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sentatives of Mr. Isaac Sadler Gale, Six pounds a year distri- 

 buted in bread on St. Thomas's day. 



4. Taylor's, a.d. 1729. 



A Rent cbarge of 20s. a year under the Will of Mr. Thomas 

 Taylor dated 18th Sept. 1727, now payable out of land in Langley 

 belonging to Viscount Wellesley. Distributed in bread amongst 

 the poor on St. Thomas's day. 



5. Bowerman's, a.d. 1730. 



Mrs. Sarah Bowerman by Will dated 6th Dec. 1730, gave £5 a 

 year for ever, payable by the Trustees of Christ's Ilospital, London, 

 to the Schoolmaster at Kington St. Michael towards the education 

 of poor children. 



6. White's Gift, a.d. 1821. 



Mr. Thomas White of London, by Will dated 21st January 1821, 

 gave to the Miaister and Churchwardens for the time being £200 

 for the better maintenance of the poor inhabitants of the Alms- 

 houses. The Dividends on £259 7s. 4d. Three per cent Reduced 

 Annuities are accordingly so applied. 



AUBREY AND BRITTON. 



In the annals of a country parish it is a rare thing to find even 

 a solitary name that has earned for itself more than local and 

 temporary celebrity. The builder of a Church, a great House, or 

 a School, or the Founder of a Charity, may, with the help of a 

 monument, prolong for a few years the fact of his connection with 

 the place ; but even this kind of reputation, sometimes expensively 

 purcliascd, dies away by degrees. One generation enters whilst 

 another makes its exit, and like wave after wave spreading out 

 upon the shore, each absorbs imperceptibly the traces of the last. 



But in the chronicle of Births in this parish, are written tico 

 names, now known far and wide beyond its limits. Born, as to 

 time, within 146 years; as to distance, within a mile, of each other; 

 John AuimEY and John BRirroN have obtained a place amongst 

 English literati as the earliest labourers in tho neglected field of 

 Wiltshire Topography : and the latter, for works of a more general 



