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in Consols for keeping in repair the tomb of her family in the 

 ohurchyard, The interest was paid regularly up to 1863, since 

 Which time it accumulated till 1897, when it was transferred to the 

 vicar and churchwardens for its original intention. 



Still's Charity, 



Under the East window of the north chantry chapel in Mere 

 Church is a tablet inscribed : — 



" Hubert Still, Esq., Bequeathed to the Vicar and Church Wardens of this 

 Parish for the time being £100 upou trust to be invested in the 3 pr C l . Con\ 

 The Interest to be applied in repairing the Vault underneath, the monuments 

 adjacent, the Iron Railing and the Roof of the Chancel over the Vault ; the 

 Railing and the Inscriptions to be painted not less than once in every 7 years ; 

 The overplus to be distributed on the 1st of January in every second year in 

 Sums of not less than 2 s . 6 d . to such old decayed or infirm poor Persons residing 

 iu this Parish who are considered past their labour and who shall appear to the 

 said Trustees to be deserving Objects of Charity. Dr. Thos Tatum Bequeathed 

 the Interest of £200 for ever to the Poor of this Parish for teaching as many 

 poor Children to read, write and cast Accompts as that sum will pay for. 



" The Dean of Salisbury ) 

 The Vicar of Mere * j Trustees - 



Eobert Still, Esq., died in May, 1811. 



The £100, after deduction of duty and charges, was in 1813 

 invested in Three Per Cent. Consols in the name of the Vicar of 

 Mere. 



The Still family came from Grantham, in Lincolnshire. John, 

 the son of AVilliam Still, of Grantham, Esq., Avas Bishop of Bath 

 and Wis, 1592—1607. The Eobert Still, Esq., mentioned above 

 was the first of the family who lived at Dean's Orchard, Mere ; he 

 married Sarah, daughter of Richard Dickson Skrine, Esq., of 

 Warleigh, Somerset. A hatchment is affixed to the south wall of 

 the north chantry chapel with the arms of Still impaling Skrine. 



The first mention of a Still at Mere is in 1801, although there 

 are memorials in the Church dated 1778. 



In October, 1801, their vault, in the north chapel of the Parish 

 Church, was opened and lowered 2ft. 4in., by permission of Captain 

 Still, of Seaton, the representative of the family. The following 

 lead coffins were found deposited therein; on each was a small 

 copper plate inscribed : — 



