234 Early Annals of Trowbridge. 

A.D. PaTRON. INCUMBENT. 
1717 | Charles, Duke of Somerset. | Winttam Gruee. 
1726 | The same. Marrnew Horron, Bishop of 
Bangor, 1743, Archbishop of 
York, 1747, Canterbury, 1757. 
1730 | The same. GrorcE Hussey. 
1741 | The same. RamspEN Dopswortu. 
1763 | Marquis of Granby and | Cuartes Cooper ; resigned 1774, 
others. 
1774 | The same. Joun Exins; Rector of Newton 
Tony, and Dean of Salisbury : 
previously Vicar of Stanton 
Berners. 
1809 | Heneage, Earl of Aylesford | Girsert BrresrorD; afterwards 
for this turn. Rector of St. Andrew, Holborn. 
1814 | Duke of Rutland. Guorce Crasse; “the Poet,” 
author of “ Tales of the Hall” 
and other poems. 
1832 |The same. © Francis Furtrorp; afterwards 
é Bishop of Montreal, and Metro- 
politan of Canada. 
1841 | The same. Joun Davip Hastines; Preben- 
dary of North Grantham, in the 
cathedral of Salisbury. 
1869 | Church Patronage Society. | Horacr Meyer; previously Rec- 
tor of East Tisted, Hants. 
I will only add that a chapel at the east end of the south aisle in 
the parish church of Trowbridge, now commonly called the Duke’s 
Chapel, is held to be appurtenant to the lordship of the manor by 
prescriptive right. The present Lord of the Manor, Wilham 
‘Stancomb, Esq., of Blount’s Court, Potterne, has within the last 
few days—whilst in fact these sheets are passing through the press 
—generously offered to surrender all his interest, either real or pre- 
sumed, in this chapel, and to give it to the Rector and Churchwardens 
to be held by them for the general benefit of the parishioners. 
Bradford-on-Avon, 
May, 1875. 

