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by Miss Julia E. Chafyn Grove. Easter Day, the choir was 
surpliced. September 21st, St. Matthew’s Day, St. Matthew’s 
Church was opened at a cost (including the value of the site, given 
by Miss Chafyn Grove, and haulage by the farmers) of £1500. 
The bells were re-hung this year at a cost of about £70. The 
churchyard was levelled and laid out with flower beds. 
1883.—The St. Michael’s Church Guild for Men and Women 
was founded. 
1886.—A new organ was placed in the Church at a cost of about 
£330. 
1888.—The tower was re-pointed and the north-east pinnacle re- 
built at a cost of about £150. 
The Curates under Mr. Wyld were :— 
1881—90. W. Chell. 
1881—4. Thomas Veal. 
1885. H. G. E. Westmacott, a Canadian. 
1885—9. J. F.S. Pritchitt. 
1889—90. G. E. W. Highmore. 
Joun Aucustrus Luioyp, M.A. 
B.A., St. John’s Coll., Oxford, 1872; M A., 1874; deacon and 
priest by Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1873, 1874. Was 
instituted to the Vicarage of Mere, November 29th, 1890, by the 
Bishop of Salisbury, and inducted at the same time by the Rev. 
Edwin G. Wyld, of Melksham, formerly Vicar, the Bishop subse- 
quently holding a confirmation. Formerly Curate of Bibury, 
Gloucestershire, and Blymhill, Staffordshire, and Vicar of Broad 
Hinton, Wilts, 1877—1890. Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of 
Freemasons in 1888. Surrogate, 1891, in which year new infant 
and technical schools, given by Miss Chafyn Grove, were begun, 
and extensive improvements in the National School buildings set 
on foot at an estimated cost of £3000. Miss Chafyn Grove, who 
died November 27th, 1891, left a sum of £450 for a new roof and 
other improvements in the Bettesthorne Chapel of the Parish 
Church, an endowment of £108 a year for the Assistant-Curate at 
