192 Tlte old ParmiuKjr' xt Sherston Magna. 



of the passage to the sitting-rooms downstairs are not without 

 interest, one still displaying the old Ijolt-hole for the shutters. 



An old barn, which was proliably of some arclipeological interest, 

 and which stood on the west side of the old rectory against the 

 street, was pulled down in 1845 to make room for the National 

 School. It was a part of the same property. 



The old rectory, described alwve, is now in the last stage of 

 decrepitude and decay. It is not likely to last many years longer 

 as the walls are Ijadly cracked and Ijulging in places, and now that 

 the tiles are falling oft' the roof the process of ruin is likely to be 

 accelerated. People have recently damaged the windows a good 

 deal. The house and the land round it was reserved hj Captain 

 Holford, the owner, at the sale of his house property in Sherston 

 some years ago, out of a wise forethought for the possil)le need of 

 extension of the adjoining National School. (!)therwise it would 

 have been pulled down, and the present attempt to describe it 

 would have become impossible. 



APPENDIX I. 



The Hodges Family. The following extracts throw some light 

 on the family of Mr. Hodges, who altered the house in the seven- 

 teenth century. 



Registers of Abenhall, Gloucs. 



" 1672 William Hodges, of Shippen Moyen, and Anne Sargeannt of 

 Long Hope, married 13 June." 



Hodges' monument in Sherston Church. 



Crest. On a torse engrailed a crcseent vnth . . . between the 



horns. 

 Arms. (As described above.) 

 Inscription : — 

 To the memory of Anne late wife of William Hodges of this Parish 

 esq : and daughter of Edward Sargeaunts of Hartsbarne in the County of 

 Glouc' gent : Who departed this life (in child-bearing) June the 23rd 1676. 

 And to the memory of Mary the relict of Thomas Hodges, of Shipton 

 Moyne in the County of Glouces' esq : daughter of Sir WilHam Cooke of 

 Highnam in the sayd County, knight, and mother of the sayd William 

 Hodges, Who departed this hfe the 28th Day of October 1676. 



