Some Account of the Parish of MonJcfon Farleigh. 185 



gorgeous colouring of the butterfly, eagerly pursues it, and whea 

 caught, idly treads it under foot. Nay ! kind reader, although man 

 has doubtless been made lord oi all God's works, and so is justified 

 in freely using the inferior creation in any way that may either 

 tend to his lawful profit, or minister harmlessly to his recreation, yet 

 all must feel there is a point at which his licence must stop, and that 

 point surely is the taking away, without due cause, the life he can 

 never restore. 



Arthur P. Moures. 

 Britford Vicarage, 



December Ist, 1881. 



c^ome Recount of t|e "patblj of HloiiMoit 



By SiE Chaeles Hobhouse, Bart. 

 (Continued from page 106 J 



CHAPTER VI. 



Ecclesiastical History. 



ilJR living is a rectory, and partly from a paper collated from 

 the Wilts Institutions, and partly from a careful search of 

 the registers I have put together a list of our rectors and of the 

 patrons of the living. Appendix B. a. 



Up to A.D. 1334 there are no presentations recorded, although 

 the Church was certainly in existence in 1291, but practically from 

 that year to 1533 the patronage was with the Priors of Farleigh, 

 and thereafter with the see of Salisbury. There were interregnums 

 —viz., 1334 to 1348 and 1639 to 1(560— when the King, or (1660) 

 the Commonwealth, presented, but these were accidents. Circa 

 1334, William Falshaw, the Prior of Farleigh, deserted his post. 



