A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



later granted back,' remained with the lords of War- 

 rington to the latter half of the sixteenth century, 

 when it passed by sale to the Irelands of Bewsey, and 

 has descended like Bewsey and Great Sankey to Lord 

 Lilford, the present patron.' 



In 1 29 1 the value of the benefice was found to be 

 ^13 6s. SJ;' and fifty years later the ninth of the 

 sheaves, wool, and lambs ^vas estimated at twenty 

 marks, i.e. the same sum.* The gross value in 1535 

 was £^i 15/. 4^., of which the glebe brought in 

 1 6s. id. ; the payments included one of zos. to the 

 abbot of Shrewsbur)-, and the net value was /40.' 



The Commonwealth sun-eyors in 1650 found that 

 the tithes, valued at j^l 50, were farmed by Gilbert 

 Ireland, who allowed the rector £^io a year ;• this 

 was increased by an allowance of £s,o a year out of 

 the sequestered tithes of Childwall,' reduced later.' 

 Bishop Gastrell in 171 7 found the income to be 

 j^6i 18/. 3<3'.' At present the gross value is stated to 

 be i:965.'» 



Warrington was from early times the head of a 

 deanery comprising the parishes in West Derby 

 hundred." In 1535 the revenue of the dean was 

 estimated at jf 15 i u. ii</." 



The following is a list of the rectors : — 



Date Name Patron 



r. 1180 . . . Richard" 



c. 1220 . . . James" 



f. 1250 . . . Jordan de Hulton '* 



c. 1265 . . . William de Eybury ^^ 



oc. 12S9 . . . William le Boteler " 



(?) Feb. 1298-9. William de Sankey '^ 



24 Nov. 1325 . Stephen le Blund'' Sir W. le Boteler . . 



3 April, 1330 . Robert de Houton ^ 



10 June, 1343 . John de Luyton " Sir W. le Boteler . . 



I June, 1346 . John dc Stamfordham ** .... 



10 May, 13^1 . Nicholas de Waddington " ... Sir W. le Boteler . . 



22 June, 1357 . John de Swinlegh " 



13 Jan. I 361-2 . John de Donne" John earl of Lancaster 



Cause of Vacancy 



res. W. de Sankey 

 exch. S. le Blund 

 d. R. de Houton 

 exch. J. de Luyton 

 d. J. de Stamfordham 

 exc. N. de Waddington 

 res. J. de Swinlegh 



1 Chart, in Bcanmnt, Lord$ of fVarr. 

 (Chct. Sec), i, 19, 85. 



' Sec the account of Bewsey. A fine 

 regarding the manor in 1332 included the 

 advowson of the church ; Final Cone. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lancfl. and Ches.), ii, S3. 



In 1^61 Henry duke of Lancaster * died 

 seised in hia demesne as of fee of the 

 advowson of the church [of Warrington] 

 for the term of the life of William le 

 Bolder, knt., by the demise of Richard 

 dc Winwick, brother and heir of John de 

 Winwick, who demised the said church to 

 William le Boteler for the said term' ; 

 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. 1, n. 122. 



There were suits between the duke of 

 Lancaster and Sir William le Boteler in 

 1374 and 117 5 respecting the patronage; 

 De Banco R. 456, m. 197 j R. 4<;7, m. 

 I 16. The duke recovered, 



» Pope .\:ch. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 249. 



< //17. Non. (Rec. Com.), 40. The 

 sum was thus made up : Warrington and 

 Burtonwood each ^^4 6j. 8(/.; Glazebrook 

 91. 4./.; the third part of Great Sankey 

 z6s. Si/.i Woolston 33J, ^.\ Rixton 24J, 



■• l\ihr EccL (Rec. Com.), v, 219. 



An Easter roll of the year 1580 is pre- 

 served among the Norris D. (B. M.}; the 

 amount received at the *hou8cling board * 

 was 485. (^d. ; 1 2j. 6d. was laid out on 

 bread and wine. This has been printed 

 in full by Mr. J. Paul Rylands in Trans, 

 Hist. 5;i. (New Ser.), xix, with a number 

 of illustrative particulars. 



^ Ccmmznivealtb Cb. Surzr. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 51. Gilbert Ireland 

 wiS a Parliamentarian, so that his estates 

 were untouched. The value of the man- 

 sion-house, with its bam and garden, was 



' PiurJ, Mms. Acctj. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), i, 34 ; this order was made in 

 1646. James Anderton, the farmer of the 

 Childwall tithes, was a * papist and delin- 

 quent,* whose estates were sequestered. 



^ IbiJ. 28S. £}o only was payable in 

 1655, but was increased to ;^4o ; ibid. 



* Notitia Cestr. (Chct. Soc.), ii, 230; 

 apart from the ^^20 received from the 

 lessee, the income was derived mainly 

 from fees. There were then five church- 

 wardens — two for Warrington appointed 

 by the lord and Mr. Legh of Lyme, and 

 one each for the other three * quarters' of 

 the parish, elected by house row. 



^^ Liverpool Dioc. CaL Some benefac- 

 tions are noticed in the /far. End. Char. 

 Rep. I 890, pp. 6^, 65. 



*^ Some names of the deans have been 

 presened, e.g. Elias, xiii cent. [fVhalUy 

 Coucber [Chet. Soc], i, 126) ; Richard de 

 Standish, r. 1240 (Kuerden, ii, fol. 219, 

 n. 330)5 Roger was dean in 1277 (De 

 Banco R. 21, m. i 8) ; Henry de Waver- 

 tree, vicar of Childwall, 13 19; Richard 

 de Sutton, vicar of Walton, 1354. 



*2 ralor EccL loc. cit. The deanery was 

 in the hands of William Knight, archdea- 

 con of Chester, and he farmed it out to 

 Richard Clerk, chaplain. The sources of 

 income were the probate dues on wills, 

 estimated at ^7 a year, and certain fees 

 payable by the beneficed clergy. 



^8 Richard, priest of Warrington was 

 witness to a charter between 1175 ^"^ 

 1182; Lanes. Pipe R. 287. 



There is an account of the rectors in 

 W. Beamont's JVarr. Ch. Notes ,■ see also 

 Baines' Lanes, (ed. Croston), iv, 417-26. 



^^ James rector of Warrington attested 

 a grant to Stanlaw made before 1233 ; 

 TVhallty Coucher^ Ii, 416. 



^ ^Aa//^ Cow^fr, iii, 742, 9 1 9. Jordan 

 had a son Robert, who occurs in the 

 Lever Deeds; Add. MS. 32103, As. 66, 

 69, dated 1297 and 1298. William son 

 of Jordan de Hulton complained In 1 292 of 

 an assault by Peter de Warburton and 

 others; Assize R. 408, m. lyod. 61 d. 

 96 ^- ^ Beamont, op. cit. 28. 



^7 Witness to a Warrington charter in 

 1289 ; Dods. MSS. liii, fol. 15^, n. 3. 



^ 'William rector of Warrington ' had 

 on 22 Feb. 1298-9, licence to attend 

 the schools for three years, during which 

 time he was not to be compelled to enter 



310 



the higher orders ; Lich. Epis. Reg. i, 

 fol. zb. He had probably just been 

 appointed to the rectory. Richard de 

 Astley sued William de Sankey in 1320 

 for six years* arrears of a rent of 2 marks, 

 and at the same time Henry del Bruchc 

 sued for five years* arrears of a rent of 

 one robe a year ; De Banco R. 236, 

 m. 286. 



In July, 1325, Sankey had the king's 

 protection for twelve months, perhaps on 

 going abroad in the king's service, and 

 shortly afterwards he resigned the rectory ; 

 Cal. of Pat. 1324-7, p, 148. 



>9 Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. loiA. 



''o Ibid. Ii, fol. 105^; the new rector 

 had held Leatherhead (*Ledred') in the 

 diocese of Winchester, exchanging It for 

 Warrington. He is mentioned in 1334 

 in Coram Rege R. 297, m, 94. Sons of 

 Robert de Houton were concerned in a 

 plea by his executors in 1344 ; Ibid. 

 R. 337. m. 19. 



21 Lich. Epis. Reg. ii, fol. ii6i. He 

 had been rector of Whittington. 



22 Ibid, ii, fol, 119; the new rector had 

 held Luyton, In the diocese of Lincoln. 



^ Ibid, ii, fol, 128^; the new rector 

 was a priest. 



^ Ibid, ii, fol. 134 ; the new rector had 

 been rector of Winwick, Huntingdon- 

 shire. He is probably the John dc 

 Swinlegh, priest of the diocese of Lichfield, 

 who was made a notary by Clement VI 

 in 13 5 1, and had an indult to choose a 

 confessor, Sec. ; Cal. of Papal Letters^ iii, 

 447, 449. He became archdeacon of 

 Huntingdon in 1362 on the king's presen- 

 tation ; see Le Neve, Fasti, ii, 50. 



2* Lich. Epis. Reg. iv, fol. 80. The 

 rector was only a clerk ; the name is 

 written Donne, but possibly it should be 

 Dounc. On 10 Nov. 1362, he, being 

 then a subdeacon, obtained the bishop's 

 leave to be absent from his church for 

 three years ; ibid, v, fol. yb. On 9 May, 

 1366, this was renewed for two years; 

 ibid, v, fol. 13A. Thus he was absent 

 almost all the time he held the rectory. 



