268 Great Bedwyn. 



exertions were made about that time to raise the income upon a 

 fresh valuation, and the result eventually placed the yearly sum of 

 £154 2s. ll^d. at the disposal of the vicar. This sum was com- 

 muted, in the year 1850, for £212. The vicarage has also been 

 augmented from private benefaction, from the Parliamentary 

 Grant Fund, and from Queen Anne's Bounty. The glebe, includ- 

 ing the church-yard, is about two acres. 



The succession of vicars, prior to the year 1548, is not preserved 

 either in the Registry of the Deans of Salisbury, or in the First 

 Fruits Office in London. 



Mr. Roger Derby was, however, vicar in 1405, and 



Thomas Dogeson died vicar in 1500 or 1501. 



Richard Yonge is mentioned as vicar in the Ecclesiastical Survey (26 Henry 



VIII.) 

 Joseph Smith preceded 

 William Wingfield, the first vicar enrolled in the Dean's Registers as having 



been instituted in a.d. 1564. Patron, Thomas Blagrave, Esquire, as tem- 

 porary Lessee of the great Tythes. 

 Henry Shawe succeeded on Wingfield's resignation in 1573. Patron, Sir 



Edward Seymour, Rnt. 

 Henry Shawe, in 1574. Patron, Queen Elizabeth. 

 Richard Baylie, not mentioned in the Dean's Registers, is repeatedly styled 



vicar in the Registers of the parish between the years 1576 and 1582, when 



he was buried. 

 Roger Glass, instituted in 1581, the year before Bay lie's death. Patron, the 



Earl of Hertford. 

 Adam Noyes, in 1595, on the resignation of Glass. Patron, Queen Elizabeth. 

 Henry Tayler, in 1598. Patron, the Earl of Hertford. 

 William Slatyer, in 1611. Patron, James I., by lapse. 

 Joshua Slatyer, in 1616. 



Henry Tayler, in 1617. Patron, the Earl of Hertford. 

 Richard Plummer, in 1627. The same Patron. Richard Plummer was buried 



27 August, 1649. 

 Solomon Renger is styled vicar in the Parish Registers in 1650, 51, and 53, but 



his name does not occur in the First Fruits Office or in the Dean's Register. 



He was buried 17 January, 1653-4. 

 Robert Billings, in 1661. Patron, William, Duke of Somerset. 

 Robert Randall, in 1668. The same Patron. Robert Randell died in 1679. 

 William Meaden, in 1679. Patron not mentioned. 

 Nicholas Andrews, in 1714, on Meaden's resignation. Patron, Charles, Baron 



Bruce of Whorl ton. 

 John Arnald, in 1733, on the deprivation of Andrews. The same Patron. 

 Thomas Gifiard, the younger, in 1736, on the resignation of Arnald. The same 



Patron. 



