People: Hall, Richard

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Surname

Hall

Forename

Richard

Sex

Male

Parish

Manchester

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Margery

Occupation Status

Clerk; fellow of Manchester College

Literacy

Yes - his will mentions a owned a number of books

Remarks

CCEd person ID 31978

Career: Richard Hall was ordained priest on 10 March 1542 and appointed a Fellow of Manchester College by 1559 and remained there until his death, he was buried in the collegiate church on 4 January 1585. He was acting as treasurer of the college at the time of a metropolitan visitation in 1571 when conflict among the Fellows was said to have been occasioned by his failure to pay their stipends.

Further notes:

While at Manchester College he worked as a schoolmaster and also practiced medicine although it was reported that those he treated usually died. He was also said to be of unsound religion and a drunkard.

Sources:

F. R. Raines, The fellows of the collegiate church of Manchester, ed. F. Renaud, vol. 1, Chetham Society, new series, 21 (1891).

Causes

EDC 5/1580/11 – defendant

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Officials: Pewson alias Morgell, John

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JOHN PEWSON otherwise MORGELL

Scribe and deputy registrar of the court.

JOHN PEWSON alias MORGELL

Qualifications: Notary Public

By 1580 John Pewson alias Morgell, of the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, was acting as deputy Registrar to Randle Cotgreave in the diocese of Chester. He was often deputed when depositions were to be taken away from Chester.

In 1606 a patent was granted by the bishop of Chester to John Morgyll as Registrar for his life and the life of his two sons. John Morgell or Morgan of Moston, near Chester, bought the Manor of Moston in about 1600 and died in 1636. In view of the dates, it seems likely that this John Morgell was the son of John Pewson alias Morgell who seems to have established a dynasty of Registrars of the diocese.

Signature from EDC 5/1580/10

Sources:

F. R. Raines, (ed.), Notitia Cestriensis, or historical notices of the diocese of Chester, by Right Rev. Francis F. Gastrell, vol. 1 Cheshire (Chetham Society, old series, 8, 1845).

J. P. Rylands, (ed.), ‘Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates; A.D. 1600 to 1678’, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. vi (1882).

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