By the Rev. Thomas Miles. 213 



Stockton, in the County of Wilts ; Sep. 13th, 1680 : London, 

 printed by E. T. & R., for Thomas Flesher, 1G82." 



Another publication of Samuel Fyler, a copy of which is in the 

 British Museum, has this odd title, * "Longitudinis inventae expli- 

 catio non longa,' or Fixing the volatilized, and taking time on 

 tiptoe, briefly explained ; by which rules are given to find the 

 longitude at sea by, as truly and as exactly as the latitude is found 

 by the star in the tayle of Ursa Minor, called the Pole Star. 

 * Nauta sciens modo, si vigilans, dominabitur astris ;' by Samuel 

 Fyler, M.A., Rector of Stockton, in the County of "Wilts : 

 London, printed for the author, in year 1669." Samuel Fyler 

 married Mary, only daughter of Thomas Hyde, D.D., Precentor of 

 Salisbury, who was probably one of the Hydes of Heale, and 

 related to the great Lord Clarendon. Mrs. Fyler died in 1676, 

 having been 'the mother of eight children, all baptized and regis- 

 tered at Stockton. John, the youngest son, succeeded his father 

 as Rector of Stockton, and Samuel, the eldest son, was presented 

 in 1701 to the Rectory of Orcheston St. George, on the death of 

 Edward Lambert, by Thomas Lambert, Archdeacon of Sarum, 

 Thomas Lambert, Esq., and Mary St. Barbe, widow. He was buried 

 at Orcheston St. George, 26th Nov., 1727. Frances, one of the 

 daughters, born 1668, was married 8th of June, 1697, to Charles 

 Mason, Gentleman, of Gillingham, Dorset. She was buried at 

 Orcheston St. George, 26th July, 1719. Repentance Fyler, the 

 youngest daughter, born 1671, was married at Orcheston St. George, 

 by licence, 16th February, 1713, to Robert Woryan, Rector of 

 Linkinholt, Hants. Of John Fyler, Rector of Stockton, nothing is 

 known. He was the youngest child of his Father, and was born on 

 Christmas day, 1673, the survivor of twins. He succeeded to the 

 living 1703, and died in January, 1730. By Ann his wife, he 

 had seven children, baptized and registered at Stockton. 



David Price, L.L.B., of Christchurch Oxford, was 35 years 

 Rector of Stockton. He was previously Rector of Portland, Dorset. 

 He was twice married. By bis second wife, Anne, who died 1760, 



he had two daughters ; one of them died single in ; the other 



married William Wansboro' Penchard, Gentleman, of Stockton, 

 by whom she had a son, John Penchard of Taunton, Solicitor, and 



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