Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 6, Salisbury Diocese. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1986.
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'Archdeacons: Wiltshire', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 6, Salisbury Diocese, (London, 1986) pp. 18-19. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol6/pp18-19 [accessed 25 April 2024]
ARCHDEACONS OF WILTSHIRE
John Pollard M.A. 1539-1554.
Coll. 15 Jan. 1539 (D1/2/16 pt. i f. 15v). Instal. 18 Jan. (CA 14 f. 4/p. 7). Depriv. by 10 Aug. 1554 (D1/2/16 pt. ii f. 65v).
John Lawrence B.Cn. & C.L. 1554-1564.
Compounded for first-fruits 13 July 1554 (P.R.O., E 334/4 f. 178). Pres. by Thomas Long of Trowbridge, Wilts., clothier, patron hac vice by virtue of a gr. of next pres. made by Bp. Capon to George Penruddock, Thomas Smyth and William Smyth, gentlemen, and Thomas Parry of London, skinner, who in turn granted it to Long; instit. 10 Aug. (D1/2/16 pt. ii f. 65v). Instal. by proxy 3 Oct. (CA 14 pt. ii f. 41/p. 81). Depriv. by 18 Sept. 1564 (D1/2/16 pt. iii f. 12v).
Giles Lawrence B.C.L. 1564-1577.
Pres. by Master John Haulco, esquire, patron hac vice by virtue of gr. of next pres. made by Bp. Capon to William Hunnings (Honnyng), esquire, and assigns; instit. 18 Sept. 1564 (D1/2/16 pt. iii f. 12v). Instal. 28 Sept. (CA 15 f. 10/p. 17). Occ. 19 Oct. 1577 (Lamb., Reg. Grindal f. 38v).
John Sprint D.D. 1577-1590.
Instal. 20 Oct. 1577 (CA 15 f. 42/p. 81). 'Admitted' 10 Feb. 1578 (D1/2/17 pt. iii f. IV). Instal. again by proxy 12 Feb. (CA 15 f. 44/p. 85). D. 10 March 1590 (CA 16 f. 9; Lamb., Reg. Whitgift 1 f. 395v).
Edmund Lilly D.D. 1590-1610.
Pres. by queen sede vacante; instit. by abp. 17 Apr. 1590 (Lamb., Reg. Whitgift 1 f. 395v). D. by 12 Feb. 1610 (burial, St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford) ('Survey of the City of Oxford' . . . by Anthony Wood, ed. A. Clark (Oxford Hist. Soc., xv, xvii, xxxvii, 1889- 99) III 239; D1/2/19 f. 25v).
Walter Benet D.D. 1610-1614.
Coll. 7 March 1610 (D1/2/19 f. 25v). D. by 30 July 1614 (ibid. ff. 32, 33).
Thomas Leche M.A. 1614-1646.
Coll. 15 Nov. 1614 (D1/2/19 f. 33). D. by 15 Jan. 1646 (burial, Pewsey, Wilts.) (PR Pewsey).
William Creed B.D. (D.D. 7 Aug.) 1660-1663.
[Coll.] 6 July 1660 (D1/2/22 pt. i f. 4). Instal. 13 Sept. (CA 18 f. 4). D. 19 July 1663 (m.i., Christ Church cath., Oxford) (Wood, Colleges and Halls 1491; D1/2/22 pt. ii f. 15v).
Thomas Henchman M.A. 1663-1674.
Coll. 1 Aug. 1663 (D1/2/22 pt. ii f. 15v). Instal. s.d. (CA 18 f. 23). D. 15 Dec. 1674 (Hertfordshire Record Office, PR Much Hadham; D1/2/23 f. IV).
Seth Ward M.A. 1675-1681.
Coll. 4 Feb. 1675 (D1/2/23 f. IV). Instal. by proxy 22 Feb. (CA 18 f. 78v). Chancellor 1681.
Robert Woodward B.C.L. 1681-1687.
Coll. 15 Nov. 1681 (D1/2/23 f. 19). Instal. s.d. (CA 19 p. 67). Chancellor 1687.
Thomas Ward LL.D. 1687-1696.
Coll. 19 Jan. 1687 (D1/2/23 f. 33v). Instal. 20 Jan. (CA 19 p. 93). D. 20 March 1696 (Diary of Thomas Naish p. 35; D1/2/24 f. 8v).
Cornelius Yeate M.A. 1696-1720.
Coll. 9 Apr. 1696 (D1/2/24 f. 8v). Instal. s.d. (CA 19 p. 152). D. 12 Apr. 1720 (Hist. Reg. Chron. 1720, v 17) or 20 Apr. (m.i., Islington) (S. Lewis, Hist. of St. Mary, Islington (London, 1842) p. 220; D1/2/25 f. 19).
Thomas Rundle B.C.L. 1720-1735.
Coll. 26 Apr. 1720 (D1/2/25 f. 19). Instal. 29 Apr. (CA 20 f. 81v). Bp. of Derry 1735 (Cotton, Fasti Eccles. Hibern. III 323; D1/2/26 f. 23).
Henry Stebbing D.D. 1735-1763.
Coll. (sic) 18 July 1735 (D1/2/26 f. 23). Instal. 19 July (CA 20 f. 140). D. 2 Jan. 1763 (Gent. Mag. 1763, xxxiii 46; D1/2/27 f. 17v).
Charles Weston M.A. 1763-1768.
Coll. 20 Jan. 1763 (D1/2/27 f. 17v). Instal. 22 Jan. (CA 21 p. 165). Res. by 22 Sept. 1768 (D1/2/27 f. 30v).
Richard Brickenden D.D. 1768-1779.
Coll. 22 Sept. 1768 (D1/2/27 f. 30v). Instal. 24 Sept. (CA 21 p. 192). D. by 5 March 1779 (D1/2/28 f. 7).
Arthur Coham M.A. 1779-1799.
Coll. 5 March 1779 (D1/2/28 f. 7). Instal. by proxy 25 March; in person 14 Jan. 1780 (CA 21 pp. 253, 259). D. 14 Feb. 1799 (m.i., Brixton Deverill, Wilts.) (Hoare, Modern Wilts., Heytesbury p. 6) or 19 Feb. (Gent. Mag. 1799, lxix (1) 256; D1/2/29 f. 24).
William Douglas M.A. 1799-1804.
Coll. 9 March 1799 (D1/2/29 f. 24). Instal. by proxy 28 March (CA 22 p. 21). Res. 5 May 1804, on becoming precentor (D1/2/29 f. 80).
William Coxe M.A. 1804-1828.
Coll. 9 May 1804 (D1/2/29 f. 80). Instal. 24 May (CA 22 p. 76). D. 8 June 1828 (Gent. Mag. 1828, xcviii (1) 573; D1/2/32 pt. ii f. 10r-v).
William Macdonald M.A. 1828-1862.
Coll. 14 June 1828 (D1/2/32 pt. ii f. 10r-v). D. 24 June 1862 (Gent. Mag. 1862, 3rd ser. xiii 233; D1/2/38 p. 457).