250 LINDRIDGE, PENSAX, KNIGHTON, AND NEWNHAM.

rector, who professed himself ready to reside personally at Lindridge as the law required. A few years afterwards, however, this arrangement was violated by the appropriation of the great tithes to the Prior and Convent of Worcester. In the return made to Parliament during the Commonwealth it is said:- "The Dean and Chapter had the presentation of Lindridge, but now we know not in whose presentation it is." Mr. John Gyles was then the incumbent, and received £70 a, year "profits," and as to the chapelries the same report gets forth :- "Knighton chapel appendant to Lindridge. Our mynister is Mr. Edward Shawe, whoe preacheth and expoundeth constantly upon the Lord's dayes. The teyth corne and grayne are leased out to on Major Inet for a term yet endurynge at a c'teyne yearly rent wch goeth to pay augment-aeon in this county as we are informed. Our townshipp of Knighton and the villages thereunto belongings are distant from Lindridge church about two myles and some p'ts thereof three myles and the wayes thereof very fowle and deepe in the time of wynter, neyther is the church of Lyndridge large enough to hould or conteyne the one half of Knighton and Lindridge p'rishioners as hath been heretofore c'tined to the p'tiamt by Mr. Jon Gyles mynister of Lindridge and div'rs others p'ishion'rs there. Moreover our chappell of Knighton hath all p'ochial rytes belonginge unto it and our chappell is larger then the church of Lyndridge and besydes we have a very fayre gallary therein. There are also in Knighton above threescore ffamilies and div'rs of them very aged. And furthermore Knighton by p'porcon (proportion) is the one half of a towne of oyer, and our chappell standeth neere aboute the middest of Knighton aforesaid and therefore we conceave that o'r chappell is fitt to be made a p'ish church in regard the place is very populous and large as aforesaid. And therefore we conceave if the teyth of corne and grayne might be annexed to the said chappell it would be a considerable meanes to mayteyne a preachinge mynister in regarde it goeth to pay augmentation to other places."