People in North Tawton, Devon, UK
RELIGIOUS LIFE
1498 Abbot, Monks, Bedesmen |
No date
KELLEY Antony, parson of North Tawton.
1397-8, January 29
"John BOURE, priest, was presented to the Rectory of North Tawton, the patron being Richard HANKEFORD for this turn, in right of his wife Thomasia, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard STAPILTON, Kt."
From "Report and Transactions" Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1864 (page 497) (Google Books Online)
1479
"Thomas ROLEY, rector of North Tawton, Exeter diocese"
From "The Register of Richard Fox, Lord Bishop of Durham, 1494-1501" by Marjorie Peers Howden, Catholic Church Diocese of Durham (England), 1932 (page xxvii) (Google Books Online)
1560
Attacks on the Clergy, Resistance to Tithe-gathering
"The treatment meted out ... to the vicar of North Tawton was comparatively mild. John LEATHENER first insulted him -
'I pray you, get you out of my company, for I cannot abide you!'
- and then flung his ale into the cleric's face."
From "The Blind Devotion of the People: III" by Robert Whiting, 1991 (Cambridge University Press) ISBN 0521424399 (page 143)
1602
"TOZER Henry, a learned puritan divine, was born in 1602, in North Tawton in Devonshire, and educated at Exeter college, Oxford, of which he was chosen fellow in 1623.
Having afterwards taken orders, he was, according to WOOD, useful in moderating, reading to novices, and lecturing in the chapel. He was also an able and laborious preacher, had much, WOOD says, of the primitive religion in his sermons, and
'seemed to be a most precise puritan in his looks and life;'
on which account his sermons and expositions in the churches of St. Giles's and St. Martin, at Oxford, were much frequented by the puritanical party.
After evincing his loyalty to his sovereign, and his devotion to the church, he was forced to flee to Holland, where he became minister to the English merchants at Rotterdam, where he died Sept. 11, 1650, in the forty-eigth year of his age, and was interred in the English church in that place.
Mr. TOZER published a few occasional sermons; 'Directions for a Godly Life, especially for Communicating at the Lord's Table', 1628, 8vo, of which a tenth edition appeared in 1680; and 'Dicta et Facta Christi ex Quatuor Evangelistia collecta', 1634, 8vo."
From "A New General Biographical Dictionary" vol.I, by Hugh James Rose, 1857 (B. Fellowes ...) (page 272) (Google Books Online)
1603-1604
COTELL Christopher, rector of North Tawton. (Probably rector of Goodleigh in 1594.)
From "Library History" 1967
1662 Act of Conformity (Charles II)
North Tawton, [Rectory] Mr. MAYNARD
He was an old man when he was ejected. Soon after his ejectment he was threatened with being sent to the work-house by justice G___, who told him he should there hear better preaching, and asked him who made him a preacher? Mr. MAYNARD told him he had been episcopally ordained. But this procured him no favour: the justice replied,
'I hear you teach children to suck in rebellion: you ought to be banished the realm, and if you return, to be cut asunder.'"
From "The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, who Were Ejected Or Silenced" by Edmund Calamy, Samuel Palmer, 1775 (page 406) (Google Books Online)
1716 Inscription
"North Tawton Church Plate. Peter WARE, Churchwarden"
From "Report and Transactions" Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1864 (page 105) (Google Books Online)
1765, September
John WESLEY
"Wednesday, 4. - I rode on to North Tawton, a village where several of our preachers had preached occasionally. About six I went to the door of our inn; but I had hardly ended the psalm, when a clergyman came, with two or three (by the courtesy of England called) gentlemen. After I had named my text, I said,
'There may be some truths which concern some men only; but this concerns all mankind.'
The minister cried out,
'That is false doctrine, that is predestination.'
Then the roar began; to second which they had brought a huntsman with his hounds: but the dogs were wiser than the men; for they could not bring them to make any noise at all. One of the gentlemen supplied their place. He assured us he was such, or none would have suspected it; for his language was as base, foul, and porterly, as ever was heard at Billingsgate. Dog, rascal, puppy, and the like terms, adorned almost every sentence. Finding there was no probability of a quiet hearing, I left him the field, and withdrew to my lodging."
From "The Journal of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M., Sometime Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford" by John Wesley, 1856 (Carlton & Phillips) (page 218) (Google Books Online)
1789
HOL[E] Rev. Richard died in his 69th year at his house in the Friers, Exeter; formerly of Clare-hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1752, M.A. 1774; rector, in his own right, of the livings of North Tawton and Chulmleigh ...
From "The Gentleman's Magazine" page 357
1843
PALMER, Rev. S., North Tawton (subscribed to a Roman Catholic publication)
1856
Home Chronicle - North Tawton, Devon
"The pastors and delegates of the North Devon Association of Independent Ministers held their autumnal meetings at North Tawton, on Wednesday, 21st of November, with the hope, that, by so doing, they might be the means of stimulating the cause of Christ here, and of countenancing and encouraging the Rev. J. WILLIAMS, late of the Theological Institution, Cotton End, who has settled here under the auspices of the Home Missionary Society. The ministers and delegates met for business at eleven o'clock A.M.
In the afternoon the Rev. J. PEACOCK, of Chulmleigh, read the scriptures and prayed. The Rev. E. JONES, of Plymouth, preached a powerful sermon.
There was a tea-meeting in the evening, when about one hundred and forty sat down; after which there was a public meeting, when addresses were delivered by the Rev. J. BUCKPITT, of Torrington; W. SLATER, of Barnstaple; E. JONES of Plymouth; and T. YOUNG, of Braunton.
The Rev. Messrs. CORKE, of Lapford; HARRISON, of South Molton; SHARP and WILLIAMS, of North Tawton, took part in the services of the day. The congregations were far more numerous than could have been expected. About two hundred were present in the afternoon, and in the evening the chapel, which will hold four hundred, was quite full."
From "The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle" No. 398, February 1856 (Ward & Co. Paternoster Row, London) (Oliphant in Edinburgh, King in Aberdeen, Stark in Glasgow, Robertson in Dublin) - sixpence (page 93) (Google Books Online)
1857
SHARP, Rev. Thos., Independent Minister, North Tawton (subscribed to "Evangelical Christendom" published 1 January).
1904
"The Rev. James WILLIAMS, of North Tawton, has accepted an invitation to become the minister of the Independent Chapel, Lyme Regis, Dorset."
From "The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle" page 225
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