AMQUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



The following have been rectors and vicars : 



Name 



RECTOR* 



Instituted 



c. 1160 . . . Gamel ** 



c. 1 200 . . . Richard 43 



oc. 1 246-7 . . Alexander de Stanford 44 . 



Presented by 



POULTON-LE- 

 FYLDE 



Cau<e of Vacancy 



VICARS 



OC. 1294 . . 

 oc. 1325 . . 

 oc. 1332 . . 



1 Apr. 1338 



2 July 1339 

 7 Oct. 1 349 



oc. 1356 . . 

 oc. 1365-9 . 



6 Sept. 1383 

 23 Aug. 1403 

 21 May 1422 



7 June 1437 



5 J une '44 2 

 1 8 June 146; 

 oc. 1500 . . 

 c. 1512-20 . 

 oc. 1530-5 . 

 oc. 1548-52 . 

 20 Dec. 1552 

 oc. 1557 . . 



Roger" 

 John" 



William deSellerdale". 

 William dc Stalmine < s 

 William de Preston 4a . 

 John de Fishwick w 

 William de Clayton " . 

 Ralph de Penwortham 8J 

 William de Southworth " 

 William Tyndour M . 

 John Lytham" 



The king 



The kin" 



William Cronkshaw 80 Syon Abbey 



Richard Brown * 7 



John Oxcliffe M 



Richard Singleton " 



William Brttherton M 



Hugh Sneyd, B.D." 



Robert Clerke M 



Randle Woodward The king . 



Richard Cropper M 



exch. W. de Stalmine 



d. W. Tyndour 



d. W. Cronkshaw 

 d. R. Brown 



" He attested Bilpham charter by 

 Robert Abbot of Shrewsbury, who died in 

 1167 ; Shireburne D. at Lr.igram. 



Farrer, op. eit. 335, 338, from deed 

 between 1194 and 1206; Cxkertand 

 Ckartul. (Chet. Soc,), i, 333. 



44 He was rector of a mediety ; Lane. 

 C*. i, m. See alto ii, 431. He claimed 

 certain landi in Poulton in 1246 ; Assize 

 R. 404, m. 12 d. He may hare retained 

 hii rectory till I 275, when the ordination 

 of a vicarage wai Anally settled. He is 

 not called a ' clerk.' 



Robert aon of Alexander de Stanford 

 obtained a toft adjoining the cemetery by 

 (rant of Adam ion of Robert de Poulton ; 

 Lane. Ch. ii, 387. 



44 Ibid. 421. 



46 Lane,. Cr. R. (Rcc. Soc. Lanct. and 

 Ches.), 1 34. 



47 This vicar in 1332 came to an agree- 

 ment with the Prior of Lytham a> to the 

 tithe of fiih taken on the Warthei north 

 or louth of the Milne Pool of I. avion. 

 The prior wai to hare the tithe, but wai 

 to pay 21. a year ; Lytham D. at Durham, 

 3 a, 4 ae, Ebor. no. 33. 



48 Col. Pat. i 338-40, p. 30. The date 

 it that of preientation. The king pre- 

 sented in thii and other cae because the 

 ettatei of alien prioriei had been taken 

 into hiihandi during the war with France. 



For the king'i claim lee De Banco R. 

 3 1 6, m. 181. After presenting William de 

 Stalmine it wai found that one Henry de 

 Carleton opposed, and he wai fined for it ; 

 ibid. 317, m. 288. 



49 Cal. Pat. 1338-40, p. 264. William 

 de Preston had been vicar of Giggleswick. 

 See Whitaker, Craven (ed. Morant), 166. 

 He had a diipute with hii predecessor in 

 1341 at to money owing ; De Banco R. 

 325, m. 84. He wai no doubt the 

 William, vicar of Poulton, who was in 

 I 34; joined with the Prior of Lancaiter 

 as liable for the repair of the chaucil ; 

 Fiihwick, op. cit. 207-8. 



A William de Preiton wai Archdeacon 

 of Stafford in 1339; Le Neve, /..,/:, i, 



574- 



w Cal. Pat. 1348-50, p. 401. The 

 church of Poulton with iti chapel of 

 Bispham became void in the time of pesti- 

 lence between 8 Sept. 1349 and n Jan. 

 1349-50 j Enfl. Hist. Rev. v, 526. 



11 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), zuviii, 

 105. William de Clayton wai Mate 

 vicar' in 1359; ibid. 383. He wai 

 styled the lame in 1429, having been 

 concerned, in conjunction with Ralph de 

 Penwortham, chaplain no doubt hii 

 lucceuor at vicar in a grant to John de 

 Thornton, who died in 1396 ; Lanct. Inq. 

 p.m. (Chet. Soc.}, ii, 24. 



w This vicar occurs in 1365 and 1369; 

 Kuerden MSS. iii, A 3 ; ii, fol. 260. 



u Cal. Pat. 1381-5, p. 305. He wai 

 truitee in a Skillicorne settlement referred 

 to in Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vii, no. 3. 



M Cal. Pat. 1401-5, pp. 261, 265. 



" Rainei MSS. (Chet. Lib.), utii, 397; 

 William Kenwolmersh, Treasurer of 

 England, and others presented, Henry V 

 baring lately granted them the priory of 

 Lancaster. This preientation is referred 

 to by Bishop Gastrell, as if from the 

 original register of Archdeacon Bowet ; 

 Notitia Ctitr. ii, 458. As John ' Lathom ' 

 he was still vicar in 1430 ; Rentali and 

 Surv. R. 378. 



' Ricrurd ' ii named ai vicar in a deed 

 of Sept. 1423; Add. MS. 32106, fol. 

 309. Thii must be a miitake in dating ; 

 see Richard Brown later. 



** Fiihwick, op. cit. 68. He is named 

 in a deed of 1437-8 as vicar ; Kuerden 

 fol. MS. 213. 



" Rainei MSS. ii, 409. 



M Ibid. 385. John Ojuliffe wai still 

 vicar in 1487 ; Pal. of Lane. Writi Proton, 

 file 1 &2 Hen. VII. 



49 Brockholei of Claughton D. 



60 William Bretherton wai one of the 

 feoffees of Cuthbert Clifton, who died in 



223 



1512 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, no. 

 12. He is named in proceedings con- 

 cerning the transfer (after 1518) of the 

 lease of tithes, tec. ; Fiihwick, op. cit. 

 69, quoting Duchy of Lane. Plead, iv, 

 837. 



'' He was witneii to the will of George 

 Allen of Roisall, 1530; Fiihwick, op. 

 cit. 127. A letter of hii ii printed in 

 L. ami P. Hen. fill, liv (2), 206. He 

 wai vicar in 1535 ; AVor Eccl. v, 262. 



A Hugh Snead (1513) occurs in the 

 pedigree of Snead of Willaiton near 

 Nantwich ; Ormerod, Chet. (ed. Helsby), 

 iii, 492. Two of the surname graduated 

 at Cambridge, one ai D. Civ. L. in 1511- 

 12 and another (Hugh) aiD.D. in 1529- 

 30 ; Grace Book B (Luard Mem.), ii, 5 j 

 i, 254; ii, 156. Ralph Sneyd, LL.D., 

 became rector of Woodchurch in 1530 j 

 Ormerod, op. cit. ii, 524. A Dr. Sneyd 

 wai vicar of Rye in 1535 and later. 



" He wai vicar in I 548, the king being 

 then called rector ; Viiit. Lilt at Chester. 

 He signed the return of the church goodi 

 (which included two chalicei and three 

 little belli in the steeple) in 1552 ; Fiih- 

 wick, op. cit. 42. 



** Act Bit. at Cheiter, 1 502-76, fol. 

 40. He compounded for his first-fruits 

 14 Dec. 1552 ; Lane i. and Glut. Sec. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanci. and dies.), ii, 408. 

 Other vicars seem to have been excused 

 thii payment. His name is in the visita- 

 tion list, 1554. 



94 Named ai vicar in the will of George 

 Hull of Poulton, 1557; Fiihwick, loc. 

 cit. He appeared and subscribed at the 

 bishop's visitation in 1562, but died soon 

 afterwards, his will being dated and proved 

 in 1565. From his bequests he appears 

 to have been one of the Croppcn of 

 Lathom. He desired to be buried 'within 

 the parish church of Poulton in the highest 

 chancel near unto the table ' j Fiihwkk, 

 op. cit. 701. The last word shows that 

 the altar had been removed. 



