AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



treated similarly." The Knights Hospitallers had 

 lands in Staynall in 1292." 



John Clifton of Stalmine compounded for his 

 recusancy in 1630 by an annual payment of 



JTz." 



Christopher and Thomas Butler, who were sons of 

 Richard Butler of Rawcliffe, and James Danson, as 

 'Papists,' registered estates in I/I7.' 5 



The chapel of Stalmine is first named 

 CHURCH about 1 200, when it was a dependency 

 of Lancaster. 46 When a cemetery was 

 consecrated in 1230 the lords of the 'parish' — 

 Geoffrey the Arbalaster of Hackinsall and William de 

 Stalmine — renounced all title to the advowson." It 

 seems probable that the townships of Stalmine and 

 Preesall had been either an entirely independent 

 parish reduced to a chapelry or else included in 

 the parish of Poulton,. and that in the latter case 

 the monks of Lancaster, on receiving Poulton Church, 

 had made a separate chapelry at Stalmine, attaching it 

 to their own church at Lancaster." 3 The names of 

 some of the earlier chaplains are on record, 48 and in 

 1430 the vicar of Lancaster was made responsible for 

 the maintenance of a chaplain there. 49 Its history after 

 the Reformation is doubtful, but as the small tithes — 

 valued at £10 a year in 1650 — appear to have been 

 devoted to the chaplain's stipend, it is most probable 

 that service was kept up with some regularity. 50 During 

 the Commonwealth period ^;oa year was given to 

 the minister from Royalist sequestrations." Later 

 some private benefactions raised the certified income 



PART OF 

 LANCASTER 



to £28 12s. \d. before 1717," and the vicarage is 

 now returned as worth £320 a year. 63 The vicar 

 of Lancaster is patron. 



The chapel was rebuilt in 1806 and called St. 

 James's." The registers begin in 1593, but were 

 not regularly kept before 1700. In the churchyard 

 is a sundial dated 1690. 



The following have been curates in charge and 

 vicars " : — 



c. 1 593-1610 John Picke 66 

 oc. 1622-42 Richard Leigh" 

 oc. 1646-51 Henry Jenny, M.A. 58 

 oc. 1653 Henry Smith 



1669 Christopher Hall 69 (T.C.D.) 



1 68 1 John Wells, B.A. C0 



oc. 1700 George Yates 



1 7 1 4 John Anyon 61 



1725 Robert Loxham, M.A. 69 (Trin. Coll., 



Oxf.) 

 1725 Thomas Holme 63 



1737 Thomas Knowles, M.A. 64 



1773 John Spicer 



1778 Thomas Smith 65 



1782 James Fen ton, M.A. 66 (St. Peter's 



Coll., Camb.) 

 1787 James Thomas, B.A. 67 



1799 Joseph Rowley, B.A. 68 (Queen's 



Coll., Oxf.) 

 1864 Joseph Kirby Turner, M.A. (Trin. 



Coll., Camb.) 

 1894 Henry Barnett, M.A. 69 (T.C.D.) 



42 Lands of Cockersand were granted 

 to Roger Dalton in 1579 for twenty-one 

 years ; Fat. 21 Eliz. pt. xi ; see also Pat. 

 4.2 Eliz. pt. xvi and 2 Jas. I, pt. xix. 



Thomas Danson in 1628 held mes- 

 suages, &c, in Stalmine and Staynall of 

 the king, partly as of the manor of East 

 Greenwich and partly as of the honour of 

 Tutbury. His son and heir James was 

 eleven years old ; Towneley MS. C 8, 

 13 (Chet. Lib.), 344. 



43 Plac.de Quo Warr. (Rec Com.), 375. 

 From the change of tenure recorded it is 

 probable that this was the Braddylls' land. 



44 Trans. Hist. Soc. (new ser.), xxiv, 173. 



45 Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. 

 Nonjurors, 133-4. Christopher Butler 

 made a point of his lease of Stalmine 

 Hall being in right of Agnes (Goss), his 

 Protestant wife. 



is Lanc. Ch. i, 117. 



47 Ibid, ii, 362. 



47a From the saving of the right of the 

 church of Poulton in 1230 it may be 

 inferred that Stalmine, though separated 

 by the Wyre, had been part of that parish ; 

 while the similar saving of the right of 

 Lancaster Church shows that it had 

 already been included in the parish to 

 which it has continued to belong. 



The chapel of Stalmine is specially 

 named as one of those held plena jure by 

 the monks of Lancaster about 1290 ; ibid. 

 '. I4-5- 



48 Robert ; ibid, ii, 360. John (Cocker- 

 sand Charlul. i, 102) was a benefactor of 

 the canons. Geoffrey the chaplain of 

 Stalmine attested a deed in 1297 ; Raines 

 MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxxviii, 379. 



49 Lane. Ch. iii, 578. 



At an inquiry in 1527 it was recorded 

 that there was a free chapel at Stalmine, 

 of which John Lawfield had been incum- 

 bent for seven years at the will of the 

 vicar of Lancaster. It waB worth £6 a 



year ; Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, 

 no. 15. 



The list of church goods seized by the 

 Crown in 1552 is imperfect ; Chet. Misc. 

 (new ser.), i, to. 



50 This is shown by some entries in the 

 register being as old as 1583 and by the 

 list of curates. 



51 Commonzv. Ch. Swri/.(Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 127. The additional £50 was 

 ordered as early as 1646 ; Plund. Mins. 

 Accts. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 

 13, 28. 



52 Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc), 

 ii, 443-4. Of the income £1 was derived 

 from tithe of hay and geese in Stalmine, 

 £1 from surplice fees and ,£5 ioj. from 

 Easter dues; while ,£6 131. i^d. was a 

 rent-charge given by Richard Fleetwood of 

 Rossall in 1687 on condition that he and 

 his heirs should have the nomination 

 of the curate — a condition never observed 

 — and £12 91. was the interest on a gift 

 of £324 (part lost) from Mr. Tite. In 

 addition £1 a year was given from Robert 

 Carter's school charity. The clerk's in- 

 come was derived from fees of zd. from 

 each house, Is. at a marriage, 6d. at a 

 burial and zd. at a churching. Each of 

 the townships had a chapel-warden. 



58 Manch. Dioc. Dir. 



54 The ancient chapel is said to have 

 been St. Oswald's. 'The day on which 

 the village wake is celebrated (the first 

 Sunday after 12 Aug.) is still [1836] 

 called Tossets Day, by corruption of 

 St. Oswald ' ; Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1), iv, 



55°- 



A short description of the building by 

 Col. Fishwick is printed in Pal. Note Sk. 

 ii, 244. 



55 Some details are due to Col Fish- 

 wick's article above cited. 



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

 8 ; he was ' no preacher.' Edward 



255 



Rawstorne, clerk, is named in the visita- 

 tion papers about 1 6 1 i, but is not 

 described as curate. 



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

 i, 69 (lecturer), 124 (curate). 



68 Plund. Mins. Accts. i, 14, 239; 

 Comtnonzu. Ch. Surv. 127. He was 

 afterwards minister of St. Michael's for 

 a short time. 



59 Appeared at the visitations of 1674 

 and 1677. 



60 Visit. List, 1691. 



61 From this time the licences to the 

 curacy are recorded in the church papers 

 at Chester Dioc. Reg. They state that 

 ' John Anyon was educated in the Presby- 

 terian way and lately came over to the 

 church and was accepted as curate to 

 Mr. Harrison, late vicar of Poulton, 

 After Mr. Harrison's death Mr. Hall 

 (now vicar) continued Mr. Anyon as his 

 curate at Stalmine.' 



62 Loxham became vicar of Poulton 

 1726-70. Bishop Gastrell {Notitia Cestr. 

 ii, 445) names Alexander Bagot, A.B., 

 as curate in July 1725 5 he must have 

 been a temporary assistant. 



63 Also rector of Claughton 1711-41. 

 6 * Thomas Knowles in 1760 made a 



list of the old 'customs' belonging to 

 the parochial chapel ; they included an 

 estate in Preesall, consisting of a house, 

 barn and 17 acres of land, a rent-charge 

 of £6 135. on Clarkson's tenement in 

 Preesall and 9 acres of land in Thornton. 

 He was rector of Claughton 1741-73. 



65 Also curate of Admarsh. 



66 Son of James Fenton of Lancaster ; 

 rector of Doddington-with-Althorpe 1787. 



67 Also vicar of Bolton-le-Sands. 



68 He held the incumbency till his 

 death in 1864. He was non-resident, 

 being chaplain of Lancaster Castle ; Lane. 

 Ch. (Chet. Soc), iv, 698. 



69 Rector of Quemmore 1890-4. 



