310 WOOLER CHUECH 



The union of the churches of Wooler and Fenton, effected 

 in 1318, subsisted until 1882, in which year the township of 

 Fenton (1,740 acres) was surrendered by the vicar of Wooler, 

 with the consent of the bishop and the proper authorities, to 

 the incumbent of Doddington, in exchange for the two detached 

 townships of Earle (1,235 acres) and Humbleton (1,614 acres). 



The church is dedicated to St. Mary. 



No fragment remains of the medieval structure which was 

 taken down in 1763, when a brief was obtained to raise the 

 sum of £1156 for the building of the present church.^i 



Little is known of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen of 

 Wooler, of which in 1302 the King's clerk, Alan de Shireburn, 

 was a23pointed Master, i- 



Incumbents of Woolku. 



Rectors. 



. Ralph de Manton, resigned in 1301.^^ 



1302. WilHam, son of Hugh de Seleby, on the resignation of 



Ralph de Manton.'^ 

 1306. AViUiani de Corby.^^ 



1308. Henry de Luceby, who in February of that year 

 obtained a Papal License- to hold the benefice of 

 Wooler together with the rectory of Wald-newton in 

 the diocese of Lincoln. i'^ 



" Bewes, Church Briefs, p. 329. A brief is a letter patent issued by 

 the sovereign, as Head of the Church of England, licensing a Collection 

 in the churches throughout the Kingdom for a specified object of 

 charity. According to the rubric in the Book of Common Prayer, 

 notice of briefs when received was to be given in time of Divine 

 Service, immediately after the Nicene Creed and before the Sermon. 

 The practice is now obsolete. 



12 Calendar Patent Eolls, 1301-1307, p. 100. 



12 Calendar Patent Rolls, 1301-1307, p. 19. 



" Ibid, p. 434. 



" Calendar Papal Registers, Letters, Vol, II., p. 34. 



