ilip and
Mary, and instituted 15th February, 1555.

1587. Richard Davis, curate, presented by William Whittingham, gent.
His salary was 7 pounds 13s. 4d.

1755. William Williams, curate.

1758. George Hodges, born at Shrewsbury 1720, educated at Westminster
and Christ Church, Oxford, B.A. 1743. Rector of Woolstaston 1770-1780.

1769. David Richards, signs in 1767-70 as "Minister," and afterwards as
"Curate."

1778. Thomas Williams.

1782. Richard Lloyd, curate.

1795. John Hawkins.

1833. Edward Homfray, died 24th June, 1856.

1857. Edmund Donald Carr, B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Rector of
Woolstaston 1865-1900. Died June, 1900.

1866. William George Clutton Nottley, Rector of Alpheton, Suffolk,
1876-8.

1876. William Henry Whitworth, M.A. and sometime fellow and tutor of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

1885. Henry Anderton. Vicar of Hopton Cangeford 1881, and of Garway
1883-4. Resigned in 1891, and went to live at Chester.

1891. Arthur William Benjamin Walmsley Watts, B.A. Selwyn College,
Cambridge. Resigned 1892. Rector of Coates, 1901.

1892. Thomas Baker Aston, M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, Curate-in-Charge.
Rector of Habberley since 1869. There was no Incumbent from 1892 to
1895.

1895. William Perry Ireland, M.A. Merton College, Oxford. Vicar of
Peter's Marland, 1897.

1896. Thomas Robert Glenn, L.Th. Univ. of Durham. The present
Incumbent.

The Inventory of Church Goods made 11th August, 1549, shows that there
were then at Rotlynchope "one chalyce off sylver parcell gilt, and one
cruete of pewter, one vestment of crule, one crismatory, one altare
cloth, one towell, and two bellys." In 1553 there remained "to bellys,
[one chalice of silver] with the patent thereunto"; and another return of
1553 gives "a chales of sylver, ij belles." The Religious Census of
Shropshire made in 1676, states that there were at Ratlinghope (in
Pontesbury Deanery) 128 Conformists, no Papists, and 3 Nonconformists.
These were the number of inhabitants over the age of sixteen. In 1727
William Mitton was patron of the perpetual curacy.

The _Parish Register Abstract_ of 1831 contains the following account of
the Ratlinghope Registers:--

"Ratlinghope R. Nos. I., II. Bap., Bur., 1702-1793, Marr., 1702-1752.
No. III., Bap., Bur, 1794-1812. No. IV., Marr., 1755-1812." The
Registers have been very badly kept, all the earlier ones are missing,
and those of the earlier ones that r