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After this, among my documents, I find occasional 

 mention of a vicar here and there ; the first is 



Roger, instituted in 1254. 



In 1410 John Lynnewas 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 Wynchestre 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 Win- 

 chester, as if he had been buried at Selborne ; yet this 

 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 de- 

 prived 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 par- 

 ticular, 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 



1 See God-win de praesulibus, Folio Cant. 1743, p. 239. [G. W.] 



