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Rev. Richard Hatton was appointed by Charles II to the living in 1673. He received his earlier education at Bolton Grammar School. There is some uncertainty about the date of his induction. For some time there was an attempt to retain the living for Angier, who was in sore straits, and Hatton's own family recorded on his gravestone after his death in 1712 that he had been vicar of Deane only for 35 years, that is since 1677. In the midst of religious controversy and persecution in the name of religion, which united Nonconformists and Roman Catholics against the Established Church, Vicar Hatton seems to have kept the even tenor of his ways. Near the end of his life it was written of him, "He preached against the sins of the times, and before the sermon he prayed for the Queen (Anne).
He was a man of unblameable life, not a frequenter of taverns; no gamester, swearing, railer or quarreller; not noted to be an intemperate drinker, grave and decent in his apparel, and in his behaviour he carried himself as becometh the gospel."
Clergy
Rev.William Rothwell
Rev.Richard Grimshaw
Rev.David Dee
Rev.Lancelot Clegge
Rev.Richard Hardie
Rev.Alexander Horrocks
Rev.John Tilsley
Rev.John Angier
Rev.Richard Hatton
Rev.James Rothwell
Rev.Thomas Withnell
Rev.Robert Latham
Rev.Thomas Brocklebank
Rev.Edward Girdlestone
Rev.Francis Henry Coldwell
Rev.William Bashall
Rev.Henry Sheridan Patterson
Rev.John Russel Line
Rev.Robert Catterall Worsley
Rev.Kenneth Mackay Bishop
Rev.Roger Jackson
Rev.Ian Mainey
Rev.Dr.Terry Clark
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