GC4FXC0 Church Micro 3928... Burtle (Traditional Cache) in South West England, United Kingdom created by poshrule adopted by higster

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higster: Have been out today bringing in a lot of our CM caches and various others which have been out for some years.
The area in which these caches are set is just too wide to maintain and most we adopted when spending time in Somerset.
Thanks to all who have visited in the past.

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A cache by poshrule adopted by higster Message this owner

Hidden : 7/9/2013

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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A 50ml camo pot

The present-day Church was built on the site of an old Monastery and was completed in 1839 and dedicated to St Philip & St James on May 1st of that year. Miss Anne Ruscombe Field paid for the building of the gothic style church, she also gave a greater part of the endowment.

The rights of patronage were granted to Anne Field and her family by the Right Reverend Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath & Wells. The land for the building of a chapel was given by Earl Waldegrave.

St Philip & St James was used as a chapel of ease to the mother church of Moorlinch along with the chapelries of Catcott, Chilton-Super-Polden, Edington, Stawell and Sutton Mallet. These chapelries became known as the seven sisters. These seven churches reI1).ained under the Abbot of Glastonbury until 1933.

In October 1840 Anne Field paid a bond of £1,000 to the right Reverend Lord Bishop of Bath & Wells as collateral security for the endowment of Burtle Chapel within the chapelrye of Edington in the parish of Moorlinch.

An indenture dated 1840 stated, with the consent of the Lord Bishop of Bath & Wells the rents in the schedule annex to the chapel for the benefit of the Minister and Incumbent and his successors for ever to be received, taken and enjoyed by the minister or incumbent for the time being for his and their own use and benefit.

Another bond of £1,000 was invested in stock and funds or securities in the name of such person or persons or bodies politic as the said George Henry Bishop of bath & Wells shall think proper. The interest to be paid to the minister and his successors of the said chapel for ever for repairs to the chapel and fence of the chapel yard.

An indenture dated 12th August 1848 between Anne Field and The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy for an estate of inheritance of lands and herediments for the residence for a term of two thousand years which commenced about the nineteenth day of November, one thousand six hundred and seventy seven, for the use of the governors and their successors for ever, to be used for the perpetual augmentation of the maintenance of the curate or incumbent of the church at Burtle, also the said Curate or Incumbent shall be at liberty to quarry stone and cut timber for repairs to the parsonage house that is attached to the Church but for no other purpose. Also he can from time to time cut turf for fuel to be used in his own house and not for sale.

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onfr bs gerr

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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