Richard Hollinworth

[2] At the consecration of Sacred Trinity Chapel in Salford, on 20 May 1635, Hollinworth preached the sermon, and after the resignation of Thomas Case, who held the living for a short time, he was appointed minister there.

By the exertions of Heyrick and Hollinworth and their friends the presbyterian discipline was established in Lancashire by an ordinance of parliament dated 2 October 1646, and the first meeting was held in the following month at Preston.

[2] After the battle of Worcester (September 1651) Hollinworth was one of the Lancashire ministers who were arrested on a charge of being engaged in Christopher Love's plot against the government: others were Heyrick and John Angier.

[4] He was released after a short imprisonment, having been held in Liverpool with Angier, John Harrison and William Meek; and returned to Manchester.

[5] Hollinworth was a prominent figure at a meeting held at Warrington to consider the question of taking the oath called the Engagement, requiring the people to be faithful to the Commonwealth.

[2] Hollinworth died suddenly on 3 November 1656, aged 49, and was buried in Manchester Collegiate Church, where his wife, Margaret, had been interred two years before.

In 1649, also, he wrote a popular work in favour of the presbyterian system, entitled The Main Points of Church Government and Discipline plainly and modestly handled by way of question and answer; the introductory epistle was signed by Christopher Love.

[2] He was interested in the history of his native parish, and left in manuscript a volume of historical notes entitled Mancuniensis, which went to Chetham' Library.