Yelford: Nonconformity

A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1996.

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'Yelford: Nonconformity', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One), (London, 1996) pp. 217. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol13/p217 [accessed 17 March 2024]

NONCONFORMITY.

Gregory Gunnis, rector 1567-79, was imprisoned in 1585 as a suspected seminary priest, but no later reference to Roman Catholicism has been found. (fn. 1) Several generations of the Baker family, tenants of Manor farm from the 1760s to c. 1820, were Baptists attending Cote chapel. (fn. 2)

Footnotes

  • 1. Above, church.
  • 2. O.R.O., MSS. Oxf. Dioc. d 560, d 563, d 571, d 573; above, econ. hist.