WEST DERBY HUNDRED walton 



Institution Name Presented by Cause of Vacancy 



oc. 1 240 William de Walton ' 



oc. 1272 Robert" 



4 June, 1 3 1 1 Mr. Thomas de Chorleton ' . . . Shrewsbury Abbey 



22 April, 13.9 Mr. Ralph de Shrewsbury' ... „ ... res. T. de Chorleton 



23 Dec. 1328 Simon deClopton' „ ... res. R. de Shrewsbury 



5 Mar. 1 3 30-1 Thomas deClopton' „ ... res. S. de Clopton 



14 Oct. 1349 John de Bulkington ' „ ... d. T. de Clopton 



31 Dec. 1356 Mr. Richard de Win wick » ... „ ... res. J. de Bulkington 



2 Nov. 1409 Richard de Stanley" The bishop d. R. de Winwick 



5 July, 143 s Ralph de Stanley '» Shrewsbury Abbey . . res. R. de Stanley 



17 Dec. 1459 Thomas Fairclough, D.D. "... The king d. R. de Stanley 



25 Sept. 1 47 1 John Molyneux, M.A. " . . . . Shrewsbury Abbey. . . d. T. Fairclough 



20 June, 1485 James Stanley, D. Can. L. " . . . T. and R. Molyneux . . d. J. Molyneux 



10 Aug. 1506 Richard Dudley, D.D." . . . . J.is. Molyneux . . . . res. J. Stanley 



14 July, 1528 Mr. Edward Molyneux '" . . . . Sir W. Molyneux . . . res. R. Dudley 



3 Jan. 1 5 35-6 Richard Gwent, LL.D. '« . ... „ ... d. E. Molyneux 



1543 Anthony Molyneux, D.D." . . . (d. R. Gwent) 



— Sept. 1557 Anthony Molyneux '« d. A. Molyneux 



15 Oct. 1565 Alexander Molyneux " .... Sir R. Molyneux . . . 



1 In 1240 IVballey Gaucher, n, 5S1 1408, and was buried in the cathedral, priest there, who died in 1498 : Raines, 



(see also 1, 143, 11, 490) ; in 1246, Assize where a brass formerly commemorated CAa«rt-(« (Chet. Soc), ii, 176. 



R. 404, m. I </. ; Dods. MS. xxxix, fol. him ; Le Neve, Fani, ii, 163, 197 ; Peck, " Lich. Epis. Reg. xii. fol. 106. He was 



138,(1.4. He was married, probably DaiAraw Curiosa, viii, p. 22, «. 48. He also rector of Sefton and canon of Lich- 



before his appointment to the rectory, and demised the rectory in 1368 for 1000 field ; he founded the chantry at Walton. 



his son Wilham, known as William de marks to William, son of Adam de !» Lich. Epis. Reg. xii, fol. 1194- a 



Kirkdale, became rector of Sefton about Liverpool ; De Banc. R. 450, m. 169^. clerk. He was also warden of Manch. e'tc, 



1280 ; see the account of Kirkdale. In the Cal. of Papal Letters are some and became bishop of Ely in 1 506. ' The' 



^ fVballey Coucber, n, 585. From the particulars concerning him. In 1350, patrons were Thomas and Robert Moly- 



dispute as to the patronage it appears there being in his twentieth year, he received neux, by grant of the abbot and convent 



was a vacancy in 1273. from Clement VI a dispensation to hold of Shrewsbury to them and others then 



» Lich. Epis. Reg. i, fol. 59*. The new a benefice with cure of souls; iii, 335. deceased. See Foster, Alumni Oxon. 

 rector was a 'clerk ' ; he was sworn to He was made rector of Bocking and ^* Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv. fol. 54 h ; 

 resign if, upon inquiry, it was found that canon of York, and in 1352 received an the patron was then rector of Sefton, and no 

 the abbot and convent of Shrewsbury were extension of the dispensation ; iii, 434. doubt acting as trustee. The Act Books 

 not the true patrons. In 1364 Urban V sent letters to the at Chest, give William Molyneux as 

 In 1327, and subsequent years, he bishop of Gap to procure the release of patron; he was lord of the manor. 

 claimed debts from a number of his late Richard de Winwick, canon of York, Richard Dudley had been principal of 

 parishioners; De Banc. R. 272, m. l^d, William Molyneux, clerk, a member of St. Mary Hall, Oxf. in 1502; he was 

 etc. At this time Dr. Thomas de Charl- his household, and Thomas de Eltonhead, prebendary of London, Lincoln, and York ■ 

 ton, canon of York, archdeacon of Wells canon of Penkridge, who had been seized and died in 1536 ;Le Neve, Fasti, iii, 

 and Northumberland, and king's trea- and plundered in Vienne on their way 584, &c. ; Foster, Alumni. 

 surer, was promoted by the pope to the from the Roman court (then at Avignon), ^' Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 63A. He 

 bishopric of Hereford ; Lc Neve, Fasti, i, and were held to ransom ; Richard and was brother of the patron, and held Sefton 

 461. William had been taken to the castle of and other benefices ; on being instituted 

 * Croxteth D. Bb. ii, i, from the reg. Sigoyer ; iv, 9. At the beginning of to Walton he swore to pay the retiring 

 of Bp. Walter Langton. He presented 1365 a safe conduct was granted them ; rector a pension of £io a year, which 

 the vicarin 1327 ; Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. iv, 51. must have been nearly the full value. 

 102. He was chancellor of the university ' Lich. Epis. Reg.'vii, fol. 98A ; he was " Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv. fol. 35. He 

 of Oxford in 1328, and became bishop of collated by the bishop, the benefice having paid first-fruits 16 January; Lanes, and Chei, 

 Bath and Wells in the following year ; been vacant nearly a year, and is de- Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 407. 

 Le Neve, Fajft, iii, 464; 1,137. There scribed as ' clerk.' He was still rector in He was dean of the Arches Court and 

 is a notice of him in D;cf. iVaf. S/o^. 1418, when he presented a vicar, but archdeacon of London, Huntingdon, and 

 'Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 104. He became rector of Winwick in 1423. He Brecknock, and held other dignities ; and 

 was a ' clerk," and in the following Feb. was also archdeacon of Chest. died in London 1 543 ; Wood, Athenae ; 

 had licence to study for seven years ac- 1" The date is from Croxteth D. Bb. Foster, Alumni Oxon. ; Le Neve, Fasti, iii, 

 cording to the canon ; Ibid. foL 104 i. ii, i; but Ralph Stanley was rector as 323, etc. His will is in P. C.C. 

 He became canon of Lichfield, and died early as 1427, according to ICuerden, ii, ^'^ He paid first-fruits 4 August, 1543. 

 in 1349 ; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 619, 636. fol. 245A, n. 1348. He was also rector ofSefton. An account 

 ° Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, foL io6i ; he ex- " Lich. Epis. Reg. xii, fol. 98; Henry VI of the ornaments of the church in 1552 

 changed with his predecessor, who became presented, the temporalities of the abbey is printed in Chureh G</i. (Chet. Soc), 93. 

 rectorof Ideshale (or Shifnal). See Eyton, of Shrewsbury being in his hands. ^' Act Books at Chest. Godson of 

 Shropshire, ii, 336. He also was a canon On his appointment Dr. Fairclough com- the preceding rector. An Anthony Moly- 

 of Lichfield until his death in 1349; Le plained to the bishop of the state in neux was scholar of Corpus Christi Coll. 

 Neve, faift, i, 589, 602. which he found the church. In the Oxf. in 1555; B.A. 1558; Foster, 

 7 Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 124*; an chancel the books, vestments, and other Alumni. From his refusal to appear at 

 acolyte. His name appears as Bulketon on ornaments were very defective, and in the the visitation in 1559 (Gee, Elissabethan 

 presentation, and Bulkington later. rectory house there were dilapidations, Clergy), and his departure to beyond the 

 ' Croxteth D. Bb. ii, i ; he exchanged the result of the neglect of the preceding sea early in Elizabeth's reign it may per- 

 the rectory of Nether Wallop with John rector. The bishop accordingly commis- haps be inferred that he would not con- 

 de Bulkington. In January, 1356-7, a sioned Dr. Ralph Duckworth, vicar of form to the new religious order, 

 dispensation for study was granted by the Prescot, and Edmund Farington, rector of ^* Chest. Dioc. Reg. He paid first- 

 bishop to Master Richard de Winwick, Halsall, to inquire into the matter, giving fruits i November, 1564-5. He was a 

 rector of Walton, then a subdeacon ; them authority to sequestrate the goods younger son of Sir Richard Molyneux, the 

 Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 15, 15* ; he was and revenues due to the late rector until patron. As he held the rectory for sixty-six 

 ordained deacon four years afterwards ; satisfaction was done ; Lich. Reg. xii, fol. years he must have been very young at 

 Ibid. V, fol. 82*. He was brother and 125. his appointment. In 1591 he was 

 executor of John de Winwick, rector of iThomas Fairclough * Doctor in De- described as unlearned and not used to 

 Wigan, etc., and became canon of Lin- crees,' was prayed for at Standish as a say service or administer sacraments ; 

 coin about 1376; he died 12 December, benefactor of Robert Pilkington, chantry Kenvon MSS, p. 601. His wife Elizabeth 



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