80 NOTES ON THE RECTORS OF STAVELEY. 
September 5, 1847, at Staveley and Handley from Acts xx. 32.— 
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XXVIII. The Rev. James Duncan Macfarlane had, from about 
December 1840 to 1843, been the curate here. In the month of 
May, in the latter year, he was presented by the Earl of Aber- 
gavenny to the rectory of Sutton. In June, 1847, an exchange 
was effected between the rectors of Staveley and Sutton, with the 
consent of the patron of the former rectory ; and Mr. Macfarlane 
took formal possession of this living on the 29th of June, and read 
himself in as rector on the 8th July. He preached his first 
sermon at Handley, as curate, on 6th December, 1840, from St. 
John vi. 25—27, and as rector, on 26th September, 1847, from 
St. John xvi. 14.—[W. S.] 
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