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Entries in a» Parish Register, Collinghourne 
Ancis. 
Translated and Annotated by Canon J. D. Hopason. 
Guil: Sherwin adscriptus fuit in Col- 
legium Etonense A° D™ 1680 annum 
agens undecimum sub Patrocinio Jo- 
hannis Rosewell Ludimagistri celeberri- 
mi,factus semicomminarius Magdalensis 
adjuvante Henrico Fairfax 8.T.P.Decano 
postea Norvicensi A° 1683. ex illo 
Collegio per vim ejectus, rebus in Papis- 
mum vergentibus, 16° die Jan: A° 
1682. Inter socios Mertonenses unanimi 
consensu cooptatus 14°die Junij A° 1688, 
Atque hujus Ecclesiz institutus Rector 
die 2° Augusti A° 1700. Prebendarius 
de Seaforth in Ecclesia Cicestrensi A° 
1703.  Matrimonium contraxit cum 
Katharina Hand Filia Thome Hand 
Armigeri é civitate Cestrensi 16° Aprilis 
A° 1704. 
William Sherwin,! admitted as a Col- 
leger of Eton, A.D. 1680, in his eleventh 
year, under that famous Master, John 
Rosewell,? became a Demy of Magdalen 
by the aid of Henry Fairfax, D.D., 
(afterwards Dean of Norwich,) in 1683 ; 
forcibly expelled from that College when 
Popery was in the ascendant, 16th Jan., 
1683 ;? elected unanimously a Fellow of 
Merton, 14th June, 1688; instituted 
Rector of this Church, 2nd August, 
1700; Pyrebendary of Seaforth, in the 
Cathedral of Chichester, 1703 :—mar- 
ried Katharine, daughter of Thomas 
Hand, of the City of Chester, Esquire, 
16th April, 1704. 
1 W. Sherwin, who made these entries in the register book of baptisms, 
marriages, and burials, Collingbourne Ducis, was Rector of that parish from 
1700 to 1735, having been Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford, after 
being ejected from Magdalen. He held a Residentiary Canonry of Chichester 
Cathedral from 1717, and resided there for the last fifteen years of his life. The 
entries are in unusually good scholarly Latin. 
2 J. Rosewell, Head Master of Eton, 1672 to 1680. He left the collegea 
legacy of £300, and gave books which were the origin of the school library. 
3 King James II. sent a mandate to the Fellows of Magdalen to elect one 
Farmer, a new convert, as their President. The Fellows applied for recall of the 
mandate, and proceeded to elect Dr. Hough. A commission was sent down, and 
the President and Fellows cited before it. Farmer was found to be disqualified 
by the college statutes, and of bad character ; but a new mandate was issued in 
favour of Dr.. Parker, lately made Bishop of Oxford. The College remonstrating, 
and refusing to deprive the President they had elected, he and all the Fellows, 
except two who complied, were summarily ejected, ana Parker put in possession 
of the office. 
