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presented to a stall in Wells Cathedral, and to other preferments in 
the County of Somerset, and was, it is believed, Chaplain to John 
Still,| Bishop of Bath and Wells. He married Anne Rogers, of an 
ancient family of that name seated at Cannington in Somerset. 
Possibly through this marriage the Methuen family first became 
possessed of property in Bradford. The house in which for many 
years they lived, and which till a comparatively short time ago 
belonged to them and is still called ‘Methuen’s’ by the older in- 
habitants, is that to which we have alluded, in a previous page, as 
having probably been built by one of the family of Rogers of Can- 
nington, to whom, in the sixteenth century, the property belonged. 
The son of the last-named Paul, by name Anthony, was also in 
Holy Orders. He was Prebendary of Wells and Litchfield, and held 
the Vicarage of Frome, in Somerset, from 1609—1640. He married 
Jean daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Taylor, Esq. of the city 
of Bristol, and with her obtained a large accession to his fortune, 
which even before was not inconsiderable. They both died in the 
same year, 1640, and were interred under a costly monument,” now 
in the Vestry of the Parish Church of Frome, which has recently 
been completely restored to its original condition by the present 
Vicar. 
It is with the sons of this ANrHony, the Vicar of Frome, that 
we are especially concerned, as they were the first of the family 
son,—both apparently the sons of ‘John de Methven,’ who fled from Scotland. 
I am not able, at present, to decide concerning the relative value of the various 
authorities, and therefore content myself with indicating the source from which 
the information above given has been derived. 
' See Sir R. C. Hoare’s ‘Hundred of Mere,’ p. 192. ° 
2 On the tomb of ‘“‘Anthony Methwin,” (so the name is there spelt,) Vicar of 
Frome, is the following inscription, of which we attempt an English version, 
though it is not easy to reach the force and elegance of the original. 
‘‘Hoe tegitur cippo, decus wvi, gloria cleri, 
Dum vixit, nune fit lucida stella poli. 
Viti, voce, manu, populum pascebat Tesu: 
Qui nune cxlesti pasecitur ipse cibo.” 
Here lies,—his Age’s boast,—his Church’s pride,— 
Now, a bright star, midst angels, glorified; 
In life, by word and deed, his flock in Christ he fed, 
And now, with Christ Himself, he feeds on heavenly bread. 
