Sex

Male

Parish

Chester, St Oswald

Marital Status

Unmarried

Occupation Status

Swordbearer

Remarks

The swordbearer was a salaried official and one of the principal officers of the mayor of Chester.  He also received some income from tolls.

Causes

EDC 5/1580/5 – plaintiff in Banester c Urmeston
– defendant in Urmeston c Banester

Sex

Male

Parish

Bangor

Marital Status

Unknown

Causes

EDC 5/1566/14 – defendant

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Margaret

Occupation Status

Clerk; rector of Warmingham and Malpas

Remarks

CCEd person ID 35561 (Warmingham)

Career: appointed rector of Warmingham on 26 August 1536; rector of the Higher Rectory of Malpas from 30 January 1562 on the resignation of William Hill on a pension of £16 for life on a bond from Barlow. He was buried at Malpas on April 28 1585 as ‘John Barlow, Clerke, late Parson of Malpasse and Warmingham’.

Further notes: He seems to have married late in life, perhaps for a second time, to Margaret Silcock, and he names in his will four sons and two daughters. His son William was apprenticed in Shrewsbury, his son John was apprenticed to a mercer in Chester. His son Richard was probably underage at the time of John Barlow’s death. Another son, Randle, Ralph or Randolph, baptised on 13 January 1572, had a distinguished academic career and after ordination took up a series of clerical appointments in Ireland, culminating in the post of archbishop of Tuam from 1629 to 1638.

After his death in 1595 his widow remarried Mr Thomas Wilson, the schoolmaster at Malpas, on 26 May 1596.

Although his tenure of the parish of Warmingham may seem unrealistically long, he certainly did hold both parishes in plurality for some years until his death, although it is possible that two men of the same name held Warmingham in succession. At the metropolitan visitation of 1578, following the death of the bishop, William Downham, the presentments at Warmingham include a note that ‘John Barlowe there person is not resident and cometh seldome amongest them. They have but fewe Sermons Ther parsonage is in Decaie’. A marginal note reads ‘he is Resydent at Malpas he is enioyned to […] sermons hereafter and to Repayre his hous before mydsomer next.’

Sources:

Borthwick Institute, York, V 1578-9 CB 3, f. 32v.

CALS, 220830, Malpas St Oswald Parish Registers.

George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, (second edition, revised and enlarged by T. Helsby, 3 vols, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1882), vol ii, pp. 608-610, vol iii, pp. 233-235.

Rev. G. J. Piccope (ed.), Lancashire and Cheshire wills and inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester, 3 volumes (Chetham Society, old series, 54, 1861 (Third Portion)), pp. 87-89.

Details of the career of Ralph Barlow; A Cambridge Alumni database https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/

Causes

EDC 5/1566/10 – witness to the sentence. He was probably in attendance at court because a tithe cause in which he had an interest was being heard at this time.

Sex

Male

Parish

Bowdon

Marital Status

Unknown

Causes

EDC 5/1575/4 – plaintiff

Sex

Male

Parish

Chester, St John

Marital Status

Unknown

Occupation Status

Preacher of the holy word

Literacy

Yes - Master of Arts

Remarks

Vicar of St John’s in Chester; following the dissolution of the college the vicar and curate were jointly paid £21 6s 8d a year. Brednam came from Norfolk, attended St John’s College Cambridge, BA 1565-6; MA 1570; fellow 1566. Venn says that he was ordained in Chester on March 16^th 1602/3 but this seems unlikely as he was vicar of St John’s by 1591. CCEd person ID 23119, states that he was ordained at Chester on March 16^th 1573. Then schoolmaster at Farndon in 1578; rector of Handley in Cheshire 1591-1592; vicar of Aysgarth in Yorkshire 1573 to 1617. Venn says that he was also rector of Outwell in Norfolk from 1597 to 1618, when he died. His surname is also given as Lacy. Source: J A Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, part I, volumes I and II, 1922.

Causes

EDC 5/1591/2 – plaintiff

Sex

Male

Approx Year of Birth

1534

Parish

Prescot

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

The depositions of William Barnes may be found in EDC 2/8.

Causes

EDC 5 1566/9 – witness for plaintiff

EDC 5 1566/10 – witness for plaintiff

Sex

Male

Parish

Manchester

Marital Status

Unmarried

Remarks

EDC 5/9/1 – Plaintiff

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

There is a reference to his unnamed maid in the depositions on the libel.

Causes

EDC 5/1575/2

Sex

Female

Approx Year of Birth

1541

Parish

Chester, Holy Trinity

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Not known

Causes

EDC 5/1575/2 – witness on the libel

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Ellen Bamvile

Causes

EDC 5/1575/2 – husband of plaintiff