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GROWTH OF WIRRAL <strong>OLD</strong> CHURCHES<br />

parishes of North Yorkshire, such as<br />

Halifax and Helmsley, where the inhabitants<br />

of the remote hamlets were provided<br />

with chapels of their own, the chantry<br />

priests were sometimes directed to take<br />

the services. So that, when all chantry<br />

endowments were at last confiscated, it<br />

was not an immixed blessing : the parson<br />

lost his curate, services had to be greatly<br />

curtailed in number and dignity, choristers<br />

lost their choirmaster and the<br />

grammar-school boys their master, the<br />

hamlets lost their chaplains ; and nobody<br />

was apparently the better for it except<br />

Edward Vlth. It was in 1529 that<br />

Parliament made it illegal to charge for<br />

Mass or the Requiem,<br />

and in 1545 that<br />

the in<strong>com</strong>es of chantries were confiscated ;<br />

and after the death of Queen Mary the<br />

chantry chapel passed away for ever from<br />

the English church.<br />

CHAS. ALDRIDGE :<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY.<br />

The Priory of the Blessed Virgin<br />

and St. James, Birkenhead (Trans. Hist.<br />

iSoc. Lane, and Ches.)<br />

FBANCIS BOND : Introduction to English Church<br />

Architecture. The Chancel oi! English<br />

Churches. Gothic Architecture in England.<br />

CHAS. D. BROWN : The Ancient Parish of West Eirby.<br />

(Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, and Ches.)<br />

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