{"id":19152,"date":"2012-10-27T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T09:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloxham.info\/broadsheet\/?p=19152"},"modified":"2012-10-27T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T10:56:23","slug":"the-disappearing-vicar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloxham.info\/broadsheet\/the-disappearing-vicar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disappearing Vicar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Pargeter was our vicar from 1724 to 1740. Little is known of him, his footprint on Bloxham\u2019s history is faint. He was the first and only of our 18th century vicars to have been educated at Eton. The Church had passed through difficult times, tossed between Catholicism and Puritanism, although the Church of England had gradually become the established church under Queen Elizabeth I. Many vicars of Bloxham were reluctant to state their religious belief too forcibly and Robert Pargeter was one of them.
\n We know he was a graduate of Oxford University, well educated as were all his family who were mostly men of the cloth. I have found only one visitation return, made to Bishop Secker in 1738; this contained no personal details only a somewhat negative account of his parish which was not a prosperous one, even his Vicarage house was said to be in a poor state. Why did this man of his education and position accept this living? He seems to have attended to his duties adequately but with no great fervour. Even his sermons were in part taken from those of other preachers and give no indication of his character.
\n(Translated from the Latin) The memorial brass in Bloxham church read:-
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\nHere lies buried
\nRobert Pargeter, Master of Arts
\nVicar of this church for 17 years
\nDied on the 8th March 1740
\nIn the 47th year of his life
\nAlso Susanna his wife
\nWho died on the 7th March 1750
\nIn the 61st year of her life<\/p>\n

Singularly uninformative and now he is at risk of disappearing from our memories altogether for recently this plaque has been stolen from the church.
\n In the future unless someone makes deeper researches into his career than I have been able to do, no one will remember him.
\nPoor Robert Pargeter!
\nY S Huntriss<\/p>\n

If you wish to read a little more about this vicar and about our other vicars you can buy a copy of \u201cA Flight of Fathers\u201d from the village museum or from Mr Peter Barwell.<\/p>\n

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