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Kneesall St Bartholomew

List of Incumbents

Although Thoroton mentions one early priest complete records commence in the 13th century. The advowson from 1545 was in the hands of the Pierrepont family of Holme Pierrepont in the various titles attributable to that family. The following list was produced in 1950:

Notes

1. Thomas Cooper made a return to Archbishop Herring in the autumn of 1743 in which he states he was inducted on the 2nd December 1719.
2. Kenneth G Thompson was archdeacon of Newark 1965 to 1965 and Bishop of Sherwood 1965 to 1974
3. Master of Arts, Oxford 1716
4. Fosters directory gives William Hewitt as rector 1638 but may well have been curate.
5. The papal records for Feb 1308 at Poitiers state that William Thorntoft was requested by Cardinal St Sabina to also hold the churches of Warlington, Foston and Doderhull in the dioceses of Lincoln, York and Worcester at a value of 147 marks and to enjoy the fruits of Woketon, Tiversholt and Brune Candevere in the diocese of Lincoln, and Winchester which he has resigned as well as the benefits of the above mentioned churches which he has held without dispensation.  It is clear that Thorntoft was an absentee incumbent.
On the 1st July 1309 at Avignon and at the same cardinal’s request William was asked to assume the rectorship of two other benefices both un-named with a value of 100 marks
6. In the summer of 1634 William Clough was called before the Consistory Court in York for defaming John Garnon of Kersall Hamlet in the church. William was accused of slandering John from the pulpit during a sermon by naming him as failing to attend divine service and travelling to hear non-conformist preachers instead. John appears to have lost.
7. In the summer of 1698 the vicar of Kneesall Thomas Hawkins was called as a witness on behalf of William Mompesson then the vicar of Eakring. Mompesson was the famous incumbent of Eyam during the plague of 1666 and he appears to have been accused of adultery. The outcome is unknown. The churchwardens complained that Hawkins did not reside in the parish.
8. In 1603 the churchwardens presented details of Luke Mason. They said that he was a student of St John’s college Oxford but has no benefice, only £10 paid by Southwell out of which he has to find 43s 4d for rent since no house is provided. The chapel at Boughton is 2 miles distant but he gets no recompense for the services. We have no recusants or papists but have 260 communicants with 160 under the age of 14. Mason’s curate may well have been Robert Hargreaves as in 1622 he was reported to the bishop for not wearing a surplus or signing with a cross during a baptism.
 
The vicar’s stipend was raised to £400 from 1938 (Ma 3 E/2085)