By the Rev, J. Wilkinson. 



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1684 (old style), on the north side of the chancel, and that the 

 following inscription, surmounted by his arms deeply cut, is on his 

 tomb stone: — 



" Spe certa resurgendi in Christo sub hoc 



Marmore depositee sunt exuviae Reverendissimi 



Edmundi Proby S.T.P. filii natu tertii 



Petri Proby de Elton in comitatu Huntingdoni® 



Equitis Aurati qui per annos quinquaginta 



Et ultra fere duos hujus Ecclesite Rector, 



Tandem A 0 . Dni 1684 JEtatis suae 86° 

 moriens obdormivit." 

 John Seymour (mis-spelt, in Sir Thomas Phillipps' Institutions, 

 Sowdon and Southern) was elected Fellow of All Souls, Oxon, 

 1447 ; installed Canon of Windsor 1470 : died 1500. He was a 

 benefactor to Windsor, and his obit was kept on September 4th. 1 



Mr. Hickes has so fully described himself in the parochial re- 

 gisters, 2 that he has well nigh been his own biographer. It has 

 been mentioned that he was careful to maintain his rights. Of 

 course, next to " Anabaptists and Dissenters of no sect," tithes 

 were the most frequent cause of dispute. Of tithe-payers no one 

 seems to have been more disputatious than Golding. Not satisfied 

 with his defeat in his cause with the rector's farmer of the tithes, 

 William Harding, he in 1720 entered the lists with the rector him- 

 self. Golding occupied different lands, some subject to tithe, 

 others (Hutton's land) where the tithe was (as he said) compounded. 

 He kept "divers cows " on all his lands ; and every year, some few 

 days before they calved, drove them on Hutton's land, where they 

 calved, leaving nothing but "dry, barren, and unprofitable cattle " 

 and no " fatted calf" to the parson. The defendant did not deny 

 the fact, but disclaimed any design to injure the rector : it was his 

 custom, he said, to keep his cattle during the winter season in 



1 Ashmole's Berks iii. 251. History of Windsor. A list of the canons by 

 Thomas Frith (himself a canon.) "Johannes Seymour, Coll: Omn: An: Oxon. 

 Socius electus 1447. Installatus 1470. Rector Ecclesiae de Broughton in 

 "Wilts, ob. 1500. Benefactor, cujus obitus celeb. 4 Sept." 



2 " Hie velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim 



Credebat libris ; neque, si male cesserat, usquam 

 Decurrens alio, neque si bene : quo fit, ut omnis 

 Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella 

 Vita senis." Hov. Sat. II. i. 30. 



