St Oswald’s Church Priests
Cantarists and Vicars
A Cantarist is a priest at a chapel on private land, known as a chantry. A chantry chapel is a place where liturgy is sung for the benefit of the deceased.
Cantarists
1389 Robert de Derlynton
1397 Joh Wright
1399 Tho Cotisel (or Cotesl)
1424 Joh fil T home de West Raysn
1426 Joh Patric
1429 Joh de Flaynburgh
1444 Joh Patric
1451 Henry Lyolfe
1480 Robert Smyth
1482 Joh Braythwayte
1493 Ric Warde
1499 Tho Jakson
1509 Jac Gill
1522 Will Lyndsay
(Date unknown) Edward Monkton
1532 Anthony Huke
1536 Robert Mylner
Vicars
(Date?) John Dawfielde
1565-98 Robert Smith
1600-02 Marmaduke Langdale
1604-(?) Charles Langdale
(?)-1608 William Petterill (or Petrie)
1608-12 Andrewe Marvell
1612-14 Richard Champneys
1614-31 Thomas Fothergill
1631-39 Robert Kidson
1639-(?) Ellis Waras
1660-73 Ellis Waycoe
1660 Timothy W—elsditt(?)
1662 John Bradley (or Bradley)
1664 Robert Lusk
1672 —(?) Postgaite
1673-93 George Young
1693-1710 Thomas Smith
1710-40 John Topham
1740-43 John Prudem
1743-86 Cornelius Rickably
1786-92 John Henderson
1792-1816 Montague Heblethwayte
1817-35 William Kendall
1835-36 Christopher Blackwell
1836-51 John Walker
1851-56 John Furniss Ogle
1856-66 Richard Hardy Blanshard
1866-90 John Farrar Wilkinson
1890-1916 Henry William Rigby
1916-22 Daniel McLean
1922-32 Harold A.V. Morton
1932-49 Edward Charles Peters
1950-60 Gilbert Coates
1961-65 Edward Appleyard
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