WEST DERBY HUNDRED warrington 



Date Name Patron Cause of Vacancy 

 (?) Dec. 1 367 . John Parr, senior ' Urban V 



4. April V^ 70 1 ■ Ellis de Birtwisle ' John duke of Lancaster . res. John Parr 



17 May, 1374 • Robert de Sibthorpe ' Sir William le Boteler and d. Ellis de Birtwisle 



Sir John his son 



(?) 1374 . . . William (de Burgh) * John duke of Lancaster . „ 



20 Mar. 1 390-1 . Richard de Carleton ' Sir John le Boteler . . 



21 Aug. 1396 . Richard le Walker " „ . . d. R. de Carleton 



27 April, 1435 . Thomas Mascy' Hamlet Mascy, &c. . . d. R. le Walker 



4 July, 1464 . Thomas Neilson ' Richard Browne, &c. . . 



18 May, 1466 . Thomas Byrom' „ . . res. T. Neilson 



7 Sept. 1476 . Mr. James Stanley " John Holcroft .... d. T. Byrom 



Hugh Reddish 



16 June, i486 . Richard Delves " T. Boteler res. Hugh Reddish 



6 Dec. 1527 . Thomas Maria Wingfield " . . . H. Wingfield, &c. . . . d. R. Delves 



8 Nov. 1537 . Edward Keble, M.A.'' .... Sir T. Boteler .... res. T. M. Wingfield 

 20 Nov. 1554 . Nicholas Taylor " John Grimsditch and depr. E. Keble 



Richard Penketh 



31 Dec. 1556 . Thomas Amery '* d. N. Taylor 



24 April, 1574 . John Butler'" Thos. Butler .... 



^ He was ordained subdeacon 18 Dec. Richard Mascy, acted in virtue of a lease of the parsonage for sixty years to 



1367, probably soon after his appoint- feoffment by Sir John Boteler, deceased. Sir Thomas Boteler, the rector to receive 



ment ; Lich. Epis. Reg. v, fol. 93. Hewas ^ Ibid, xii, fol. 102b. Thomas Byrom ^^40 a year ; that Sir Thomas, before the 



ordained deacon and priest in the following was a canon of .Lichfield from 1450 and new rector had come into possession, sold 



March ; ibid, v, fol. 94, 94A. rector of Grappenhall ; the latter benefice the lease to the above-named Bruche and 



In 1372 a dispute about the presenta- he resigned on being presented to War- Shaw for ;^i86 i^s.t\.d. ; plaintiff, 'seeing 



tion was heard before Arnold Garnerii, rington ; Le Neve, Fastij i, 627, &c. He that the lease was not binding because he 



the papal nuncio and collector, who had was archdeacon of Nottingham from 1461 had nothing in the said parsonage at the 



sequestered the church. It appeared that till his death ; ibid, iii, 151. He was a time of the making thereof,' expelled the 



Urban V in April, 1364, had provided witness to the will of his patron, Arch- new lessees, who claimed their money 



John Parr, senior, to Warrington. Ellis bishop Booth, dated at Southwell in 1464; back. Sir Thomas induced the rector to 



de Birtwisle alleged that there had been Raines,^/'/>i. o/"3^orA (Rolls Ser.), iii, 333. borrow it for him, and then planned a 



no vacancy since Nicholas de Waddington, See Beamont, op. cit. 47. scheme with the lender to obtain the 



who had been called an apostate, had 1" Lich, Epis. Reg. xii, fol. nob; also sum from the rector, who was therefore 



been delivered by sentence of the court. rector of Winwick (q.v.), warden of Man- unable to pay his firstfruits to the king j 



The nuncio was satisfied ; Duchy of Chester and archdeacon of Chester. John Duchy Pleadings (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 



Lane. Misc. Bks., xiii, fol. 14. Holcroft presented in virtue of a feoff- Ches.), ii, 120. He had previously been 



2 Lich. Epis. Reg. iv, fol. 83A ; he was ment by Sir John Boteler. Archdeacon ordered to pay 50 marks to William 



a priest. The second institution (ibid. Stanley died in 1485. Bruche, *a very unruly person and a 



fol. 85) was made after Ellis de Birtwisle's ^^ Ibid, xii, fol. i2oi; a priest. He great unquietor of his poor neighbours,' 



fi-ee resignation into the lord's hands. It was son of Sir John Delves of Dodding- and had leased the parsonage to him for 



*is clear from the preceding note that ton and brother-in law of Sir Thomas ten years ; ibid, ii, 121. 



litigation had been proceeding as to Boteler ; Ormerod, C/ies. (ed. Helsby), iii. Early in 1 543 Rector Keble leased the 



Nicholas de Waddington, and that John 522. He became canon of Lichfield in rectory for 200 years to nominees of the 



Parr's resignation had been called in 1485 (Le Neve, Fasti, i, 620, 587, 627) ; patron, at a rent of only ,^20 a year; 



question. and he founded a chantry at Warrington. Beamont, op. cit. 57 5 and Lords of 



For Ellis de Birtwisle Innocent VI His will, dated 13 August, 1527, directed Warr. ii, 453 (quoting Lord Lilford's 



had in 1355 reserved a benefice with his burial either at Warrington or Wybun- deeds). Abstracts of the deeds relating 



cure of souls, of the value of 25 marks, bury, and bequeathed to the schoolmaster to * this discreditable matter ' are given 



in the gift of the abbot and convent of at the former place a diaper cloth and a in Ch. Gds. 1552 (Chet. Soc), 59 ; Dep. 



Hyde, Winchester ; Cal. of Papal Letters, missal. He died 22 October following, Keeper's Rep. xxx, Aff. 177. 



iii, 570. Ellis died 6 March, 1373-4. and was buried in the choir 5 the epitaph Keble was probably inclined to Pro- 



' Lich. Epis. Reg. iv, fol. 87A ; he was has been preserved by Randle Holme; testantiam, for in 1547 he was made a 



a priest. Beamont, /^arr. CA. iVo?«, 53. prebendary of Westminster; Le Neve, 



■* On the 12 June William de Burgh, 12 Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 63 ; he Fasti, iii, 351. This as well as the 



clerk, was presented by the duke of was a clerk. The patrons, Humphrey rectory of Warrington he lost in 1554; 



Lancaster ; Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. Wingfield and Robert Brown, clerk, acted the reason is not stated, but perhaps he 



xiii, fol. 46/1. He appears to have ob- by grant of Sir Richard Wingfield, de- had married. He does not appear to have 



tained possession after a suit between the ceased. Sir Richard, who was chancellor claimed either preferment later, but is 



duke and the Botelers, for in Nov. of the duchy from 1522 to 1525, prob- said to have been beneficed in Warwick- 



1389, the bishop allowed 'William rector ably obtained a grant of the presentation shire from 1558 till his death. He must 



of the church of Warrington,' a year's from Thomas Boteler. Thomas Maria therefore have renounced Protestantism, 



leave of absence, and released the seques- Wingfield, who must have been a mere if he had professed it, and returned to it 



tration of the fruits of the church ; Lich. child, graduated at Oxf. in 1534; he again in 1559. For the vestments, bells, 



Epis. Reg. vi, fol. 125A. A William de afterwards renounced an ecclesiastical &c. in 1552, see Ch. Gds. ^y. Richard 



Burgh was rector of Babworth, Notts, in career and became member of parliament Johns, parson of Warrington, is mentioned 



1384; Ca/. Par. 1381-5, pp. 465, 576. for Huntingdon borough in 1553 ; Foster, in 1547; Piccope, tVills {Chet. Soc), i, 



5 Lich. Epis. Reg. vi, fol. 55* ; a priest. Alumni Oxon. 104. Possibly he was Richard Taylor the 



He died in August, 1396. i^ Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 36*. schoolmaster. 



« Ibid, vi, fol. 6lb ; a priest. On 27 October, 1537, i.e. after granting a " He paid firstfruits 22 June, 1555 ; 



7 Ibid, ix, fol. 122A; a clerk. The presentation to Edward Keble, Sir Thomas Lanes, and Ches. Rec. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 patrons, Hamlet Mascy of Rixton and Boteler leased the advowson for sixty and Ches.), ii, 409. Later references 

 Wm. Arrowsmith of Warrington presented years to William Bruche, merchant tailor to these payments are from the same 

 in right of a grant by Sir John Boteler. of London, and Hamnet Shaw ; and on source. 



Thomas Mascy was still rector in 1458 ; 15 July, 1540, William Bruche, the sur- ^^ His name appears in the Visit, lists 



Lanes. Inj. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 73.. viving grantee, gave his right to Richard in 1563 and 1565. In 1562 he obtained 



8 Lich. Epis. Reg. xii, fol. loii ; a Penketh and John West ; ibid. fol. 5*. leave of absence for study for five years in 

 priest. The patrons, Richard Browne, About 1540 Edward Keble complained all ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. in, zijz. 



vicar of Poulton, John Holcroft, and that he had before institution granted a '" Paid firstfruits 8 May, 1574. 



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