Written by the Reverend Christopher Beake, Vicar of Hanslope with Castlethorpe
The first Rector of Hanslope with Castlethorpe was installed in 1227. The living was valued at £40 in 1291. The right of presentation was appendant to the Manor of Hanslope until 1522, when the rectory was annexed and appropriated by the Crown to the Collegiate Church of Leicester. After the suppression of religious houses, the rectory, advowson and the patronage became vested in the Crown, and were [by Letters Patent dated 11 December 1546] afterwards bestowed on the Corporation of the City of Lincoln, and a perpetual vicarage was endowed to take effect at the death of the Rector. The Corporation retained the advowson [i.e., the right to present an incumbent] until 1860, when it was transferred to Bishop of Oxford, who is the present patron. A Chantry was founded at Hanslope in the fourteenth century, and the first priest presented in 1325. It ceased at the Dissolution in 1747. A full list of priests who have served in the parish follows.
A Rector’s income came from tithes; a Vicars is paid a stipend.
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RECTORS
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1227
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Thurstan Basset |
Presented by Sir William Mauduit |
1246
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Silvester de Everdon |
Bishop of Carlisle 1246 |
1246
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Philip Luval |
Presented by Sir William Mauduit 06.02.1246 |
1261
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Henry de Wengham |
Resigned |
1261
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Richard de Hengham |
Presented by Sir William Mauduit |
1269
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James de Beauchamp |
Presented by William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, 07.06.1269 |
1293
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Simon de Ellisworth |
Presented by William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, 07.09.1293 |
1297
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Peter de Blund |
Presented 09.04.1297 |
1300
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Thurstan Keswick (or de Hanslap) |
Presented by Guy de Beauchamp 30.06.1300; resigned after 9 days; buried Hanslope Chancel |
1301
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Peter de Blund |
Presented for a second time 09.07.1301; buried Hanslope Chancel |
1316
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Adam de Herwynton |
Presented by Alice, Countess of warwick 02.20.1316 |
1329
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Walter de Windlesore |
Presented by Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, June 1329 |
1329
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Richard Pyriton |
Exchanged with successor to become Archdeacon of Colchester |
1373
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Michael de Northburgh |
Formerly Archdeacon of Colchester presented 02.10.1373 |
1382
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William de Hermesthorp |
Presented 12.02.1382 |
1383
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John de Hatfield |
Presented 16.11.1383 |
1383
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William de Morton |
Exchanged with successor to become a prebend of S. John's College Church, Chester; |
1395
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Thomas Knight LL.D. |
Formerly a prebend of S. John's College Church, Chester; presented 15.07.1395; built Hanslope Spire |
1414
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John Baysham |
Presented by Richard, Earl of Warwick 15.5.1414; exchanged with successor to become Vicar of Olney |
1415
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Thomas Aldebury |
Formerly Vicar of Olney |
1419
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Nicholas Wymbyss |
Presented 25.03.1419 by Earl of Warwick |
1434
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Richard Monier |
Presented 22.06.1434 |
1434
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John Hurle |
Died 1467 |
1467
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John Stonys |
Presented 15.8.1467 |
1485
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John Morgan LL.D. |
Presented by the Crown October 1485 |
1496
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Richard Hatton |
Presented 26.11.1496 |
1509
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Geoffrey Wrenn |
Presented by the Crown 23.06.1509 |
1527
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Robert Bone |
Presented by the Crown 17.04.1527.Robert Bone was the last rector, and, on his presentation, the living became annexed to Leicester Collegiate Church; a licence was obtained for its appropriation in 1523. |
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VICARS
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1250
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Robert |
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1274
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John de Harliscot |
Presented by James de Beauchamp, Rector, Nov 1274 |
1278
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Warnus de Hanslap |
Presented April 1278 |
1309
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John de Vouseby |
Presented 08.05.1309 |
(list imperfect until)
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1555
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Thomas Grantham B.A. |
Presented by William Rotheram, Mayor of Lincoln, 14.08.1555 |
1558
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Ralph Sutton |
Presented 28.10.1558 |
1558
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John Sibsthane |
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1598
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William Jones |
Returned to be curate of the parish |
1605
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William Lingard |
Married Hanslope 06.07.1605 to Ann Hillyer; buried Hanslope 15.04.1620 |
1620
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William Houghton |
Married Hanslope 05.05.1617 to Isabel Wilcockes |
1640
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Nathaniel Netmaker |
Presented 14.01.1640; married Hanslope 30.11.1640 to Susanna Stackville; afterwards Rector of Pitchcott |
1658
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Edmund Lawrence |
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1663
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John Hatch |
Presented by the Crown |
1666
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William Barton |
Presented 24.12.1666 |
1677
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William Ward B.A. |
Presented 08.02.1677; married Hanslope 19.02.1705 to Anne Middleton; died 23.09.1714; buried Hanslope |
1714
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Shadrach Garmston M.A. |
Instituted 24.11.1714; died 18.10.1741; buried Hanslope chancel |
1742
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David Fowler LL.B. |
Presented 03.04.1742; buried Hanslope 12.01.1746 |
1745
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George Shelton B.A. |
Presented 22.02.1745; resigned |
1749
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Moses Agar B.A. |
Presented 01.11.1749; died 08.06.1785; buried Hanslope chancel |
1783
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John Parsons |
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1786
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William Walmsley M.A. |
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1806
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William Singleton |
Had been curate since 1794; presented 19.04.1806; resigned and returned to Cumberland; died 11.10.1841 |
1838
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Mathew W. Keiley M.A. |
Presented 18.01.1839; died 25.06.1841; buried in Hanslope churchyard |
1841
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John Mayne M.A. |
Presented by George Hyde of Norwich 02.12.1841; died 07.02.1851; buried Hanslope chancel |
1851
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Mark A. Nicholson |
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1892
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William J. Harkness M.A. image |
Buried Hanslope 17.05.1930 |
1930
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J. Percy Taylor L. Th. |
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1944
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David Wingate A.K.C. image |
Died 13.01.1977; buried Castlethorpe churchyard |
1968
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Anthony Otter image |
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1978
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Christopher M. G. Beake B.A., A.K.C. image |
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2003
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Gary Ecclestone |
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These names from the Church registers. Other sources given:
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1783
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Richard Curtois LL.B. |
Presented 24.09.1783; resigned |
1786
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Henry Davis |
Presented 15.06.1786 |