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said parsonage, to hold the same from the Feast of the Annunciation for five years, paying to the said Kyghley, or his assigns, £106 13s. 4d.;^[1] of which £6 13s. 4d. was the stipend to be paid to the curate who performed the ecclesiastical duties.

The value of the living is thus given in the Valor Ecclesiasticus,^[2] which was compiled in this same year (1535):

The Rectory of Wygan, in the hands of Richard Kyghley, is worth, in rents and farms, as well of free tenants as tenants at will in Wigan aforesaid, yearly	£25	0	0
Also in the rents of two watermills there, yearly	3	6	8
In tithes of corn, yearly	56	13	4
In tithes of hay, yearly	0	13	4
In tithes of lambs, wool, calves, and flax, about	3	16	8
In oblations, with other small tithes and offerings	18	0	0
In perquisites, together with the profits of markets, estimated to produce, one year with another	3	6	8
The sum total being	110	16	8
From thence [are to be deducted].
For the fee of Robert Langton, chief seneschal of Wigan, yearly	4	0	0
For the fee of Robert Hatton, bailiff of Wigan, yearly	4	0	0
For the fee of William Walton, under seneschal and clerk of the court, yearly	1	6	8
The annual pension due to the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, in the county of Stafford	20	0	0
Pence annually due to the Archdeacon of Chester for synodals and procurations	0	16	8
Total [of deductions]	30	3	4
Leaving a clear	80	13	4

1. Duchy of Lancaster Pleadings, 31 Hen. VIII., vol. ix. K. No. 3.
2. Vol. V. p. 220.