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held names now well known in the religious world, Ryle andCADMAN. 

 Several held the oflSce of Archdeacon, and not a few held prebendal 

 stalls in the Cathedral at Sarum. We know very little about them. 

 One, by name David Scaulock, who held the living from 1726 to 

 1768, wrote several works, amongst others one that might possibly be 

 read with advantage even now, entitled " A caution against speaking 

 evil of Governors." Another, his immediate predecessor, Francis 

 Fox, seems, from the careful way in which he enters in the baptismal 

 registers the names of sponsors, to have been a diligent and conscien- 

 tious pastor. He held a prebendal stall at Sarum and was' chaplain 

 to Lord Cadogan. He was an author : amongst other works he 

 published one in 1723 entitled " The New Testament explained," 

 and in 1727 a tract on the " Duty of Public Worship/' still on the 

 catalogue of the Christian Knowledge Society. In 1726 he became 

 Vicar of St. Mary's, Reading, and died there in 1738. 



Of one other Vicar, who passed away but little more than twenty 

 years ago at the patriarchal age of ninety-one, I will say a few 

 closing words. In 1807 George Edmonston became Vicar of 

 Potterne. He resigned his charge after thirty years' incumbency, 

 but still lived amongst his old parishioners. It was his happiness 

 to welcome as his successor one whom he had at first associated with 

 himself as Curate, and afterwards as contentedly looked up to 

 as Vicar. Large-hearted, and open-handed, his memory is still 

 aflFectionately cherished in Potterne. Numerous were his gifts to 

 the parish — to the Church — to the poor. To the last he not only 

 left liberal bequests by will, but during his lifetime built and endowed 

 schools for the education of their children. And now both George 

 Edmonston and Joseph Medlicott, successive Vicars of Potterne, 

 '* lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death not divided," 

 sleep peacefully together in that peaceful churchyard, till they shall 

 awake to a friendship yet more real, because purer — uninterrupted 

 — never-ending. 



Bradford-on-Avon, 

 August, 1876. 



W. H. Jones. 



Canon Ordinary of Sarum, and Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon. 



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