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Holme Pierrepont St Edmund

List of Incumbents

The list of names of vicars and rectors is created from a diverse number of sources and is incomplete. Readers are advised to treat this only as guide:

On the 7th May 1596 the churchwardens claimed that the Reverend Speede “was not a preacher but a public speaker in the church”. This is a common complaint about this time when the congregation though they were not receiving a good sermon. Then again on the 1st August 1603 there is an entry in which John Speede declares “I am not authorised to preach, I am a Bachelor of Arts and my benefice is valued at £15 6 8d in the King’s books”. He went on to observe that he had 138 communicants or which only 4 were refusing the sacrament. They were complaining again in 1612 but on the 6th May 1622 they said that the parsonage was in decay owing to the neglect of the parson. John Speede had then been parson for some 44 years and was probably of advancing years.

Churchwardens present the following: John Feildinge and John Hallom, churchwardens for the year 1626, for not delivering the keys of the chest in the church, wherein the book of Canons and Constitutions and other books and ornaments and the register book ought to be kept, to their successors; Mr Rewlen Eastroppe our minister for omitting to read a great part of divine service and common prayers on Sundays and holy days, omitting to bid fasting days and holy days, omitting to wear the surplice on Sundays and holy days, and many times omitting to wear the surplice in the time of his ministration of the holy communion and baptism; his parsonage house and other houses belonging to it are in decay and want repairs; the said Mr Eystrop for keeping our register book from us, whereby we cannot have it to set our hands to it as we ought to do and to make a certificate of all weddings, christenings and burials.

4th May 1663. Churchwardens present the following: we have [been given] time to deliver a terrier of glebe lands and other profits belonging to the rectory, and a note of our register, [until] 19 June; Mr Rustead our minister is orthodox.

There is a strange entry for 16th September 1745 in which the advowson of Holme Pierrepont church is transferred from Baron Pierrepont to Thomas Cromp and Abraham Tilghman upon trust.