PR/IL/31
Reference code
PR/IL/31
Level of description
File
Title
Presentation of John Elmeston as Vicar of Ilfracombe
Date
c 1691
Quantity & Format
1 sheet
Description
Presentation by John Byrom, Prebendary of Ilfracombe (1684-1717), to Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Exeter (1689-1707), of John Elmeston as Vicar of Ilfracombe (1691-1720).
The document is not dated, signed or sealed. A previous archive note says that the presentation was unexecuted, but there is evidence that John Elmeston was Vicar of Ilfracombe from 1691 to 1724.
On transfer from Wiltshire County Record Office this document was in an envelope annotated thus: "A few more papers re prebendaries' installations - proxies, & an (unexecuted) presentation by the Prebend of Ilfracombe, to the Bp of Exeter, of a perpetual vicar to Ilfracombe".
Language
Latin
Physical Characteristics
Material: parchment