308 CustoiriH of Wishford and Barford in Grovcly Forest. 



(xii.) Jan. 6th, 1841. 



82 Houses, supposing Wm. Gray not removed from the Lane. [Deduct]. 

 2 Do. of these, viz. Ch^. Shergold in part of Fred"* Shergolds, and the 

 house late R''. Down. [Leaving total,] 80 Houses [inhabited], 

 [xiii.] Terrier of Whishford Parish : extracted out of the Registry of the 

 Lord Bishop of Sarum. — A note of all the Glebe . . . 



[This heading only has been copied into the book, and then the same 

 handwriting proceeds (xiv.) with a memorandum of an inscription which was 

 legible on the monument in the cross aisles in the body of the Church of Gt. 

 Wishford, in 1821. (Another scribe adds the note: — "Eight of the little 

 Statues were then taken down ; the other seems, from the Pai-ish Register, 

 to have been removed by the carelessness of some workmen in placing a rough 

 quarry stone on the grave of a Robert Hillraan about 200 years ago. — This 

 Inscription was in the ancient Church Text).' 



Beneath the Inscription are the small figures of nine young children in brass. 



This Mr. Bonham's wife had two children at one birth the first time, and 

 he, being troubled at it, travelled, and was absent seven years. After his 

 return, his wife was delivered of seven children at one birth. In this Parish 

 is a confident Tradition that three of the - children were all baptized at the 

 font in this church, and that they were brought thither in a kind of charger,^ 

 which was dedicated to the ^ church, and hung on two nailes neer the belfry* 

 on the south side, which are to be seen there yet. Some old men are yet 

 living that [doe] remember the charger. This tradition is entered in[to] the 

 Register Booke there, from whence I have made this narrative [1659]. 

 [t/".] Aubrey, 



The note in the parish records, signed " by me, Eoger Powell, 

 Curate there April 10th, A° Dni 1640," is cited in Offer and 

 Hoare's Modern Wilts, Hundred of Branch and Dole, p. 49, and 

 the injury done to one of the nine images of young children by the 

 workmen that laid the "great quarry stone upon the grave of 



' Ancient Church Text : I presume he means not the textus evangelii upon 

 the altar, but simply that the words of the Bonham monumental inscription 

 (which we omit here, because a more accurate transcript than that which 

 the Rector's notebook supplies will be given by Mr. C. E. Pouting to our 

 readers) were expressed in gothic or black-letter script. 



- " That these seven " ; Royal Soc. MS. of Aubrey's Nat. Hist, of Wilts, 

 f. 180. 



* Chardger : ib. 



* This : ib. 



' Belfree : ib. The story has been told recently by Mr. A. G. Bradley, 

 Bound about Wiltshire [1907] pp. 323—4. 



