Title
WOOTTON (St.Mary the Virgin)
- John of Dunstable - 1251 [Deacon. Presented to a mediety of the church by the Prior and Convent of Newnham and instituted. It was reported that William de Bello Campo had brought and assize of last presentation against the Prior in the Kings Court, that William had granted to the Prior his presentation to the mediety for this turn, saving his own future right, and thatthe King had ordered the Bishop to institute John Of Dunstaple]
- Nicholas of Wootton - 21 Jun 1273 [Presented to the Prior and Convent of Newnham and instituted. This entry of institution iis followed by letters of Bishop Gravesend, assenting to the gift of the mediety of the Church by John of Houghton, provided a Vicarage is ordained. An enquiry was held by the Archdeacon of Oxford, by which it was found that a suitable portion could be up to a yearly value of 10, and Nicholas of Wootton, priest was admitted and a vicarage ordained as follows: The vicar to have that plot of land with buildings on it which the prior and convent bought of William Bernard of Wootton, provided they will free it from suit of court, and all rents and temporal services; the vicar to have the gifts to the altar and tithes of the parish, except tithes of sheaves and hay and of the homage and rents, besides the greater tithes of the demesne and of the fee of 40 which was of John de Trayli, which we assign and ordain to the vicar and his successors in that vicarage. The vicar to have 12 acres of demesne land, a portion of that which Master John the last Rector held, so that he has four acres in each field and one and a half acres of meadow in Smethemade; the vicar and his successiors to pay synodals and procurations to the archdeaconry in the accustomed amount of money, 7 shillings 6d, but if the archdeacon chooses his procurations in kind rather than to have a sum of money, heshall be received and entertained in the religious house, and only 7s 6d recovered from the vicar even though it costs more. The said religious house are to repair and rebuild the Chancel of the Church at their own cost and that this time only, they supply defects in books and ornaments provided that the vicar is bound to do this in future; of extraordinary payments, or charges by whatever name required, the religious shall acknowledge two parts and the vicar a third. This agreement was to be written out in the style of a cyrograph of which one part in the vicar's custody shall have the seal of the prior and convent and the other part in the custody of the religious, with a copy of the same word for word in the Matriculis' (or roll) dated at Buckden, 24 Aug 1273. This copy of the Bishop's letter is followed by a copy of the Grant fronm the Prior and Convent to the vicar of all above, the area is said to have been bought from William, son of Miles Bernard of Wootton]
- M. David de Wootton - 9 Mar 1274/5 [Presented on the death of Nicholas]
- Robert de Conington - 9 Dec 1301 [capellanus, on death of David]
- John de Billesdon - 8 Sep 1328 [priest, on death of Robert de Conyngton]
- William de Knyghton - 15 Nov 1348 [Presented by the sub-prior and Convent of Newnham, the convent being destitute of the care of a prior, priest, on exchange with John de Billesdon for Saint Mary de Castro Vicarage, Leicestershire]
- Richard of Knyghton - 1 Aug 1349 [priest, presented on the resignation of William]
- D. John Downe - 20 Aug 1401
- Sir Matthew Barow (Barugh) - 22 May 1418 [chaplain, presented on a vacancy and instituted at Sleaford]
- John Barowe - 23 Aug 1418 [Presented on the resignation of Matthew Barowe for the sake of an exchange with the vicarage of the prebendal church of Driffield, Yorkshire, instituted in the person of John Whithed, clerk, his proxy, in the Chapterhouse at York]
- Matthew Skearne -
- Sir Thomas Barbur - 20 Apr 1457 [chaplain, presented on the vacancy caused by the death of Sir Matthew Skeerne the last vicar, instituted at Nettleham]
- Sir John Lynne - 14 Aug 1490 [chaplain, presented on the vacancy caused by the death of Sir Thomas Barbur]
- D. Thomas Atkyne alias Barker - 20 Feb 1497 [priest, on resignation of D John Bartholomewe]
- Sir Hugh Rere - 165 Jul 1499 [priest, presented on the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sir John Lynne, instituted at Aylesbury]
- Sir Robert H Ansloppe/Hanslope - 1534
- Master Reginald West - 18 Dec 1539 [clerk, presented on the vacancy caused by the death of Sir Robert Ansloppe the last vicar, instituted at the Old Temple, London, in the person of Sir William Wright his proxy]
- John Dewe - 17 May 1554 [clerk, presented by Thomas Leigh, by reason of grant of the advowson to him and to John Gostwick and their assigns variously described as for this turn or for a term of years not yet expired on the vacancy caused by the deprivation of Richard West, clerk, who had married]
- Thomas Cox/Cocks - 14 Feb 1562/3 [clerk presented by Thomas Leigh Esq, variously described as true patron and by reason of administration of the goods of John Gostwick, knight, which had been granted to him, vacancy said variously to be on the resignation of Reginald West and on the death of the last incumbent]
- Sir Richard Leverock - 7 Sep 1581 [clerk presented by Richard Scooley, gentleman, and Amy his wife on the resignation of Sir Thomas Cox. B.A. 1585, M.A. 1597]
- Humphrey Totnam - 7 May 1600 [M.A., presented by Amy Scholye, widow, on the vacancy caused by ther death of the last incumbent. Still there 1614, patron John Lee, gentleman]
- Alexander Hale - 10 Jul 1638 [B.A., presented by Richard Button Esq on the death of the last incumbent]
- Edward Fulham - 1637
- M. William Bunne - 1662 [incumbent on visitation]
- John Hoffeman - 1660
- Thomas Cheyne - 11 Jul 1683 [Presented by Sir Humphrey Monoux, baronet, instituted on the vacancy caused by the death of William Bunne]
- Denis Cooling/Colinge - 19 Mar 1694/5 [Presented by Sir Philip Monoux on the vacancy caused by the cession of Thomas Cheyne]
- Andrew Moore - 6 Sep 1711 [Presented by Humphrey Monoux of Wootton and Lady Dorothy Monoux of the same, widow, patrons in full right for this turn as they assert, on the vacancy caused by the death of Denis Cooling]
- German Pegg - 24 Feb 1718/19 [B.A., presented by Sir Humphrey Monoux, baronet, with the guidance and consent of Lady Dorothy Monoux, widow, his mother and guardian in his minority, instituted in the vacancy caused by the cession of Andrew Moore, clerk]
- John Slatter - 19 Jan 1719/20 [clerk presented by Sir Humphrey Monoux, baronet with the guidance and consent of his mother Lady Dorothy Monoux, widow, his mother and guardian in his minority, instituted on the vacancy caused by the cession of German Pegg]
- John Slater - 17 Aug 1731 [re-presented and instituted following his own cession, instituted to Stibbingtonm Huntingdon 26 Mar 1731]
- George Backhouse - 25 Aug 1739 [M.A., presented by Sir Humphrey Monoux, baronet, and instituted on the vacancy caused by the death of John Slater, clerk]
- John Welling - 13 Sep 1775 [Presented by Sir Phillip Monoux, baronet, and instituted on the vacancy caused by the death of George Backhouse]
- Thomas Gadsby - 14 Jun 1785 [M.A., presented by Sir Philip Monoux, baronet,. of Sandy, on the death of John Welling]
- John Jenkyn - 30 Apr 1834 [clerk, presented by Charles Watkin John Shakerley of Somerford Hall, Cheshire; Joseph Francis Buckworth of Wootton, esq. and Dame Mary his wife, on the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Gadsby]
- James Jenkyn - 17 Feb 1842 [M.A., on resignation of John Jenkyn. Patron John Jenkyn, clerk. Resigned 5 Jun 1852]
- Frederick Neale - 5 Jul 1852 [B.A., on resignation of James Jenkyn. Patron Reverend John Jenkyn, of Westlands Cowfold, Sussex]
- William Hardy Vernon - 23 Oct 1872 [M.A., on death of Frederick Neale. Patron Esther Maria Neale, of Southcliffe House, Tenby, South Wales, spinster]
- Albert John Foster - 31 Dec 1880 [Patron Nathan John Foster of Sandy Place, Beds]
- Charles Edward Squire - Dec 1918
- Thomas Quigley - Jan 1940
- Charles WIlliam Fortescue Jebb - Jul 1946
- James Francis Wilson - 1950
- Ronald Earl Thorp - 1956
- Anthony James Smith - 1964
- John Victor Michael Kirkby - 1975
- Christopher P.Strong - 1987