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1564. Richard Cloes ; patron, Anne Stanhope.
. Gervaise Hall.
1621. Robert Townson; patron, Sir John Stanhope. On the resignation of G. H.
1625. Thomas Hudson; patron, Sir John Stanhope.
1635. John Houlkes; patron, Sir John Stanhope.
. John Clayton.
1673. Arthur Francis; patron, John Stanhope. On the death of J. C.
1691. John Brentnall; patron, John Stanhope.
1695. Thomas Cantrell; patron, Alexander Stanhope. On the resignation of J. B.
1699. Anthony Blackwell; patron, Alexander Stanhope. On the death of T. C.
1723. Thomas Blunt; patron, Thomas Stanhope.
1734. John Lowe; patron, Charles Stanhope.
1768. John Swain; patron, William, first Earl of Harrington. On the death of J. L.
1790. John Crauford; patron, Earl of Harrington.
1806. John Swain; patron, Earl of Harrington. On the death of J. C.
1842. Frederick Nathaniel Highmore; patron, Earl of Harrington. On the death of J. S.
1874. Alexander Robert Goldie; patron, Earl of Harrington. On the death of F. N. H.
The Inventory of Church Goods, taken at the beginning of the reign of Edward VI., has the following entry relative to this parish:—
" ELVASTON—Ser Nycolas Holmes Vycar.
"j chalys of sylver parcell guylt with j paten—iiij bells in the steple—j hand bell—j sacryng bell—iiij vestments wherof j of blew velvet, j of whyt velvet, j of red damaske, j of grene saye—iiij albes—iiij ameses—ij copes of blew saten, j of whyte fustyon—xj alter clothes—iiij towells—ij candelstycks of brasse—ij hanging clothes—ij cruetts—j holy water stocke of brasse—j corporas with the case. "We had ij chapells within or parishe, j at Thorlston, the other at Ambaston, which had nothing saving ij bells of the which j the inhabitants of Ambaston have sold the price iijs. iiijd. & the other in the hands of Ellys Bokson Will Boghyn. Ser Thos. Wyndson knyght one of the inhabytanns of the lordship hath taken the said chapells to his own proper use."
Of the two chapels of Thurlston and Ambaston there are no remains, nor even any tradition as to their site. The feast day at Ambaston is said to be "the second Sunday after the 12th of September." The Windsors purchased the manor of Ockbrook, and other lands in this parish, of Sir Thomas Seymour early in the sixteenth century, but Frederick Lord Windsor resold them in 1583.* There was a grange (i.e., a monastic farm) both at Ambaston and Thurlston, and these chapels would undoubtedly be for the use of the monks and their tenants on their respective estates, and not of the nature of chapels of ease to the parish church. The parish church was, as we have seen, appropriated to Shelford priory, but these two granges were the property of
* Lysons' Derbyshire, p. 225.
29 February 2004