By the Rev. G. S. Master. 301 



" Dane/' " Denes/' " Dennys/' " Dennis/' and " Dince " ; while 

 those of "Futcher/' "Fox/' " Forder/' "Harris/' " Hihherd/' 

 and " Parsons/' are still represented in the parish and neighbourhood. 



Names which have disappeared from the locality are " Alryge/' 

 or '^Aldridge/' " Barkeshyre/' " Bynkys/' " Carde/' " Cully/' 

 " Daman " and "Damram " (for Damerham), "Drue " and " Drewe/' 

 " Harrewaye/' " Macersedde/' " Morse/' " Plaford/' " Pebernell/' 

 " Roo " or " Roe/' " Ryddman/' " Tote/' " Throsyll/' " Shyrfield/-' 

 " Shotter/' " Wyrsdale." 



An illegitimate child, 1577, takes the surname of the fai/ier :^ 

 " John Cully y' sonne of Alys Allen [ex adulterino cocubitu genit] 

 and of John Cully y' yong' w"'" rane away whe' she was w"" child, 

 was baptized y' second daye of Februarie": and another, in 1586, 

 the maiden name of the mother, who was a widow : — " Mychaell 

 Shotter y* sonne of Elyzabeth Shotter (late Wydow of John Cully) 

 was christened f ix"" day of June, whose father ys not known." 



Upon the back of the title-page is the following : — " Md y' haith 

 be' buryed att Westdeane out of Mr. Whiteheddes house syne y* 

 yeare of or lord god m'cccecxxxviij iij, & chrystned fro' y' same 

 house ix." This must have been written about the year 1546, up 

 to which time the numbers here given correspond with the entries 

 in the register. 



The Hampshire families of Whitehead and Thistlethwayte were 

 occupiers of the manor house, or residents in the parish for long 

 periods (they were seated also at Norman Court, in the adjoining 

 parish of West Tytherley), the former name occurring in the 

 registers from 1540 to 1593, the latter first in 1553. Both gave 

 ample scope to the orthographic talents of the rectors, who essayed 

 to spell them with as many letters, and in as great a variety of 

 forms as possible. 



And now ensues an "hiatus valde deflendus/' nothing less than 

 the loss of an entire volume, with the records o£ well-nigh a century, 

 and that the troublous one of the Commonwealth and Restoration, 

 oftentimes prolific of entries of interest; and of the period of 

 residence in the manor house of the families of Evelyn and Pierre- 

 pont, whose domestic history it would have served to illustrate. Its 



