Rectors of Trowbridge, 



233 



A.D. Patron. 



16:2:2 William, Earl of Hertford. 



1664 Charles, Baron Seymour 

 of Trowbridge. 



1672 Lady Elizabeth Seymour 

 and others. 



Incumbent. 



Thomas Pelling 1 ; inducted Nov. 



25, 1622. 

 Robert Hawkins 2 B.D.; instituted 



Feb. 17, 1664. Prebendary of 



Warminster, in the cathedral at 



Salisbury. 

 Robert Keylway. 3 



1 Amongst the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum (No. 4115, fol. 4) is one 

 entitled, " A prophecy of St. Thomas the Martyr found in the study of one Mr. 

 Pelling late Rector of Trowbridge in the county of Wilts in a very ancient MS.'' 



2 In the time of this Rector (1669) Bishop Seth Ward instituted an enquiry as 

 to the u Conventicles in Sarum Diocese." The extracts from the MS. (Lambeth 

 Library, No. 639), containing the information relating to Trowbridge, are as 

 follows : — 



Parish or Place. 



Sects, 



Numbers and 

 Quality. 



Principals and 

 Abbettors. 



Preachers or 

 Teachers. 



Trowbridge 



Anabaptists. 



140 or 150 



Tradesmen 



One King, a 



At Edw. 





Abettors. 



stranger, and 



Grant's Clo- 







Grant v | 



James Taylor 



thier. 







Mortimer 

 Witchell )§ 



shearman. 



At the house 



Presbyterians 



20 or 30 



Tradesmen 



Edward 



of Robert 





or 



Davis, 



Jeames. 







Yeomen. 



mercer. 



At the Widow 



Presbyterians 



Scarce 20 



Of like 



The same. 



Davis's 





quality. 





house. 









At the house 



Quakers. 



30 or 40 



do. 



Itinerant 



of James 









Quakers. 



Matravers 











excomm. 











3 In the year 1676, during this Rector's time, Bishop Seth Ward undertook 

 an enquiry as to the " Popish Recusants" in this diocese. The result is con- 

 tained in a MS, in the Lambeth Library (No. 639). The report concerning 

 Trowbridge, which is of some interest as showing the population just 200 years 

 ago, is as follows : — 



Parish. 



Minister. 



Popish 

 Recusants. 



Separatists. 



Inhabitants. 



Trowbridge. 



Rob l Keylway 



. None. 



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