A succeeding rector, William Daggett, is said to have understood the art of boxing, better than that of preaching: his clerk often felt the weightier argument of his hand. Meeting a quaker, whose profession, then in infancy, did not stand high in esteem, he offered some insults, which the other resenting, told him, "If he was not protected by his cloth, he would make him repent the indignity." Dagget immediately stripped, "There, now I have thrown off my protection."
They fought--but the spiritual bruiser proved too hard for the injured quaker.
Among the rectors we sometimes behold a magistrate; at others, those who for misconduct ought to have been taken before one.
The rectory, in the King's books, was valued, in 1291, at 5l. per annum; and, in 1536, at 19l. 3s. 6d.
A terrier of the rectory, written by the rector,
about 1680.
A house wherein the present rector, Mr. Dagget, resides. [Parsonage-house.]
Two other houses in Birmingham, [now three, at No. 15, Spiceal-street.]
Three pieces of glebe land, nineteen acres, between the school land and Sheepcoat-lane.
Three pieces, called the Five-way-closes twenty-one acres, bounded by the lands of Samuel Smallbroke, Esq; and Josiah Porter.