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VICARS OF POULTON-LE-FYLDE. IN THE DEANERY OF AMOUNDERNESS AND ARCHDEACONRY OF LANCASTER. +-+-+- Date of   |            |     On whose        | Cause of vacancy. Institution.|                  |   Presentation. | +-+-+- In 1431    |Wm. de Croukeshagh |Abbot and Convent   | |                  |  of Sion            | " 1442     |Richard Brown      |   Ditto             | Before 1519 |William Bretherton |   Ditto             | In 1552     |Ranulph Woodward   |Edward VI.           |            |Richard Cropper    |                     | "  1565     |Wm. Wrightington  |John Fleetwood, of   |Death of Richard |                  |  Penwortham         | Cropper " 1573     |Richard Grenhall   | Bridget Fleetwood   |Death of William            |                   |  and William, her   | Wrightington            |                   |  son                | "  1582     |Peter Whyte        |Edward Fleetwood     |Death of Richard |                  | and William Purston | Grenhall About 1650 |John Sumner        |                     | |George Shaw       |                     | In 1674    |Richard Harrison   |Richard Fleetwood,   |Death of George |                  |  of Rossall         |   Shaw " 1718     |Timothy Hall       |Edward Fleetwood,    |Death of Richard            |                   |  of Rossall         |  Harrison "  1726     |Robert Loxham      |   Ditto         |Death of T. Hall " 1749     |Robert Loxham      |Roger Hesketh, of    |Resignation of R.            |                   |   Rossall           |      Loxham "  1770     |Thomas Turner      |Exors. of Fleetwood |Death of Robert |                  | Hesketh, of Rossall,| Loxham |                  | by consent          | |                  | of his widow        | " 1810     |Nathaniel Hinde    |Bold Fleetwood       |Death of Thomas            |                   | Hesketh, of Rossall |   Turner "  1820     |Chas. Hesketh, M.A.|  Peter Hesketh, of |Cession of N. Hinde |                  |    Rossall          | " 1835     |John Hull, M.A.    |Rev. C. Hesketh, of  |Resignation of C.            |                   | North Meols         |      Hesketh "  1864     |Thos. Clarke, M.A. |  Ditto             |Resignation of J.            |                   |                     |   Hull " 1869     |William Richardson,|   Ditto             |Death of T. Clarke            |  M.A.             |                     | +-+-+-

Of the earlier vicars mentioned above, nothing is known until we come to the Rev. Peter Whyte, of whose immediate