AMOUNDERiNTESS HUNDRED 



POULTON-LE 



FYLDE 



The following have been rectors and vicars : 



Name 



RECTORS 



Instituted 



c. 1 1 60 . . . Gamel 43 



c. 1 200 . . . Richard 43 



oc. 1246-7 . . Alexander de Stanford 44 . 



Presented by 



Cause of Vacancy 



VICARS 



oc. 1294 . . 

 oc. 1325 . . 

 oc. 1332 . 



1 Apr. 1338 



2 July 1339 

 7 Oct. 1349 



oc. 1356 . . 

 oc. 1365-9 . 



6 Sept. 1383 

 23 Aug. 1403 

 21 May 1422 



7 June 1437 

 25 June 1442 

 1 8 June 146; 

 oc. 1500 . 



c. 1512-20 . 

 oc. 1530-5 . 

 oc. 1548-52 . 

 20 Dec. 1552 

 oc. 1557 . . 



Roger 45 

 John 46 



William de Sellerdale l7 . 

 William de Stalmine 43 

 William de Preston 4<J . 

 John de Fishwick 50 

 William de Clayton 81 . 

 Ralph de Penwortham 82 

 William de Southworth S3 

 William Tyndour 54 . 

 John Lytham 65 



The king 



The 



William Cronkshaw 5G Syon Abbey 



Richard Brown 67 ,, 



John Oxcliffe 58 



Richard Singleton 59 



William Bretherton G0 



Hugh Sneyd, B.D. 61 



Robert Clerke 63 



Randle Woodward 63 The king 



Richard Cropper M 



exch. W. de Stalmine 



d. W. Tyndour 



d. W. Cronkshaw 

 d. R. Brown 



a He attested a Bispham charter by 

 Robert Abbot of Shrewsbury, who died in 

 1167 ; Shireburne D. at Leagram. 



43 Fairer, op. cit. 335, 338, from deeds 

 between 1194 and 1206; Cockersand 

 Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), i, 333. 



44 He was rector of a mediety ; Lane. 

 Ch. i, 122. See also ii, 431. He claimed 

 certain lands in Poulton in 1246 ; Assize 

 R. 404, m. I2d. He may have retained 

 his rectory till 1275, when the ordination 

 of a vicarage -was finally settled. He is 

 not called a ' clerk.' 



Robert son of Alexander de Stanford 

 obtained a toft adjoining the cemetery by 

 grant of Adam son of Robert de Poulton ; 

 Lane. Ch. ii, 387. 



45 Ibid. 421. 



46 Lanes. Ct. R. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 134. 



47 This vicar in 1332 came to an agree- 

 ment with the Prior of Lytham as to the 

 tithe of fish taken on the Warthes north 

 or south of the Milne Pool of Layton. 

 The prior was to have the tithe, but was 

 to pay -is. a year ; Lytham D. at Durham, 

 3 a, 4 ae, Ebor. no. 33. 



48 Cat. Pat. 1338-40, p. 30. The date 

 is that of presentation. The king pre- 

 sented in this and other cases because the 

 estates of alien priories had been taken 

 into his hands during the war with France. 



For the king's claim see De Banco R. 

 3 1 6, m. 182. After presenting William de 

 Stalmine it was found that one Henry de 

 Carleton opposed, and he was fined for it ; 

 ibid. 317, m. 288. 



49 Cal. Pat. 1338-40, p. 264. William 

 de Preston had been vicar of Giggleswick. 

 Sec Whitaker, Craven (ed. Morant), 1 66. 

 He had a dispute with his predecessor in 

 1341 as to money owing ; DC Banco R. 

 325, m. 84. He was no doubt the 

 William, vicar of Poulton, who was in 

 1345 joined with the Prior of Lancaster 

 as liable for the repair of the chancel ; 

 Fishwick, op, cit. 207-8. 



A William de Preston was Archdeacon 

 of Stafford in 1339; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 



574- 



50 Cal. Pat. 1348-50, p. 401. The 

 church of Poulton with its chapel of 

 Bispham became void in the time of pesti- 

 lence between 8 Sept. 1349 and 1 1 Jan. 

 134950 ; Engl. Hist. Rev. v, 526. 



51 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxxviii, 

 105. William de Clayton was 'late 

 vicar' in 1359; ibid. 383. He was 

 styled the same in 1429, having been 

 concerned, in conjunction with Ralph de 

 Penwortham, chaplain no doubt his 

 successor as vicar in a grant to John de 

 Thornton, who died in 1396 ; Lanes. Inj. 

 p.m. (Chet. Soc.), ii, 24. 



M This vicar occurs in 1365 and 1369; 

 Kuerden MSS. iii, A3; ii, fol. 260. 



53 Cal. Pat. 1381-5, p. 305. He was 

 trustee in a Skillicornc settlement referred 

 to in Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. vii, no. 3. 



54 Cal. Pat. 1401-5, pp. 261, 265. 



55 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxii, 397; 

 William Kenwolmersh, Treasurer of 

 England, and others presented, Henry V 

 having lately granted them the priory of 

 Lancaster. This presentation is referred 

 to by Bishop Gastrell, as if from the 

 original register of Archdeacon Bowet 5 

 Notitia Cestr. ii, 458. As John ' Lathom ' 

 he was still vicar in 1430 ; Rentals and 

 Surv. R. 378. 



'Richard ' is named as vicar in a deed 

 of Sept. 1423 ; Add. MS. 32106, fol. 

 309. This must be a mistake in dating ; 

 see Richard Brown later. 



56 Fishwick, op. cit. 68. He is named 

 in a deed of 1437-8 as vicar ; Kuerden 

 fol. MS. 213. 



57 Raines MSS. xxii, 409. 



58 Ibid. 385. John Oxcliffe was still 

 vicar in 1487 ; Pal. of Lane. Writs Proton, 

 file i&2 Hen. VII. 



5a Brockholes of Claughton D. 

 60 William Bretherton was one of the 

 feoffees of Cuthbert Clifton, who died in 



223 



1512 ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, no. 

 12. He is named in proceedings con- 

 cerning the transfer (after 1518) of the 

 lease of tithes, &c. ; Fishwick, op. cit. 

 69, quoting Duchy of Lane. Plead, iv, 



B37- 



61 He was witness to the will of George 

 Allen of Rossall, 1530; Fishwick, op. 

 cit. 127. A letter of his is printed in 

 L. and P. Hen. Vlll t xiv (2), 206. He 

 was vicar in 1535 ; Valor Eccl. v, 262. 



A Hugh Snead (1513) occurs in the 

 pedigree of Snead of Willaston near 

 Nantwich ; Ormerod, Ches, (ed. Helsby), 

 iii, 492. Two of the surname graduated 

 at Cambridge, one as D. Civ. L. in 1511 

 12 and another (Hugh) as D.D. in 1529 

 30 ; Grace Book B (Luard Mem.), ii, 5 5 

 i, 254 ; ii, 156. Ralph Sneyd, LL.D., 

 became rector of Woodchurch in 1530 ; 

 Ormerod, op. cit. ii, 524. A Dr. Sneyd 

 was vicar of Rye in 1535 and later. 



63 He was vicar in 1 548, the king being 

 then called rector ; Visit. List at Chester. 

 He signed the return of the church goods 

 (which included two chalices and three 

 little bells in the steeple) in 1552 ; Fish- 

 wick, op. cit. 42. 



63 Act Bk. at Chester, 1502-76, fol. 

 40. He compounded for his first-fruits 

 14 Dec. 1552 ; Lanes, and Ches. Rec. 

 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 408. 

 Other vicars seem to have been excused 

 this payment. His name is in the visita- 

 tion list, 1554. 



64 Named as vicar in the will of George 

 Hull of Poulton, 1557 ; Fishwick, loc. 

 cit. He appeared and subscribed at the 

 bishop's visitation in 1562, but died soon 

 afterwards, his will being dated and proved 

 in 1565. From his bequests he appears 

 to have been one of the Croppers of 

 Lathom. He desired to be buried 'within 

 the parish church of Poulton in the highest 

 chancel near unto the table ' ; Fishwick, 

 op. cit. 70-1. The last word shows that 

 the altar had been removed. 



