By the Rev. J. Ward. 



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A.D. 



Perhaps Mr. Finch succeeded Mr. Stonehouse at Bedwyn, but 

 no evidence of the fact has been met with. 



1678. 30 Oar. II. Francis Stonehouse. John Deane. 



Francis, son of Mr. Duke Stonehouse was baptized at Great Bed- 

 wyn 19 Oct. 1653, and was buried at Hungerford 8 June 1738. 

 He was of Oriel Coll. Oxford, B.A. 1674, M.A. 1676. He had 

 purchased Standen Hussey in 1719 and was of Hungerford Park 

 in 1729. 



John Deane was of Oxenwood in the parish of Tidcombe, Wilts, 

 son of Mr. James Dean of the same place, Gent. His burial is 

 thus entered in the Tidcomb Register, " 1694-5. Colonell John 

 Deane Esq r of Oxenwood buried January y e 4 th ." 



1679. 31 Car. II. Hon. William Finch. Francis Stonehouse. 



The Hon. "William Finch was third son of Sir Heneage, Baron 

 Finch, afterwards Earl of Nottingham. • 



1681. 33 Car. II. Sir John Ernie, Knt., Chancellor of the Ex- 

 chequer. John Wildman. 



The Right Hon. Sir John Ernie of Whetham, near Calne, knighted 

 in Nov. 1665, Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Privy Council- 

 lor, was son of John Ernie, Esq. of Whetham, and a firm adher- 

 ent to the Stuarts. He was one of the gentlemen of Wiltshire 

 proposed by Charles II. to be a knight of the Royal Oak in 1660, 

 a new Order of Knighthood projected on the Restoration but finally 

 abandoned. Sir John married first, in 1646, Susan daughter of 

 John Howe of Compton, co. Gloucester, Esq., and secondly in 1672, 

 Elizabeth, Lady Seymour, relict of Charles, Lord Seymour of 

 Trowbridge, and had issue by both those Ladies. He died in 

 1697 and was buried at Calne. 



1685. 1 Jac. II. John Lowder. Lemuel Kingdon. 



A Lemuel Kingdon, Esq. was buried at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 

 co. Middlesex, from Great Russell Streeet, 19 Feb. 1685-6. 



1688. 4 Jac. II. Sir Edmund Warneford, Knt. John Wild- 

 man, Sen. 



Sir Edmund Warneford of Sevenhampton, co. Wilts, Knt., son of 

 Henry Warneford of Buckland, co. Berks, Gent., was baptized at 

 Great Bedwyn 29 Nov* 1652, knighted 11 Nov. 1681. He was 

 chosen High Sheriff for Wilts in 1683, and died in 1700, leaving 

 a daughter and heir Anne, married to Thomas Estcourt Creswell 

 of Sherston Pinkney, co. Wilts. 



1690. 1 G-ul. and Mar. Sir John Raymond. Anthony, Viscount 



Falkland. 



