WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



WALTON 



Institution Name 



1 6 April, 1350 John de Barre' .... 



23 Feb. 1 350-1 Richard de Sutton " . . 



2 April, 1364 William del Hall' . . . 

 oc. 1 39 1— 4. . Roger Winter* .... 



1 Mar. 1404-5 John de Wolla ton ' . . . 



3 Oct. 1 41 8 John Ironmonger* . 



Thomas Blackburne . . 



26 June, 1455 William Whittingham ' 



oc. 1472 . . William Bolton * . . . 



6 Aug. 1 5 1 1 Ralph RadclifFe ' . . . 



2 May, 1528 Thomas Norris, B. A. '" . 

 — 1550. . Thomas Allen" . . . 



oc. 1562 . . John Finch" 



oc. 1565 . . Robert Halsall " . . . 



Mar. 1 571-2 William Hesketh " . . . 



2 Dec. 1586 Peter Hey" 



9 May, 1624 Nevill Kay, B.A."° . . . 



30 July, 1654 Henry Finch" .... 



29 Jan. 1662-3 J°h" Walton, M.A." . . 



7 Sept. 1665 Thomas Marsden, B.D.'' . 

 I Aug. 1720 Silvester Richmond, M. A.*" 

 7 Nov. 1722 Thomas Brooke, M.A." . 



28 Aug. 1757 Richard Richmond, LL.B." 



13 April, 1780 Miles Atkinson, B.A.*' . . 



14 Nov. 1788 Henry Heathcote, B.D.''' . 

 5 Sept. 1 8 16 Thomas Moss, M.A." . . 



1 1 Mar. 1 844 Thos. Gerard Leigh, M.A.'" 



23 Dec. 1847 Thomas Hornby, M.A." . 



Presented by 



Cause of Vacancy 

 res. J. de Eccleshall 

 res. J. de Barre 

 d. R. de Sutton 



d. T. Blackburne 



d. W. Bolton 

 d. R. RadclifFe 



d. R. Halsall 

 d. W. Hesketh 

 d. P. Hay 



d. T. Marsden 

 res. S. Silvester 

 d. T. Brooke 

 d. Bp. Richmond 

 res. M. Atkinson 

 res. H. Heathcote 

 d. T. Moss 

 res. T. G. Leigh 



The list of clergy calls for little comment ; some of 

 the pre-Reformation clergy, like Ralph de Shrewsbury, 

 were men of note ; of the later Dr. Clare seems the 

 most distinguished. 



From the Clergy List of 1541^' it would appear 



that besides the pluralist rector, the vicar, and five 

 chantry priests — one at Walton and four at Liverpool — 

 there were four others attached to the parish, two 

 being paid by the vicar, and probably serving Formby, 

 Kirkby, and West Derby chapels, and two living 



^ Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. 126^ ; he was 

 a priest. 



* Ibid, ii, fol. 128 ; the vacancy was 

 ^ by demise of John de Barre, last vicar, 

 voluntarily made.' The new vicar was 

 dean of Warrington in 1354; Assize R. 

 436. 



' Lich. Epis. Reg. iv, fol. 8ii ; he was 

 presented by John de Ashton and William 

 son of Adam de Liverpool, proxies of 

 R. de Winwick, the rector. 



^ He is mentioned as vicar in 1 391 ; 

 Croxeth D. Bb. iv, 29 ; also in 1 3 94 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle 3, m. 22. 



' Lich. Epis. Reg. vii, fol. 94. In 1452 

 Richard Jankinson of Little Woolton 

 described himself as ' cousin and heir of 

 John Wolton, lately vicar of Walton ' ; 

 Moore D. n. 576. 



5 Lich. Epis. Reg. viii, fol. 20. John 

 Ironmonger was still vicar of Walton in 

 1444 ; Croxteth D. Bb, i, 16. 



7 Lich. Epis. Reg. xi, fol. 3 84. 



8 He occurs in 1472 in Harl. MS. 

 21 12, fol. 122, n. 210. 



' Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 56^. 

 The Act Books at Chester give the date 

 as 21 July, 151 1. 



'" Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 63^. 



"He paid his first-fruits 3 July, 1550; 

 Lanes, and Ckes. Rec, ii, 408. He ap- 

 peared at the visitation of 1554. 



^2 He appeared at the visitations of 

 1562 and 1563 ; on the latter occasion he 

 was ill. John Finch became rector of 

 Sefton in 1564. 



^ He was vicar at the visitation in 

 156;. In his will, proved at Chester in 

 1572, he is described as 'vicar of Walton ' ; 

 he bequeathed 40J. to Walton church and 



6s. %d. each to the chapels at West Derby 

 and Formby. 



" Chest. Dioc. Reg. 



^^ Act Book at Chest. He was buried 

 at Walton lo April 1621. The registers 

 begin with his appointment. 



^^ He was no doubt a Puritan, append- 

 ing his name to the * Harmonious Con- 

 sent * of 1648. He was buried at Walton 

 15 June, 1654, as appears from the 

 registers. 



17 In Plund. Mins. Accts. ii, 208, the 

 date of nomination is given as 25 Novem- 

 ber, 1657 ; but in the registers it is stated 

 that Henry Finch, born in Standish in 

 1633, succeeded in 1654 ; Walton Reg. i, 

 190. After 1662 he became the minister 

 of Birch Hall, and assisted Calamy with 

 his account of the ejected clergy. Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. 



IS Of Brasenose Col. Oxf., M.A. 1642 ; 

 Foster, Alumni. 



^* He was a correspondent of Roger 

 Kenyon's, and several of his letters are 

 printed in Kenyan MSS. (Hist.MSS.Com.) ; 

 he is also frequently mentioned in N. 

 Blundell's Diary. He was appointed one 

 of the king's preachers in 1690. He was 

 educated at Brasenose Coll. Oxf. during 

 the Commonwealth regime ; M.A. 1661 j 

 Foster, Alumni ; Wood, Athenae, ii, 817 ; 

 M.A. at Camb. comitiis regiis, 1690. 



^ Son of the rector, whom he succeeded 

 in 1722. 



21 Son of Sir Thomas Brooke, of Nor- 

 ton Priory ; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), 

 i, 685. Educated at Trin. Coll. Camb., 

 M.A. 1720. He was also rector of 

 St. Mary's, Chest., from 1737 to 1744 ; 

 Earwaker, St. Mary's, 95. 



^'^ Son of the rector j he became bishop 

 of Sodor and Man in 1753, retaining 

 Walton. He was educated at St. John's 

 Coll. Camb., LL.D. 1758. There is an 

 interesting account of him, chiefly from 

 W. Cole, in the Admissions to St. John's 

 College (ed. Scott), iii, 120, 561-3, in 

 which it is stated that he was an eloquent 

 preacher, and in 1764 published Forty 

 Sermons and Discourses. Cole says : * His 

 father was always necessitous. The son 

 was of St, John's College, but never 

 fellow. He quitted and returned to take 

 his LL.D. degree, and lived in college in 

 a most showy and expensive manner, 

 borrowing money of any one who had it 

 or had it to lend. . . . He died in Cecil 

 Street in the Strand and (was) buried in 

 that parish church, quite insolvent, as I 

 am informed,' See also Moore, Sodor and 

 Man, 247-51. 



28 Of Peterhouse, Camb., B.A. 1763. 

 He became vicar of Kippax, near Leeds, 

 first minister of St. Paul's Church, Leeds, 

 1793, and lecturer at the parish church ; 

 he died in I 81 1. There is a portrait of 

 him in Whitaker, Loidis and Elmete, 69. 



^ Son of the rector. Educated at Wad- 

 ham Coll. Oxf., M.A. 1791 ; B.D. 1802 ; 

 Foster, Alumni. 



25 Of University Coll. Oxf., M.A. 1789. 

 Foster, Alumni. He had been ' lecturer ' 

 at St, John'.s, Liverpool. 



^ Succeeded to the rectory. 



^ Son of Thomas Hornby of Kirkham ; 

 educated at Christ Church, Oxford ; M.A. 

 1828; Voiter, Alumni. He died 22 Dec. 

 1890, the vicarage becoming extinct. 



^ Printed by the Rec. Soc. of Lanes, 

 and Ches. Misc. iii, 15. 



