WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



oc. 1 240 

 oc. 1272 



4 June, 1311 



22 April, 1319 



23 Dec. 1328 



5 Mar. 1330-1 

 14 Oct. 1349 



31 Dec. 1356 



2 NOV. 1409 



5 J ul 7. H35 

 17 Dec. 1459 

 25 Sept. 1471 

 20 June, 1485 

 10 Aug. 1506 



14 July, 1528 



3 Jan. 1535-6 



1543 



Sept. 1557 



15 Oct. 1565 



'In 1240 WbMcy Coucher, ii, 581 

 (see also i, 143, ii, 490) ; in 1246, Assize 

 R. 404, m. i d. ; Dods. MS. xxxix, fol. 

 138, n. 4. He was married, probably 

 before his appointment to the rectory, and 

 his son William known as William de 

 JCirkdale, became rector of Sefton about 

 1280 ; see the account of Kirkdale. 



a Wballey Coucber, ii, 585. From the 

 dispute as to the patronage it appears there 

 was a vacancy in 1273. 



Lich. Epis. Reg. i, fol. 59 b. The new 



William de Walton l . . . 

 Robert 1 



Mr. Thomas de Chorleton ' . 

 Mr. Ralph de Shrewsbury 4 . 

 Simon de Clopton 5 . . . 

 Thomas de Clopton "... 

 John de Bulkington ' . 

 Mr. Richard de Winwick 8 . 

 Richard de Stanley 9 . . . 

 Ralph de Stanley 10 . . . 

 Thomas Fairclough, D.D. " . 

 John Molyneux, M.A. '" . . 

 James Stanley, D. Can. L. " . 

 Richard Dudley, D.D. " . . 

 Mr. Edward Molyneux 15 . 

 Richard Gwent, LL.D. lc . . 

 Anthony Molyneux, D.D. 17 . 

 Anthony Molyneux 18 . . . 

 Alexander Molyneux I9 



Presented by 

 Shrewsbury Abbey. 



The bishop . . . 

 Shrewsbury Abbey 

 The king . . . 

 Shrewsbury Abbey. 

 T. and R. Molyneuj 

 Jas. Molyneux . 

 Sir W. Molyneux . 



Sir R. Molyneux 



WALTON 



Cav.se of Vacancy 



res. T. de Chorleton 

 res. R. de Shrewsbury 

 res. S. de Clopton 

 d. T. de Clopton 

 res. J. de Bulkington 

 d. R. de Winwick 

 res. R. de Stanley 

 d. R. de Stanley 

 d. T. Fairclough 

 d. J. Molyneux 

 res. J. Stanley 

 res. R. Dudley 

 d. E. Molyneux 

 (d. R. Gwent) 

 d. A. Molyneux 



1408, and was buried in the cathedral, priest there, who died in 1498 ; Raines, 

 where a brass formerly commemorated Chantries (Chet. Soc.), ii, 176. 



Desiderata Curiosa, viii, p. 22, n. 48. He also rector of Sefton and canon of Lich- 

 demised the rectory in 1368 for 1000 field ; he founded the chantry at Walton. 



clerk. He was also warden of Manch. c'tc., 

 and became bishop of Ely in 1 506. The 

 patrons were Thomas and Robert Moly- 

 neux, by grant of the abbot and convent 

 of Shrewsbury to them and others then 

 deceased. See Foster, Alumni Oxan. 

 14 Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv. fol. 54 b ; 



doubt acting as trustee. The Act Books 



Liverpool ; De Bane. R. 450, m. 169 J. 



In the Col. of Papal Letters are some 

 particulars concerning him. In 1350, 

 being in his twentieth year, he received 

 from Clement VI a dispensation to hold 



the abbo't and convent of Shrewsbury were 

 not the true patrons. 



In 1327, and subsequent years, he 



bishop of Gap 



elease of 



patron; he was lord of the manor. 



St. Mary Hall, Oxf. in^l soz^he" w^s 

 prebendary of London, Lincoln, and York ; 

 and died in 1536 ; Le Neve, Fasti, iii, 

 584, &c. ; Foster, Alumni. 



15 Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 636. He 

 was brother of the patron, and held Sefton 

 and other benefices ; on being instituted 

 to Walton he swore to pay the retiring 

 rector a pension of 80 a year, which 

 must have been nearly the full value. 



" Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv. fol. 35. He 

 paid first-fruits 16 January; Lanes. andChei. 

 Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 407. 



parishioners ; De Bane. R. 272, m. \t,d, 

 etc. At this time Dr. Thomas de Charl- 

 ton, canon of York, archdeacon of Wells 

 and Northumberland, and king's trea- 

 surer, was promoted by the pope to the 

 bishopric of Hereford ; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 

 461. 



4 Croxteth D. Bb. ii, i, from the reg. 

 of Bp. Walter Langton. He presented 

 the vicar in 1327 ; Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 

 102. He was chancellor of the university 

 of Oxford in 1328, and became bishop of 

 Bath and Wells in the following year ; 

 Le Neve, Fasti, iii, 464 ; i, 137. There 

 it a notice of him in Diet. Nat. Biog. 



* Lich. EpU. Reg. ii, fol. 104. He 

 was a clerk,' and in the following Feb. 

 had licence to study for seven years ac- 

 cording to the canon ; Ibid. fol. 104*. 

 He became canon of Lichfield, and died 

 in 1349 ; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 619, 636. 



Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. io6A ; he ex- 

 changed with his predecessor, who became 

 rector of Ideshale (or Shifnal). See Eyton, 

 Shropshire, ii, 336. He also was a canon 

 of Lichfield until his death in 1349 ; Lc 

 Nee,Frf,i, 589,602. 



1 Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 124*; an 

 acolyte. His name appears as Bulketon on 

 presentation, and Bulkington later. 



8 Croxteth D. Bb. ii, I ; he exchanged 

 the rectory of Nether Wallop with John 

 dc Bulkington. In January, 1356-7, a 

 dispensation for study was granted by the 

 bishop to Master Richard de Winwick, 

 rector of Walton, then a subdeacon ; 

 Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 1 5, 1 5* ; he was 

 ordained deacon four years afterwards ; 

 Ibid, v, fol. 82 b. He was brother and 

 executor of John de Winwick, rector of 

 Wigan, etc., and became canon of Lin- 

 coln about 1376 ; he died 12 December, 



William Molyneux, clerk, a member of 

 his household, and Thomas de Eltonhead, 

 canon of Penkridge, who had been seized 

 and plundered in Vienne on their way 

 from the Roman court (then at Avignon), 



William had been taken to the castle of 

 Sigoyer ; iv, 9. At the beginning of 

 1365 a safe conduct was granted them; 

 iv, 51. 



Lich. Epis. Reg.'vii, fol. 9 8A ; he was 

 collated by the bishop, the benefice having 

 been vacant nearly a year, and is de- 



1418, when he presented a vicar, but 

 became rector of Winwick in 1423. He 

 was also archdeacon of Chest. 



archdeacon of London, Huntingdon, and 

 Brecknock, and held other dignities ; and 

 died in London 1543 ; Wood, Atkenae ; 



ii, I ; but Ralph Stanley was rector as 

 early as 1427, according to Kuerden, ii, 

 fol. 245*, n. 1348. 



Lich. Epis. Reg. xii, fol. 98; Henry VI 

 presented, the temporalities of the abbey 

 of Shrewsbury being in his hands. 



On his appointment Dr. Fairclough com- 



323, etc. His will is in P.C.C. 



V He paid first-fruits 4 August, 1543. 

 He was also rector of Sefton. An account 

 of the ornaments of the church in 1552 



which he found the church. In the 

 chancel the books, vestments, and other 

 ornaments were very defective, and in the 

 rectory house there were dilapidations, 



rector. The bishop accordingly commis- 

 sioned Dr. Ralph Duckworth, vicar of 

 Prescot, and Edmund Farington, rector of 

 Halsall, to inquire into the matter, giving 

 them authority to sequestrate the goods 

 and revenues due to the late rector until 



the preceding rector. An Anthony Moly- 

 neux was scholar of Corpus Christ! Coll. 

 Oxf. in 1555; B.A. 1558; Foster, 

 Alumni. From his refusal to appear at 

 the visitation in 1559 (Gee, Elizabethan 

 Clergy}, and his departure to beyond the 

 sea early in Elizabeth's reign it may per- 

 haps be inferred that he would not con- 

 form to the new religious order. 



Chest. Dioc. Reg. He paid first- 

 fruits I November, 1564-5. He was a 

 younger son of Sir Richard Molyneux, the 

 patron. As he held the rectory for sixty-six 



125. 



Thomas Fairclough 'Doctor in De- 

 crees,' was prayed for at Standish as a 

 benefactor of Robert Pilkington, chantry 



his appointment. In 1591 he was 

 described as unlearned and not used to 



Ktnvon MSS. p. 601. His wife Elizabeth 



