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Thomas—and Lydia
his wife did penance 21 June 1634.
John
Tomas
did penance 14 Dec. 1634.
Thomas Young & Amy his wife
did penance 19 June 1636.
John Nunnington & Margaret his wife
did penance 19 June 1636.
I may mention that the two latest instances of public
penances in England occurred at Bristol in 1812, and Ditton,
Cambridgeshire, in 1849.
"Oliver Fidge and three others, of Wittersham Oxney,
weare drowned Oct. 21, 1633, in the watry marishes betweene Peasmarsh
and Wittersham; Knell dam breaking, and the waters overflowing all the
marishes very deepe, even to the channel.
"Testis Thos. Martin tunc Vic. de Stone, cum multis
aliis."
"Mem.: That on June 10, 1720, at an Archiepiscopal
Visitation, then holden at Ashford by the most Rev. Father in God, Dr.
W. Wake, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, sixty-four persons and upwards,
inhabitants of this Parish, were confirmed by the Rev. Father in |
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God,
Dr. Wynn, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph; the Rev. Culpeper Savage,
Vicar; and the same year the treble bell was new cast."
"Men.: That the gallery at the west end of the Church
was erected by the unanimous consent and at the charge of the Parish, in
the year of our Lord 1721. *
"Robert Beale and Richard Emery, Ch. Wardens."
"The week before Aistor (Easter), 1699, Stone Church
was robbed of a good new surplice, and a good new Communion purple table
cloth, and ye silver cup and cover, also ye linnen table cloth and
napkin." This was probably one of the weightiest chalices in the
county, weighing over thirty-one ounces; one larger is mentioned in the
Inventory of Church Goods, † at Holy Cross, Canterbury, which weighed
thirty-four ounces and three-quarters. In Archaeologia Cantiana,
XI, p. 415, an inventory of the parish church goods of Stone mentions
that there were five bells in the steeple,
* Now pulled down.
† Inventories of Parish Goods in Kent, 1552. A very
interesting Paper, by Canon Scott Robertson, in Vol. VIII, p. 88, of Archaeologia
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