William Ode
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 14 Mar 1409/10 - 1442
William Ode's patron was the Prior and Convent of Lenton.
During Ode's incumbency, there was a curate called John Lacy. In 1413, Lacy was summoned to appear before the Convocation sitting in St. Paul's. The authorities were collecting evidence against the Lollard leader, Sir John Oldcastle. Lacy was obviously suspected of heresy. He had been Oldcastle's chaplain. When he was asked to produce his Bishop's licesnce, he asked for a week's grace in which to find it, and this was granted. He was never heard of again.
In his will, William Ode directed that he should be buried under the pulpit in the quire.
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 21 Oct 1442 - 1461
William Wryght's patron was the Prior and Convent of Lenton.
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 13 Mar 1461/2 - 1476
John Hurt's patron was the Prior and Convent of Lenton. John Hurt was a Doctor of Divinity from Cambridge and colluded in the foundation of God's House, later to become Christ's College, Cambridge. Hurt was Master between 1454 and 1462. His will dated 14 Sept 1476 and proved 1 May 1477 itemised a valuable library that was distributed around a number of Cambridge Colleges. His will requested that he be buried in the chancel.
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 22 Jan 1476/7 - 1498
Thomas Turner's patron was the Prior and Convent of Lenton.
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 19 July 1498 - 1499
John Greve's patron was the Prior and Convent of Lenton.
Symeon Yates, Dec. B. (d. 1528/9)
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 4 Dec 1499 - 1504
Rector Staunton, 1504 - 1528/9
Symeon Yates' patron was the Prior and Convent of Lenton.
Richard Taverner, LL.B. (d. 1534)
Ordained 14 Apr 1498 by Bishop of Ely
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 12 Feb 1504 - 1534
Official of the Archdeacon of Nottingham, c.1515
Richard Taverner's patron was the Prior and Convent of Lenton.
In 1513, Dame Agnes Mellers founded what is not called the High School. It was in the church, at the Feast of Candlemas, that the vicar who had given the school an endowment of ten shillings a year, read the Holy Gospel for the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the boys gathered for the first day in the new school. Dame Agnes, who wished to be remembered and prayed for, with her late husband, Richard, a former Mayor of Nottingham, ordered an annual service on the Feast of the Translation of St. Richard, the 16th of June. This annual obit, now held as a Founder's Day service on the nearest Saturday to the 16th June was revived in 1923, after a lapse of centuries; and since 1960 a number of boys and masters attend a Communion Service held specially on St. Richard's Day.
In 1523, Taverner was berated in church by a shoemaker, Robert Taylor who spoke 'malicious and contemptuous words' against him. He was also in trouble in 1530 when he was accused of taking excessive fees for grants of probate and for over-assessing poor people and servants for tithe.
Possible Vicar of Lenton, 1527/8 - 1533/4
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 25 Nov 1534 - 1535
Richard Mathew's patron was the assignee of the Priory and Convent of Lenton.
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 8 May 1535 - 1554
Richard Wylde's patron was the Prior and Convent of Lenton. He successfully held office through the Reformation period and into the reign of Queen Mary. He was, perhaps, the first incumbent to use the Book of Common Prayer in the church.
Vicar of Arnold, 1553 - 1557
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 1554 - 1568
Rector Colwick, 1562 - 1569
Oliver Hawood's patrons were Philip and Mary. He successfully held office from the reign of Queen Mary to Elizabeth I.