Later History of St Peter's Church

Rectors

 

1180 – Thomas
1235 – Rafe
1260 Roger – Agnello
1290 – William Waryn
1312 – John de Colne
Thomas de Lavenham

Vicars

 

1324 – Richard Adholt (sub.d) – Resigned 1331
1331 – John de Wolfe – Resigned 1336
1335 – William de Melton
1336 – John Gybon
1338 – Richard Adholt
1377 – John Newman
1392 – John Best
1426 – Walter Crombe – Resigned 1433
1433 – William Moyne – Resigned 1434
1434 – John Gurdon – Resigned 1438
1438 – Adam Balsham
John Wilkinson
1479 – Richard Twycrosse – Died 1485
1485 – William Browne – Died 1494
1495 – Richard Caumond MA – Died 1535
1535 – Robert Bachcroft – Died 1537
1537 – Henry Beck
1555 – John Thorpe – Died 1565
1566 – Marcellinus Outred
1569 – Oliver Pigge
1570 – Edward Gutter MA
1579 – Robert Lewes MA – Deprived after 1584
1589 – Thomas Taverner MA – Resigned 1590
1590 – Edward Gutter – Died 1593
1593 – William Cole BA – Resigned 1600
1600 – Stephen Newcomen MA – Died 1629
1630 – Richard Maden STB – Resigned 1632
1632 – Robert Mercer MA
1654 – Edward Warren MA – Ejected 1662, died 1690
1662 – Edmund Hickeringill MA – Signs parish register as Vicar Aug 28, 1662 but instituted to All Saints, 21 Oct 1662.
1663 – John Nettles – Died 1672
1673 – Thomas Thompson MA – Died 1682
1683 – John Edwards STB
1686 – Robert Dickman MA – Sequestrator, 1686 to 1698
1698 – Benjamin Smyth – Died 1714
1714 – Robert Turner MA – Resigned 1738
1738 – Staunton Degge MA – Resigned 1739
1739 – Thomas Halley MA – Died 1759
1760 – William Smythies MA – Died 5 November 1780
1781 – Robert Storry – Died 18th January 1814
1814 – William Marsh DD – Resigned 1829, died 24th August 1864
1829 – Samuel Carr MA – Died 17th June 1854
1854 – Henry Caddell MA – Died 15th March 1893
1893 – James Marshall Laycock MA – Instituted 17th May 1893
1895 – Charles Triffit Ward MA – Hon Canon of Chelmsford
1922 – Charles Edward Cardo BA
1932 – Reginald Brackstone Bertin
1941 – Edward Harry Shaw
1948 – Thomas Henry Hollingdale AKC
1959 – Wilfrid Herbert Parsons ALCD, Hon CF
1970 – Robert Malcolm Wilson MA, ALCD – Hon Canon of Chelmsford. Resigned and retired 2001
2001 – Fred Woods – Resigned and retired 2011
2011 – Vacancy
2012 – Mark Wallace

In addition to the incumbents, there have been a number of curates at St Peter’s church over the years. These have included (dates of licence) John Harington, 1823; John Sandys, 1826; John Toll Burt, 1829; Justus Theophilus Timothy, 1871; Carter William Dakin Moore, 1875; Joseph Cornelius Hill, 1885; Thomas Charles Westmorland, 1888; Edward Miller, 1894; E.J. Goodchild, (to 1915); S. J. A. Dean (temporary), 1915; Herbert Hughes, 1915. This list is not complete.