People: Charlton, William (rector of Bangor)

Sex

Male

Parish

Bangor

Marital Status

Unmarried

Occupation Status

Clerk; rector of Bangor

Literacy

Yes - his will mentions a owned a number of books

Remarks

CCEd person ID 35894

Career: according to the 1563 clergy list he was rector of Bangor by then, but was absent at Oxford; the record of the 1565 visitation indicates that he appeared by proxy. On 11 April 1572 he appeared before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners at Chester and was required to attend before them again the following day, but no details of the reason for this summons have been traced.

He was still rector of Bangor at the time of the metropolitan visitation of 1578 BIY V. 1578-9 and died in 1583. His will does not suggest that he had ever married.

Further notes: Alumni Oxonienses online shows two possible Oxford students: ‘Charleton, William of Hart Hall in and before 1568’ and ‘Charlton, William of Magdalen Hall in or before 1572’.

His deceased uncle, named in his will, was Alan Charlton, Bachelor of Laws, rector of Whitchurch, who had been rector of Tarporley in Cheshire, but was deprived of that parish in 1571 for negligence.

Sources:

‘Chaffey-Chivers’, in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 255-273. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp255-273

CALS, EDA 12/3, ff. 6-6v.

CALS, EDV 1/3, ff. 23v and 56v.

Cheshire Sheaf, 3rd series, iii, pp. 29.

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales: William Charlton: will, 1582.

Causes

EDC 5 1566/14 – plaintiff
EDC 5/1566/15 – plaintiff
EDC 5/1575/15 – plaintiff