. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED LEYLAND neux,J Stopford/ Sumner,^ snd Werden.* The in- quisitions supply some further names.*" In addition to Farington and Charnock there were some minor sequestrations in Leyhmd by the Parliament during the Civil War, but for religion only.^ Mawdesley of Leyland recorded a pedigree in 1664.° Three small estates of ' Papists' were registered in 1717/ The principal contributors to the land tax in 1783 were the executors of Sir William Far- ington, paying over a fifth 5 among the smaller ones were James Ba
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED LEYLAND neux,J Stopford/ Sumner,^ snd Werden.* The in- quisitions supply some further names.*" In addition to Farington and Charnock there were some minor sequestrations in Leyhmd by the Parliament during the Civil War, but for religion only.^ Mawdesley of Leyland recorded a pedigree in 1664.° Three small estates of ' Papists' were registered in 1717/ The principal contributors to the land tax in 1783 were the executors of Sir William Far- ington, paying over a fifth 5 among the smaller ones were James Barton, the Rev. Mr. Baldwin, and John Park ; in 1798 Alexander N. Kershaw (of Heskin) had about the same as these.* The parish church has been described above. St. James's, Moss Side, was built in 1855, the south aisle being added in 1872 ; it is in the gift of the Farington trustees, having been built by the family. St. Ambrose's, built in 1885 as a chapel of ease to the parish church, became an in- dependent parish in 1898. The vicar of Leyland Barton of SmithilU. Azure a Jesse betivecn three harts^ heads cahosseJ or. A day school was founded at Moss Side by Samuel Crook in 1770.° The Balshaw school at Golden Hill was founded in 1782. There is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Golden Hill, near the village, built in 1814, and another at Midge Hall, built about 1870.'° There are also two Primitive Methodist chapels ; one of them, dating from 1859, represents work begun in a barn about 1830," the other was built in 1902. The Congregational Church in Hough Lane was erected in 1877, succeeding a small chapel in Town- gate, built in ; After the confiscation of Leyland Hall little is known of the existence of Roman Catholic worship in the township," but the chapel at Euxton Hall was pro- bably used. St. Mary's, near the parish church, was opened in 1855, and is served by the English Bene- dictines, the mission having been begun in 1846.'* Here is pre
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