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Limerick Castle. He was the author of a book called " The Practice 

 of Quietness," and some others. 1 Gabriel Sangar, who died in 

 1678, also appears in the biographies as an author. He refused to 

 conform in 1662, and was ejected (See Calamy). Peter Adams, his 

 successor, was also a writer. The name of his book I have not 

 recovered at this moment, but a copy of it used to lie in the vestry 

 of Steeple Ashton Church. It had a ring and a chain to fasten it 

 to a desk, and was given by his widow, to be read by any of the 

 congregation, whilst they were waiting for the coming of the 

 minister. 2 There are some curious documents in some of the old 

 parish books, among them an inventory of goods belonging to the 

 church before the Reformation. 3 



1 George Webbe, son of the Rev. Hugh Webbe, Rector of Bromham, was 

 born there in 1581. He entered first at University College, Oxford, in 1598, but 

 became in the same year a scholar of Corpus Christi College, "When 24 years 

 old he was made Vicar of Steeple Ashton, being inducted, 14th May, 1605. In 

 1621 he was inducted to the Rectory of St. Peter and St. Paul, in Bath, where 

 he kept a school. In 1624 he was made D.D., and Chaplain to Charles L, and 

 Bishop of Limerick 1634 to his death 1641. There is an engraving of him by 

 Slater, prefixed to his "Practice of Quietness," with arms, the See of Limerick 

 impaling, for Webbe, a cross between four falcons. He translated some plays 

 of Terence. Several of his family were buried in Bromham church-yard, and 

 by their merchant's mark were evidently clothiers. A Hugh Webb, gentleman, 

 occupied Bowood, temp. Charles I. In Steeple Ashton Register are five entries 

 of the baptism of the Bishop's children. Theophilus, 1607; Dorcas, 1608; 

 Abraham, 1610 ; Hugh, 1612 ; George, 1614—5. 



2 Laurence Eliot, appointed 1771, was an active member of the 1 1 Feathers 

 Tavern Association." Samuel Hey, 1787 to 1828, was third son of Richard 

 Hey, of Pudsey, near Leeds. His eldest brother was John Hey, Norrisian 

 Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and the next elder brother was William 

 Hey, one of the most eminent surgeons of his day in Yorkshire. [See Whita- 

 ker's Loidis and Elmete, p. 84, for his portrait.] A younger brother was Dr. 

 Richard Hey, Fellow of Sidney, Cambridge. Samuel, the Vicar, had been 

 Fellow and Tutor of Magdalene College. He was buried in the church-yard. 

 The pedigree of Hey is given in u Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis," p. 4. The 

 "Vicar's Library" was left by Mr. Hey. There are some papers and tracts 

 purchased by him from Mr. Richard Wainhouse, once Vicar of Keevil, and somo 

 pocket books of parochial notes by one Baggs, clerk to Mr. Hicks sen. [a 

 lawyer], and also parish clerk. 



3 One of these is an Inventory of Church goods, 34, Henry VIII. William 

 Stylman and Robert White, Churchwardens. Among the articles were : — 



" A chalice parcel gilt, xviii oz. 



