306 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



June 29th, 1528, William Fisher, vicar of Selborne, resigned to 

 Miles Peyrson. 



1594, William White appears to have been vicar to this time. 

 Of this person there is nothing remarkable, but that he hath made 

 a regular entry twice in the register of Selborne of the funeral of 

 Thomas Cowper, bishop of Winchester, as if he had been buried 

 at Selborne; yet this learned prelate, who died 1594, was buried 

 at Winchester, in the cathedral, near the episcopal throne.* 



1595, Richard Bough ton, vicar. 



1596, William Inkforbye, vicar. 

 May 1606, Thomas Phippes, vicar. 

 June 1031, Ralph Austine, vicar. 



July 1632, John Longworth. This unfortunate gentleman, 

 living in the time of Cromwell's usurpation, was deprived of his 

 preferment for many years, probably because he would not take 

 the league and covenant ; for I observe that his father-in-law, the 

 Reverend Jethro Beal, rector of Faringdon, which is the next 

 parish, enjoyed his benefice during the whole of that unhappy 

 period. Longworth, after he was dispossessed, retired to a little 

 tenement about one hundred and fifty yards from the church, 

 where he earned a small pittance by the practice of physic. 

 During those dismal times it was not uncommon for the deposed 

 clergy to take up a medical character \ as was the case in par- 

 ticular, I know, with the Reverend Mr. Yalden, rector of Compton, 

 near Guildford, in the county of Surrey. Vicar Longworth used 

 frequently to mention to his sons, who told it to my relations, 

 that, the Sunday after his deprivation, his puritanical successor 

 stepped into the pulpit with no small petulance and exultation : 

 and began his sermon from Psalm xx. 8, " They are brought down 

 and fallen ; but we are risen and stand upright." This person 

 lived to be restored in 1660, and continued vicar for eighteen years ; 

 but was so impoverished by his misfortunes, that he left the 

 vicarage-house and premises in a very abject and dilapidated state. 



July 1678. Richard By field, who left eighty pounds by will, 

 the interest to be applied to apprentice out poor children ; but 



* See "Godwin de Praesulibus," Folio Cant. 1743, p. 239. 



