A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Date 



26 Nov. 1 579 



4 July. '581 ■ 



3 June, 1589 . 



1 Mar. 1607-8. 

 29 May, 162 I 

 oc. 1646 . 



— Dec. 1646 

 I 7 Jan. 1662-3 ■ 



4 Oct. 1664 



10 Jan. 1 690-1 . 

 22 Jan. 1 71 8-9 . 

 21 June, 1723 



27 Dec. 1766 



14 Sept. 1767 . 



3 June, 1807 . 



3 Jan. 1832 . . 



2 Sept. 1854 



20 May, 1888 . 



Name 



Simon Hanvard, M.A. 

 Michael Johnson, B.A.' . 



John Ashworth ' 



William Gillibrand* .... 



William Ward ' 



James Smith' 



Robert Yates ' 



Samuel Ellison * 



Joseph Ward, B.A.' .... 

 Samuel Shawe, M.A.'" . . . 

 Thomas Egerton, M.A." . . . 

 John Haddon, M.A." . . . 

 William Farington, B.D." . . 

 Edward Owen, M.A." . . . 

 Robert Atherton Rawstome, M.A.'' 

 Hon. Horatio Powys, M.A.'' 

 William Quekett, M.A." . . 

 Frederic William Willis, M.A." . . 



Patron 



Edward Butler . 

 Sir Hen. Scurwen 

 Thos. Ireland . 



Sir T. Ireland . 



Gilbert Ireland. 

 Sir G. Ireland . 



James Holt . 

 Ric. Atherton . 



R. V. A. G^villym . . 

 ,, ... 



Lord Lilford 



The Queen . 

 Lord Lilford 



Cause of Vacancy 

 d. J. Butler 



d. J. Ashworth 

 d. W. Gillibrand 

 res. W. Ward 



exp. R. Yates 



d. J. Ward 



d. S. Shawe 



res. T. Egerton 



d. J. Haddon 



d. W. Farington 



d. E. Owen 



res. R. A. Rawstome 



prom. Bp. Powys 



d. W. Quekett 



The most noticeable feature of the above list is the 

 rapidity of the succession in many periods. About 

 1360 the title appears to have been uncertain. The 

 lease of 1534 having reduced the income from tithes 

 to ;f 20 a year for two centuries, Warrington was not 

 as a benefice very attractive. 



The commissioners of i 535 found a rector and four 

 endowed chantry priests serving the church ;oneof these 

 also taught the school, and another served the chantry 

 at Hollinfare." The clergy list of 1 541-2 shows that 

 besides the rector, probably non-resident, and the four 

 cantarists, there were in the parish eight priests, one 

 of them being the curate, and the others paid by pri- 



vate persons or living on casual fees and offerings ; 

 two of them seem to have removed soon afterwards." 

 The visitation list of 1548 records the names of the 

 rector and eight other clergy, four being chantry 

 priests ; two died about the same time. Six years 

 later the rector, just deprived, is not named ; six names 

 are recorded, two of the bearers, however, appear to 

 have been absent ; the four chantry priests were still 

 living, though unemployed. The diminution in the 

 number of clergy went steadily on at Warring- 

 ton ; in 1562 the rector Thomas Amery, his curate, 

 and two others were named in the list ; but one of 

 the latter did not appear. The rector, appointed in 



1 The name is also given as Harwood ; 

 he paid tirstfruics 25 June, 1580. He 

 was of Christ's Coll. Camb. ; B.A. 1575 j 

 incorporated at Ojtf. 1 577 ; a man of some 

 note as preacher and physician ; see Dicf. 

 Sat. Biog. and Cooper, Atbenae Cantab, ii, 

 4-8, where the titles of his works are 

 given, with many references. 



^ He was of Cumberland j entered 

 Queen's Coll. Oif. in 1572 ; B.A. 1577 ; 

 also rector of Heveringham, Yorks. ; 

 Foster, Alumni. 



• He paid firstfruits 9 July, 1 590. 

 He had been vicar of Bolton le Sands. 

 The registers begin in his time. In 1 590 

 he \^■as described as * a preacher ' ; Gibson, 

 Lydiate Halt, 248. 



* A William Gillibrand, of Brasenose 

 Coll. Oif. took the B.A. degree in 1569 ; 

 Foster, Alumni. For his family sec Dug- 

 dale, /'mr. (Chet. Soc), 121. He was a 

 ' preacher ' ; Kcr.ton MSS. (Hist. MSS. 

 Com.), 12. 



' The institutions from this time have 

 been taken from the entries in the 

 Inst. Bks. P.R.O. as printed in Lana. and 

 Cha. Antij. Nms, i, ii. William Ward 

 paid firstfruits on 18 February, 1 62 1-2. 

 He was promoted to the rectory of 

 Walton in 1645 on the expulsion of the 

 royalist Dr. Clare. 



' James Smith seems to have been in 

 charge in October, 1646, when an ad- 

 ditional stipend was ordered ; Plund. 

 Mir.s. Acca. i, 38. No minister's name 

 is given in the earlier order on p. 34. 

 'Erastus, son to Mr. James Smith, 

 minister,' was baptized 9 August, 1646. 

 Other ministers are named in the War- 

 rin£:ton registers. 



■ ' Mr. Yates came in by the quest and 

 presentation of Gilbert Ireland, esq., who 

 claims to be patron and donor thereof, 



and also by the free election of the 

 congregation there ; and that the said 

 Mr. Yates is a man of good life, and 

 howbeit he doth disassent from and not 

 submit to the present government, and 

 did neglect to observe and keep the days 

 of humiliation and thanksgiving enjoined 

 by the present parliament ' ; Commorfwealth 

 Ch. Survey (1650), 51. In the church 

 registers is the entry: *i646, Dec. 

 Robert Yates, minister.' As * pastor of 

 the church at Warrington * he signed the 

 Harmonious Consent at the beginning of 

 1648. 



His opposition to the Engagement led 

 to his trial for treason ; he was sentenced 

 to death, but pardoned and restored to his 

 benefice. At the Restoration, while loyal 

 to the king, he could not agree to every- 

 thing in the Prayer Book, and so was 

 expelled from the rectory in 1662, and in 

 the following year sent to prison. He 

 died in 1678, being buried at Warrington 

 28 October. See Beamont, op. cit. 74-80. 



' Samuel Ellison is no doubt the same 

 who was appointed to Hale Chapel in 

 1659 on the nomination of Gilbert 

 Ireland ; Plund. Mins. Accts. ii, 300. 

 He was a son of Henry Ellison of Waver- 

 tree ; educated at Woolton School and 

 St. John's Coll. Camb. which he entered 

 in 1652 J Admissions, i, 106. 



' Joseph Ward of Emmanuel Coll. 

 Camb. took the B.A. degree in 1661. 

 He was 'conformable' in 1689; Kenyan 

 MSS. 230. 



"> Of Queens' Coll. Camb.; M.A. 1677 ; 

 incorporated at Oxf. 1677 ; master of the 

 Boteler School, 1689 ; one of the four 

 royal preachers, 1682 ; Stratford's Visit. 

 List. James Holt presented as guardian 

 of John Atherton, a minor. 



" See the account of rectors of Sefton. 



312 



'^ Educated at Brasenose Coll. Oxf. ; 

 M.A. 1723 ; Foster, Alumni Oxon. In 

 his time Keble's lease expired. He was 

 a friend of John Byrom, 



^ See the account of vicars of Leigh. 



" Educated at Jesus Coll. Oxf. ; M.A. 

 1752 ; also master of Warrington school ; 

 Foster, Alumni. He had been a master 

 at Great Crosby School and curate of 

 the chapel there. See Beamont, op, cit. 

 104-14. He translated Juvenal and 

 Persius, and was author of some edu- 

 cational works ; and he also published 

 sermons, one volume going under the 

 name of his predecessor — Farington s 

 Sermons; Trans, Hist. Soc. xxii, 120. 

 He has a place in the Diet. Nat. Biog. 



^' Educated at Brasenose Coll. Oxf. ; 

 M.A. 1803 ; rector of South Thoresby, 

 Lines. 1807 to 1852 ; perpetual curate of 

 Penwortham and Longton, 1831 to 1852, 

 when he died ; Foster, Alumni. He was 

 a relative of Lady Lilford. His attempt 

 to make the head-mastership of the school 

 a sinecure for the rector was defeated 

 after an appeal to the court of Chancery ; 

 Beamont, 116. 



^^ Son of the patron. Educated at 

 St. John's Coll. Camb.; M.A. 1826; 

 ministered to the sick during the cholera 

 epidemic of 1833 ; bishop of Sodor and 

 Man, 1854. See Beamont, 122-6. 



17 Educated at St. John's Coll. Camb. ; 

 M.A. 1831 ; incumbent of Christ church, 

 Poplar, 1 841. He rebuilt the church. 



18 Son of Daniel Willis of Halsnead ; 

 educated at Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf. i 

 M.A. 1873 ; vicar of All Saints', Welling- 

 borough, 1872 ; hon. canon of Liverpool, 

 1895. 



" yalor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 219. 

 * Clergy List (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), 14. 



