Richard Peacock (son of William Peacock) was born Abt. 1615, and died date unknown.
Notes for Richard Peacock: A moderate valuation of the houses in the parish of St. Martin's Orgar, made according to his Majesty's Order bearing date, April 22, 1638. RENTS.
From: 'Inhabitants of London in 1638: St. Martin Orgar', The inhabitants of London in 1638 (1931), pp. 129-30. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=32042&strquery=Rich ard%20Peacock. Date accessed: 26 May 2005. Richard Peacock 10
The light of the Holy Cross is the only one in the church to which there are specific references in the Middle Ages, (Footnote 41) but in 1547 an unnamed light had an endowment of an acre of land. (Footnote 42) One medieval rector (1305-30) is known to have been a pluralist and probably did not reside. (Footnote 43) William Grocyn, the scholar, was rector from 1504 to 1513, but he held other preferments and did not reside at Shepperton. (Footnote 44) Nicholas Robinson, rector 1561-74, held Shepperton in commendam after becoming Bishop of Bangor in 1566. (Footnote 45) He made a twelve-year lease of the rectory estate about 1562. (Footnote 46) Lewis Hughes, an outspoken royalist, was deprived in 1642. He was said to have taken services after his deprivation and to have forbidden parishioners to pay tithes to John Doddridge in 1647. Doddridge who was the third minister since Hughes had been deprived, was in turn ejected in 1660 but for some time refused to give up the rectory. His successor, Richard Peacock, was a royalist and had been a chaplain to the army in the Civil War. (Footnote 47) Matthew Kirby was deprived in 1707 for failing to take the oath of allegiance. (Footnote 48) His successor Lewis Atterbury, brother of the Bishop of Rochester, was chaplain to Queen Anne, who presented him to Shepperton: he probably did not live there though he took enough interest in the church to contribute largely to building a new tower. (Footnote 49) In the early 18th century there were two Sunday services and about the end of the century there were seven communion services a year. In 1790 there were some 40 communicants, on Easter Sunday 1821 there were 37, and three years later there were 50. (Footnote 50) William Russell, rector 1817-70, lived in Shepperton and took an active part in local affairs. It was afterwards said that when he started his work among them the parishioners 'by all accounts had for some time been living in great darkness and were morally and religiously much in need of a Christian Minister'. (Footnote 51) In 1870 a chapel of ease called St. John's was opened in Watersplash Road. (Footnote 52) It and the surrounding district were transferred to Littleton parish in 1949 and the church was closed about 1953. (Footnote 53) In 1959 there were 351 names on the electoral roll of St. Nicholas. (Footnote 54) The main Sunday service was then 11 o'clock matins except when it was replaced once a month and on great festivals by sung eucharist.
From: 'Shepperton: The hundred of Spelthorne (continued)', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume III: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington (1962), pp. 1-12. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22224&strquery=Rich ard%20Peacock. Date accessed: 26 May 2005.
Richard Peacock (b. Abt. 1615, d. date unknown)
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