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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. 



July 1678. Richard By field, 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 advan- 

 tage 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 comfortable 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 

 intentions. 



April 1680, Barnabas Long became vicar. 



June 1 68 1. 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 to it in the thirty- 

 first year of his age. At his first coming he ceiled the 

 chancel, and also floored and wainscoted the parlour and 

 hall, which before were paved with stone and had naked 

 walls ; he enlarged the kitchen and brewhouse, and dug a 



1 According to Professor Bell (ed. "Selborne," i. p. 296), Mr. Longworth's 

 successor was John Ferrol, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He 

 seems from Calaumy's account of his life, which Bell quotes, to have been a good 

 man, and one who had the courage of his opinions. [R. B. S.] 



