424 ANTIQUITIES 



[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. j 



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 

 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 depriva- 

 tion, 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 Byfield, [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 



