Clergy of Hanslope

List of the Clergy of Hanslope
13th Century to the present day

Rectors (derived their income from tithes)

Thurston Basset (presented by Sir William Maudit)

Silvester de Everdon (became Bishop of Carlisle 1246)

Philip Duval (presented by Sir William Maudit 6th Feb 1246)

Henry de Wengham (resigned)

Richard de Hengham (presented by Sir William Maudit)

James de Beauchamp (presented by William de Beauchamp
Earl of Warwick, 7th June 1269)

Simon de Ellesworth (presented by William de Beauchamp
Earl of Warwick, 7th Sept 1293)

Peter de Blund (presented 9th Apr 1297)

Thurston Keswick [or de Hanslap]  (presented by Guy de Beauchamp,
30th June 1300; resigned after 9 days)

Peter de Blund (presented for a second time, 9th July 1301)

Adam de Herwynton (presented by Alice, Countess of Warwick,
2nd Oct 1316)

Walter de Windlesore (presented by Thomas de Beauchamp,
Earl of Warwick, June 1329)

Richard Pyriton (exchanged with successor to become
Archdeacon of Colchester)

Michael de Northburgh (formerly Archdeacon of Colchester;
presented 2nd Oct 1373)

John de Heremsthorpe (presented 12th Feb 1382)

John de Hatfield (presented 16th Nov 1383)

William de Morton (exchanged with successor
to become a prebend of St John’s College Church, Chester)

Thomas Knight LLD(formerly a prebend of
St John’s College Church, Chester;
presented 15th July 1395;
he left money to build the church spire)

John Baysham (instituted 15th May 1414;
presented by Richard, Earl of Warwick;
exchanged with successor to become Vicar of Olney)

Thomas Aldebury (formerly Vicar of Olney)

Nicholas Wymbyss (instituted 15th March 1419;
presented by the Earl of Warwick)

Richard Monier (presented 22nd June 1434)

John Hurle (died in 1457)

John Stonys (presented 15th August 1467)

John Morgan LLD (presented by the King Richard III, October 1485)

Richard Hatton (presented 26th November 1496)

Geoffrey Wrenn (presented by the King Henry VIII 23rd June 1509)

Robert Bone (presented by the King Henry VIII 7th April 1527.
He 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)

 

Vicars (paid a stipend)

Robert

John de Harliscot
(presented by Jame de Beauchamp, Rector, November 1274)

Warnus de Hanslap (presented April 1278)

John de Vouseby (presented 8th May 1309)

List imperfect until 1555

Thomas Grantham BA
(presented by William Rotherham, Mayor of Lincoln, 14th August 1555)

Ralph Sutton (presented 28th October 1558)

John Sibsthane

William Jones (returned to be Curate of the parishes)

William Linguard (married Hanslope 6th July 1605 to Ann Hillyer;
buried Hanslope 15th April 1620)

William Houghton (married Hanslope 5th May 1617 to Isabel Wilcockes)

Nathaniel Netmaker (presented 14th January 1640;
married Hanslope 30th November 1640 to Susanna Stackville;
afterwards Rector of Pitchcott)

Note: The church register seems to indicate that
Nathaniel Netmaker succeeded William Houghton sometime in 1638.

Edmund Lawrence

John Hatch (presented by the King Charles II, 21st March 1663)

William Barton (presented 24th December 1666)

William Ward BA (presented 8th Febuary 1677;
married Hanslope 19th Febuary 1705 to Ann Middleton;
died 23rd September 1714; buried in Hanslope Chancel)

Shadrach Garmston MA (instituted 24th November 1714;
died 18th October 1741; buried in Hanslope chancel)

David Fowler LLB (presented 3rd April 1742;
buried Hanslope 12th January 1746)

George Skelton BA (presented 22nd Febuary 1745; resigned)

Moses Agar BA (presented 1st November 1749;
died 8th June 1783; buried in Hanslope chancel)

John Parsons

William Walmsey MA

The above two names were from Church registers,

 

the following two were from other sources.

Richard Curtois LLB (presented 24th September 1783; resigned)

Henry Davis (presented 15th June 1786)

William Singleton (had been Curate since 1794;
presented 19th April 1806; resigned and returned
to Cumberland; died 11th October 1841)

Mathew Webb Keiley MA (inducted 18th January 1839;)
died 25th June 1841; buried Hanslope churchyard

James Mayne MA (presented by George Hyde of Norwich
2nd December 1841; died 7th February 1851;
buried Hanslope chancel)

Mark Anthony Nicholson

William Jardine Harkness MA (buried Hanslope 17th May 1930)

John Percy Taylor LTh

David Wingate AKC (died 13th January 1977;
buried Castlethorpe)

Anthony F Otter

Christopher M G Beake BA, AKC (Retired 2001)

Gary Ecclestone SSC