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Butt, Mr. Curate at Bowerchalke Chapel. J. 



Byfield, Adoniram, nephew to the Puritans Nicholas and Richard Byfield. 



{Cf. C. II. 664.) He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 



served as chaplain to a Parliamentarian Regiment, and as clerk to the 



Westminster Assembly. He was Rector and subsequently Vicar of 



Fulham, and before 1654 held the Rectory of Pewsey, serving also on 



the Wilts Committee for ejecting "scandalous and neghgent" clergy. 



Dying in 1660 he escaped ejection himself. See also Shmc, ii., 437-8. 

 [Caldecott, Randolph, s. of T., of Calcott, Chester; Magd. Hall, D.D., 1648. 



Instituted to Fovant, 2 Sept., 1646, vacant by death of Mr. Chafine. 



D. viii., 479. S/*aw, ii.,331. Minister at Bishopstone. J. He appears 



to have been instituted to the rectory of Whaddon in 1662, and to have 



ceded it in 1669.] 

 Carpenter, Mr. Nominated by the Long Parliament, 5 May, 1642, among 



seventeen lecturers for Warminster. Commons' Journals, ii., 559. 



Shmo, ii., 302. 

 Carpenter, Hector. Minister at Compton Bisset in place of H. Beach. (J.) 

 Carter,J.,s.of J.C.,ofPitton,pleb.; B.A., Magd. Hall. Minister at Winterslow. 



J. At the Restoration he apparently became possessed of the advowson 



and presented himself to the rectory in 1661. Instit. 

 Castilion, Douglas, of Berks, gent. ; Magd. Hall and Coll. Rector of Stratford 



Toney. J. Instit. 1618. (J. Barker was instituted there in 1645, and 



Fra. Kettleby died rector in 1665.) 

 Chambers, Humphrey, son of a gentleman in Somerset. Failed to get a 



fellowship at Merton. B.D. Took the covenant, 1641. D.D. of the 



Pembrokian creation, 1648. Univ. Coll., Oxon. Rector of Claverton 



(Som.), 1623 ; Assembly of Divines. C. II. 753 ; IV. 864. 

 Peck, Desid. Cur., II. 492-3, n. Wood, Athence, II. 310-11. 

 " An apology for the ministers of Wills in their meeting at the election 



for the approaching Parliament " was sent out in a letter of four sheets, 



5 May, 1642. Shaw, II., 302. 



Instituted to Pewsey 29 Jan., 1646. Lords' Journals, VIII. 130; 



S/jaw, II. 325. Nominated to lecture at Warminster. Deprived of the 



rectory of Pewsey in 1662. Instit. Wilton. Buried at Pewsey without 



any religious service, Sept., 1662. 

 Chancy, Isaac. Woodborough. Retired to New England. President of 



Harvard. C. II. 76, 877-8. 

 Chaundler, Ric, pleb. fil., Wore. ; Hart Hall. Rector of Wilton. Presented 



by the Earl of Pembroke in 1620. J. And of Ditchampton, 1621 ; 



Canon of Sarum, 1634. 

 Clifford, Samuel. Educated at Salisbury. Magdalen Hall, Oxon. Succeeded 



his father, W.Clifford, as Rectorof Knoyle,1655. Died 1699. C. II. 763-4. 

 Clifford, William, senior, cler. fil., Glouc; Trin. and Magd. Minister at 



East Knoyle in place of Dr. Chr. Wren,who was instituted as rector 1623. 



(One Ant. Hawkes was instituted in 1660, and appears to have ceded 



the rectory on his promotion to Bishopstone, in 1662.) 

 Coles, T., sacerd. fil. ; Balliol ; I'reb. of Hill Deverill, Heytesbury. Rector of 



Fyfield Bavant (or Skydmore) on his father's death, in 1636. J. 



