A history of the Church of St Giles, Northampton . was granted to himin lieu of a great coat. The last payment of this nature occurs in 1874, when 15/-was expended on a hat, and £4 5s. was paid for the sextonsclothes. In the following year, Penn retired on a pension of £20 ayear, which he lived to enjoy for over seven years. He died8th January, 1883, and four days later was buried in St. Giles l82 CLERKS AND SEXTONS. churchyard. A stone near the north door still marks the spot. Edward Penn was succeeded by Wm. Morbey, who heldoffice for five years. On his resignation in 1880, the twooffices of
A history of the Church of St Giles, Northampton . was granted to himin lieu of a great coat. The last payment of this nature occurs in 1874, when 15/-was expended on a hat, and £4 5s. was paid for the sextonsclothes. In the following year, Penn retired on a pension of £20 ayear, which he lived to enjoy for over seven years. He died8th January, 1883, and four days later was buried in St. Giles l82 CLERKS AND SEXTONS. churchyard. A stone near the north door still marks the spot. Edward Penn was succeeded by Wm. Morbey, who heldoffice for five years. On his resignation in 1880, the twooffices of clerk and sexton were united, and Henry Thompsonwas appointed sexton with a salary of £62 a year. He resigned in 1882, and George Isaac Coles took his in turn resigned in 1884, and was succeeded by , who held office for 25 years, resigning in November,1909. Wm. Manning died 9th January, 1911, aged 72, andwas buried, 14th January, at Rothersthorpe. The present sexton is Henry James Sharman, who was ap-pointed November, SbeRtuerrai)TJpbertJJtoiBM CHAPTER XIV. The Registers. I HE earliest parochial register of St. Giles contains a -L. record of the Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials from the year 1559 to 1747. It is a large parchment volume, 16 inches by 12^ inches, in excellent condition, and was carefully re-bound in is entitled :— A true and perfect extracte of the names and surnames of allsuche as have beine Baptized, buryed, and Maryed wtin the parysheof St. Gyles in the Towne of Northampton since the beginninge of thefirste yeare of the Reigne of our moste gracous and soveraigne PrincesseElizabethe, by the speciall grace of God, of England, Fraunce, andIreland, Queene, defender of the faythe, etc., and in all causes, and overall persons as well ecclesiasticall as temporall, next and imediately underGod, supreme head and governesse. Wryten and extracted by me, JohnCarre, Vicar of the said Churche, and vicarage of St. Gyles, accordingto th
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