188 Some Account of the Parish of Monhton Farleigh. 



the subjects of them^ which ifc may yet be interesting or amusing to 



record : — 



" Memorandum. In the year of our Lord 1 626. John Walter and William 

 Baker, Churchwardens for the said year, did place in the second seat of the south 

 side of the Church of Mounkton-Farleigh the wife of the said John Walter and 

 gave sixpence to the Church. Item they placed in the said seat the wife of 

 Eobert Baker and she gave sixpence." 



Then follow the solemn witness and signs of the two churchwardens. 



Here evidently the two dames had had a quarrel for precedence, 

 and we can readily picture the stately manner in which on that 

 Sunday in 1626 it must have been solemnly adjusted. 



Parsons Bridges, Allambrigge, Medlicott and Gunner record their 



several inductions, and that by Allambrigge is as follows : — 



" Memorandum. That at the time of my induction, John Butler the elder 

 being then (and many years after in the time of troubles) [he was inducted Jan. 

 30th. 1641] Churchwarden, kept on paper a register of Christenings, Burialls and 

 Weddings, the parchment book being full ; which papers since his death can not 

 yet be found ; I therefore (no Churchwarden taking care or notice) begin from 

 the said Butler's death ; what is lost ego nescio nee ego ciu-o it being ever the 

 Churchwarden's office." 



So up to this time it had been the Churchwarden's office to keep 

 up the registers, and it was only because no churchwarden cared to 

 prevent him that the parson undertook the duty. 



He kept his registers well, too, but there must ever have been a 

 spice of the " non ego euro " in his disposition, for he could not 

 resist the following entry : — 



"March 7th, 1656. Christopher Morris his Cocke was killed by John Allam- 

 brigge his Cocke." 



Then occur some apparently charitable donations : — 



" 1664. Given to the Breife for the City of Oxford 1/- and to the Inhabitants 

 of the Parish of St. Dunstanes, West London 6'', and to the Briefe 

 for Fordingbridge in the County of Southampton 1/2, and paid 1/- 

 to the BailifE of the same Towne." 



And, to come down to modern times, we have this entry, August 



21st, 1830 :— 



" Eeceived by the hand of Thomas Gardiner one penny as a fine for permission 

 to pass through the Eectory field to the Churchyard, paid by Captain Long at 

 the funeral of his son, D. W. E. Long." 



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