WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



The following 



Institution 

 oc. 1 246 . 



DC. 1292 . . . 



26 June, 1303 

 oc. 1317 . . . 

 20 Jan. 1 3 18-9 . 



3 Nov. 1337 . 



27 Sept. 1369 

 17 Nov. 1382 



22 Mar. 141 8-9. 



16 Apr. 1424 



I Oct. 1489. . 



1 7 Dec. 1 5 1 2 

 14 July, 1528 



18 May, 1548 

 8 Nov. 1548 



?Nov. 



(?) 

 17 June, 

 25 Aug. 

 28 July, 

 1 1 Apr. 



6 Mar. 

 27 Oct. 



27 June, 



1 6 May, 



7 Oct. 

 21 Nov. 



6 Jan. 1 700-1 



1554 

 1559 

 1577 

 1602 

 1607 

 1646 

 1651-2 

 1662 



1674 



1679 



1700 



is a list of the rectors : — 

 Name 



Robert Blundell ' . . 

 Henry [le Waleys] ^ 



Patron 



Thomas le Waleys ' Richard le Waleys . 



Gilbert le Waleys * 



John le Waleys ' Richard le Waleys . 



Henry (son of Ric.) le Waleys ° . . Richard le Waleys . 

 John (son of Ric.) le Walsh ' . . . Thomas de Formby 



John de Bradshagh * Roger de Bradshagh 



Maud his wife 



John Spink ' 



William de Litherland '".... Maud de Bradshagh 



William Bradshagh " Thomas Bradshagh 



William Bradshagh " James Bradshagh . 



Brian Moorcroft, B. Deer. '^ . . . Sir W. Leyland, &c. 

 Edward Moorcroft " [Barth. Hesketh] . 



('[Geo. Kirkby, &c.J 

 Thomas Kirkby } [The crownj . . 



[ [do.] . . 



Edward Moorcroft '* 



John Nutter, B.D The queen . 



Samuel Hankinson, M.A. . . . Gabriel Hesketh 

 Nicholas Banastre, M.A." .... The king . . 

 James Worrall, M.A." .... Edward Stockley 



Peter Stananought, B.A." .... Barth. Hesketh . 



Alexander Bapulev B A '» (Henry Farington 



Alexander Baguley, B.A. . . . jc^briel Hesketh 



John Brownsword, M.A.*" . . . The king . . 



f Alex. Hesketh . 

 Christopher Sudell, M.A.-' . . . j Alex. Hesketh and 



t^ Scarisbrick 

 Robert Hindley, M.A.*' .... The king . . . 



&c. . 

 and 



AUGHTON 



Cause of Vacancy 



not stated 



d. of J. le Waleys 

 d. of H. le Waleys 

 d. of John Walsh 



res. of J. Bradshagh 

 d. of J. Spink 

 d. of W. Litherland 

 d. of Roger Bradshagh 

 res. of W. Bradshagh 

 d. of B. Moorcroft 



do. 



[exp. T. Kirkby] 



:) 



Rt. 



d. of J. Nutter 

 depr. of S. Hankinson 

 d. of N. Banastre 



d. of J. Worrall 



d. of P. Stananought 

 depriv. of A. Baguley 



d. of J. Brownsword 



depriv. of C. Sudell 



^ See the account of the manor. 



2 Assize R. 408, m. 97 d. Henry was 

 one of several complainants against his 

 brother Thomas and others, but the jury 

 acquitted the accused. He was son of 

 John le Waleys (Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 262, 

 n. 32), and became rector of Standish in 

 1301. 



8 Lich. Epis. Reg. i, fol. gb. In Cal. Pap, 

 Letters^ ii, 41, 62, Walter de Bedewinde, 

 treasurer of York, &c. is called rector of 

 Aughton in 1308, but his benefice was 

 probably in Yorks. 



■* Lich. Epia, Reg. i, fol. 85. On 20 

 June he obtained licence to study for a year. 

 Ibid, i, fol. 86. The rectory had been 

 vacant since 18 Nov. 1318. On the 

 ensuing Easter eve John was ordained 

 subdeacon, priest in 1320 ; fol. 135^, 138. 



6 Ibid, ii, fol. 1 11^. On 28 Feb. 1365-6 

 the bishop granted him leave to choose a 

 confessor ; ibid, v, fol. 13. He died on 

 18 Sept. 1369; ibid, iv, fol. 85. Henry le 

 Waleys occurs frequently in the local char- 

 ters and suits ; e.g. De Banc. R. 346, m. 

 166. 



7 Lich. Epis. Reg. iv, fol. 85. The 

 patrons were the guardians of Richard le 

 Walsh, viz. Thomas de Formby, Henry 

 le Walsh, Roger son of Richard de Brad- 

 shagh of Pennington, and Cecily daughter 

 of Richard le Walsh. The new rector 

 was ordained subdeacon in April, 1370 

 (ibid. V, fol. 98), deacon in June, and 

 priest in Oct. (ibid, fol, 98^, 9gi). He 

 died 7 Nov. 1382 ; ibid, iv, fol. 93^. 



8 ibid, iv, fol. 93^. In the following 

 January John had leave of absence (ibid, 

 v, fol. 35^), and was not ordained sub- 

 deacon till June (ibid, v, fol. jzSb) and 

 priest in the following June (ibid, fol, 129). 



^ Ibid, viii, fol. igb. This was an ex- 

 change, John de Bradshagh becoming 

 rector of Freshwater in place of John 

 Spink. The change had been made 

 14 May, 1418. John Spink was also 

 rector of Standish. 



w Ibid, ix, fol. 113^. William de 

 Litherland was a trustee for the MaghuU 

 family j Harl. MS. 2042, fol. 46, 46^. 



" Lich. Epis. Reg. xii, fol. 123. The 

 name of this or the next rector should be 

 Roger Bradshagh, but the register has been 

 followed. Aughton is erroneously called 

 a vicarage. In a list dated 1527 Roger 

 Bradshagh is given as the rector's name, 

 and he is said to have been there twenty- 

 four years ; Duchy of Lane. Rentals, 



5/15- 



^2 Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 58. 



^s Ibid. fol. 64 ; the patrons, by grant 

 of James Bradshagh, were Sir William 

 Leyland, Edward Molyneux, clerk, and 

 Richard Cholmondeley. 



^* For institutions and rirstfruits of the 

 later rectors see Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 408-14; Lanes, 

 and Ches. Antiq. Notes, where are printed 

 the institutions from the P.R.O. Books ; 

 Foster, Index Eccl. ; Baines, Lanes, (ed. 

 Croston), v, 241-4. 



^* Edward Moorcroft was in Jan. 1559- 

 60 appointed to a canonry at Windsor, 

 which he retained until his death in or 

 before May, 1580 ; Le Neve, Fasti, iii, 

 395» 397" "^^^ "will o^ Edward Moor- 

 croft, canon of Windsor, made 28 Feb. 

 1579-80, and proved 17 April, 1580 

 (P.C.C. 14 Arundell), shows that he had 

 married a Morell. His son George, then 

 under fifteen, was to be sent to Oxf. or 

 Camb. with a total allowance of ^20 



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a year. He made a considerable number 

 of bequests, the places in which he was 

 interested being Aughton, Ormskirk and 

 Sefton, Windsor and Eton, Tillingham 

 and Dengie in Essex, and Hereford, to 

 the poor of which places he left money. 

 To his wife's brother Roger Morell he 

 left St, Augustine's works ' in six great 

 volumes.' Anthony Moorcroft was among 

 the beneficiaries ; and he, in his will 

 (1594, P.C.C. 49 Dixy), desired to be 

 buried in St. Stephen's, Walbrook, * in the 

 chancel there under the stone where 

 Edward Moorcroft, late canon of Wind- 

 sor, was buried.' He, too, left money 

 for the poor of Tillingham and Dengie in 

 Essex. 



^^ Educated at Brasenose Coll. Oxf, ; 

 M.A. 1605 ; Foster, Alumni. He was 

 'no preacher'; Kenyan MSS. {Hht.M^S. 

 Com.), 13. In 1609 Banastre and a 

 reader were included in the Visit. List ; 

 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxii, 298. 



1' Of Brasenose Coll. Oxf. ; M.A. 

 1633 ; Foster, Alumni Oxon. 



IS Educated at Westminster and Christ 

 Church, Oxf. ; B.A. 1646 ; ibid. 



19 Educated at Brasenose College, Oxf.; 

 B.A. 1672. He became rector of Burton 

 with Coates in Sussex in 1692, and of 

 Up Waltham in 1705 ; ibid. 



20 Educated at Queen's Coll. Oxf. ; 

 M.A. 1676 ; ibid. He was 'conformable* 

 in 1689 : Kenyan MSS. 228. He was 

 buried at Aughton, 25 June, 1700 ; ad- 

 ministration with inventory at Chest. 

 1700. 



21 Afterwards vicar of Leyland and rector 

 of North Meols. 



23 Educated at Jesus Coll. Cam. ; M.A. 

 1700. See Pal. Note-book, iii, 268. 



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