Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham : being grassmen's accounts and other parish records, together with documents relating to the hospitals of Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene.

  • St. Giles (Parish : Durham, England)
Date:
1896
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Credit: Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham : being grassmen's accounts and other parish records, together with documents relating to the hospitals of Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Oliver Eshe was curate of St. Helen's Auckland in 1553 and to 1561.—F.T.] Christopher Greene,i d. 1574. Robert Prentice,2 occ. 22 Jul., 1578. [Rob^ Prentisse was Curate of Whitworth in 1583, and Rector of Dinsdale in 1588-98.—F.T.] Jacob Hobson, cur., occ. 23 Jul., 1578. [Jacob Hobson was Curate of Hamsterley in 1578-80.— F.T.] James Pinckney, cur., occ. 20 June, 1583. William Morrow,3 4 Feb., 1584. John Watson,4 occ. in Par. Reg., 1604 and 1621. It appears from the above that Oliver Eshe had been a religious man, i.e., belonging to some religious order, before the Dissolution. He is described as being forty-one years of age at the time of his examination. Probably he clung in his heart all along to the old order of things, as his parishioners of St. Giles seem also to have done. For the Churchwardens of the parish, with other parishioners, were accused also and confessed to the charge of having set up altars in the Church, and that they did burne teare and utterly destroy the Holy Bible, the Apology, Homilees, Booke of Praier, &c., in despite of God, the Quene Majestic' lawes, and damnation of their own soules. Robert Corneforth of Gilligait, tanner, aged 46, also deposed that he had heard it reported that Sir Oliver maid holly water and holly bread, but whether he had Latten service he cannot depose {Ibid.). ' Christopher Greene appears at Visitations in the years 1577, 1578, 1579, as curate of St. Nicholas and of St. Mary Magdalen Chapel in Gilligate, but not as curate of St. Giles. In 1577, and at a visitation of the Dean and Chapter by Bishop Barnes in 1580, he is further described as under-master (subpedagogus) of the Cathedral Grammar School (See Ecclesiastical Proceedings of Bishop Barnes, Surtees Society's Publications, vol. xxii, pp. 46, 47, 73, 96, 103). Alias Prentize or Prentisse. For some account of him see '' Parish Registers, p. 123, n. i. He appears at Visitations as Curate of St. Giles in ii^77, 1S78, and 1579. On the first of these occasions there is appended to his name No Licence. At Bishop Barnes' Visitation of the Dean and Chapter in 1580 he appears as seventh Minor Canon (Surtees Society's Publications, vol. xxii, pp. 46, 73, 96, 103). 3 Alias Murrey or Murray. For an account of him see Grassmen's Accounts, p. 15, note 4. It may be further noted here that his uncle, Robert Murrey, Vicar of Pittington, whom he succeeded in that living, left him in his will (dated 6th November, 1593) all his books except his Geneva Bible and Chemmius de Examinatione Tridenlini Concilii. 1 he latter lie had bequeathed to the Cathedral Library. The Bible was probably reserved for his widow, Agnes Murrey, to whom he left his residue. (See Surtees' History of Durham, vol. i, p. 117)- ^ tl'^ dates of his bir h and burial are given correctly in the Mickleton MSS (quoted in the note above referred to), he would be 103 years old when he died. ^ Known as Sir John Lack-Latin. For notice of him see Grassmen .s Accounts, p. 19, note 2, and Parish Registers, p. 123. H'« ^^^ert was chri^tened^ in December, .62., and his daughter Elizabeth buried, having died of the plague, in September, 1604. See Parish Registers, pp. 126, 133.