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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, Ralph Austine, vicar. 



July 1632, John Longworth. This unfortunate gentle- 

 man, 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. Long- 

 worth, after he was dispossessed, retired to a little tene- 

 ment 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 particular, 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 mis- 

 fortunes, that he left the vicarage-house and premises in a 

 very abject and dilapidated state. 



July 1678. Richard Byfield, who left eighty pounds by 

 will, the interest to be applied to apprentice out poor 

 children : but this money, lent on private security, was in 

 danger of being lost, and the bequest remained in an 

 unsettled state for near twenty years, till 1 700 ; so that 

 little or no advantage was derived from it. About the 

 year 1759 it was again in the utmost danger by the failure 

 of a borrower ; but, by prudent management, has since 



x See Godwin de Praesulibus. Folio. Cant. 1743, p. 239. 



