WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



HUYTON 



Institution Name 



8 Aug. 1558 . . Edward (Edmund) Lowe ' . . . 



oc. 1569 . . . William Wade 



I July, 1587 . . Roger Devias* 



27 Jan. 1607-8 . Samuel Hankinson, B.A.' .... 



13 July, 161 5 . Lawrence Starkie* 



oc. 1645 (1653) . William Bell, M.A 



16 Feb. 1662-3 • Jol^n Lowe" 



30 Sept. 1706 . James Lowe 



25 May, 1708 . Thomas Fleetwood, M.A.* . . . 



14 Dec. 1737. . Edward Jones 



10 July, 1765 . Thomas Mallory, LL.B.' .... 



26 May, 1786 . John Barnes, M.A.* 



lo Sept. 1809 . GeofFrey Hornby, LL.B.' . . . 



12 Aug. 181 3 . Ellis Ashton, B.D.'° 



18 Aug. 1869 . Oswald Henry Leycester Penhryn, 



M.A." 



15 July, 1890 . Edward Manners Sanderson, M.A." 



Patron 

 The Crown . 



Cause of Vacancy 

 res. of Jas. Smith 



The Crown . 

 Edward Torbock . 

 Sir R. Molyneux . 

 * Free election of 



people ' 

 Earl of Southampton 

 Duke of Somerset . 

 William Farington 

 Jacob Jones . 

 Lord Strange 

 Earl of Derby 



the 



d. of last incumbent 

 d. of Roger Devias 

 d. of S. Hankinson 



ejection of W. Bell 

 d. of John Lowe 



d. of T. Fleetwood 

 d. of E. Jones 

 d. of T. Mallory 

 d. of J. Barnes 

 res. of G. Hornby 

 d. of E. Ashton 



res. of O. Penrhyn 



Roger Mason, instituted in 1 5 1 7, seems to have 

 held the benefice for forty years.'^ His stipend of 

 10 marks had been paid by Burscough Priory, and he 

 himself was described in 1535 as 'canon.' In 1541 

 there was a staff of six priests ;" in 1548 the visita- 

 tion list shows an increase to eight. In 1554 the 

 number had fallen back to six, and the two chantry 

 priests appear to have died shortly afterwards ; the 

 staff consisted practically of the aged vicar and his 

 curate, who seems to have been absent.'^ Roger 

 Mason was for a brief period succeeded by James 

 Smith, whose place was filled by Edmund (or 



Edward) Lowe on the presentation of Philip and 

 Mary. In 1562 Edmund Lowe appeared as vicar ; the 

 name of the curate, Hugh Brekell, was erased, and John 

 Whitefield'* written instead. In 1565 Lowe appeared 

 alone, the six or eight clergy of the pre-Reformation 

 times having been reduced to one." Though he 

 must have complied with the Elizabethan changes to 

 some extent, he showed himself hostile as far as he 

 dared.'* How long he continued at Huyton is un- 

 known, but in 1569 William Wade was vicar." 



Nothing appears to be known about him or his 

 successor, Roger Devias, except that the latter in 



1 Raines MSS. (Chat. Lib.), xxii, 36. 



2 Act Books at Chester. 



^ Ibid. He was educated at Magdalen 

 Hall and St. Edmund Hall, Oxf. (B.A. 

 1^85); and was vicar of Hillingdon, 

 Middlesex, in 1588, and of Aughton in 

 160Z. In 1 61 3 he was presented to 

 Holy Trinity, Chester, by the earl of 

 Derby, and held it with Huyton till his 

 death in 1615. See Foster, Alumni 

 Oxon, ; Ormerod, Chez. (ed. Helsby), i, 

 332. He died at Huyton 10 July, 1615, 

 and was buried there ; Harl. MS. 2177. 



** Act Books. For dates of institution 

 of most of the later vicars see Lanes, and 

 Ckes. Antiq. Notes, from the Institution 

 Books, P. R. O. ; also Croston's ed. of 

 Baines, v, 69-72. 



Lawrence Starkie, described as of the 

 * University of Oxford,* was also master 

 of the grammar school 5 Loeal Gleanings 

 Lanes, and Ches. ii, 115. He is not in 

 -Foster's Alumni. In 1650 as above 

 stated the Pari. Com. found that 'the 

 profits of the vicarage were in the hands 

 of Mr. Lawrence Starkie,' though 

 William Bell is called 'vicar' in 1645. 

 Starkie was buried at Huyton 10 March, 

 1652-3 ; Trans. Hist. Soe. xxxiv, too. 



The king's preacher at Huyton in 

 1609 was William Harrison, celebrated 

 for 'the extraordinary impressions which 

 his preaching often produced on the minds 

 of the young and thoughtless, especially 

 on occasion of his lecturing at markets 

 or fairs ' 5 Halley, Lanes. Puritanism, i, 237. 

 A sermon of his, printed in 1614, is in 

 the Warrington Library. 



^ In 1665 John Lowe, vicar, was pre- 

 sented ' for not reading divine service as 

 he ought,' omitting and slighting the 

 prayers ' as his pleasure is, to the great 



displeasure of the parishioners ' j Visit. 

 Rec. at Chester. 



John Lowe was returned as ' con- 

 formable' in 1689 ; Kenyan MSS. (Hist. 

 MSS. Com.), 229. 



^ Thomas Fleetwood, son of Thomas 

 Fleetwood of Prescot, ' plebeian,' entered 

 Brasenose Coll. Oxf. in 1696, aged six- 

 teen ; Foster's Alumni Oxon. The patron 

 for that turn was a kinsman. 



7 Thomas Mallory, son and heir of 

 George Mallory of Mobberley, in Ches. 

 was born 28 Nov. 1727; educated at 

 Trinity Coll. Camb. (LL.B. 1754); 

 became rector of Mobberley 1770, and 

 held the two benefices till his death 

 at Huyton on 28 Jan. 1786. His son, 

 also rector of Mobberley, became a fellow 

 of Manchester Church j Ormerod, Ches. 

 (ed. Helsby), i, 421. 



^ John Barnes was son of a clergyman, 

 Thomas Barnes of South Molton in 

 Devonshire, and brother of Dr. Francis 

 Barnes, master of Peterhouse, Camb. 

 He matriculated at Oxf. (Balliol Coll.) 

 in 1770, being eighteen years old ; M.A. 

 1778 ; Foster, Alumni. 



^ GeofFrey Hornby, LL.B. (Peterhouse, 

 Camb.), was nephew of the patron ; he 

 became vicar of Ormskirk in 1812, rector 

 of Aylmerton and Felbrigg, Norfolk, in 

 1 81 3, on which he resigned Huyton ; and 

 of Bury in 1 8 1 8 ; Foster, Index Eccl. 9 1 . 



10 Ellis Ashton was a younger son of 

 Nicholas Ashton of Woolton. He was 

 educated at Brasenose Coll., Oxf. ; 

 (M.A. 1813, B.D. 1821), of which he 

 became a fellow ; he was presented by 

 the college to the rectory of Begbroke in 

 1821, and held this with Huyton until 

 his death, 11 July, 1869, aged eighty. 

 Foster, Alumni. 



^^ Previously vicar of BickerstafFe from 

 1858, and now rector of Winwick and 

 honorary canon of Liverpool. 



12 Educated at Trinity Coll., Camb. 

 (M.A. 1875) 5 was formerly vicar of 

 Weston St. Mary's, Line. (1875-90)5 

 L.i'verpool Dioc, Cal. He is a descendant 

 of Dr. Manners Sutton, Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, 1805-28. 



^3 Falor Eccl. v, 222, 224 ; Clergy List, 

 1 541-2 (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 15 j 

 Visit. Lists of Chest. The 'Thomas 

 Mason* of 1541-2 is probably an error. 

 Roger's will is dated 12 May, 1557. He 

 bequeathed 20 marks for as many poor 

 maids of Huyton to help them to con- 

 venient marriage, 20J. to the mending of 

 the way from Huyton to Prescot, and 

 13^. i^d. to the mending of Ditchfield 

 lane, also various sums to the poor, and 

 in particular * penny dole* to the poor 

 who should attend his funeral ; Wills 

 (Lanes, and Ches. Rec. Soc), 181, 



^^ The vicar, his curate, two chantry 

 priests, and two others paid by Harring- 

 ton and Tarbock. 



" Visit, lists. 



^^ Hugh Brekell was ordained priest 

 17 Dec. 1558. A John Whitfield was 

 ordained priest on the previous 24 Sept. 

 Ordin. Book (Rec. Soc), 115, 112. 



^^ The above particulars are from the 

 Visit, books preserved at Chester. 



^^ In 1 564 Edmund Lowe was presented 

 for having 'made holy water and other- 

 wise offended against the queen's majesty's 

 proceedings ' ; Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 xxil, 232. 



19 1569— Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 xxli, 56 (called 'Wood'); 1576 — Pen- 

 nant's Acct. Bk. (MS.); 1578 — Tram, 

 Hist. Soc. xxxiv, 98. 



