APPLICATIONS FOR REGISTRATION OF PROTESTANT MEETING HOUSES
Below is the text of five applications to the Bishop of Lichfield & Coventry for the registration of Protestant Meeting Houses in Stanley & Stanley Common. These appear to be nonconformist meeting houses, so they are of interest because they reveal the names of people in Stanley who were of that persuasion.
The text is quoted as written (including mis-spellings) and the documents can be found at Lichfield Records Office under reference B/A/12ii/26.
| To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and
Coventry We the undersigned Protestant Dissenters, do hereby certify your Lordship, that a certain house, situated at Stanley, in the County of Derby, and within your Lordship's Diocese, is intended to be used by Protestant Dissenters as a place for the public worship of Almighty God, and we request that the same may be registered according to the laws in that case provided. Stanley 12th July 1817 Jno Cuppleditch William Hall (Registered 25th Aug 1817)
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| To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and
Coventry and to his rigistrar I William Jackson of Standley in the County of Derby do hereby certify that a room at Standley Common in the occupation of me is intended forthwith to be used as a place of religious worship by an Assembly or Congregation of Protestants; and I do hereby require you to register and record the same according to the provisions of an Act passed in the 52nd year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituted "An Act to repeal certain Acts, and amend other Acts, relating to religious Worship and Assemblies, and Persons teaching or preaching therein;" and hereby require a certificate thereof. Witness my hand this 12th day of September 1818. (Registered 15th Sep 1818)
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| To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and
Coventry We the undersigned Protestant Dissenters do hereby certify your Lordship, that a certain Dwelling House, in the occupation of William Scattergood, situate at Stanley, in the Parish of Spondon, in the County of Derby, and within your Lordship's Diocese, is intended to be used as a place for the public worship of Almighty God, and we request that the same may be registered according to the statute in that case provided. Stanley December 23rd 1826 William Scattergood James Gawthorn (Registered and certified 28th Dec 1826)
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| To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and
Coventry and to his registrar I John Boden of Stanley Common in the Parish of Stanley in the County of Derby and Diocese of Litchfield and Coventry do hereby certify that the Wesleyan Chapel situated in Stanley is intended forthwith to be used as a place of religious worship by an Assembly or Congregation of Protestants and do hereby require you to register and record the same according to the provisions of the Act passed in the 52nd year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituted "An Act to repeal certain Acts, and amend other Acts, relating to religious Worship and Assemblies, and Persons teaching or preaching therein;" and hereby request a certificate thereof. Witness my hand this 5th day of October 1850. John Boden Trustee Benjm. Fletcher Trustee (Registered 5th Nov 1850)
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| To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and
Coventry and to his registrar I Henry Grundy of Stanley in the County of Derby and Diocese of Litchfield and Coventry do hereby certify that the Wesleyan Chapel situated in Stanley is intended forthwith to be used as a place of religious worship by an Assembly or Congregation of Protestants and do hereby require you to register and record the same according to the provisions of the Act passed in the 52nd year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituted "An Act to repeal certain Acts, and amend other Acts, relating to religious Worship and Assemblies, and Persons teaching or preaching therein;" and hereby request a certificate thereof. Witness my hand this 23rd day of October 1850. Henry Grundy Trustee John Martin Trustee (Registered 5th Nov 1850)
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