The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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The English Ancestry of
" reserving the collation of it to himself and his successors
forever, and accordingly it hath been in the Bishop's gift
ever since," says Morant, and so remains to-day.
After the dissolution of the Priory, the rectory and great
tithes of the Parish were granted to John De Vere, a descen-
dant of the original founder. In 1592 Queen Elizabeth
gave this rectory, among others, to Theophilus Adams and
Thomas Butler. A century or more ago a part of the great
tithes belonged to Mr. James Wilder of Ipswich, at which
time the Parish was "rated to the land-tax at £74$. 2s" In
1881 the vicarage was rated at ^330; more recently the
living was valued at ^250 with a parsonage. The Parish is
in the Diocese of St. Alban's, Archdeaconry of Colchester,
and the Rural Deanery of St. Osyth. Its population is 1,000,
and the Rev. Francis Pery Hutchesson Powell, M. A., was
the Vicar in 1897..
Newcourt's Repertorium gives the names of the Clergy of
St. Mary's in the latter part of the sixteenth century and
onward.* The Parish was the scene of many of the religious
troubles in the stormy times of the Tudors, and it may be
of interest to refer to some of them. Thomas Tye was
made Parish Priest by Bishop Bonner, 13 December, 1557,
when his predecessor, John Shereman, who had been there
sixteen years, was deprived of the living. Tye had pre-
viously " professed himself to be a gospeller .... but had
now turned round, and as his reward for betraying those
* Repertorium, ii : pp. 50, 51.