{"id":3294,"date":"2015-08-03T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T13:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3294"},"modified":"2015-08-03T13:55:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T13:55:39","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-ashby-folville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3294","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in Ashby Folville"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashby Folville is about 14 miles north-east of Leicester.<\/p>\n

The main form of dissent from the Church of England in Ashby Folville in 1676 was Catholicism, and only two Protestant dissenters were noted.[1]<\/a> By 1706, the village was said to contain 10-12 dissenters, mostly Presbyterians, and the same number of Catholics.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

No return was made to the 1829 census of religious meeting houses, but by 1851 a congregation of Particular Baptists met in a windmill, although they held no services on Sundays.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

No nonconformist chapels are noted in 19th- or early 20th-century trade directories.<\/p>\n

Notes<\/span><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> A. Whiteman, The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition<\/em> (London, 1986), p. 337<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> J. Broad (ed.), Bishop Wake’s summary of visitation returns from the diocese of Lincoln, 1706-1715. Part 2, Outside Lincolnshire (Huntingdonshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Buckinghamshire)<\/em> (Oxford, 2012), p. 808<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> TNA, HO 129\/418\/4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ashby Folville is about 14 miles north-east of Leicester. The main form of dissent from the Church of England in Ashby Folville in 1676 was Catholicism, and only two Protestant dissenters were noted.[1] By 1706, the village was said to contain 10-12 dissenters, mostly Presbyterians, and the same number of Catholics.[2] No return was made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3294\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}