The old Parsonage at Sherston Magna. 189 



fourteen years old when, in 1641, he joined the troop of horse 

 which was raised by his father and commanded by his eldest 

 brother. The initials at the end of the paper are his. After the 

 expulsion of his father from the benefice of Upton Lovell the family 

 settled at West Knoyle, where Nathaniel died in 1742, and according 

 to the register of that parish was there " buryed in woolen only — . 

 on the oath of Eliz : Eaton" on November 15 th of that year. A 

 few other entries relating to the Hickman family occur in this 

 register, the last being in 1776. But two others, a few years later, 

 appear in the register of Upton Lovell, for it is remarkable that 

 after an interval of one hundred and sixty-four years since the 

 latest previous entry in that register, of the baptism of Daniell, 

 the son of Thomas Hickman, the name again occurs in the record 

 of the marriage of another Daniel Hickman to Ann Edwards in 1793 

 and of the baptism of their daughter, Elizabeth, in the following year. 



Mr. T. H. Baker informs me that in the register of Mere the 

 marriage of John Mitchel to Mary Hickman of West Knoyle, on 

 November 23rd, 1731, is recorded. 



%\t fllir flamtia^ at ^jwstott |$tagna* 



By the Rev. W. Symonds. 



HE old house here described stands just behind the 

 Battlebone Inn, facing north and south. Before it was 

 left to go to ruin part of it was occupied as a village post office, 

 and the letter-box is still visible. In the seventeenth century it 

 was a gentleman's residence, and the home of Mr. William Hodges, 

 whose family had considerable property at Shipton Moyne and at 

 Easton Grey. On the oak panelling of the parlour occur, over the 

 fireplace, the arms of Hodges, Azure, on a fess argent, a mullet gules 

 (for difference), between three mullets argent [or proper ?] and also 

 the arms of Mrs. Hodges nee Anne Sargeaunt, Argent, a chevron 



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