List of Henlow Vicars

Advowson

According to the Victoria County History (VCH) published in 1908 the Henlow advowson was given to the monks of Llanthony Priory by Nigel son of Erfast. It was retained by them until the Dissolution of the Monastery when it lapsed to the Crown. At the time of the Dissolution the rectory of Henlow was worth £11 0s 6d. The Crown sold it to John Fish and John Clarke in 1590. In 1624 it passed to Edward Kent and in 1670 Thomas Kent disposed of part of the rectory to George Edwards, owner of Henlow Warden. Prior to 1697 Edwards acquired the whole of the rectory as that year it was transferred to the then lord of Henlow Lanthony, Richard Buckby. The VCH states that the advowson appears to have followed the descent of the manor until it was transferred from the Addingtons to the Alliance Bank in the 1880s. 

List of Vicars

The following list of Vicars of Henlow is as complete as records will allow.

NOTE: D = "Dominus" meaning Lord; M = "Magister" meaning Master

• Stephen - early13th century [patron Prior & Convent of Llanthony];
• Richard de Heyhamsted - 1242 [priest; patron Prior & Convent of Llanthony];
• William de Kerdington[?] - 23 Sep 1272 [capellanus; on death of Richard, last Vicar];
• Adam de Clifton - 27 May 1303 [capellanus; on death of William de Kerdington[?]];
• Nicholas de Pyreton - 9 Dec 1326 [priest; on death of D.Adam];
• D.Geoffrey Fraunceys of Holme - 9 May 1334 [Rector of Fiside in Salisbury Diocese, by exchange with Nicholas de Piriton];
• Robert Somenour of Weurisch - 20 Dec 1360 [priest; on death of D.Geoffrey];
• William Wymond - 27 May 1376 [priest; vacant];
• John Bysschop - 10 Sep 1400 [capellanus; on death of D.William];
• D.John Kylpek - 3 Feb 1404 [priest on death of last Vicar];
• William Colwyke - 10 Jul 1406 [capellanus; on resignation of D.John Culpek];
• John Cook - 5 Apr 1409 [priest; on resignation of D.William Colwyk];
• D.Richard Bayford - 25 Dec 1411 [Vicar of Westoning, by exchange with John Cook];
• D.Walter Dunkerton - 23 Jul 1417 [Rector of Idelestr' in jurisdiction of St.Albans Abbey, by exchange with D.Richard Bayford];
• D.Nicholas Couper - 2 jan 1419 [priest; vacant];
• Simon Knyghte - 18 Jul 1443 [on resignation of D.Nicholas Couper];
• D.John Percy - 1443;
• Thomas Peckeworth - 2 Dec 1443 [priest; on resignation of D.John Percy];
• William Parker - 30 May 1448 [priest; on resignation of D.Thomas Pekworth];
• D.Thomas Smyth - 8 Jan 1450 [priest; on resignation of D.William Parker];
• John Asshwell - 14 Dec 1451 [priest; on death of D.Thomas Smyth];
• D.William Smyth - 6 May 1458 [capellanus; on death of D.John Asshewell];
• D.John Hawton - 23 Sep 1463 [priest; on resignation of D.William Smyth];
• D.Robert Colby - 24 May 1466 [priest; on resignation of D.John Hawton];
• D.William Smyth - 21 Apr 1468 [priest; on death of D.Robert Colby; will proved in PCC in 1500];
• D.Richard Malcote - 28 Mar 1499 [priest; patrons Thomas Hakkull of Henlow and John Edwardes, son and executor of Henry Edwardes by grant of next presentation from prior & Convent of Llanthony to Thomas Hecull and Henry Edwardes dated 10 Oct 1496];
• M.Thomas Willey MA - 25 Oct 1544 [on death of last Vicar; patro Isabella Nele, widow, by grant from late Prior & Convent of Llanthony to John Cooke of Yoxford [Suffolk], Edmund Chapman alias Barker of Silton [Dorset], Nicholas Reve of Brandefelde and John Reynolds junior of Yoxford and by them assigned to Isabella];
• Jacob Turner - 30 Jul 1547;
• William Lucas - 18 Jul 1559 [clerk; patron Elizabeth I; value 9/6/8; no evidence of institution];
• Lewis Williams - 6 Aug 1569 [clerk; presented on petition of Sir Walter Myldemay; patron Elizabeth I; value 7/14/1];
• Owen Owen - 12 Feb 1570 [clerk; presented on resignation of last Vicar on petition of Chancellor of the Bishop of Peterborough; patron Elizabeth I; admitted 19 May 1571];
• Richard Smythe - 8 May 1573 [clerk; presented on resignation of last Vicar on petition of Mr.Rotherham; patron Elizabeth I; no evidence of institution];
• John Morgayne - 18 Dec 1573 [clerk; presented on death of Owen Owen, on petition of Dean of St.Paul's; admitted 23 Apr 1574; patron Elizabeth I];
• Gabriel Morgan MA - 15 Apr 1607 [of Christ's College, Cambridge; on resignation of John Morgan; patron James I; value 9; buried 8 Sep 1614];
• Gabriel Morrell AB - 16 Sep 1614 [clerk; of Magdalene College, Oxford; on death of last Vicar; presented 12 Sep 1614 by Keeper of Great Seal; value 9];
• Isaac Turner BA - 2 Jan 1629 [on death of last incumbent];
• George Langford BD - 10 May 1631 [on cess. of last Vicar; will dated 7 Apr 1649, proved 9 May 1650];
• Richard Read AM - 21 Nov 1661 [clerk; patron Charles II; buried 12 Jun 1681; will dated 20 Apr 1680, proved 4 Jul 1681];
• Pemberton Bedford MA - 11 Oct 1681 [on death of last Vicar; patron Charles II; buried 8 Dec 1726];
• Samuel Bedford AB - 25 May 1727 [on death of Pemberton Bedford; patron George I];
• (John Theed, esquire - 20 Dec 1747 [ordained deacon, instituted curate]);
• Edward Robinson - 24 Jan 1752 [clerk; on ..... of Samuel Bedford; patron George II];
• Thomas Aveling - 21 Nov 1787 [clerk; on death of Edward Robinson; patron George III];
• Thomas Gregory - 10 Sep 1790 [clerk; on death of Thomas Aveling; patron George III];
• William Burgess Hayne - 1 Jan 1823 [clerk; on death of Thomas Gregory; resigned 31 Jul 1843];
• Hugh Seymour Yates MA - 25 Aug 1843 [on resignation of William Burgess Hayne; patron Queen Victoria];
• William Delacherris Crommelin BA - 20 Aug 1868 [on death of Hugh Seymour Yates; patron Queen Victoria];
• William Meyler Warlow - 1893;
• Albert Shadwell Shuttle - Jul 1898;
• Robert Sutton Bagshaw - Oct 1901;
• Alfred George Walpole Sayer - Oct 1908;
• John George Williams - Jul 1921;
• Arthur Sydney Harryman - Aug 1941;
• Arthur Sydney Monk - Jul 1944;
• Thomas Colman - Dec 1950;
• Richard Leonard Howard - 1956;
• Sidney Sayer Ashfold – 1968
• Arthur William Newall - 1978;
• Colin G.Mattock - 1990;
• Michael J.Proctor – 1998