LITTLE KYRE.--In the gift of Lord Protector, and united to Stoke Bliss;
glebe worth £5; tithes, £10; Edward Russell, incumbent.
HANLEY CHILD.--Sir Gilbert Cornwall patron; glebe worth £4; tithes,
£10. Edward Benson, incumbent.
ORLETON.--Chapel to Eastham; patron, Sir _G._ Cornwall; tithes, £16;
Mr. Benson incumbent, who paid a preaching curate £8 yearly.
HANLEY WILLIAM.--Sir G. Cornwall patron; Mr. Benson incumbent; tithes,
£15. Mr. John Phillips, "an able preacher, doth supply the cure."
Orleton is represented as fit to be united to Hanley William:
EASTHAM.--In gift of Sir G. Cornwall. Glebe and tithes worth £67. 17s.
2d. Minister, Mr. Edward Benson, "an honest man and a preacher of the
gospel." Hanley William, Hanley Child, and Orleton, are chapels. Parish
very populous. Two curates, Mr. John Phillipps, who received £20 for
serving the two Hanleys; Orleton curate, £8; the tenths £3. 8s. 5d.
TENBURY.--Robert Lucy, of Charlcote, patron; Joseph Smith the preaching
minister. "That there is belonginge to the sayd vicar the vicaredge
house and backside, and the churchyard, worth by the year £2;" tithes,
£38. "That there is a p'sonage impropriate, wch was for the most part
soulde by the ancestors of the sayd Robert Lucye long since, and the
rest leased out for lives, worth by the yeare £40." Tithe of corn and
grain in Tenbury town and foreign, and Berrington, which Robert Lucy
received, £50. Rochford, a member of Tenbury church, worth £30.
COTHERIDGE.--Appropriated to William Berkeley, Esq., "who doth hire Mr.
Theophilus Cooke to supply the cure there, who is an able preaching
minister;" salary, £4; tithes, £40.
EDVIN LOACH.--Fitzwilliam Coningsby, Esq., patron; Richard Jay,
minister, "and an able painfull man in his office." Glebe, £5; tithes,
£10. Tedston Wafer is united to Edvin Loach.
SHELSLEY WALSH.--Patron, Thomas Foley, Esq.; Mr. Edward Lane,
incumbent, "who pracheth duely and constantly at convenyent tymes;"
house, glebe, and tithe, £17. 10s.
LOWER SAPEY.--John Cliff, minister and patron; glebe, _£_9; tithes, £30.
CLIFTON-ON-TEME.--This place is called "the borough and parish of
Clifton," it being a place of some importance, and constituted a
borough by Edward III, when it was privileged with fairs (now again
revived, 1855), a weekly market on Thursday, and many other franchises
and immunities, by a charter granted to Mortimer. The house, glebe,
and tithe, worth £26. 6s. 8d. William Jeffreys, Esq., patron. "Also
since the sequestration of Mr. John Greene, the late minister, one
Mr. Samuell Ffiler was by the order of the comittee of the county of
Worcester made minister thereof, who is an able preaching minister, and
Mr. John Hill doth in his absence supply the cure and preacheth duely
every Lords day twice, and receaves the proffitts." Shelsley Walsh
worth £17. 10s., and Sapey Pritchard £39; both fit to be united to
Clifton.
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