Prebendaries: Ferring

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 7, Chichester Diocese. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1964.

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'Prebendaries: Ferring', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 7, Chichester Diocese, (London, 1964) pp. 20-21. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1300-1541/vol7/pp20-21 [accessed 24 April 2024]

PREBENDARIES OF FERRING

M. Richard de Havering ?-1341.

Occ. as a can. of Chichester 1306 (CPL. 11 19). Occ. as preb. of Ferring 10 Dec. 1330 (CPR. 1330-1334 p. 25). D. by 29 June 1341 (CPL. 11 551).

Simon Godwin 1341-1345.

John de Hatton 1345-1358.

William de Rothwell 1352-1361.

Prov. to Godwin 29 June 1341 (CPL. 11 551); res. by 21 March 1345, and prov. to Hatton (ibid. 111 184). Prov. to Rothwell 12 Aug. 1352; papal mand. adm. 18 Jan. 1353 (ibid. p. 477). Hatton exch. preb. c. 20 Dec. 1358 with Rothwell for ch. of Potterspury, Northants. (CPR. 1358-1361 p. 131; Lincoln, Reg. ix (Gynewell) f. 225). Rothwell d. 1361 (Stephenson p. 389).

John de Downton 1366.

Occ. as a can. of Chichester 1362 (Lamb., Reg. Islip f. 238b). Occ. as preb. of Ferring 13 Nov. 1366 (Reg. Langham p. 11).

Robert de Walton 1371-?

Royal gr. 14 Dec. 1371 (CPR. 1370-1374 p. 162).

William Noion 1388-1405.

Royal gr. 11 June 1388 (CPR. 1385-1389 p. 449). Occ. 24 Oct. 1403 (Reg. Rede 11 273). Probably to d., 10 July/6 Oct. 1405 (Lamb., Reg. Arundell 1 ff. 224-5).

Thomas Harlyng 1405-1423.

M. John Ixworth D.C.L. 1406.

Royal gr. to Harlyng 30 Nov. 1405 (CPR. 1405-1408 p. 99). Ixworth had expect. by 8 Oct. 1404 (CPL. vi 60); royal lic. 2 Dec. 1405 for its execution (CPR. 1405-1408 p. 104). Harlyng adm. 5 Dec. (Reg. Rede 11 286), and although Ixworth claimed this preb. by virtue of expect., he had not gained possession by 15 May 1406 (CPR. 1405- 1408 p. 84). Ixworth became preb. of Woodhorn 1407, and Harlyng d. as preb. of Ferring 8 May 1423 (Suss. Arch. Coll. Ixxix 98-9; Reg. Chichele 11 244-7).

M. Walter Eston Lic. C.L. ?-1444.

Occ. as a can. of Chichester 1423 (CPR. 1422-1429 p. 140). Occ. as preb. of Ferring 8 July 1439 (Reg. Praty p. 115). Exch. 7 July 1444 with William Byconyll for preb. of Waltham (ibid. p. 132).

M. William Byconyll D.C.L. 1444-?

By exch. July 1444. D. (as preb.?) by 4 Nov. 1448 (Salis., Reg. Aiscough pt. i f. 110b).

M. Walter Petewynne D.Th. ?-1464.

Exch. this preb. 7 Oct. 1464 with James Goldwell for preb. of Wellington in Hereford (Reg. J. Stanbury, ed. J. H. Parry and A.T. Bannister (Canterbury and York Soc., xxv) p. 192).

M. James Goldwell D.Cn. & C.L. 1464-1472.

By exch. Oct. 1464. Bp. of Norwich 1472.

M. William Dudley 1472-1476.

Instal. by proxy 23 Oct. 1472 (WAB. p. 6). Bp. of Durham 1476.

M. Edward Pownyngs B.Cn.L. 1477-?

Instal. by 18 Jan. 1477 (WAB. pp. 5, 4n). Occ. 25 Feb. 1482 (Reg. Story 1 f. 69b). D. (as preb. ?) by 19 March 1484 (ibid. 11 f. 26).

M. William Talbot ?-1485.

Res. this preb. by 26 Apr. 1485 (Reg. Story 11 f. 1b).

M. Edmund Chaderton 1485-1499.

Coll. 26 Apr. 1485 (Reg. Story 11 f. 1b). D. by 24 Aug. 1499 (ibid. f. 29b).

M. Ralph Collingwood D.Th. 1499-?

Coll. 24 Aug. 1499 (Reg. Story 11 f. 29b).

M. John Blythe 1503/4-1558. (fn. 1)

Instal. 1503/4 (WAB. p. 108). D. by 29 Nov. 1558 (AC 1545-1642 p. 30; Hereford, Liber Primus f. 152).

Footnotes

  • 1. There is some doubt in the records as to whether the same man held it for 55 years. The prebendary is called M. Edward Blythe 24 Nov. 1518 and 17 June 1527 (Reg. Sherborne 1 f. 36; 11 f. 98b), and M. - Blythe 27 May 1521 and 17 June 1524 (ibid. 1 f. 100; 11 f. 92). M. John Blythe occ. consistently from 17 Sept. 1532 (ibid. 11 f. 60; Suss. Arch. Coll. Ixxvii 96).