By Rev. Chr. Wordsvjorth, M.A. 199 



and from the register hangs beneath the clock of 1746, behind you. 

 You may notice in the list of my predecessors the name of a 

 Florentine, one Adrian de Bardis, doubtless beneficed by papal 

 influence. He held the prebend of Thame in Lincoln Cathedral, 

 1480—1519; that of Eamsbury in Salisbury, in 1481— 93 ; and 

 Hurstbourn and Burbage, in 1493 — 1519. He was rector here, 

 and resigned in 1486.^ Another person of considerable notoriety, 

 Dr. Henry Sacheverell, was born at the rectory, 8th Feb., and 

 christened 17th Feb., 1673-4. He was imprisoned, in 1709, for 

 for his political sermon — which, by the way, had been preached 

 by him more than once — a caution to us clergy against old sermons 

 — and became a High Church hero with the Tories of Queen Anne's 

 time. 



You will notice a 17th century monument near the priest's 

 vestry in the chancel. It represents Sir Nicholas and Lady Mary 

 Hyde, who lost three little children from an epidemic in January 

 and February, 1626-7. The alabaster frame is of a good design, 

 and is thought to be of Italian work. Nicholas Hyde was Lord 

 Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and died of gaol fever, caught 

 from a prisoner whom he was trying on the Summer Circuit in 

 Norfolk, in 1631. His nephew, the famous Clarendon, had some- 

 times spent his holidays here. As the heraldic helmet above the 

 monument is that of a gentleman, and not a knight (a circumstance 

 pointed out to me by the Eev. R G. Bartelot), it appears that the 

 monument was ordered directly after the children's death, and 

 just before the judge was dubbed a knight. But the inscription 

 which styles him " Sir Nicholas " was simply painted and gilded 

 on a slate, and inserted after he had received his honours. 



Three other young children — of the Francis family, 1738 — 41 — 

 are commemorated on a mural stone near the south door. 



Two brasses are lost. They were not of great antiquity. One 

 of them commemorated " Robert Weare, alias Browne, who was 



'Adrian de Bardis was also prebendary of Aloreton cum W'haddon 

 (1479—80), and Treasurer of Hereford, 1478—86. The Salisbury Institutions 

 are deficient from 1482 to 1485. Ealph Hethcotewas instituted to St. Peter's 

 in 1481, and Rob. Day succeeded on Bardis' resignation in 1486. 



