164 Wilts Ministers (A.D. 1643—1662;. 



]II. = C. Herbert Mayo. "The Minute Books of the Dorset 

 Standing Committee, 23rd Sept., 1646, to 8 May, 

 1650." Royal 8vo. Exeter. 1902. 



A few names of (?) Presbyterian ministers are added from the 

 records of St. Peter's, Marlborough. They did occasional duty in 

 the absence of the Eector, Nicholas Profiett, who served in the 

 " Assembly of Divines." 



Canon Mayo, in his " Dorset Standing Cominittce,^' has done more 

 for Dorset than I could dream of accomplishing, and has incidentally 

 furnished some additional information for Wilts; and two years 

 earlier Dr. W. A. Shaw, in two scholarly volumes on " The Church 

 under the Comniomoealth" (1900) had from the public records 

 gathered a treasure of information which was inaccessible to the 

 eighteenth century writers. At this distance of time from the 

 political troubles Dr. Shaw has been enabled to produce them with 

 that calmness and impartiality to which the Pioyalist Walker and 

 the Nonconformist Calamy, naturally, could not attain. 



I propose subsequently to print a List of the Sons of Clergy 

 from Wilts who matriculated at Oxford about 1601 — 1650. 



I offer my lists to our Wiltshire antiquaries and parochial 

 historians in the hope that someone, who has time and other talents 

 requisite, may hereafter supplement and correct this paper from 

 the registers preserved in every parish. If some lady or gentleman 

 in each lural deanery in Wilts would look through the parish 

 registers of that district for the years 1640 to 1663 — and they are 

 generally sadly brief for that period — a very interesting result 

 might be attained. 



Chr. W. 



