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viz. : William St. Faith (de Sanctd Fide) for 50 years from c. 1173 ; 

 and Jordan Cotel.^ Soon after tliat time tlie Tithes were appropri- 

 ated, and a vicarage ordained. The advowson (as before stated), 

 was awarded after the Glastonbur}^ quarrel to the Bishop of "Wells, 

 who gave the Tithe of the Rectory and right of presentation to the 

 vicarage, to the Prioress of St. Mary's. In temp. Hen. VIII., both 

 were purchased by the Longs of Draycote, to whose representative, 

 Viscount Wellesley, they now belong. 



Amongst former Vicars of whom anj^ thing more is known than 

 their mere names, were, 1612 — 1663, Richard Hind^ of Ch. Ch. 

 Oxon, afterwards Rector of Boddington, Co. Northamp., and of 

 Grittleton, where he was also Patron. Benjamin Griffin, 1712 — 

 16, who built vicarage houses here and at Colerne. William Har- 

 ington, of the Kelston family (near Bath), vicar 34 years, died 

 1751. From 1751 — 77, John Scrope D.D., also Rector of Castle 

 Combe, and for three years before his death owner of that estate : a 

 scholar, and author of some works on divinity.^ From 1779 — 1824, 

 Edmund Garden ; died in his 93rd year, having been nearly 60 

 years Reader to Gray's Inn. To the present Incumbent, the Rev. 

 Edward Charles Awdry, appointed in 1856, the Parish is already 

 indebted for his prompt determination to restore 



The Church of St. Michael. 



How and when it obtained this name has been mentioned, p. 39. 

 It consists of a Chancel, Nave with north and south aisles, a Tower 

 at the west end, and south Porch, (see jjlafes.) The Chancel arch 

 is of the 12th century ; and one of its windows is enriched with 

 Early English Tooth-moulding, very delicately woi'ked. The east 



1 "Cotel had some estate in Kington Parish; according to the Lcgier of Trop- 

 ncll: and beareth gules, bend or." — (Axibrej'.) 



2 Thus mentioned by AubrcJ^ " Mr. Thos. Hobbcs told mo, that Col. Charles 

 Cavendish who had travelled over Greece, told him that the Greeks doe sing 

 their Greek, la Herefordshire they have a touch of this singing. Our old 

 divines had. Our old vicar of Kington St. Michael, Mr. Kynd, did shiff his 

 Hcrmous rather than reade tliom. You may find in l^rusmus that tlio monks used 

 tliis fashion, who mocks them, that sometimes they would be very low, and by 

 and ]>y they would bo mighty high, qiiando nihil opus est." (Aubrey's Lives, 

 vol. ii. p. 274.) 



3 History of Castle Combo, p. 352. 



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