AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



KIRKHAM 



born in 1868, the present lord of the manor. The 

 principal residence of the family has been at Lytham 

 since early in the 1 7th century. Mr. Clifton's pos- 

 sessions include the whole of the townships of Clifton - 

 with-Salwick, Westby-with-Plumptons, and Lytham 

 (ancient) ; also Little Marton, part of Great Marton 

 and much of Warton. Manor courts have long ceased 

 to be held, but juries of the farmers in the several 

 townships assemble yearly to make arrangements for 

 the clearing of the watercourses, and officials named 

 constables, byelaw-men, &c, are nominated as a 

 matter of form. 54 



The Cliftons being the only landowners in the 

 township, there is little to record besides. Richard 

 Clitheroe of Clifton paid £10 on declining knight- 

 hood in 163 1. 55 One Thomas Threlfall had two- 

 thirds of his house and land sequestered for recusancy 

 in the Commonwealth time. 56 Several people of 

 Clifton and Salwick registered estates as ' Papists ' in 

 17 1 7," in addition to the squire. 



Of Salwick there is little to record. 68 There were 

 disputes between the lords of Lea and Clifton as to 

 pasturage on Salwick Waste, Grimes Moss and Clifton 

 Marsh. 59 William Duddell was a freeholder in 

 1600. 60 



LUND was the site of an oratory in 

 CHURCH 1349, as above stated. The chapel is 

 named again in the partition of the 

 Clifton estates in 1515. 61 Nothing is known of its 

 earlier history ; it is not named among the chantries 

 suppressed in 1547—8, and probably ceased to be used 

 for service 62 till the time of the Commonwealth, 

 when, the Cliftons' estates being under sequestration, 

 Lund Chapel was rebuilt 63 and occupied by one 

 Joseph Harrison, 'a godly, diligent and painful 

 pastor,' who received ^40 a year from the Com- 

 mittee of Plundered Ministers. 64 Afterwards it re- 

 verted to the Cliftons, but in 1687 was claimed by 

 Mr. Clegg, vicar of Kirkham, 65 and this claim seems 



to have prevailed, probably owing to the Revolution, 

 for in 1689 Thomas Ryley, 'conformable,' was 

 minister there. 86 Bishop Gastrell about 1717 found 

 that there was an income from recent endowments of 

 £6 1 8s. 4^., and that the master of Kirkham School 

 preached and read prayers there ' every Sunday, 

 Sacrament days excepted.' ° 7 Curates were appointed 

 regularly from 1732. The chapel became ruinous, 68 

 and was replaced by the present church of St. John 

 the Evangelist in 1825. A district parish was attached 

 to it in 1 840, 69 and the vicarial tithes have been 

 assigned to the incumbent, who is presented by the 

 Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. 70 The 

 following have had charge 71 : — 



Edward Manwaring 

 Thomas Cockin 

 Benjamin Wright 

 Cuthbert Harrison 

 Joshua Southward 

 Charles Buck, M.A. 



Camb.) 

 Thomas Stephenson 

 Richard Moore, M.A. 72 (Brasenose Coll., 



Oxf.) 

 Charles Fullerton Smith, M.A. (Christ 



Ch., Oxf.) 



Ward's House, near Salwick Hall, was formerly the 

 seat of a younger branch of the Clifton family, of 

 whom several became Jesuits, and mass was said in the 

 chapel there in the 17th n and I 8 th centuries, 74 until 

 the chapel at Lea was built in 1 80 1. 75 



NEWTON-WITH-SCALES 



Neutune, Dom. Bk. ; Neuton, 1242. 



This township occupies a long strip of ground 

 running north from the Ribble, with an area of 

 1,522^ acres. 1 The village of Newton is near the 



1717 

 1726 



1749 

 177+ 

 1790 

 1790 



(St. John's Coll., 



?o8 



1886 



54 Information of Mr. James S. Fair. 



55 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 



i, 222. 



56 Cal. Cam. for Camp, v, 3202. Threl- 

 fall was dead, but had been succeeded by 

 another of the same name. The claim 

 of Thomas Cottam in 1654 was allowed 

 'unless the County Commissioners find 

 that Margaret wife of Thomas Threlfall 

 is the Margaret Threlfall of Poulton who 

 has been convicted of recusancy.* 



57 Of Clifton — Robert Hoskar, James 

 Hoskar and Robert Gradwell ; Estcourt 

 and Payne, op. cit. 103, 133, 136. Of 

 Salwick — James Hardman and Anne 

 widow of John Charnock ; ibid. 92, 140. 



58 The New Hall and the Old Hall in 

 Salwick are named in 1591 ; Ducams 

 Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 256. 



59 Ibid. 113, 323; Lanes, and Ches. 

 Rec. (Rec. Soc), ii, 279. 



60 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 ",232. 



61 Quoted in a former note. See 

 Raines' notes in Notitia Cestr. (Chet. 

 Soc), ii, 424. 



62 The chantry chapel and its lands, 

 including three messuages in Kirkham 

 and the 4 acres and a windmill in Clifton, 

 certainly came into the hands of the 

 Crown, for James I sold them in 1 606 

 to William Brown and others (Pat. 

 3 Jas. I, pt. xvi), who no doubt sold to 

 the lord of Clifton. 



In 1645 an allowance of ^40 out 



of Thomas Clifton's sequestered tithes 

 was voted for the maintenance of a 

 minister, 'when the said chapel of Lund 

 shall be re-edified ' ; Plund. Mins. Accts. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 9. The 

 grant became effective in 1648 ; ibid. 62. 



64 Commonly. Ch. Surv. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 155. The allowance 

 was increased to ^50 ; Plund. Mins. Accts. 



', 94. 245- 



Harrison was 'a good scholar and a 

 methodical preacher ; fixed in a dark 

 corner, where he was wonderfully fol- 

 lowed and very useful ' ; Calamy, Nonconf. 

 Mem. (ed. Palmer), ii, 97. For his 

 family see Lanes, and Ches. Hist, and Gen. 

 Notes, ii, 159. 



65 Raines, ut sup. quoting Cart-wright's 

 Diary (Camden Soc), in which the 

 bishop states he dismissed the claim for 

 want of evidence. The claim must have 

 originated somewhat earlier, for in 1680 

 Alice Clitherall left £5 towards an en- 

 dowment ; in 1682 John Dickson left 

 money, half the interest on which was 

 ' to be paid to such minister as should be 

 legally authorised to teach and preach in 

 the chapel of Lund, according to the 

 Church of England,' or in default to the 

 poor 5 and in 1685 Thomas Smith left 

 £20 for 'a lawful minister' ; while in 

 1690 Alice Hankinson left £z for the 

 use of the chapel ; End. Char. Rep. 

 (Kirkham), 18. 



The chapel was first repaired at the 



charge of the parish in 1 68 8 3 Fishwick, 

 Kirkham (Chet. Soc), 56. 



66 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 

 229. Ryley is not named in Stratford's 

 visitation list, 1691, so that he did not 

 stay long. 



67 Notitia Cestr. loc. cit. 



68 The royal brief for a collection on 

 behalf of the rebuilding, dated 1822, is 

 printed in Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Notes, 

 ii, 200. 



69 Order in Council, Aug. 1840. 



70 Raines' notes, Notitia Cestr. The 

 benefice was declared a vicarage in 1866 ; 

 Lond. Gaz. 25 May. 



71 This list is from the church papers, 

 Chester Dioc Reg. 



72 HewitBOn, Our Country Churches, 303. 



73 See the account of Kirkham Church. 



74 Foley, Rec. S. J. vii, 140-1. In 

 1 71 6 it was reported 'that Lowick 

 [ f Salwick] Hall, the reputed inherit- 

 ance of Thomas Clifton esq. of Lytham, 

 about four miles from Preston, belongs 

 to some popish priests or is appropriated 

 to some other superstitious use ' j Payne, 

 Engl. Cath. Rec. 89. 



75 John Clifton (d. 1832) suppressed 

 Salwick Chapel, and made an unsuccess- 

 ful claim for the plate and vestments ; 

 Gillow, Haydock Papers, 237, 207. 



1 The Census Rep. 1901 gives 1,472 

 acres, including 7 of inland water ; there 

 are also 15 acres of tidal water and 40 of 

 foreshore. 



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