erty aa ARTE Re ents 
Rectors of Trowbridge. 233 

A.D. PATRON. z 
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INCUMBENT. 
1622 | William, Earl of Hertford. | Tomas Pattie! ; inducted Nov. 
25, 1622. 
1664 | Charles, Baron Seymour | RopertHawxins*B.D.; instituted 
of Trowbridge. Feb. 17, 1664. Prebendary of 
Warminster, in the cathedral at 
Salisbury. 
1672 | Lady Elizabeth Seymour | Roperr Kryiway.3 
and others. 
1 Amongst the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum (No. 41135, fol. 4) is one 
entitled, ‘‘ A prophecy of St. Thomas the Martyr found in the study of one Mr. 
Pelling late Rector of Trowbridge in the county of Wilts in a very ancient MS,” 
2In the time of this Rector (1669) Bishop Seth Ward instituted an enquiry as 
to the ‘‘ Conventicles in Sarum Diocese.” The extracts from the MS. (Lambeth 
Library, No. 639), containing the information relating to Trowbridge, are as 
follows :— 
: Numbers and | Principals and | Preachers or 
Parish or Place. Bests. Quality. Abbettors. Teachers. 
TrowsRiDee| Anabaptists.| 140 or 150 | Tradesmen | One King, a 
At Edw. Abettors. |stranger, and 
Grant’s Clo- Grant 
Z|James Taylor 
Mortimer $3} shearman. 
Witchell }3 
At the house |Presbyterians| 20or30 | Tradesmen | Edward 
thier. 
of - Robert or Davis, 
J eames. Yeomen, mercer. 
AttheWidow/|Presbyterians| Scarce 20 Of like The same. 
Davis’s quality. 
house. 
At the house} Quakers. 30 or 40 do. Itinerant 
of James Quakers. 
Matravers 
excomm. 
8In the year 1676, during this Rector’s time, Bishop Seth Ward undertook 
an enquiry as to the ‘‘ Popish Recusants”’ in this diocese. The result is con- 
tained in a MS, in the Lambeth Library (No. 639). The report concerning 
Trowbridge, which is of some interest as showing the population just 200 years 
ago, is as follows :— 

Parish. Minister. oie oe Separatists. Inhabitants. 
Trowbridge. |RobtKeylway| None. 174 937 

