A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Instituted Name 



1578 ... . JohnWolton, B.D.^^' . . 



1579 . . . . William Chadderton, D.D/ 

 1595 ... . John Dee, D.Math.^^5 

 1609 .... Richard Murray, D.D "^ 

 1635 ... . Richard Heyrick, B.D^''^ 



Patron 



Cause of Vacancy 



The Queen 



The King 



estates of his church for the benefit of 

 those in power or his own family ; a lease 

 made by him to the queen in 1576 was 

 specially mentioned in Elizabeth's charter. 

 Archbishop Parker in 1566 recommended 

 him as *a grave, priestly man,' for pro- 

 motion to the bishopric of Bangor. In 

 the same year Herle complained that some 

 of his difficulties in collecting tithes came 

 from the action of Lawrence Vaux^de- 

 prived (he said) ' for Papistry and holding 

 of most erroneous opinions against the 

 Catholic faith ' — in giving the college deeds 

 into the custody of Alexander Barlow. 

 One result was a * great hindrance to the 

 true, sincere, and Catholic religion,* be- 

 cause the warden and fellows were not 

 able to pay preachers who might teach the 

 people ' their duties towards God and the 

 Queen's most excellent Majesty ' ; Vaux, 

 Catechism (ed. Law), 19, 20 (Introd.). 

 Herle had to resign, or was deprived, in 

 order to allow the refounding of the col- 

 lege in 1578. He died nine years later, 

 holding canonries at Worcester and Ches- 

 ter, and the vicarage of Bromsgrove ; 

 Raines, op cit. 75-84, where various par- 

 ticulars of his leases and grants are given. 



^^® He was appointed warden under the 

 new charter, and was next year advanced 

 to the bishopric of Exeter, so that his 

 tenure was brief, and he probably did not 

 reside. He was born in Whalley and 

 sent up to Oxford (B.A. 1555), but fled 

 to the Continent to join the Protestant 

 exiles. Returning on the death of Mary, 

 he was made canon of Exeter in 1560 

 and rector of Spaxton in 1563. As Bishop 

 of Exeter he actively persecuted the ad- 

 herents of the ancient faith — to whom 

 his own son joined himself — as well as 

 the more extravagant Protestant sects, 

 the Family of Love and others, showing 

 himself a zealous servant of the queen. 

 He died in 1594. He published several 

 works, one of which was reprinted by the 

 Parker Society. See Raines, op, cit. 

 84-8 ; Wood, Athenae ,• Diet. Nat. Biog.} 

 F. O. White, £//a. Bishops, 259-63. 



^^'* He was the son of Edmund Chad- 

 derton of Nuthurst ; educated at Queens' 

 College, Cambridge, and became fellow 

 of Christ's College, Lady Margaret's Pro- 

 fessor of Divinity, and Master of Queens' 

 College. He was a Protestant of the 

 Puritan type, being chaplain to the Earl 

 of Leicester in 1568. In the same year 

 he became Archdeacon of York, and in 

 1579 was made Bishop of Chester, the 

 wardenship of Manchester being added in 

 commendam. He was a bitter persecutor 

 of the adherents of the ancient religion, 

 and being placed on the Ecclesiastical 

 Commission for the North, resided at 

 Manchester as a convenient centre for 

 directing operations. He actively en- 

 couraged the Puritan preaching-exercises 

 in the Manchester district, but on his 

 removal to the see of Lincoln in 1595 he 

 was obliged by the queen to repress them 

 there. He died in 1608. Hollinworth 

 (op. cit. 89) calls him *a learned man and 

 liberal, given to hospitality, and a more 

 frequent preacher and baptiser than other 

 bishops of his time ; he was resident in 

 Manchester till the daily jarrings be- 

 tween his attendants and some inhabitants 



of the town, occasioned probably by pride 

 and stiffness on one or both parts, oc- 

 casioned him to remove his habitation to 

 Chester.' See Raines, op. cit. 89-101 ; 

 F. O. White, £/:js. Bishops, 264.-6^ ; 

 Foley, Recs. S.J. ii, 117-30; Diet. Nat, 

 Biog* } Cooper, A then. Cantab, ii, 482. His 

 portrait is given in Hibbert-Ware's Manch. 

 Foundations, i, xoi. 



8" Educated at St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, and Louvain, he acquired 

 great fame as a mathematician and 

 astronomer. He was one of the original 

 fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 

 1546, and received benefices in the time 

 of Edward VI, proved himself orthodox 

 to the satisfaction of Bishop Bonner, and 

 held his benefices for thirty years, when 

 he was deprived on an informality, having, 

 as Canon Raines supposes, never resided 

 on them, his ordination even being a 

 matter of dispute ; he was, however, 

 called 'clerk' on his presentation to 

 Manchester. He had a great library, and 

 was addicted to the study of astrology and 

 magic, to which he owes his popular 

 celebrity ; in this matter, if he imposed 

 upon others, he was himself greatly de- 

 luded, as in his supposed transmutations 

 of metals, and intercourse with spirits. In 

 Lancashire, says Hollinworth (op. cit. 99, 

 100), he discouraged the practice of un- 

 lawful exorcism and rebuked a conjurer ; 

 *he was very sober, just, temperate in his 

 carriage, studious, yea an observer of 

 public and private devotions,' but 'had 

 the unhappiness to be much vexed by the 

 turbulent fellows of the college.* He 

 consequently removed to Mortlake, and 

 died, after much suffering from poverty, 

 in 1608. At Manchester he contrived to 

 introduce the church organ in 1 600. Some 

 of his MSS. are in the Chetham Library. 

 See Raines, op. cit. 1 o 1-1 0'j Autobiographi- 

 cal Tracts of Dr. John Dee {Chtt.Soc^; Dee's 

 Diary (Camden Soc. and ed. J. E. Bailey) ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. ,■ Hollinworth, Mancuniensis, 

 96-100; Cooper, Athen. Cantab, ii, 497- 

 506. 



For a complaint as to the condition of 

 the church under his wardenship see 

 Pal Note BL i, 45-8. 



After Dr. Dee's death the wardenship 

 should have been given to one of the 

 fellows of Elizabeth's foundation — Wil- 

 liam Bourne, B.D., of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge. He was 'zealous against 

 every error, especially against Popery ; 

 seldom or never did he ascend the pulpit 

 but he struck at some Popish doctrine or 

 practice before he came down. He dis- 

 sented little or nothing from the discipline 

 used in Scotland,* but thought some holy 

 days should be observed. He was in 

 great credit with the people, and did his 

 best to procure ministers to every chapel 

 in the parish. The promise made about 

 the wardenship was broken, partly on 

 account of his nonconformity and partly 

 by the power of the Scottish party at 

 court ; Hollinworth, op. cit, 103-8. He 

 was ordained without any subscription, ap- 

 pointed fellow about 1603, and died in 

 1643 ; seethe account of him in Raines, 

 Manch. Fellows (Chet. Soc), 85-95. 



SIS He was son of Sir Charles Murray 

 of Cockpool, near Annan, and a courtier 



196 



prom, Bp- Wolton 

 trans. Bp. Chadderton 

 . d. Dr. Dee 

 . dep. Dr. Murray 



of James I, by whom he was promoted to 

 a number of ecclesiastical benefices in 

 England, Hollinworth (op. cit. 108-11) 

 describes him as * of honourable descent, 

 competently learned, zealous for the dignity 

 of his place as warden, but not laudable 

 otherwise,* being ' a great pluralist,' and' 

 *a mighty hunter of other ecclesiastical 

 dignities and benefices.* Further, 'in 

 his time the choir part of the church 

 grew very ruinous ; the revenues of the 

 college were leased out by his means.* He 

 refused, on receiving the wardenship, to 

 take the oaths prescribed by the charter 

 of foundation, and therefore was never 

 legally warden, and this it was, together 

 with his waste of the revenues of the 

 college, that led to the granting of the 

 new charter by Charles I, after inquiry by 

 a special commission in 1635. Herein 

 it is recited that the revenues had 

 dwindled away, either * by carelessness 

 and absence, or covetousness of the war- 

 den and fellows * ; that the church was in 

 a dangerous condition ; that the warden, 

 having avoided taking the oath 'con- 

 cerning the not receiving of any rents of 

 the college, except for the days on which 

 he was present,* was only a usurper, and 

 had been removed from his place ; and 

 that the college itself 'truly had none or 

 else a very uncertain foundation.* He was 

 created a baronet in 1625, and died in 1636, 

 without issue. See Raines, op. cit. 112- 

 22 ; G.E.C. Complete Baronetage, li, 292. 



8^7 He was a first cousin of Robert 

 Herrick the poet ; born in 1601, educated 

 at Merchant Taylors* School and at St, 

 John's College, Oxford; M.A. 1622 ; 

 elected fellow of All Souls' in 1624. 

 The reversion of the wardenship of ' 

 Manchester was purchased for him of the 

 king by Sir William Heyrick, his father, 

 in consideration of an advance of ^^8,000. 

 He readily adopted Presbyterianism, led 

 in establishing the Classis, took part in 

 the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 

 and promoted the intolerant * Harmonious 

 Consent ' of 1 648. During the suppression 

 of the college ^100 a year — raised to 

 ^120 — ^was allowed to Warden Heyrick; 

 Plund. Mini. Accts. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 106, 107 ; ii, 21. To Richard 

 Hollinworth ^^104 was allowed ; ibid, ii, ; 

 55, ^d. Heyrick was not opposed to the 

 monarchy, and on the Restoration pro- 

 fessed his loyalty to Charles II, and was 

 allowed to retain the wardenship without 

 conformity, it being apparently regarded 

 as a purchase from the Crown. He pub- 

 lished several sermons. His library was 

 valued at ;fi6o. See Raines, op. cit, 

 122-39; ■^'<^'' ^^^- ^^^g- i Wood, Athenae} 

 Lanes, and Cbes. Antiq. Soc, vii, 134 ; 

 xiii, 103 ; Crossley in Worthington* s 

 Diary (Chet. Soc), ii, 237. There is a 

 pedigree in Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc), 

 138. For epitaph see Hibbert-Ware, 

 Manch. Foundations, \, 372. 



Had Heyrick been expelled from the 

 wardenship in 1662 he would probably 

 have been succeeded by Dr. Edward 

 WoUey, a devoted Royalist, who had had 

 a patent for the dignity from Charles I, 

 and was afterwards appointed to the 

 bishopric of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh; 

 Manch, Guardian N. and Q. no, 1 142. 



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