The History of the Church and Manor of Wigan/Sir Walter de Campeden
Sir Walter de Campeden was instituted on the presentation of John, Earl of Lancaster, patron for this turn by reason of the minority of Ralph de Langton, kinsman and heir of Robert de Langton. The Rector binds himself to pay; £20 a year to the cathedral church of Lichfield.[1]
On the 10th of February, 1366, Campeden obtained a licence from the bishop to absent himself from the church of Wigan for "as long as his lord pleased."[2] He died in 1370.
- ↑ Lichfield Dioc. Reg. Lib. iv. fol. 80 Ralph de Langton, the patron, was the son of John, and grandson and heir of Sir Robert de Langton. He must have been 20 years of age and more at this time, for he was 45 in 1386 (vide Scrope and Grosvenor Roll), and he is reported as being 21 years of age and more as the jurors understood at the inquisition taken after the death of his grandfather, Robert de Langton, at Newton, on the Sunday next before the feast of the Purification of St. Mary the Virgin, 36 Edw. III. (30th January, 1362; see Hill's Hist, of the Parish of Langton, p. 22). This, however, would not have entitled him to present unless he had proved his age by inquisition.
- ↑ Lichfield Dioc. Reg. Lib. v. fol. 12-16.