Translated and Annotated by Canon J. D. Hodgson, 
1707. Die Sextilis 19° Sepelitur 
Guilielmus Batt eo ipso die quo probris 
omnibus maledictisque palam insectatus 
est Rectorem hujusce ecclesia funus 
Thome Webb facientem anno superiori. 
Magister West Rect*. de Boscomb, 
propter predes suos & xs alienum ita 
diffisus est & desperavit rebus suis ut 
Miserarum remedium morte ac sus- 
pendio inhonestissimo quereret 23° die 
Decembris, A° 1707. 
Martinus Hinton, A.M., pupillus olim 
meus in collegio Mertonensi, cim al- 
terius vice animorum curam Tedworthiz 
Borealis tres quatuorve annos lauda- 
biliter egisset, ingravescente tandem 
variolarum morbo diem suum obijt la- 
borans ex zre alieno Feb xi° 1702. 
Robertus Peirce, LL.B. Rector Ted- 
worthiz Septentrionalis in agris nostris 
equo suo delapsus mortem immaturam 
obijt Kal: Decembres 1707. Vir erat 
omni laude cumulatus, politioris hu- 
manitatis speciatim rei medice & lin- 
guarum scientissimus; et cim xquales 
_Suos moribus suavissimis pauperesque 
sibi liberalitate haud vulgari devinxerit, 
omnibus per totam hance viciniam tris- 
tissimum sui desiderium non immeritd 
reliquit. 
"Eppet ta kadd: Ieipows 8 drécovra.® 
323 
1707. On the 19th of August was 
buried William Batt, being the very 
day on which he had publicly attacked 
the Rector with all manner of abuse 
and curses when engaged in the burial 
of Thomas Webb the year before. 
Mr. West, Rector of Boscomb, over- 
come with despair on account of his 
debts and difficulties, sought refuge 
from his woes in a disgraceful death, 
and hung himself on the 23rd of De- 
cember, 1707. 
Martin Hinton, M.A., formerly my 
pupil at Merton College, for three or 
four years an estimable Curate-in-charge 
of North Tedworth, fell sick of small 
pox and died in debt 11th February, 
1703. 
Robert Peirce,’ LLB., Rector of 
North Tedworth, met with a premature - 
death by falling from his horse in our 
parish on the Ist of December, 1707. 
A man universally esteemed, of much 
erudition especially in medical science 
and languages, and one whose sweetness: 
of disposition attached to him his equals 
and his rare liberalitythe poor. Through- 
out this neighbourhood he has deservedly 
left the saddest regret for his loss. 
—— Woe worth the day 
When the good Peirce was called away.. 
ee 
: 1R. Peirce was son of Thomas Peirce, Dean of Salisbury 1675 to 1691, whose: 
epitaph in North Tedworth Church is given in Canon Jones’ “Fasti Ecclesiz: 
Sarisberiensis,” page 323. 
? Taken from the despatch of Hippocrates, the Peloponnesian general, after 
the battle of Cyzicus, which was intercepted by the Athenians and copied by 
Xenophon, effec ra Kadd- Mivdapos dréccova- rewavre rédvdpes- dropidpes & 
Te xp7 Spar. 
(All is lost: Mindarus has fallen: the men are famished :—we 
_ are in a strait.) It has been remarked how nearly this runs in Hipponacteam 
_jambics; and Sherwin has tried to construct from it an ordinary iambic verse. 
_ See Thirlwall’s Greece, vol. IV., page 88; and Xen. Hell. L., i. 23. 
