Chester. It ap- 

 pears that another priest (not named) 

 was in 1548 paid by the corporation in 

 accordance with a lease ending in 1560. 

 This priest, whose name occurs in the 

 list of 1525, was still ministering in 1561, 

 though 'somewhat addicted to the ale- 

 house, and insufficient ' ; Raines, Chan- 

 tries (Chet. Soc), 205. He does not 

 occur in 1562. 



It further appears that the old chantry 

 priest and schoolmaster (not named in 

 1562) continued to minister ; he was re- 

 ported to be 'an unlearned priest,' and 

 being a recusant was under surveillance 

 by the authorities ; Cal. S. P. Dom. Add. 



1547-65. P- 523' 



220 In the Consistory Court Records at 

 Chester is a certificate sent to the vicar 

 of Preston c. 1575 stating that Arthur 

 Hoghton of Broughton had received ' the 



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holy communion at Easter last in the 

 church of Goosnargh according to the 

 laws of this our English Church.' 



221 The vicar's letter and his curate's 

 reply are printed in Smith, op. cit. 42—4. 



It was only with the greatest difficulty 

 that the judge and jury could be forced 

 to convict the priest and others. 



222 His name, William Wall, does not 

 seem to occur in the lists of pre-Reforma- 

 tion clergy. William Wall, clerk, was 

 an in burgess at the guild of 1582, and 

 Thomas son of William Wall, clerk, 

 deceased, at that of 1602 ; Preston Guild 

 R. 32,49. 



The curate in his reply admitted some 

 of the serious faults alleged, but said he 

 had not taken bribes from recusants to 

 conceal their not coming to church, Sec. 

 He had had a dispute with the vicar about 

 the burial of unchristened children ; it 

 had never been the custom to bury them 

 in the churchyard. The custom of the 

 Rogation Days is mentioned : * During the 

 three days before Ascension Day he (the 

 curate) went to the cross in the town and 

 willed the people to pray to God to prosper 

 the fruits of the earth as is appointed by 

 the book.' 



223 The singers would have * no Geneva 

 psalm ' before the sermon. The clerk 

 in reply admitted 'that he being one 

 that can sing and play on the organs and 

 a teacher of children to sing, did never 

 sing a psalm before the sermon,' but he 

 had 'no book of psalms,' 



From what is said in the text it is clear 

 that the organ was soon afterwards taken 

 down. The next was erected in 1802 in 

 the west gallery; Smith, op. cit. 257. 

 The bequest of Thomas Hoghton, the 

 exiled lord of Lea, in 1580, for a pair of 

 organs, &c, may be mentioned here ; 

 Knox, Life of Card. Alien, 85. 



