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HISTORY OF HORNCASTLE.
ale without a licence," William Grantham and Margaret Wells were "punished upon their bodies." (State Papers Domestic, vol. 272, No. 23, Chas. I.)
Rectors and Vicars.
We here give a list of these as compiled by Canon J. Clare Hudson, in his 1st volume of the Horncastle Parish Register Book, 1892.
A.D. | RECTORS. |
1236-7 | Geoffrey de Leueknor by the Bishop of Carlisle (admitted on condition it be found the same church with the churches of [Wood] Enderby, and [High] Toynton and another, which Osbert the last rector held, be one benefice). |
1239-40 | (Delegates of the Pope in a dispute between G. parson of the church of Horncastre and Francis, parson of the church of [West] Askeby, concerning the church of Askeby, decide that G[eoffrey] and his successors, are to hold the church of Askeby, and pay to Francis annually for life 27 marks sterling, and the bishop confirms this ordinance) |
1246 | Adam de Kirkby. |
12— | Ralph Tulgol |
1275 | Hugh de Penna (otherwise Hugh de la Penne, Assize Roll, 4 Ed. I. Lincs. Notes & Queries, iv, p. 220). |
1295 | John de Langton. |
1305 | Gilbert de Haloughton. |
1313 | Peter de Galicia. |
VICARS. | |
1334 | Robert de Bramley. |
13— | William de Hugate. |
1349 | Simon de Islep, resigned in 1349, on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. |
1357 | William de Hugate, presented by Gilbert, Bishop of Carlisle, on exchange. |
1369 | John de Rouceby. |
1388 | William Stryckland. |
1401 | Thomas Carleton, Chaplain. |
1445 | Robert Somercotes. |
14— | John Eston. |
1492 | John Ffalconer. |
1517 | Richard Denham. |
1524 | Barnard Towneley. |
1531 | Robert Jamys, Chaplain. |
1535 | John Havringham. |
15— | Arthur Layton. |
1538 | Peter Wallensis. |
1557 | Henry Henshoo, or Henshaw. |
1560 | Clement Monke.[1] |
1584 | Francis Purefey. |
1587 | Richard Foster. |
1593 | John Jackson. |
1595 | Robert Hollinhedge. |
1634 | Thomas Gibson. |
1678 | John Tomlinson. |
1678-9 | Thomas Loddington. |
1724 | James Fowler. |
1779 | Joseph Robertson. |
1802 | Clement Madely. |
1845 | Thos. James Clarke. |
1853 | Wm. Holme Milner. |
- ↑ A List of Institutions given in Lincs. Notes & Queries, vol. v, p. 236 has the date of C. Monke's appointment, 24 Oct., 1558 and gives his predecessor as Henry Henshaw. In a previous notice (Ibidem, p. 201) the latter is given as Henry Henshoo.