274 Notes on Durrington. 
and submitted to pay a fine. He had at that time, besides his 
Boscombe freehold and other property, a lease of Durrington 
Rectory having sixteen years to run, which he estimated to be 
worth after all outgoings £55. The Parliamentary Commissioners’ 
estimate was £220: so that although Mr. William Kent was 
sequestrated for debt, not having paid his fine in 1648, he probably 
retained his lease of the rectory till it expired in 1661. The Dean 
and Chapter had by that time come to their own again. 
After the Kents, William Moore, of Durrington, became the 
lessee, and on the marriage of his son John to Mary Whittiatt, of 
Axford, in 1693, he gave John the parsonage of Durrington for 
twenty-one years. Then it came to his son Thomas, who was 
Rector of Steepleton, Dorset, but who certainly lived much here 
and was buried in the chancel of Durrington, as were his wife and 
his only son, Thomas, who died sp. 1783. There was a tradition 
here that by his own direction he was buried wearing his suit of 
clothes and his gold watch: but that on the night after the funeral 
the grave was opened, the coffin broken open, and the watch stolen. 
The lease passed to a cousin, Jonathan Moore, and from him to his 
son, and then to his grandson, George Pearce Moore, of Durrington 
House. In 1865 the Dean and Chapter of Winchester having 
surrendered their estates to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Mr. 
G. P. Moore paid them £700 and surrendered his leasehold interest 
in £493 3s. 4d. tithe rent-charge : and the Commissioners conveyed 
to him the tithe rent-charge on his estate, £96 16s. 8d., and the 
whole of the glebe—more than two hundred and thirty-six acres, 
which was thus lost to the Church absolutely. 
It seems as if when the Dean and Chapter were reinstated 
in their possessions and their patronage, after the Restoration, 
they increased the stipend of their curate to £40. For there is 
“A Terrier of the Curateshippe of Durington taken and made October the 
13th Anno Dom: 1677. 
“Tmprimis. Belonging to the Curate for officiating in the P** Church of 
Durington a House containing Five Romes videlicet One Hall Two Buttryes 
and two lofts and also one small Garden Plott of Ground joining to the house 
about seven or eight loog of Ground.” 
“Ttem £40 a year to be paid Quarterly, and one Sack of Wheate and one 

