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the result that on May 30th, 1672, he appeared before
Master William Lovelace, surrogate, and declared "that hee is very
sorry that hee hath run into contempt by officiating and preaching in
the foremenconed Chappell of Smalhith wthout license contrary to ye
Inhibicon of the Judge of this Court p'mising not to offend heerafter in
this kinde and offering himselfe ready to p'forme any acknowledgmt for
his offence in the premisses that shalbe enjoyned him by this court and
wherefore hee humbly desired his absolucon from the suspension decreed
and given ag't him in the cause." Other curates include BENJAMIN
HORNER, B.A., 1686-87; THOMAS FISHENDEN, M.A., 1688-94; ROBERT MANBY,
1695-96; BENJAMIN HOLLINGWORTH, B.A., 1696-98; JAMES MEDE, 1698-1704;
HUMPHREY HAMMOND, 1705-1708. These names are extracted from the Chapel
Treasurer's Accounts in which are recorded the amounts paid to each
curate for their services; they are noticed in Arch. Cant., XXX.
1716-1736. HUMPHREY HAMMOND, M.A.
Matriculated1 at All
Soul's College, Oxon, 1697, and B.A. 1701. M.A. from Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge, 1711. Having acted as curate to Stephen Haffenden
for a time, on his decease was nominated and elected by the Inhabitants
of the Street of Smallhith to be their chaplain to which he was licensed
December 13th, 1716. He was also Master of the Free School in Tenterden
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and Rector of East Guldeford, Sussex, from 1706.
According to a local eighteenth century medical record2
he died from gout in his stomach and asthma 4 March 1735-6, and is
buried in the churchyard at Tenterden.
1736-1766. RICHARD THORESBY, B.A.
Curate of Wittersham in 1728. Licensed in response to this
petition:3 "To the most Reverend
Father in God, William, by Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop, etc. The
Humble Petition of Richard Thoresby, clk, B.A. of Catherine Hall in
Cambridge, Sheweth:— That he hath been Regularly and duely Elected by
the Inhabitants of the Chappelry of Smallhithe in the parish of
Tenterden to be their Chaplain in the room of Humphrey Hammond dece'd
late Chaplain thereof.
May it therefore please your Grace to grant him
your Licence whereby he may be Enabled to perform the office of a
Chaplain in the said Chappel of Smallhithe accordingly or of a curate
in any other church or chapell within the Diocese to which he shall
Remove with your Grace's consent. And he shall ever pray etc
1 Foster's
Alumni, Oxon.
2 By Dr. Jeremiah Cliff, who
practised in Tenterden, 1713-1743.
3 Original document. Archdeaconry
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