Person: Welles, Francis (1634 - 1728)

Comments

Foster: son of Francis of Mickleton, Gloucs., sacerd. (CCED ID 167656); GLOUCESTER HALL matric. 14 Mar. 1622/3 aged 16; BA 20 Nov. 1626; MA 25 June 1629; perhaps R of Weston Turville, Bucks. 1645; exchanged for V of Adderbury, Oxon 1646; brother of John (1627); Add. MSS 15,669-70-71.

SEE OXFORD DNB: Wells, Francis (1606/71684x9), Church of England clergyman.

VCH for Oxfordshire describes controversy surrounding this man, described as a puritan, put in as minister at Adderbury, removed at Restoration after Chancery action (accused by parishioners of refusing them the sacrament and profaning it by allowing lay administration - Calamy Rev. 519); he is after that connected with Tewkesbury from which his brother (John) had been ejected 1662 as an Independent; papers in Gloucestershire Record Office (D747) include letter from Francis Welles as curate of Tewkesbury, asking for better remuneration and/or income from annexed chapels; he appears to have been suspended in 1678; records give a birth date of 1606 and death (uncertain) 1689 which tie up with information in Oxford DNB

Education Events

MA : Oxford / Gloucester Hall

Type	Name	Date	Qualification	University	Full Record
Sub	Welles, Franciscus	26/02/1634	MA	Oxford	View
Sub	Welles, Franciscus	26/02/1634	MA	Oxford	View
Sub	Welles, Francis	07/01/1670	MA		View
Sub	Welles, Francis	18/05/1677	MA		View

Appointment Events

Curate : Adderbury with Milton (26/02/1634 )

Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
Sub	Welles, Franciscus	26/02/1634	Curate		Adderbury/	View

Curate : Adderbury with Milton, Bodicote chapel (26/02/1634 )

Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
Sub	Welles, Franciscus	26/02/1634	Curate		Bodicote/	View

not given : Tewkesbury (07/01/1670 )

Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
Sub	Welles, Francis	07/01/1670	not given		Tewkesbury/	View

Vicar : Tewkesbury (18/05/1677 - 09/08/1728 )

Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
Appt	Wells, Francis	18/05/1677	Vicar	Institution	Tewkesbury/	View
Sub	Welles, Francis	18/05/1677	Vicar		Tewxbury with all the annexed chapels/	View
Appt	Jones, Henricus	09/08/1728	Vicar	Institution	Tewksbury/	View