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- 11 Aug 1640 - Thomas Mallory, Clerk, Rector of Northenden, Chesh., and Mary Oldfield, Parish of Davenham, Chesh., Spinster. Bondsman, Owen Hughes of Chester, Merchant. At Davenham and Peover, Chesh.
Marriage Licenses Granted within the Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester, Volume 4, 1639-1644, William Ferguson Irvine, ed., (Manchester, UK: Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, 1911).
- Will of Rev. Thomas Mallory
In Nom. Din Amen. I Thomas Mallory, D.D. and rector of Eccleston In ye county of Lancaster being week of body but of perfect mind and memory make this my Last will end testament. Im'r'is I deliver up and comend my Spirit unto ye hands of my gretious Redeemer, Jesus Christ, leaving my body to be buried by my executrix hereafter named in ye Chancell of eccleston before named in the night as the Late Bishop of Chester was. As for that smell parcell of goods and chettells uhich the providence of the Almighty hath bestowed upon me I dispose of in manner end fore as followeth.
First: I give unto Frances, my dear wife, the sum of two hundred end fifty pounds to make up that sum of money which is in her nephew Dr. Millington's hand four hundred pounds. As also the bed end clothes which belong unto it whereon we have lain since our Intermarriage end all her wearing epperell, rings, jewels, end my Stone Horse.
ITEM: I give and bequeath to my son Thomas in Virginia, the sum of twenty shillings to buy himself ring; to my son Roger Mallory in Virginia ye sum of five pounds. To my son John Mallory, Druggister in London, the sum of twenty shillings to buy him ring. To my daughter Mary Forde, the Like sum; To my daughter Jene Stamp, the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid unto her within six months after my decease or before in case she be married again with the consent of my executrix. To my daughter Susanna the sum of twenty pounds and upon better deliberation thirty pounds more.
ITEM: I give and bequeath to ye poor of Eccleston the sum of five pounds; To ye poor of Northern the Like sum. To my servants Joe Ravenscroft, James Charlton, wary Kenneyon, Anne Potter, if they continue in my service until my decease, to each the sum of twenty shiliings for their good and faithful service.
ITEM: My mind and will is that the forementioned four hundred pounds which is my bequest to my deer wife, Frances Mallory, extend no further than to the use and occupation and at her decease to be divided among my children that shall be alive, viz. one hundred pounds to my son Thomas Mallory in Virginia; end the rest to such of my children as she in her discretion shall think most diserve and went.
Lastly, I appoint and constitute my wife, Frances, aforesaid executrix of this my Last will end testament. Given under my hand end Seal the 10th day of July 1671-Thomas MALLORY L.S. In ye presence of Thomas Whittingham, Jr, I.R.
Memoran: That these words of Leaving one hundtcd pounds to my son John were expunged In the presence of us. signed: Thomas Whittingham, Mary Kenion
source: Will of Thomas Mallory, Doctor of Divinity and Rector of Eccleston, Lancashire, 13 Jun 1674, Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers, Bunce Quire Numbers 54 - 103, Reference PROB 11/345/236, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, (Kew, UK: The National Archives of the UK).
- MALLORY or MALLORIE, THOMAS (1605? – 1666?), divine, was the fourth son of Thomas Mallory, dean of Chester, rector of Mobberly and Davenham, Cheshire, and was baptised at Davenham 29 Aug. 1605. He matriculated at New College, Oxford, on 15 Oct. 1624, and proceeded B.A. on 7 May 1628, M.A. on 17 Jan. 1631 (FOSTER, Alumni, iii. 963). Appointed rector of Easington, Oxfordshire, in 1632, he was, on 14 May 1631, presented by Richard Mallory and William Forster, D.D., bishop of Sodor and Man, to the family living of Northenden, Cheshire. Although he took possession on 28 Feb. 1635, there seems to have been a dispute about the validity of his title, and on 6 Aug. 1635 he was again presented by the king (EARWAKER, Cheshire, i. 295). On the outbreak of the civil war, he was ejected from his living as a loyalist, and forced to escape from his rectory, which was sequestrated with his other estates (Harl. MS. 2130, ff. 134, 209, &c.; EARWAKER, i. 24, 27). His wife and six young children seem to have remained in his rectory, and to have had sums of money granted to them in his absence (Church Accounts in EARWAKER, i. 295; also Harl. MS. 2130, f. 47). He himself was one of the small band of royalists garrisoned in Robert Tatton’s mansion of Wythenshaw, near Northenden (EARWAKER, i. 315). After more than a year’s siege, Tatton surrendered to Colonel Duckenfield, assisted by some of Fairfax’s men, on 25 Feb. 1643 (see Providence Improved, or Burghall’s Journal of the Civil War in Cheshire, Addit. MS. 5851, f. 126). Mallory was probably imprisoned. On 22 and 23 June 1660 he petitioned parliament to secure the tithes and other profits of his sequestrated living until the title should be determined (Hist. MSS. Comm. 7th Rep. pt. i. p. 107).
After the Restoration, on 30 July 1660, Mallory was made canon of Chester, and created D.D. on 1 Dec. 1660. The date and place of his death are uncertain, but his successor, John Cooke, was appointed 17 March 1667-8. Mallory married twice: first, Jane, who died on 12 Feb. 1638 (registers), and secondly, Mary. A son, Francis, was legatee under the will of William Forster, bishop of Sodor and Man. A daughter, Elizabeth, was buried at Northenden, 12 June 1665.
source: Stephen, Leslie and Sidney Lee. The Dictionary of National Biography from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume 12. London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1922.
- Thomas Mallory, son of the Dean, and brother of Philip, was baptized at Davenham, 27 Aug., 1605; matriculated at New Coll., Oxford, 15 Oct., 1624; B. A. 7 May, 1628; M. A. 17 Jan, 1631-2. He became Rector of Easington, Oxfordshire, 1632, and in 1634 was presented to the family living of Northenden, Cheshire. On the 30th of July, 1660, he was made Canon of Chester, and died at Brindle, near Eccleston in Lancashire, in 1671. He was twice married, his first wife being Jane, who died 12 Feb., 1638, his second wife being Frances. In his will he mentions “sonne Roger in Virginia, sonne Thomas in Virginia.” Many particulars of the Dean and his son, Thomas, can be found in the “Cheshire Sheaf”; also of Thomas in the “Dictionary of National Biography.”
source: Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Heraldica: Being a Registry of Virginia Gentry Entitled to Coat Armor, with Genealogical Notes of the Families. New York, NY: The Genealogical Association, 1908.
- REV. THOMAS MALLORY (son of Dean Mallory), was father of the emigrants to Virginia. A sketch of his life and a copy of his will are given in this Magazine XII, 400-401. In addition, however, the following, derived like most of the other information in regard to the Mallorys of Cheshire, from the Cheshire Sheaf, will be given.
Thomas Mallory, the younger, was the fourth son of the Dean, and was born about 1605. On the 15th October, 1624, he matriculated at New College, Oxford. By his brother, Richard Mallory of Mobberley, Esq., and Wm. Forster, Gent., he was in 1634-5 instituted to the Rectory of Northenden, Cheshire (15 February) and was re-presented by the King, 6th August in the same year (Earwaker’s East Cheshire. I. 292-3) The death of his wife Jane occurred at Northenden, 12th February, 1638-9, but he seems to have re-married before 1643.
On the breaking out of the war, he, like his father, was compelled to forsake his benefice; and he fled to the adjoining garrison of Withenshaw, which had been fortified by Mr. Talton, as described in some interesting and original papers in East Cheshire, pp. 314-5. In that stronghold Mallory met with another determined anti-parliament parson, Mr. Pollitt, the Curate of Choalton-cum-Hatrvey who had made himself obnoxious to his leading parishioners by attending horse races at Barlow Moor, and by other proceedings which they deemed unclerical.
In giving evidence against this clergyman, John Barlow, one of the villagers swore (10th February, 1647-8) that he went to Withenshaw, then a garrison, to speak with Mr. Mallory, of Northenden, a malignant parson. Withenshaw house was finally attacked and taken (25th February, 1643-4) by Col. Robert Duckenfield, and Mallory was one of those whose names were taken down as being then present. His living was sequestered about Aug. 1644, and others served the Cure.
His possessions consisted of a parsonage house and a little glebe land thereto. His wife claimed and received her fifths out of the Rectory.
Where the family resorted to does not appear. But in 1648, 6th July, Henry Newcome, afterwards the well known Minister of Manchester, was married “at Mr. Mallory’s house at Davenshaw (qu. Davenham.) to Mistress Elizabeth Manwaringe.” Autob. pp. 295 and 10. At Davenham the elder Mallory had been incumbent 43 years. Mallory in some way obtained in the year 1661, a title to the Rectory of Eccleston, in Leyland Hundred, Lancashire. (Baines New Ed. II, 148), an appointment which occurred in the very year in which Edward Gee, the energetic Presbyterian placed there by the local classis, was imprisoned.
Gee, however, returned from his incarceration; and he dated his prison book, A Treatise of Prayer, Lond. 8 vo, from Eccleston which indeed he continued to occupy. The circumstances attending Mallory’s presentation to this rectory are not on record, but his right to it at the Restoration does not seem to have been called in question.
The next important event in Mallory’s life was his engaging with Sir George Booth in the Cheshire Rising. On the passing of the Act in 1661, Mallory entered into possession of both Northenden and Eccleston, for both livings had become vacant by the deaths of those who had been appointed during the interregnum.
Mr. Earwaker (I 295) states that Mallory was re-instated at Northenden in the year 1662; but no authority is cited for that date, which seems about a year too late. Alluding to the preceding rector, Henry Dunster, who was buried there 20th March, 1661-2, Calamy says that Mr. Mellory (i.e. Mallory) was remarkably grateful to him. On April 17, 1662, Mallory received a dispensation to hold the rectories of Eccleston and Northenden. In some way Mallory became possessed likewise of the Advowson of this Rectory; for in the Chester Chapter Books there is an entry, 31st October, 1662, that the Advowson of Northenden for one term only was to be altered, on Dr. Mallory’s behalf, from his own name to those of Sir Jeffrie Shakerly, Sir John Nederne and Edward Hyde Esq. (Ewwaker I. 295).
In the year 1660, when there were many applications for the vacant ecclesiastical patronage in the King’s gift, Mallory was active for his own further advancement. On the 6th July that year he drew up a petition for the rich Rectory of Houghton-On-the Side-i.e., we presume, Houghton-le-Spring, soon to be void by the removal of Dr. John Barwick to the Deanery of Durham, in which he was installed 1st Nov. Mallory’s petition is as follows State Papers. Dom. Chas. II, vol. VII, No. 58:
“to the King’s Most Excellent Ma’ty:
The humble peti’on of Tho: Mallory, Clerk, Sheweth, that y’r pet’r hath served y’r Royall father through ye Warre and y’r royall selfe in ye late (though abortive) endeavors of ye Cheshire Gentlemen, hath ever been conformable to ye Government and Discipline of ye church of England; and whereas ye Rectory of Houghton On the Side, in the Bishoprick of Duresme, is now voyd and in y’r Mat’yes Donac’on.
“May it therefore please y’r gracious Mat’y to grant y’r royall presenta’n unto ye said Rectory unto ye pet’r
And y’r pet’r shall ever pray, &c.”
“At the Court at Whitehall ye 6th of July 1660:
His Ma’tie is graciously pleased to referre this Petition to Doctor Shelden Deane of the Chappell, Dr. Earles Deane of Westminster and Doctor Morley Deane of Christ Church or any of two of them, who are to inform themselves of the Pet’rs merit and due qualifacaco’ for the said preferment and report the same to his Mat’ie together with their opinions.
“Whereupon his Majesty will signify his further pleasure.
EDW. NICHOLAS.
This Petitioner is capable of ye favour he desires.
G. SHELDON.
GEOR. MORLEY.
(Not Endorsed).
The dignitaries named in the King’s direction were those who managed the ecclesiastical business at the Restoration.
To this paper is annexed a Document Humbly Certifying “that ye Bearer hereof Tho: Mallory M. of Arts, Episcopally ordained, is of a holy life and Conversation, orthodoxe in Judgm’t conformable to the Antient Doctrine and Discipline of ye Church of England, and hath bene in these late revoluc’ons of times faithfull and loyall to his Sacred Ma’tye, and to his father of ever blessed Memory.” This certificate is signed by Bruno Ryves, Deane of Chich (ester); George Hall, Archdeacon of Cornwall; Thomas Hyde, Can. D’ini Epi. Sarum; and Geo. Wilde, LL. D. All were firm and active royalists. Ryves was the author of Mercurius Rusticus and other writings in the interest of the King. Hall, son of the celebrated bishop of that name, had been beneficed in Cornwall during the troubles, was consecrated Bishop of Chester in 1662, and as such was, according to Martindale, p. 165, “brisk with his significavits.” Hyde belonged to the family of Chancellor Clarenden, and held other preferments in Salisbury Cathedral. Wilde became bishop of Londonderry.
Some of these clergymen were amongst those who ministered to loyal congregations in London during the troubles; and an indication of Mallory’s presence with them is obtained.
The petition for the Rectory of Houghton was not successful; for Dr. William Sancroft was appointed 7th December, 1661, on the resignation of Barwick (Surtees Durham, i 157). Mallory next tried to obtain other preferment in the north, and in July, 1660, addressed the following to the King (Ibid, Vol. VI) No. 104:
“To the King’s Most Excellent Ma’ty:
The humble petic’on of Thomas Mallery, Clerke Sheweth:
“That ye pet’r is and ever hath bene a faithfull sonne of ye Church of England, a Loyall and obedient Servant & Sub’t of y’r royall father & y’r Ma’ty; that besides his personall Sufferings for his Loyalty, which were eminent, he hath lost 5 Brethren, of whom some dyed, others were slain in his late Majestyes service.
“And whereas ye Prebend of Stillington belonging to the Cathedrall Church of Yorke is now voyd, & in your Ma’tys Gift by vacancy of that See. May it therefore please your sacred Mat’y to conferre ye s’d Prebend upon y’r Pet’r.
And ye pet’r shall as in duty bound pray.”
“At the Court at Whitehall ye 13th of July 1660 his Ma’tie referres to this petic’on to Doctor Sheldon, Doctor
The piece of patronage went, however, into the hands of Henry Bridgeman (brother of Sir Orlando) who afterwards succeeded to the Deanery of Chester and Bishopric of Man.
At length Mallory’s pertinacity was rewarded by a Prebend, viz., the Sixth Stall in Chester, being presented to it on the 30th July, 1660 (Le Neve, III 271; Kennet, 333; Omerod, I, 271). It has been said that he held this stall ‘till 1662, probably resigning it on leaving Chester for Northenden. But this date wants modifying. The next Prebendary in Le Neve’s list (Evans) was indeed instituted in 1662; but it does not follow that he passed into Mallory’s Stall, for Le Neve has put all the six prebends in one list, chronologically arranged; but Omerod (i 271) has more properly divided the names into six lists, from which it is ascertained that Mallory’s successor in the Sixth Stall was appointed in 1664. According to the new edition of Omerod (i. 271), there is a doubt whether this Prebendary was the same person as the Rector of Northenden.
On 19th Sept., 1660, Mallory, then called M. A., was further admitted to the Prebend of Wolvey, in the Cathedral of Lichfield (Kennet, p. 333; Le Neve, I, 642). He probably had an early promise of this preferment, for on the 4th August in the same year he signs his name as Preb. de Lichfield to a document advancing the claims of Francis Moseley, Minister of Bunbury, in Cheshire, to a Fellowship, in Manchester Church, his (Mallory’s) associates in that kind office being Dean Henry Bridgeman, D. D., Dean of Chester; Rich. Heyricke (Warden of Manchester); Thos. Case (of London); Joan. Cole, D. D.; B. Eaton, D. D.; and Richard Johnson (Fellow of Manchester).
About this time Mallory would seem to have obtained his degree of S. T. P. In 1661-2 (Feb. 25) Dr. Mallory was nominated by the Chapter of Chester to the Rectory of St. Mary’s, Chester, on the avoidance thereof by Mr. Richard Hunt, in order to a certain agreement between him and Capt. Richard Brereton, of Chester.
Mallory died at Brindle, near his Rectory of Eccleston, where he was buried on 8th September, 1671.
Rev. Thomas Mallory names in his will, his wife Francis, his sons Thomas and Roger in Virginia, his son John, in London, and daughters Jane Stampe, Mary Forde and Susanna.
source: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 14. Richmond, VA: Virginia Historical Society, 1906.
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