WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



HUYTON 



Cause of Vacancy 

 res. of Jas. Smith 



d. of last incumbent 

 d. of Roger Devias 

 d. of S. Hankinson 



ejection of W. Bell 

 d. of John Lowe 



d. ofT. Fleetwood 

 d. of E. Jones 

 d. ofT. Mallory 

 d. of J. Barnes 

 res. of G. Hornby 

 d. of E. Ashton 



res. of O. Penrhyn 



Roger Mason, instituted in 151 

 held the benefice for forty years. 11 

 10 marks had been paid by Burscough Priory, and he 

 himself was described in 1535 as 'canon.' In 1541 

 there was a staff of six priests ; " in 1 548 the visita- 

 tion list shows an increase to eight. In 1554 the 

 number had fallen back to six, and the two chantry 

 priests appear to have died shortly afterwards ; the 

 staff consisted practically of the aged vicar and his 

 curate, who seems to have been absent. 15 Roger 

 Mason was for a brief period succeeded by James 

 Smith, whose place was filled by Edmund (or 



seems to have Edward) Lowe on the presentation of Philip and 

 His stipend of Mary. In 1562 Edmund Lowe appeared as vicar ; the 

 name of the curate, Hugh Brekell, was erased, and John 

 Whitefield 16 written instead. In 1565 Lowe appeared 

 alone, the six or eight clergy of the pre-Reformation 

 times having been reduced to one. 1 ' Though he 

 must have complied with the Elizabethan changes to 

 some extent, he showed himself hostile as far as he 

 dared. 18 How long he continued at Huyton is un- 

 known, but in 1569 William Wade was vicar. 18 



Nothing appears to be known about him or his 

 successor, Roger Devias, except that the latter in 



