By T. H. Baker. 



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of the parish of Meere for the onlie proper use and benefitt of the poore there 

 for ever. And there was likewise then taken in by the said Comissioners 

 about ffyve akers at Mabourne hill and lett to ifrancis Chafyn gen. by the 

 said Comissioners. And then likewise inclosed at pte of the charges of the 

 said ffrauncis Chafyn. All the residue of the said 600 akers is allowed as 

 Comon for the Princes highnes Tennts of his said Manno r and others that 

 have right of Comon there. 



Penance in 1815. 

 In the Oonsistorial Court of Sarum — Coleman v. Coleman. 



"In pursuance of the Judgment of the Court obtained in this case, the de- 

 fendant Thomas Coleman butcher of Mere in this county, who had falsely and 

 maliciously traduced the character of Mrs. Anna Coleman, the plaintiff's wife, 

 appeared and performed penance before the congregation in the parish church of 

 Mere aforesaid, on Sunday the 10th instant, by repeating the following words. 

 ' Whereas I, Thomas Coleman, have spoken and uttered certain reproachful words, 

 tending to defame Anna the wife of Harry Coleman, and to the injury of her 

 good name and character, therefore I do now solemnly declare, that such words 

 were unadvisedly, wickedly, falsely and slanderously, by me spoken of her, and 

 I do ask pardon of God and man, and of the said Anna Coleman for the same.' " 

 [December, 1815.] 



Hicks Beach. 



In 1789 Michael Hicks Beach, Esq., lived at Mere, in the house 

 next the private residence of Mr. Walton. The family of Beach 

 was settled at Warminster many years. Kobert Beche, of War- 

 minster, made his will 1519. William, his son, married Jane 

 Adlam, of Brixton Deverell, and his successors are described as of 

 Brixton Deverell till after the middle of the seventeenth century. 

 Thomas Beach, of Keevil and Fittleton, married a sister of James 

 Harding, of Mere. He died 1753, and Mrs. Beach, 1735, aged 41. 

 They had a son, William Beach, of Netheravon, who was born at 

 Mere, 1719, and whose daughter, Henrietta Maria, married Michael 

 Hicks, of Beverston Castle and Williamstrip Park, Co. Gloucester, 

 who assumed the name and arms of Beach in addition to those of 

 Hicks by Eoyal Sign Manual, 1790. This was the great grand- 

 father of the present Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Bart. 



The Willottghb'X Family. 



Although not resident in this parish till after the salo of the 

 VOL. xxix. — no. lxxxvui. % \ 



