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THE ANTIQUITIES 



[LETT. 



June 29, 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. 1 



1595, Richard Boughton, vicar. 



1596, William Inkforbye, vicar. 

 May 1606, Thomas Phippes, vicar. 

 June 1631, Ealph 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 Eeverend 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 imcommon for 

 the deposed clergy to take up a medical character ; as was the 

 case in particular, I know, with the Eeverend 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. Eichard Byfield, who left eighty pounds by will, 

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

 1 See Godwin, " De Prsesulibus," folio, Cant. 1743, p. 239. 



