226 Bradford-upon-Avon. [Parish Church. 
The following list of Vicars has been compiled, for the most 
part, from Sir Thomas Phillips’ edition of the ‘ Wilts Institutions.’ 
In a few instances omissions have been supplied from other sources. 
Of most of the Vicars we know little more than their names. 
A.D. 
1312, RicHarp DE Ketyvesron; presented by Gilbert de Middleton, who is 
called ‘Firmarius Ecclesia de Bradeford.’ [For the meaning 
of this term see above p. 64. ] 
1348. RicHarp DE Merscuron; presented by Robert de Worth, who in 1320 
became the Lessee of the Rectorial Tithes under the Abbess of 
Shaftesbury, and, as such, presented to the living. 
. . . Roperr ALIsANDER; presented by the same patron. 
1349. Jonn GitE; presented by the same patron. 
- . . Wu11Am Borzter. This name isnot included in the list of Vicars, but 
in the following entry the fact of his Incumbency is implied. 
1413. Joun Havyte alias Kine; presented by the Abbess of Shaftesbury on 
the resignation of William Boteler. [All the other Vicars, 
up to the time of the Reformation, were presented by the 
saine Patron. ] 
1418. Tuomas SwarramM. He was Rector of Patney, in the patronage of the 
Bishop of Winchester, and exchanged with John Havyle. 
1429. Henry GAVELER. 
. . . Roperr Carpenter ;* thisname is not in the Wiltshire Institutions, but 
the following entry presumes the fact of his Incumbency. 
1438. JoHn Pater; presented on the resignation of Robert Carpenter. 
1463. JoHN FRANKELEYN; on death of J. Paler. 
1464. Tuomas SHORTBRYGGE; on the resignation of John Frankeleyn. 
1474, Smron Ervyneron; by exchange with Thomas Shortbrygge. 
1481. Jon Bosroxrs. 
1491, Wu1am BryppE or Brrpe; attainted of high treason, and deprived of 
the living. (See above p. 40.) 
1540, THomas Mortey; presented by the King (Henry VIII.). He was Suf- 
fragan Bishop of Marlborough, and, in accordance with the 
provisions of 26 Henry VIII.+ c. xiv. held also the living of 
East Fittleton. He was consecrated in 1537. In Dr. Pegge’st 
* Sir Thomas Phillips gives this ‘ Institution’ thus,—‘‘ 1429. Ropert Lokyneton by exchange with 
H. Gayeler ;’’—probably referring to the same person, e.g.—‘‘R. Carpenter of Lokyngton,”—as 
he came from a place so called. 
+ The act was entitled ‘‘ An Act for nominating and consecration of Suffragans within the Realm.” 
They were to exercise such jurisdiction as the Bishop of the Diocese should entrust to them, the 
term of their commission depending on his will. The object of this Institution,—(which, by the way, 
was not new in England, such Bishops having been appointed in this country as early as A.D. 1325,)— 
was for ‘the more speedy administration of the Sacraments and other good, wholesome, and devout 
things and laudable ceremonies, to the increase of God’s honor and the commodity of good and de- 
yout people.’ Each Suffragan Bishop was permitted to hold two benefices. Marlborough was the — 
only Suffragan See in Wilts. 
+ This list is given in an Article on ‘Suffragan Bishops’ in vol. vi. of Nichols’s ‘ Bibliotheca Topo- 
graph. Britan.’? A reference is there made to the ‘Wharton MSS,’ in Lambeth Palace; No. 577, p. 
358 and No, 589, p. 172. 
