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sermon from Psalm xx. 8: "They are brought down 

 mid 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 pre- 

 mises in a very abject and dilapidated state. 



July 1678. Richard By field, [B. D.] 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 it. About the year 1759 it was again in the utmost 

 danger by the failure of a borrower; but, by prudent 

 management, has since been raised to one hundred 

 pounds stock in the three per cents reduced. The 

 trustees are the vicar and the renters or owners of 

 Temple, Priory, Grange, Blackmore, and Oakhanger 

 House, for the time being. This gentleman seemed 

 inclined to have put the vicarial premises in a comfort- 

 able state ; and began, by building a solid stone wall 

 round the front court, and another in the lower yard, 

 between that and the neighbouring garden ; but was 

 interrupted by death from fulfilling his laudable inten- 

 tions. [He lies buried in the chancel of his church ; 

 and a black slab, within the rails of the communion 

 table and near the north wall, commemorates him.] 



April [7], 1680, Barnabas Long became vicar. [Dr. 

 Long appears to have resigned the vicarage in conse- 

 quence of obtaining other preferment. We learn from 

 Wood that on the 6th of February, Ki81, he was installed 

 prebend of Botesant in the church of York ; and, on the 

 24th of May, 1682, of Stillington also. From the same 

 authority it may be added that he died in 1685.] 



June [23], 1681. This living was now in such low 

 estimation in Magdalen College, that it descended to a 

 junior fellow, Gilbert White, M. A. who was instituted 



