During the 17th Century. 



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was inducted on the 15,th July, 1685, as appears by an entry on 

 page 2 of Volume III : — 



" Memorandum that Mr Anthony Tate was Inducted into ye Vicarage of 

 Preshute on ye 15 day of July In the first year of ye Reign of our Soveraign 

 Lord James ye 2nd of Englaud Scotland France & Ireland King &g Annoque 

 Domini 1685." 



" Thomas Nalder \ 



& j Churchwardens." 



" Nichol. Lavland ) 



At a subsequent date the following signatures have been added : — 



"John Fiveaish \ 



> Churchwardens." 

 " Robart Alexander j 



" Francis Greenaway 

 "November 30th 1694." 



Anthony Tate was buried 11th April, 1688. 



Lewis Morse is recorded as Vicar in 1707, at the commencement 

 of Volume V. of the register, but there does not appear to be any 

 note of his induction. He was buried on August 30th, 1711, and 

 his good deeds are memorialised in some verses which appear to 

 to have been composed and written in the register (Volume V.) b}^ 

 Francis Greenaway, then parish clerk, immediately following the 

 entry of his burial : — 



" Upon Record I here have sett thy Death, 



" To future Ages yet to come on Earth ; 



"I cant forgett here to commemorate, 



" Thy life & actions and thy troubles Great ; 



" Thou with true Zeal & Courage didst recover, 



" That which was lost some hundred Years before ; 



" For thou unto this Vicaridge didst restore, 



" Full five & thirty pounds per Annum More, 



" Than has been pay'd for Many Years before ; 



" That thou wast Vicar here, and thou didst prove, 



" It was thy right in Many Courts above ; 



" Then was thy Cause at Sarum 'Sizes try'd ; 



" And there ye Jury did thy case decide, 



" And they Unanimously did agree, 



" These tythes at Clatford did belong to thee ; 



" But Sometime after the Assize was past, 



"Thine Enemies gott a Juryman at last; 



" To swear yt thou ye Jury didst perswade, 



" And didst some of them to such courses lead 



