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- Arms–Or, a lion, rampant, gu., collared, arg., a canton, az.
Crest–A horse’s head, couped, gu.
Seat–Mobberley Hall.
source: Burke, John and Bernard Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2. London, UK: Henry Colburn, 1847.
- MALLORY OF MOBBERLEY.
Lineage.
This family was first established at Mobberley by THOMAS MALLORY, (a younger son of Sir William Mallory, of Studley, in Yorkshire.) who was rector of Davenham and of Mobberley, and Dean of Chester. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of the Right Rev. Richard Vaughan, Bishop of Chester, and by her had,
I. RICHARD, his heir.
II. William, knighted in 1642, d. s. p.
III. Thomas, in holy orders, rector of Northen, co. Cheshire.
IV. George, curate of Mobberley, m. Alice, dau. of Thomas Strethill, Esq. of Mobberley, and had issue.
I. Jane, m. John Holford, Esq. of Davenham
II. Katherine, m. to John Batt, Esq. of Ocknell, co. York.
III. Elizabeth, b. in 1608, m. to the Rev. Thomas Glover, rector of West Kirkby.
IV. Mary, m. to the Rev. Edward Wyrley, brother of Sir Wyrley, Knt. of Hampstead Hall, Stafford.
source: Burke, John and Bernard Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2. London, UK: Henry Colburn, 1847.
- THE MALLORY FAMILY
The Mallory family has a long connection with Mobberley. Many were university graduates and Anglican clergy. Thomas Mallory, Dean of Chester was a younger son of Sir William Mallory of Studley in Yorkshire. He purchased the advowson of Mobberley in 1619 from Andrew Carrington of Mobberley. His purchase also included the manor house on the site of the old priory. From the 13th century, the manor had been divided into two halves or moieties. In 1631 Thomas Mallory purchased rights to the other moiety that were in the hands of Sir John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury.
The family ran out of male heirs in 1664. One of the daughters married a kinsman, possibly her second cousin, also named Mallory. In the early 19th century the family ran out of male heirs again. The heiress, Julia, married George Leigh in 1832 and he took the name Mallory. This couple had two children, George, who died unmarried and Harriet. However, Julia died young and George married a second time producing a further seven sons and five daughters. These children were unrelated to the original Mallory family but the eldest son, Edward Leigh Mallory, born in 1837, then succeeded. His younger brothers are shown in Ormerod with the surname Leigh. There is an article The Mallory Family of Mobberley in Cheshire Notes and Queries, N.S., 8, 1908-11, 129-139 covering the 16th and 17th centuries.
source: "Mobberley," Craig Thornber, Cheshire Antiquities, Cheshire, England, UK, http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/mobberley.html
- MOBBERLEY.
(By the Rev. S. ELLIS.)
OUR knowledge of Mobberley in Puritan times is very limited. In Palmer’s Nonconformists’ Memorial it is mentioned as one of the places in which a minister was ejected from his living, but it is only mentioned in the fewest words possible. “Mobberley, Mr. ROBERT “BARLOW.” We learn from Ormerod’s History of Cheshire that, in 1621, the Rev. Thomas Mallory, dean of Chester, enjoyed this living. He was a younger son of Sir W. Mallory of Studeley, in Yorkshire, and became dean of Chester in 1606. In 1610, he was admitted to the rectory of Davenham. Walker says that, nine years after, he purchased the advowson of Mobberley. He retained the living until 1642, when he was sequestered and compelled to live in great retirement. We are not acquainted with the reason alleged for his sequestration. Walker refers it in general terms to the Civil War. “He was forced, by reason of the rebellion that raged then in England, to fly from Mobberley, where he was rector, to Chester.” The probability is that Mr. Mallory was a zealous royalist, and resisted the authority of the Parliament, and that he had on this account been deprived of his church preferment. But it was a matter of comparatively small importance to him. He was then an old man, and his life was fast drawing to a close. He died at the dean’s house in Chester, April 3rd, 1644, aged about seventy-eight years.
Mr. Mallory’s son-in-law, the Rev. George Wyrley, brother of Sir John Wyrley of Hamstead Hill, Staffordshire, succeeded him in the living. Notwithstanding the confusion of the times, Mr. Wyrley obtained his institution to it from Dr. John Bridgman, then bishop of the diocess. But he also was sequestered, and continued under sequestration until the Restoration of Charles II. He then regained the full possession of the benefice, and afterwards obtained also the rectory of Loughton, in Essex. The testimony borne by the Nonconformists’ Memorial to the ejectment of the minister at Mobberley in 1660 is confirmed by Walker, who says “The intruder at Mobberley during the usurpation was one Robert Barlow.”
MR. BARLOW, like other ministers of his class, is unceremoniously called an intruder. We pass over the contempt embodied in that term. But it is right to remember that he held the living according to the then existing laws of the land, which, if the Presbyterians had not suffered themselves to be cajoled and cheated by royal promises, would have continued to be the laws of the land. However, Mr. Barlow was compelled to give place to Mr. Wyrley at the Restoration. There is no trace of a Nonconformist congregation existing in the neighbourhood after he was removed from the church, and testifying to the results of the labours in which he was interrupted by his ejection. His name is not in the list of Cheshire ministers who, having submitted to deprivation for conscience sake, subsequently conformed to the Established Church. That list is exceedingly small, and several the ministers whose names are found in it were brought in by Bishop Wilkin’s soft interpretation of the terms of conformity. But, whether Mr. Barlow retired into private life, or, like other ejected ministers, continued to preach as he had opportunity, we have not been able to learn. If, in the congregation which he was compelled to relinquish, there were persons of decided Puritanic tendencies, they most likely joined in religious worship with their brethren of similar sentiments in the neigbouring parishes.
source: Urwick, William, ed. Historical Sketches of Nonconformity in the County Palatine of Chester. London, UK: Kent and Company, 1864.
- EARLY MODERN CHESTER 1550-1762
Prolonged factional division in Chester's civic life followed.[16] Within five years Whitby had become a common councilman and clerk of the peace for Cheshire, and had his son Thomas elected as joint clerk of the Pentice, a position previously unknown. In 1612 Robert was elected mayor, Thomas became sheriff, and another son, Edward, was appointed recorder. The bishop and dean of Chester, George Lloyd and Thomas Mallory, openly alleged corruption, and during the next five years growing opposition to the Whitbys was orchestrated by Robert Brerewood. The Assembly was divided, and detailed evidence of the Whitbys' misconduct and maladministration was forthcoming in abundance. After the privy council insisted on a local resolution of the matter Robert and Thomas Whitby were examined formally in the inner Pentice in 1618, and the Assembly then dismissed them as joint clerks and appointed Robert Brerewood in their place.
source: G. C. F. Forster, "Early Modern Chester," A History of the County of Chester, Volume 5: The City of Chester, in the Victoria History of the Counties of England, made available online by the Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, University of London, London, UK, http://www.cheshirepast.net/earlymod_files/modframes1_files/mod.htm
- The Rule of Bishop Bridgeman, 1619-42
John Bridgeman's early years as bishop were marked by attempts to improve the conduct of the cathedral clergy,[70] but he was not fully supported by the dean, Thomas Mallory (1607-44), and perhaps achieved little. Moreover Bridgeman soon became embroiled in a triangular dispute involving the dean and chapter and the corporation. There had already been a symbolic clash between corporation and cathedral in 1607, when the mayor had tried to enter the cathedral with the city's sword erect, according to custom, and a scuffle ensued when a prebendary endeavoured to lower the sword. Soon afterwards the swordbearer died and his funeral cortège, headed by civic dignitaries, was refused entry at the west door. A court judgement in the corporation's favour strengthened its position in the cathedral.[71] A new dispute about pews, pulpits, and sermons in St. Oswald's, the parish church occupying the south transept, lasted from 1624 to 1638.[72]
source: G. C. F. Forster, "Early Modern Chester," A History of the County of Chester, Volume 5: The City of Chester, in the Victoria History of the Counties of England, made available online by the Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, University of London, London, UK, http://www.cheshirepast.net/earlymod_files/modframes1_files/mod.htm
- The severe punishments imposed on Prynne's supporters helped to polarize religious attitudes in the city. Soon afterwards, when the bishop visited St. John's he was met with a show of disapproval by the churchwardens, who were then belatedly obliged to 'beautify' the church. There was controversy about the incumbents of St. Martin's and St. Mary's and further ill-feeling about Dean Mallory's behaviour over the mayor's stall in the cathedral choir. Despite the bishop's opposition to the Ratcliffes' brewery in Abbey Court, Ley praised the work of John Ratcliffe, the Sabbatarian mayor and patron of Byfield, at his wife's funeral. When a visiting puritan preacher, Thomas Holford, found himself before the consistory court in 1638 for expressing extreme views in a Friday lecture at St. Peter's, clerical opinion was divided. Holford escaped punishment and later preached unhindered. The levy of a clerical assessment to help fund the war against the Scottish Covenanters revealed further divisions: some clergy paid (including the dean and chapter), but others refused.[82]
source: G. C. F. Forster, "Early Modern Chester," A History of the County of Chester, Volume 5: The City of Chester, in the Victoria History of the Counties of England, made available online by the Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, University of London, London, UK, http://www.cheshirepast.net/earlymod_files/modframes1_files/mod.htm
- Anglican worship was resumed at the cathedral after Henry Bridgeman, a son of the late bishop, became dean in June 1660. Four of the surviving pre-war prebendaries resumed their duties, and were joined in July 1660 by Thomas Mallory, a son of the late dean. Their puritan colleague John Ley had moved away and died in 1662. Only three of the petty canons returned to their posts, leaving the prebendaries with heavier duties.[62] The first two Restoration bishops, Brian Walton and Henry Ferne, died within a few months of each other before spring 1662.[63] By January 1661 a new diocesan chancellor had been appointed, and the bishop's consistory court revived.[64]
source: G. C. F. Forster, "Early Modern Chester," A History of the County of Chester, Volume 5: The City of Chester, in the Victoria History of the Counties of England, made available online by the Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, University of London, London, UK, http://www.cheshirepast.net/earlymod_files/modframes1_files/mod.htm
- Mobberley, and its church, were long synonymous with the Mallory Family. In 1619 Thomas Mallory, Dean of Chester, bought the patronage of the Parish Church and in 1625 took up residence in the Manor House. Five Mallorys followed him as Rector, the last being Herbert Leigh-Mallory, father of George Mallory, who died on Everest. Although the Mallorys moved from Mobberley they retained patronage of the church until the death of Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, in 1944.
source: Cllr. Terry Mitchell, "A Brief History of Mobberley," Website for the Parish of Mobberley, Cheshire, UK, March 23, 2007, http://www.mobberley.info/Site_Index/Topical/Official_Guide__Copy_/Page_2/page_2.htm
- On the 29th November, 1615, Thomas Mallory, S.T.B., Dean of Chester, and the Chapter, conveyed to Peter Vaughan, of Chester, gentleman, (probably a relative of Bishop Vaughan, of Chester), his heirs and assigns, the next presentation to the rectory of the mediety and parish church of Wallezie (Harl. MS. 2074, p. 236). It is, therefore, probable that it was under this arrangement that Dr. Snell was presented to the living in 1619 – paying composition for First Fruits 9th February, 17 James I., and 19th May, 21 James I.
source: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year 1883, Volume 35. Liverpool, UK: Adam Holden, 1886.
- MALLORY, New Kent and Elizabeth City counties.
Arms: Or, a lion rampant gules collared argent.
Crest: A nag’s head couped gules.
The Virginia Mallorys descend from the ancient family of that name of Studley Royal, Yorkshire. The manor of Studley Royal came into the family through the marriage of William Mallory of Hutton Conyers (whose will, proved 24 April, 1475, is preserved at York) with Dionisia, co-heiress with her sister Isabel, and daughter of William Tempest of Studley, who died 4 Jan., 1444. William Mallory was the representative of an ancient family who possessed Hutton Conyers, Yorkshire, by the marriage of Sir Christopher Mallory (son of Sir Thomas and a daughter of Lord Zouch) with Joan, daughter and heiress of Robert Conyers, whose ancestor, Robert Conyers, possessed it in 1246.
A very full account of the Mallorys of Studley can be found in Walbran’s, “Memoir of the Lords of Studley in Yorkshire.”
Coming to a more recent date, we find Sir William Mallory of Studley and Hutton, heir to his brother Christopher. He was High Sheriff of Ripon, and M. P. for Yorkshire in 1585. He married Ursula, daughter of George Gayle, Esq., of York, Master of the Mint there, and sometime Lord Mayor. Sir William’s will was probated 5 April, 1603.
Thomas Mallory, son of the above, was Dean of Chester. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Vaughan, Bishop of Chester, and died 3 April, 1644. He left issue: (1) Richard; (2) William, knighted in 1642, d.s.p.; (3) Thomas, of whom later; (4) George; (5) John; (6) Avery; (7) Everard; (8) Philip; (9) Francis; (10) Jane; (11) Katherine (Martha?); (12) Elizabeth; (13) Mary.
source: Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Heraldica: Being a Registry of Virginia Gentry Entitled to Coat Armor, with Genealogical Notes of the Families. New York, NY: The Genealogical Association, 1908.
- Thomas Mallory, B.D., of Cambridge, was instituted on 27th June, 1599, to the important living of Romaldkirk in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He also held the livings of Mobberley and Davenham in Cheshire; was instituted Archdeacon of Richmond, Nov. 6th, 1603; and, on the 25th of July, 1607, was presented to the Deanery of Chester. By Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Richard Vaughan, bishop of Chester, he had a numerous family, and some of his descendants may still be traced in Cheshire. He died at Chester, April 3rd, 1644, and was interred in the choir of his cathedral, where he sleeps without a memorial.
source: Walbran, John Richard, ed. Memorials of the Abbey of St Mary of Fountains, Volume 2. London, UK: Whittaker and Company, 1878.
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Abt 1566 - 1644 (~ 78 years)
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