Bothamsall Our Lady and St PeterList of Incumbents
Chapel known to exist by 1220s. No indication of named clergy until c1247
c1247 |
Laurence de Ranby, canon of Welbeck |
by 1478 |
Richard Symondson, canon of Welbeck |
by 1488-1500 |
John Wentbrigg, canon of Welbeck |
Post Reformation incumbents became Perpetual Curates
By 1567 |
John Cresswell |
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By 1584 |
Stepen Moodie |
Vicar of Elkesley/curate of Bothamsall |
1608-19 |
Lawrence Britten (?Breedon) |
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1620 |
Thomas Proctor |
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1621-2 |
Alexander Smith |
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1625-8 |
Bartholomew Wright |
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1628 |
Henry Bacon |
Still at Bothamsall in 1643 |
1649 |
Benjamin Alexander |
To hire curate for one year - patron Earl of Clare |
? |
William Gardiner |
Erased in 1663 call book - Was he a Puritan? |
1663-6 |
Henry Alsop |
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1666 |
Philip Squire |
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1666-72 |
John Thwaites |
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1673 |
Thomas Alesby |
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1674-82 |
John Melson |
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1683 |
Nathaniel Boothouse |
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1684-6 |
Anthony Armistead |
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1687-8 |
Vacant |
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1689-90 |
Edward Reynes |
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1691-3 |
John Thwaites |
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1694 |
William Pennington |
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1695-1716 |
John Wright |
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1717-66 |
William Boawre |
Patron: Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne / Newcastle-under-Lyne |
1766-(?87) |
Francis Halliday |
Patron: Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne |
1787-1812 |
Miles Mason |
Patron: Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne |
1812-44 |
John Mason |
Patron: 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne |
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The church was rebuilt in 1844-5 the patron continuing to be the 4th Duke
of Newcastle-under-Lyne who financed the rebuilding.
1845 |
Charles McGregor |
3rd baronet - chaplain to the 4th Duke of Newcastle |
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1845-7 |
Alexander L Webster |
Patron: Duke of Newcastle |
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1847 |
John Chapman |
Patron: Duke of Newcastle |
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1848-50 |
George Rawlinson |
Patron: Duke of Newcastle |
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1851-69 |
Henry Fynes Clinton (later Fiennes-Clinton) |
Patron: Duke of Newcastle |
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1869-78 |
Richard C Ward |
Patron: Duke of Newcastle |
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1878-89 |
Seymour Bently |
Patron: Bishop of Lincoln(by lapse) |
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1889-98 |
Alfred H McLaughlin |
Patron: 7th Duke of Newcastle |
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1898-1901 |
Walter C Carr |
Patron: 7th Duke of Newcastle |
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1901-06 |
William G Roach |
Patron: 7th Duke of Newcastle |
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United with Elkesley – Vicars
1906-45 |
William G Roach |
From 1924, Patron: Society for the Maintenance of the Faith |
1945-80 |
Douglas D Woodgate |
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1981-83 |
Robert Miller |
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1983-92 |
Patrick Rowley |
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1992-2008 |
Clive F Andrews |
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The first priest was appointed in the 1220s from the ranks of the canons at
Welbeck Abbey when the monks took possession. The first named priest was Lawrence
de Ranby appointed in 1247.
Although Bothamsall was within the parish of Elkesley from the earliest time
recorded, it appears always to have had a separate clergyman until union in
1906. After the Reformation the clergy are described as Perpetual Curates.
The Newcastle’s curates were never well paid. Even so, the 4th Duke
in his diary entry of 8th Serptember 1825 expresses his indignation that the
Archbishop of York was insisting that “Queen Ann’s Bounty”,
which was a fund for augmenting poor livings, be offered to the curate of Bothamsall.
The Duke declared that he would “persist in refusing it”. Reasons
are not given but zealous control of his aristocratic privileges may be one.
It does not refect well on a man already greatly disliked for his reactionary
attitudes.
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