Elvaston St. Bartholomew
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tithes were appropriated to the monks, and a vicarage ordained, for the Lichfield Registers give a presentation to the vicarage as early as 1298.*
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (27 Henry VIII.) gives the clear annual value of the vicarage at £5 8s. 9d., the vicar paying 17s. 3d. yearly to the priory. The tithes of grain, together with the profits of the chapelry of Ockbrook and the tithe of a grange and a mill at Ockbrook, held by the abbot of Dale, brought to the monks a revenue of £28.
After the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry VIII. granted, in 1539, the manor of Shelford and almost the whole of the possessions of the late priory to Sir Michael Stanhope. By this grant he became possessed of the impropriate rectories of five Nottinghamshire churches, of two in Lincolnshire, and of Elvaston, with the parochial chapelries of Ockbrook, in Derbyshire, together with the advowsons of the respective vicarages.† The Parliamentary Commissioners of 1650 say of Elvaston, that it is "a viccaridge really worth twenty pounds per annum, the place destitute att present." The great tithes and presentation to the vicarage still remain in the hands of the Stanhopes (Earls of Harrington).
The following list of the vicars of Elvaston and their respective patrons is compiled from the Episcopal Registers and the returns of the Augmentation Office. As the prior of Shelford was always the patron in pre-Reformation days, it has not been thought necessary to reiterate that fact.
1298. Frater Godmannus, canon of Shelford.
1311. Hugo de Suwelle. On the resignation of F. G.
1330. Richard de Leicester, canon of Shelford. On death of H. de S.
1363. William de Kinalton. On the resignation of R. de L.
1365. Thomas de Byrton. On the resignation of W. de K.
1391. Robert de Shelford. On the resignation of T. de B.
. Robert Fyssher.
1417. William Derby. On the resignation of R. F.
1436. John Barton. On the resignation of W. D.
1437. William Derby. On the death of J. B.
1442. John Benyngton. On the death of W. D.
. Richard Starkey.
1467. William Lyverpull. On the resignation of R. S. collated by the Bishop
1496. John Thorley. On the death of W. L.
1500. Thomas Porte. On the death of J. T.
. Nicholas Holmes.
1558. John Haywood; patron, Anne Stanhope de Shelford, widow. On the resignation of N. H.
* Unfortunately there is no Chartulary of Shelford extant, so that we are unable to give the precise date or any particulars relative to the ordination of the vicarage.
† Collins' Peerage, vol. ii., p. 201.
29 February 2004