Description:Papers relating to life on the Trentham Estate include a ‘Proposal’ made by Freeholders and Parishioners from Trentham concerning ‘the Bells’ at Trentham Parish Church.
The Freeholders and Parishioners appealed to Earl Gower for permission to ‘Build a Tower at their own expence so that the Bells may not be Told’. They also wished to ‘Repair the church so much as belongs to the Parish’.
The proposal states that the freeholders and parishioners would ‘give a Bond or any Wrighting’ that when it was ‘disagreeable to any of the Family’ at Trentham Hall ‘for the Bells to ring’, that ‘four or five of the roaps shall be tooke and lock’d up by the Clarke or church-wardens and all the while the Family is down at Trentham’.
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