A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



afterwards became the property of William Johnson." 

 After various sales the advowson came into the 

 possession of the Rev. Hugh Hornby, vicar from 

 1789 to 1847, and it has descended to his grandson 

 the present patron, Mr. Hugh Phipps Hornby.* 6 



In 1216-26 the rectory, then in the king's gift, 

 was valued at 30 marks yearly," but not long after- 

 wards, in 1 24.6, it was said to be worth 70 marks.' 8 

 The value continued to increase, and in 1291 was 

 recorded as 66 1 3/. 4</.,*' but this after the raid of 

 the Scots in 1322 was reduced to little more than a 

 third, viz. 23 6s. 8</. 30 This valuation was con- 



firmed in 1 34 1. 31 In 1527 the rectory, appro- 

 priated to Battlefield College, was valued at 20 

 a year and the vicarage at _8. s * Some eight years 

 later, however, the farmers of the rectory paid 

 31 is. \d. to the college, 33 while the vicarage was 

 worth 10 ijs. 6d. clear. 34 By 1650 the value of 

 the vicarage had increased to 50 a year, 35 but about 

 1717 was certified as 44 icxr. 36 The vicar and 

 patron in 1816 obtained an Act of Parliament to 

 commute the vicarial tithes, &c., for a corn rent, 

 securing a clear annual income of joo, 37 and the 

 net value is now given as 584 a year. 38 



The following have been rectors and vicars : 



RECTORS 

 Instituted Name Patron 



c. 1196 . . . . H. 39 Wyresdale Abbey 



oc. 1 204 .... Mr. Matthew the Physician 40 . . 



c. 1216 . . . . Mr. Macy 41 King John 



c. 1224 .... William of Savoy 4 * Henry III . . 



1 5 Oct. 1227 . . Mr. William de Avignon 43 ... . . 



15 Nov. 1227 . . Mr. Henry de Bishopston 44 ... . . 



6 Mar. 1237-8 . Mr. Peter de Aqua Blanca 45 ... . . 



oc. I 246 .... James de Monasteriis 4S .... 



1 9 Feb. 1264-5 Richard le Rus 46a Henry III . . 



oc. 1289-95. . . Walter de Langton " 



oc. 1294. . . . Thomas son of Alan 48 



oc. 1 3 1 2 . . . . Simon de Balderston 49 .... 



Cause of Vacancy 



prom. of Savoy 



84 How he acquired the advowson does 

 not appear perhaps in virtue of the 

 Worsley lease but he presented in 1628, 

 when the king also presented by way of 

 confirmation. 



The above-named abstract mentions 

 William Johnson, Julalia his wife, Alex- 

 ander and Richard his sons. Alexander 

 about 1630 married Anne Turner, and 

 in 1654 was described as of Rushton 

 Grange in Yorkshire ; his son William 

 was married to Mary daughter and heir 

 of Thomas Coomber, D.D. The will of 

 Alexander Johnson was dated 1666 and 

 that of his son Richard 1680 ; the latter 

 left a son and heir Alexander, who 

 married in 1681 Mary sister of Allen 

 Bellingham of Levens. They had a son 

 Allen, who in 1706 was to marry Eliza- 

 beth Lawson of Wakefield. 



Allen Johnson and others had the 

 advowson in 1703 ; Pal. of Lane. Plea 

 R. 478, m. 5 d. 



Some further particulars of the family 

 are given in Fishwick, op. cit. 45, where 

 it is stated that Allen Johnson sold the 

 advowson to the Rev. Richard Cromble- 

 holme, whose son Edward sold it to 

 Thomas Whitehead ; his great-grandson, 

 of the same name, rector of Eccleston, 

 sold it to the Rev. Christopher Swainson ; 

 his grandson sold to Joseph Hornby, 

 who gave to his brother the Rev. Hugh 

 Hornby. 



36 See the account of Ribby-with- 

 Wrea and the pedigree in Burke., Landed 

 Gentry. 



37 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 120. 



88 Assize R. 404, m. 22 ; it was in 

 the king's gift. 



29 It was worth 100 marks, and in the 

 Earl of Lancaster's gift, in 1297 ; Lanes. 

 Inq. and Extents, i, 298. 



s Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 307, 

 327. 



81 Inq. Nonarum (Rec. Com.), 37. The 

 decline was attributed in part to the 

 allowance of hay tithes and other altar- 



age (14. 13*. 4^.) and 2 for glebe, but 

 chiefly to the invasion of the Scots and 

 other misfortunes, resulting in a decline 

 of 26 131. 4</. The separate townships 

 contributed thus : Upper Rawcliffe, 2 ; 

 Out Rawcliffe, 4 ; Eccleston, Elswick 

 and Inskip-with-Sowerby, 2 131. 4^. 

 each, and Woodplumpton 9 61. %d. 



82 Duchy of Lane. Rentals, bdle. 5, 

 no. 15. 



88 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 195. 



84 Ibid, v, 263. The mansion-house 

 and glebe were worth us. ^d., small 

 tithes 3 os. 8</., Easter roll j 131. 

 The vicar paid ecclesiastical dues amount- 

 ing to js. 6d. 



35 Common-iv. Ch. Sur-v. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 146-8. The vicar 

 had a house, 10 acres of glebe (in Tarn- 

 acre) and the small tithes, out of which 

 he had usually paid the curate of Wood- 

 plumpton 4. a year. The value of the 

 tithes was much reduced by prescriptions. 

 In 1651 an augmentation of ,50 a year 

 was ordered out of the sequestrated estates 

 of Sir Thomas Tyldesley and others ; 

 Plund. Mins. Accts. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 105, 114, &c. 



36 Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc.), 

 ii, 448. The glebe, 24 acres, was worth 

 10, Easter dues and small tithes 

 ^24 los., surplice fees $, legacy 

 from Ralph Longworth 5. There 

 were five churchwardens, being one for 

 each township, except Woodplumpton. 



87 Ibid. 449. 



38 Manch. Dioc. Dir. For the Terle- 

 ways land see a later note. 



89 Farrer, op. cit. 337. A much later 

 charter relating to Ellel and Sowerby 

 was attested by H. chaplain of the church 

 of St. Michael and Thomas, deacon of 

 the same place ; Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 90^. 

 This H. is no doubt the ' Henry the 

 Chaplain ' named in Cockersand Chartul. 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 245. 



40 Farrer, op. cit. 192 ; the king's 

 physician. He proffered 10 marks in order 

 that the trial of his claim that Garstang 



264 



was a chapelry of St. Michael's might 

 come on without delay. He occurs several 

 times in the Patent Rolls, &c., until 1209. 



41 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 119. He 

 may be the same as Master Matthew. 



a The rectory about 1220 seems to 

 have been much sought for. The Patent 

 Rolls show that in 1224 Randle, clerk of 

 the son of the Earl de Ferrers, had letters 

 of presentation to it ; Cal. Pat. 1216-25, 

 p. 472. In 1225 William de Thornour, 

 clerk, was presented by the king ; ibid. 

 1225-32, p. 8. Yet about the same 

 time a son of the Count of ' Salvata ' held 

 it, as is shown by the cause of vacancy 

 in 1227 ; Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 119. 

 It appears that this was William son of 

 Thomas Count of Savoy, Bishop of 

 Valence from 1226 till 1241, when he 

 was succeeded by his brother Boniface, 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1242-70; 

 Gallia Christiana, xvi, 314. 



43 The rector having been promoted to 

 a bishopric the king presented two clerks 

 one after the other ; Cal. Pat. 1225-32, 

 pp. 147, 169. William de Avignon was 

 presented to Bromsgrove in the same 

 year ; ibid. 



4 * There are many references to this 

 rector in the Patent Rolls of the time. 

 According to Le Neve he refused the 

 deanery of Salisbury. 



45 Cal. Pat. 1232-47, p. 211 ; he is 

 described as clerk to the bishop-elect of 

 Valence. He had a grant of the arch- 

 deaconry of Salop in 1239 ; Le Neve, Fasti, 

 i, 482- 



46 Assize R. 404, m. 22. 



46 a Cal. Pat. 1258-66, p. 408. 



47 Cal. Papal Letters, i, 508, &c. ; dis- 

 pensations to hold other benefices. See 

 Manchester. This busy ' king's clerk ' 

 discharged his duties by deputy. 



48 Cal. Pat. 1 292-1 301, p. 123. From 

 the Cal. Papal Letters, i, 559, it would 

 seem that Langton still held St. Michael's 

 in 1295. 



49 De Banco R. 193, m. 40 d. ; rector 

 of St. Michael's on Wyresbank. 



