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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 epis- 

 copal throne.* 



1595, Richard Boughton, vicar. 



1596, William Inkforbye, vicar. 

 May 1606, Thomas Phippes, vicar. 

 June 1631, 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 un- 

 happy 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 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 puri- 

 tanical 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 up- 

 right." 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 delapidated 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 1700 ; so that little or no advantage was derived from 



* See Godwin de przesulibus, folio Cant. 1743, page 239. 



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