Sale Advertised of Advowson at Ducie's Woochester Park
This announcement of the sale of properties beleonging to Lord Ducie appeared in the 13 February and 6 March editions of The Law Times in 1846.
Dating back to the feudal system, an advowson gave a person the right to nominate who would be appointed to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church living.
The Earl's book collection was sold off at a later auction in 1847. In 1848, Chester Hill House, 18 acres of land and the rectory were also auctioned off.
THE LAW TIMES. 6th March 1846
Advowsons, with desirable Parsonages, and easy duty, in a highly picturesque and healthy part of Gloucestershire.
MESSRS DANIEL SMITH and SON will OFFER for public SALE, at the Mart, in MARCH or APRIL next (unless acceptable offers shall be previously made by private contract), the valuable PERPETUAL AD- VOWSON, with right of next presentation to the living of Woodchester, of the annual value of about 3907.; the in- cumbent nearly 70; the population about 900. Also the advowson of Frocester, the incumbent of which is about 47: population about 350. There is a desirable and pleasantly aituate parsonage to each, with some valuable glebe.
Further particulars will be shortly published, and may then be had at the Star and Angel Hotels, Oxford;
Cambridge; at the White Lion, Gloucester; at the Auction Mart; of Messrs. DANIEL SMITH and SON, Land Agents, Waterloo-place, London; and of Mr. HODSON, Solicitor, Lichfield."
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