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Notes on Durrington. 



and submitted to pay a fine. He had at that time, besides his 

 Boscombe freehold and other property, a lease of Durrington 

 Rectory having sixteen years to run, which he estimated to be 

 worth after all outgoings £55. The Parliamentary Commissioners' 

 estimate was £220 : so that although Mr. William Kent was 

 sequestrated for debt, not having paid his fine in 1 648, he probably 

 retained his lease of the rectory till it expired in 1661. The Dean 

 and Chapter had by that time come to their own again. 



After the Kents, William Moore, of Durrington, became the 

 lessee, and on the marriage of his son John to Mary Whittiatt, of 

 Axford, in 1693, he gave John the parsonage of Durrington for 

 twenty-one years. Then it came to his son Thomas, who was 

 Rector of Steepleton, Dorset, but who certainly lived much here 

 and was buried in the chancel of Durrington, as were his wife and 

 his only son, Thomas, who died s.p. 1783. There was a tradition 

 here that by his own direction he was buried wearing his suit of 

 clothes and his gold watch : but that on the night after the funeral 

 the grave was opened, the coffin broken open, and the watch stolen. 

 The lease passed to a cousin, Jonathan Moore, and from him to his 

 son, and then to his grandson, George Pearce Moore, of Durrington 

 House. In 1865 the Dean and Chapter of Winchester having 

 surrendered their estates to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Mr. 

 G. P. Moore paid them £700 and surrendered his leasehold interest 

 in £493 3s. 4d. tithe rent-charge : and the Commissioners conveyed 

 to him the tithe rent-charge on his estate, £96 16s. 8d., and the 

 whole of the glebe — more than two hundred and thirty-six acres, 

 which was thus lost to the Church absolutely. 



It seems as if when the Dean and Chapter were reinstated 

 in their possessions and their patronage, after the Restoration, 

 they increased the stipend of their curate to £40. For there is 



" A Terrier of the Curateshippe of Durington taken and made October the 

 13th Anno Dom: 1677. 



" Imprimis. Belonging to the Curate for officiating in the P ish Church of 

 Durington a House containing Five Eomes videlicet One Hall Two Buttryes 

 and two lofts and also one small Garden Plott of Ground joining to the house 

 about seven or eight loog of Ground." 



" Item .£40 a year to be paid Quarterly, and one Sack of Wheate and one 



