Precentors

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 5, St Paul's, London. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1963.

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PRECENTORS

M. John de Wengham ?-1305.

Occ. 8 Aug. 1279 (Brit. Mus., Harley MS. 6956 f. 38b), and 18 March 1299 (CCR. 1296-1302 p. 297). D. (as precentor?) by 31 Aug. 1305 (Lincoln, Reg. 11 (Dalderby) f. 283b).

M. Gilbert de Segrave ?-1313.

Occ. 2 June 1306 (CPL. 11 11). Res. this to become bp. of London 1313 (CPR. 1313-1317 p. 12; Chron. of Ed. I and II 1 274).

M. Joceus de Kinebauton D.Cn. & C.L. 1314-1328.

Coll. by bp.; abp's conf. 10 May 1314 (Lamb., Reg. Reynolds f. 8b). Exch. 16 Aug. 1328 with Hugh de Statherne for archdcnry of Gloucester (Reg. Baldock p. 240).

M. Hugh de Statherne 1328-1333.

By exch. Aug. 1328. Archdcn. of Essex 1333.

M. William de Worston 1333-?

William de Plumstock 1341.

M. William de Borstan 1341.

Coll. to Worston 10 Dec. 1333 (Reg. Baldock p. 257). Plumstock occ. 15 June 1341 and Borstan 3 July (CPR. 1340-1343 pp. 224, 234). Worston occ. 19 June 1344 (CPR. 1343-1346 p. 395). It is highly probable that these are variant names for the same person. (fn. 1)

John de Winchecombe ?-1370.

Occ. 28 Oct. 1361 (Reg. Sudbury 1 228). Exch. 1 Nov. 1370 with Philip Melreth for preb. of Marston St Lawrence in Lincoln (ibid. p. 273).

Philip Melreth 1370-?

By exch. Nov. 1370.

Thomas de Horton 1384-1394.

Expect. 29 Aug. 1363 (CPP. 1 455). Coll. 5 Nov. 1384 (1st and 2nd Reg. of Bishop R. de Stretton, ed. R. A. Wilson (William Salt Archaeol. Soc., 1905-7) 1 191). D. by 22 July 1394 (Reg. Braybroke ff. 122b, 123).

John Ethenham 1394.

Coll. 26 July 1394 (Reg. Braybroke f. 123). Exch. 5 Aug. with John Wyke for ch. of Shoreham, Kent (ibid. f. 123b).

John Wyke 1394-1397.

By exch. Aug. 1394. Estate ratif. 14 Sept. (CPR. 1391-1396 p. 480). Res. by 15 June 1397 (Reg. Braybroke f. 152b).

John Drewery or Salisbury 1397-1442.

Coll. 15 June 1397 (Reg. Braybroke f. 152b). Estate ratif. 2 Aug. 1398 (CPR. 1396- 1399 p. 387). Exch. 7 July 1442 with Nicholas Sturgeon for preb. in Exeter (Reg. Gilbert f. 44b; Register of Edmund Lacy, bishop of Exeter, 1420-1455, vol. i ed. F. C. Hingeston-Randolph (London and Exeter, 1909) p. 271).

Nicholas Sturgeon 1442-1454.

By exch. July 1442. Instal. 9 July (WD 13 f. 206b/200b). D. by June 1454 (Reg. T. Kempe pt. i f. 32).

M. Thomas Graunt B.Th. 1454-1474.

Coll. 5 July 1454 (Reg. T. Kempe pt. i f. 32). D. by 9 July 1474 (ibid. f. 146b).

M. William Wylde Lic.Cn.L. 1474-1504.

Coll. 9 July 1474 (Reg. T. Kempe pt. i f. 146b). D. by 8 July 1504 (CPR. 1494- 1509 p. 355).

M. Gonsalvo Ferdinand 1504-1513.

Royal gr. 8 July 1504 (CPR. 1494-1509 p. 354). D. by 27 June 1513 (Reg. FitzJames ff. 41, 41b).

M. Thomas Wolsey 1513-1514.

Coll. 8 July 1513 (Reg. FitzJames f. 41b). Bp. of Lincoln 1514.

M. William Horsey D.Cn.L. 1514-1531.

Coll. 27 March 1514 (Reg. FitzJames f. 50b). Res. by 11 Nov. 1531 (Reg. Stokesley f. 11).

M. George Wyndham 1531-1543.

Coll. 11 Nov. 1531 (Reg. Stokesley f. 11). D. by 27 Nov. 1543 (Reg. Bonner f. 145b).

Footnotes

  • 1. So Hennessy p. 10.