SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



to be made, and the clear value therefore was 

 ^213 10/. 11^. The warden received £,20, and 

 each of the eight fellows or vicars £\, so that a large 

 sum remained for the minor officers and the general 

 expenses of maintenance."' 



The college was dissolved in 1547 under Ed- 

 ward VI, and its lands were confiscated ; '" it was, 

 however, refounded on the old lines by Mary in 

 1557, and parts of its lands in Newton and Kirk- 

 manshulme which still remained in the Crown, as 

 also the rectorial tithes, were given baclc to it.''° As 

 Mary's refoundations were again confiscated at the 

 beginning of Elizabeth's reign ^*' the position of Man- 

 chester College was doubtful ; it was not actually 

 seized by the Crown, though plundered indirectly, 

 and in 1578 was formally refounded by the queen.™ 

 The name was changed to Christ's College ; the 

 warden and four fellows constituted the foundation, 

 and were to appoint two chaplains or vicars to visit 

 the sick, administer the sacrament and other divine 

 services ; also four laymen and four children skilled 

 in music were to sing, say prayers, read chapters, and 

 continue other divine exercises in the collegiate 

 church. The warden was to receive 4/. for each 

 day he was present and resident ; each fellow i6d. 

 each day he was present ; "*' a chaplain 6^d. a day, 

 a chorister ^\d., and a singing boy z^d. The 



warden and subwarden were to have a house rent- 

 free. 



On account of various abuses it became necessary 

 in 1635 to obtain a new charter, refounding the 

 college ; "* and this charter — except during the Com- 

 monwealth, when Manchester, like other collegiate 

 foundations, was suppressed''' — continued in force 

 until the foundation of the bishopric of Manchester 

 in 1847,'*° when the church became the cathedral, 

 and its warden the dean, other consequent changes 

 being made. 



The Commonwealth Surveyors in 1650 found the 

 warden and fellows in nominal possession of lands in 

 Deansgate, Newton, and Kirkmanshulme, of a total 

 rent of £\6, with the benefit of fines ; the payment 

 had recently been stopped ' by order.' The tithes were 

 estimated at the clear value of ^£550 ; the greater 

 part of these had also been detained. The warden, 

 one of the fellows, and another minister were in charge 

 of the parish church, being ' godly preachers.' ''' 



With the growth of the town the value of the 

 church lands constantly increased. They are now 

 in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who, 

 after making the regulated payments to the dean, 

 canons, and others, and providing for the maintenance 

 of the services, devote the remainder to various eccle- 

 siastical purposes in the neighbourhood.^'' 



The following is a list of the rectors, wardens, and deans : — ' 



Rectors 



Instituted 

 c. 1200 

 oc. I291 . 

 oc. 1295 . 



Name 

 Albert de NevilP^« . 

 William deMarchia"^ 

 Walter de Langton "^ . 



Patron 



Cause of Vacaacy 



278 p-alor EccL (Rec. Com.), v, 224. 

 The site of the college was valued at 30J. 

 a year. A rent resolute of i%d, was due 

 to Lord La Warre for certain of the 

 estates in Manchester ; fees of ^^4 and 

 j^5 were paid to the seneschal and bailiff; 

 and j^2, jQi, and ^i respectively were 

 paid to the bishop and archdeacon of 

 Chester and to Lichfield Cathedral. 



279 Edward was' in this carrying out his 

 father's designs. The college building, 

 now Chetham's Hospital, was granted to 

 the Earl of Derby, and other grants were 

 probably made. The warden and fellows 

 received pensions. 



280 Pat. 3 & 4 Phil, and Mary, pt. 11, 

 ^5 J"^y ^557' George Collier was ap- 

 pointed warden or master, John Cuppage 

 and Lawrence Vaux chaplains, and they 

 were to choose the six other priests who 

 were to be their fellow chaplains. 



281 By an Act passed in the first year 

 of her reign, 



282 The charter is printed in Hibbert- 

 Ware's Manch. Foundations^ i, 89-99. It 

 recites that the college ' is deemed in the 

 judgment of divers to be quite dissolved 

 and so come into our hands, or else is not 

 so effectually ratified and confirmed in all 

 points as were to be wished,' Mary simply 

 restored the old foundation ; but Elizabeth 

 reduced the staff of fellows and choristers, 

 perhaps on account of the waste of re- 

 venues which had gone on. A vacant 

 fellowship was to be filled by the election 

 of the warden and surviving fellows. 



A notice of the tithe corn book of 1584 

 is given in Lanes, and Ckes, Antiq. Soc. 

 xxii, 170. 



28S The warden was, however, allowed 

 three months' absence each year, without 



loss of revenue, and each fellow fifteen 

 days each quarter. 



^* Hibbert-Ware, op. cit. i, 152-67, 

 402—12, The stipends were thus fixed : 

 Warden ^^70, each fellow ^^35, chaplain 

 j[iy 10s. and other accustomed profits, 

 lay-clerk ;^io, and singing boy ^^5 ; to 

 be increased or diminished according to the 

 revenue. Residence was required, and fines 

 were fixed for absence or neglect of duty, 



A number of interesting letters from 

 Richard Johnson, one of the fellows, re- 

 lating to the new charter, are printed in 

 the Life of Humphrey Chetham (Chet. Soc), 

 45-70. 



285 This was done under the Act sup- 

 pressing deans and chapters, but its 

 legality was questioned at the time. In 

 1649 *the chapterhouse door and the 

 college chest were broke open and the 

 college deeds were seized on by some 

 soldiers and sent up to London ' ; Hol- 

 linworth, Alancuniensis, 123, 



286 See KCH. Lanes, ii, 96. The Act 

 was 10 & II Vict. cap. 108. A pre- 

 liminary Act was passed in 1 840 (3 & 4 

 Vict. cap. 113), which sanctioned the pro- 

 posals of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 

 made in 1838 (published in the Lond. Gaz. 

 25 Jan. 1839), for the creation of the see 

 and the conversion of the church into a 

 cathedral with dean and chapter. 



287 Commoniueahb Cb, Surv, (Rec, Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 4. 



288 A balance sheet of the account of 

 the chapter estates is printed in the Mati- 

 chester Diocesan Dir, The gross income 

 is about j^45,ooo, of which ^1,400 is 

 from the tithe rent charges, and over 

 j^34,ooo from rents of lands. The ex- 

 penses of management, taxes, &c., absorb 



193 



over j^5,ooo ; the dean and canons 

 j^4,40o ; and the church services nearly 

 j^ 2,000 ; some ^^30,000 remaining for 

 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. 



289 Accounts of the wardens and fellows 

 of Manchester have been compiled by the 

 late Canon Raines, and printed by the 

 Chetham Society (new ser, v, vi, xxi, 

 xxiii). Of these full use has been made 

 in the following notes. The confusion of 

 Mancetter and Manchester has led to 

 some errors both in Canon Raines's work 

 and in the Cal. of Papal Letters. 



290 Lanes, Pipe R, 331. He is supposed 

 to have acted as Robert Grelley's sene- 

 schal ; ibid. 171. He granted to John de 

 Byron a certain part of his land in the 

 vlll of Newton at a rent of ^3 45. and two 

 wax candles of one pound each at the 

 Assumption ; Raines, f^ardens^ 4, quoting 

 a Trafford deed. 



291 Pope Nicholas IV granted him, at 

 the king's request, he being treasurer, a 

 dispensation to hold Manchester and six 

 other benefices, as well as the deanery of 

 St. Martin's le Grand, and canonrles in 

 Salisbury, Chichester, and Wells, though 

 he was only a subdeacon ; he resigned 

 one benefice, and was to resign others ; 

 Cal. of Papal Letters^ i, 530. In 1293 he 

 became Bishop of Bath and Wells, and 

 died in 1302 ; Le Neve, Fasti (ed. Hardy), 

 i, 135. He was much venerated, and 

 miracles were said to be wrought at his 

 tomb ; Diet, Nat. Biog. 



In 1292 the Abbot of Merivale sued 

 Hugh de Stanstead, rector of * Mane- 

 cestre,* for a debt ; De Banco R. 92, m, 

 94, This was perhaps Mancetter. 



293 Bishop of Lichfield 1296 to 1321 ; 

 Le Neve, op. cit. i, 549. In 1295 Boni- 



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