An History Of The Ancient Town And Borough Of Congleton With An Appendix Containing A Brief History And Description Of Astbury Church C PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iv. ecclesiastical affairs. the church, right of nominating the clergyman, monumental inscriptions, extracts from the parish registers, unitarian chapel. methodist chapel, calvinist chapel. Wflen Smith wrote his " Vale Royal," in the sixteenth century, there were two chapels in Congleton; one in the town, and the other near the bridge. They were distinguished by the names of the higher and the lower chapel, and were chapels of ease under the church of Astbury. Among the corporation papers, are several bequests of rent or parts of the rent of small tenements and parcels of lands, towards the repair of the lower chapel. One of these bequests is dated 7. Edward iv. 1465, and is a grant from Roger Moreton, mayor of Congleton, of one half of a burgage, which produced the yearly rent of three shillings and four pence, "for the reparation and sustaining of the lower chapel and bridge in the said borough." Another grant from Ralph Pedley of eight pence, annually, being the rent of a parcel of land, for the abovementioned purpose. Under the article, expenditure, there is an entry of " sack and claret for Lord Brereton, when Brereton bells were cast in the old chapel in 1633." In illustration of this extract, however, it is asserted that the old chapel on the bridge, was converted into a bellfoundry, and