A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



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CauK of Vicancf 



23 Nov. 1648 



Thomas de Langton * . . . . The King . 



Roger Tidiman^ Lancaster Priory 



John Thoralby3 The King . . 



George RadclifFe* „ . . 



John Mapleton * ,, . . 



Hugh Huyton^ Sir T. Stanley 



Edward Mascy ' Lord Stanley . 



Mr. Roger Standish ^ . , . . ,, 



Gilbert Shirlacres ^ „ 



James Stanley, jun. ^^ , . . , „ 



Ralph Blacldache^i 



William Wall i- Earl of Derby 



Peter Bradshaw, D.Decr.^^ ... „ 



Richard Layton, LL.D.^^ . . . Bishop of Durham, &c. 



John Moody ^^ Earl of Derby 



Gilbert Towneley ^^ .... 



Adam Rigby, M.A.^' Richard Lathom 



Edward Brouncker, D.D.^^ . . . The King . . 



Richard Parr, D.D.^^ » - • 



Edward Gtc^ 



d. T, de Langton 



res. R. Tidiman 



res. J. Thoralby 

 d. W. RadclifFe 



res. Hugh Huyton 

 d. E. Mascy 

 d. R. Standish 

 res. G. Shirlacres 

 res. J. Stanley 

 cess, of last incumb. 

 d. W. Wall 

 d. P. Bradshaw 

 d. R. Layton 

 d. J. Moody 

 d. G. Towneley 

 d. A. Rigby 

 res. E. Brouncker 



who, being the son of a priest, had with- 

 out the necessary dispensation been insti- 

 tuted to the church <-•{ Eccleaton \.-icaat 

 by the death of Henry de Hj\dock ; 

 Cal. Pjf'al Lerreri^ iii, 162. He was 

 ordered to resign the church, but must 

 liave found means to retain it, perhaps 

 being instituted a second time. Hexham 

 W.H still rector in 1392; B.M. Add. 

 Chart. 2:^11. 



* He was instituted twice, on the 

 presentation of Richard II and then of 

 Henry I\', being only an acolyte j Lich. 

 Epis. Reg. vii, fol. 86. See Cal. Pat. 

 1400-I, p. 2^4 ; Def. Keeper i Rep. il, 

 App, ^29. The presentation may not 

 have taken full eH^ect, as he is not named 

 in the Exchequer list above quoted. 



'Lich. Epi). Reg. vii, fol. 88i ; a 

 prieat. This was the last presentation 

 by Lancaster Priory, and the king seems 

 to have presented William de Langton 

 the younger; Cal. Fat. 1400-1, p. 



+45- 



' Lich. Epis. Reg. vii, fol. 91 ; a clerk. 

 The king presented *on account of the 

 war with France ' ; the second institution 

 may have been necessary through the 

 opposition previously referred tu. John 

 Thoralby had been presented to Eastwood 

 in 1399 i Cal. Pat. 1400-1, p. 193. 



* Lich. Epis. Reg. vii, fol. 96^ ; Lane. 

 Ch, il, 528. Perhaps the same who 

 was afterwards rector of Winwick and 

 Archdeacon of Chester. 



* Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. i2oi; he 

 was a pnest and master of the chancery 

 of our lord the king. Nothing is known 

 of the ff':.I:jm Radcliffc named as his 

 predecessor, so that the registrar may 

 have made a mistake in the Christian 

 name. 



Mapleton died in 1432 holding a 

 canonry at Hereford ; Le Neve, Fjjn, 



i, 5-U- 



* He was rector as early as 10 Hen. 

 VI ; Depl Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 33. 

 That he was presented by Sir Th rnas 

 Star.lcy is known by the plea above 

 referred to j PaL of Lane Plea R- 32, 

 m. 21 d. 



In 1432 or later he petitioned the 

 Bishop of Bath and We. Is, Chancellor of 

 England, for protection against the malice 



of William de CoppuU ; Early Chan. 

 Proc. bdle. 10, no. 272. 



' Lich. Epii. Reg. xii, fol. lOi j a 

 priest. 



* Ibid. fol. 103A ; a priest. He was 

 also rector of Standish. 



* Ibid. foL Mzb. 



'*• Ibid. fol. 1 1 3 ; a clerk. He was pro- 

 moted to the wardenship of Manchester 

 and the rectory of Walton-on-the-Hill 

 in T485, and was :ifterwards Bishop of 

 Ely. 



'' Ibid. fol. 120 ; a priest. 



" Ibid, xiii, fol. 157^; a priest, The 

 reason of the vacancy was the * cession or 

 dismissal of the last incumbent,' whose 

 name is not recorded. William Wall 

 was also rector of Davenham in Cheshire 

 from i486 till his death in i$li j 

 Ormerod, Chet. (ed. Helsby), iii, 241. 

 He was the farmer of Leyland in 1502 j 

 Duchy Plead. (Rec Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 16. The name Is also given as Waller 

 and Wallis ; ibid. 54. 



" Lich. Epii. Reg. xiii-xlv, fol. 57. He 

 became rector of Standish also (q.v.). In 

 1^29 a caveat was sent to the Bishop 

 of Lichfield informing him that the Earl 

 of Derby had given the next presentation 

 to Henry Halshaw and others ; ibid. fol. 

 65. For a complaint by his executors see 

 Duchy Plead, ii, 159. In 1534 he was 

 willing to resign Eccleston to a kinsman, 

 William Farington ; L. and P, Hen. Fill, 

 vii, 852. 



'* Lich. Epis. Reg. xlii-xlv, fol. 38A ; 

 the patrons were Cuthbcrt Bishop of Dur- 

 ham, Thomas Layton and Robert Johnson 

 (notary), assignees of Stephen Bishop of 

 Winchester by reason of a grant from the 

 Earl of Derby to the said Stephen, George 

 Bramley and William Bulkeley. First- 

 fruits were paid 15 May 1541 ; Lanes. 

 and Ch£s. Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), ii, 407. 



The new rector was one of the most 

 active officials of the time, having the 

 chief share in all the dirty work prelimi- 

 nary to the suppression of the monasteries, 

 and dying in 1 544 while on an embassy 

 in Flanders. He h^ d numerous benefice!, 

 being Dean and Canon of York, &c. See 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Gasquet, Hen. VIII and 

 the MonasterieSf i, 437, &c. 



160 



From this time there arc full accounts 

 of the rectors in Croston's edition of 

 Baines' Lanes, iv, 193 ; they have been 

 availed of in the following notes. 



'^ Act Bks. at Chester Dioc. Reg. 

 First-fruits paid 2 July 1 544. He refused 

 tu appear at the visitation of 1559 (Gee, 

 Elizabethan Clergy), but seems to have 

 been present in 1562, in which year he 

 died, being buried at Ormskirk 16 Oct. 



^** First-fruits paid 23 Mar. 1562-3. 

 He was* no preacher' and non-resident 

 in 1590 ; S. P. Dom. EHz. xxxi, no. 47. 



*' Act Bks. at Chester. First-fruits paid 

 26 June 1601. He was described as *a 

 preacher*; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep, xiv, 

 App. iv, 1 1. He was buried at Eccleston 

 1 8 Oct. 1 627. Sec the account of 

 Bradley Hall. 



'8 Act Bks. at Chester. First-fruits 

 paid 29 Apr. 1628. The king presented, 

 as Richard Lathom, his ward, was a minor. 

 Robert Fogg had been presented by the 

 king, but was not admitted (see the 

 account of Hoole). The dates of institu- 

 tion are taken from those in the Institu- 

 tion books, P.R.O., as printed in Lanes, 

 and Ches. Antiq. Notes. 



Edward Brouncker was educated at 

 St. Edmund Hall, Oxf., and elected fellow 

 of Wadham ; M.A. 1609, D.D. 1620. 

 He became rector of Ladbroke in 1629 

 by exchange with Richard Parr ; Foster, 

 Alumni Oxon. 



'3 Act Bks. at Chester. First-fruits paid 

 29 Apr. 1629. Educated at Brasenosc 

 Coll., Oxf., of which he became fellow ; 

 M.A. 1616, B.D. 1624; Foster, Alumni 

 In 1635 he was made Bishop of Sodor and 

 Man, but continued to hold Eccleston till 

 his death in 1O43. By Fuller he it 

 reckoned among the 'worthies' of 

 Lancashire. There is a notice of him 

 in Diet. Nat. Biog. 



™ First-fruits paid 23 Nov. 1648. In 

 May 1644 Thomas Cordell, B.D., was 

 instituted to the rectory on the king's 

 presentation ; Act Bks. at Chester. In 

 August the Bishop of Chester was warned 

 by a ca'veat not to admit anyone to the 

 rectory unless nominated by Cordell. 

 Nevertheless his right appears to have 

 been declared void. Gee, who was 

 educated at Brascnose Coll., Oxf. (M.A. 



