Vicars of St Swithun's Church, East Grinstead, West Sussex


Transcribed from a list mounted on the wall of the church porch.

VICARS of East Grinstead

Appointed by the Prior of Cluniac Monastery of St Pancras, Lewes.

RichardAD1220
Peter Ray 1241
Alard 1285
Robert de Wynton 1296
William de Astania 1304
Thomas 1306
Peter 1327
Johannes de Wynton 1328
Raymond Pellegrini 1331
Annibaldus (Cardinal), Bishop of Tusculum 1331
Richard de Bannebury 1346
Richard de Derby 1350
William de Longburgh 1351
Simon de Bredon 1351
John Kirkeby 1360
Richard Markwyk 1381
Richard Stoneherst 1387
Thomas Ferryng 1395
John Bakere 1397
Ricardus atte. Estcote 1410
Michael Preston 1411
Robert Burgh 1414
John Mankyn 1417
Adam Newyle 1417
John Benet 1423
William Lane(Not in sequence in the church list)c.1430
Geoffry Medewe 1438
Robert Blowere 1438
John Cook 1463
John Brether 1478
Edward Prymer 1528
William Breton, LLD. 1528
Robert Best 1552
 deposed 1553, reinstated1556

Appointed by Anne of Cleves

William Devonishe 1554

Appointed by the Sackville Family

Richard Burnopp 1563
John Walwyn 1598
Edward Topsell 1610
Alan Carr 1615
James Inians 1637
Richard Goff(ejected)1643
Samuel Pretty(not in Holy Orders)1645
Stephen WatkinsPuritan1645
George BlundellPuritan, afterwards conformed1647
Robert CrayfordPuritan1657
Christopher SnellPuritan (ejected 1662)1658
John Saywell D.D. 1671
John Staples M.A. 1689
George Garnett 1732
Thomas James 1746
Henry Woodward 1757
Charles Whitehead 1764
Stileman Bostock 1792
Richard Taylor 1811
Christopher Nevill, M.A. 1835
J. N. Harward, M.A. 1848
J. Peat, M.A. 1863
D. Y. Blakiston, M.A. 1871
W. W. Youard, M.A. 1908
E. L. Macassey, D.D. 1924
G. Golding-Bird, D.D. 1925
H. C. F. CopseyPrebendary of Chichester1955
J. R. Brown, A. K. C.Prebendary of Chichester1975
Clive Everett-Allan, A. K. C.Prebendary of Chichester1998

06/01/2007

Transcribed by Mark Collins

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