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snms on them assessed ; and the same to pay to John Price, of Combe, gent., at 

 his dwelling-house there, every Friday weekly, and to begin the payment thereof 

 upon Friday next ensuing the date hereof. And if any person or persons do 

 refuse to pay such sum or sums of money, as shall on them be assessed, that then 

 you certify to us, or some of our fellow Justices of the Peace of this county, that 

 further order may be taken therein, either for distress for the same, or for the 

 imprisonment of the bodies of the parties refusing according to the tenour of the 

 said Act. Thereof fail you not the due performance, as you will answer the 

 contrary at your perils. Dated at Pembridge, under our hands and seals, the 

 Twentieth of September, 1636." 



Eo. Hablet (L.S.) 

 John Vacghan (L.S.) 



Titley parish 5 



Mouldley Waples Stanton 5 



Leintwardine parish 5 



Brampton parish 2 7 



Wigmere parish 2 7 



Leinthall parish...'. 2 7 



Aymstry parish 5 



Lingen parish 2 



Stapleton 2 6 



Willey 2 



Upper Kinsum 2 



Eod, Nash and Brampton 10 



Combe and Byton 9 



Lower Kinsum 2 



Knill and Barton 4 



Litton and Cascob 8 



The following record in the Baptismal Register in the year 1672, introduces 

 us to another matter in the history of this parish : — 



"There was noe lawful minister settled in our parish, therefore I was con- 

 strained to send in those bad times for these gentlemen to Baptize my children, 

 therefore I cause this to be registered, being May the 15th, 1672, as foUoweth : 



"Nicholas, the son of Nicholas Tayler, Esq., was Baptized by Wm. E vanes, 

 Doctor in Divinity, the first day of March, 1654. Charles, the sonne of Nicholas 

 Tayler, Esq., was Baptized by Thomas Edwardes, Doctor in Divinity, the 17th 

 day of November, 1657. 



" Elizabeth, the daughter of Nicholas Tayler, Esq., was Baptized by Mr. 

 Stephen Scandrett, the 20th day of December, 1658. 



"John, the sonne of Nicholas Tayler, Esq., was Baptized by Consen Lewis, 

 he was born the 20th of January, 1660. 



"Thus Registered according to the Directions of Nicholas Tayler, Senior, Esq. 



"Wit. Phil. Lewis, 



" Rector of Presteign." 



Appended to these entries is the following note by a later rector, William 

 Whalley :— 



" N.B.— In the time of Oliver Cromwell. 



" N.B.— Nicholas Tayler, Esq., lived at the Lower Heath in the house now 

 inhabited by Mr. Wm. Powell. When King Charles I. fled before Or. Cromwell, 

 then in the neighbourhood of Hereford, he dined and slept at the Unicorn Inn in 

 Leominster the first day, and the next two nights he slept at Mr. Nicholas 

 Tayler's, of the Lower Heath, near Presteigne, from thence he rode over the 

 Hills to Newtown, and so to Chester. " W. W., 1793." 



