VOLUME 20

Original inquisitions made by Commissioners appointed under the Great Seal to inquire into the state of church benefices in England. Some are under the act of 8 June 1649 for the maintenance of preaching ministers, the ordinance of 2 September 1654 for preaching ministers, and uniting parishes, and an ordinance of 18 December 1656 for uniting parishes. (For other original returns see surveys in the Public Record Office)

Bedfordshire

1 Bedford; St Peter Rectory, & St Cuthbert Rectory

Made 24 March 1659

Cambridgeshire

2 Swaffham Prior; St Mary Vicarage, & St Cyriac Vicarage, Cambridge

Made 7 Jan 1658

Endorsed with John Phelps' signature acknowledging the receipt of the survey, & the signatures of the jurors

Lincolnshire

3 Moulton Vicarage, & St James chapel, Lincoln

By an inquisition held at Boston, 6 Nov 1655

Receipt signed by John Phelps

4 Mooreby Rectory, with Wood Enderby chapel, Lincs

By an inquisition made at Horncastle, 24 July 1656

With the signatures of John Phelps & the jurors

London

5 London; St Benet Rectory, & St Peter Rectory, Paul's Wharf

By an inquisition at the Guild Hall, 12 Jan 1658

With the seals & signatures of the jurors

6 London; St Benet, & St Peter, Paul's Wharf

Made 16 March 1658

With the signatures of the Commissioners & John Phelps' receipt

Norfolk

7 Marshland Hundred (for the other half see COMM/XIIb/7)

Clenchwarton Rectory, West Lynn Rectory, North Lynn Rectory, Wiggenhall, St Mary the Virgin Vicarage, Wignall, St German Vicarage, St Peter Vicarage, & St Mary Magdalen Vicarage

With the signatures of the jurors

8 Eynsford Hundred

Inquisition made 12 Oct 1655

Alderford Rectory, Attlebridge Vicarage, Wood Dalling Vicarage, Scissett Vicarage, Thurning Rectory, Swannington Rectory, Haveringland Vicarage, Brandiston Rectory, Bawdeswell Rectory, Foxley Rectory, Billingford Rectory, Bylaugh Rectory, Foulsham Rectory, Themelthorpe Rectory, Bixley Rectory, Twyford Rectory, Hindolveston Vicarage, Wood Norton Rectory, Guestwick Vicarage, Sall Rectory, Sparham Rectory, Elsing Rectory, Lyng Rectory, Great Witchingham Vicarage, Little Witchingham, Ringland Rectory, Morton Rectory, Weston Rectory, Reepham Rectory, Cawston Rectory, Whitwell Vicarage, Hackford Rectory, & Booton Rectory

With the jurors' signatures

9 Launditch Hundred

Inquisition made at Norwich Castle, 28 April 1657

Litcham Rectory, East Lexham Rectory, Mileham Rectory, West Lexham Rectory, Rougham Vicarage, Weasenham, St Peter Vicarage & All Saints Vicarage, Wellingham Rectory, Tittleshall Rectory, Godwick Rectory, Whissonsett Rectory, Horningtoft Rectory, Brisley Rectory, Stanfield Rectory, Gateley Rectory, Beetley Rectory, East Bilney Rectory, North Elmham Vicarage, Swanton Morley Rectory, Gressenhall Rectory, Longham Rectory, Beeston Rectory, Little Bittering Rectory, Kempstone Vicarage, Great & Little Dunham Rectory, Great & Little Fransham Rectory, Colkirk Rectory, Oxwick Rectory, Patesley Rectory, Scarning Rectory, & Wendling Rectory

With the jurors' signatures

Endorsed with the seals & signatures of the Commissioners

10 Deepwash Hundred

Inquisition made at Norwich, 24 Oct 1657

Aslacton Vicarage, Moulton, St Michael Rectory, & All Saints Rectory, Tibenham Vicarage, Carleton Rode Rectory, Bunwell Rectory, Tacolneston Rectory, Forncett, St Peter & St Mary Rectory, Stratton, St Mary Rectory, Great & Little Wacton Rectory, Stratton, St Michael Rectory, Tharston Vicarage, Morningthorpe Rectory, Fritton Rectory, Hempnall Vicarage, Shelton Rectory, Hardwick Rectory, Tasburgh Rectory, Fundenhall curacy, Ashwellthorpe Rectory, Wrenningham Rectory, & Hapton Rectory

With the signatures of the jurors

Endorsed with the Commissioners' signatures

11 Tunstead Hundred

Inquisition made 24 Oct 1657

Ashmanhaugh curacy, Barton Turf Vicarage, Beeston St Lawrence Rectory, Backton Keswick Vicarage, with Broomholm, Bradfield Rectory, Crostwick Rectory, Dilham Rectory, Edingthorpe Rectory, Felmingham Vicarage, Horning Vicarage, Hoveton, St Peter Vicarage, & St John Vicarage, North Walsham Vicarage, Neatishead Vicarage, Paston Vicarage, Ridlington Rectory, Sloley Rectory, Smalburgh Rectory, Swafield Rectory, Tunstead Vicarage, with Sco' Ruston Vicarage, Irstead Rectory, Worstead Vicarage, Witton Vicarage, & Westwick Rectory

With the signatures of the jurors & Commissioners

Northamptonshire

12 Willybrook Hundred

Formerly a prebend, including Apethorpe chapel, Woodnewton, & Nassington Vicarage

13 Yarwell chapel, Woodnewton chapel, Kings Cliffe Rectory, Duddington Rectory, Tansor Rectory, Collyweston Rectory, Fotheringhay Vicarage, Lutton Rectory, Easton on the Hill Rectory, Cotterstock Rectory, Glapthorn Rectory, Southwick Vicarage

Polebrook Hundred

Hemington Vicarage, Luddington in the Brook Rectory, Polebrook Rectory, Armston Rectory, Benefield Rectory, Barnwell, St Andrew Rectory, & Oundle Rectory

14 Inquisition held at Oundle, Nhants, for the hundreds of Nassaborough, Willibrook, Polebrook, & Natisford, 29 Jan 1655

Nassaborough Hundred

Etton Rectory, Woodcroft Rectory, Peterborough cathedral, with Sutton & Upton chapels, Castor Rectory, Eye chapel, Wittering Rectory, Marholm Rectory, Glinton Rectory, Peakirk Rectory, Stamford Baron Vicarage, Thornhaugh Vicarage, Wansford Rectory, Helpston Rectory, Paston Rectory, & Walton, Werrington, & Gunthorpe, in Paston

15 Ufford Rectory, & Ashton, Barnack Rectory, & Pilsgate, & Southorpe, Northborough Rectory, & Maxey Rectory

Navisford Hundred

Stoke Doyle Rectory, Titchmarsh Rectory, Thrapston Rectory, Thorpe Achurch Rectory, Clapton Rectory, Wadenhoe Rectory, & Pilton Rectory

16 Huxloe Hundred

Barton Seagrave Rectory, Kettering Rectory, Barnwell, All Saints Rectory, Great Addington Rectory, Slipton Rectory, Cranford, St John Rectory, & St Andrew Rectory, Grafton Underwood Rectory, Warkton Rectory, Twywell Rectory, Woodford Rectory, & Lowick Rectory

17 Burton Latimer Rectory, Aldwinkle, St Peter Rectory, & All Saints Rectory, Sudborough Rectory, Islip Rectory, Lilford & Wigsthorpe Vicarage, Irthlingborough Rectory, St Peter, & All Saints Rectory, Little Addington Vicarage, Denford Vicarage, Ringstead Vicarage, & Finedon Vicarage

17 Orlingbury Hundred

Upper & Nether Isham Rectory

18 Broughton Rectory, Lamport Rectory, Hanging Houghton, Faxton & Mawsley, Orlingbury Rectory, Old Rectory, Scaldwell Rectory, Hardwick Rectory, Hannington Rectory, Walgrave Rectory, Harrowden Vicarage, Great Cransley Rectory, & Brixworth Rectory

19 Pytchley Vicarage, in Orlingbury Hundred

Higham Ferrers Hundred

Hargrave Rectory, Higham Ferrers Vicarage, Chelveston cum Caldecott Vicarage, Stanwick Rectory, Newton Bromswold Rectory, Rushden Vicarage, Irchester Vicarage, Wallaston Vicarage, Strixton Rectory, Bozeat Vicarage, & Easton Maudit Vicarage

Hamfordhoe Hundred

Wellingborough Vicarage

20 Great Doddington Vicarage, Earls Barton Vicarage, Ecton Rectory, Sywell Rectory, Holcott Rectory, Mears Ashby Vicarage, & Wisby Rectory

Raunds Vicarage, & Ringstead Vicarage, in Higham Ferrers Hundred

21 Corby Hundred

Ashley Rectory, Blatherwycke Rectory, Brampton-Ash Rectory, Brigstock Vicarage, Stanion chapel, Bulwick Rectory, East Charlton Rectory, Corby Rectory, Cottingham & Middleton Rectory, Deene, & Deenethorpe Rectory, Dingley Rectory, Gretton Vicarage, & Duddington

22 Geddington Vicarage, Harringworth Vicarage, Laxton Rectory, Newton, Great Oakley curacy, Little Oakley Rectory, Rockingham Rectory, Stoke Albany Rectory, Wakerley Rectory, Weekley Rectory, Weston by Welland Vicarage, & Sutton Bassett, & Weldon Rectory

23 Wilbarston Vicarage, & Pipewell, Little Bowden, St Nicholas Rectory, & St Mary Vicarage

24 Rothwell Hundred

Arthingworth Rectory, Braybrooke Rectory, Clipston Rectory, Draughton Rectory, Desborough Vicarage, East Farndon Rectory, & Glendon Rectory

25 Harrington Rectory, Haselbech Rectory, Kelmarsh Rectory, Loddington Rectory, Maidwell Rectory, Marston Trussel Rectory, Great Oxendon Rectory, Rothwell Rectory, with Thorpe Underwood, & Orton, Rushton, All Saints Rectory, & St Peter Rectory, Sibbertoft Vicarage, & Thorpe Malsor Rectory

26 Spelhoe Hundred

Kingsthorpe chapel, Northampton, St Peter Rectory, Moulton Vicarage, Pitsford Rectory, Weston Favell Rectory, Overstone Rectory, Great & Little Billing Rectory, Spratton Vicarage, Abington Rectory, Boughton Rectory

Wymersley Hundred

Grendon Vicarage, Cogenhoe Rectory, Wootton Rectory, Blisworth Rectory, Yardley Hastings Rectory, Collingtree Rectory, Milton Rectory, & Denton chapel

27 Castle Ashby Rectory, Chadstone & Courtenhall Rectory, Little Houghton Vicarage, Whiston Rectory, Piddington Rectory, & Hackleton, Preston Deanery Vicarage, Quinton Rectory, Brafield on the Green Vicarage, Rothersthorpe Vicarage, Great Houghton Rectory, & Hardingstone Vicarage

Nobottle Grove Hundred

Whilton Rectory, East Haddon Vicarage, Bugbrooke Rectory, Harlestone Rectory, Great Brington Rectory, Brampton Rectory, Dallington Vicarage, Floore Vicarage, Harpole Rectory, & Kishingbury Rectory

28 Ravensthorpe Vicarage, & Teeton, Holdenby Rectory, Upton, member of St Peter, Northampton, Up & Nether Heyford Rectory, & Brockhall Rectory

Towcester Hundred

Pattishall Vicarage, Gayton Rectory, Tiffield Rectory, Abthorpe Rectory, & Foscote, Towcester Vicarage, & Heathencote

Cleyley Hundred

Roade chapel, Ashton Rectory, Alderton Rectory, Grafton Regis Rectory, Stoke Bruerne Rectory, Shutlanger Vicarage, Easton & Neston, Hartwell Rectory, Potterspury Vicarage, Heathencote, Paulerspury Rectory, & Wicken Rectory

29 Furtho Rectory, Cosgrove Rectory, Passenham Rectory, & Denshanger

30 Return of an inquest taken at Morton Pinkney, 1 Feb 1656

Chipping Warden Hundred

Aston le Walls Rectory, Byfield Rectory, Upper & Lower Boddington Rectory, Chipping Warden Rectory, Eydon Rectory, Edgcote Rectory, Greatworth Rectory, Sulgrave Rectory, & Woodford Vicarage, with Woodford Halse, Farndon, & Hinton

31 Green's Norton Hundred

Canons Asby Vicarage, Adstone chapel, Bradden Rectory, Blakesley Rectory, Green's Norton Rectory, Maidford Rectory, Moreton Pinkney curacy, Plumpton Rectory, Slapton Rectory, Weedon Lois Vicarage, Weston Rectory, Whittlebury Rectory, & Silverstone Vicarage

32 Return of an inquisition made at Culworth, 29 Jan 1656

Kings Sutton Hundred

Aynho Rectory, Astwell, Falcutt & Wappingham Rectory, Brackley Vicarage, Halse, Culworth Vicarage, Croughton Rectory, Chalcombe Vicarage, Evenley Vicarage, Farthinghoe Rectory, Helmdon Rectory, Hinton in the Hedges Rectory, King's Sutton Vicarage, Middleton Cheney Rectory, Marston St Lawrence Vicarage, Newbottle Vicarage, Radstone Rectory, & Syresham Rectory

33 Stuchbury Rectory, Thorpe Mandeville Rectory, Thenford Rectory, Warkworth Rectory, Whitfield Rectory, Wappenham Rectory, & Steane Rectory, Ashwell & 'Fancett' tithes

34 Inquisition made at Daventry, 22 Jan 1656

Fawsley Hundred

Daventry Vicarage, Preston Capes Vicarage, Dodford Vicarage, Welton Vicarage, Weedon Beck Vicarage, Kilsby Vicarage, Staverton Vicarage, Braunston Rectory, Ashby St Ledgers Vicarage, Great & Little Everdon Rectory, Newnham Vicarage, Hellidon Vicarage, Stowell Rectory, Farthingstone Rectory, & Barby Rectory

34v Catesby & Newbold Vicarage, Litchborough Rectory, & Norton Vicarage

35 Guilsborough Hundred

Great & Little Creaton Rectory, Naseby Rectory, Welford Vicarage, Elkington, Cottesbrooke Rectory, Thornby Rectory, Cold Ashby Vicarage, Guilsborough Vicarage, Lilbourne Vicarage, Watford Vicarage, Crick Rectory, West Haddon Vicarage, Claycoton Rectory, Stanford on Avon Vicarage, Yelvertoft Rectory, Winwick Rectory, Long Buckbey, Elkington, & Sulby lordship

36 Oaths & signatures of the jurors as to the truth of the schedules presented concerning livings in Northamptonshire, made at Kettering 10 Oct 1656. Receipt of this 'Certificate' acknowledged by John Phelps, 23 Oct 1656