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Might have nowt to do with Hart Common...........

There is evidence of this Puritan or Nonconformist spirit at Hindley Chapel very early in its history. In an account of an outrage committed upon Hindley Chapel in 1642 by the Royalist forces of Wigan because it was the home of the " Round heads," is the following passage :

The carriage of the cavaliers about Wigen was most insolent, ye blasphemous, for after they had pulled downe the pulpit in Hendon [Hindley]
chappell and plaid at cards in the pews and upon the deske, they surprised
the Holy Bible, took it away, and afterwards tore it in pieces, and then stucke
up the leaves of it upon the posts in severall places in Wigan saying, " This
is the Roundheads Bible.