By the Rev. W. Symonds. 



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The sayd William Hodges, out of his great affection to his Deare Wife 

 and duty to his pious mother Hath Erected this monument 



Kepaired by the Eev. Dr. Hodges Fellow of Winchester College Sole 

 Male Eepresentative of the Hodges 8 of Shipton Moyne & of the Parry s 

 of Easton Grey 



A.D. 1861. 



APPENDIX II. 



Henry Chichele, instituted to the Eectory of Sherston Magna 

 26th July, 1400, on the presentation of Thomas, Earl of Worcester, 

 and Sir Hugh le Despencer. 



Archdeacon of Sarum 1403. 



Bishop of St. David's 1408—1414. 



Archbishop of Canterbury, 1414 — 1443. 



(Figures of Archbishop Chichele's father and mother occur in 

 Boutell's Monumental Brasses.) 



APPENDIX III. 



The old rectory house passed into the possession of Tewkesbury 

 Abbey, together with barns and buildings, the great tithes of 

 Sherston, and 300 acres of glebe, before 1476. The abbey presented 

 Eobert Pusey to the rectory in 1460, after whose incumbency no 

 more Eectors were appointed. From 1297, or earlier, Sherston 

 had a double benefice, the Eectors being nominated by the Crown 

 and the Vicars by the Eectors. The institutions of both Eectors 

 and Vicars are recorded in the episcopal registers at Sarum in due 

 succession. The manor and advowson of the Eectory -passed from 

 the Crown to the Despencers after 1333, and from the Despensers 

 to the Beauchamps, Earls of Warwick, on the marriage of Isabel le 

 Despenser,who married 1st Eichard Beauchamp, Lord Abergavenny, 

 Earl of Worcester, and secondly, Eichard Beauchamp, 5th Earl of 

 Warwick, nephew of her first husband, the Earl of Worcester. The 

 Beauchamps gave their advowson and the rectorial property to 

 Tewkesbury Abbey. A curious form. of the Beauchamp badge — a 

 muzzled bear climbing a foliaged ragged staff with a hart climbing 

 the other side — occurs on a sculptured stone inserted in the east 

 wall of the Vicarage. The rectorial property was granted to the Dean 

 and Chapter of Gloucester on the dissolution of Tewkesbury Abbey. 



