The registers of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire : 1580-1812 / transcribed by T.R. Horton, and edited by W.G.D. Fletcher, by permission of J.R. Legh, rector of Moreton Corbet.

Date:
1901
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Credit: The registers of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire : 1580-1812 / transcribed by T.R. Horton, and edited by W.G.D. Fletcher, by permission of J.R. Legh, rector of Moreton Corbet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1660—1713- 1663. 1754—59- 1760—66. 1768—86. 1786—1819. i8i9—45- 1846—48. 1849—82. 1883. Peter Gibbons ; buried 24 Aug. 1713* He was son of the Rev. Francis Gibbons, D.D., Vicar of Holy Cross, and chaplain to Charles I., and grandson of Alderman Nicholas Gibbons^ of the Abbey Forgate and Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, and was baptized at St. Julian’s 5 July 1635. John Southall, styled “rector” in 1663. Vincent Corbet; buried 9 Nov. 1759. John Fieldhouse, {qu. B.A. Pembroke College, Oxford]. William Clarke ; buried 13 April 1786. George Dickin ; he was curate 1769, & 1773—86. Mascie Domville Taylor, M.A. Brasenose College, Oxford ; died 9 Oct. 1845. Thomas Wilson, {qu. M.A. Brasenose College, Oxford]. Robert Faulkner Wood, M.A. Brasenose College, Oxford 7 died 9 Jan. 1883. John Robert Legh, M.A. St. John^s College, Cambridge. The curates named in the Registers are :—1769, Thomas Sandland. 1770, Samuel Sneade. 1818—20, George Ashby Maddock. 1820—25, TheophiluS' Williamson, 1825—6, Samuel Maddock. 1827—8, H, A. Herbert. 1838—o, Harry Mengden Scarth \vide “ Diet. Nat. Biog.” L. 405-6.] 1839—44, John Kynaston Charlton. The church of St. Bartholomew consists of a nave and chancel of one pace, and western tower, of various styles of architecture. In the chancel is some late Norman work. On the south side of the nave is the Corbet Chantry chapel, with a fine decorated east window, aumbry and piscina in the south wall, and a square hagioscope through the north wall. In this chapel are two fine altar-tombs with recumbent figures of Sir Robert and Sir Richard Corbet and their wives, and a number of monumental tablets to various members of this family, The upper storeys of the tower were built in 1769, and in it are six bells. The church was originally a chapelry of Shawbury, and was founded in the reign of Stephen or Henry IL, and consecrated by Bishop Clinton (1130—1148.) Bishop Peche exempted Moreton chapel, in the fee of Peter fitz Toret, from episcopal dues, and maintained the supremacy of Shawbury church, and theiefore of the canons of Haughmond who had obtained the advowson of Shawbury, over this chapel. The abbot and convent of Haughmond presented the incumbents of Moreton until the dissolution of the abbey. In Domesday Mortone was held by Turold, a great Saxon landowner. His descendant Joanna Toret married Richard Corbet of Wattlesborough, living circa 1200, and cairied the Moreton estate into the Corbet family. From this time Moreton became known as Moreton Corbet, to distinguish it from other Moretons. The present Sir Walter O. Corbet, Bart., is twenty-fifth in direct lineal descent from Roger, the son ol Hugh Corbet, who came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror, and held twenty mianors in Shropshire. In this parish stand tlie beautiful ruins of Moreton Corbet Castle, a house in the Italian style of architecture commenced (as Camden states) by Robert
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