104 Some Account of the Parish of Monhton Parleigh. 



bread was distributed from the chancel to the poor at Easter, " the 

 people being always thankful to the good lady who gave it." 



The family of the Kings stood probably upon about the same 

 footing as that of the Grants and the following is the parish record 

 of them x-^ 



William, d. 1650,=Ann, d. 1667. 



I \ \ ~i i ^1 . 



Sarah, Arnold, Mr. Eobert, George, Mr. John, Francis, 



b. 1621. b. 1624 ; b. 1626. b. 1627. b. 1627. b. 1629 ; 



d. 1697. I I d. 1670. 



1 I i Mary, Harmond, 



George, b. 1651. Joan, b. 1656. Elizabeth, b. 1652 ; b. 1662. 



d. 1669. d. 1684. 



The name, at least, was still perpetuated in the parish up to 1880 

 in the person of Mr. John King, of " The Villa." 



The Butler family may next be mentioned. The name was, per- 

 haps, at one time a badge of servitude at the Priory. Tempore 

 Edward I. (1272 — 1307), one -John le Botyler is witness to a deed 

 securing certain privileges to the said Prior and convent of Farley. 

 Then (1372) a William le Boteler appears as churchwarden, taking 

 oath to the yearly value of the rectory. Later on, first Henry V. 

 (1413), William Botyler (the article dropped) figures as a clerk in 

 holy orders, confirming to one Eichard Slade certain rents in land 

 in Farleyghes-Wyke (called in Ed. II., 1321, the Bailliage of the 

 Bedeley Court of Farleigh), and thereafter we have a succession of 

 John Butlers, churchwardens in the parish, till the family dies out 

 in the person of Thomas Butler, yeoman (1713). 



The name is still in the parish in the person of Mr. Hancock's 

 bailiflF. 



Roger Huggitt was also, Mr. Powell considers, one of our notables. 



A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, August, 4th, 1800, signing 



himself A. S. (absit omen !) mentions that he copied the following 



inscription from a square stone in the aisle of the parish Church of 



Farley in Wiltshire ; — 



Kogerus Huggitt. 



Qui eximo statu ad summos houores emergens. 



Natus Pastor-Miles obiit. Mt. 



