Bi, the Rev. Chr. Worchicorth. M.A. 369 



topograpliical dictionary or map for local names, but liad " evolved " 

 the })orsonal names, like the camel, out of his " inner consciousness." 



It is perhaps of little in)portance to our enquiry, but it will do 

 no harm to state that the clergy actually at Cricklade about the 

 period in question were : — 



1751—7. Charles Harris, or Harries, Kector of St. Mary and Vicar of 



St. Sampson. 

 1757 — 61. Nathaniel Sandford, Vicar of St. Sampson. 

 1779. David Middleton, Kector of St. Mary. 



1761—89. Thomas Frome, CPD.D., 1771, Merton), Vicar of St. Sampson. 

 1789— 1808.— Richard Purdy, D.D., Vicar of St. Sampson and of Broad 



Hinton and Rector of Ashley. 

 1809 — 15, &c. William Macdonald, Vicar of St. Sampson, 21st April, 



1809, and in July, 1812, of Chitterne All Saints and Great Hinton ; 



? re-instituted at St. Sampson's, 2nd October, 1812 ; Vicar of Bishops 



Cannings, 1815, of Bitton, Gloucester, 1817. Preb. of Bitton, 1807. 



Canon of Salisbury, 1823. Archdeacon of Wilts, 1828—62. 



I see no reason to suppose that " Crekelade " was more than a 

 mere name to Zschokke, or that he contemplated his little stoiy 

 being ever translated into English or read in Wiltshire. 



The paper, " On a Conjectural Source of CToldsmith's Vicar of 

 WalrfieM," read before the " Eoyal Society of Literature" by their 

 Secretary, Dr. P. W. Ames, F.S.A., June 23rd, 1897,^ was reported 

 in the AthenKum, 3rd July, p. 38. Dr. Ames referred (it is there 

 said) to the 



"Journal of a Foor Ticar," which "appeared in England as a fugitive 

 sketch in 1750, after which it was translated into German by Zschokke, 

 re-translated by an American from the German, and printed iu ' The Gift ' in 

 1844." 



This statement, so far as I have at present been able to ascertain, 

 does not quite accurately represent Dr. Ames's remarks as they 

 were printed in the Transactions of the lioycd Society of Literature, 



1 Transactions of the Royal Societi/ Lit., vol. xix., 1897. Mr. R. Wright 

 Taylor and Mr. E. W. Brabrook (who was in the chair) took part in the 

 discussion. 



