302 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



Roger, instituted in 1254. 



In 1410 John Lynne was vicar of Selborne. 



In 1411 Hugo Tybbe was vicar. 



The presentations to the vicarage of Selborne generally ran in 

 the name of the prior and the convent ; but Tybbe was presented 

 by Prior John Wynechestre only. 



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 cathedra], near the episcopal 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 prefer- 

 ment 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 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. 



* See "Godwin de Prsesulibus," Folio Cant. 1743, p. 239. 



