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(xviii.) Lord Chedworth's Estates, Their Value, and to whom sold. 



(xix.) The Gloucestershire Estates, not sold, supposed to be worth ^610, 000 

 per annum. 



(xx.) All the above Estates subject to pay for Timber that are at a Back 

 Eent down to 2«. 6(/. per stick. The Timber on the Lifehold Estates to pass 

 with the Land. 



[Finis.] 



The present Eector of Wishford has also kindly sent me two 

 or three newspaper cuttings from which the notes immediately 

 following are gleaned. 



Notes by Kev. E. Hill, in the Salisbury Journal, April, 1885 : — 

 " This small parish has maintained a fire-engine of its own since 

 the year 1728, when the parish bought one^ for £33 3s. In the 

 nineteenth century a churchwarden (Robert Saunders) was elected 

 sixty times, consecutively, but for the break of one year. In the 

 sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a Eector (John Bower), who 



' This Fire-engine was bought for the Parish Church, and the ownership 

 vested in the Eector and Churchwardens of Wishford (see Decree in High 

 Court of Justice, Q.B. Div., 1896). 



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