chapel of Great and Little Singleton. The dole, however, had to return to Marton chapel as soon as service, according to the Church of England, was again conducted there. The chapel alluded to was Baines's school-house, where it had been the custom of Edward Jolly to distribute bread each Sunday for several years previously, and it was with the intention of rendering this practice perpetual, that the indenture was made. No re-investment of the money can be legally made without the approval of the minister of Marton church.
POPULATION OF GREAT AND LITTLE MARTON.
1801. 1811. 1821. 1831. 1841. 1851. 1861. 1871.
972 1,093 1,397 1,487 1,562 1,650 1,691 1,982
The area of the township amounts to 5,452 statute acres, inclusive of the sheet of water called Marton mere.
Hardhorn-with-Newton contains within the limits of its
township the three hamlets or villages of Hardhorn, Newton, and
Staining, of which the last only is alluded to in the Domesday
Survey, where Staininghe is mentioned as comprising six
curucates of land in service. The Coucher Book of Whalley
Abbey furnishes much valuable and interesting information
relating to the district of Staining, and from it we find that
sometime between 1175 and 1296 John de Lascy, constable of
Chester, "gave and by this charter confirms to God and the
Blessed Mary, and to the abbot and monks of the Benedictine
Monastery (Locus) of Stanlawe the vill of Steyninges, with all
things belonging to it, in the vill itself, in the field, in roads, in
footpaths, in meadows, in pastures, in waters, in mills, and in all
other easements which are or can be there, for the safety of my
soul and those of my antecessors and successors. To be held and
possessed in pure and perpetual gift without any duty or exaction
pertaining to me or my heirs, the monks themselves performing
the service which the vill owes to the lord King." The monks
of Stanlawe retained possession until 1296, when their monastic
instition, with all its property, including Staining, was united to,
or appropriated by, the abbey of Whalley, shortly after which, in
1298, an agreement was arrived at between the prior of Lancaster,
who held Poulton church, and the abbot of Whalley, concerning
the tithes of Staining, Hardhorn, and Newton. "At length," says
the record, "by the advice of common friends they submitted the
