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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 episco- 

 pal throne 2 . 



1595, Richard Boughton, vicar. 



[Sept, 6] 1596, William Inkforbye, vicar. [Buried 

 Jan. 6, 1606.] 



May [16] 1606, Thomas Phippes, vicar. [Buried 

 May 27, 1631, at Harteley Mauduit] 



June 1631, Ralph Austine, vicar. [Buried at Oxford, 

 March 24, 1631.] 



July 1632, John Long worth. This unfortunate gen- 

 tleman, 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 particular, I 

 know, with the Reverend Mr. Yalden, rector of Comp- 

 ton, 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 depri- 

 vation, his puritanical successor stepped into the pulpit 

 with no small petulance and exultation ; and began his 



2 See Godwin de Praesulibus Angliae, folio, Cant. 1743, page 239. 



[It is possible that William White may have been the officiating priest; 

 a duty which would have so far exceeded the ordinary calls on him as to 

 have become, in his estimation, an event of magnitude sufficient to be 

 twice recorded in his register. One of the entries favours this idea. It 

 is prominently conspicuous by being written in a bold German text hand, 

 and concludes thus : " per me, W. White, Mr." E. T. B.] 



