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Memoranda regarding the induction of Rectors and burial ground consecration

Memorandum, that on the (blank) day of (blank) 1899, John Francis Kitson, M.A. vicar of Antony, in the County of Cornwall, and diocese of Truro, by virtue of an order to him committed, on the presentation of Col.R.Pole-Carew, C.B., did induct William Wingate M.A., clerk, into the real actual and corporal possession of the Rectory and Church of the Parish of St John, with all the rights, members, and appurtenances thereof.
 
The said William Wingate was inducted in our presence, in the 63rd year of Queen Victoria

Alfred Aire		Inhabitants
Edwin R Collins

Memorandum that on the 12th day of October 1904, Henry H Du Bouley M.A. Archdeacon of Bodmin, did by virtue of the mandate of the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Truro, on the presentation of Major-Gen: Sir R. Pole-Carew K.C.B did, induct Augustus Walsh M.A. clerk into the real actual and corporal possession of the Rectory and Church of the Parish of St John with all rights members and appurtenances thereof.
 
The said Augustus Walsh was inducted in our presence

Albert F Dallen		Churchwardens
Alfred Aire

And a full congregation at Evensong , in the 4th year of King Edward V11

Memorandum that on the 15th day of July 1905, the Right Rev Lord Bishop, did, on the petition of the Rector and Churchwardens of the Parish of St John, consecrate an additional Burial Ground for the said Parish of St John in the following words:-

"By virtue of our sacred office in the Church of God, we do now consecrate, and for ever set apart from all profane and common uses, this ground to be the resting place of the dead until the glorious Resurrection of the last day; in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen."

In our presence

Albert F Dallen		Churchwardens
Alfred Aire

and a full congregation.

Augustus Walsh Rector
 

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