was independent of the rector. In the register of John de
Pontissera, Bishop of Winton, may now be seen what is there called
the "Ordinatio Episcopi inter Rectorem et Vicarium de Hurslegh." It
is therein settled that the vicar shall have a house as described and
other emoluments, and that the rector shall pay to him forty
shillings per annum. The vicar at this time was Johannes de Sta.
Fide. The deed of settlement was executed in Hyde Abbey, in the year
1291; Philip de Barton, John de Ffleming, William de Wenling, and
others being witnesses to it. Vide Regist. de Pontissera, fol. 10.
Forty shillings or five marks was, it appears, the stipend usually
assigned to vicars and curates at this time, the vicar being REALLY
what we now call a curate.

HUGO DE WELEWYCK, styled Clericus, succeeded in 1296 on the
resignation of Paganus and was the last rector, the benefice having
in his time been reduced to a vicarage by the appropriation of the
rectorial-house, tithes, and glebe to the College of St. Elizabeth.
The PRETENCES assigned for this act, for true REASONS they could
scarcely be, since in all cases of appropriation and consolidation
they appear to have been almost exactly the same, were the unfinished
state of the college buildings and the insufficiency of the revenues
for the maintenance of the society, owing to wars, sickness,
pestilence, and the like. But notwithstanding this serious
deprivation and loss, a vicar it appears was still continued in the
church, Hugh de Welewyck having presented two, viz. Henricus de
Lyskeret in 1300, and Roger de la Vere in 1302; of whom the latter
was certainly appointed after the appropriation.

WILLIAM DE FFARLEE was collated Vicar of Hursley, on the death of
Welewyck in 1348.