BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



RIBCHESTER 



Instituted Name Patron 



I Aug. 1246 . . Humbert de Ascitiis 38 The King . . , 



c. IZ90 .... Robert de Pocklington 39 .... 



23 Nov. 1325 . . Robert de Brustwick' 10 ,, . . . 



oc. 1333 . . Thomas Trayley 41 ■ 



10 Nov. 1337 . . Matthew Palmer 43 Queen Isabella 



Mr. Walter de Woodhouse ' n . . 



7 Oct. 1343 . . William de Wakefield ^ .... Queen Isabella 



5 Feb. 1349-50 . William de Hornby 46 



I Mar. 1364-5 . John de Lincoln 46 



18 Dec. 1374 . . John de Yerdeburgh Duke of Lancaster 



21 Jan. 1374-5 . Lambert de Thirkingham °' ... „ 



? William de Bolton 48 „ 



8 Nov. 1395 . . John Farmer 49 „ 



oc. 1408 . . John Moor 50 



5 Apr. 141 9 . . Richard Coventry 51 The King . . . 



3 Dec. 1419 . . John Elswick 52 „ . . . 



14 Dec. 1468 . . William Talbot, D.Decr. 53 . . . E. and R. Talbot . 



Cause of Vacancy 

 res. G. de Russelon 



res. R. de Pockling- 

 ton 



exch. T. Trayley 



exch. W. de Wood- 

 house 



exch. W. de Wake- 

 field 



exch. Jo.de Lincoln 

 res. Jo. de Yerde- 

 burgh 



res. W. de Bolton 



d. John Moor 

 res. R. Coventry 

 res. J. Elswick 



38 Cal. Pat. 1232-47, p. 4.84. In 

 1246 the advowson was in the king's 

 hands by reason of the wardship of Ed- 

 mund de Lacy, and was worth 40 marks 

 yearly ; Assize R. 404, m. 20 d. The 

 rector is named as * Imbert.* 



Josce the clerk of Ribchester occurs in 

 1258-9 ; Originalia, 43 Hen. Ill, m. 6. 

 He is several times mentioned in local 

 charters. Hawise, his widow, claimed 

 an oxgang of land in the vill in 1282 ; 

 De Banco R. 45, m. 70 d. 



89 Robert de Pocklington, parson of the 

 church of Ribchester, claimed land in 

 Dilworth in 1292 ; Assize R. 408, m. 63, 

 1 8 d. Letters of protection were given 

 him in 1294; Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, 

 p. 123. In 1305 he claimed land against 

 Robert Moton ; De Banco R. 153, 

 m. 3i7d. Robert, rector of the church 

 of Ribchester, attested a local deed ; Add. 

 MS. 32106, no. 275. 



40 Cal. Pat. 1324-7, p. 204. The 

 name is also spelt Burstwick. The king 

 presented by reason of the forfeiture of 

 Thomas Earl of Lancaster. The new 

 rector was one of the king's clerks. 

 Henry de Haydock, another king's clerk, 

 was pic-sented in 133 1, but Robert de 

 Brustwick showed that he had been duly 

 presented by Edward II, and was allowed 

 to retain the benefice ; ibid. 1330—4, 

 pp. 82, 102. 



41 At Michaelmas 1333 Robert de 

 Brustwick, rector of Lamley, claimed a 

 sum of money from Thomas Trayley, 

 rector of Ribchester. The latter was also 

 sued by Simon de Westhalum, chaplain ; 

 De Banco R. 296, m. 402 d. There had 

 perhaps been an exchange of benefices. 

 In 1336 Thomas Trayley received pardon 

 for an outlawry ; Cal. Pat. 1334-8, 

 p. 197. 



42 Ibid. p. 550. The new rector had 

 been rector of Little Canfield (Essex), 

 in the diocese of London, Trayley 

 taking his place there. The lordship of 

 Clitheroe was held by Queen Isabella, and 

 Palmer was one of her clerks. He re- 

 ceived in 1333 a papal provision of a 

 canonry and prebend at Bosham ; Cal. 

 Papal Letters, ii, 387-8. 



43 He was a prebendary of York in 

 1347-9 ; Le Neve, Fasti, in, 217, 

 192. 



44 Cal. Pat. 1343-5, p. 128 ; the new 



rector had had Kippax, in the diocese of 

 York, which Woodhouse took. The 

 date given is that of presentation ; Wake- 

 field is said to have been instituted on 

 10 Nov.; Smith, Ribchester, 139. In 

 1331, at the request of Joan queen of 

 Scotland, whose clerk he was, the pope 

 provided him to a canonry at Lichfield, 

 but he was to resign Kippax. The pro- 

 vision was renewed in 1332 ; Cal. Papal 

 Letters, ii, 350, 356. 



As William de Wakefield, rector of the 

 church of Ribchester, he granted to John 

 de Osbaldeston, chaplain, a part of his 

 land in the vill, lying in the lower part 

 of the croft he had received from John 

 Banastre ; Add. MS. 32106, no. 261. 



45 Cal. Pat. 1348-50, p. 469. The 

 new rector, one of the king's clerks, 

 exchanged the rectory of Wootton, Lincoln 

 diocese, for Ribchester. He was after- 

 wards rector of St. Michael's-on-Wyre, 

 and receiver for the Duke of Lancaster. 

 He occurs as rector of Ribchester down 

 to Jan. 1364-5, so that there is no break 

 in the succession at this point j De Banco 

 R. 419, m. 180. 



46 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxii, 387. 

 One of this name was prebendary of 

 York and Lincoln later in the century ; 

 Le Neve. 



47 John de Lincoln in 1374 exchanged 

 Ribchester for Long Leadenham, in Lin- 

 coln diocese, with John de Yerdeburgh, 

 who was presented to Ribchester on 

 18 Dec. 1374; Duchy of Lane. Misc. 

 Bks. xiii, fol. 47. It is unlikely that he 

 was instituted, for he almost immediately 

 accepted Stoke, in Staffordshire, and 

 Lambert de Thirkingham was presented 

 on 21 Jan. 1374-5 ; ibid. 



48 In Whitaker's Whalley (ii, 462) 

 William de Bolton is said to have been 

 instituted on 27 Feb. 1367, but there 

 must be some mistake m the date. 



4 » Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.) xxii, 393 ; 

 the Archdeacon of Richmond was to have 

 ^12 as first-fruits. Henry IV in Dec. 

 1399 ratified the estate of John Farmer, 

 king's clerk, in the rectory of Ribchester ; 

 Cal. Pat. 1399-1401, p. 101. The name 

 is also spelt Fermer. 



Boniface IX in 1397 appointed John 

 Farmer, rector of Ribchester, to the 

 prebend of Prees, in Lichfield Cathedral, 

 if he should be found fit ; Cal. Papal 



41 



Letters, v, 84. In 1405 Innocent VII 

 extended an indult granted to Rector 

 Farmer the year before ; while he should 

 be serving the Bishop of Norwich (whose 

 registrar he was), studying at the 

 university, or residing at the Roman 

 court, he might farm out his benefices, 

 &c. ; ibid, vi, 8, 285. John 'Fermer' 

 was prebendary of Wolvey, in Lichfield 

 Cathedral, in 1398, probably in exchange 

 for Prees ; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 640. 



60 John Moor, rector, was the feoffee 

 of Sibyl widow of Sir Roger de Fulthorp 

 in Aug. 1408 ; Towneley MS. DD, no. 

 2025. He seems to have been resident, 

 as he is similarly mentioned several 

 times j e.g. Final Cone, iii, 84 ; Towneley 

 MS. C 8, 13, p. 602 (1415). 



51 Raines MSS. xxii, 395. 



In 1420 Richard Coventry was rector 

 of Benefield (Northants), in the diocese 

 of Lincoln, and obtained a plenary in- 

 dulgence ; Cal. Papal Letters, vii, 336, 



34-0- 



52 Raines MSS. loc. cit. This rector 

 seems to have been resident, as his name 

 frequently occurs in local deeds, Sec. ; e.g. 

 Final Cone, iii, 112. 



He and William Clifton in 1429 

 claimed a debt against Richard Walmsley 

 of Ribchester ; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 2, 

 m. gb. John Elswick, rector of Rib- 

 chester, was a feoffee of lands in Chaigley 

 in Apr. 1468; Add. MS. 32108, T 

 336. 



68 In 1468 there was an inquiry as to 

 the patronage, which was claimed by 

 Edmund and Richard Talbot under a 

 grant from the Crown in reward of services 

 rendered to Richard Earl of Salisbury. 

 The king had presented the last rector, 

 to whom a pension of j£zo was allowed 

 on account of his decrepitude ; Raines 

 MSS. xxii, 385 (from registers of Archd. 

 of Richmond). In an act of resumption 

 in 1467 the grant to the Talbots was 

 specially reserved ; Pari. R. v, 599. 



William Talbot graduated in the canon 

 law at Cambridge, bachelor in 1470 and 

 doctor in 1475-6 ; Grace Book A (Luard 

 Mem.), 83, in. He obtained a prebend 

 at York in 1480 and another at South- 

 well in 1485 ; he was buried at the latter 

 church in 1498, his monument still 

 remaining; Le Neve, Fasti, iii, 189, 

 448. 



