People: Lord, Margery


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Lord (Lorte)

Forename

Margery

Sex

Female

Approx Year of Birth

1546

Parish

Middleton

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Thomas

Causes

EDC 5/1580/10 – witness on the libel

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People: Smith, Elizabeth


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Smith (Smythe)

Forename

Elizabeth

Sex

Female

Approx Year of Birth

1530

Parish

Middleton

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Alexander

Remarks

In the exceptions to the witnesses she is described as ‘a woman of ill fame, blemished reputation and dishonest conversation, in addition she is a pauper and destitute, having nothing in goods, after deduction of debts, living on alms almost as if she were begging ‘And suche as is Acompted for a Common lier & so reputed and taken amongest her neighbours And that litle that she hath, she hath it vnder the said Robert Ireland and Richard Ireland’ ‘.

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EDC 5/1580/10 – witness on the libel

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People: Ireland, Richard


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Ireland

Forename

Richard

Sex

Male

Approx Year of Birth

1560

Parish

Middleton

Marital Status

Unknown

Occupation Status

Under miller at Middleton water mill

Remarks

Said in the exceptions to the witnesses to be a farmer of the profits of the mill in which he worked and a close blood relative of Robert Ireland.

Causes

EDC 5/1580/10 – witness on the libel

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People: Ireland, Robert


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Ireland

Forename

Robert

Sex

Male

Approx Year of Birth

1558

Parish

Middleton

Marital Status

Unmarried

Occupation Status

Son of Edmund Ireland, gentleman

Remarks

Said in the exceptions to the witnesses to be a farmer of the profits of Middleton water mill and a close blood relative of Richard Ireland.

Causes

EDC 5/1580/10 – witness on the libel

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People: Jones, Thomas


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Jones (Johnes)

Forename

Thomas

Sex

Male

Approx Year of Birth

1540

Parish

Middleton

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Anne

Causes

EDC 5/1580/10 – witness on the libel

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Jones (Johnes)

Forename

Anne

Sex

Female

Parish

Middleton

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Thomas

Causes

EDC 5/1580/10 – defendant

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People: Jackson, Anne


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Jackson

Forename

Anne

Sex

Female

Parish

Middleton

Marital Status

Unmarried

Remarks

The depositions state that she had a brother called Ambrose.

Causes

EDC 5/1580/10 – plaintiff

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People: Williamson, Thomas


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Williamson

Forename

Thomas

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Jane

Occupation Status

Clerk; fellow of Manchester College; vicar of Eccles

Literacy

Yes - graduate

Remarks

CCEd person ID 29173

Career: As a boy, Thomas Williamson probably attended Sedbergh School and entered St. John’s College, Cambridge in 1567. As Master of Arts Williamson was appointed vicar of Eccles by Queen Elizabeth in 1576 and, together with Oliver Carter, was one of the first Fellows of Manchester College when it was re-founded by her in 1578, holding the position until his death in 1606. He also held the vicarage of Childwall for a few months in 1588/9.

Further notes:

He represented Manchester College at a metropolitan visitation in 1590, when it was found that none of the fellows wore a surplice, a practice associated with Puritanism, which was not accepted by the church authorities. He had already been ordered to wear a surplice during a previous metropolitan visitation of his parish of Eccles in 1578.

In 1584 he was appointed as one of the Bury moderators of the monthly preaching and educational Exercises held for clergy throughout the diocese. These were intended to win over those inclined to conservatism and to improve standards but are associated with Puritanism.

Sources: 

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

F. R. Raines (ed.), ‘A Visitation of the diocese of Chester, by John, Archbishop of York, held in the Chapter House of the Collegiate and Parish Church of Manchester, 1590, with the Archbishop’s correspondence with the clergy.’ Chetham Miscellanies, vol. v, Chetham Society, old series, 96 (1875).

R. C. Richardson, Puritanism in north-west England (Manchester, 1972).

B. Wilson (ed.), The Sedbergh School Register 1546 to 1895 (Leeds, 1895).

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp352-362#anchorn60

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EDC 5/1580/10 – commissioned to examine witnesses in Manchester

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Richardson

Forename

Thomas

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Occupation Status

Clerk; fellow of Manchester College; rector of Ashton-upon-Mersey; rural dean of Manchester

Literacy

Yes - owned a number of books

Remarks

CCEd person ID 35050

Career: Thomas Richardson became a Fellow of Manchester College by 1574 and retained the position until his death in 1613. In 1583 he was presented to the rectory of Ashton upon Mersey, where in 1592 he was classified amongst the group who were ‘no graduates, but preachers, honest men’.  He became rural dean of Manchester deanery, possibly in 1574 following the death of Peter Shaw, the previous dean.

Further notes: 

In 1599 he was involved with other rural deans of the diocese of Chester in a jurisdictional dispute which was appealed to York.

 Sources: 

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

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People: Carter, Oliver


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Carter (Cartar)

Forename

Oliver

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

First wife - Emma; second wife - Alice

Occupation Status

Clerk; fellow of Manchester College

Literacy

Yes - graduate

Remarks

CCEd person ID 22503

Career: Oliver Carter was from Richmondshire, parts of which were in Yorkshire and parts in north Lancashire. He graduated from St John’s College Cambridge with a BA in 1560, MA in 1563 and as a Bachelor of Divinity in 1569, having been appointed one of the College preachers in 1565 and a University preacher in 1567. After parish appointments near Cambridge, he became a Fellow of Manchester College by 1573, where he remained until his death in 1605. In 1578 was appointed by the bishop of Chester as one of the moderators of the Manchester monthly lecture, an institution associated with evangelical Protestantism.

Further notes: 

Manchester College suffered from serious financial problems following its dissolution under Edward VI and restoration under Mary and so was re-founded by Elizabeth in 1578. Carter was, however, himself beset by financial difficulties being obliged to borrow money and to sue the College for unpaid stipend. He thus took on extra work such as tutoring and drawing up wills which distracted from his work as an evangelical.

Henry, earl of Derby was a patron, and he dedicated his 1579 book refuting some Catholic claims to the earl and also preached to the earl and his household. His evangelical views are also evidenced by his presentation to the church authorities for refusing to wear a surplice and his opposition to use of the organ in services. 

Sources:

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

“Carter, Oliver”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4795

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