The Church of Grasmere: A HistoryArmitt, Mary L. (Mary Louisa)
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The Church of Grasmere: A History
Armitt, Mary L. (Mary Louisa)
St. Oswald's Church (Grasmere, England)
Articles. Tit. V.
1, We have no hospitall, alms-houses, nor freschool.
But we have a School and a Schoolmaster, licons'd by
the Ordinary, who teaches his schollers in the Church
Catechism, and doth ye other things inquired of in the
2, Articles of this Title, as in duty he ought. The Revenue
of the School is Ordered as the Founder appointed, and
as ye Laws of ye Land allow, to the best of our knowledges.
3. We have none that practiseth physick, Chyrurjery,
or midwifery in our parish w'thout License from the
Ordinary, that we are privy to, or know of.
Articles Tit. 6.
1, Our church-wardens are chosen duly, and have done
2, 3. their duty, as we think they ought to have done, in all
things here Inquired of.
Articles Tit. VIII. (_sic_).
1, We do not know wt faults the Officers of our Ecclesisticall
Courts are guilty of, and wh are Inquired of by
these Articles of this Title. We have heard that they
take greater fees then of Right they ought to do, and
2, if they do so, we wish they may reform such Injuryous
3, practices: But because we are privy to no thing of
this kind done by any Ecclesticall Officer, we dar not
4, upon Oath present it, and here ends our Presentmt.
GEORGE BENSON }
JOHN MACKERETH } Churchwardens.
EDWARD TYSON }
The later presentments, up to 1732, are--except where quoted
from elsewhere--largely repetitions of this. One or two answers
to queries, however, are naive. In 1712 "we have no physitia's,
nor Sargions in or parish."
Concerning officers of Ecclesistiall Courts, we know not their
Officers; nor wh their Officers are; nor now they perform them,
well, or ill; nor wh their just Fees are, and can therefore give
no account of ym.
In 1717 "Concerning Apparitors. We know not how Apparitors do
their office, nor can we present them, or any of tm, for any
undue Fees exacted by them, and we think we ought not to pr'sent
any man for faults wch we know not by him."
Between 1702 and 1732 only one woman is "presented" for
"fornication"; and only occasionally, in a later set of
Presentments, between 1768 and 1796 is the fault--which the
registers show to have been not infrequent--mentioned.
BRIEFS.
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