SAMLESBURY, a chapelry in the parish and lower
division of th hundred of BLACKBURN, county palatine
of LANCASTER, 4 miles (E. by N.) from Preston,
containing 1979 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £600 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £700 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Vicar of Blackburn. The chapel is dedicated
to St. Leonard. Six poor children are educated
for £ 8 a year by a master, who occupies the schoolhouse
rent-free.