Perlethorpe St John

List of Incumbents

The Parish of Perlethorpe with Thoresby was one of the Chapelries of Edwinstowe whose vicarage was ordained 15th January 1260/1, [LR Soc 27, pp. 17, 199, 206]; this was confirmed by Archbishop Melton 31st March 1337, [YR 9,392v].

Incumbents of Edwinstowe during this early period:

1260/1, 15 January Richard de Melton, pr.
1306, 28 July William Thistledon. pr.
1317, 13 October John de Ryston, pr.
1335, 1 May Thomas Fox, son of Henry de Edenstowe, pr.
1346, 12 August Robert de Burton, pr.
1349, 24 August Ralph Bole
1356, 11 July William Andrew
1360, 4 July William de Kynereshale
1370/1, 27 February William de Bekyngham, pr.
1375, 17 August William de Botterthwayte, pr.
1386, 29 April Richard de Elton
1390, 7 October Thomas Bate,
1396, 21 June Thomas de Norton, pr.
1404, 23 April John Lunde, pr
1405 Richard Alfreton
1410, 26 June Henry de Bilburgh, pr
1411, 9 July Edmund Hachet, pr
1419, 10 December Richard Gibbeson, pr.
1420, 8 October Robert, s. of William Gomondeley, pr
1442, 9 July William Colyngham, chap.
1468, 20 August Roger Marton, pr.
1473, 22 September John Myrfelde, chap.
1500, 30 October Master John Elton
1527, 20 May Robert Palden, pr.
1534, 25 September Ralph Balguy, pr.
1536, 5 July William Sapcote
1548, 19 July Richard Hadfelde, M.A.
1554, 22 December Henry Tinker
1584/5, 26 January Thomas Damporte
1586, 3 September Richard Barton
1625, 7 October George Rigges
1646/7, 17 March Thomas Bowes pr
1662 John Featley or Fairclough D.D.
1680, 5 April Benjamin Brunning. pr
1680/1, 12 February William Silverton, pr
1699, 26 October Francis Peete, B.A.
1704, 20 June John Penn, B.A. pr.
1715, 21 June Thomas Inett ,pr
1718, 18 September William Carter, pr.
1739, 21 September John Meyrick
1758, 11 April Anthony Reynolds
1768, 19 May Edward Bristowe, pr.
1771, 8 July Thomas Hurst B.A. pr
1787, 27 March Charles Gordon, LL.B. pr.
1802, 2 August John Cleaver M.A. pr.
1835, 17 February John Gordon M.A. pr.

Perpetual Curates:

List of clergy
since 1836

In 1836 Earl Manvers by Act of Parliament, was allowed to endow the chapelry of Perlethorpe, with Thoresby included, and it was created a separate benefice. The right of nomination was vested upon the Earl and his heirs.

The title of Perpetual Curate can be traced back to before the Appropriation of Benefices Act of 1391, and came into use with the appropriation or impropriation of benefices; that is to say, benefices which were attached, respectively, to a religious or a secular corporation.

These bodies were responsible for funding incumbents who, although they were neither inducted nor collated, were licensed by the Bishop, and had the duties of a vicar, and were called perpetual curates - perpetual in the sense that once licensed could not be removed.

At the Reformation, all appropriate livings became impropriate. By the Incumbents Act of 1868, perpetual curates could be called vicars; but they were vicars in name only. Under the Pastoral Measure of 1968 all the remaining perpetual curates became vicars in law. In 1969, the Act of 1391 and subsequent Acts were repealed, and hence the breed became extinct on 1st April 1969.

1837, 3 June John Twells
1851, 23 August Augustus Chester Master, B.A.
1855, 24 May John Brettle Cane, M.A.
1862, 10 October John Pennell Snow, LL.D.
1876, 7 January Thomas Inglis Luard, M.A.

Vicars of Edwinstowe:

From 1887 - 1918 the vicars of Edwinstowe held dispensation from Archbishop of Canterbury to hold Priest with Perlethorpe. The Rev William Berry Cardew was curate.

1887, 13 December Henry Telford Hayman, T.D., M.A.
1907, 18 October Edward Vines Bond, M.A.
1918, 16 March Frank Cecil Day-Lewis, B.A.
[Listed but no record of a License
can be found]

Chaplains:

From 1925 - 1950 the chaplain to Earl Manvers also officiated at Perlethorpe, and from 1951 a chaplain to Perlethorpe was appointed.

1925, 12 May William Alfred Mandall, M.A.
1931, 7 February Alexander Knight Moore, M.A.
1946, 5 November Donald Haseler, M.A.
1951, 26 November Conrad Henry Barton, M.A.

Priests in Charge:

In 1969 Perlethorpe became detached and was entitled to have its own Priest in Charge.

1969 Robert Spenser Canning Baily
1988 Sidney Frederick Rising
1990, 6 August John Roger Williams, B.A., B.D.
1996, 12 September Glenys Elizabeth Barrett Lloyd
1998, 12 September John Anthony Lines, M.A.
2000, 9 January Margaret Anne Parsons
2005 Alistair David Littlewood
2011 Anthony Nigel Evans