The house belonging to the Chantry, and a garden, and croft adjoining, together with nine acres of land belonging to a Chantry at Badsworth situated at Cawthorne, were included in a Grant from the Crown to Richard Venables and John Maynard, and by them immediately conveyed to Godfrey Bosvile of Gunthwaite, the heir of Isabel the founder and the patron of the Chantry.
There is a house in Church Street which still bears the name of "Chantry Cottage."
Incumbents and Curates of Cawthorne.
There is a list of the Incumbents of Cawthorne given in the old Register from the middle of the seventeenth century:
"Mr. Nicholas Broadley, Minister of Cawthorne, dyed in 1659.
"Mr. Henry Skins (his successor) dyed in 1662: he was succeeded by Mr. Christopher Walbanke, who dyed in 1708, and was succeeded by me, Thomas Cockshutt, in 1703, upon his suspension.
"The said Thomas Cockshutt was buried Febr. 4th, 1739, and was succeeded by his son Mr. Thomas Cockshutt, who died April 14, 1774. He was succeeded by Mr. John Radcliffe who had been his assistant Curate upwards of thirty years, who died April 13, 1776.
"He was succeeded by Mr. Thomas Heron, who resigned in the year.
"He was succeeded by the Rev. Samuel Phipps, who died April 9th, 1799, aged 85 years.
"He was succeeded by the Rev. John Goodair, who was buried July 24, 1809.
"He was succeeded by the Rev. Edmund Paley, who in 1813 vacated the Curacy of Cawthorne, and was succeeded by the Rev. Benjamin Eamonson, A M., who was licensed to the same the 2nd August, 1813.
"N.B. The Rev. Edmund Paley was son of Dr. William Paley" (Archdeacon of Carlisle and author of Paley's Evidences) "and was removed to the Vicarage of Easingwold by the collation of Dr. Vernon, Archbishop of York.
