Editing Malmesbury Abbey (section)

===Vicars of St Paul's and the Abbey Church, Malmesbury===
From 1301 until the mid-16th century, the [[parish church]] of Malmesbury was St. Paul's. This stood in what is now Birdcage Walk (its tower and steeple remains, and is now the Abbey belltower). In 1539 Malmesbury Abbey ceased to exist as a monastic community and in August 1541 [[Thomas Cranmer]] licensed the abbey church to replace St Paul's as the parish church of Malmesbury. In 1837 the ancient chapelries of [[Corston, Wiltshire|Corston]] and [[Rodbourne, Malmesbury|Rodbourne]] were made into a separate parish, called [[St Paul Malmesbury Without]], and [[Westport, Wiltshire|St Mary Westport]] was united to the abbey church.
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*1301 Reginald de Souple
*1312 Roger Snell to Alynton
*1332 Walter Drueys
*1336 John de Ashebi
*1348 Stephen de Tettebury
*1353 Walter le Walker
*1369 Richard de Lokenham
*1379 John Oseborn
*1387 Thomas Wibbe
*1394 John Comeleygh
*1428 William Butte
*1439 Hugh Thomas
*1462 William Sherewode
*1497 Richard Chaunceller
*1503 Thomas Long
*1519 William Barlow
*1535 Richard Turner
*1544 John Aprice
*1564 John Skinner
*1565 James Procter
*1566 Thomas Trinder
*1567 John Sarney
*1611 Matthew Watts
*1616 Anthony Watson
*1618 William Noble
*1633 William Latimer
*1649 Robert Harpur
*1659 Simon Gawer
*1664 John Hodges
*1667 Nicholas Adee
*1669 John Clarke
*1676 John Binion
*1701 Christopher Hanley
*1705 Thomas Earle
*1749 John Copson
*1786 Henry Strong
*1793 George Bisset
*1829 Charles Pitt
*1874 George Windsor Tucker
*1920 Charles Paterson
*1925 James Deade
*1944 Arthur Beaghen
*1975 Peter Barton
*1994 David Littlefair
*2004 Neill Archer
*2018 Oliver Ross
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