By Sir Charles Hohhouse, Bart, 



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Family III. 

 John, yeoman, d. 1662. 



George, b. 1653. John, b. 1662. 



j j Hannah, d. 1701. 



George, b. 1686. Ellinor, d. 1688. 



Ellinor,=George Fry, 1611. 

 Mary, of Bradford Liegh, d. 1680. 



Mr. Edward, of Trowbridge, clothier, =Mrs. John Randell, of Beckington, 1698. 



Martha, of Bath,=Kichard Thomas, yeoman, 1699. 



Mrs. Deborah, of Trowbridge, = Mr. Abel, of Bristol, 1709. 



Frances, = James Poyner, both of Hinton Charterhouse, 1744. 



Mrs. Sara Grant, the heroine of the family, is not recorded in 

 the registers, but a tablet to her memory is still to be found in the 

 chancel of our parish Church. It runs thus :— 



" Here lieth buried the body of Sara Grant deceased xxvii. die Novembris 

 Anno Domini 1602. 



Five pounds she gave unto the poore 

 William King gave so much more 

 Imploy the increase keep stocke in store." 



This tablet was, of cource, not put up until after the death of 

 William King, and the Latinity, terseness, and general ring of it, 

 point to some clerkly person as the author of it — probably the rector . 



There was a William King in the parish who, in 1611, is recorded 

 as of sufficient substance to have lent £20 to King James by way 

 of Privy Seal. He died in 1650, and I take this to be the date of 

 the tablet, and Parson Allambrigge, perhaps, to have been the author 

 of it. 



A gentleman learned in the law once affirmed in my hearing that 

 the inscription contained the most complete legal bequest in the 

 fewest lines that were possible, directing, of course, the £10 of 

 capital to be funded and the interest accruing thereon to be paid to 

 the poor. 



The benefaction, however, has entirely disappeared, but it is re- 

 membered that some sixty years ago, in the days of Clerk Tutton, 



