minority of Ralph de Langton, kinsman and heir of Robert de Langton. The Rector binds himself to pay; £20 a year to the cathedral church of Lichfield.[1]
On the 10th of February, 1366, Campeden obtained a licence from the bishop to absent himself from the church of Wigan for "as long as his lord pleased."[2] He died in 1370.
James de Langton, "habens tonsuram clericalem", was presented to the church of Wigan by Ralph de Langton, patron, on the death of Walter de Campeden, late Rector, and he swore, after institution, to pay a pension of £20 a year due to the cathedral. He was instituted at Heywode on ix Kal. (24th) of August, 1370.
In August, 1373, the bishop granted a licence of non-residence to Mr. James de Langton, Rector of Wigan, for one year.[3] and on 11th September, 1374, the licence was renewed for another year on the payment of 5 marks.[4]
In 2 Ric. II. James de Langton, parson of the Church of Wigan, had a charter of inspeximus of the charters which had been made to John Maunsell, Robert de Clyderhou, and John de Winwick, dated at Gloucester on 2nd November, 1378; which was again inspected, approved, and confirmed by King Henry IV. in the first year of his reign by charter dated at Westminster on l0th May, 1400. In 1394 he occurs as one of the Trustees enfeoffed by Richard Molineux in his manor of Sefton, and all his other estates.[5]
- ↑ Lichfield Dioc. Reg. Lib. iv. fol. 80 Ralph de Langton, the patron, was the son of John, and grandson and heir of Sir Robert de Langton. He must have been 20 years of age and more at this time, for he was 45 in 1386 (vide Scrope and Grosvenor Roll), and he is reported as being 21 years of age and more as the jurors understood at the inquisition taken after the death of his grandfather, Robert de Langton, at Newton, on the Sunday next before the feast of the Purification of St. Mary the Virgin, 36 Edw. III. (30th January, 1362; see Hill's Hist, of the Parish of Langton, p. 22). This, however, would not have entitled him to present unless he had proved his age by inquisition.
- ↑ Lichfield Dioc. Reg. Lib. v. fol. 12-16.
- ↑ Lichfield Dioc. Reg. Lib. v. fol. 85b.
- ↑ Ibid., fol. 30a.
- ↑ Inq. Post Mort., 21 Ric. II., Lanc. Inquisitions, Chetham Tract xcv, p. 70.
