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East Worlington House - Church of England Record Centre Letter

Letter to Lady Stevens, occupant of East Worlington House saying that there is no record of the house in the Records Section of the Church Commissioners.  However, there is an interesting hand written note (presumably by Lady Stevens) which says:

Note Small "Church House" - now school house - had probably been used by visiting R.C. priests before the Reformation. It is possible that the farmer of E.W. House & land handed the property over to then Parish in the mid Cxvii in lieu of Tithe.  Perhaps he had no son or had got into financial trouble during the civil war.

The is unfortunately no reference for the origin of this.