WEST DERBY HUNDRED childwall 



X400' There was no parsonage house certainly £6} Bishop Gastrell about 1720 found the value 



known, but the parish had lately bought from the of the vicarage j^58 3^. 10^/ At present the gross 



earl of Derby a house for the vicar as well as two value is given as £^^0, with a vicarage house opposite 



acres of land supposed to have belonged to the par- the church. £^ is paid to Hale chapel. 

 sonage. The vicar of Childwall formerly presented to 



In 1 291 the rectory was valued at £^0,^ and in various churches within the old parish, Wavertree, 



1535 ^^ £3^ 13^' ^^-y out of which certain fees and Woolton, &c., but this patronage has been transferred 



pensions had to be paid, the vicarage being worth to the bishop of Liverpool. 



The following is a list of the rectors and vicars : — 



Rectors 



Instituted Name Presented by Cause of Vacancy 



oc. 1 177-8 , . Robert* 



c. 1190 . . . . Robert Fukes^ Richard de Lathom . . 



c. 1205 ... H. (andR.)' 



c. 1232-46 . . John Cotty^ 



1 260 and after . Herbert Grelley ^ 



15 Mar. 1292-3 John de Droxford ^^ The King 



9 Nov. 1309 . Adam de Preston" Sir Robert de Holand. . res. of J. de Droxford 



18 Mar. 1310-11 Henry de Leicester^' Dean of Holland . . . res. of A. de Preston 



Vicars 



17 Dec. 1307 . . Henry de Wavertree'^ .... The Rector .... 



20 Dec. 1338. . Richard de Barnby " Holland Priory. . . . d. of H. de Wavertree 



3 July, 1349. ■ Nicholas de Thorne ^* „ .... d. of Ric. last vicar 



^Therewere three tithe barns — at Gar- ^ De Banco R. 144, m. iS/^d. ; pre- Childwall by the king in July, 1299, but 



ston, Lea and Woolton ; a house and acre sented in the time of Richard I, according for some reason or other the presentation 



of glebe at Garston brought in a rent of to the plaintiff. does not seem to have taken effect. John 



1 35. 4^., and a close in Hale, called Prior's " At the time of the composition with remained rector, and on i March, 1308, 



heys, IS. iid. The vicar had all the the prior of Lancaster * H. the clerk of a further dispensation from Clement V 



small tithes except such as paid a com- Childwall' was liable for the pension of directed him to resign two of his benefices 



position or 'rate tithe,' viz. Mr. Lathom 201. and must therefore have been the and be ordained priest within two years, 



of Allerton, los. for tithe of hemp and rector. Among the witnesses is * R. he being then only a deacon j ibid, ii, 39. 



flax of Allerton and Garston j Mr. Norris the clerk of Childwall ' j Lane, Church, He therefore retained Childwall, probably 



of Speke, i6s. for tithe of pig, goose, 121. without visiting it, until the day of his 



hemp and flax in Speke and the Wool- ^ Whalley Coucher, 558, 809. consecration as bishop of Bath and Wells 



tons, and pig and goose In Garston ; and ^ Herbert is named in 1260 in the in 1309. He was bishop of this see for 



Mr. Ireland of the Hutt, ^^i 5^. for the Cur. Reg. R. 171, m. ^zd. and is prob- twenty years. 



tithe of pig, goose, hemp and flax in Hale ably the same as the 'Herbert Grelle Roger de Droxford's presentation to 



and Halewood (except a few houses), quondam rector ' of Kuerden ; F/wa/ Cone Childwall may have been refused by the 



Childwall and Wavertree, also pig and I, 140 m. Set z\sq Dep. Keeper's Rep, x\\y, bishop of Lichfield, for in November, 



goose in Allerton. The profit of the App. 113, for mention of him in 1275. 1299, his brother the papal chaplain ob- 



vicarage was estimated to be about ^^30 a Herbert, rector of Childwall, was In 1288 tained from Boniface VIII permission for 



year, including the small tithes and Easter guardian of Richard, son and heir of Roger to hold one benefice in addition to 



roll. Commontu. Church Sur-u. (Rec. Soc. Geoffrey de Casterton j De Banco R. 73, Freshwater, although he was not a priest, 



Lanes, and Ches.), 194—5. m. 13. He seems to have been rector and between eighteen and twenty-five 



2 Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 249. In till about 1290, but 'Richard Chaplain of years of age ; ibid. I, 584. 



1 341 the true value of the ninth of the Childwall' Is witness to charters of that ^^ Lich. Epis. Reg. 1,57/'; he is described 



corn, wool and lambs was found to be period ; Norris D. (B.M.), n. 711, 725 ; as 'son of Hugh de Preston.' Adam de 



^40, made up thus : Hale ;^20, Speke also Bold D. Warrington, G. 44. Preston forfeited lands by adhering to 



j^4 15^., Wavertree ^^4 135. 4^., AJler- JW* John de Droxford (or Drochenesford) Thomas earl of Lancaster, and recovered 



ton £1 4J., Woolton ^3 6s. 8i/., Much is the most distinguished incumbent of them in 1327 on petition to Edward III ; 



Woolton j^2 6s. %d., Garston ^2 lOi., Childwall, There is an account of him Pari. R. (Rec, Com.), ii, 434. He Is 



Childwall ijs. 4J., and Thingwall 71.; in Diet. Nat. Biog. He was one of the probably the Adam de Preston mentioned 



Nonarum Inq. (Rec. Com.), 40. king's clerks and keeper of the wardrobe in a Holland family settlement of 1321-2 j 



^ Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 222. to Edward I, In 1290 he was presented ibid, vl, 254. 



After the dissolution the value was found by the king to the church of Monewden ^^ Llch. Epis. Reg. i, 59. A Henry de 



to be £^6 16s. /{d. This included the (dio. Norwich), and on 15 March, 1293, Leicester was one of the king's clerks In 



tithes of four mills : Halewood, Allerton, to Childwall, with all its chapels and 1307 ; Ca/.i'd^ 1307-13, p. 8. The rector 



Wavertree and Bushel's Mill ; Duchy of appurtenances, followed by KIngsclere in of Childwall was probably the cofferer to 



Lane. Rentals, Sec. Sh^- 1296 ; Cal. Pat. The king presented to Thomas earl of Lancaster In 1322, whose 



'^ Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc), ii, 164. Childwall by reason of the minority of misfortune Is described In Eeamont's 



A list of benefactions between 1680 and Robert Grelley. Halton, 38. He seems to have been ap- 



1705 included a grant of lOJ. a year for a On 27 Sept. 1298, Boniface VIII pointed rector of Almondsbury by the 



preaching minister. granted him at the king's request a dis- archbishop of York in 1313, on the depri- 



A terrier of 1778 among the church pensatlon for having while under age vatlon of Boniface di Saluzzo ; Ca/.o/" Pa/", 



papers states that the vicar then had the obtained first the church of Childwall, Letters, W, 122, 168. It seems clear that 



tithes of cow and calf, &c., 'for every then successively those of Hemingburgh, the last two rectors were presented merely 



smoke id.,iox every tradesman ^.* ; i6s. &c., and various canonries and prebends, to hold the rectory until arrangements 



and 255. were paid for the demesnes of with leave to retain all those successively could be made for its transference to 



Speke and Hale respectively 5 loj. came held — except Childwall and another, which UphoUand Priory. 



rom an estate in Widnes, ' Lyon's of the must be resigned — the cure of souls not ^^ Llch. Epis. Reg. i, 28. Dean of War- 

 Fold ' 5 and loj. from Hancock's New being neglected, and a portion of the fruits rington In 1319 ; see the account of Mel- 

 House in Halewood. The latter rent received being applied to the benefices; ling. In 1336 it was reported to the bishop 

 charges are still paid ; see End. Char. Cal. of Pap. Letters, i, 577. The pope at that he was old and weak, and therefore 

 Rep. (Childwall), 1904. the same time made him one of his John del Femes was appointed as his 



5 'Robert the priest of Childwall' in chaplains. assistant; Ibid, ii, fol. iio^. 



1177-8 was fined a mark for some breach In accordance with this, Roger de ^^ Ibid. fol. 112b. 



of the forest laws ; Lanes, Pipe R. 38. Droxford, his brother, was appointed to ^^ Ibid. fol. 123^. 



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