St Thomas the Martyr, Winchelsea, East Sussex

INCUMBENTS OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS THE MARTYR, WINCHELSEA
Information principally from Presentations of the Living recorded in the Patent Rolls and Close Rolls, compiled by W. MacLean Homan, 1940. Bound copy in possession of David Bourne, Esq.

ST THOMAS'S OLD WINCHELSEA		1527	Robert Wode/Richard Darrell
1170	Murder of Thomas à Becket	1529	Edmund Atkynson Goaled for "Revelry"
1215	Earlist recorded mention of Church	1537	John Thompson
	of St Thomas, Old Winchelsea	1541	Richard Bostock
1254	Roger of Messenden	1543	Henry Strensham Resigned at Reformation
1260	Henry Mantel	1543	Thomas Chapman
1269	Walter of Agmondesham		Parish conjoined with that of St Giles, Winchelsea
1277	Adam of Agmondesham	1547	Peter Danyell
	Warner		Deposed on accession of Queen Mary 1555
1287	Church lost in great storms	1555	Robert Jordan Roman Catholic
		1559	Peter Danyell
ST THOMAS'S NEW WINCHELSEA			Reinstated on accession of Queen Elizabeth
1294	Adam of Agmondesham	1563	No parson or curate
1310	Thomas of Agmondesham	1565	Richard Roberts
1311	Roger de Sutton	1569	John Davyson
	Richard de Gynge	1576	Weller
1312	Alard Chantry founded	1587	Robert Poole, B. A.
1329	Richard Bidynden of Winchelsea	1604	William Burges
1337	John Glynde Died in Black Death	1608	Robert Thompson, B. A.
1349	John de Scarle	1637	Valentine Stone
1356	Robert Vyllers	1639	Martin First or Fist
1362	Richard Gryffin	1649-60	Commonwealth and Protectorate:
1367	Peter Done		church a "forlorn ruin"
1373	John of Bernardscastell	1672	Richard Acton
1375	Patrick Wyot or atte Wode	1686	Edward Matthews
1380	Church sacked by French and Castilians	1690	John Harris, M. A., D. D.
1385	Ralph Rerysby	1707	John Prosser, B. A.
1387	Hugh Setour	1723	William Willes
1405	William Tyrell	1752	Richard Tireman, M. A.
1412	John Wade	1767	Drake Hollingbery, A. M.
1416	William Bukyngham	1822	John William Dugdell, A. M.
1422	John Bukyngham	1829	Hans Sanders Mortimer, A. M.
1423	John Parmentere	1831	James John West, B. D.
1428	William Wodeward	1872	Edward Whitehead, M. A.
1429	Thomas Astell	1883	Henry Patch, M. A.
1433	John Thomas	1901	John Patch, M. A.
1436	Richard Beauchamp	1908	William Russell Fox
1437	Thomas Kette	1916	Robert Gresly Douglas, M. A.
1438	Walter Peytewyn	1927	Chapman Carey Andrew Taylor, M. A.
1470	John Colville	1931	Ralph Allen Cochrane, M. A.
1471	Richard Mayhew	1959	Rex Ware
1482	David Parsons	1978	Geoffrey Scott
1500	John Haddenham	1996	Keith Wood
1515	Oliver Stace	2000	Graham Sillis

Incumbents of the Church of St Thomas, Winchelsea, East Sussex