A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Protestant;, in a house or hospital to be provided in 

 Goosnargh, where he then resided, at or near the 

 dwelling-house of his late father.' "' William Bushell 

 died in the same year, and the trust became effective 

 ten years later when his daughter Elizabeth died. 

 In 1824 there were thirteen persons in the hospital ; 

 each had a separate room, but they dined together, 

 and one of them read prayers to the rest ; they were 

 supplied with clothing, and each received 10/. a 

 quarter for pocket money. They were all advanced 

 in life, of the class designated by the founder, mem- 

 bers of the Church of England and required to 

 attend the services in the church at Goosnargh, 

 wherein the trustees had built a special gallery for 

 them. The income at that time was .£855 and the 

 expenditure considerably less. The Hospital is an 

 18th-century building of stone, in a simple and 

 dignified classical style. 



Owing to the growth of Preston, in which much of 

 the property lay and lies, the income greatly increased 

 during last century,"' and the charity is now governed 

 by a scheme enforced by the Charity Commissioners 

 in 1 89 5 ." 3 The house has been considerably enlarged, 

 and the number of inmates is fixed at twenty-four ; 

 they are to have the qualifications fixed by the 



founder, with a slight relaxation in favour of the 

 lower class of people."* Married couples may be 

 received. The immediate charge of them is en- 

 trusted to a salaried manager and matron, assisted by 

 servants and a trained nurse. 'The life of the in- 

 mates resembles that of residents en ptniion at an 

 hotel : they do not even assist in tending the flower 

 garden and they are not permitted to follow any 

 occupation. They have books from Mudie's as well 

 as a permanent library, and are well supplied with 

 newspapers. The diet is ample. ... An inmate 

 dying is buried at the cost of the charity.' There is 

 power to appoint out-pensioners. The income is 

 about £3,300, and the ordinary expenditure some- 

 what less. 



In addition to educational endowments, 1 " a pension 

 fund for the poor of the chapelry was founded in 

 1878 by Richard Cookson," 6 and £6 5/. is paid in 

 money.*" For Goosnargh with Newsham £77 7/. %J. 

 is available for the apprenticing of children by the 

 gift of John Parkinson, 858 and £47 18;. id. is given 

 in money and kind from the foundations of Lawrence 

 Parkinson and others." 9 In Whittingham £8 1 3;. 8,/. 

 is given yearly in money doles."" Several gifts to 

 Goosnargh have been lost."' 



181 The founder provided that ' no 

 perion, being a Papist, nor any one who 

 should have received any relief out of the 

 rates for the poor ' should be eligible, and 

 if any one already in the house ' should 

 become 1 Papist, such person should im- 

 mediately be displaced and turned out ' 

 without further benefit. 



232 Full particulars of the estates, and 

 various sales and purchases, are given in the 

 official report. The gallery in Goosnargh 

 Church has been taken down, but seats are 

 reserved for the inmates in the body of 

 the church. 



233 This scheme was imposed in conse- 

 quence of various unsatisfactory incidents 

 in the management of the hospital. 



234 In 1903 fourteen of the inmates 

 were from Preston, five from Fulwood, 

 two from Goosnargh, and one from 

 Whittingham. 



235 For schools at Goosnargh and 

 Whitechapel. 



236 The capital fund consists of £1,201 

 consols, with an income of £30 01. %d. 

 By a scheme of the Charity Commis- 

 sioners in 1893 seven annual pensions of 

 £3 each were founded for poor persons 

 resident in Goosnargh or Whittingham, 

 aged fifty-five or upwards. The residue 

 of the income is given in school prizes. 



237 Of this sum £$ is derived from the 

 benefaction of Henry Colborne, 1655, 

 of which an account has been given under 

 Kjrkham ; it is given in money doles by 

 the vicar of Goosnargh, £3 ioj. 6d. 

 having been the usual share of Goosnargh, 

 and £\ 91. 6d. that of Whittingham. 



From the estate known as the Dun 

 Cow Rib in Whittingham 251. has since 

 1691 been paid yearly for the poor, 205. 

 being given to Whittingham and 51. to 

 Goosnargh. This is known as Lund's 

 charity, because about a century ago the 

 estate was the property of Anthony Lund, 

 the priest at Femyhalgh. It is dis- 

 tributed with Waring's charity. 



238 The benefactor in 1676 gave a mes- 

 suage and land in Newsham and Hollow- 

 forth for apprenticing poor children, and 

 further land was purchased in 18 14 with 

 borrowed money. In 1824 it was found 

 that 'for a long period this charity has 



been in fact confined to the children of 

 Roman Catholics, and it has been left to 

 the Roman Catholic priest at Goosnargh 

 to select such objects as he thought fit,' 

 and the Commissioners expressed their 

 objection to this. The debts on the 

 charity were paid off, and there being in 

 recent times little demand for apprenticing 

 fees, much of the annual income is allowed 

 to accumulate. Under a scheme of the 

 Charity Commissioners in 1880 the 

 trustees were allowed to use the fund not 

 only for apprenticing, but to supply an 

 outfit for qualified children on entering 

 a trade. The charity owns Boggart 

 House Farm in Newsham, rented at ,£65, 

 and has £453 in consols. 



239 Lawrence Parkinson in 1719 gave 

 land and money for the use of ' poor 

 needy necessitous housekeepers of Goos- 

 nargh,* to be distributed 'in corn called 

 groats ' ; also for providing ' six good 

 penny manchets every Sunday ' for poor 

 people attending divine service at Goos- 

 nargh Church. He also left money for 

 books, but this does not seem to have 

 become operative. The bread distribution 

 has been kept up, but in 1903 there was 

 only one recipient. The distribution of 

 meal (eight or nine loads of 240 lb. each) 

 had been suspended since 1897, the money 

 being required for improvements of the 

 property, which brings in £26 a year. 



Thomas Knowles of Sowerby in 1686 

 charged his estate of Loudscales in Goos- 

 nargh with certain sums for the poor, 

 one-fourth (501.) being for Goosnargh, 

 the remainder of the income from it being 

 left to the trustees. In practice a fourth 

 part of the net revenue has been devoted 

 to the poor of Goosnargh. A new scheme 

 was made by the Charity Commissioners 

 in 1 901, by which the real estate became 

 vested in the official trustee, and local 

 trustees were appointed to distribute the 

 income, the share of Goosnargh being 

 about £14. a year. Gifts of money or 

 goods, medical relief, nursing, &c, are 

 allowed, but the money is in practice 

 given in doles, this being the least trouble- 

 some to the trustees, who stated that 

 'there were really no poor in Goos- 

 nargh.' 



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William Waring of Goosnargh in 1728 

 left his personal estate (about £300) for 

 the poor of that place. The capital wn 

 spent on a workhouse at Inglewhite Green, 

 and in 1824 the poor rates were charged 

 with £12 121. for the charity, distributed 

 partly in doles of linen and woollen cloth 

 and partly in money. The capital was 

 repaid, and is represented by /316 con- 

 sols, paying £7 171. id. This is now 

 distributed, along with Colborne's charity, 

 in money doles. ' No share of the income 

 has ever been given to Newsham, probably 

 because there have been no poor there 

 within memory.' 



John Lancaster in 1866 left the residue 

 of his estate (£42) for the benefit of the 

 poor of Goosnargh and Newsham who 

 might be debarred from other charities 

 through having had relief from the rates. 

 The income is £1 u. yearly. From 

 1895 onwards no one in the township had 

 had poor relief, so that the income has 

 been added to capital. 



2,0 Thomas Houghton in 161 3-14 garc 

 money and land (in the Green Nook) for 

 the benefit of the poor. The gross rent 

 is £3 id. 



Jeremiah Waring in 173 1 left £40 for 

 the poor. This gift is now represented 

 by £207 consols, yielding £s 31. id. « 

 year. 



The above sums, to which are added 

 the Whittingham shares of Lund's and 

 William Waring's charities, are distributed 

 chiefly in money doles, but partly in food, 

 by the trustees of Houghton's charity and 

 the vicar of Goosnargh. 



241 Jane Adamson in 1732 added £\o 

 to a gift of £20 made by her brother 

 Thomas Adamson for the poor. James 

 Sidgreaves in 1 824 paid £i 141. as interest, 

 as heir of his grandfather, who had been 

 the trustee ; but his estate was not legally 

 charged with it, The amount was paid 

 till his death about 1840. 



Miss Eccles, it was believed, left £lfi 

 for the poor. This was spent on the 

 workhouse, and in 1824 there was a sum 

 of £1 i6j. paid out of the rates and dis- 

 tributed with other charity money. The 

 workhouse was sold in 1838-9. JDl1 

 nothing was recovered for this charity. 



