SALFORD HUNDRED 



BOLTON-LE-MOORS 



certified income was only 36. By a lease of the 

 rectory granted in 1 740 the pension of the vicar was 

 raised from 10 to 36, and a sub-lease of the whole 



estate was made to the vicar.* More recently the Earl 

 of Bradford endowed the vicarage with 100 a year/ 1 

 and the annual value is now stated to be 770" 



The following is a list of the vicars : 



Institution 



oc. 1292 . 

 oc. 1302, 1310 



30 Sept. 1320 

 1 6 Oct. 1334. 



12 Oct. 1351. 

 25 Nov. 1373 

 oc. 1436 . . 



Nov. 1469 

 oc. 1474 . . 



19 Jan. 1503-4 

 c. 1514 . . 



20 Oct. 1556 



c. 1560 . . 



7 Aug. 1582 



10 June 1594 



1595 . . 

 29 Sept. 1598 



Name 



Patron 



Alexander M 

 Randle . 

 Ralph S6 



Richard de Warton 37 Prior of Marsey 



Thomas Azari S8 



Thomas de Prestwold w 



Randle de Bolton 40 Prior of Marsey , 



Henry de Smetheley 4l . . . . 



John de Coventry" 



William Parsyvall a Prior of Marsey , 



Giles Lever 44 



James Smetheley 4 * Prior of Marsey 



James Bolton 46 ' , 



Thomas Pendlebury 47 H. Ditchfield, &c. 



Edward Cockerell 4S 



Alexander Smith 49 Bernard Anderton 



John Albright, M.A. M . . . . Bishop of Chester . 



Zacharias Saunders, M.A. 51 . . . 



Ellis Saunderson, M.A. M .... Bishop of Chester , 



Cause of Vacancy 



d. Ralph 



res. R. de Warton 



d. T. de Prestwold 

 d. Randle 



res. J. de Coventry 

 d. G. Lever 



d. J. Bolton 



d. Ed. Cockerell 

 d. A. Smith 

 res. J. Albright 

 res. Z. Saunders 



89 Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 6 ; the amount 

 was thus made up : House and glebe, 

 10 ; pension, 10 ; chief rents, 1 51. $d.\ 

 and surplice fees, i 5 6s. 8</. The clear 

 profits of the rectory, which by the lease 

 of 1670 were to go to the vicar, are not 

 accounted for ; but a statement drawn up 

 about the same time shows that they 

 were worth over 40 clear ; Scholes and 

 Pimblett, op. cit. 114. Some twenty 

 years later, however, the value is given 

 as 167 IQS. ; ibid. 116. 



A terrier compiled in 1696 is printed in 

 the same work, 118. 



80 Ibid. 117. "Ibid. izi. 



83 Mane ft. Dioc. Dir. 1910. 



83 There is an excellent account of the 

 vicars in Scholes and Pimblett's work. 



84 Robert de Gidlow was in 1292 non- 

 suited in a claim against Alexander, vicar 

 of Bolton, concerning certain of his 

 chattels which had been seized ; Assize R. 

 408, m. 54. 



84 He occurs in deeds in the Lever 

 Chartul. (Add. MS. 32103), no. 76, 79. 



86 He may be the same as Randle. 



7 Lich. Epis. Reg. i, fol. 88. He was a 

 priest. In 1334 he became rector of 

 Prestwich. 



88 Ibid, ii, fol. 1 10 ; a priest. 



89 He may be identical with Thomas 

 Azari. 



40 Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 129. He is 

 called a chaplain. 



41 Ibid, iv, fol. 86i ; a priest. His 

 predecessor had died on the Saturday before 

 All Saints' Day. A Robert de Lostock is 

 mentioned as vicar of Bolton in 1360, but 

 probably it was of some other place of 

 that name ; Kuerden MSS. iii, W i, no. 

 66. 



Henry de Smetheley was still vicar in 

 1411 ; Add. MS. 32104, no. 1209; also 

 in 1419 ; Pal. of Lane. Chan. Misc. 

 bdle. i, file 14. 



43 Lever Chartul. in an unnumbered 

 deed (14 Hen. VI), between no. 207 and 

 no. 208. In 1445 he was in mercy for 

 various defaults ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 

 8, m. ii. 



There appears to have been a dispute 

 over his appointment, for a deed of 1461 

 among the Weld-Blundell muniments 

 states that the Heaton family had received 

 a corrody or livery from Marsey Priory on 

 renouncing their claim to the patronage 

 of Bolton Church, and that on the death 

 of one Robert Heaton the prior had made 

 terms with the heir by which the corrody 

 was resigned and John Coventry was 

 allowed to have the vicarage; CA. Gdi. 

 1552 (Chet Soc.), 29. 



49 Lich. Epis. Reg. xii, fol. 104^ ; a 

 chaplain. 



44 He occurs as vicar in a Rivington 

 deed of the year 1474 (?) ; Towneley 

 MS. GG, no. 1717 ; also in a Weld- 

 Blundell deed of 1486 ; Church Gds. 29; 

 and in the same year he was a witness to 

 the will of John Hulton of Farnworth ; 

 Wills (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 27. 



43 Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 53 ; a 

 chaplain. He was still vicar in April 

 1513, when he was one of the feoffees of 

 John Barton of Smithills ; Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, no. 82. James Bolton 

 appears to have succeeded by 1516, when 

 the will was made ; ibid. 



46 In 1523 it was stated that James 

 Bolton, priest, had been vicar for ten 

 years, having been nominated by the 

 Prior of Marsey ; Scholes and Pimblett, 

 op. cit. 240. His name occurs also in the 

 Valor of 1535 (v, 220), as well as in the 

 lists of 1541-2, 1548, and 1554. Parti- 

 culars of his suits of the last date respect- 

 ing tithes are printed in Scholes and Pim- 

 blett, loc. cit. A James Bolton was at 

 Cambridge in 1503-4 ; Grace Bk. B. 

 (Luard Mem.), 192. 



*' Church P. at Chest. Dioc. Reg. The 

 bishop in 1543 granted the next presenta- 

 tion to George Wilmesley and Richard 

 Smith, two of his officials, who next year 

 transferred it to Hamnet Ditchfield of 

 Chester, John Whitby, a vicar choral of 

 St. John's Chester, and Richard Falkner, 

 priest-chanter of the same church ; see 

 Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 242-5. 



Thomas Pendlebury was ordained 



239 



priest in 1 544 ; W. F. Irvine, Or Jin. Bk. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 56. 



48 He was vicar in 1563, but at the 

 time of the visitation was absent, ' with 

 the Bishop of Durham ' ; Visit. List ; see 

 also Ches. Sheaf (ser. 3),!, 34. Ten years 

 later it was reported that he had a pension 

 of j5 6s. %d. out of the late monastery of 

 Gisburn (Guisborough), and another of 

 6 out of the late college of Bishop 

 Auckland, and dwelt at Bolton ; Ch. 

 Gdi. 25. It thus appears that he had 

 been an Austin Canon ; Ord, Cleveland, 

 192. Robert Lever, by his will of Aug. 

 1551, bequeathed 'unto the vicar of Bol- 

 ton, Edward Cockerell, 31. 4</., to pray for 

 me' ; frills (Chet. Soc. new sen), i, 221 ; 

 but the date seems erroneous. 



49 Act Bks. at Chester. Smith paid 

 first-fruits on 14 Feb. 1583-4 ; Lanct.and 

 Ches. Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 

 410. He was 'a preacher,' but not 'pain- 

 ful ' ; S.P. Dom. Eliz. xxxi, 47. He was 

 buried in the church 28 Dec. 1593 ; his 

 wife followed on 10 May 1600. 



* Scholes and Pimblett, op. cit. 248. 

 He was of Christ's College, Cambridge, 

 and then of Magdalene ; M.A. 1588. He 

 became a vicar choral of Christ Church, 

 Dublin, in 1595, and Dean of Raphoe in 

 1603 ; Cooper, Athenae Cantab, ii, 527. 



" He was of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, and appointed master of Rivington 

 School in 1589 ; Baker, Hist. St. John's 

 Coll. (ed. Mayor), 1,431. He paid first- 

 fruits 10 July 1595 ; Lanes, and Ches. 

 Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 

 411. 



M He paid first-fruits 17 Feb. 1598-9 ; 

 ibid. He graduated at Oxford (Brasenose 

 College), M.A., 1592 ; Foster, Alumni. 

 He was a native of Breightmet, and in 

 religion a resolute Puritan. A full account 

 of his career is given in Scholes and Pim- 

 blett, op. cit. 252-6, where a summary of 

 his will is also given. 



On 9 Aug. 1607 a licence was granted 

 for the marriage of Ellis Saunderson, vicar 

 of Bolton, and Margery Battersby of 

 Bolton parish. 



