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Carolus Gifford A.M. ex Aula Magd : 
Oxon Rect’. de Russhall in his regioni- 
bus, postquam corpus per aliquot annos 
macie extabuerat, animam Deo reddidit 
15° die Sept, An° 1708. 
Susanam Gifford per mortem dicti 
Caroli jam viduam & pauperem nomi- 
natione mea Maij 19° 1709 cooptavi in 
collegium Matronarum quod ex muni- 
ficentia prenobilis Ducissee Somerset- 
ensis fundatum fuit apud Froxfield in 
agro Wiltonensi. 
Robertus Reekes, Rector'de Manning- 
ford Abbatis, febre correptus de vita 
decessit 12° die Octobris A° Dni 1708. 
Vir acerrimo ingenio, sale conditus & 
facetiis, qui tamen in Verbo divino 
enucleando multum operis & laboris 
feliciter consumpsit. 
Magister Crofts, Rector de Clatford 
Australi, juxta Andover, in agro Han- 
toniensi, obijt Feb. 22°170§ ; de ecclesia 
bene meritus utpote qui Decimas quas 
priorum temporum iniquitas alienaverat 
legum ope at sumptu non exiguo sibi & 
successoribus suis vindicavit. 
Magister Smith, Vicarius de Clatford 
Boreali &c.,annum agens octogessimum 
animam placidé expiravit Maij die nono 
1709. 
Magister Haskins, Rector de Chelter- 
ton, qui, quoad viridis ztas, felicem 
pueris instituendis navasset operam, 
in summa tranquillitate annum nonum 
et septuagessimum excessit, animique 
maturus mortem occubuit die neno 
Augusti A° 1709. 
1709. Johannes Richmondus Webb 
Entries in a Parish Register, Collingbourne Ducis. 
Charles Gifford, M.A., of Magdalen 
Hall, Oxford, Rector of Russhall in 
these parts, after a wasting sickness of 
several years, gave up his life on the 
15th September, 1708. 
His Widow, Susan Gifford, being in 
poverty, was admitted on my nomina- 
tion 19th May, 1709, into the College 
of Matrons founded by the munificence 
of the Most Noble the Duchess of 
Somerset at Froxfield, in the County of 
Wilts. 
Robert Reekes, Rector of Manning- 
ford Abbots, died of a fever 12th Octo- 
ber, 1708. A man of keenest intellect, 
seasoned with wit and humour, who 
nevertheless devoted much pains and 
labour to the successful interpretation 
of the Word of God. 
Mr. Crofts, Rector of South Clatford, 
near Andover, in the county of Hants, 
died on the 22nd of February, 1708. He 
deserved well of the Church since the 
Tithes which had been alienated by the 
guilt of a former generation were by 
him recovered for himself and his suc- 
cessors by legal aid at no small cost. 
Mr. Smith, Vicar of North Clatford, 
expired calmly in his eightieth year 9th 
May, 1709. 
Mr. Haskins, Rector of Cholderton, 
during the prime of his life a successful 
educator of boys, outlived his 79th year 
in the enjoyment of complete tran- 
quillity and in full possession of his 
faculties. He died 9 August, 1709. 
1709. John Richmond Webb,! of 
1 General Webb, in the action of Wynendale, 1708, commanding six thousand , 
of the allied troops, defeated the French General, Count Le la Motte, with twenty- 
two thousand men, who had marched from Ghent to intercept a convoy from 
