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PEWS IN PENTRIDGE CHURCH 1819. [Part One]

Transcribed from original document by Helen Wilson (2001) © Copyright 2001

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*** means original document was illegible & therefore not transcribed / All spelling has been given as in the original document. Except: in the original there was a lot of abbreviations used; I have not used any abbreviations, instead I have given all words in full.

The document reads:

PEWS IN PENTRIDGE CHURCH 1819.

Many disputes having arisen respecting the right to the pews within the Church at Pentridge, it was thought necessary to call several parish meetings in order to ascertain (as far as could be) the actual rights of the several claimants. The underwritten is the best account that can be made.

  • No.1 - Mr William STRELLEY in right of his house on Ripley Green.
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  • No.2 - Contains the sittings belonging to five different houses
    - Mr Thomas MOSS of Ripley, 2 sittings
    - Mrs WATHEY, John TURTON Tenant, 2
    - John WHITE, 2
    - Thomas WALKER; Joseph A****, tenant, 2
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  • No.3 - Samuel BOOTH wheelwright Pentridge Lane End purchased by him from one SANDOM, produced bill of receipt and says no other claim was made when he purchased. BOOTH rebuilt the seat; SANDOM says he & his family had used that seat without hindrance for many years. Mrs. WATHEY says that this seat formerly belonged to her farm at Woodside, but being dissenters, SANDOMS were permitted to sit there, cannot say when any of her family occupied it BOOTH continues in possession.
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  • No.4 - This seat has been occupied together with No. 13 one half of each seat. Late Daniel WOOLLEY of Hartshay the other half of each seat Mrs WOOD & Samuel TURTON her tenants at Ripley, the two seats were repaired jointly by the occupiers and bill produced.
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  • No.5 - This seat together with No.12 were originally in one extending nearly from the middle aisle to the south aisle 5 is in possession of Samuel FLETCHER late SUTTON’S and 12 in occupation of Mr. EPWORTH tenant to Mr. David STRAFFORD of Ripley As to No. 5 FLETCHER brings evidence & proves that forty years since it was occupied by late Joseph SUTTON’S mother, since that time Betty HUNT living in the same house occupied, and since that time William LOMAS living in the same house had it in possession as to No.12 STRAFFORD says with consent of SUTTONS his father divided it from No.5 and that Mr BOWLER gave him the small portion adjoining the south aisle, in order that STRAFFORD might have an entrance from the south aisle That notice of his intension was given in Church and also publicly at Ripley He built the seat put a lock & his name upon it and has enjoyed it ever since says he heard that some claim was attempted to be made out, but was never brought forward.
    Mr Joseph FARNSWORTH owner of the Red Lion Inn at Ripley claims No.5 & 12 belong to the house where he lives, late Miss WOODS, says that Mrs BRADLEY tells him that Sarah TURTON of the Red Lion gave leave to Mrs SUTTON to sit there in order to be **** the person and that the two seats were always used by MOORE’S & TURTON’S tenants to Miss WOOD at the Red Lion Ripley, he says that objections were made when STRAFFORD divided the pews & Miss WOOD was sent to about it, but does not know that any right was ever exercised since that time.
    Mem~ : Mr Thomas MOORE of Ripley says that Mrs BRADLEY told him she never informed anyone that TURTON gave leave to SUTTON.
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  • No.6 - Mrs. DANNAH of Ripley
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  • No.7 - John NORMAN one half White Leigh
    - John TOPHAM one half Pentridge
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  • No.8 - Anthony STORER, Pentridge
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  • No.9 - Benjamin TOPHAM, one half, Pentridge
    - Widow MARSDEN, one half, Pentridge
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  • No.10 - Contains six sittings
    - Jonathan CLEE, 3 sittings, Pentridge
    - William BOOTH, 2 sittings, Pentridge
    - George TOPHAM, 1 sitting, Pentridge
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  • No.11 - One Sitting - Unclaimed Free.
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  • No.12 - See No. 5
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  • No.13 - See No.4
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  • No.14 - Robert WHYSALL claims this pew in right of his house at Ripley.
    - John NORMAN claims two sittings in it, which two sittings, John TOPHAM says he gave to NORMAN and that they belonged to houses, his property in Ripley, late COOPERS.
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  • No.15 - Belongs to the ancient farm houses in Marehay & Hartshay
    In Marehay : -
    John STIRLAND
    Robert WHYSALL
    Thomas WHYSALL
    In Hartshay : -
    John NORMAN
    William TAGG
    George ARGILE
    John BONSALL
    John WOODHEAD
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  • No.16 - Is in possession of Robert GODBER & Joseph FARNSWORTH, FARNSWORTH says the whole pew belongs to the White Lion at Ripley and that GODBER has no right in it that he built and paid for it about 20 years ago, that said GODBER’S father & he quarrelled about it & in order to settle the dispute FARNSWORTH accepted of two pounds from GODBER for permission to sit there during his life, but if he brought as many with him to Church as was to fill the pew, GODBER was to turn out GODBER says he is entitled to half this pew in right of a house or houses at Greenhillocks, which his father sold, now inhabited by PARRAMORE, but he did not sell the pew with the house & he believes his father paid half the expense, but has no proof of this.
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  • No.17 - Belongs to John WRIGHT Esquire an owner of Butterley Park.
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  • No.18 - John STALEY of Ripley
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  • No.19 - Samuel FLETCHER in right of the house at the Mill at the Lane End.
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  • No.20 - Henry STRAFFORD built with the leave of the Vicar and Churchwardens about four years since.
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  • No.21 - John WOOLLEY bought and paid for this pew three or four years since Joseph FARNSWORTH says that John FLINT has a right to three sittings in it as belonging to some old houses sold by him to FLINT at Greenhillocks & that he frequently sat there before the seat was built by Mr. WOOLLEY.
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  • No.22 - James TURTON of Ripley & Jonathan WOOLLEY of the Coppice built this seat by permission of the late Vicar.
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  • No.23 - John WHITE of Ripley, one half
    - Edmund CLARK of Pentridge, one half
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  • No.24 - John TOPHAM built and paid for this about twenty years since in right of the house he lives in at Pentridge. Jesse FLETCHER makes a claim in the pew in right of a house now pulled down.
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  • No.25 - James WALTERS of Pentridge

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