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The presentations to the vicarage of Selhome generally ran in 

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

 by prior John Wynechestre only. 



June 29j 1528, William Fisher, vicar of Selborne, resigned to 

 Miles Peyrson. 



1 594, 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 Comper, bishop of Winchester, as if he had been buried at 

 Selborne ; yet this learned prelate, who died 1 594, was buried at 

 Winchester, in the cathedral, near the episcopal throne. ^ 



1595, Richard Boughton, vicar. 



1596, William Inkforbye, vicar. 

 May 1606, Thomas Phippes, vicar. 

 June I6SI, Ralph Ausline, vicar. 



July 1632, John Longmorth. 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. Longmorth, 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 Longmorth used fre- 

 quently to mention to his sons, who told it to my relations, that, the 

 Sunday after his deprivation, his puritanical successor^ stepped into 



' See Godwin de praesulibus, folio Cant, 1743, page 239. 



2 [John Ferrol, M.A. , Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. That the interloper 

 had his turn of persecution on the change of Government appears from the follow- 

 ing account taken from Calamy's Nonconformists^ Memorial: — "He was an 

 humble, peaceable, laborious divine ; prudent and inoffensive in his conduct. Of 

 an healthful constitution, and of a meek and even temper, not much resenting the 

 injuries of his adversaries. He was of an active disposition, and, being a noted 

 botanist and herbalist, made his garden his diversion when his labouring mind called 

 for a relaxation from his studies. Upon Mr. L{ongworth)'s sequestration he was 

 settled in his place ; but after the Restoration he was advised to resign his living to 

 the former incumbent, which he accordingly did, and then retired to Guildford, in 

 Surrey, where he kept boarders who went to the free school. When the corporation 

 oath was imposed, not being satisfied to take it, he removed to Farnham. On 

 January 14, 1669, he was taken up near Godalming, and sent to the Marshalsea in 

 Southwark, for having been found within five miles of the corporation of Guildford 



