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whom I can find any notice is John Mareys, Chaplain of Durrington, 
who is said by Dodsworth to have been one of the witnesses re- 
quired for the canonisation of St. Osmund. He stated that a 
certain Robert Clark stabbed John Leyde with a long dagger, and 
that Leyde fell apparently dead, but on being carried to the tomb 
of Osmund he was by prayer brought to life. 
There was a Henry Harrison in the reign of Queen Mary; and 
in 1582 Thos. Greene; for both these witnessed wills. And from 
1591 to 1603 Henry Goodyer, who began our Church registers, for 
before he left to become Chaplain of Bulford he testified in them 
that thus he had written having been twelve whole years curate, 
while Philip Poore farmed the rectory. William White and, I 
think, William Fowler, filled up twenty years till Mr. Maton 
came. After him was Robert Forster, who seems to have had the 
curacy for a long time, for he died 1726. But for about twenty 
of those years he was also Curate of Milston under Dean Addison, 
Joseph Addison’s father, who was non-resident, so that Forster 
probably lived at Milston; and as Henry Head, master of Rose’s 
School, served Durrington from 1715 it is doubtful whether Forster 
lived here at all; and then for more than a century no curate 
resided. The house with five rooms and its strip of garden ground 
was not attractive, and £40 a year in Victoria’s reign became 
impossible to subsist upon. Richard Head, who served the Church 
from 1747 to 1799, was still remembered by some old men in 
1863, as coming over in a carriage on Sunday, the carriage standing 
at our cross during service. He lived at Amesbury, but was Rector 
of Compton Chamberlaine, as well as Perpetual Curate of Durrington 
from 1763. After him came four non-residents ; but in 1838 
Richard Webb, who, after sixteen years as Curate-in-charge was 
appointed to the living, came to reside; and his best and sufficient 
monuments are the school which he established and the Church 
which he restored. 

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