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James FitzJames, rector 1521—41, was a multiple pluralist and Chancellor ofWells but had a curate c.1530 and the church was reseated at this period. 42 NicholasWalker, rector 1541—65, had difficulties with the college estate and c.1546 with hiscurate, William Walys, who contracted to serve a year for £5 but left early. 43 Theregisters date from 1558. 44 The church was last described as collegiate in 1548 whentwo chaplains each received a pension, another had already vacated, and there was anobit for William Botreaux. 45Money and 6 a. were given to maintain lights between 1496 and 1548. 46 In1555 a bushel of wheat was given to the Whitsunday church ale 47 but Sir FrancisHastings (d. 1610) left £20 to the church provided there were no more church ales,which he described as profaning the Sabbath, causing drunkenness and riot, andcorrupting youth. 48 One of two chest tombs placed end to end under the tower,probably moved from the chancel in the 1860s, is reputedly of Sir Francis Hastingsand his first wife Magdalen (d. 1596), commemorated in a long poem on the wallabove. The other, dated 1611, is possibly of Frances Rogers, wife of Mathew Ewens(d. 1598). 49Pastoral Care and Parish Life after 160042H. C. Maxwell-Lyte (ed.), Bishops’ Registers, 1518—1559 (Som. Rec. Soc. 55, 1940), pp. 15, 90;Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxon.; SHC, D/D/Vc 20.43Maxwell-Lyte, Bishops’ Registers, 90; SHC, D/D/Bp 5; TNA, C 1/1087/3-7; C 1/1319/35; C1/1320/13—15; Shilton and Holworthy, Medieval Wills, 157.44SHC, D/P/cad. n 2/1/1.45Green, Somerset Chantries, 130.46Weaver, Somerset Wills, 319; Green, Somerset Chantries, 130. Probably the land let by the Crownin 1572 with 2 a. in Galhampton given to Yarlington church: Cal. Pat. 1569—72, p. 389.47Shilton and Holworthy, Medieval Wills, 231.48Cross, Letters of Sir Francis Hastings, 117—18.49Above, landownership. In the 1780s there were also in the chancel the carved arms of Ewensimpaling Hales for Mathew Ewens (d. 1628) and Katherine Hales (d. 1612); SHC, A/AQP 9.6
Rectors were normally resident 50 although there was an unordained curate in 1623. 51The church plate comprises a cup and cover of 1631 by ‘B.F.’ In 1685 thechurchwardens paid to have it hidden. 52 Rector John Dodd, prebendary of Wells,disappeared in 1643, supposed to have died in prison for debt. A new rector wasappointed but Dodd was discovered living under an assumed name in the 1650s. 53Baldwin Acland, presented in Dodd’s place, had his episcopal institution declaredvoid and the House of Lords ordered the institution of the Cambridge ‘Platonist’Benjamin Whichcote, Provost of King’s but Acland served as curate in 1649 when hehad as pupil George Bull, later a theologian and bishop of St. David’s. 54 In 1649Whichcote, who with a parishioner had attended a Presbyterian classis in 1648, 55 wassucceeded by Cambridge scholar Ralph Cudworth. 56 In 1656 Cudworth was followedby the puritan Samuel Craddock, author of theological works, including Knowledgeand Practice (1659) written for his parishioners. He was ejected in 1662 and later keptan academy in Suffolk. 57 William Peirs, rector 1712—50, was a prebendary of Wellsand grandson of Bishop Peirs. 58Resident curates were employed even by resident rectors and there were fourcelebrations of communion from the 17th century to the early 19th when two services50SHC, D/P/cad. n 2/1/1—2; SDNQ. XIV, 265.51SHC, D/D/Ca 236.52E. H. Bates, ‘An Inventory of Church Plate in South-East Somerset’, PSAS. 43 (1897), 184; SHC,D/P/cad. n 4/1/1, 5/2/1.53Cal. SP Dom. 1637—8, 362; 1638—9, 61; J. M. Horn & D. S. Bailey (ed.), Fasti EcclesiaeAnglicanae 1541—1857, V Bath and Wells (1979), 24, 29; Lambeth Palace Lib. MS. COMM.A/1/28;TNA, E 134/1654/East 3.54TNA, E 134/1654/East 3; Lambeth Pal. Lib. MS. COMM.I/82—3; HL. Jnl. VIII, 30a; DNB; A. G.Mathews (ed.), Walker Revised, 308.55W. A. Shaw, A history of the English church: during the civil wars and under the commonwealth1640-1660 (1900), II, 416.56TNA, E 134/1654/East 3; A. E. Robinson (ed.), Life of Bishop Kidder (Som. Rec. Soc. 37, 1922),189.57DNB; Robinson, Life of Bishop Kidder, 189; J. S. Cockburn (ed.), Somerset Assize Orders,1640—1659 (Som. Rec. Soc. 71, 1971), 62.58SHC, D/P/cad. n 2/1/1; Fasti, Bath and Wells, 1541—1857, 54.7
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