THE ANNALS OF KIRK CHRIST LEZAYRE

some time known as
TRINITY AYRE

BY

CANON R. D. KERMODE, M.A. ISLE OF MAN ;

THE NORRIS MODERN PRESS LTD. VICTORIA STREET DOUGLAS
1954

CONTENTS

  Acknowledgments
  Introduction
I. THE PARISH.
(I) Name ; (2) Boundaries ; (3) Perambulating the Boundaries; (4) Area;(5) Population ; (6) Natural Features (a)Mountains (b) Rivers and Lakes.
II. THE BATTLE OF SCACAFELL
III. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE LAND IN NORWEGIAN TIMES.
IV. THE ABBEY LANDS.
V. PARTICLES AND BISHOP'S BARONY.
VI. LEZAYRE AND WHITHERN.
VII. THE OLD CHURCH.
VIII. THE NEW CHURCH.
IX. THE VICARS OF THE PARISH.
X. THE PARISH CLERKS.
XI. CHURCHWARDENS.
XII. CHURCH DISCIPLINE, ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS, PRESENTMENTS.
XIII. THE SCHOOLS. (I) Parochial ; (2) Sulby ;(3) Mountain ; (4) Dhoor.
XIV. ST. STEPHEN'S, SULBY.
XV. ST. OLAVE'S, RAMSEY.
XVI. INCOME OF THE LIVING, GLEBE AND HOUSE.
XVII. THE GRANGEE ASSESSMENT.
XVIII. THE GREAT REBELLION.
XIX. THE KING'S FOREST.
XX. LEZAYRE FAMILIES.
(I) Christian of Milntown ; (2) Curghey and Farrant of Ballakillinghan ; (3) Garrett of Ballabrooie ; (4) Crowe of the Nappin ; (5) Standish of Ellanbane ;(6) Corlett of Glentramman.
XXI. CRIME AND ITS PUNISHMENT.
XXII. THE REGISTERS.
  Appendices.
  INDEX.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece Robert Daniel Kermode, M.A. (1868-1948).
Page vi. The Ancient Cross of Kirk Christ Lezayre.
Plate 1 (facing p. 44)-Lezayre Old Church: Compare with Plan, Plate 2
Plate 2 (facing p. 52)-Plan of Lezayre Old Church, c. 1766.
Plate 3 (facing p. 58)-" Plan of the Ancient Cross ... of Kirk Christ, Lezayre," circa 1833.
Plate 4 (facing p. 62)-The New Parish Church of Lezayre, in 1841.
Plate 5 (facing p. 135)-St. Stephen's Chapel and Schoolhouse, Sulby, in 1841.
Plate 6 (facing p. 167)-Milntown : the home of the Christian family.

Figures illustrating Appendix I
Plate 7-" Cronk yn How " and its Ancient Topographical Setting (facing p. 202).
Plate 8-Excavators' plan of " Cronk yn How," 1928 (facing p. 203)
Plate 9-General view of Cronk yn How. In course of excavation, 1928 (facing p. 204).
Plate 10- The " Cronk yn How Stone " (facing p. 205).

Map (facing p. 216)-The Treen Divisions of Kirk Christ, Lezayre. As drawn by William Cubbon for J. J. Kneen's Place-Names of the Isle of Man.

Acknowledgments-Plate 3 is reproduced from a new drawing kindly provided by Messrs. Davidson, Marsh and Co., Architects, based on the original plan.
The following illustrations are from blocks kindly lent as under
Plate 6-Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
Plate 7-9 incl.-Cambrian Archaeological Association.
Plate 10, and the end map of treens-Manx Museum.


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