re-issued his letters patent for the institution of John de Winwick, dated from Windsor, but he does not appear to have been actually admitted until the 5th November of that year.[1]
John de Winwick was chaplain to King Edward III., warden of the chapel of Clitheroe Castle, and Treasurer of York Minster, to which last office he had been appointed by the King's patent, dated 29th July, 1349. He had previously been appointed by the King's patent, in 1343, to a prebendal stall at York, and in 1347 to a prebendal stall at Lincoln, which he afterwards exchanged with Henry de Blackborne for the Mastership of St. Thomas' Hospital at Marlborough.[2]
On 27th November, 1342, he occurs as deputy constable of the Tower of London;[3] and 20th June, 1345, he had letters of protection to go abroad with the King.[4]
In the year of his appointment to the rectory of Wigan he obtained from the King a full confirmation of the charters granted to John Maunsell and Robert de Clyderhou, with the following
- ↑ Lichfield Diocesan Register.
- ↑ Le Neve's Fasti, Le Neve, or his editor (Fasti, vol. ii p. 116) says that he also held stalls at Lichfield, Salisbury, Wells and Chichester, but no authority is cited, and John de Winwick's name does not occur in the list of prebendaries at any one of these Cathedrals.
- ↑ Rymer's Fœdera, vol. ii. p. 1,215.
- ↑ Ibid., vol. iii. p. 48.
John de Winwick, a great pluralist. He was Archdeacon of Stow from 1339 to 1346, when he became Archdeacon of Leicester, to which office he was admitted 14th March, 1346-7. He also held prebends in Lincoln, St. Paul's (London), and Lichfield Cathedrals, to which last he was collated l0th August, 1350 (Le Neve's Fasti), Canon Raines, in his Lancashire Chantries (Chetham Tract lix, p. 94,) speaks of him as having been Archdeacon of Lincoln and Leicester, but in this he is incorrect. Mr. Henry de Chaddesden died 8th May, 1354, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, London (Le Neve's Fasti). He founded a chantry in the chapel of Chaddesden, in the diocese of Lichfield, on iii. Id. Sept., 1347, in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary, the chaplain to pray for the souls of the said Master Henry de Chaddesden, of Richard and Agnes, his father and mother; and for the souls of all his ancestors; for the souls of Nicholas de Chaddesden, Archdeacon of Lincoln, and Prebendary of Lichfield and Lincoln, his uncle; of Cecilia his sister; of Geoffrey de Chaddesden, his brother; of William de Horsham, late Abbot of Dale; of Sir Henry de Lande, Chaplain; and for the souls of his relatives, parishoners, friends, and benefactors, living or dead (Raines' Lancashire Chantries, Chetham Tract lix, p. 94, note).
