William Fyld, of Great Eccleston, bequeathed £2 annually to the poor of that township.
Ellen Longworth left the interest of £20 to be distributed in bread to the poor people attending divine service at Copp church.
POPULATION OF GREAT ECCLESTON.
1801. 1811. 1821. 1831. 1841. 1851. 1861. 1871.
455 540 648 624 661 631 641 565
The area of the township in statute acres is 1,412
Out Rawcliffe. The manor of Out Rawcliffe was presented
to Theobald Walter by Richard I., and from that time to 1715
remained in the hands of the same family. Theobald Walter,
the son of the above-named gentleman, and Butler of Ireland,
a title which, as elsewhere stated, he adopted as a surname,
gave the whole of Out Rawcliffe, and one carucate of land in
Stainall, to his relative, perhaps son, Sir Richard Butler,
and from him sprang the long line of Butlers of Rawcliffe.[1] In
1627 the inquisition post mortem of Henry Butler, of Rawcliffe
Hall, revealed that his possessions consisted of the two manors of
Out and Middle Rawcliffes, and of lands in Upper Rawcliffe.[2]
Henry and Richard Butler of Rawcliffe, father and eldest son,
joined the ranks of the insurgents in 1715, and after the suppression
of the rebellion, their estates were confiscated; Henry
escaped, but Richard was seized, and died in prison at London in
1716, before the day appointed for his execution. The sale of
Out Rawcliffe by Government was enrolled on the 19th of
September, 1723, the purchasers being the Rev. Richard Crombleholme,
(vicar of St. Michael's), John Leyland, Cornelius Fox,
and James Poole; and in the diary of the Rev. Thos. Parkinson,
curate of Garstang, reference is made to the completion and
terms of the transfer as follows:—
"April 1723.—* * * * At night I preached for T. Raby, of Tarnacre, at
St. Michael's. His son paid me 10s. Mr. Crombleholm, the vicar there, came
from London, whilst I was there, who, in conjunction with three more, had
bought Rawcliffe demain and tenants, paying to the board £11,260. It cost
them near £1,000 more in hush money, as they call it."
In 1729 the Rev. Richard Crombleholme, who seems to have
bought up the shares of his co-investors, died, and five years later
his heir, Edward Crombleholme, disposed of the lordship of Out
