64 Bishop Tanner, his Family and Writings. 
upon the Society of Christ Church. In connection with this pre- 
sentation, Sir Thos. Phillips, in his printed Volume, called “ Wiltshire 
Institutions,” inserts against Thomas Tanner’s Institution, Ad. 1671, 
a remark; “ Quere, if afterwards Bp. Tanner? We may certainly say 
No!—at this date Bishop Tanner was wnbeneficed; because unborn. It 
was his Father, who was the New Vicar of Market Lavington. He 
appears to have waited, nearly two years, before he married his first 
wife, whose family resided at Market Lavington. The Register of 
that period, under April 20th, 1673, contains the following entry; 
‘Married, Thomas Tanner, Vicar, and Sarah Willoughby by Banns.” 
There is little to be gathered from the Register about the family of the 
Lady,for it dates only from about the time of Tanner’s Incumbency ; 
the older volumes are missing; so that a full account of the Willough- 
bys, cannot thus be obtained. I was however, whilst compiling this 
Paper, fortunate in obtaining sight of the Court Rolls of Sir John 
Danvers, Lord of the Manor of Lavington, Anno Dom. 1646 to 
1654: where I found, Joseph Willoughby, as the general “ Foreman 
of the Homage;” always with this addition to his name, “Gent.” 
I am inclined from this circumstance to infer, that he was an Attor- 
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ney; probably manager of the property under Mr. Yorke, the Steward 
of the Court; who had his residence at Fiddington, (in right of his 
Wife, Anne, daughter of William Bower, Esq.) : the same “ Mr.Wm. 
Yorke” who is mentioned by Aubrey, as one ready to help in com- 
piling a Wilts County History. These Willoughbys were an ille- 
gitimate branch of the Willoughby de Broke family: descending 
from a natural son of Sir Wiliam Willoughby, one of whose repre- 
sentatives settled im Lavington, and intermarried with the 
Daunteseys. Their pedigree is given in Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s 
Modern Wilts. The supposed last heir male of the Market 
Lavington Willoughbys, was a medical man, and died there, 
unmarried, in the memory of some old persons still livmg. After 
the marriage of Thomas Tanner and Sarah Willoughby we naturally 
examine the Baptismal Register; and under 167$ the birth of their 
first Child, the future Bishop of St. Asaph, is thus registered. 
“« Baptized Feb. 1st. Thomas, Son of Thomas Tanner, born Jan. 24 
“after midnight, being Saturday Morning, and Sarah his Wife.” 
