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Popish Recusants at Broughton, Lancashire, 1676
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2016
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The Catholic Record Society has just published the 1767 Returns of Papists for the diocese of Chester, which included Lancashire. For the chapelry of Broughton (pp. 144-6 in the C.R.S. volume) there is a similar return of Popish recusants made in 1676. It was compiled in response to the questions asked in the so-called Compton Census, an enquiry set up in 1676 by the Archbishop of Canterbury. It consists of nine folios listing all families in the chapelries of Broughton (including Haighton) and Barton in a first column, alongside which in a second column the names of suspected Popish recusants are repeated. To save space, the recusant names are printed here once only but in bold type. At the bottom of each folio except the first are totals for the two columns, with grand totals (636 and 192) at the end. There is a nil return for the third column, of Dissenters.
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1 Lancashire R.O., ARR 31.
2 For a general account of the census, which was ordered to be taken in the Province of York as well as that of Canterbury, see Chalklin, C. W., ‘The Compton Census of 1676—the dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester’, in A Seventeenth Century Miscellany, Kent Records, Kent Archaeological Society 17 (1960), pp. 153 seqq.Google Scholar A critical edition of the census, edited with a full introduction by Ann Whiteman, is forthcoming. The Broughton list is of particular interest since it is the first definite evidence to come to light that the census was taken in the diocese of Chester, in which the parish of Preston with its chapelry of Broughton then lay.
3 Gillow, pp. 20, 59.
4 A.A.W., vol. 35, p. 269, by courtesy of the Archivist, Miss E. Poyser.
5 Fishwick, pp. 434, 436.
6 Margaret Daniel increased Daniel's Charity founded by her deceased husband William (H2) for the benefit of the poor of Broughton. Fishwick, p. 400.
7 Robert was the grandfather of Anne and Elizabeth Adamson who became Blue Nuns in Paris, 28 May 1688. C.R.S. 8, p. 317.
8 It seems that Anthony Lund the son-in-law was the son and heir of James Lund of Midge Hall. Thomas Smith of Broughton (HI) had a daughter Mary born on 6 September 1655, and he was buried on 31 March 1673-74. Gillow, p. 62, and Lancashire Parish Record Society 48 (1913), pp. 2, 80.
9 Robert Shepheard of Broughton was one of the four trustees appointed (see note 16). The other three were George Layburne of Nateby Hall, Nicholas Wadsworth (note 25) of Haighton Hall, Cuthbert Hesketh of White Hill Goosnargh. Gillow, p. 58.
10 William Langton of Broughton Tower was buried at Preston on 3 January 1679-80. Fishwick, p. 258.
11 John Arkwright is listed No. 732 under Broughton, and a second John Arkwright appears at the end of the list: QDV 6.
12 Edward Daniell, yeoman, is listed for April and July 1697 in the Quarter Sessions Records, Lancashire R.O., QDV 5. Also Sharpe France, p. 64.
13 Richard Singleton appears in QDV 6.
14 William Arkwright appears in QDV 6.16 Andrew Taylor appears in QDV 6.
16 Hugh Charnley of Durton in Broughton by an Indenture of 16 March 1685 gave the ancient well in trust for the mission at Ladyweli. Gillow, p. 58.
17 Jr may denote junior. Elizabeth wife of George Singleton senior of Haighton was buried on 30 September 1670. George Singleton of Haighton was buried on 26 May 1674, and George Singleton of Haighton was buried on 23 February 1680-81: Lancashire Parish Record Society 48, pp. 78, 80, 85.
18 Thomas Blacoe, yeoman of Barton, succeeded his father as Registrar in 1657, and on election by the inhabitants was sworn and admitted before Mr Shuttleworth at Gawthorpe, Whalley. Fishwick, p. 131.
19 In Barton there were three Thomas Kitchins with families. Thomas Kitchin the goldsmith of Barton was probably the senior who was buried on 6 April 1677, as Mary appears as his widow in QDV 6 for 1682, and was buried on 14 April 1685. Lancashire P.R.S. 48, pp. 82, 88.
20 Bramhall and Bramwell seem to be interchangeable. Fleetwood was also the unusual forename of the daughter of Richard Barton who at the age of seven years on 5 September 1597 married Richard Molyneux at Sefton, but on this being set aside, she married Richard Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe, had ten children and died in 1664. Edward Fleetwood was M.P. for Preston, elected in 1660 and again in 1685. Fishwick, pp. 313, 373.
21 Robert Cross married Priscilla Cardwell at Broughton on 23 February 1671. Their daughterJennet, baptised at Broughton on 23 March 1678/7, married James Fishwick of BulsnapeHall, ancestor of Henry Fishwick, our historian. Pedigree in Fishwick, p. 304.
22 William Shepheard of Fernyhalgh in Broughton was one of the trustees for the secularmissions of Fernyhalgh, Crook Hall, and Bank Hall, and was examined by the Commissionersfor Forfeited Estates. Gillow, pp. 61, 68-70; Records of the Forfeited Estates Commission, P.R.O. Handbook, no. 12, p. 80.
23 The Cardwells were prosperous tanners, tenants of Richard Shuttleworth the magistrate.Edward, a descendant, was created Vicount Cardwell of Ellerbeck, Lancashire, in 1874.Gillow's MSS., QDV 5 (as above), and Sharpe France, p. 42.
24 William Singleton appears in QDV 5 (note 12) and QDV 6.
25 Nicholas Wadsworth (1655-1702) was twice married. His first wife Mary was buried at Broughton on 24 November 1681. His first son, Hugh of Haighton, was baptised at Broughton on 15 December 1678. Fishwick, p. 360; Sharpe France, p. 80.
26 ‘Not included in the pedigree, but there is a family tradition that two brothers, Samuel and Nicholas Winkley, emigrated from Lancashire to America in 1680.’ Fishwick, p. 281.
27 ‘William Woods was curate here before 1678, as in that year he was deprived of the living on account of a clandestine marriage; but before 1682 he was restored. In 1698, the vicar of Preston refused to pay him the accustomed £4 a year, but he had the sympathy of Richard Cardwell, Richard Cross and 19 other parishioners who contributed to the cost of a lawsuit, the result of which is not known.’ Fishwick, p. 142.