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3. — Dr. Green's servant hath been often required to keep watch. 1 

 and warde at night in the behalfe of his master, or to hire one in I 

 his roorae. lie also was taken from his worke 1 by a justice his j 

 warrant, to appear before him at Salisbury, 10 miles off, there to j 

 put in bayle to answer at the next quarter sessions (12 miles off) 1 

 if he refuse to take into his master's house the said girl for an ap- 

 prentice, and appearing at the quarter sessions was roughly handled, 

 &c, because he would not yield to receyve the s d apprentice, and at 

 last committed to the common gaol among theives, &c, ad placitum 

 curiae et quousque solvit 12 d (these are the wordes of the warrant), 

 to those that did watch for him and his master Mr. Dr. Green, at 

 Stockton, from whence he was not freed, untill after two dayes and 

 two nightes imprisonment. He payed the 12 d . 



4. — This sessions made an order against Dr. Green unheard, that 

 if he refused the said girle for his apprentice, he should be bound 

 over to the next quarter sessions for a contempt. 



Dr. Creed was Rector of Stockton for a very short time about 

 1660. He was a person of eminence, a scholar, an eloquent 

 preacher, and a faithful adherent to the royal cause. He was born 

 at Reading, and was of St. John's College, Oxford, which society 

 presented him to the Rectory of Codford St. Mary in 1645 ; and 

 though a Royalist, he held it through the great Rebellion. After 

 the Restoration, he became Regius Professor of Divinity at Ox- 

 ford, Archdeacon of Wilts, Prebendary of Sarum, and Canon of 

 Christchurch, Oxford, where he died, and was buried in the 

 Cathedral. His wife and some of his children are buried in the 

 chancel at Codford St. Mary. Dr. Creed among his numerous 

 preferments, is said to have been Rsctor of Boyton, for a short 

 time. The Rev. Samuel Fyler was succentor of Salisbury Cathe- 

 dral, and is said to have been a learned man and a strenuous 

 defender of the Catholic Faith, against the Arians and Socinians. 

 He published a sermon, of which a copy is in the "University 

 Library at Cambridge, with this title, "A sermon preached in the 

 Cathedral Church, at the Yisitation of Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum, 

 Chancellor of the Garter; by Samuel Fyler, A.M., Rector of 

 1 At ye Devizes, Apr. 19, 1631. 



