Southwell Minster

List of Incumbents

Incumbents since the foundation of the diocese in 1884 and the establishment of the minster as its cathedral

Rectors of Southwell

1881	John James Trebeck
1900	John Gray Richardson (also Archdeacon of Nottingham)
1913	Herbert Louis Wild (also Archdeacon of Nottingham)
1916	William James Coneybeare (also Archdeacon of Nottingham)

Provosts and rectors of Southwell

1931	William James Coneybeare
1945	Hugh Christopher Lempriere Heywood
1970	John Francis Issac Pratt
1978	John Murray Irvine
1991	David Leaning

Deans and rectors of Southwell

2000	David Leaning
2007	John Arthur Guille
2016	Nicola Sullivan

Incumbents of the Collegiate Church of St Mary prior to the foundation of the diocese

As we have seen [see History], the earliest development of the Minster church at Southwell as a collegiate foundation is very obscure. It is likely that from early Anglo-Saxon times the canons (later called prebendaries by virtue of their prebends which consisted of lands and rents derived from parishes mainly in Nottinghamshire), had lived a communal life. But is only from the mid eleventh century, thanks to the efforts of three successive archbishops (Aelfric Puttoc, Cynesige and Ealdred) that a little more can be discovered about this. They provided a refectory, dormitory, bells and other facilities alongside a newly rebuilt Minster. In addition, Archbishop Ealdred personally purchased lands to endow the Minster, some of which he, or his successor Thomas of Bayeux, probably used to establish individual prebends since Domesday Book (1086) suggests that they were by then to be found at (North) Muskham, Normanton, Norwell Overhall and Woodborough. Other early prebends almost certainly included Norwell Palishall, Oxton I and II, and Sacrista. Clergy, usually already in the domestic service of the archbishop, could be rewarded with a prebend which allowed them to live independently. By the early twelfth century there may have been as many as eight prebendaries at Southwell, forming the governing body, the Chapter. Henry I encouraged this development by permitting Archbishop Thurstan to found two more prebends at Dunham and Beckingham and Leverton, 1119 x 1133, and his successors not only approved further foundations but put forward their own candidates like Henry II who nominated his clerk Roger as the first prebendary of Halloughton c. 1162. By then the Chapter had its own seal, evidence of its legal identity. A generation later, Archbishop Geoffrey Plantagenet split up Norwell Overhall to form a third Norwell prebend, Tertia Pars (1191 x 1194), and Muskham to form North and South Muskham prebends c 1200, while Rampton was established by lay patrons, the Mallouel family at much the same period. Finally in 1290-1, Archbishop Le Romayne formed a prebend at Eaton and split North Leverton off from Beckingham so that the Chapter was made up of 16 prebends, the figure at which it would remain until its final dissolution in 1840-1.Individuals were normally appointed by the archbishop of York, but pressure could be exerted on him both by the king and pope, while during vacancies disputes often arose between the latter over appointments. Most continued in office until they resigned or died. Many also both in the Middle Ages and after the Reformation simultaneously held other prebends in other churches. It was normal to resign a prebend when promoted to a higher preferment such as a bishopric, though licences could be obtained to hold ‘incompatible benefices’ in plurality.

For the whole period of the existence of the chapter, apart from a brief period in the early thirteenth century when there may have been a dean, the archbishop never appointed a Chief Prebendary: the Chapter generally governed itself free from outside control, though it and individual prebendaries could be summoned to answer for their actions in the archbishop of York’s own court. Under the statutes promulgated by Queen Elizabeth I in 1585, however, the office of Vicar- General was created, whereby one of the canons was elected by his peers to exercise the ecclesiastical jurisdiction belonging to the chapter.

(That job-title had a somewhat dubious provenance, Thomas Cromwell having been so appointed in 1535 in order to survey all the country’s churches, monasteries and clergy and tax them more effectively).

Southwell Minster Vicars General

It is clear that chapter records are incomplete, and some dates of appointment are missing, but the published details we have are:

Name of Vicar General	Appointed
Francis Leeke	1661
Samuel Brunsel
William Mompesson	1668
George Mompesson
Samuel Berdmore
John Almon	1743
Edward Wilson	1749
Edward Gregory	1753
Andrew Matthews	1759
Scrope Berdmore	1762
Thomas Cockshutt	1770
William Rastall	1774
Ralph Heathcote	1789
William Becher	1795
William Barrow	1821
John Thomas Becher	1830

Prebendaries

A listing of all prebendaries by prebend, numbered in alphabetical order is given below:

1.	Beckingham
2.	Dunham-on-Trent
3.	Eaton
4.	Halloughton
5.	Normanton
6.	North Leverton
7.	North Muskham
8.	Norwell Overhall
9.	Norwell Palishall
10.	Norwell Tertia Pars
11.	Oxton Prima Pars
12.	Oxton Secunda Pars
13.	Rampton
14.	Sacrist’s
15.	South Muskham
16.	Woodborough

Most of the listings are taken from Index of Prebends and Prebendaries of parishes in Nottinghamshire (W A James), but for 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 16 the relevant entries in the Southwell and Nottingham DAC Church History Project website have been used. The English Clergy database has also provided some evidence from the Reformation onwards but is patchy. For the earliest prebendaries use has also been made of research carried out for the edition of the White Book of Southwell (Pipe Roll Society, 2 vols. 2018).

Some attempt has been made to regularise style in these lists but notes and comments which appear in the source documents have been included where appropriate.

Although the names of some canons are known from the mid-twelfth century onwards, in most cases it is not until the thirteenth century that they can be associated with named prebends. The Chapter was suspended by Henry VIII between 1540-43, and abolished between 1649-60, before the final dissolution of the Collegiate Church of St Mary at Southwell by Act of Parliament (The Dean and Chapter Act, 1840) in 1841. However incumbent prebendaries were allowed to keep their titles, and their income, until they died. Thomas Henry Shepherd, Prebendary of Beckingham, was the last member of the old chapter to die in 1873 and with his death the ancient system of governance came to an end.

1. Holders of the Prebend of Beckingham

Herbert (appointed by Archbishop Thurstan when prebend formed)	1119 x 1123
Robert	By 1236
Mr William de Rotherfield	By 1284 – d. 1292
Reginald of St Albans	1292 – 1311
Peter de Dene DCnL, DCL	By 1313 – after 1318
William de Barneby	By 1328 – 1361
Reginald, Cardinal-deacon of St Vitus, Rome	13 Sept 1388 - 1394
Richard de Ronhale DCL	26 Jan 1397 - d. by 1401
Thomas Bekyngham (but ineffectual)	14 Mar 1401
John Martyn	21 Aug 1401 - 3 Feb 1405
Henry Merston	3 Feb 1405 – after 6 June 1414
Thomas Chichele DCnL	3 May 1433 - by July 1445
William Crowton	27 July 1445 – by 7 July 1446
John Suthwell	7 July 1446 – 1480
Oliver Kyng (bishop of Exeter, 1492- 5, Bath & Wells, 1495-1503)	20 Nov 1480 – 1493
John Raynald LlB, BCnL, LlD	5 Feb 1493 – 1494
William Carpenter BCnL, LlD	9 Dec 1494 – 1496
Nicholas Halswell MD	29 Nov 1496 – 1499
William Symonds	3 July 1499 – 1505
George Savage	25 Oct 1505 – 1540
William Saxey	18 May 1542 – alive 1559
John Stokes	28 May 1564 – 1568
Thomas Wightman	11 May 1568 – 1580
Christopher Gregory	10 May 1580 – 1592
Christopher Gregory	12 Oct 1592 – 1600
Christopher Nelson	10 Oct 1600 – 1621
Henry Wickham	22 Mar 1621
Robert Sanderson (appointed Bishop of Lincoln 1660 – 1663)	In post 1642 – 1649
Paul Hood	19 Feb 1661 – 1662
Henry Parkhurst	28 Feb 1662 – 1669
Benjamin Camfield	2 Dec 1669 – 1693
Clement Elis	2 Nov 1693 – 1700
John Pigot	25 July 1700 – 1727
Edward Wilson	28 Sept 1727 – 1753
Thomas Cockshut	31 Jan 1753 – 1774
Henry Watkins	29 June 1774 – 1830
Thomas Henry Shepherd	22 June 1830 – 1873

2. Holders of the Prebend of Dunham-on-Trent

Nicholas de Welles	By ?1280 – d. March 1312
Thomas de Saint Albans	1312 – 1334
Henry de Harouden	1334 (but only effective from 1347)
Robert Kildesby	To 1341 (in dispute with Harouden)
John Wade	To 1341 (in dispute with Harouden)
William Kildesby	1341 – 1346 (in dispute with Harouden)
Henry de Harouden	see above
John de Wynewyck	By 1354 – by 1360
John de Waltham DCL	By 1361
William de Wykham	1361 – 1367
John de Caumpeden	1376
John Morhay	1410
Richard Prentys	1416
John Forest	1416 – 1442
John Bate	1442 – 1477
Gervas Clifton	1477 – 1479
James Stanely	1479 – 1485
Edmund Chaderton	1485 – 1499
Robert Barra	1499 – 1527
William Clarburgh	1527 – 1534
John Brandysly	1534 –
John Rottdye	1558 – 1574
Simon Bucke	1574 – 1586
George Slater	1586 – 1590
Thomas Painter	1590 – 1614
John Brooke	1614 – 1615
Henry Bankes	1615 – 1617
Toby Willis	1617 – 1618
William Humphreys	1618 – 1624
Henry Bates	1624 – 1636
Barnaby Barlow	1636 – 1649 (d. 1657)
John Fothergill	1660 – 1677
Robert Field	1677 – 1680
Peter Canon	1680 – 1692
Daniel Chadwick	1692 – 1701
Edward Clarke	1701 – 1729
Lewis Stephens	1729 – 1747
William Herring	1747 – 1747
Thomas Herring	1747 – 1774
Richard Kaye	1774 – 1780
William Jackson	1780 – 1812
Vemey Peter Littlehales	1812 – 1813
George Hutchinson	1813 – 1818
Brooke Boothby	1818 – 1826
John S V Vernon	1826 – 1829
Thomas C Percival	1829 –

Not known when Thomas C Percival died.

3. Holders of the Prebend of Eaton

Gerard de Ceyzériat	1290 – after 1320 (d. 1330)
John de Barnby	By Feb. 1333
William de Feriby	1336 – 1338
Thomas de Riplyngham	1338 – 1343
Gilbert de Welton (bishop of Carlisle 1353-1362)	1343 – 1353
Thomas Griffin of Witherington	1353 (effective 1358) – by 1376
Nicholas Catton	1404 –
John Cleve	1459 –
Thomas Wymbush	1459 –
Robert Frank BCL, DDec	1480 – 1486
Robert Grymston	1486 – 1501
Thomas Fitzherbert	1501 – 1528
William Langforde	1528 – 1533
Matthew Witton	1533 – 1540
Robert Snell	1559 –
John Todde	1572 – 1588
George Higgin	1588 – 1624
Francis Withington	1624 – ?1649
Robert Pave	1660 – 1676
Jeremiah Cudworth	1676 – 1704
John Gee	1704 – 1713
Robert Marsden	1713 – 1720
John Abson	1720 – 1749
Scrope Berdmore DD	1749 – 1769
Scrope Berdmore MG	1769 – 1815
William Barrow	1815 – 1836

William Barrow died on 19 April 1836, but it has not been possible to trace whether a successor was appointed.

4. Holders of the Prebend of Halloughton

Roger de Capella, King’s Clerk	c 1162 – after 1175
Thomas Britton	c 1230 – 1269
William de Grenefield (Archbishop of York, 1304-1315)	1269 – 1272
Adam de Belsted	1272 – after 1280
Nicholas de Cnoville/Knowll	c 1285 – 1310
Lambert de Trickyngham	1310 – 1331 or later
Terricus de Capella	to 1339
Robert de Kildesby	1339 – 1348
William de Hugate	1348 – after 1355
James de Staunton	By 1371 – after 1395
Ralph de Repynton	1398
James Lyott BCnL	1398 – before 1406
James Messanger	1406 (resigned)
William Aston	1406 after 1411
Henry Swayne	1423 – 1425
John Markaunt	1425
William Grave (resigned)	1443 – 1450
Edmund Warter	1497 – 1498
Walter Waretur	1487 – 1488
Brian Sandford	1498 – 1520
John Maxey	1520 – 1536
Richard Dean	1536 – 1540
William Mowse	1559
William Underne	1576 – 1588
Humphrey Tindall	1588 – 1599
Robert Snowdon (bishop of Carlisle 1616 – 1621)	1599 – 1616
Richard Johnson	1616 – 1624
George Brittan	1624 – 1632
Peter Titley	1632
Edward Quarles	1633 – 1639
Robert Holder	1639
William Gery	1660 – 1668
Henry Bagshaw	1668 – 1670
John Lake	1670 – 1682
Barnaby Long	1682 – 1685
Roger Altham	1685 – 1714
Timothy Fenton	1714 – 1724
Edward Parker	1724 – 1754
William Caley	1754 – 1784
James Willoughby	1784
Francis Herbert Hume	1785 – 1806
Robert Philip Goodenough	1806 – 1826
Frederick Anson	1826 – 1827
John Rudd	1827 – 1834
Robert Lowe	1834 – c 1842

5. Holders of the Prebend of Normanton

Henry of Nottingham	c 1222 ̶ 1244
Stephen, cardinal-priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere	1238
Ralph de Waddeworth	̶ 1255
Henry de Skypton (King’s Clerk)	14 May 1255 ̶ 1286
Robert de la Ford/Sleaford	1286 ̶ 1308
John de Baukwell	1308 ̶ 1314
Ingelard de Warle	18 Aug. 1314 ̶ after 1317
John de Sandale	1318 ̶ after 1349
John Kendale	By 11 Mar 1377 ̶ after 1395
John Waddesworth (King’s Clerk)	By 6 Feb 1397
Thomas Moore	̶ 1421
Thomas Wyatt	1421 ̶
John Marshall BCnL, BCL	̶ 1462
Thomas Worsley BCL	1462 – 1464
John Danvers	1464 – 1496
Henry Hornely DTh	1496 – 1518
John Francis de Dottis MD	1518 – 1526
John Alen	1526 – 1528
John Nell	1528 –
Thomas Whyte	1535 – 1540, 1543-1547
Henry Welshe	1558 –
Henry Bovell	1559 – 1562
Walter Jones	1562 – 1577
John Cooper	1577 – 1610
Robert Abbot	1610 – 1616
Bryan Atkinson	1616 – 1616
George Bernard	1616 – 1639
Edward Quarles	1639 – 1649
Anthony Elcock	1660 – 1670
Samuel Drake	1670 – 1671
William Mompesson	1671 – 1709
George Barnardiston	1709 – 1712
Stephen Cooper	1712 – 1736
Joseph Atwill	1736 – 1743
Matthew Bradford	1743 – 1750
Claudius Daultry	1750 – 1760
William Rastall	1760 – 1789
George D Kelly	1789 – 1823
George Wilkins	1823 – 1865

George Wilkins was Rector of Southwell and Archdeacon of Nottingham from 1832 to 1865.

6. Holders of the Prebend of North Leverton

Benedict de Halam/Halum (First Prebendary)	24 Oct 1291 – 1307
Reynaldus Arnaldi de Roma	31 July 1307 – after 1313
William de [South] Leverton	By 1344 – 1348
Simon de Beckingham BCL	1349
John Marshall	– 1365
John de Appleby	1365 – 1366
John de Stretley	1366 – 1371
Thomas Arundel (bishop of Ely, 1373-88, archbishop of York, 1388-96, archb. of Canterbury, 1396-7, bishop of St Andrews, 1397-9, archb. of Canterbury, 1399-1414)	– 1397
William Bedeman	By 13 June 1395
John Brommesgrave	– 12 Mar 1413
John Soulby	12 Mar 1413 – 1414
Richard Moresbyll	14 Mar 1414 – 8 Feb 1417
William Hayton	8 Feb 1417 –
Elyas Holgate	15 June 1444 – 26 Feb 1445
John Sutton MA, BCL	26 Feb 1445 – 9 Aug 1447
John Porter	9 Aug 1447 – 1448
Alexander Prowet	1448 – 1471
John Barnly	1471 – 1498
John Wygmore	1498 – 1499
William Symonds	1499 – 1499
Thomas Gree	1499 – 1505
Thomas Dalby	1505 – 1526
Robert Nooke	1526 – 1529
Nicholas Lentall	1529 – 1530
Thomas Marcer	1530 – 1540
William Rede	in 1546
George Larn	1559 – 1562
John Tavenham	1562 – 1574
James Brittan	1574 – 1593
John Barkesdale	1593 –
Martin Horberie	1660 – 1672
Edward Mason	1672 – 1679
John Mason	1679 – 1685
William Porter	1685 – 1715
William Howson	1715 – 1721
Richard Wood	1721 – 1734
Bennet Sherard	1734 – 1753
Granville Wheeler	1753 – 1770
Thomas Porter	1770 – 1800
Samuel Smith	1800 – 1807
Henry Smith	1807 –

It has not been possible to trace whether Henry Smith was in post when the chapter was dissolved.

7. Holders of the Prebend of North Muskham

William	c 1160 – 1200
Octovian (papal chamberlain)	Early 13th century
Henry de Lexington	- 14 Sept. 1241
Richard de Sutton	14 Sept 1242 - 1268
Henry de Brandeston	2 Sept 1268 -
Henry de Newark (Archbishop of York 1298-1299)	1287 – 1298
William de Newark (alias William de Hemyngford)	1298 – 1340
Mr William Boniere	1340 – 1351
John de Norwell	21 March 1351 – 1353
Thomas Brembre	1353 – after 1355
Thomas Welton	– 1366 (resigned)
John Chadderton LLD	27 Nov 1366
Mr Nicholas Chaddesdon (may be same as John Chadderton)	1373
Thomas Arundel (see North Leverton for career)	c 1373
John de Newton	1396 – 1414
Henry Bowet	7 July 1414
Thomas Pattesby (or Pattersley)	29 Nov 1414 – 1418
Thomas Percy (or Perry)	23 Aug 1418 – 1441
John Packenham	21 Nov 1441 – 1445
Hugh (or Thomas) Packenham	Oct 1445 – 1450 (resigned)
Stephen Wilton DD	20 Feb 1450 – 1453 (resigned)
Gervase Clifton (later Prebendary of Dunham-on-Trent)	4 Nov 1453 – 1454
Robert Clifton	13 May 1454 – 1470
John Harding (or Hardy) MA	1470 – 1485
William Byrley	24 Dec 1485 – 1510
Richard Pace (or Paceye or Pece)	1 May 1510 – 1514
Robert Langton	13 July 1514 – 1517
Thomas Nicholls BDec	18 Jan 1517 – 1526
William Benet LLD	4 Oct 1526 – 1533
Henry Willyams STP	18 Dec 1533 – 1547
George Palmer LLD	7 Sept 1558 – 1559 (deprived)
George Ackworth MA	6 Dec 1559 – 1566 (resigned)
John Yonge (or Young)	7 May 1566 – 1589
Lancelot Andrewes (Bishop of Chichester, 1605-9, Ely, 1609-18, Winchester, 1618-26)	19 May 1589 – 1609
Roger Andrewes STP	22 Sept 1609 – 1631
Henry Willis MA	18 Aug 1631 – 1678
Samuel Crobrou	13 Dec 1678 – 1690 (deprived)
Thomas Laybourne MA	11 Aug 1690 – 1728
Thomas Haytor MA	21 Sept 1728 – 1750
Lynford Caryl MA	14 April 1750 – 1781
Richard Barnard	20 July 1781 – 1783
Richard Kaye LLD	3 April 1783 – 1810
Samuel Francis Dashwood	26 April 1810 – 1826
Brooke Boothby MA	19 Oct 1826 – 1829
Charles Boothby MA	21 March 1829 – 1840

8. Holders of the Prebend of Norwell Overhall

Master Vacarius	1166 – c.1200
Stephen di Ferentino	– 1233
Johannes [Clericus]	1233 – 1248
Leonard (brother of John, clericus)	1248 –
John de Sumercote	– 1255
John Clarell (King’s clerk)	1256 – 1295
Elias de Couton	1295 – 1327/9
John Thoresby (bishop of St David’s, 1347-9, Worcester, 1349-53, archb. of York, 1353-73)	1327/9 – 1333
John de Denton (ineffectual)	1333
William I de Norwell	1333 – 1340
John I de Norwell	1340 – 1353
William II de Norwell	1353 – 1363
Thomas Mount (or Wickham)	c 1357 – 1370
Thomas Oxgrave	1370
Richard de Chesterfield	1370 – 1405
Robert de Wolvedon	1405 – 1432
William Duffield MA	1432 – 1450
William Grave	1450 – 1451
William Duffield MA	1451 – 1453
William Worsley DCL (Dean of St Paul’s, 1479-1499)	1453 – 1499
Henry Cranebull	1499 – 1507
Richard Wyat MA, DD, STP	1507 – 1522
Thomas Wynter MA	1522 – 1529
John Oliver, alias Smythe BCL, BCnL, DCL	1529 – 1540
John Oliver, alias Smythe BCL, BCnL, DCL	1543 – 1552
Robert Johnson BCnL	1558 – 1559
Thomas Wilson BD	1559
Thomas Barwicke	1562 – 1580
Richard Gerrard	1580 – 1614
William Barlowe MA	1614 – 1649
Edward Dix	1660 – 1669
Edward Garthwait MA	1669 – 1678
Samuel Brearey MB	1678 – 1704
Thomas Hawkins MA	1704 – 1718
Thomas Sharpe DD	1718 – 1758
Richard Gilbert DD	1758 – 1777
William Cooper DD	1777 – 1786
Cyril Jackson DD	1786 – 1787
George Markham MA	1787 – 1802
John Eyre MA	1802 – 1830
Charles Vernon-Harcourt MA	1830 – 1870

9. Holders of the Prebend of Norwell Palishall

Alun de Ripun	– 1214
Robert de Lexington	1214 – 1244/50
Wischard	before 1224
William de Tanay	1244 –
Henry le Vavasour	1257 – 1280
Anthony de Bek (bishop of Durham, 1283-1311)	1280 – 1283
John Lambert Nigri	c 1298 – c1304
John de Drokensford/Droxford (b. of Bath & Wells 1309-29)	1304 – 1309
William de Melton (archbishop of York, 1316-40)	1309 – 1317
Robert de Wodehouse (alias Elyot of (Norwell) Woodhouse)	1317 – 1346
William de Turre (ineffectual)	1344
Robert de Sandale	c 1346 – 1350
William de Aragon	1352
Thomas Fastolf	1352
Elias Pelegrini	1352
William de Gunthorpe	c 1363 – 1400
Richard de Conyngston DCL	1400 – 1414
John Brounsgrove or Brommesgrave	1414 – 1415
Richard de Clifford	1415 – 1420
Henry Bowet	1420 – 1442
John Latham	1442 – 1450
John Sutton BCL	1451
John Porter	1451 – 1479
William Clifton	1479 – 1491
Hugh Trotter MA, DD, STP	1491 – 1492
Hugh Fuller	1493
Edmund Carter MA	1493 – 1505
Martyn Colyns DDec	1505 – 1509
Christopher Urswyck DCL	1509 – 1522
Thomas Wynter MA	1522
Richard b of Nigropont	1522 – 1528
Thomas Donyngston BDec	1528 – 1532
Thomas Byrton	1532 – 1535
Geoffrey Downes MA, DD, STP	1535 – 1540, 1543-59
Thomas Laken MA, DD	1561
William Palmer MA, DD	1575 – 1605
Andrew Binge DD	1605 – 1649 (d. 1652)
Daniel Vivian DCL	1660 – 1669
Samuel Leek MA	1670 – 1687
Joseph Johnson MA, BD	1687 – 1720
Robert Marsden MA BD STB	1720 – 1748
Francis Wanley DD	1748 – 1791
William Smelt	1791 – 1823
Robert Chaplin LlB	1823 – 1837

Robert Chaplin died in 1837. Not known whether a successor was appointed prior to the chapter being dissolved.

10. Holders of the Prebend of Norwell Tertia Pars

Reginald, nephew of Master Vacarius	c 1194
?Robert de Lexington	c 1214 –
Walter Le Bretun	– 1266
William de Fécamp	1266 – after 1271
Paul de Casaviti/Dentayicty	c 1280 – 1288
Richard de Bamfield	c 1288 – c 1302
John Vaan	1304 – 1315
Henry de Ulseby	1349 – 1350
Gervase de Willeforde	1350
Thomas de Brembre	1352 – 1354
John II de Norwell	1354 – 1368
John Bryde	c 1371 – c 1395
Thomas Burstall	1402
William Newport	1426
John Brydde	1426
Thomas King	1439 – 1457
Ralph Bridde	1457 – 1462
John Averell	1462 – 1471
Richard Fletcher	1472 – 1475
William Clayton BA	1475 – 1476
Edmund Chaderton/Chatterton	1476
William Watson	1476 – 1501
William Atkinson STP	1501 – 1509
William Blounte MA	1509 – 1517
Richard Pygott	1517 – 1523
John Watson MA DD	1523 – 1530
Richard Tomyew	1530 – 1537
Thomas Horsley BCnL	1537 – 1539
Thomas Hewett	1545/6 – 1547
Robert Cressy LLB	1559 – 1581
Luke Gilpin MA BD	1581 – 1587
Richard Grace	1587 – 1612
John Brown	1612 – 1623
Thomas Benson	1623 – 1644
Henry Brunsell DCL LLD	1660 – 1664
Samuel Brunsell DD	1664 – 1688
Richard Gibson	1689
Charles Palmer DD	1690 – 1702
Thomas Lancashire MA	1702 – 1704
Hugh Cartwright MA	1706 – 1721
Humphrey Brailesford MA	1721 – 1733
Edward Gregory MA	1733 – 1759
John Dealtry MA	1759 – 1785
William Dealtry MA	1785 – 1834
Ralph Heathcote DD	1791 – 1795
Edward Denison MA DD (appointed Bishop of Salisbury 1837 – 54)	1834 – 1837

11. Holders of the Prebend of Oxton Prima Pars

The prebendal lists for Oxton Prima Pars and Oxton Secunda Pars are particularly problematic, especially for the medieval period since nominations seldom make clear to which of the two prebends the candidate is being preferred. The lists offered here should thus be considered very provisional. They differ markedly from those inscribed on boards in Oxton church.

Matthew Baron	c 1180 – 1215
Stephen de Lexington. Abbot of Clairvaux, 1243 – 1258)	1215 – c 1223
John de Luda (?Louth)	c 1240
Walter de Gray	?1242 – 1265
William de Clifford	1265 – 1287
Anglerus Jacobi of Rome	3 Feb 1287 – d. by 19 April 1289
John de Colonna	19 April 1289 – d. by 1318
John Landulfi	– 1318
Richard de Malumbris of Cremona	1318 – 1324
?Robert de Nottingham (disputed with John de Houton)	1324 – 1333
Philip de Daventre	By 1377 – 1355
Richard de Norwell	?1355 – 1365
Richard de Chesterfield	1365 – 1368
Thomas de Oxgrave	1368 – 1370
Thomas de Ikham	1370
John de Danby	By 1378 – 1397
Robert de Wolveden	1402 – 1405
John Ixworth LL D	1405
Andrew Holles DCnL	1431 – 1461
Richard Andrew LL D	1461
Edmund Chaderton	1476 – 1485
William Talbot	1485 – 1498
William Fitzherbert	1498 – 1510
William Dragley	1514 – 1534
Edward Basset	By 1538 – 1540
Henry Harvye LL D	1558
Mathew Hutton S T P	1567
Clement Holder M A	1589
John Neyle M.A	1638
Richard Hook S T P	1675
George Mompesson M A	1688
Richard Levett M A	1702
Hugh Thomas M A	1749
John Josias Laborde	1780
Nathan Haines D D	1788
Richard Sutton M A	1806
John Jarvis Cleaver M A	1820

Not known whether John Jarvis Cleaver was the last prebendary of Oxton I.

12. Holders of the Prebend of Oxton Secunda Pars

John d’Évreux	c 1286 – 1305
William de Melton (preb. of Norwell Palishall, 1309-16, archbishop of York, 1316-40)	1305 – 1309
John d’Évreux	1309 – 1310
Nicholas of Oxford/Oxton	1310 – 1321 (d. 1327)
Robert de Neville	By 1321
Henry de Edenestowe/Edwinstowe	1327 – after 1341
Henry de Ingleby	1352 –
Henry de Coddington	By 1378 – before 1397 (d. 1404)
Thomas de Weston	1397
Thomas de la Warre	1397 –
Thomas Moston	1407
Henry Bowet	1415
William Bothe/Booth (archbishop of York, 1452-1464)	1416 – before 1422
John Rider	1421 – c 1440
John Pakenham	– 1442
Brandus de Castiliona	1442
William Brand	1454
Robert Stillington LiD (bishop of Bath and Wells, 1465-1491)	1457 – 1459
Nicholas Gosse STP	1459 – 1461
John Sendale	1461
Ralph Bird	1462 – 1470
John Bower STP	1470 – 1499
John Fitzherbert	1499 – 1540
Robert Purseley	– 1558
Goddard Kiddall	1559
John Pratt MA	1563
Richard Remington MA	1599
Nathaniel Sampson MA	1607
John Favour LlD	1611
John Favour MA (precentor of York, 1617-1624)	1623
William Holder	1660
Thomas Wren LlD	1664
William Stainforth MA	1697 – 1713
Samuel Berdmore MA	1713
Joseph Atwell DD	1742
John Marsden MA	1768
Henry Forster Mills MA	1796
Frederick Anson MA	1827

13. Holders of the Prebend of Rampton

Eustace de Fauconberg (bishop of London 1221-8)	c 1200 – 1221
Martin of Pattishall	By 1221 – 1229
William the Chaplain	From 1229
Reginald de Stowe	1256 – 1267
Henry de Corbridge (archbishop of York, 1299-1304)	1267 –
Stephen de Weighton/Wiston/Wythern	c 1268 – 1280
Geoffrey de Saint Médard	By May 1281
Robert de la Forde	June 1281 – July 1281
Stephen de Wythern, Weighton, Wiston, Wythium	dead 1283
Cynthius de Pinea (archbishop of Capua, 1286-1290)	19 July 1281 – 1286
Bonet de Saint Quintin	1286 –
Roland de Ferentino	1290 – 1291
Benedict de Halum	1291
George de Solario	1291 – 1314
William de Bevercotes	1314 – 1347
William de Retford	1347 – by 1373
Walter de Westhale	1373 –
Reginald de Hillington	– 1374
John Stoke	1374
John de Calderelle	1376 –
John de Waltham (bishop of Salisbury, 1388-1395)	– 1383
Nicholas de Heth	1383 –
Thomas Haxey	1388 – 1425
Richard Caudray	1425 – 1431
William Gray (bishop of Ely, 1454-78)	1431 – 1438
Robert Thuraytes/Thwaites	1438 –
Thomas Tonge	By 1450 – 1454
John Gisburn	1454 – 1459
John Ranall/Reynolds	1459 – 1473
Edmund Litchfield	1474 – 1475
John Doget	1475 – 1489
William Fitzherbert	1489 – 1499
Richard Ratcliffe	1499 – 1527
William Clarburgh/Clayburgh	1527 – 1527
Thomas Westby/Westly	1527 –
Thomas Winter (Wolsey’s Son)	1529 – 1541
Reginald Lee	1543 – 1548
Thomas Marshall	in 1558
Richard Drury	1559 – 1561
Edward Rookes	1561 – 1573
Nicholas Clayton	1573 – 1597
Roger Acroyde	1597 – 1601
John Hutton	1601 – 1612
Thomas Ireland	1612 – 1615
George Proctor	1615 – 1625
Richard Marsh (dean of York, 1660-1663)	1625 – 1663
George Parish	1663 – 1689
Robert Bankes	1689 – 1695
Timothy Caryl	1695 – 1721
Henry Cooke MA	1721 – 1750
Edward Chappell	1750 – 1767
John Marsden	1767 – 1768
Samuel Abson	1768 – 1777
Peter Packard	1777 – 1798
Richard Sutton	1798 – 1806
Edward A H Drummond	1806 – 1830
Fitzgerald Wintour	1830

14. Holders of the Sacrist’s Prebend

Dom. William	c 1248 – 1249
Thomas	c 1259
John de Ferrara	1299 – 1309
John de Monte Claro MA	1309 – after 1347
John de Burton	30 Oct 1353 – 1360
John de Sculthorpe	1360 –
Thomas Arundel (for career see North Leverton)	d. 1397
William de Cawood	1397 – 3 Feb 1420
Robert Ascough	1447 – 1449
Richard Bell	1449 – 1453
William Ads	1453 – 1459
John Toralde	1459 –
Edmund Chaderton/Chatterton	By 1472 – 1475
Thomas Barrow	1475 – 1475
John Walkworth	1475 – 1498
Richard Burton	1498 – 1506
John Hatton	1506 – 1517
Thomas Edwards	1517 – 1526
John Wilkinson	1526 – 1533
John Keale	1533 – 1537
John Adams (Vicar of Southwell, 1540-1548)	1537 – 1540
Richard Hopkin	1559 – 1576
Robert Gibson	1576 – 1588
Francis Whitmore	1588 – 1598
John Paycorthe	1598 – 1600
John Jegon	1600 – 1603
Thomas Pettie	1603 – 1610
Samuel Fleming	1610 – 1620
Richard Barnard	1620 –
Timothy Long	1660 – 1665
John Garthwayt	1665 – 1670
George Masterson	1670 – 1686
Benjamin Clay	1686 – 1690
William Pearson	1690 – 1695
Nathan Drake	1695 – 1705
Benjamin Carter	1705 – 1732
John Marsden	1762 – 1767
Samuel Abson	1767 – 1768
Ralph Heathcote	1768 – 1795
Richard Sutton	1795 – 1798
Charles Wylde	1798 – 1825
Charles Nision	1825 – 1837

15. Holders of the Prebend of South Muskham

Mr Thomas de Disce	c 1204
Roger de Sowerby	c 1210 – 1222
William de Markham	By 1228 – 1244
William de Senedon	1244 – 1259
Thomas (doubtful)	1259
Mr John de Peniston	c 1268 – 1296
Raymond de Pinibus	April 1296 – 1311
Mr John de Pinibus	1311 – c 1335
Mr John de Thoresby (archbishop of York, 1352-1373)	22 May 1340 – 1347
John de Wynwyk	1347 – ?1348
Mr Henry de Harowedon	?1348 – 1349
Adam de Everingham	1349 – after 1373
Roger Bacon	11 March 1386 –
Thomas Orgrave	– 1386
John de Tibbay	?1388 – 1410
Thomas Kyngston BCL	6 Sept 1410 – 1419
John Cotes of Tealby, Lincs	11 July 1419 – 1433
Richard Feriby	– 1444
William Witham LlD	6 Feb 1444 – 1449
John Wraby	22 July 1449 – 1474
Edmund Chaderton	6 Jan 1475 – 1476
Thomas Chaundler STP	2 Feb 1476 – 1485
John (or Thomas) Stoke MA	13 July 1485 – 1486
William Skelton STB	1 June 1486 – 1500
Edward Basset	29 Sept 1500 – 1538
John (or Richard) Langreth/Langrysche	3 Oct 1538 – 1540
Stephen Tenaunte	by 1546 – 1558
Edward Brerley	7 Sept 1558 – 1559
William Tayllour	21 April 1559 – 1561
George Powes	6 March 1561 – 1573
Thomas Wethered MA	24 Aug 1573 – 1586
John Cooke (or Corke) STB	May 1586 – 1590
Francis Burgoyne MA	2 April 1590 – 1633
John Neile MA	3 Aug 1633 – 1638
Edward Burby (or Durby)	3 June 1638 – 1649
Gilbert Benet MA	9 Oct 1660 – 1670
Peter Canon MA	4 March 1670 – 1680
William Foster MA	16 Jan 1681 – 1704
John Jackson MA	24 Aug 1704 – 1706
Thomas Lancashire MA	8 March 1706 – 1719
John Lloyd MA	28 Jan 1720 – 1724
Robert Danye STP	14 Jan 1725 – 1730
Francis Charlton DD	9 April 1730 – 1734
Jaques Sterne LLD	1 April 1734 – 1755
Robert Oliver MA	5 June 1755 – 1784
James Willoughby LLB	16 Dec 1784 – 1816
Brooke Boothby MA	18 March 1816 – 1818
John Thomas Becher MA	22 Jan 1818 – 1848

16. Holders of the Prebend of Woodborough

Geoffrey de Dorchester	c 1200
Walter le Mauclerc (bishop of Carlisle, 1223-46)	c 1220
Simon de Courmayeur	c 1280 – after 1324
Thomas de Ripon	1320
John de ……	1327
Robert de Bridlington	1330 – 1333
John de Godwyks	c 1333
Thomas de Ashley	– 1338
Robert de Edwinstowe	1338 – 1364
John de Quernbyll	1364 –
Robert Rolleston	– 1410
Robert Pekok	1426
John Sutton MA	1447
John Fisher	1451 – 1452
John Sutton MA	1452 – 1453
Richard Nicks LlD	1492
Marc Hussie	1497
John Wigmore	1499
William Carpenter	1499
George Dudley	1507
Matthew Tocke	1558
Humph[rey] Fowler	1576
Thomas Jegons MA	1600
Edward Hutton MA	1604
John Chadwyk STP DD	1625
Peter Measell BD	1631 – 1649
Francis Leake MA	1660
Henry Smyth MA	1671
Ely Stansfield MA	1702
Robert Ayde MA	1719
Hon. Robert Sherard MA (later earl of Harborough)	1761
William Becher MA	1778
Edward Gerrard Marsh MA	1821 – 1862

Edward Gerrard Marsh died in 1862.

Governance of Southwell Minster between 1841 and 1884

Once the Dean and Chapter Act had come into force and the old chapter had been dissolved, Southwell reverted in effect to the status of a parish church and came under the surveillance of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, established in 1837. The parish was also moved from the Diocese of York to the Diocese of Lincoln. John Thomas Becher, appointed as Vicar General in 1830, had to supervise the winding-up of the former chapter and its consequences. Becher continued to have a strong influence on the affairs of the church until his death in 1848. He was a dominant figure in the local community for much of the first half of the 19th century and did not always feel the need to seek permission from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (or from anyone else) to pursue his own resolve.

Becher often clashed with George Wilkins, appointed Archdeacon of Nottingham in 1832. Wilkins also had a supervisory role at Southwell and was a strong character. After the death of Becher in 1848, Wilkins assumed full leadership at Southwell and continued until his death in 1865.

He was succeeded as Archdeacon of Nottingham and as Rector of Southwell by his son, John Murray Wilkins, who died in 1881. Five years before the death of J M Wilkins, a group of Southwell residents wrote to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to complain about the condition of the Minster and to assert that Wilkins had become 'too physically and mentally incapacitated to provide for our present urgent necessity'. Eventually, James John Trebeck, assistant curate, who had been entrusted with most of the duties for several years previously, was appointed as rector. When the Minster was created a Cathedral in 1884, Trebeck became sub-Dean. Although George Ridding, the first Bishop of Southwell, was de jure Dean, he delegated his cathedral functions to Trebeck.