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non contemnendum calamitates domes- 
tice afflixerunt. 
Hand facilée mergit, cujus virtutibus 
obstant 
Res angusta domi & turpes cum con- 
juge natze.} 
Magister Edmundus Sparke Canta- 
brigiensis, Rector Tedworthie Australis 
mortem cum vité commutavit podagre 
doloribus cruciatus, Maij: die5° A° 1703. 
Tile bonus sane vicinus, amabilis 
hospes, 
Comis in uxorem, servis qui ignoscere 
possit.? 
Atque ob eruditionem et mores com- 
modos majore fuisset laude dignus si 
Socinianorum dogmata minus acriter 
tenuisset. 
Johannes Hersent, Novi Collegii 
Socius, Academiz Procurator, & D»° 
Lockhart ad Gallum legato olim a sacris 
Vir probus & doctus, rectoratu Pewsi- 
ensi vix tres annos antea fungebatur 
quam podagraé gravissime afflictus desi- 
derari czepit 21 Decembris A° 1705. 
Henricus Russell, Henriei Seudder é 
filia nepos, patri suo in rectoratu de Pen- 
ton in agro Hantoniensi successit : ubi 
postquam aliquot annos Verbum divi- 
num preedicdsset Pastor fidus & labori- 
osus extremum diem morte eonfecit, 
animo magis quam morbo fractus, 
atque ipsius rogatu apud AdytumTempli 
nostri sepultus est 14° die Novembris 
A° 1706. 
1 Juvenal, Satires III., 164 seq.:— 
Entries in a Parish Register, Collingbourne Ducis. 
but broken down by his family troubles. 
Who can excel, of scanty means pos- 
sest, 
By worthless wife and daughters vile 
opprest P 
Mr. Edmund Spark, of Cambridge, 
Rector of South Tedworth, died racked 
with gout, on the 5th of May, 1703. 
To wife and neighbours courteous,kind ; 
To faults of those who served him blind. 
For his learning and agreeable man- 
ners he would have been deserving of 
more regard if his Socinian tenets had 
been maintained with less acrimony. 
John Hersent, Fellow of New College, 
Proctor of the University, and formerly 
Chaplain to Lord Lockhart, Ambassador 
to the King of France,*an upright and 
learned man, had held the rectory of 
Pewsey scareely three years before he 
fell a victim to gout, and his loss was. 
regretted, 21 December, 1705. 
Henry Russell, maternal grandson of 
Henry Seudder, succeeded his father as 
Reetor of Penton, in Hants. Having 
for some years ministered the Word of 
God as a faithful and energetic Pastor 
he died broken in mind more than in 
body, and by his own request was buried 
in the chancel of our Church on the 14th 
of November, 1706. 
Hand facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat 
Res angusta domi. 
? Horace, Epistles 1I., 132 seq :— 
Bonus sane vicinus, amabilis hospes, 
Comis in uxorem, posset qui ignoscere servis. 
5 Lockhart was Ambassador in France under the Commonwealth, Governor of 
Dunkirk at the Restoration, and again Ambassador in the reign of Charles II. 
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