Swanbourne Anglican Clergy

The order of the succession of Vicars of St Swithun’s Chuch, Swanbourne

Based on information compiled by Ken Harris and additional research by Clive Rodgers

List of Vicars starting with the oldest recorded first

Note 1: Presentatus per Priorem et conventum de Woborne ad ecclesiam de Swanborne, post inquisitionem Super eadem ecclesia per Archodiaconum Buckinghamiensem factam, per quam negotium fuit in expedito, per dispensationem domini  Legati  admissus est institutus in eadum. He died here. The Legate was Pandulph.

(see The Parish Register of Swanbourne page 152)

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Note 2: There is the following note in the Episcopal Records at Lincoln with regard to his Resignation.

Public instrument recording the resignation by Geoffrey Lounds of his Vicarage of Swanbourne in the Archdeaconry of Buckingham read before Owen Westall LLB of the Diocese of Oxford public notary and appointment of John Dighton MA as his proctor to exhibit the Said resignation before the Bishop.

Done in the office of the Said Owen, deputy of the registrar of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham within the rectory house of Ovinge in the said Archdeaconry.

(See The Parish Register of Swanbourne page 152/3)

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Note 3:  He was instituted by Bishop Cooper of Lincoln on the Ninth year of his consecration at Bugden or Buckden, Co Herts by Mandate to the Archdeacon of Buckingham, and evidently he was a Priest of scanty education as there is the following Institution Bond still extant at Lincoln with regard to him.

These Institution Bonds were not uncommon in the case of unlearned clergy at that time.

Bond of Thomas Lowndes, Vicar of Swanbourne Co Buckingham, to the Bishop of Lincoln, for £100, the condition  being that the Said Thomas Shall within one twelvemonth Nexte cominge after the date hereof diligentlie reade and studie all the Sermons conteyned in Bullinger his decades, from the ende of the thirde Sermone of the first decade to the beginning of the fifte Sermone of the thirde decade, from the ende of the fifte Sermone of the fifte decade, even to the full ende of the same saide fifte decade, in Suche Maner and Sorte, that Not only he shall then have breeffely Noted and written oute in Some paper booke, all the principall Matters in the Saide Sermons declared with theire prooffes, in order as they are there expressed, but also shall So have instructed himself thereby, that beinge asked of those Said Matters, he shall then be able withoute the booke, redelie to answer of them and in them, justlie, fullie and trulie.

And also that either he – at the ende eche half yeare of this saide twelve moneth – Shall and doe come and offer himself to the abovenamed – Busshop of Lincoln or his Successors, to be examined for the performance of these premisses according to their true meaninge and intent.

 Or els finally that he the Saide Thomas Not So offering himself for his triall herein and Not beinge found by the Saide Reuerende Father or his Successors at eche suche time of triall, to have don and fulfilled altogether as it before condioned hearein, answerable to the time that Shall be past at eche Such Examinacion Shall then geve and resigne up unto the Saide Reuerend Father or to his Successors that his Saide Vicarage whereunto with Thease condicions he was and is admitted and instituted upon the daie of the date heareof etc.  Dated 5 March 21 Eliz: A D 1578-9.

(see The Parish Register of Swanbourne page 153)

The Clergy Database Website resource

The Clergy database contains summary information, but note that the date of resignation  is often quoted, rather than the date of leaving.  For example, the date of resignation of Rev. Tonyn is 15^th December, 1766, but he must have worked two months notice, as he did not leave Swanbourne until 13^th February, 1767, having job swapped with Morgan Morgan of Radnage (source: Radnage Church Records), the latter taking up his post in Swanbourne on 14^th February, 1767.

http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk

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