The Chapelry of Boulton
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which the ancestors of Sir Robert had bestowed upon the chapel. It was also agreed that the chap1ain was to have the small tithes, in the same way as Robert, the lately-deceased chaplain, who had been presented by Geoffrey Barri, the guardian of Patrick de Sacheverell.On the feast of S. Michael in the same year, a further agreement as to details was drawn up between the parties, when it was settIed that the chaplain was to be subject to the mother church of S. Peter; that he was to be removable by the abbot, if neglecting his duty; that the abbot was to pay one mark annually to the chaplain—half at the feast of the Purification, and half at the feast of S. James; that the tithes and preventions of the house and family of Robert de Sacheverell and his heirs, together with all oblations, were to go to the chaplain ; that the tithes of corn were to be received by the abbot, but that the lesser tithes pertained to the vicar of S. Peter’s. This agreement was again finally confirmed by Sacheverell and the abbot at Easter, 1280.*
The Chantry roll of the first year of Edward VI. Says:—
" The Chappell in Boughton founded by Roberte Zachaverell to mynyster Sacraments and sacramentalls ijs. viijd clere xlvijs. Viijd. Besyds iiijs. To the Kyng. Sir Humfreye Shelley Curate. It is distante from the Parishe Churche ij miles. A mancyon praised at vs. by yere. Stock lijs. Vijd "
The Church Goods Commissioners, 6 Edward VI, give the following inventory of this chapel:-
" Oct. 5th Humfraye Shelley curat. i chalice parcell gylte of syIver—ij belles in the steple-j coope of twyllc- j vestement of dun sylke with j albe- iij aulter clothes-j towell-j handbell-j corporas with j case-j surples."
In the year 1550 the crown alienated the chaplain’s house at Boulton, together with the whole of the endowments given by the Sacheverells to the chapel, and granted them to Thomas Reve and George Cotton,† though it was clearly a great stretch of the statute that could bring these endowments under the head of "superstitious uses," or of chantries proper; as there does not appear to have been any stipulation as to masses attached to those bequests. From the time that Edward VI. stripped Boulton of its endowments,
* Darley Chartulary Cott MSS., Titus C. ix., ff 40b, 94b, 95, 100. The first settlement of the Sacheverells in this county seems to have been at Boulton, and then at Hopewell. It was not till the reign of Edward IV. that they obtained Morley, by marriage with the heiress of Statham ; see the pedigree (chiefly taken from Thoroton) in Fox’s History of Morley Church. Ralph de Sacheverell died seized of the manor of Boulton, 4 Henry VII. ; William Sacheverell, who died 5 Philip & Mary, held 36 acres here of the crown ; and Henry Sacheverell, in the reign of Elizabeth, also held lands in Boulton. Meynell MSS.
† Patent Rolls, 3 Edw. VI., pt. 4, memb. 9.
15 March, 2004