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was inducted on the 15th July, 1685, as appears by an entry on 
page 2 of Volume IIT :— 
_ “Memorandum that Mr Anthony Tate was Inducted into ye Vicarage of 
Preshute on ye 15 day of July In the first year of ye Reign of our Soveraign 
Lord James ye 2nd of England Scotland France & Ireland King &¢ Annoque 
Domini 1685.” 
“Thomas Nalder ) 
& 
Churchwardens.”’ 
“ Nichol. Layland f 
At a subsequent date the following signatures have been added :— 
“John Fiveaish 
* Robart Alexander 
“ Francis Greenaway 
~ “November 30th 1694.” 
Churchwardens.” 
Anthony Tate was buried 11th April, 1688. 
Lewis Morse is recorded as Vicar in 1707, at the commencement 
of Volume V. of the register, but there does not appear to be any 
note of his induction. He was buried on August 30th, 1711, and 
his good deeds are memorialised in some verses which appear to 
“Upon Record I here have sett thy Death, 
= “To future Ages yet to come on Earth; 
“T cant forgett here to commemorate, 
“Thy life-& actions and thy troubles Great ; 
“Thou with true Zeal & Courage didst recover, 
“That which was lost some hundred Years before ; 
“For thou unto this Vicaridge didst restore, 
“ Full five & thirty pounds per Annum More, 
“Than has been pay’d for Many Years before ; 
“That thou wast Vicar here, and thou didst prove, 
“Tt was thy right in Many Courts above; 
“Then was thy Cause at Sarum ’Sizes try’d ; 
“And there ye Jury did thy case decide, 
“And they Unanimously did agree, 
“These tythes at Clatford did belong to thee ; 
; * But Sometime after the Assize was past, 
& “Thine Enemies gott a Juryman at last; 
“To swear yt thou ye Jury didst perswade, 
“And didst some of them to such courses lead 
