By the Rev. J. Wilkinson. 



55 



1568 



The Queen 



John Bolde, on death of H. Younge. 



1600 



Ditto 



John Bold, on resignation of Doctor Bold. 



1621 



The King 



Paul Hood, on death of last Rector. 



1632 



Ditto 



Robert Thompson, on death of Paul Hood. 



1633 



Ditto 



Edmund Proby, on death of R. Thompson. 



1684 



Ditto 



Antony Beeby, on death of Edmd. Proby. 



1687 



Ditto 



Nathaniel Resbury, on death of Ant. Beeby. 



1689 



Ditto 



Wm. Hickes. 



1733 



Ditto 



James Webb, on resignation of Wm. Hickes. 



1742 



Ditto 



John Rogers, on death of James Webb. 



1742 



Ditto 



Griffin Scurlock, by cession of J. Rogers. 



1742 



Ditto 



James Sparrow, on death of G. Scurlock. 



1763 



Ditto 



Robert Addams Hickes, by resignation of J. 







Sparrow. 



1788 



Ditto 



Wm. Walker, on death of R. A. Hickes. 



1812 



Ditto 



Charles Strong, on death of Wm. Walker. 



1848 



The Queen 



John Wilkinson, on resignation of C. Strong. 



That they lived and died are almost the only records of my pre- 

 decessors. In consolation for our obscurity, the poet tells us that 



The world knows nothing of its greatest men." 

 Some lived long and peacefully in troublous times. The two cen- 

 turies pre-eminently fraught with change to the Church of England 

 were the 16th and 17th. But these were precisely the periods of 

 the two longest incumbencies in the whole list, Henry Younge was 

 rector here 45 years, all through the Reformation: and Edward 

 Proby 51 years, all through the Great Rebellion. 



Dr. Proby was not, however, resident all that time. He was 

 ejected by the Commonwealth, but lived to come back with the 

 King. He was of the family of Proby, which coming from Chester 

 (Lancastrian again), settled at Elton, Co. Huntingdon. Our rec- 

 tor was the third son of Sir Peter Proby, Lord Mayor of London 

 1622, and of Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Thoroughgood 

 of Chivers, Co. Essex. The present representative of the family is 

 the Earl of Carysfort. The following account of Dr. Proby's con- 

 nection with Jesus College, Cambridge, has been most kindly sent 

 me by Dr. Corrie the present Master. 



" Edmund Proby was admitted Pensioner of Jesus College, 

 Cambridge, in the year 1617: took the degree of B.A. on 23rd May, 

 1620 (as "Edmundus Proby, Londinensis "), and proceeded M.A. 

 February 28th, 1624. His name does not appear among the Fel- 



