By the Rev. Thomas Miles. 



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and took two degrees in arts at New College, Oxford, where 

 he was a Fellow. lie was ordained by John Pearce, Bishop of 

 Sarum, and soon after became domestic chaplain to Thomas Cooper, 

 Bishop of Winchester, who presented him to the Rectory of 

 Stockton. He married Mary White of Stanton St. John near 

 Oxford, by whom he had six sons, who all except the eldest, with his 

 wife survived him. He died of an atrophy the 10th of May, 1625, 

 and was buried by his own desire among the poor, in the churchyard, 

 near to his own house, by Thomas Crockford, Vicar of Fisherton 

 Delamere, after a sermon preached by John Antram, Minister of 

 Langford, die Yeneris 13th May, in his 70th year/' 



Mr. Terry published in 1600, a work with this title, "The trial 

 of Truth, containing a plain and short discovery of the chiefest 

 points of the doctrine of the great Anti-Christ, and of his adher- 

 ents the false teachers of these last times." It is dedicated to 

 " Henry, Lord Bishop of Sarum." In 1662 he published the 

 second part of " The Trial of Truth," dedicated to Dr. Reves, 

 Warden of New College, Oxford. 



The six sons of Mr. Terry were all baptized at Stockton ; the 

 eldest, Stephen, was baptized 20th August, 1592. The baptism of 

 the youngest son is thus entered : — ■ 



" Alter Stephanus Terry, born 25th August, baptized 31st August, 1608 ; "so 

 named in memory of the former Stephen, a very hopeful studious youth, who 

 died at Oxford this year 1608, on the 28th July, in his 16th year." 



In the Commissioners' report of Charities in Hampshire, it is 

 mentioned that about 1625, John Terry, Clerk, being seized of a 

 yearly rent charge of 4 nobles, arising out of messuages and lands 

 in Alton, Hants, gave it to the poor of Long Sutton, Hants. It 

 is not unlikely that this John Terry was the Rector of Stockton, 

 and that the family of Terry still existing near Odiham, are in 

 some way connected with him. Mr. Terry was the friend and 

 patron of the Rev. Thomas Crockford, who transcribed in Latin 

 the earliest register of this parish, and made the entries for several 

 years in a way that gives to the register, almost the value of a 

 history of the parish at that period. Sir Richard Hoare says it 

 is the most curious register he had met with. Mr. Crockford also 



