WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



WINWICK 



Instituted Name Presented by 



12 Dec. 1349 Geoffrey de Burgh 39 Priory of Nostell . 



. . William de Blackburn 40 .... 



oc. 13845 . . John de Harwood 41 



23 Jan. 1384-5 . Thomas le Boteler u The King . . . 



- 1386 . . Walter de Thornholme 43 . ... . . . 

 1388 . . Robert le King " The Pope . . . 



6 May 1389 William Daas 45 . . . . {ThePope. * ' 



(The King . . . 



3 April 1423 . Mr. Richard Stanley 46 Bishop of Lichfield 



ii Mar. 1432-3 Thomas Bourchier 47 Sir John Stanley . 



oc. 1436 . . George Radcliffe, D. Deer. 48 . . . 



19 June 1453 . Edward Stanley 49 Sir Thomas Stanley 



22 Nov. 1462 . James Stanley 50 Henry Byrom . . 



25 Aug. 1485 . Robert Cliff 51 Lord Stanley . . 



27 Feb. 1493-4. Mr. James Stanley, D.Can.L. " . . Earl of Derby . . 



2 1 June 1515 . Mr. Thomas Larke S3 ... 



1525 . . Thomas Winter 54 The King . . . 



23 Dec. 1529 . William Boleyne" . . . 



10 April 1 5 52 . Thomas Stanley 56 Earl of Derby . . 



Cause of Vacancy 

 d. J. de Chisenhale 



d. R. Stanley 



d. G. Radcliffe 

 d. E. Stanley 

 d. J. Stanley 

 res. R. Cliff 

 d. Bp. of Ely 

 res. T. Larke 

 res. T. Winter 

 d. W. Boleyne 



89 Lich. Epis. Reg. Northburgh, ii, fol. 

 I2$. He was a canon of Nostell. His 

 institution was confirmed eight years 

 later, viz., 28 Nov. 1357 ; ibid, ii, fol. 

 126. In the following year he was 

 described as ' lately vicar ' ; Raines MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), xxxviii, 425. The church 

 was vacant in 1360 ; De Banco R. 404, 

 m. 3. 



40 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xl, App. 523. It 

 is not known whether Blackburn and his 

 immediate successors were ever insti- 

 tuted. 



41 Ibid. A protection for John de Har- 

 wood, vicar of Winwick, against William 

 de Blackburn, late usurper of the benefice ; 

 dated 22 Jan. 1384-5. 



43 Cal.Pat. 1381-5, p. 528. It will be 

 noticed that he was presented the day 

 after the protection to John de Harwood 

 was granted. 



48 Ibid. 1385-9, p. 127 ; this was only 

 a ' ratification of his estate.' He was to 

 have accompanied John of Gaunt into 

 Aquitaine in 1388, but stayed behind in 

 London ; ibid. pp. 497, 518. 



44 Robert le King is named as ' per- 

 petual vicar" of Winwick, in July 1388 ; 

 Towneley MS. OO, no. 1539. 



45 Cal. Pat. 1388-92, pp. 32, 363. 

 After the disputes and unsettlement in- 

 dicated by these rapid changes came a 

 time of rest, this rector remaining for 

 about thirty years. 



It was the pope who presented William 

 Daas to the rectory, the advowson being 

 in his hands ; but the Statute of Provisors 

 causing difficulty the king presented the 

 same clerk, and afterwards ratified his 

 title. These facts appear from a petition 

 by the rector, about 1398, complaining 

 that a certain Robert de Hallam had in- 

 formed the king that the church was 

 vacant, and procured a presentation for 

 himself; P.R.O. Anct. Pet. file 220, 

 no. 10999. 



William Daas had licence for an ora- 

 tory in 1393 ; Lich. Epis. Reg. Scrope, 

 vi, fol. i29/>. From this and other evi- 

 dences he appears to have been resident. 

 A complaint was made by him in 1393 

 that having closed a path through one of 

 his glebe fields, Sir John le Boteler and 

 others had forcibly broken through. The 

 verdict was in his favour ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Misc. bdle. i, file 8, m. 6, 7. He is 

 al*o mentioned in 1404 and 1405 ; 

 ibid, file 9, m. 71, 68. In 1407 he pur- 

 chased from Sir William Boteler the right 



to make a weir or attachment for captur- 

 ing fish in Sankey water ; Beamont, 

 Winiuick, 19 (quoting Butler Deeds). He 

 with Thomas de Longley (late Archdeacon 

 of Norfolk), Eustace Daas, and John 

 Drewe, gave fine for a writ in 1411-12 ; 

 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. i, 173. 



46 Lich. Epis. Reg. Heyworth, ix, fol. 

 uzb. As the bishop collated, the 'vicar- 

 age,' as it is still called, must have been 

 vacant for some time, but the reason is not 

 given. Master Richard Stanley was ap- 

 pointed archdeacon of Chester in 1426 ; 

 Le Neve, Fasti, i, 567. 



47 Lich. Epis. Reg. Heyworth, ix, izib. 

 The new ' rector ' probably held the bene- 

 fice till his consecration as Bishop of 

 Worcester in 1435 ; he became Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 



48 Dr. George Radcliffe, son of Sir 

 Ralph Radcliffe of Smithills, was Arch- 

 deacon of Chester in 1449; Le Neve, op. cit. 

 He held a canonry in St. John's, Chester, 

 till his death ; Ormerod, Cbes. (ed. Hels- 

 by), i, 310. He is mentioned as rector 

 in 1436 ; Kuerden MSS. Hi, W. 6, no. 79. 

 He had been rector of Wilmslow and 

 Longford in succession ; Earwaker, East 

 Cheshire, i, 88. For pedigree see Whi- 

 taker, Whalley (ed. Nichols), ii, 319. 



49 Lich. Epis. Reg. Boulers, xi, fol. 37^. 

 He was also appointed Archdeacon of 

 Chester ; Le Neve, loc. sup. cit. 



60 Lich. Epis. Reg. Hales, xii, fol. ioob. 

 Henry Byrom was patron for this turn. 

 James Stanley was a son of the first Lord 

 Stanley ; Archdeacon of Chester 1478, 

 Warden of Manchester 1481, and Rector 

 of Warrington 1482, holding all these 

 till his death ; see Le Neve. 



61 Lich. Epis. Reg. Hales, xii, fol. 120 ; 

 he engaged to pay a pension of 24 marks 

 a year to the dean and chapter of Lich- 

 field. One Robert ClifFe was priest of a 

 chantry in St. John's, Chester, from 1478 

 to 1516 ; Ormerod, op. cit. i, 313. 



62 Lich. Epis. Reg. Smith, xii, fol. 157^. 

 He was son of the patron, and had suc- 

 ceeded his uncle as Warden of Manches- 

 ter in 1485. He became Bishop of Ely 

 in 1506, retaining Winwick till his death. 

 An account of him will be found in Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. 



53 Lich. Epis. Reg. Blyth, xiii-xiv, fol. 

 59. He held various benefices, being one 

 of Cardinal Wolsey's chaplains, and his 

 confessor. He continued faithful to Wolsey 

 on his fall and died just before him in 

 1530 ; see L. and P. Hen. VIII , iv, 2936, 



I2 7 



&c. The scandal of the times alleged 

 that his sister had been the cardinal's 

 mistress. 



In July 1515 Thomas, Earl of Derby, 

 granted to Sir William Pole and others 

 the advowson of Winwick, with instruc- 

 tions to present Randle Pole, clerk, at the 

 next vacancy ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 v, no. 68. Randle Pole was rector of 

 Hawarden in 1516. 



54 L. and P. Hen. VIII, iv, 3095 ; the 

 king presented on account of the minority 

 of the patron. 



Thomas Winter is usually stated to 

 have been the son of Cardinal Wolsey, 

 but was perhaps his nephew. He appears 

 at this time to have been only a boy, and 

 in 1519 was learning Latin. In 1528 

 he was living in Paris, continuing his 

 studies. The manner in which benefices 

 and dignities (e.g. the deanery of Wells, 

 the archdeaconries of York, Richmond, 

 Suffolk, and Norfolk) were heaped upon 

 this non-resident youth is a singular illus- 

 tration of the zeal for Church reform 

 sometimes attributed to Cardinal Wolsey. 

 Winter appears to have resigned his pre- 

 ferments at or soon after the cardinal's 

 fall, and nothing more is known of him. 

 See L. and P. Hen. VIII, iii, iv, and Le 

 Neve. 



55 Lich. Epis. Reg. Blyth, xiii-xiv, fol. 

 65^. The presentation, dated 20 Nov., 

 was made by the king, the Earl of Derby 

 being still a minor ; L. and P. Hen. VIII, 

 iv, 2710. He received other church pre- 

 ferments about this time, being probably 

 William Bolen, Archdeacon of Win- 

 chester, 1529 ; Le Neve, op. cit. iii, 26. 



For the bells, plate, and other orna- 

 ments in 1552 see Ch. Gds. (Chet. Soc.), 

 62-5. 



56 Act Bks. at Ches. Dioc. Reg. He 

 paid his first-fruits 5 Apr. 1552 ; Lanes, 

 and Ches. Recs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 408. A fuller account of him 

 will be found under Wigan, of which 

 church, as also of North Meols, he was 

 rector ; Bishop of Sodor and Man ; see 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



In Oct. 1563 Bishop Stanley leased 

 the rectory, including the manor and 

 glebe, for ninety-nine years at a rent of 

 120 to Sir Thomas Stanley. The Earl 

 of Derby, father of the lessee, and the 

 Bishop of Chester were consenting parties. 

 This lease appears to have caused much 

 difficulty and loss, and in 1618 the rector 

 endeavoured to have it cancelled ; by a 



