208 JJistory of the Parish of Stockton, Wilts. 



faggots. Since coals have been supplied for fuel, this gala day- 

 has been discontinued. The inmates of this almshouse are 

 remarkable for longevity, especially the women, many of whom 

 within the last twenty years have attained to extreme old age. A 

 great majority have been above 80, at the time of their decease. 

 In the year 1846, the following aged persons were in the alms- 

 house : — 



Sarah Roxby, admitted 1826, aged 91. 

 Elizabeth King, aged 90. 

 John Sparey, aged 86. 



John House died in 1845, aged 85, having never, to his know- 

 ledge, taken any medicine since he was a boy. 



The Rectors of Stockton. 

 Sir Richard Hoare, in his " History of Modern Wilts/' gives a 

 list of the Rectors of Stockton from the year 1307, in which he 

 has omitted Mr. Terry, the earliest Incumbent of whom there is 

 any memorial in the parish. The " Wiltshire Institutions," 

 printed by Sir Thomas Phillips, 1825, mentions, " Jacobus, Dei 

 gratia Akardensis Episcopus, instituted to the Rectory of Stockton 

 in 1447. William Mychell was instituted to the same benefice in 

 1454." 



The following list is supplied by the Parish Registers : — 

 John Terry, M.A., Instituted 1590. Buried 1625. 



Christopher Greetst, D.D., Instituted 1625. Buried at Christchurch, Oxford. 

 (William Creed, D.D., is said to have been Rector of Stockton about 1660. 



He was buried in the Cathedral at Oxford in 1663.) 

 Samuel Wright, B.D., Institution uncertain. Buried July, 1663. 

 Samuel Fyler, M.A., Instituted 1663. Buried 23rd May, 1703. 

 John Fyler, Instituted 1703. Buried 5th January, 1730. 

 David Price, L.L.B., Instituted 1730. Buried 1771. 



■ Frome, , was Rector about 3 months. 



Edward Innes, Instituted . Died 1788. 



Henry Good, B.A., Instituted 1789. Buried 1824. 

 Roger Frampton St. Barbe, M.A., Instituted 1824. 



Of Mr. Terry, the parish register gives the following brief 



memoir : — 



"John Terry, Rector of Stockton, was born in the year 1555 

 ' Familia eminenter ingenua ' at Sutton, near Odiham in Hampshire. 

 He was the eldest son of his father, and was educated at Winchester, 



