WEST DERBY HUNDRED CHILDWALL 



Instituted Name Presented by Cause of Vacancy 



1 9 June, 1690 . Ralph Markland, M.A. .... Bishop of Chester . . . res. T. West 



12 Jan. 1721-2 . Theophilus Kelsall, B.A. a .... ... d. of R. Markland 

 6 Mar. 1734-5. Roger Barnston, M.A. 3 ... d. T. Kelsall 



25 July, 1737 . William Ward, B.A. 4 ... res. R. Barnston 



1 8 Sept. 1740 . Robert Whiston 6 ... d. W.Ward 



29 Jan. 1741-2 . Abel Ward, M.A. 6 ... res. R. Whiston 



13 Jan. 1745-6 . Thomas Tonman, M.A. 7 ... res. Abel Ward 



i o Sept. 1778 . Matthew Worthington 8 ... res. T. Tonman 



24 April, 1797 . William Bowe 9 ... d. M. Worthington 



10 Feb. 1818 . James Thomas Law, M.A.'" .... ... res. W. Bowe 



1 5 Oct. 1821 . Henry Law, M.A." ... res. J. T. Law 



!jNov?i8 8 29 4 ;} Augustus Campbell, M.A." . ... ... re, H. Law 



20 Sept. 1870 . George Winter Warr, M.A. 13 ... ... d. of A. Campbell 



1 4 Jan. 1896 . Peter Sorensen Royston, D.D. 14 . . Bishop of Liverpool . . d. G. W. Warr 



1 6 Oct. 1903 . Richard Montague Ainslie, M.A. Is . . ... res. P. S. Royston 



Robert Greves was vicar during the greater part of 

 Henry VIII's reign. In 1541 he paid an assistant 

 named Richard Greves ; there were three other 

 priests, 16 probably serving the chapels at Hale and 

 Garston, and the chantry priest, so that the staff 

 numbered five or six. At the visitation of 1 548 the 

 clergy remained the same in number, but at the 

 visitation in 1554, when the Edwardian changes had 

 had effect and the temporary reaction was only be- 

 ginning, the clergy had been reduced to three. 17 The 

 services at Garston chapel had probably been discon- 

 tinued. The vicar had held his place through several 

 changes ; it is not known whether he died or resigned 



before the next, but in January, 1557-8 Bishop Scott 

 gave him leave to agree with Richard Norris, priest, 

 as to his retirement, Norris to pay him a suitable 

 pension. 18 



William Crosse, the next vicar, was ordained deacon 

 at Chester in I555, 19 and as he answered as vicar at 

 the visitations of i 562 and 1565 must be considered 

 a conformist for the time at least ; in 1563 he was 

 absent, 'excused by the bishop,' and in 1569 he 

 resigned. He was the only clergyman who repre- 

 sented Childwall in I 562-3. 80 



The chantry at the altar of St. Thomas the 

 Martyr was founded in 1484 by Thomas Norris 



