SALFORD HUNDRED 



ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE 



Instituted 



? July 1332 



1 8 Jan. 1351-2 

 oc. 1356 . . 



12 May 1362 



13 Oct. 1372 

 i Nov. 1373 



1 8 May 1374 

 c. 1400 . 



22 NOV. 1424 



12 June 1425 

 1 6 Nov. 1458 

 31 May 1486 



2 Oct. 1535 



1 1 Aug. 1554 . 



12 June 1557 



29 Jan. 1563-4 . 



1605 . . 



15 Mar. 1618-19 

 c. 1646 . . . 



Name 

 Gregory de Newton m . . . 



Thomas de Rodeston 14J . 

 Thomas de Wyk 143 .... 

 Thomas son of Thomas de Wyk 144 

 Thomas La Warre Ui . . . . 

 JohndeMarchford 146 .... 

 Henry de Nettleworth 1J7 . . . 

 John Huntingdon 148 

 James Skellington 149 . 

 John Huntingdon 14 . . . . 

 Lawrence Ashton 151 



Gervase Ashton 1H 



Edward Molyneux li3 . . . . 

 William Thomson 1M . . . . 

 William Rogerson 1M . . . . 

 Hugh Griffith, D. Deer. 156 . . 

 Robert Braboner 1M .... 

 Robert Parker, M.A. 1M . . . 

 Henry Fairfax, D.D. Ii9 . . . . 

 John Harrison, B.A. 16 . . . , 



Patron 



Joan La Warre 



Roger La Warre 

 Lewis de Clifford 

 John La Warre 



T. La Warre . . 







Sir Thomas Ashton 

 Thomas Ashton 



A. Radcliffe, &c. 

 Sir T. Stanley . 

 King and Queen 

 T. Hoghton . 

 Exors. G. Parker 

 Sir T. Fairfax . 

 Parliament . 



Cause of Vacancy 

 exch. R. de Benning- 



holme 

 d. Gregory de Newton 



d. T. de Wyk 

 res. T. La Warre 

 exch. J. de Marchford 



res. J. Huntingdon 

 res. J. Skellington 

 d. J. Huntingdon 

 d. L. Ashton 

 d G. Ashton 

 d. E. Molyneux 

 d. W. Thomson 

 d. last incumbent 

 d. H. Griffith 

 d. R. Braboner 

 d. R. Parker 



141 Ibid, ii, fol. 1 08 ; the new rector 

 had been vicar of Blyth in the diocese of 

 York, and there had been an interchange 

 of letters between the archbishop and the 

 Bishop of Lichfield as to the purity of 

 motive for this exchange. 



142 Ibid, ii, fol. 129; a chaplain. In 

 the previous October leave had been 

 granted to him to attend the obsequies 

 (insisterc olsequiis) of Sir Thomas de 

 Holland for two years ; ibid. 



148 Ibid, ii, fol. 1 5 ; leave of absence 

 for two years. Ibid, v, fol. 36 ; licence 

 to him to attend the obsequies of Sir 

 Roger La Warre for two years from Dec. 

 1360. He was rector of Manchester 

 also. 



144 Ibid. iv. fol. 80 ; the benefice had 

 been vacant since 16 March. To Thomas 

 de Wyk the younger leave of absence was 

 granted as follows : 1363 two years to 

 attend the ttudium generate ; ibid, v, fol. 8. 

 1365 two years 'in a fit and reputable 

 place'; ibid, v, fol. 96. 1366 one year; 

 ibid, v, fol. 153. 1370-1 two years; 

 ibid, v, fol. 24/>. (At the same time the 

 other Thomas de Wyk, rector of Man- 

 chester, obtained leave of absence also.) 

 It will be seen that this rector was little 

 resident. 



146 Ibid, iv, fol. 86; in the first tonsure. 

 The rectory had become vacant on 14 July 

 at ' Skrerkynton,' dioc. Lincoln. For 

 Thomas La Warre see the account of 

 Manchester Church. 



146 Ibid, iv, fol. 866. 



14 7 Ibid, iv, fol. 87 ; the new rector had 

 been rector of Wakerley, dioc. Line. In 

 1379 he had a year's leave of absence ; 

 ibid, v, fol. 326,' also three years' leave in 

 1384 ; ibid, v, fol. 366. 



'William rector of Ashton' occurs in 

 like manner in 1389-90, but he may have 

 been rector of Ashton-on-Mersey ; ibid, 

 vi, fol. 125^. 



148 He is said to have begun the re- 

 building of Ashton Church in 1413. For 

 his life see Raines, Wardens of Manch. 

 {Chet. Soc.), 16-23, aru ^ tne account of 

 Manchester Church, of which he was 

 warden from 1422 to 1458, when he died. 

 In 1420 John Huntingdon, B. Can. Law, 

 rector of Ashton, obtained the papal 

 dispensation to hold another benefice ; 

 Cal. Papal Letters, vii, 143. 



149 Baines, Lanes, (ed. Croston), ii, 317, 



from the Lichfield registers. Mr. Ear- 

 waker's note gives the name as ' Ikelyng- 

 ton.' 



140 Croston and Earwaker, from Lich- 

 field registers. 



161 Lich. Epis. Reg. xi, fol. 43* , a 

 chaplain. According to an inscription 

 formerly in the windows this rector con- 

 tinued the building of the church. 



168 Ibid, xii, fol. 120*; a clerk. He 

 also took part in the erection of the church, 

 which was completed by Sir Thomas 

 Ashton. Rector Gervase was living in 

 1513 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, 

 80. 



1M Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), T, 227. 

 He was rector of Sefton also. For the 

 presentations during this century see the 

 case cited above in Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 

 296, m. 6, 7. 



164 Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 34^ ; 

 a clerk. The patrons were Sir Alexander 

 Radcliffe, Sir Richard Ashton, and Thurs- 

 tan Tyldesley, by consent of Elizabeth 

 Ashton, widow, one of the heirs of Sir 

 Thomas Ashton deceased. For a tithe 

 dispute see Ducatui Lane. (Rec. Com.), 

 i, 167. 



The will of the rector, dated 2 Sep- 

 tember, 1553, is printed in Piccope's 

 Will* (Chet. Soc.), i, 90-3 ; he left 401. 

 to Peter Bower his schoolmaster at 

 Standish. 



165 Church P. at Chester. The patron 

 was son of the Earl of Derby and pre- 

 sented for that turn by grant of Sir 

 Richard Hoghton, the patron. William 

 Rogerson paid his first-fruits on 30 August 

 1554 ; Lanes, and Ches. Recs. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 409 (from which 

 place the other notices of the first-fruits 

 have been taken). 



ls Church P. at Chester. This Hugh 

 Griffith appears to have been outlawed in 

 1563 ; Ducatus Lane, ii, 265, 300. 



He was probably the Hugh Gryffyn, 

 priest, who graduated at Cambridge in 

 1534-5 as B. Can. L. ; Grace Bk. r 

 (Camb.), 294. 



1S ? Mr. Earwaker's note. The first- 

 fruits were paid 4 Feb. 1563-4. Braboner 

 was ordained subdeacon in Sept. 1557; 

 Ordin. Bk. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 96. He was 'no preacher' in 1590 (S.P. 

 Dom. Eliz. xxxi, 47), and in 1604 was 

 reported to be ' unable to read ' perhaps 



349 



from physical infirmity ; Visit. P. at 

 Chester. He was buried at Ashton, 25 

 Feb. 1604-5. To John Moores, his 

 curate, he left his best book and a mourn- 

 ing cloak. See also Ducatus Lane, iii, 

 107. 



168 Of Lincoln College, Oxford, M.A., 

 1596; Foster, Alumni. He was 'a 

 preacher* ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, 

 App. iv, 1 2. The inventory of the goods 

 of Robert Parker, amounting to about 

 80, is dated 24 Feb. 1618-19 ; and 

 administration was granted to his widow 

 Dorothy in July following. At the same 

 vacancy one Alexander Chaderton was 

 presented by Margaret Hulme, in virtue 

 of a grant by Dame Elizabeth Booth, but 

 was opposed by Elizabeth Parker and 

 others ; Act Bks. at Chester. 



169 From this time the dates of institu- 

 tion have been compared with those in 

 the Institution Books P.R.O., printed in 

 Lanes, and Cbes. Antiq. Notes. Fairfax 

 paid first-fruits 1 1 May 1619. He con- 

 tributed to the clergy loan of 1 620 ; 

 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 54. 

 At the visitation of 1622 it was reported 

 that Mr. Fairfax administered the com- 

 munion to those who did not kneel. His 

 curate did likewise, and sometimes omitted 

 the cross in baptism ; Visit. P. at 

 Chester. He is usually said to have been , 

 expelled as a Royalist about 1643, and 

 dying 6 April 1665, was buried at Bolton 

 Percy. 



He was a younger son of Sir Thomas 

 Lord Fairfax, and was fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge ; inherited Oglethorpe, 

 near Tadcaster, where he died. He is said 

 to have been beneficed in Yorkshire in the 

 Commonwealth period, holding Bolton 

 Percy from 1646 to 1660, which throws 

 doubt on the story of his expulsion from 

 Ashton ; moreover, he did not reclaim the 

 rectory in 1660, and is not mentioned in 

 the Royalist Composition papers. His 

 eldest son Henry, born at Ashton, became 

 the fourth Lord Fairfax ; a younger son, 

 Brian, was an author. There are notices 

 of Rector Fairfax and his son Brian in 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



160 His possession was in tome degree 

 irregular. In 1650 he was described 

 as 'an orthodox, painful, able minister,' 

 who had been put in by the Parliament, 

 Chough Sir George Booth had formerly 



