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It was consecrated and made parochial by Bishop Chaderton; the original dedication is not known. In 1650 the Parliamentary enquiry shows that there was no maintenance but the £1 19s. 10d. which the people raised for their
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Sir Richard Roule--
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Rev. in those days. With liberal squires at the Hall, no doubt the
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as they called him, was not badly off, though Colonel Fleming, writing to his brother (November 27th, 1688), says:--
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Tell the constable the same hearth man (hearth-tax collector) is coming again. Tell him to be as kind as his conscience will permit to his neighbours, and play the fool no more. The priest and he doth not know how happy they are. The income was eked out by the old custom of