By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, FS. A. 41 
name where the good King Josiah was slain (II. Kings, xxiii., 27). 
The object of this discourse was to rouse the slumbering loyalty of 
Westbury. How far it was successful may be questionable. Ac- 
cording to modern ideas, a ponderous discourse filling fifty-two 
pages of close small print, requiring, if properly delivered, at least 
three hours of attention, instead of rousing the slumbering loyalty 
of a congregation would be more likely to have a different effect and 
send them to keep company with their loyalty.' 
I will now say a few words about one or two of the principal old 
families and their places of residence within the parish. 
Brook Hovsz, or Hatt. 
The most important of the old families who owned large estates 
here seems to have been the Pavely family, of Brook House. They 
were here for about two hundred and fifty years, from Henry I. to 
Edward III., and during all that time their estate passed through 
successive Walters and Reginalds from father to son. The name 
does not seem to have made much figure in the general history of 
England at that period: and what is known about them is just what 
isin most cases known about ancient families from deeds relating 
to property that happen not to have been destroyed. They were 
sheriffs, commissioners for the Crown in county business, such as 
levies of militia, perambulations of Royal forests, and the like. 
One was a judge, another a prior of the Order of St. John of 
Jerusalem: some appear to have been Religious men, as in the south 
transept of the Church, where they had a chantry chapel, there are, 
or once were, in a niche in the wall, monumental stones with crosses 
carved upon them. The devices and arms of Pavely are found 
upon neighbouring Churches, implying contributious towards those 
buildings. One of the old documents from which we glean their 
1 The full title of this dreary discourse was “‘ Hapaprimmov, Sive Threnodia 
Anglicana ob Regicidium: A Sermon on David’s Humiliatiou for Cutting off 
the Royat Rozz, and Detestation of Cutting off the Royat Hxap of the Lorp’s 
ANOINTED. Preached Jan. 30, 1660; Being a Solemn Fast for the Horrid 
Murther of Kine Cuarues I. of glorious memory. At Westsury, in the 
County of Witts. By Joun Parapisz, Preacher of the Word there.” 
