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Repository: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
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Title: Plymouth Borough records: St Peter’s Church, formerly Eldad Chapel
Description: Correspondence respecting the erection of an Episcopal chapel for the Reverend John Hawker ‘late Curate of stoke Damerell’. First proposed at Devonport; then in the ‘Plymouth Marsh’; then ‘the first field in No Place lane.’ [Eldad Chapel, now replaced by St Peter]. Corporation consented, on condition it should be used according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. Ibncludes a letter inviting the Mayor to lay the foundation stone. One letter refers to Rev John Hawker’s ‘numerous family, and his desititution of all means for the competent support of himself and them’.
Plymouth City Council – Archives catalogue