Sherrard Beaumont Burnaby, Doctor of Laws Official of the archdeanary of Leicester lawfully constituted. To all to whom these our present letters testimonial shall come, Greeting; Whereas it hath been suggested and represented unto us by and on the part and behalf of Thomas Brooks and John Manston, the present churchwardens of the parish and parish church of Enderby in the County and archdeanary of Leicester, that the seat stalls and pews in the parish church of Enderby aforesaid are greatly decayed and out of repair and very irregular and inconvenient and that there is not a sufficient room in the said church whereon to erect seats and pews of the congregation and that the parishioners and inhabitants of Enderby aforesaid in the vestry aforementioned have agreed to take down and remove the said old seats and pews and to erect and build new seats and pews in the said church in a regular, handsome and uniform manner and also to enlarge the present gallery and to make other improvements in the said church for the better conveniency of attending divine service therein and whereas the said Thomas Brooks and John Manston have by their hier proctor - prayed that we would be pleased to grant our licence and faculty to them for the purposes and to the effect hereinafter mentioned and expressed. And our being willing to comply with their request so far as in us lies and by law we may or can and having by our citation with intimation duly cited all persons in this behalf to be cited and observe the order of law in all things, do by these present grant our licence and faculty to the said Thomas Brooks and John Maston to take down and remove the said old seat stalls and pews in the said church and to erect or build new seats or pews therein in a regular, handsome and uniform manner according to the plan hereunto annexed to enlarge the said gallery by adding to the front thereof two rows of seats or pews of the dimensions of those already erected therein, to take down and remove the present gallery stairs and to erect and build proper and convenient stairs leading to the said gallery from the belfry at the west end of the said church according to the said plan and to wall up the north door of the said church with good and substantial materials except the circular top thereof which is intended to be glazed and to have a casement made therein occasionally to ventilate the said church and to new pew the space that will be left by the removal of the said gallery stairs and the passage leading from the aisle to the said north door as represented in the same plan and to make a new window in the north wall of the said church in the situation and of the dimensions set forth in the said plan. And also to remove the font from it's present situation in the centre of the aisle of the said church and transfer the same in the situation described by the said plan with full power and authority for the vicar and churchwardens of Enderby aforesaid for the time being that Lorraine Smith of Enderby aforesaid ??? of Great Wigston in the said county Esquire, John Chamberlaine of Whetstone in the said county Glazier, and Richard Flint of the liberty of Braunstone in the county of Leicester Glazier to asign and allot to George Freer of Enderby aforesaid gentleman the seat or pew intended to be erected and built on the north side of the said church near on adjoining to the place where the reading etc. and pulpit now stand and upon or near this site of an ancient seat or pew which the proprietors, owners or occupiers for the time being of a certain ancient freehold capital ?? or tenement in the said parish, Enderby, some time rebuilt by and as the property of the said George Freer and in his own occupation, have used and enjoyed for time immemorial during divine service in the said church in ?? and as appointment to which freehold ?? or tenement and which seat or pew the said George Freer for the sake of conformity has consented to be rebuilt in consideration of the same being allotted and affiliated to him and his family and ?? for him the said George Freer and his family to sit, stand, kneel and hear divine service and sermons read and preached in the said church exclusive of all other pews ?? And also to assign and allot to each and every one of the parishioners and inhabitants of Enderby aforesaid paying towards the repairs of the said church, except the said George Freer, the residue of the the seats and pews which erected or built or ?? ?? therein ?? the several persons above named or the major part of them shall think proper, fit and convenient. In testimony whereof we have secure this seal of our office be hereto affixed the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight.

By Decree

Francis, by divine Permission, Bishop of Peterborough. To all whom it may concern more especially to the vicar, churchwardens, parishioners and inhabitants of the parish of Enderby in the county of Leicester within our diocese and jurisdiction. WHEREAS it hath been represented unto the reverend and worshipful William Wales MA, our vicar general, by a petition under the hand of Charles Brook of "the Hall" in Enderby aforesaid, the patron of the living of Enderby aforesaid cum Whetstone, that he, the said Charles Brook, desired to pull down and rebuild, on the same site, the body of the parish church of Enderby aforesaid but not to remove the tower thereof. That the materials he proposed to use should be granite deal and ?? ?? for the substantial portion of the ediface and for the decorative and ornamental parts the kind of material generally used in sacred edifaces, such as Bath stone, Ketton stone, Portland stone or Mansfield stoneoak ?? ?? deal to. That it was intended that the architectural features of the said church, that is to say, so far as relates to certain arches within and windows of the church, should be maintained in the proposed new church. That the cost to be incurred in carrying out the proposed scheme would probably amount to three thousand pounds , more or less, which would be borne by the said petitioner. That it was proposed to accomodate in the new church, in addition to sunday school children and their attendants, as many as three hundred and fifty worshippers, in number greatly in excess of that then enjoying church accomodation at Enderby. That all seats would be open at the ends. That certain portions of the seating would, as theretofore, be allowed by the churchwardens to householders, Lodgers etc, the remainder to be free unless its should be found necessary to appropriate them. That all tombstones, gravestones and monuments, which should disturbed either therein or without the present church, should be preserved and when first removed from their position be numbered that they might be in due order be thereafter arranged in convienient places and that existing graves should be as little as possible interfered with, it being designed to allow arches over as many as circumstances would allow. That at a vestry (meeting), of which due notice was given held in the said parish church of Enderby on the twenty third day of August last, for the purpose of taking into consideraton the said scheme, it was resolved that it was desirable to carry out the same and whereas the said petitioner hath prayed that our licence or faculty might issue authorising such pulling down and rebuilding and whereas by direction of our said Vicar general, a notice of citation was duly served on the church door of the said church, letting all persons having or pretending to have any interest to show cause why a licence or faculty should not be issued for the purposes aforesaid and wheras our said Vicar General rightly and duly proceeding hath on the due execution and return of the said notice or citation (no appearance having been entered withi the ?? therein stated) decreed a licence or faculty to be granted to the said patron, vicar and churchwardens for the purposes aforesaid. THEREFORE We, the Bishop of Peterborough, well weighing and considering the premises, do by virtue of our authority ordinary and episcopal and as far as by law, we may and can notify and confirm such decree of our said Vicar general and do hereby give and grant unto the said patron, vicar and churchwardens, our leave, licence or faculty for the purposed pulling down and rebuilding the parish church of Enderby in the manner aforesaid.

IN WITNESS whereof we have caused the seal of our said Vicar General, which in use in this behalf to be affixed to these presents. Given at Peterborough, the twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty six.