INGRAM CHURCH 287 



IV. granted on 3rd Non. April 1291 license to William de 

 Montfort, Dean of St. Paul's, London, and Papal Chamberlain, 

 to hold also the Rectory of Ingram in the diocese of Durham. ^-^ 

 And Clement Y., upon the request of the Prince of Wales, 

 on 7th Id. Feb. 1306 granted at Lyons license to Walter 

 Reginald, Rector of Wimbledon in diocese of Winchester, to 

 hold this benefice with a canonry and prebend of St. Paul's. 

 London, and remission of [first] fruits, i" It has also been 

 discovered that William de Heland was Rector in 1384, which 

 fills up an evident hiatus in the published list. 



Respecting the Registers, I may say that the affidavits therein 

 contained, that the body whose burial is entered above was 

 " buried in nothing but sheep's wool," were in fulfilment of a law 

 then in force, and common at that period. Occasionally entiies 

 of burials may be met with stating that the body was " buried 

 in linen," and a fine of 50s was paid. . T]iis shows that the party 

 was opulent, as money was then ten or twelve times as valuable 

 as it is now. 



The present Ct)mmunion cup and paten are the gift of Ann, 

 wife of- Lancelot Ion, Rector, in 1808. What had become of the 

 old " silver chalice and the cover of it," which are mentioned in 

 the list of furniture belonging to the Church in 1713, and had 

 been given by Mr Lancelot Allgood of Newcastle, or the silver 

 paten which had been obtained in 1723 by James Allgood, 

 Rector, in exchange for the old pewter one and =£1 4s. Od., it is 

 impossible to say. 



With the Registers is an account of monies collected upon 

 Briefs for upwards of twenty years, commencing with August 

 1706. There were generally about ten collections each year, as 

 there are 230 recorded. Most of them were to aid in the 

 restoration of Churches that had been more or less destroyed 

 by fire. At that time very many Churches were roofed with 

 such inflammable materials as shingles, heather, or straw, 

 and so were very liable to be burnt down ; and such catastrophes 

 were of frequent occurrence. The sums collected vary very much, 

 but average nearly 3s., and this, considering their fi-equency, the 



^^ Calendar of Papal Registers, Letters, Vol. i,, p. 533. — Ed. 

 le Ibid. ibid. Vol. ii., p. 5. — Ed. 



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