160 Wilts Ministers (AM. 1643— 1662> 



till the Restoration of Church and King. One of this name is 

 mentioned by Walker among those expelled from New College, 

 Oxford, liy the Parliamentarian visitors, in 1648. (Siifferings of 

 the Clerg^j, ii., 130, cf. 211.; 



The two names last entered among persons instituted in 1645, 

 as mentioned above, illustrate the unhappy divisions of those times. 



W. Creed, Rector of Codford St. Mary, is mentioned by Walker 

 among the suffering clergy, as he was deprived of his fellowship at 

 St. John's College, Oxford. He was, however, allowed to hold the 

 rectory of "East-Codeford, during the Remainder of the XTsurpation" 

 (ii., 118), but he (or one of the same name) was deprived of the 

 rectory of Boyton (ii., 227). 



W. Shephard, or Shepperd, Vicar of Urchfont in 1645, was not 

 loyal to the King ; or at least he is passed over in silence by Walker. 

 One Mr. Chr. Hindley, however, seems to have been holding the 

 benefice of Erchiont about the time of the Restoration, resigning 

 it in 1662. ( Wilts Inst., ii., 25.; 



Finding that our Salisbury institution records were blank from 

 the autumn of 1645 to the summer of 1660, I attempted a few 

 years ago to recover the names of the clergy and the years of their 

 deprivation from the scattered notices in Walker's " Stifferings " ; 

 and then, the names of their intended substitutes from the same 

 book, and from the covres^ponding " Account of Ujedcd or Silenced 

 Ministers " and " Continuation " by Edmund Calamy, so far as these 

 supplied the required information. 



In the Wiltshire Archceologicnl Magazine there have already ap- 

 peared three documents from which we are enabled to supplement 

 the list given by Walker, Calamy, and others. I will refer to 

 them as [J], " Wilts C'ovipounders," and [P.] 



J. In No. 56, Vol. xix., pp. 182—216, Canon W. H. [Rich] Jones 

 edited a Register of Church Livings in Wilts, in the time of the 

 Commonwealth (A.D. 1645 — 50). This date at the head of his 



