By Rev. Chr. Wordmorth, M.A. 189 



him for a Puritan ; and when be told him his father took his name out 

 of the Apocrypha [2 Mace, xii., 19, 24, 35] he was very well pleased 

 with him." 

 Yard, T., of Dorset, cler. fil. ; M.A., Broadgates Hall. Rector of Berwick St. 

 John, 1635. J. 



(Compton Southe seems to have held the rectory about the time of 

 the Restoration, and to have been deprived in 1662, when J. Priaulx was 

 instituted.) 



(III.) 



Clcrtcorum (JToflnomiua iw ^gro SEilton, cxtracta r.t iElrsistro 

 ^catiemiac ©xon. ctr. ^.IB. 1615—47- 



Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., printed privately at his Middle 

 Hill Press, Broadway Tovk^er, Worcestershire (" tyins medio-viontanis 

 in Turri Lativiensi "), or elsewhere, some eighty years ago, one 

 imdated -i-page sheet, headed 



" Matriculationes Oxonienses pro Com. Wilts." 

 This was always a scarce production, and it is now costly ; but 

 having re-cast the (chronological) series into an alphabetical list of 

 surnames for my own convenience, I now for our present purpose 

 extract those names of Wiltshire clergy (parents of matriculated 

 undergraduates) which occur in it. 



Unfortunately Sir T. Phillipps deals with only twelve of the 

 Oxford Colleges (Christ Church, Magdalen Coll., New Coll., All 

 Souls, Merton, Corpus Christi, Queen's, St. John Baptist, Trinity, 

 Brasenose, Oriel, and Lincoln), so far as I am aware. If any of our 

 readers has found a supplementary list for Univ. Coll., Exeter, 

 Jesus, Wadham (1613), Broadgates Hall (Pembroke, 1624), 

 Gloucester Hall (Worcester), Hertford, and the four Halls, I 

 should be grateful for the intimation. Meanwhile I have gleaned 

 what supplementary information 1 could iind for any of them 

 from vol. II. part ii. of the Eev. Andrew Clark's Register of the 



