LOWTHORPE.
LOWTHORPE is a small parish in the wapentake of Dickering, in the East Riding of York, four and a half miles northeast from Great Driffield, having about 150 inhabitants. It is a perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry of York. This parish gave name to the family of Lowthrop, Lothrop, or Lathrop. The church, which was dedicated to St. Martin, and had for one of its chaplains, in the reign of Richard the Second, Robert de Louthorp, is now partly ruin ated, the tower and chancel being almost entirely overgrown with ivy. It was a collegiate church from 1333, and from the style of its architecture, must have been built about the time of Edward III.
There has been no institution to it since 1579. The church consists of a nave, chancel, and tower at the west end; the latter is finished with brick and clumsy pinnacles. It was formerly a very handsome structure, the windows being lofty, of three lights, with trefoil heads, and three quarterfoils in the sweep of the arch, The portion of the church now used for divine service is the nave, the chancel having been desecrated for a considerable period. In this part of the church are two large ash trees and some curious monuments, one of which is a brass tablet rendered illegible through the weather. Affixed to the north side of the nave is the following historical tablet in bad repair:
"The collegiate church of Lowthorpe was an ancient rectory, dedicated to St. Martin.
"A.D. 1333 it was endowed by Sir John De Haslerton, who founded in it six perpetual chantries.
"A.D. 1364, Sir Thomas de Haslerton added another chantry for the souls of himself and Alice, his wife. He endowed the church with the manor of Lawthorpe and the mansion house.
"A.D. 1776, the inhabitants of the township of Lowthrope repaired the roof of the church.
"A.D. 1777, the church was paved, and the chancel contracted and painted by Sir William St Quintin, Bart., lord of the manor and patron of the living, descended from the family of the Haslertons."
Dugdale,in his Monasticon, Vol. VI, Part 3, 1474, gives these additional paticulars of its endowment: "Here was a collegiate body or large chantrey consisting of a Rector, six chaplains, and three clerks, founded in this church in the of the reign of King Edward the Third by Sir John Haserlerton, patron, who got the archbishop toappropriate the parochial tithes for their maintenance."
In 1869 the south side of the chancel was entirely rebuilt, leaving, however, the tower and chancel as they have stood for many generations. The church is a perpetual curacy, and the present Patron is William Thomas, St. Quinton, Esq.
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(I.) LOWTHORPE LOTHROPS.
The following are such notices of tile Lowthorpes of this parish and its near vicinity as I could glean during my English search:
1216. WALTER DE LOWTHORPE, elected sheriff for Yorkshire.
1292. WALTER DE LOWTHORPE is summoned to answer to the king, Edward I, for attempting to regulate the "assize of beer" on all of his tenants in Lowthorpe and other places without a license from the king. He stoutly defended himself, insisting upon his unquestioned right "anent custom thro his ancestors without interruption, beyond the memory of man."
1287. ROBERT and RICHARD LOWTHORP, of Whepsted,Thingoe hundred, Suffolk, were licensed May 6th, 16th Edward I (1287) by the crown at the gate of St. Edmunds to give to the Abbot in Mortmain eighty-seven acres of land, five acres of meadow and twelve acres of wood, in Whepsted, for the support of certain chaplains celebrating daily in the Chapel of St. John. The above lands they had purchased of Peter de Bradfeld and his Wife Agnes, and of William Mitchell. Gage's Suffolk, p. 397.
1317. ROBERT DE LOUTHORP is presented by the Abbey of St. Edmunds to the rectorship of Horningsheath. Ibid., 523.
1392. At the death of ROBERT LOWTHROP an inquisition was held regarding certain tenements in Beverley which he had given to the Church of St. John in that town, the revenues from which were to be appropriated for masses by the chaplains there, for the repose of his soul.
1450. ROBERT LOWTHORPE, of Bridlington, receives 20s., by will, from William Sywardley, Esq., of Sywardley, April 9, 1450. Surtes Soc. Vol 2
1474. Aug. 3, ROBERT LOWTHORP, of Bridlington, makes his will, which was proved at York on the 3d of the following November. He gives his landed estate to his relatives at Lowthorpe and Cherry Burton. The will gives us the name of his wife, Catherine who was also his executrix. This will is printed as illustrating the position and character of the man, and as no children are named, as suggesting that he left no other family than his wife. This is also noteworthy as being the earliest will now preserved in the registry at York of any person of the name Lowthorp.
It is written in the abbreviated Latin peculiar to that period. The following is the translation:
"In the name of God, Amen, the third day of the month of August, fourteen hundred and seventy-four. I Robert Lowthrope, of Bridlington, being of sound mind and memory make my testament in this manner.
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"In the first place, I give my soul to God Omnipotent, and to the blessed Mary, and to all his saints, and my body to be buried in the church of the blessed Mary of Bridlington.
"Also, I give my best animal for my mortuary.
"Also, I give to the light of St. John of Bridlington one silver gilt zone with eighty pearls and ten silver gilt pendants, after the death of Catherine my wife.
"Also, I give to every Priest present at my funeral on the first, sixpence, and on the seventh day, fourpence.
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"Also, I give to every Chaplain present the first and the seventh day, twelve- pence.
"Also, I give for wax to be placed about my body, the first day and the seventh, four pounds.
"Also, I give to the fabric of the church of St. Peter of New York, twelvepence.
"Also, I give to the fabric of St. Mary of Bridlington, three shillings and fourpence.
"Also, I give to the parish altar of Bridlington one burde cloth (gold tissue), and one towell and twill.
"Also, I give to the high altar of Lowthorp one burde cloth and one towell and twill.
"Also, I give to the guild of the Holy Trinity of Bridlington three and fourpence.
"Also, I give to the guild of St. Mary of Bridlington, twenty pence.
"Also, I give to the Friars' Preachers of Kingston-upon-Hull, twenty pence.
"I give the residue of all my goods not above bequeathed, to Catherine, my wife, whom I make my executrix, to order and dispose thereof to the health of my soul, as may seem best to her.
"In witness I have placed my seal, these being witness: Anthony Kirby, Parish Chaplain; John Chapman, Richard Glover, Chaplain; William Hedon, John Brigham, John Somerby, William Edwards, John Sutton, and others.
"The present testament was proved the third day of the month of November in the year of our Lord aforesaid, and administration, committed to Katherine, widow and executrix in the same will."
In addition to the foregoing records of the English Lowthrops, by the kindness of Col. J. L. Chester of London, who has been so successful in his antiquarian researches for so many years among the English church and civil records, I am able to supply the following list. These records may be of future use in completing the genealogy of that branch of the English Lothrops from which the American family of the name is derived.
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From Col. Chester's Oxford Matriculations the following two records are taken.
LATHORPPE, CHRISTOPHER, June 19, 1607, at Baliol College, his father being a plebeian, and he 16 years of age.
LOWTHROPPE, JOHN, Oct. 15, 1602, at Christ Church College, his father being a plebeian of York, and he 16 years of age.
It is probably the second of these two matriculations, which led to the mistake so often repeated in print, regarding the graduation of Rev. John, the American pioneer, from Christ Church College, Oxford. The following are from Col. Chester's parish register notes, and the several parishes are successively indicated.
MUSBY, LincoInshire.
LATHROP, ROBERT, son of Robert and Mary, baptized Oct. 7, 1655.
LATHROP, GERVICE, son of Robert and Mary, baptized Nov. 9, 1664
LATHROP, MARY, Wife of Mr. Robert, buried Feb. 20, 1685.
LATHROP, ROBERT, Gent., buried Nov. 19,1688.
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LONDON.
LATHROPE, MRS., of Swan's Yard, buried in St. Leonard's Shoreditch, Sept. 16,1665.
MARTON, Lincolnshire.
LATHROP, MR. ROBERT, buried Sept. 12, 1670.
CHELSEA, London.
LATHROP, MR. ROBERT, buried in the church Sept. 14, 1719.
HALSTEAD, MARY HENRIETTA, grandchild of Mr. Lowthorp, buried Apr, 2, 1721.
LOWTHORP, REV. MR. JOHN, buried in the church Sept. 5, 1724.
LOWTHORP, FRANCIS Gent., buried Jan. 29, 1726-7.
LOWTHORP, MRS. ELIZABETH, buried Aug. 15, 1739.
LOWTHORP, MRS. MARY, buried Dec, 1, 1739.
LATHORPE, SAMUEL, chirurgeon of the ship Swanne, makes his will Sept. 22, 1636. The will is found in BookLee, of the London Will Office, page 95, and furnishes the following list of legatees:
MARGERY LATHORPE, his mother, at Bardnay, Lincolnshire.
SUSANNAH LATHORPE, his sister, at Bardnay.
ALICE LATHORPE, sister, at Bardnay.
Francis, son of Thomas Morley of Jathnell, Lincolnshire, and three other of the oldest children of Thomas Morley.
The poor of the parish of Bardnay.
Elizabeth Johnson, his sister-in-law.
Katherine Harryson, his sister-in-law.
Margaret, daughter of Elizabeth Johnson.
Mrs. Jeremy Sambroke of St. Stephens, Coleman's street, London.
Thomas Clark, his friend, and his wife Elizabeth.
John Prowd, comdr. and John Wilson, purser, of ship Swanne.
THOMAS LATHROPE, his brother, of Yorks, merchant, to be his residuary legatee.
From Bigland's Gloucestershire, the following records are taken:
LATHROPP, RICHARD, Gent., died Sept. 19, 1741, aged 39 years, in the parish of Clifton, in the hundred of Barton-Regis.
LATHROPP, HANNAH, wife of the above Richard, died Jan. 4, 1789, 89, aged 72.
LATHROPP, ROBERT, their son, died young.
From Nichols' Leicester, p. 145: LOWTHROP, JOHN, M.A., F.R.S., rector at Framland Hundred, Coston Church in 1686, at the Revolution, being anon- conformist he vacated his office.
LOWTHROP, JOHN, is reported in Nichols' Leicester, p. 420, as of St. John's College, Cambridge, and asdegraded from the ministry in 1690, for his letters to the bishop of Sarum. He afterwards became librarian to theduke of Chandos. The same record reports his death at " Canons, " the duke's seat, Sept. 2, 1724, and his burialSept. 5th, in Chelsea. (See Chester's list, above.)
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Manning & Bray's Surrey, Vol. 1, 144:
JOHN LOWTHORPE, instituted Vicar of Woking, Aug. 31, 1411.
The following names are found on subsidy rolls for the places and dates reported:
LOWTHROPE, ROBERT of Hornsay, 1558.
LOWTHROPPE, JOHN of Hessell Co., Kingston-upon-Hull, 1579.
LOWTHROPP, ROGER of Kingston-upon-Hull, 1579.
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The following marriage is reported in Burke's History of the Commoners, Edition of 1836:
LATHROP, ROBERT, Gent., of Shrewsbury, married Susannah, daughter of Richard Scott and Susanna Gardner. This Richard Scott was born in 1648 and married in 1670.
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