A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Instituted Name Patron Cause of Vacancy 



— 1296 . . . William Sygyn ''' The King res. Bp. Langton 



18 Nov. 1299 . Otho de Grandison ™ „ 



12 Apr. 1306 . GeofFrey de Stokes '" Thomas Grelley . . . 



24)311.1313-4. Mr. John de Everdon '™ .... Sir John La Warre . . 



28 Sept. 1323 . Mr. Adam de Southwick '" ... „ ... res. J. de Everdon 



24 Aug. 1327 . John de Claydon ^'^ „ ... d. A. de Southwick 



2 1 Aug. 1351 . Thomas de Wyke ''' Joan Dame La Warre . d. J. de Claydon 



oc. 1390 . . . Thomas Lord La Warre ™ . . . 



Wardens 



25 Nov. 1422 . John Huntington, B.Decr.'"' . . T. La Warre .... res. T. La Warre 



— 1459 . . . Roger RadclifFe, LL.D.'°^ . . . 



face VIII at the king's request allowed ment, valued at 200 marks a year, con- 450. He was also rector of Swineshead 



his clerk Walter de Langton, deacon, sisting of eight burgages in Manchester, in Lincolnshire in 1423 ; Eaines, ^uri/cBi, 



papal chaplain, to hold a number of bene- the vills of Newton, Kirkmanshulme, and 15. In 1390 Boniface IX, in considera- 



fices and canonries, resigning some and appurtenances ; Mamecesire (Chet. Soc), tion of his noble birth and at the request 



accepting Manchester among others ; ii, 378. He held a prebend at St. Paul's of Richard II, granted him a dispensation 



Cal. of Papal Letter!, i, 559. There is a and became dean in 1323 ; he died to hold another benefice with cure, he 



notice of him in Diet. Nat. Biog. 15 Jan. 1336-7 ; Le Neve, op. cit. ii, then having, in addition to the rectory of 



'"In 1299 W. Bishop of Lichfield 417, 311. He had held other benefices Manchester, the free chapel of Barthorpe 



and formerly rector of Manchester agreed and canonries before coming to Man- in Lincolnshire and canonries at Lincoln 



with William de Gringley, rector of Marn- Chester; Cal. of Papal Letters, U, z^, &c.; and York ; Cal. of Papal Letters, ly, ■^^B. 



ham, and the other farmers of the church Le Neve, op. cit. i, 586, 418. He resigned the rectory of Manchester 



of Manchester concerning moneys due to ^^"^ Lich. £pis. Reg. Northburgh, ii, in order that the college he founded in its 



him, amounting to over ^^40 ; also 6s. fol. 99A ; he was a clerk. He was rector place might begin its work without in- 



which the Dean of Manchester received of Rostherne in Cheshire from 131910 cumbrance. He would then be nearly 



during the time of vacancy, and los. 6d. 1323; Ormerod, Ckes. (ed. Helsby), i, eighty years of age. 



which the farmer of William Sygyn, rector 437. He died 31 July 1327. '"^ Lich. Epis. Reg. Heyworth, ix, fol. 



in 1299, had received j Lich. Epis. Reg. 298 Lich. Epis. Reg. Northburgh, ii, 112 ; on 23 Nov. 1422, at the manor of 



Langton, i, fol. 4. foL 102; a priest. In June 1344 he Swineshead, Thomas La Warre presented 



The king presented his clerk Master had leave of absence for fifteen months ; Mr. John Huntington to be instituted to 



William Segini del God to the rectory in ibid, ii, fol. 11. He attested several local the wardenship of the collegiate church of 



12965 Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 190. In deeds; see Raines, f^ardens, i. He was Manchester, viz. of one college, with 



1297 the pope allowed his chaplain Master rector of Swineshead in i-^zj ; Dods. master or warden, chaplain, and eight 



William Siguin to hold the rectory of MSS. cxlix, fol. 156*. Probably he re- fellow chaplains, four clerks, and six 



Manchester, having resigned a benefice in signed it for Manchester. In 1330 John choristers ; two days later Huntington 



Agen (France), and having canonries and XXII granted him the provision of a was admitted, all episcopal rights and 



prebends there and in Wells and Howden ; canonry at St. Paul's, with reservation of customs and the pension of 40^. being 



he had been under age when first beneficed; a prebend ; Cal. of Papal Letters, ii, 321 ; reserved. 



Cal. of Papal Letters, i, ^yz. Le Neve, op. cit. ii, 407. From a plea The new warden, who was rector of 

 ^^ Lich. Epis. Reg. i, fol. 4^, 8A. ; on in the following year it appears he had Ashton, resided in Manchester ; his great 

 the day of his institution he had leave to owed ,^130 to John son of Roger La work was the building of the quire of the 

 be absent at the schools for two years, and Warre ; De Banco R. 286, m. 28 d. church. He was buried in this part of 

 a few months afterwards (29 Mar. 1300) ''''Lich. Epis. Reg. Northburgh, ii, the building. His life is told by Raines, 

 the time was extended to five years. It fol. 129 ; a chaplain. In the following op. cit. 16-23. He died 11 Nov. 1458, 

 is probable, therefore, that he never saw January, being described as priest, he and by will of 1454 left his lands in Man- 

 Manchester. Thomas Grelley, the lord received leave of absence for study ; ibid. Chester and Salford towards the building 

 of Manchester, was a minor in 1299, so ii, fol. izb. He obtained leave of ab- of the new work of the chancel of the 

 that the king presented, as in the pre- sence for a year or two at various later church of our Lady of Manchester by 

 ceding vacancies; Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, dates — 1355, 1361, 1362, 1365, 1371, him begun. His Chesterfield property 

 p. 440. and 1380; ibid, ii, fol. 14A ; v, fol. yi, he left to his kinswoman Elizabeth Barret. 

 In 1301 the pope made provision, at 9*, 24A, 33A; Raines, (op. cit. io)records The testator's directions were not carried 

 the request of Otho de Grandison, to his a similar licence in 1357, so that Wyke's out fully, for lands in Nether Alport came 

 nephew Otho of a canonry and prebend residence at Manchester was but inter- into the possession of the Hulme family 

 of York, notwithstanding that he held mittent. In 1368 he had leave to absolve and it was not until 1507 that a settlement 

 canonries and prebends of Lausanne and his parishioners until Easter, and to choose was made by arbitration. The feoffees 

 Autun, the church of Manchester, and a confessor for two years ; Lich. Epis. were then directed to receive T^ a year 

 two others which he was to resign ; Cal. Reg. Stretton, ii, fol. 19. He is some- for a chantry priest to be nominated by 

 of Papal Letters, i, ^^4.. In the same year times called ' the elder ' to distinguish him Ralph Hulme and his heirs, to pray for 

 Otho was a clerk at Cambridge, and he from Thomas de Wyke the younger, the souls of John Huntington and others, 

 and his men were the victims of an rector of the adjoining parish of Ashton The warden also acquired land in Hanging 

 assault ; Ca/. Pflf. 1292-1301, p. 629. from 1362 to 1371. Ditch for an almshouse, but his intention 

 In 1304 he had the king's licence to go »»» The date of his institution has not was not fulfilled. Warden Huntington's 

 beyond the seas (ibid. 1301-7, p. 217), been discovered, but was probably about last will is printed in frills (Rec. Soc. 

 and does not seem to have returned to 1390; he had the bishop's leave of ab- Lanes, and Ches.), 17, and Lanes, and 

 Manchester. sence for two years, the church being let Ckes. Antitj. Soc. iii, 144. For his me- 



295 The custody of the church (in to farm ; Lich. Epis. Reg. Scrope, vi, morial brass still remaining, see ibid, ii, 92. 

 sequestration) was granted on 31 Mar. fol. 125*. He succeeded to the lordship During his wardenship there was a 

 1306 to Geoffrey de Stokes, one of the of Manchester in 1398 on the death of stormy incident. One of the clerks 

 king's clerks, and a fortnight later he was his brother John, being then 'over forty Thomas Barbour, had given offence to 

 instituted to the rectory ; Lich. Epis. Reg. years' of age; Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, the Booths and others, who attempted his 

 Langton, i, fol. loi. The reason for the no. 53. In 1363, being 'in his twenty- arrest in church. The people protecting 

 sequestration is not expressed. Geoffrey first year,' he obtained the papal dispensa- him, the Booths summoned Sir John 

 de Stokes was rector of Gransden, Cam- tion to be ordained priest and hold a bene- Byron and others of the gentry, who with 

 bridge, in 1302, and resigned Wotton dee ; Cal. of Papal Letters, w, ^i. From their men to the number of 500', all armed, 

 for Brightwell in 1304; Cal.Pal. 1301-7, 1371 to 1373 he was rector of Ashton- laid siege to the warden's house. The 

 pp. 63, 304. under-Lyne ; he held a canonry at Lin- clergy dare not enter the church, which 



296 Lich. Epis. Reg. Langton, 1, fol. 60A; coin from 1376 till his death in 1427, remained closed. Seethe warden's peti- 

 he was a priest. In the survey of 1322 others at York from 1381 to 1397 and tion in Manch. Fellows (Chet Soc) 14 

 it is recorded that John de Everdon was 1407 to 1427, at Southwell 1397 ; Le s»2 There is no record of this warden's 

 rector, and in possession of the endow- Neve, Fasti, ii, 161, 158 ; iii, 191, 209, appointment, but on 22 Feb. 1458-9 a 



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