People: Hardware, Nicholas (vicar of Weaverham)
Surname
Hardware(Harwarr)
Forename
Nicholas
Sex
Male
Parish
Weaverham
Marital Status
Unknown
Occupation Status
Clerk; vicar of Weaverham
Remarks
He held a post in the parish of Nantwich in 1534 when he was included in the clerical taxation list for that year (BL Harley MS 594, f. 153v); he was named as vicar of Weaverham by 1541 (W. F. Irvine (ed.), ‘List of the clergy in eleven deaneries of the diocese of Chester, 1541-2; together with a list of the tenths and subsidy payable in the deaneries of the Archdeaconry of Chester’, Miscellanies relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 3 (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 33, 1896) p. 6). In 1552 he was plaintiff in a tithe suit as vicar of Weaverham.
Causes
EDC 5/13/3 – witness to the sentence
EDC 5/13/4 – plaintiff