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by Miss Julia E. Chafyn Grove. Easter Day, the choir was 

 surpliced. September 21st, St. Matthew's Day, St. Matthew's 

 Church was opened at a cost (including the value of the site, given 

 by Miss Chafyn Grove, and haulage by the farmers) of £1500. 

 The bells wore re-hung this year at a cost of about £70. The 

 churchyard was levelled and laid out with flower beds. 



1883.— The St. Michael's Church Guild for Men and Women 

 was founded. 



1886. — A new organ was placed in the Church at a cost of about 

 £330. 



1888. — The tower was re-pointed and the north-east pinnacle re- 

 built at a cost of about £150. 



The Curates under Mr. Wyld were : — 

 1881—90. W. Chell. 

 1881—4. Thomas Veal. 



1885. H. G. E. Westmacott, a Canadian. 



1885—9. J. F, S. Pritchitt. 

 1889—90. G. E. W. Highmore. 



John Augustus Lloyd, M.A. 



B.A., St. John's Coll., Oxford, 1872 ; M A, 1874; deacon and 

 priest by Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1873, 1874. Was 

 instituted to the Vicarage of Mere, November 29th, 1890, by the 

 Bishop of Salisbury, and inducted at the same time by the Rev. 

 Edwin G. "Wyld, of Melksham, formerly Vicar, the Bishop subse- 

 quently holding a confirmation. Formerly Curate of Bibury, 

 Gloucestershire, and Blymhill, Staffordshire, and Vicar of Broad 

 Hinton, Wilts, 1877—1890. Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of 

 Freemasons in 1888. Surrogate, 1891, in which year new infant 

 and technical schools, given by Miss Chafyn Grove, were begun, 

 and extensive improvements in the National School buildings set 

 on foot at an estimated cost of £3000. Miss Chafyn Grove, who 

 died November 27th, 1891, left a sum of £450 for a new roof and 

 other improvements in the Bettesthorne Chapel of the Parish 

 Church, an endowment of £108 a year for the Assistant-Curate at 



