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his protestations against Popery ; but dying in tlie year 

 1638, he saw none of the calamities which soon overspread 

 the kingdom. 



Of" his son Edward Phelipps, llttle further is known, 

 than that he espoused the Royal cause with as much zeal 

 as his father had promised to favor the opposite party. 



He was a member of the Long Parliament, that deserted 

 VVestminster for Oxford, where he sat in the assembly which 

 even the King designated as the " Mongrel Parliament." 

 He was at Exeter during its siege, by General Fairfax, 

 and procured from him a passe (still extant) for permission 

 to leave it. His estate being sequestered for delinquency, 

 he presented a petition* to the C Jinmittee at Galdsmith's 

 Hall, on the 16th June, 1646, whereln he states " that 

 throngh his error, he did iinhappily desert the Parliament, 

 for whicli he is heartily sorry, and humbly craves the favor 

 and mercy of Parliament, praying to be admitted to com- 

 position upon two years' value of his estate, according to 

 the articles on the surrender of Exeter." All his personal 

 estate, he says, had been seized and sold by the committee, 

 and amongst his real estate, he includes the rents of the 

 borough of Yeovil, amounting to £13: 6s. 8d., all of which, 

 except 30s. were payable out of certain houses in the 

 borough, which houses were lately burnt and " soe the 

 rent is lost." 



The last incumbent we have to notice, is the Rev. Amias 

 Hext, Rector of Babcary. No particulars of the charge 

 alleged against him are given by ^Ir. Curll, but he is 

 very irate with Mrs. Hext, who, after the removal of her 

 husband, kept possession of the glebe and tithes, and 

 actually got one Mr. Yarrow to read Common Prayer, 

 and by her contrivance, and the assistance of the inhabi- 



* Original in State Paper Office. 



