By the Bev. A. C. Smith, M.A. 



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which flourishes in winter — of 12, to which indeed it is limited. 



At the extreme north-east corner of the adjacent glehe stood the 

 old rectorial tithe-harn, of enormous size and capacity suitable for the 

 days when tithes were taken in kind : since however the tithes were 

 commuted in this parish in the year 1850 and a rent-charge of £510 

 in lieu of tithes was substituted, the barn became useless, and after 

 serving' during the summer of 1854 as a temporary Church, while 

 the real fabric was under repair, it was pulled down, not without 

 much labour and an astonishing amount of dust and dirt from the 

 very ancient thatch, and re-built on a modest scale in a more con- 

 venient spot. 



The present rectory was built in 1841 by the then Rector, Rev. 

 William Money, who for forty years resided at the family seat of 

 Whetham, near Calne, and served this parish from thence. He 

 planted with great judgment the numerous belts and plantations 

 which now shelter the house from the high winds ; and to the ex- 

 cellent taste of himself, as well as the son who succeeded him as 

 Rector, is due the admirable laying out of the gardens and lawns in 

 what till then had been a bare open field, over which many of the 

 parishioners now living have many a time mown and reaped. 



The following list of Patrons and Rectors of the living is gathered 

 partly from extracts made in 1844 by my predecessor. Rev. J. S. 

 Money- Kyrle, from the Registry of Sarum, partly from extracts 

 from the invaluable " Institutiones Clericorum in comitatu Wiltoniae 

 ab anno 1297 ad annum 1810," of Sir Thomas Philipps : — 



• But because he was absent abroad with John de Throkesford, John, Viear of Henton, was pre- 

 sented to it for six months (according to the rules of the last Council of Lugdunum) who declined 

 it, aad then Hugo de Wyteley was presented. 



+ In these two instances only do we find Yatesbury marked V. (vicaria.) 



