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Collapse D1443 - Hassop Roman Catholic Chapel - 1817

D1443 - Hassop Roman Catholic Chapel - 1817

1-2 - Re-conveyance in form of Lease & Release Revd Walter Blount, Wolverhampton (Staffordshire)/Francis Eyre, Earl of Newburgh and Thomas Eyre, Viscount Kinnaird, his eldest son, Rt Rev John Milner, Wolverhampton, Rev Thomas Walsh, Handsworth (Staffordshire) Blount to Eyre on trust to use chapel for Roman Catholic worship and house for secular priest. Francis and Thomas Eyre convenant to spend £5 per year on upkeep of Inner Library at Hassop Hall, to allow access to priest, and to pay £100 to Bishop Milner if books are removed. Recites will of Thomas Eyre of Hassop, 1778, leaving £1,500 after death of his wife Mary, the interest on this to the Bishop of the Middle District to provide the salary for the secular priest at Hassop, £600 to buy house and land and to build chapel; Inner Library books to Bishop for priest of Hassop and Hathersage. If books kept at Hassop, £100 to build room for library and interest on £100 for upkeep. also recites contract dated 11 June1816 with Joseph Ireland, architect, Old Burlington St., London, to build chapel. Note of agreement that books remain at Hassop Hall for present, 9 & 10 Apr. - 1817

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