A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Instituted 

 1296 . . 

 1 8 Nov. 1299 

 12 Apr. 1306 

 24 Jan. 1313-4 

 28 Sept. 1323 

 24 Aug. 1327 

 21 Aug. 1351 

 oc. 1390 . . 



25 Nov. 1422 

 1459 . . 



Name Patron 



William Sygyn *> 3 The King . . . 



Otho de Grandison ' 4 



Geoffrey de Stokes MS Thomas Grelley . 



Mr. John de Everdon .... Sir John La Warre 

 Mr. Adam de Southwick s97 . 



John de Claydon W8 



Thomas de Wyke *" Joan Dame La Warre 



Thomas Lord La Warre 300 . . 



Cause of Vacancy 

 res. Bp. Langton 



res. J. de Everdon 

 d. A. de Southwick 

 d. J. de Claydon 



WARDENS 



John Huntington, B.Decr. 501 

 Roger Radcliffe, LL.D. 303 . 



T. La Warre 



res. T. La Warre 



face VIII at the king's request allowed 

 his clerk Walter de Langton, deacon, 

 papal chaplain, to hold a number of bene- 

 fices and canonries, resigning some and 

 accepting Manchester among others ; 

 Cal. of Papal Letters, i, 559. There is a 

 notice of him in Diet. Nat. Biog. 



298 In 1299 W. Bishop of Lichfield 

 and formerly rector of Manchester agreed 

 with William de Gringley, rector of Marn- 

 ham, and the other farmers of the church 

 of Manchester concerning moneys due to 

 him, amounting to over 40 ; also 6s. 

 which the Dean of Manchester received 

 during the time of vacancy, and I CM. 6d. 

 which the farmer of William Sygyn, rector 

 in 1299, had received ; Lich. Epis. Reg. 

 Langton, i, fol. 4. 



The king presented his clerk Master 

 William Segini del God to the rectory in 



1296 ; Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 190. In 



1 297 the pope allowed his chaplain Master 

 William Siguin to hold the rectory of 

 Manchester, having resigned a benefice in 

 Agen (France), and having canonries and 

 prebends there and in Wells and Howden ; 

 he had been under age when first beneficed ; 

 Cal. of Papal Letters, i, 572. 



294 Lich. Epis. Reg. i, fol. 4*, 86. ; on 

 the day of his institution he had leave to 

 be absent at the schools for two years, and 

 a few months afterwards (29 Mar. 1300) 

 the time was extended to five years. It 

 is probable, therefore, that he never saw 

 Manchester. Thomas Grelley, the lord 

 of Manchester, was a minor in 1299, so 

 that the king presented, as in the pre- 

 ceding vacancies ; Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, 

 p. 440. 



In 1301 the pope made provision, at 

 the request of Otho de Grandison, to his 

 nephew Otho of a canonry and prebend 

 of York, notwithstanding that he held 

 canonries and prebends of Lausanne and 

 Autun, the church of Manchester, and 

 two others which he was to resign ; Cal. 

 of Papal Letters, i, 594. In the same year 

 Otho was a clerk at Cambridge, and he 

 and his men were the victims of an 

 assault; Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 629. 

 In 1304 he had the king's licence to go 

 beyond the seas (ibid. 1301-7, p. 217), 

 and does not seem to have returned to 

 Manchester. 



295 The custody of the church (in 

 sequestration) was granted on 31 Mar. 

 1306 to Geoffrey de Stokes, one of the 

 king's clerks, and a fortnight later he was 

 instituted to the rectory ; Lich. Epis. Reg. 

 Langton, i, fol. lob. The reason for the 

 sequestration is not expressed. Geoffrey 

 de Stokes was rector of Gransden, Cam- 

 bridge, in 1302, and resigned Wotton 

 for Brightwell in 1304 ; Cal. Pat. 1301-7, 

 pp. 63, 304. 



296 Lich. Epis. Reg. Langton, i, fol. 606; 

 he was a priest. In the survey of 1322 

 it is recorded that John de Everdon was 

 rector, and in possession of the endow- 



ment, valued at 200 marks a year, con- 

 sisting of eight burgages in Manchester, 

 the vills of Newton, Kirkmanshulme, and 

 appurtenances ; Mamecestre (Chet. Soc.), 

 ii, 378. He held a prebend at St. Paul's 

 and became dean in 1323 ; he died 

 15 Jan. 1336-7 ; Le Neve, op. cit. ii, 

 417, 311. He had held other benefices 

 and canonries before coming to Man- 

 chester ; Cal. of Papal Letters, ii, 23, &c.; 

 Le Neve, op. cit. i, 586, 418. 



M 7 Lich. Epis. Reg. Northburgh, ii, 

 fol. 996 ; he was a clerk. He was rector 

 of Rostherne in Cheshire from 131910 

 1323 ; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), i, 

 437. He died 31 July 1327. 



398 Lich. Epis. Reg. Northburgh, ii, 

 fol. 102 ; a priest. In June 1344 he 

 had leave of absence for fifteen months ; 

 ibid, ii, fol. ii. He attested several local 

 deeds ; see Raines, Wardens, 8. He was 

 rector of Swineshead in 1327 ; Dods. 

 MSS. cxlix, fol. 1566. Probably he re- 

 signed it for Manchester. In 1330 John 

 XXII granted him the provision of a 

 canonry at St. Paul's, with reservation of 

 a prebend ; Cal. of Papal Letters, ii, 321 ; 

 Le Neve, op. cit. ii, 407. From a plea 

 in the following year it appears he had 

 owed ,130 to John son of Roger La 

 Warre ; De Banco R. 286, m. 28 d. 



299 Lich. Epis. Reg. Northburgh, ii, 

 fol. 1 29 ; a chaplain. In the following 

 January, being described as priest, he 

 received leave of absence for study ; ibid. 

 ii, fol. izb. He obtained leave of ab- 

 sence for a year or two at various later 

 dates [355, 1361, 1362, 1365, 1371, 

 and 1380; ibid, ii, fol. 146; v, fol. jb, 

 gt, 246, 336; Raines, (op. cit. 10) records 

 a similar licence in 1357, so that Wyke's 

 residence at Manchester was but inter- 

 mittent. In 1368 he had leave to absolve 

 his parishioners until Easter, and to choose 

 a confessor for two years ; Lich. Epis. 

 Reg. Stretton, ii, fol. 19. He is some- 

 times called ' the elder ' to distinguish him 

 from Thomas de Wyke the younger, 

 rector of the adjoining parish of Ashton 

 from 1362 to 1371. 



800 The date of his institution has not 

 been discovered, but was probably about 

 1390; he had the bishop's leave of ab- 

 sence for two years, the church being let 

 to farm ; Lich. Epis. Reg. Scrope, vi, 

 fol. 1256. He succeeded to the lordship 

 of Manchester in 1398 on the death of 

 his brother John, being then 'over forty 

 years' of age ; Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, 

 no. 53. In 1363, being 'in his twenty- 

 first year,' he obtained the papal dispensa- 

 tion to be ordained priest and hold a bene- 

 fice ; Cal. of Papal Letters, iv, 31. From 

 1371 to 1373 he was rector of Ashton- 

 under-Lyne ; he held a canonry at Lin- 

 coln from 1376 till his death in 1427, 

 others at York from 1381 to 1397 and 

 1407 to 1427, at Southwell 1397 ; Le 

 Neve, Fasti, ii, 161, 158 ; iii, 191, 209, 



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450. He was also rector of Swineshead 

 in Lincolnshire in 1423 ; Raines, Wardens, 

 15. In 1390 Boniface IX, in considera- 

 tion of his noble birth and at the request 

 of Richard II, granted him a dispensation 

 to hold another benefice with cure, he 

 then having, in addition to the rectory of 

 Manchester, the free chapel of Barthorpe 

 in Lincolnshire and canonries at Lincoln 

 and York ; Cal. of Papal Letters, iv, 356. 



He resigned the rectory of Manchester 

 in order that the college he founded in its 

 place might begin its work without in- 

 cumbrance. He would then be nearly 

 eighty years of age. 



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

 112 ; on 23 Nov. 1422, at the manor of 

 Swineshead, Thomas La Warre presented 

 Mr. John Huntington to be instituted to 

 the wardenship of the collegiate church of 

 Manchester, viz. of one college, with 

 master or warden, chaplain, and eight 

 fellow chaplains, four clerks, and six 

 choristers ; two days later Huntington 

 was admitted, all episcopal rights and 

 customs and the pension of 40*. being 

 reserved. 



The new warden, who was rector of 

 Ashton, resided in Manchester ; his great 

 work was the building of the quire of the 

 church. He was buried in this part of 

 the building. His life is told by Raines, 

 op. cit. 16-23. He died ii Nov. 1458, 

 and by will of 1454 left his lands in Man- 

 chester and Salford towards the building 

 of the new work of the chancel of the 

 church of our Lady of Manchester by 

 him begun. His Chesterfield property 

 he left to his kinswoman Elizabeth Barret. 

 The testator's directions were not carried 

 out fully, for lands in Nether Alport came 

 into the possession of the Hulme family, 

 and it was not until 1 507 that a settlement 

 was made by arbitration. The feoffees 

 were then directed to receive ^5 a year 

 for a chantry priest to be nominated by 

 Ralph Hulme and his heirs, to pray for 

 the souls of John Huntington and others. 

 The warden also acquired land in Hanging 

 Ditch for an almshouse, but his intention 

 was not fulfilled. Warden Huntington's 

 last will is printed in trills (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 17, and Lanes, and 

 Ches. Antiq. Soc. iii, 144. For his me- 

 morial brass still remaining, see ibid, ii, 92. 



During his wardenship there was a 

 stormy incident. One of the clerks, 

 Thomas Barbour, had given offence to 

 the Booths and others, who attempted his 

 arrest in church. The people protecting 

 him, the Booths summoned Sir John 

 Byron and others of the gentry, who with 

 their men to the number of 500, all armed, 

 laid siege to the warden's house. The 

 clergy dare not enter the church, which 

 remained closed. See the warden's peti- 

 tion in Manch. Fello-ws (Chet. Soc.), 14. 



802 There is no record of this warden's 

 appointment, but 'on 22 Feb. 1458-9 a 



