280 Notes on the History of Mere. 



In East Wellow : — 



" 1671. May 14. Collected for y e towne of Mere in y e County of Wilts 2s. Id" 



1671. In Stanton St. John : — 

 " Collected for Meere, in Wilts 3s. 2d." 



1671, January 18th. In St. Margaret's, Westminster, is an 

 entry : — 



" Towards the great loss by fyre in the towne of in our County of 



Wilts £2 12." 



Now, as the name of the town is not given, this may not be 

 Mere ; but as there is no evidence of any other town in Wiltshire 

 suffering by fire in that year the probability is that Mere is 

 intended, and January, 1671, is 1672 according to our modern 

 mode of reckoning. 



North Luffenham, Co. Eutland 1 : — 



" 1671. Oct. Collected upon y e Brief for y e fire at Meere in Wiltshire the 

 sum of eight shillings sixpence & as was appointed sent to the High Constable 

 by y e Constables of o r town." 



The Vicars of Mere. 2 



Mere having been under the Peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean, 

 and no institutions from him being in existence before the year 

 1548, a complete succession of Vicars can only be given since that 

 time. 



A.D. 1300 Eoger the Clerk is mentioned by Sir R. C. Hoare. 



1331 Walter vicar ecclie de Mere (Pedes Finium, H. of 

 Warminster) . 



1374 Richard Bisschop, Vicar of Mere (Records of Stavor- 



dale Priory). 

 1405 Nicholas Modeford. 

 John Swinnerton. 



1 From Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 17, p. 237. 

 3 The following notices of Vicars and natives of Mere have appeared for the 

 most part from time to time in the Mere Parish Magazine. 



