. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE their surnames from the Twiss,'" the Hurst,"' the Shaw,"' and Kinknall.™ In 1600 the freeholders not already named were William Lewis and Thomas ;' Those who paid to the subsidy in 1628 were John Calveley, John Culcheth, Geoffrey Holcroft, Richard Risley, Richard Thomasson, and Richard Urmston; of these the last, as a convicted recu- sant, paid double.'" Besides Thomas Culcheth, Robert Guest of Culcheth in 1653 petitioned to compound for two-thirds of his estate, se-
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE their surnames from the Twiss,'" the Hurst,"' the Shaw,"' and Kinknall.™ In 1600 the freeholders not already named were William Lewis and Thomas ;' Those who paid to the subsidy in 1628 were John Calveley, John Culcheth, Geoffrey Holcroft, Richard Risley, Richard Thomasson, and Richard Urmston; of these the last, as a convicted recu- sant, paid double.'" Besides Thomas Culcheth, Robert Guest of Culcheth in 1653 petitioned to compound for two-thirds of his estate, se- questered for ;' In addition to the Culcheths, a considerable number of persons, as ' papists,' registered estates in ;^ A number of extracts from the Culcheth town books of the 17th and i8th centuries have been ;' The land tax returns of 1787 show the principal proprietors at that date to have been John Black- burne. Sir Frank Standish, John TrafFord, and Samuel. Urmston. Sable a che-veron hetiucen three spear-heads argent. Pool, these contributing about two-thirds of the total sum ;* Before the Reformation there was at CHURCH Culcheth a chapel of ease known as Trinity ;' It was perhaps not then very old, and the name NEWCHURCH has re- mained attached to it till the present time. After the changes of the reigns of Edward VI and Mary, the building probably ceased to be used for a time at Culcheth on Elizabeth's revival of the Edwardine ;° Sir John Holcroft by his will of 1559 left his chain of gold or _£io towards the payment of a priest and clerk if the other inhabitants of the township could be induced to ;' The ser- vice was probably read occasionally, but in 1592 there was neither surplice nor 'table cloth.'"' In 161 2 this chapel had ' seldom a curate,' "' but ten years later there was one who contributed £l to the ;" The Commonwealth Surveyors in 16
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