A HISTORY LIST OF RECTORS POLL BOOK
This
little vill is situated two miles north-east from Tarent Keynston and takes its
principal name from the River Tarent, on which it stands.
Here
was an old religious house or hospital, dedicated to St Leonard. The patronage
of it was granted to the Prior of Christchurch Twynham, 7 Edw.III by the
King’s patent of confirmation. (See photo of
leper
squint)
The Church
The
church is a small ancient building, said, 1342, to be dedicated to St Mary. It
consists of a chancel, nave, north and south trancepts, south porch and low
west tower.
Monumental
Inscriptions include:
Underneath
lieth the remains of RICHARD LAWRENCE, late Rector of this parish, who departed
this life Jan 16 in the year of our Lord 1765, age 78.
Also
ye remains of his wife Jane by whom he had 8 children, Prince, Richard,
Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Susannah, Katherine and Martha. But three of his children
survived him (whom God bless). From hence reader, learn, to die betimes, yet is
always to fear God and keep his commandments.
By
the return of Parliament in 1801, the Parish of Tarent Rushton contained 36
inhabited houses, occupied by 47 families; consisting of 90 males and 90
females, in all 180; of whom 163 were chiefly employed in agriculture and 14 in
traditional manufactures and handicraft.
In 1851 here were 38 houses, with a population of 196; in 1861, 41 houses and 173 people.
Robert
de Leicester, Parson of Tarent Vilers & West Pentrigge, 1295
Henry
Magidun de Sutton, cl. Presented to the Rectory of Tarent Russeaux, instit 3 cal
Feb 1310
William
Tunstale, cl. Presented to the two churches of Tarent Russeaux & Tarent
Vilers, inst 4 Nov
Feb
1310. Presented to the Rectory of Tarent Russeaux by
Roger
de Scallyan, presented attorney of Thomas Clare: instituted 10 cal Apr 1311
William
de Alsten, cl. Presented to Tarent Russeaux, inst 14 cal Nov 1312
John
de Fonte de Colecester, cl presented on the resignation of Tunstale, 14 cal July
1315
William
de Bokenhale, presented to Tarent Rusheus, alias Vilers, instit 4 cal Oct 1340
John
de Burgh, acolyte, presented to Tarent Rushton, on the death of Bokenhale, inst
17 Feb 1345
John
Skayf, pbr to Tarent Rushenton, instituted 6 Feb 1349
Roger
Bycocks, cl. Collated to Tarent Vilers, inst 23 Sept 1362
John
Drane, pbr on the resignation of Bycocks, inst 28 July 1403
John
Braban, cl pr to Tarent Rushton, on the death of Drane, inst 15 May 1420,
exchanged with Walter Fysh, rector of Werdsford, presented to ditto, instit 2
June 1420
John
Stok, alias Popurn, chap pr to Ruschton, inst 13 May 1323, exchanged with
William
Stanley, Vicar of Ergaston, presented to ditto, instit 20 Dec 1428
John
Paslew, pbr pr to ditto inst 2 April 1430
William
Gay, chap pr to Tarent Russenton, on the resignation of Paslew, instituted 12
July 1423
John
Grosse, chap on the resignation of Gay, inst 2 Aug 1447
John
Whalley, chap pr to Tarent Rushton, alias Vylers, instit 14 Oct 1456
John
Michael Claudius or Lodowic Panavene, chap presented to ditto on the resignation
of Michael, inst 24 May 1491
Richard
Bampton, a monk of Monk Breton, Co York on the death of L Panavene, by
dispensation from the apostolic sec; instit 18 Sept 1494
John
Hanney, chap on the resignation of Bampton, inst 10 July 1499
Galfrid
Kydwelly
Richard
Page, cl, on the death of Kydwelly, inst 21 Dec 1504
….
Watson, pbr on the death of Page, inst 7 May 1505
William
Rogers on the death of Watson, pr to Tarent Rushton, alias Vilers, inst 7 Feb
1510
Jacobus
Bayley, chap on the resignation of Rogers, inst 5 Dec 1521
Robert
Dyonyse, pbr pr to ditto on the resignation of Bayley, inst 25 Feb 1528
William
Martin, inst 1544
Augustin
Green, inst 1547
Robert
Barber, resign 1586
Thomas
Anstie, May 6 1586
James
Gerrard
Nathanael
Jordan MA inst Feb 1 1696
Richard
Laurence MA inst Oct 12 1731 ob 1765
Edmund
Lovell, DD institut June 6 1765; died 1798
John
Hunt LL D instit Oct 26 1798
T
Hay MS on the resignation of Hunt, inst 1808
John
Warner King, on the resignation of Hay, inst 1809
Hugh
Stephens on the resignation of King, instituted, but never inducted, 1810
George
Eveleigh Saunders BA on the resignation of Stephens, inst July 23 1810
Cossley
Diggle Saunders BA inst March 22 1842 on the death of his father
Francis
Smith, MA of Trinity College, Oxon, inst 1842 on the cessation of Saunders
William
Frederick Radclyffe, MA of Queens Coll, Oxon inst 29 July 1852, to the combined
livings of Tarent Rushton and Tarent Rawston, on the death of Smith Francis
Alfred Smith BA of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, inst May 1866, on the
resignation of Radclyffe.
At
the turn of the 19th Century the ownership of land was a prerequisite
of an entitlement to vote. The 1807 poll book records all those voting and the
situation of their freehold.
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