A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



later granted back, 1 remained with the lords of War- 

 rington to the latter half of the sixteenth century, 

 when it passed by sale to the Irelands of Bewsey, and 

 has descended like Bewsey and Great Sankey to Lord 

 Lilford, the present patron.' 



In 1291 the value of the benefice was found to be 

 13 61. 8d ; 3 and fifty years later the ninth of the 

 sheaves, wool, and lambs was estimated at twenty 

 marks, i.e. the same sum. 4 The gross value in 1535 

 was 4.1 I5/. Afti., of which the glebe brought in 

 161. 8</.; the payments included one of zos. to the 

 abbot of Shrewsbury, and the net value was ^40.* 



The Commonwealth surveyors in 1650 found that 

 the tithes, valued at 150, were farmed by Gilbert 

 Ireland, who allowed the rector 20 a year ; 6 this 

 was increased by an allowance of 50 a year out of 

 the sequestered tithes of Childwall/ reduced later. 8 

 Bishop Gastrell in 1717 found the income to be 

 61 iSs. ^d? At present the gross value is stated to 

 be 965.' 



Warrington was from early times the head of a 

 deanery comprising the parishes in West Derby 

 hundred. 11 In 1535 the revenue of the dean was 

 estimated at 15 us. lid. 



Sir W. le Boteler . . 

 Sir W. le Boteler . , 

 Sir W. le Boteler . . 

 John earl of Lancaster 



res. W. de Sankey 

 exch. S. le Blund 

 d. R. de Houton 

 exch. J. de Luyton 

 d. J. de Stamfordham 

 exc. N. de Waddington 

 res. J. de Swinlegh 



i Chart, in Beamont, Lards of Warr. 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 19, 83. 

 See the account of Bewsey. A fine 



9 Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 230 ; 

 apart from the 20 received from the 

 lessee, the income was derived mainly 



advowson of the church ; Final Cone. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 83. 



In 1361 Henry duke of Lancaster 'died 

 seised in his demesne as of fee of the 

 advowson of the church [of Warrington] 

 for the term of the life of William le 

 Boteler, knt., by the demise of Richard 



wardens two for Warrington appointed 

 by the lord and Mr. Legh of Lyme, and 



the higher orders ; Lich. Epis. Reg. i 

 fol. 2,1,. He had probably just beer 

 appointed to the rectory. Richard dc 

 Astley sued William de Sankey in 132 

 for six years' arrears of a rent of 2 marks 

 and at the same time Henry del Bruch. 



the parish, elected by house row. 



10 Liverpool Dioc. Cal. Some benefac- 

 tions are noticed in the War. End. Char. 



robe 



; De Banco R. 236, 



Winwick, who demised the said church to 

 William le Boteler for the said term ' ; 

 Inq. p.m. 3; Edw. Ill, pt. i, n. 122. 



There were suits between the duke of 

 Lancaster and Sir William le Boteler in 

 1374 and 1375 respecting the patronage ; 

 De Banco R. 456, m. 197 ; R. 457, m. 

 1 16. The duke recovered. 



Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 249. 



4 Inq. Non. (Rec. Com.), 40. The 

 sum was thus made up : Warrington and 

 Burtonwood each 4 61. 8</.; Glazebrook 

 95. 4</.; the third part of Great Sankey 

 261. S,/.; Woolston 335. 4</.; Rixton 241. 



* Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 219. 



An Easter roll of the year i 580 is pre- 

 served among the Norris D. (B. M.); the 

 amount received at the 'houseling board ' 

 was 481. go 1 .; 121. 6d. was laid out on 

 bread and wine. This has been printed 

 in full by Mr. J. Paul Rylands in Trans. 

 Hist. Soc. (New Sen), xix, with a number 

 of illustrative particulars. 



6 Common-wealth Cb. Surv. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 51. Gilbert Ireland 

 was a Parliamentarian, so that his estates 

 were untouched. The value of the man- 

 sion-house, with its barn and garden, was 



'Plund. Mins. Aects. (Rec. Soc. Lanes. 

 and Ches.), i, 34 ; this order was made in 

 1 646. James Anderton, the farmer of the 

 Childwall tithes, was a 'papist and delin- 

 quent,' whose estates were sequestered. 



" Ibid. 288. 30 only was payable in 

 1655, but was increased to 40; ibid. 

 ii, 132, 289. 



preserved, e.g. Elias, xiii cent. (Wballey 

 Coucher [Chet. Soc.], i, 126) ; Richard de 

 Standish, c. 1240 (Kuerden, ii, fol. 219, 

 n. 330); Roger was dean in 1277 (De 

 Banco R. 21, m. 18) ; Henry de Waver- 

 tree, vicar of Childwall, 1319; Richard 



12 Valor Eccl. loc. cit. The deanery was 

 in the hands of William Knight, archdea- 

 con of Chester, and he farmed it out to 

 Richard Clerk, chaplain. The sources of 

 income were the probate dues on wills, 



payable by the benericed'clergy. 



18 Richard, priest of Warrington was 

 witness to a charter between 1175 and 

 1182; Lanes. Fife R. 287. 



There is an account of the rectors in 

 W. Beamont's Warr. Ch. Notes ; see also 

 Baines' Lanes, (ed. Croston), iv, 417-26. 



14 James rector of Warrington attested 

 a grant to Stanlaw made before 1233 ; 

 WKallty Coucher, ii, 416. 



^bOrCtiKfcr.iii, 7*3,919. Jordan 



Lever Deeds; Add.' MS. 32103, As. 66, 



S. 32103, 

 of'jordande Hulton complained in 1292 of 



In July, 1325, Sankey had the king' 

 protection for twelve months, perhaps 01 

 going abroad in the king's service, an. 

 shortly afterwards he resigned the rectory . 

 Cal. of Pat. 1324-7, p. 148. 



19 Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. loii. 



so Ibid, ii, fol. 105*; the new r< 

 had held Leatherhead (' Ledred ') in th 

 diocese of Winchester, exchanging it fo 

 Warrington. He is mentioned in 133.. 

 in Coram Rege R. 297, m. 94. Sons o 

 Robert de Houton were concerned in 

 plea by his executors in 1344; ibic. 

 R. 337, m. 19. 



31 Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. n6A. H 

 had been rector of Whittington. 



32 Ibid, ii, fol. 119 ; the new rector ha 

 held Luyton, in the diocese of Lincoln. 



48 Ibid, ii, fol. 128*; the new recto 



24 Ibid, ii, fol. 1 34 ; the new rector ha i 

 been rector of Winwick, Huntingdon- 

 shire. He is probably the John d- 

 Swinlegh, priest of the diocese of Lichfielc , 

 who was made a notary by Clement VI 

 in 1351, and had an indult to choose 

 confessor, &c. ; Cal. of Papal Letters, ii 

 447, 449. He became archdeacon <; 

 Huntingdon in 1362 on the king's preser 



25 Lich. Epis. Reg. iv, fol. 80. The 



others; Assize R. 408, m. t,od. 61 d. 

 9 6J. " Beamont, op. cit. 28. 



i? Witness to a Warrington charter in 

 1289 ; Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 15*, n. 3. 



is ' William rector of Warrington ' had 



on 22 Feb. 1298-9, licence to attend 



the schools for three years, during which 



time he was not to be compelled to enter 



3 IO 



written Donne, but possibly it should b 

 Doune. On 10 Nov. 1362, he, beiiu 

 then a subdeacon, obtained the bishop' i 

 leave to be absent from his church ft r 

 three years ; ibid, v, fol. 7 b. On 9 Ma> . 

 .366, this was renewed for two years'; 

 ibid, v, fol. 13*. Thus he was abset t 

 almost all the time he held the rectory. 



