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Possibly VENN: Matric. Fell.-Com. from QUEENS', Michs. 1572. Of Lancashire. B.A. 1577-8.
VCH Lancs., 3.5-11:
Chest. Dioc. Reg. He paid firstfruits 1 November, 15645. He was a younger son of Sir Richard Molyneux, the patron. As he held the rectory for sixty-six years he must have been very young at his appointment. In 1591 he was described as unlearned and not used to say service or administer sacraments; Kenvon MSS. p. 601. His wife Elizabeth was buried at Walton 26 Dec. 1614, and he himself was buried there 1 Feb. 16301; a note by the vicar in the register states that he 'gave to the poor of Walton parish £40, and gave to the free school wages of Walton £20, and his theology books to the vicar for his life and to the rectors succeeding successively to be kept from one to the other for aye'; Walton Reg. (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc), i, 126.