Reference
Fasti/1/Colm
Title
COLMWORTH (St.Denys)
Rectors
- David de Sancto Edwardo - 1219 [clerk; patron the Bishop; "Mandavit Dns Epus J.Arch Bedford vel magro S offic suo ut David de Sco Edwardo clicum in corporalem possessionem etc. Salva Radulfo de Oildebof vicaria sua quam habet in eadem etc."];
- John [capellanus];
- Alan de..... - 1249 [patron Richard de Weldebof];
- M.John de Compton - Oct 1271 [patron M.John de Maydenstan, Archdeacon of Bedford, vicar of the Bishop in his absence, by lapse];
- John de Braybrok - 23 Dec 1290 [clerk; on presentation of M.John de Cumpton to be Rector of Kibworth [Leicestershire]; patron Sir John de Braybrok; custody committed to M.William Meynil until John was of full age; to was then [presumably 1290] of full age and was ordained subdeacon and instituted];
- William de Islip - 6 Nov 1326 [priest; on death of D.John de Braybrok; patron Sir Peter de Salso Marisen [Saltmarsh]];
- Simon de Northwode - 6 Jun 1340 [priest; on resignation of D.William de Islep; patron Sir Gerard de Braybrok];
- Nicholas de Wykewan - 25 Oct 1350 [Rector of Overton [Hampshire], by exchange with Simon de Northwode; instituted Rector of Great Hampden [Buckinghamshire] in 1357; afterwards Vicar of Plumstead [Kent]];
- William de Borstall - 17 Aug 1356 [priest; on resignation of D.Nicholas; patron Sir Gerard de Braybrok];
- Robert de Braybrok - 31 Mar 1367 [vacant; patron Sir Gerard de Braybrok];
- Reginald de Braybrok - 12 Jul 1373 [brother of Sir Gerard de Braybrok; priest; on resignation of Robert de Braybrok; patron Sir Gerard de Braybrok];
- D.John Bonner;
- D.Walter Halybred - 16 Jul 1407 [priest; on exchange with D.John Bonner];
- D.John atte Mylle - 18 Aug 1407 [Rector of Bolnhurst, on exchange with Walter Halybred];
- Richard Valeryan - 31 Oct 1420 [priest; vacant];
- D.John Weton;
- D.Robert Walker - 21 Apr 1465 [priest; on death of D.John Weton; patron Sir Roger Tocotes and Elizabeth, Lady de Sancto Amando];
- M.John Parquyn - 6 Feb 1493 [priest; on death of D.Robert Walker; patron Richard Beauchamp, Lord de Sancto Amando];
- D.William Huthwey - 14 Mar 1499 [priest; on death of M.John.....; patron Richard Beauchamp, 6th Baron St.Amand; noted as Rector in 1526 and 1534 as William Highway];
- William Decons - 1539 [parson; witness to will of John Dryver at this date];
- D.William Sheparde - 18 Mar 1546 [clerk; on death of last incumbent; patron Alexander Crokes, citizen and "pelliparicus" of London, by grant to himself and others from Sir Thomas Broke, Lord Cobham and Sir George Broke, his son];
- John Broke - 4 May 1554 [clerk; on deprivation of D.William Shepherd; patron Sir George Broke, Lord Cobham];
- Edward Moseley - 10 May 1580 [vacant; patron Elizabeth I by lapse; value 18; admitted 28 May 1580];
- John Alwood BA - 24 Nov 1586;
- Henry Lee MA - 19 Sep 1603 [patron Sir Richard Dyer];
- Richard Hunter MA - 6 Apr 1605 [on cess. of Henry Lee; patron Sir Richard Dyer; will dated 1 Dec 1624, proved 20 Jan 1628; he married Elizabeth Carter, a spinster of 25, at Dry Drayton [Cambridgeshire]];
- John Blisse - 31 May 1628 [patron Lady Katherine Dyer, widow; buried 27 Aug 1651; will dated 23 May, proved in PCC 5 Nov 1651];
- Jeffrey Sharpe DD - 25 Nov 1651 [private Chaplain to William, Earl of Salisbury; his wife was Etheldred, daughter of John Whincup DD; he died 6 Oct 1675, aged 63];
- Thomas Cookeson - 13 Jan 1675 [clerk; on death of Geoffrey Sharpe SSTP; patron William Dyer, esquire; ordained priest on 23 Feb 1661 by Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln];
- sequestration of fruits of Rectory - 29 Sep 1691;
- John Robinson Am - 24 Jan 1695 [on death of Thomas Cookson; patron Thomas Hillersden, esquire];
- Joseph Hobbs - 8 Feb 1706 [on death of John Robinson; value 18; buried at Colmworth];
- Thomas Aspin - 25 Feb 1717 [on death of Joseph Hobbs; patron William Hillersden, esquire];
- Robert Watkins - 9 Oct 1735 [clerk; on death of Thomas Aspin; patron Executors of late William Hillersden of Elstow, esquire];
- Henry Etough MA - 28 Feb 1736 [clerk; on death of Robert Watkins; patron Edmund French, citizen and salter of London; MA at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge 1717; died 10 Aug 1757, aged 70; buried 15 Aug in chancel of Therfield church [Hertfordshire], of which he was Rector in 1734];
- (Walter Griffith - 10 Jun 1750 [curate]);
- Thomas Parslow AM - 1 Sep 1757 [on death of Henry Etough; patron Dennis Farrer Hillersden, esquire];
- Thomas Whitehurst MA - 6 Apr 1786 [on death of Thomas Parslow; patron Dennis Farrer Hillersden];
- Robert Hele Selby Hele MA - 27 Jan 1791 [on cess. of Thomas Whitehurst; patron John Hele of Charlotte Street, St.Pancras [Middlesex], esquire];
- William Otter MA - 30 Jun 1804 [on cess. of Robert Hele Selby Hele; patron William Bruere of Leatherhead [Surrey], esquire];
- Edmund Watts MA - 7 Jun 1810 [on cess. of William Otter; patrons Wilmer Mackett Willet of Cursitor Street, London, gentleman, William Oke Manning of Walworth [Surrey], insurance broker and James Manning junior of Middle Temple, esquire];
- William Tanner MA - 15 Apr 1825 [on death of Edmund Watts; patron William Guppy of Farway [Devon], esquire];
- John Hodge - 29 May 1828 [clerk; on resignation of William Tanner; patron William Guppy];
- Robert Wade Gery MA - 14 Aug 1830 [on cess. of John Hodge; patron himself; resigned 9 Oct 1868; died at West Malvern 16 Jan 1892 aged 89];
- Hunter Bird Allen - 6 Nov 1868 [on resignation of last Rector; patron John Roy Allen of 2 Gloucester Row, Weymouth [Dorset]];
- Edwin Johnson - Jul 1906;
- John Richard Pullan - Feb 1927;
- Henry Francis Devereux Wynne - Feb 1938 [with Bolnhurst];
- William Robinson Peverley - 1957;
- Leonard Benn Impson - 1962
- David Lewthwaite - 1975;
- John Laurence Powell Griffith - 1980;
- William John Gambrell Heffer - 1988
- J.Robin Rogers - 1992;
- Sheila Morton - 2000
NOTE: D = "Dominus" meaning Lord;
M = "Magister" meaning Master
Date free text
1219 - 1957
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From: 1219 To: 2000
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