The Register of Ratlinghope | Page 2

complete list of the Incumbents
we have as yet been able to make out:--
1549. Sir Lances Philson, clerk, curate.
1555. Laurence Johnson, a Canon of Wigmore, presented by Philip and

Mary, and instituted 15th February, 1555.
1587. Richard Davis, curate, presented by William Whittingham, gent.
His salary was 7 pounds 13s. 4d.
1755. William Williams, curate.
1758. George Hodges, born at Shrewsbury 1720, educated at
Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, B.A. 1743. Rector of
Woolstaston 1770-1780.
1769. David Richards, signs in 1767-70 as "Minister," and afterwards
as "Curate."
1778. Thomas Williams.
1782. Richard Lloyd, curate.
1795. John Hawkins.
1833. Edward Homfray, died 24th June, 1856.
1857. Edmund Donald Carr, B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Rector of Woolstaston 1865-1900. Died June, 1900.
1866. William George Clutton Nottley, Rector of Alpheton, Suffolk,
1876-8.
1876. William Henry Whitworth, M.A. and sometime fellow and tutor
of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
1885. Henry Anderton. Vicar of Hopton Cangeford 1881, and of
Garway 1883-4. Resigned in 1891, and went to live at Chester.
1891. Arthur William Benjamin Walmsley Watts, B.A. Selwyn College,
Cambridge. Resigned 1892. Rector of Coates, 1901.
1892. Thomas Baker Aston, M.A. Christ Church, Oxford,
Curate-in-Charge. Rector of Habberley since 1869. There was no

Incumbent from 1892 to 1895.
1895. William Perry Ireland, M.A. Merton College, Oxford. Vicar of
Peter's Marland, 1897.
1896. Thomas Robert Glenn, L.Th. Univ. of Durham. The present
Incumbent.
The Inventory of Church Goods made 11th August, 1549, shows that
there were then at Rotlynchope "one chalyce off sylver parcell gilt, and
one cruete of pewter, one vestment of crule, one crismatory, one altare
cloth, one towell, and two bellys." In 1553 there remained "to bellys,
[one chalice of silver] with the patent thereunto"; and another return of
1553 gives "a chales of sylver, ij belles." The Religious Census of
Shropshire made in 1676, states that there were at Ratlinghope (in
Pontesbury Deanery) 128 Conformists, no Papists, and 3
Nonconformists. These were the number of inhabitants over the age of
sixteen. In 1727 William Mitton was patron of the perpetual curacy.
The Parish Register Abstract of 1831 contains the following account of
the Ratlinghope Registers:--
"Ratlinghope R. Nos. I., II. Bap., Bur., 1702-1793, Marr., 1702-1752.
No. III., Bap., Bur, 1794-1812. No. IV., Marr., 1755-1812." The
Registers have been very badly kept, all the earlier ones are missing,
and those of the earlier ones that remain are in a bad state of
preservation. Nos. I. and II. are now altogether lost; they were
apparently in existence in 1876, when the Rev. W. G. C. Nottley made
a list of the Registers, and placed it in the box in which the Registers
were kept. Sometime between 1876 and 1896 these Registers
disappeared, together with Mr. Nottley's list.
The Marriage Register 1755-1812 (No. IV. above) was formerly bound
in boards covered with parchment, but one board has disappeared,
leaving the parchment torn and crumpled, with a large hole in the
centre, and the whole book is in a dilapidated condition. The marriage
entries are on the first twelve leaves which are loose and damaged. It is
a folio book, containing the usual printed forms.

The Baptisms and Burials, 1794-1812 (No. III. above) simply consists
of three loose sheets of parchment, folded, making twelve pages,
without any cover. The writing in places is nearly obliterated, and
difficult to decipher.
The transcripts at Hereford, which commence in 1660, are fairly
complete, and it would be very desirable that these should be copied
and printed, so as to make this Register more perfect.
The Registers were copied by Miss Hulton-Harrop (now Mrs. Rowan
Robinson), and were collated in 1903 by the late Rev. F. W.
Kittermaster, and have been seen through the press by the Rev. W. G.
D. Fletcher. They are now printed, by permission of the Rev. T. R.
Glenn, the present Incumbent, at the cost of W. E. M. Hulton-Harrop,
Esq., of Gatten Lodge and Lythwood Hall, who has generously
presented these Registers to the Society.
W. G. D. FLETCHER.
OXON VICARAGE, SHREWSBURY, MAY, 1909.

VOLUME I.
MARRIAGES, 1755-1813.
[The parties are of Ratlinghope, and the Marriages by banns, except
where otherwise stated.] 1755, Mar. 6 Edward Lewis & Elizabeth
Homes [signs Home], wid. ,, Oct. 28 Bromley Coles & Elizabeth Price.
1756, Oct. 17 Edward Clark & Mary Bowen, of Churton. ,, Oct. 31
John Thomas & Mary Wild, of Ford, lic. 1757, Feb. 11 Thomas
Andrews & Mary Harries, lic. 1758, Oct. 13 William Pugh, of Worthen,
& Elizabeth Hayward. 1759, Jan. 23 Richard Harris & Sarah Perkin. ,,
Oct. 6 Richard Andrews & Sarah Sankey. ,, Nov. 4 Robert Cooke &
Martha Home. ,, Dec. 26 Richard Davies & Ann Preece. 1760, Oct. 1
Thomas Morris, p. Edgstone, & Mary Gwilliam. 1761, Apr. 11 Samuel
Davies & Ann Davies [both signs Davis],