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The Plague Stricken Derbyshire Village

or What To See In and Around Eyam

By Rev J.M.J. Fletcher, 1920s

RECTORS OF EYAM

1250	Ralph de Cubley
1300	Roger de Wyne
1317 (1320)	William Daventry
1325	William de Baudrey (resigned)
1325	Philip de Blancfront
13..-1353	Walter de Dalby, King's clerk (exchanged with Nicholas de Thornhull,Vicar of Northberkhampstead, Lincs)
1353	Nicholas de Thornhull, King's clerk
1361	Robert de Lambourne
1362	John de Gonnays, or Gunneys (resigned).
1362	Thomas de Sutton (resigned)
1363	John de Gonnays, or Gunneys (resigned)
1364	Roger Moses (died)
1384-5 (1400)	John Redser
1410	John Pope
1432	John Sudbury (exchanged with John Syward, Rector of Sudbury).
1436	John Syward (died).
1439	Thomas More (resigned)
1442	William Thowre (died).
1474	Thomas Thorley
1481	Richard Colyn
1512	William Webbe (died).
1516	Thomas Dore (died).
1534	Peter Cheevor.
1536	Patrick Chenet
1553	John Moreton (resigned).
1555	William Barrett (resigned).
1556	William Baker.
1558	John Moreton (again).
1569	William Marchington.
1593	James Starkey.
1596	John Hayward, M.A.
1608	Thomas Middleton.
1617	Robert Talbott (buried at Eyam Aug. 20, 1630).
1630	Shorland Adams, M.A. (ejected by the Puritan party for being a Royalist).
1644	Thomas Stanley, M.A. (ejected 1662) (buried at Eyam Aug. 26, 1670).
1662	Shorland Adams (re-instated) (died at Treeton, April 11, 1664, and buried there.)
1664	William Mompesson, M.A. (afterwards Canon of Southwell) (resigned).
1671	Henry Adams (died Nov. 20, 1675, and buried at Laughton).
1675	William Fern, B.A. (buried at Eyam Feb 24, 1679-80).
1680	Charles Carter (Carver), M.A.
1683	Joseph Hunt, B.A. (died and buried at Eyam.)
1710	Thomas Hawkins, M.A. (exchanged with
1712	Alexander Hamilton (died and buried at Eyam.)
1717	Thomas Hawkins (again) died.
1717	Hon. Edward Finch, D.D. (Canon of York)
1738	Hon. Thos. Bruce, M.A. (died in France, Oct. 1739)
1739	Thomas Seward (Canon of Lichfield from 1754. Died at Lichfield 1790.)
1790	Charles Hargrave (died and buried at Eyam).
1823	Hon. Robert John Eden, M.A. (resigned Nov. 1825) afterwards 3rd Lord Auckland; Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1847; Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1852-1869. Died April 25, 1870.
1826	Edward Benjamin Bagshawe, B.A. (resigned).
1862	John Green, M.A. (resigned) (Died 1899).
1884	Egbert Hacking M.A. (resigned) Afterwards Hon. Canon of Southwell and Archdeacon of Newark.
1888	Henry John Longsdon, M.A. (resigned).
1891	Harry Joseph Freeman (resigned).
1905	Francis Longsdon Shaw, M.A., R.D. of Eyam. Hon. Canon of Southwell (resigned). Now Vicar of Ashbourne, and Hon. Canon of Derby.
1918	Howell Saunders Williams, B.A., (resigned). Now Vicar of Fairfield.
1930	Cyril Lucien O'Ferrall.

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