AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED garstang 



andby 1717 to £73 10s." At the present time the Robert occurring about 1190-1206, 53 both singly 

 net value is £266 a year. 58 and in conjunction with Henry 54 ; also William 



The names of some of the early rectors are known, somewhat later. 55 



The following have been vicars : — 



Instituted Name Patron Guise of Vacancy 



oc. 1277-8 . . . Benedict 56 . 



29 May 1 z8 1 . . Roger de Cockersand " .... Archbishop of York . . 



oc. 1330 . . . . William de Skipton 68 



oc. 1341 • • • • William de Lonersale 59 .... 



oc. 1347 .... William de Caton 60 



c. 1356 .... Richard Pacock 61 



zi Oct. 1380 . . Richard de Preston ** Cockersand Abbey . . 



oc. 1385 . . . . Roger Pacock 65 



16 Mar. 1 395—6 • Thomas de Green 64 Cockersand Abbey . . 



? 14.10 .... Robert Lancaster 



16 Nov. 1 42 1 . . Robert Carrington Cockersand Abbey . . d. R. Lancaster 



3 Aug. 1422 . . Roger Garnet „ ... 



14 Feb. 1422-3 . Robert Overton „ ... res. R. Garnet 



29 Sept. 1429 . . Thomas Hoton 65 „ ... res. R. Overton 



oc. 1461 (?) . . . Henry m 



oc. 1481 .... John Bradford 66a 



oc. 1500 .... John Woods 67 



oc. 1508 . . . Thomas Bowland 67a 



c. 1 5 1 5 . . . John Lancaster 68 



oc. 1535 . . . . James Dugdale 69 



Oct. 1545 . . Richard Preston, M.A. 70 .... John Kechyn . . . . d. last inc. 



18 Jan. 1558-9 . James Anderton 71 Christopher Anderton . d. last inc. 



28 July 1562 . . Hugh Anderton, B.C. L." . . . The Queen res. J. Anderton 



61 Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 408 ; glebe £14, Roger vicar of Garstang in 1292 made 68 In a return made to the king in 1527 



tithes of Claughton ^46 ioj., modus a claim against Henry de Haydock and it was stated that Garstang Rectory, 



for tithe hay £1, Easter reckonings £5, William the White, executors of the will appropriated to Cockersand Abbey, was 



and surplice fees £y. This value had of Adam de Brockholes, and recovered worth £20 a year and the vicarage £10. 



increased to over £80 a year by 1725 ; 40s. ; Assize R. 408, m. 98. He may The latter had been held by John Lancas- 



ibid. 409. The glebe land measured 16 be the Roger afterwards Abbot of ter, one of the canons of the house, for 



or 17 acres. A terrier of 1736 is in the Cockersand ; Chartul. i, p. xxii. twelve years and more; Duchy of Lane. 



Visit. Ret. 5S He claimed 50*. as owing by John Rentals, bdle. 5, no. 15. In I 524 Lancas- 



The glebe is situated partly in Kirkland de Bardsey, Thomas de Southworth and ter had some dispute with John Brock- 



(the vicarage, &c), but chiefly in Garstang Gilbert de Howath ; De Banco R. 283, holes, John Rigmaiden, Robert Pleasing- 



(Stout House). M Manch. Dioc. Dir. m. 280 d. ton the elder and Richard Cottam ; the 



53 R. de Garstang was a surety to the M John de Pleasington in I 341 com- award was that, after anyone died, his rep- 

 monks of Wyresdale for the chaplain of St. plained that William de Lonersale, vicar resentatives should give the vicar, ' for the 

 Michael's between 1 194 and 1199 ; Farrer, of Garstang, had broken down his hedges solemn singing,' id. if unable to give the 

 Lanes. Pipe R. 338. He is no doubt the and trespassed in nis corn and grass there ; rector a mortuary, zs. if able to give a 

 Robert de Garstang who attested a De Banco R. 327, m. 151. mortuary, and 3s. if a gentleman ; Add. 

 Conishead charter about 1190 ; ibid. 361. 6 " Ibid. 352, m. 537 d. MS. 32105, no. 823. 



Robert rector of Garstang and Paulin his 61 Complaint was made that he kept In 1520 Robert Walhill was 'parish 



brother also occur ; Cockersand Chartul. i, greyhounds and dogs for hunting foxes priest,' or curate in charge ; Fishwick, 



291. See also Lane. Ch. (Chet. Soo), i, and hares, to the hurt of the deer; op. cit. 217. In 1524 Adam Astley was 



57; ii, 387 (dated 1205-6). Duchy of Lane. Forest Proc. bdle. I, 'curate'; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. v, 



Paulin was perhaps the ancestor of no. 20, m. 3. no. 62. 



Edmund de Wedacre living in 1340 ; De 62 This and some later institutions are 69 Valor Eccl. v, 263. 



Banco R. 321, m. 294. taken from Whitaker, RichmondMre, ii, ™ Act Bks. at Chester, 1502-76, fol. 



54 Robert and Henry, rectors of 453, citing Torre's MSS. 23*. In 1538 the Abbot of Cockersand 

 Garstang, made an agreement as to the Richard de Preston was vicar in 1382 ; granted the next presentation to Sir 

 tithes of Bilsborrow with Robert the Clerk Towneley MS. DD, no. 1468. William Poulet and John Kechyn ; Church 

 of Preston, the latter releasing his claim ; M Lanes. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 91. Papersin Dioc. Reg. Chester. The Church 

 Cockersand Chartul. i, 334. «* Thomas Green became Abbot of Papers and Act Bks. have supplied the 



65 Lane. Ch. ii, 362 (dated 1230), 429. Cockersand in 1410 ; Chartul. i, p. xxii. later vicars, where no other references are 

 William de Lancaster (III), sending "In 1444 a monition was issued given. Accounts of the various mcum- 

 greeting and sincere love to William against the vicar of Garstang for non- bents will be found in Fishwick, op. cit. 

 rector of Garstang, directed him to render residence; Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 145-200 ; Baines, Lanes, (ed. Croston), v, 

 his homage and service for land in Nateby xxii, 373. Thomas Hoton as vicar in 421-4- Richard Preston was still vicar 

 to Gilbert the Clerk ; Dods. MSS. cxlix, 1467-8 witnessed the last will of Roger in Sept. 1557 ; Catterall D. (W. Farrer); 

 fol. 77. About 1260 one William was Dugdale, who left one of his animals for also in l558"9» according to Piccope, 

 'chaplain' of Garstang; Cockersand the repair of Garstang Bridge ; Richmond mils (Chet. Soc), 111, 74 ; but there 

 Chartul. i, 292. Wills (Surtees Soc), 5. must be a mistake m the date. 



66 Benedict vicar of Garstang attested <* Kuerden MSS. iv, G4. The date " In old pedigrees 'James Anderton, 

 Claughton charters ; Add. MS. 32104, " is erroneous. P riest .' is named as a brother of , Pet " 

 no. 933, 1309. In 1278 he complained «* Cockersand Chartul. iii, 1133, &c Anderton of Anderton ; e.g. Harl. MS. 

 of a ditch in Garstang, made by John le He was a canon of the abbey and vicar as 1549, fo1 - "• In thc Visit. List of 1562 

 Tailor, but died about that time ; Assize late as 1497. he was 8aid t0 b . e at ° xt ° rd ' but * e eatT J 

 R. 1238, m. 31; 1239, m. 39. Also 6? Ibid. 1144. He also was a canon (though James is named) may refer to the 

 Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xlvi, App. 166. of Cockersand. neJtt vicar - . , . 



57 Tork Reg. mckivane (Surtees Soc), 67a Named in a settlement by Ralph 72 Of th.s vicar nothing seems to be 



"9; collated by reason of the archbishop's Catterall recited in Duchy of Lane. Inq. known except that he joined with Chris- 

 visitation. He was a priest. p.m. iv, no. 4. to P her Anderton, the patron, in granting 



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