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Henry Yerbury expelled from his Fellowship, The circumstances 
were singularly unlike those under which he was before ejected; 
for now a determined Royalist was expelled by one who was as 
stout and uncompromising a Royalist as himself. A paper war 
speedily followed this act of the President. One pamphlet, especi- 
ally caustic in its tone, entitled, “Dr. Pierce, his preaching confuted 
by his practice,” led to the expulsion of its author, ‘John Dobson,’ 
from the University. Peace was not restored till the resignation, 
in 1672, of the litigious President. Three years after his retirement 
from Magdalen, Dr. Pierce was appointed Dean of Sarum, where 
his contentious temper again displayed itself in a smart controversy 
with the Bishop, Dr. Seth Ward, on the right of bestowing the 
Prebends of the Cathedral; a controversy, which, though it was 
determined in the Bishop’s favour, is said nevertheless to have 
embittered the closing days of his life. 
Dr. Henry Yerbury, we presume, regained his Fellowship on the 
retirement of Dr. Pierce, for he died at Oxford in the year 1686, 
and was buried in the chapel of Magdalen College. He must 
have been highly esteemed in the University, for in the year 1679 
he was one of the candidates proposed for its representation in 
Parliament. He voluntarily retired, before the contest began, in 
favor of Heneage Finch, then Solicitor General, afterwards created 
Earl of Aylesford, who was especially recommended by the then 
Chancellor of the University. 
Before we leave the Trowbridge branch of the Yerbury family, 
we must make a passing mention of their generous benefactions to 
the poor of that, as well as of several of the neighbouring parishes. 
The new Alms-house at Trowbridge was erected by the three bro- 
thers, William, John, and Richard Yerbury. It was subsequently 
endowed by bequests under the wills of two of them. Dr. Henry 
Yerbury, and his nephew Edward, of both of whom mention has 
been already made, augmented its income with their respective 
donations. William Yerbury, of Hempstead, who was, we pre- 
sume, a son of Richard Yerbury, towards the middle of the last 
century, conveyed to Trustees a certain portion of land for its en- 
dowment. At the time of the visit of the Charity Commissioners! 
iin Charity Commissioners’ Printed Reports No. 28. (Wilts). p. 349. 
