28 The History of the Parish of All Cannings. 



articles agreed upon in the convocation holden at London in the year of our 

 Lord 1562, were read by Robert Byng, Master of Arts, and parson of All 

 Cannings in the County of Wiltshii-e, in the parish Church of All Cannings 

 aforesaid, in the time of Divine Service, and that the said Robert Byng 

 haviag then and there publicly and distinctly read all and every of the 

 articles in the book aforesaid, did openly declare his unfeigned assent and 

 consent thereunto, in the audience of the whole congregation then assem- 

 bled . In testimony whereof we whose names are underwritten have put 

 to our hands the day and year first above written. 



" Henet Higgins, Curate. 



"Michael Gotjghe, 1 Church 



'* Jeffeeey Feancis, his X mark, j "Wardens." 



In 1660 is a notice of the induction of Henry Kinninmond as 

 Rector, and of his publicly reading the 39 articles. On May 4th, 

 1669, occurs this curious entry : — 



" Bee it remembered that Henry Kininmuad, Rector of All Cannings, did order 

 his servant, Robert Bartlett, to put four cowes into the pasture ground of 

 the farm, and that the said Robert Bartlett did actually put to depasture 

 his master's cowes in every pasture ground, where the farmer doth severally 

 put his cowes to depasture, except the ground called Awlands. This was 

 done the day and year above written in the presence of us whose names 

 are underwritten. 



"Daniel Maslin, \ r%-ar(,\^ 



" Jeffeeet Pottengeb, his X mark, > vn-„-A^„„ » 

 "Edmund Fife, ) vvaraens. 



The object of this proceeding is clearly explained by the Terriers, 

 to which allusion will presently be made, in which the right of the 

 Rector to " depasture " his oxen with the farmers' oxen is clearly 

 admitted ; though even as early as 1608 the privilege seems to have 

 been commuted for a money payment. Possibly the Rector in 

 1669 had some diflficulty in obtaining " the four marks in money by 

 the year, which the farmer did usually to the Parson," and therefore 

 fell back on his original rights. 



Ten years after this we find another mention made of the old 

 Rector, so careful of the rights of himself and his successors. 

 " Mr. Henry Kinninmond, who had been minister of this parish for 

 eighteen years, was buried in woollen, according to the late act of 

 Parliament, upon 30th Deer., 1679." His memorial, as we have 

 already said, was contained on a stone slab in the chancel floor 

 inscribed simply, " H. K., 1678." 



The memoranda from some lost register, in Mr. Stodley's 



