Archdeacons' Visitation Records
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22. 1827-1840
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23. 1841-1849
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21. 1806-1826
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Archdeacons' Visitation Court Books
ER.V/CB.4, fol 15v 1675
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Officio con
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Anna Hallam
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Marm. Starke
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Issabella Story
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Mary Grisdale
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John Story
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John Grisdale
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George Story
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Catherine ux Thomas Smith
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Francis Story
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Lucid Poolle
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Wm Young et Anna ejus ux et Peter ejus filio
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Eliza Hallam
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Anna ux William Dodsworth
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Elizabeth Parkinson
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Thomas Bargham et Juliana ejus ux
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Andrew Barker
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Edward Jillison et Anna ejus ux
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Anna Thorpe
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Wm Preston et Anna Preston
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Maria Plaxton
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for not coming to church nor receiving the Sacrament at Easter last
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Elizabeth Boyes
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Radum Smith
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con
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Margaret Beilby
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John Browne
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John Custance et Maria ejus ux
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Henry Browning
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John Bargham
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Lucid Watson
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Thomas Allen et Elizabeth ejus ux
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Anna Rheame
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John Rabbee
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Catherine Smith
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Margaret Lutton
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Francis Cuniworth
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John Vavasour et Julianna ejus ux et Juliana ejus filia
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Barbara Goodlad
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Thomas Sharpe et Ellona Grayburne ejus pusa ux
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for not receiving the Sacrament at Easter last
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Index to Correction Offences
1675-1679
ER.V/CB.4
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Accounts
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vid. Church Wardens
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Ale Houses
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vid. Tippling
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Assessment
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making a pretended 148; none payment of 1 &c.
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Adultery
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18, 204, 217, 225; Suspicion of 30
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Baptism
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neglect of or preventing 2 &c.; presuming to baptise 116
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Bells
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rung wrongfully 130; broken &c. 59, 61, 67, 101
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Burial
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out of the parish 66; still born child 63
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Cards
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playing at on Christmas day 5
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Catechising
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neglect of attending 18 &c
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Chancel out of repair
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5, 60, 64, 75, 85, 98, 101, 106, 150, 184, 206, 214, 222, 227
not replacing gravestones in 106
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Churchwardens
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non election of 65
refusing office 7
not appearing at Visitations 8
not making presentment 3, 14, 73
not paying court fees 19
not exhibiting accounts 13, 27, 34, 74 &c.
neglect of duty 4, 129, 130, 148
refusing oath
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Church
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disturbance in 147, 148, 203
keeping hats on in
going out of, when Homily read 5
during sermon 5
before the blessing 63, 203
not standing up when Creed read
out of repair 61, 19, 26, 77, 81, 82 &c.
not resorting to the parish 1, 5 &c.
yard, swine kept in
fence, out of repair 68
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Child still born
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vid. burial
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Curate
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non exhibition of Letters of Order
non exhibition of Licence 59, 66
insufficient salary
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Churching
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neglect of 16, 67
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Conventicle
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keeping and resorting to 63, 66
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Cowlam
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rectory house out of repair 32
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Common Prayer
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depreciation of
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Dilapidations
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32, 9
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Excommunicate
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the standing 16
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Flaggon
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the, not providing
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Fornication
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simple 2 &c.
antenuptial 9 &c.
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Holidays
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working on
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Impropriator
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not paying curate
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Incest
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9, 68, 139, 156, 160, 162, 206
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Legacy
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witholding, left to parish 71
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Lord's Day
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profanation of
grinding corn on 7
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Marriage
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clandestine 5, 9, &c.
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Midwifery
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practising without licence 3, 34, 178
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Parish Clerk
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acting without licence 65
neglect of duty 32
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Perambulation
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not attending minister on
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Preaching
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without lawful call
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Quarreling
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with neighbours 32
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Quakers
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Service Book
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Sexton
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for neglect of duty
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School
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teaching without licence
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Style
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in churchyard
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Sacrament
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neglecting to receive 2, 3, &c.
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Tippling
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5, 77, 87, 90
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Visitations
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vid. Churchwardens
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Windmill
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grinding corn on Sundays 7
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Winns
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cutton do. belonging to Ulrome chapel
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1706
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Thomas Blanshard and Maria Stephenson of Spaldington
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Fornication
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1709
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Mary Lyon of Spaldington
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For not paying her (torn away) nor frequenting her church
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1709
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Alexander Bond of Brighton
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For not frequenting his church
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1709
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Hugh Ibbeson, John Smart, both of Brighton
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Their Easter dues and for not frequenting their church
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1712
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Elizabeth Hudle of Brighton
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Fornication
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1712
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Ann Smith of Bubwith
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Fornication
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c1712
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Alexander Bond of Brayton
(this is from an undated fragment, however a similar fragment bears the date 1712)
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Adultery with Elizabeth Studley
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1713
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William Lister; Thomas Granger of Breeton; Alexander Scott of Gribthorpe; Jane Skipwith, widow; Alexander Bond; Thomas Smith
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Not paying their assessment
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1721
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William Atkinson
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Non-payment of assessment
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1721
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Hannah Bond and William Dixon
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Fornication
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1721
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Andrew Cowlam and Abigail Coperthwaite, both of this parish
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Antenuptial fornication
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1725
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George Blanshard of Spaldington and Mary Johnson of the same
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Fornication
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1727
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Edward Ward and Mary his wife
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Antenuptial fornication
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1727
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Mariam Blackburne, widow of our parish
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Fornication with William Johnson who is broke and run away
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1732
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Alexander Scott
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For not frequenting the church
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1732
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Martha Herbert of Brighton
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Fornication, having bore a bastard child
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1733
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John Day, John Robinson, Thomas Clarke, William Leng, all of Spaldington
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Not paying their church Sess
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1733
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Richard Lister of Bubwith
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Neglect his Easter dues
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1733
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Andrew Cowlam
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Seldom or never coming to his parish church
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1733
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Thomas Brigglen, servant to Robert Johnson of Spaldington
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Seldom or never coming to his parish church
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1733
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Thomas Newsom, servant of Foggathorpe
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Not receiving the sacrament at Easter or other times.
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1733
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Henry Scholey, John Elron, William Baccas, of Willitoft
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Neglect of paying the Sess
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1733
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George Smith of Bubwith
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Seldom or never frequenting any place of worship
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1733
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Rebecca Wood of Gribthorpe, Charles Grey of Market Weighton reputed father
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Whoredom
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1733
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Eliz Johnson of Spaldington, John Hall reputed father
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Fornication
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1734
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John Mason and Elizabeth Mascall
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Fornication
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1735
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John Smith and Sarah Ashton
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Fornication before marriage
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1735
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Ann Erratt of Spaldington
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Fornication
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1735
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William Johnson and Mary Laverack, both of Willitoft
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Fornication
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1735
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Richard Dudd and Ellen Blawe of Spaldington
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Fornication before wedlock
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1735
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Thomas Taylor jun, and Mary Parker, both of Spaldington
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Fornication
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1735
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Esther Norton of Foggathorpe and Robert Glazeby of Market Weighton, but now generally at Foggathorpe
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Strong suspicion of fornication
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1735
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Mary Smith of Cliffe in the parish of Hemingborough, but now resident in Bubwith
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Fornication with William Andrew of Cliffe
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1735
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Ann Smith of ?-thorpe, but generally resident at Bubwith
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Fornication with Edward Bayley of Aughton
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1736
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Luke Blanshard and Mary his wife
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Antenuptial fornication
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1736
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Sarah Collins and John Bird of Spaldington
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Fornication
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1736
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Rebecca Wood of Gribthorpe
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Fornication with Charles Grey, now deceased
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1736
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Timothy Smith and his wife
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Antenuptial fornication
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1736
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George Sellar and Margaret his wifeNote: May 27 1736, Sellar appeared before Mr Hooke in my persona and confessed the said crime, wherefore a doctor returned in June.
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Antenuptial fornication
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1748
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Ann Frankland of Foggathorpe
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Fornication, having bore a bastard child, father unknown
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Excommunications
Excommunication was the most common of censure in the Ecclesiastical Courts of York. Ostensibly to be used only for the more serious of crimes, the practice in York was to use Excommunication routinely in cases of debt, especially debts to the Church, and for non-attendance in court to answer cases (presentments) brought against them by the churchwardens during Visitations of the Archdeacon.
Before 1734 Excommunications were in Latin, and in English thereafter. The typical form was as follows (English version):
Jaques Sterne, Doctor of Laws – Archdeacon of the Archdeaconry of the East Riding in the Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of Saint Peter in York, lawfully founded, To all and singular Rectors, Vicars, Curates and Clerks, whomsoever and wheresoever, within our Archdeaconry aforesaid, Greeting, We do hereby order and charge You, that during the Clebration of divine Service, on Sundays and other Holydays, in your Parish Churches and Chapels, you do publickly denounce, and with Effect declare all and singular the Persons, whose Names and Sirnames are underwritten to these Presents, to have been, and to be respectively Excommunicated for their respective Contumacies in not appearing before Us, or our lawful Representative at a certain Place, on a certain Day and Hours, now sometime past, to answer certain Articles, Heads and Interrogatories concerning the Souls Health and Reformation of their Manners, and especially the Crimes and Offences in our late Visitation found and presented, having been lawfully cited to this Effect, and openly, publickly, and often called upon, long waited for, but no way appearing, or excusing their Delay; and what you shall do in the Premises, you shall duly certify Us or our Representative, together with these presents. Given at York, under the Seal of our said Archdeaconry this ninth day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty two.
By Decree of Court
Robert Jubb
Register
[Names of those excommunicated]
The Excommunication was endorsed by the Vicar to certify that the denouncement had been duly made during Divine Worship, giving the date, and then it was returned to the Registry in York.
Only occasionally does the Excommunication state the offence (noticeably during the 1730s), so recourse must be had to the Archdeacons’ Visitation Records and the Presentments made by the Churchwardens.
The following are the Excommunications found for the parish:
31 Oct 1671
Marmd Starke; Mary Grisdale, widow; John Grisdale; Andrew Barker; Mary Starke; Marg. Beilby; Elizabeth Boyes; Marg. Hebton, widow; Isabel wife of Rowland Garthom; John Bargham and Ellena his wife; John Vavasour gent and Gillia. his wife ; William Young and Ann his wife; Isabella Story; John Story; Thomas Allen and Elizabeth his wife; Edward Gillison and Ann his wife; John Gibson; all of Bubwith. Declared in the forenoon (10 December) in our parish church, by me, Edward Barrett, vicar
20 Aug 1721
Mary Blackburn of Bubwith
3 Jan 1725
George Blanshard of Bubwith
23 October 1727
Mary Blackburne and William Johnson; Edward Ward and Mary his wife; all of Bubwith
24 Feb 1728
Ann Goakman of Breighton in the parish of Bubwith, for contempt
13 Feb 1729
Henry Scholey of Bubwith and Ann his wife; Thomas Carlin of Willitoft
1 Feb 1732
Martha alias Mary Herbert of Breighton; Alexander Acott and John Dousson alias Dowe, all of the parish of Bubwith
19 Feb 1734
John Mason and Elizabeth Mascall of Bubwith presented for the crime of fornication together
10 Feb 1735
Ann Smith; Mary Smith; Esther Norton; Robert Glazeby; Thomas Taylor the younger; Mary Parker; William Johnson; Mary Laverack; and Ann Ezzat, all of the parish of Bubwith, presented for the crime of fornication
17 Jan 1736
Rebecca Wood of Gribthorpe in the parish of Bubwith presented for the crime of fornication with Charles Grey, now deceased