The old Parsonage at SJicr.tton Magna. 189 



fourteen years old when, in 1641, lie joined the troop of horse 

 which was raised by his father and connaanded by his eldest 

 brother. The initials at the end of the paper are his. After tlie 

 expulsion of his father from the benefice of Upton Lovell the family 

 settled at West Knoyle, where Nathaniel died hi 1742, and according 

 to the register of that parish was there " buryed in woolen only — 

 on tlie oath of Eliz : Eaton" on Noveml^er lotli of that year. A 

 few other entries relating to. the Hickman family occur in tliis 

 register, the last being in 1776. But two others, a few years later, 

 appear in the register of Upton Lovell, for it is remarkal)le that 

 after an interval of one hundred and sixty-four years since the 

 latest previous entry in that register, of the baptism of Daniell, 

 the son of Thomas Hickman, the name again occurs in the record 

 of the marriage of another Daniel Hickman to Ann Edwards in 1793 

 and of the baptism of their daughter, Elizabeth, in the following year. 

 Mr. T. H. Baker informs me that in the register of Mere the 

 marriage of John Mitchel to Mary Hickman of West Knoyle, on 

 November 23rd, 1731, is recorded. 



%\t olir "^iirsonage at cSIjet^ton ||Iagiui. 



By the Eev. W. Symonds. 



,HE old house here described stands just behind the 

 11^ Eattlebone Inn, facing north and south. Before it was 

 left to go to ruin part of it was occupied as a village post office, 

 and the letter-box is still visible. In the seventeenth century it 

 was a gentleman's residence, and the home of Mr. William Hodges, 

 whose family had considerable property at Shipton Moyne and at 

 Easton Grey. On the oak panelling of the parlour occur, over the 

 fireplace, the arms of Hodges, Azure, on a /ess argent, a midht gules 

 (for difference), between three mullets argent {or proper !'\ and also 

 the arms of Mrs. Hodges nee Anne Sargeaunt, Argent, a chevron 



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