314 Chippenham, and the Neighbourhood, 



£ i. i 



1656. For presenting John Edwards for disturbing the Minister . . 17 8| 



1657. For an Houre Olasse 0 71 



1659. For carrying the Houre Glasse — tor mending and bringing 



him again 0 5 I 



1662. The Ringers when the King was proclaimed 2 6 1 



To Philip Barow, a distressed minister 1 0 I 



For setting up the King's Arms 5 0 0 



For the Book of Comen Praier appointed to be used 30 Jan. 1 9 



April 1. Then it was agreed hy the parishioners within 



named that if any person shall cause any Bell or Bells to 

 \ be rung more than one howre at any Burial, that that 

 Person shall pay for every such howre to the use of the 

 Church one shilling. 



Jon. Geare, Yic. 

 Gab. Goldney, Sen r . 

 Gab. Goldney, Junr. 

 Edw. Bayliffe, &c. 



1663. For the Surplice and Hood 5 4 8 



1667. Pulpit Cloth, Cushion, and Fringe 3 18 9 



In 1650 and 51, Langley Burrell was the scene of an atrocious 

 scandal. After the ejection of Edward Norborne, the rector, one 

 Hughes succeeded—after him a Mr. Martyn, (under orders from 

 the Hon. Committee of Plundered Ministers, and also from the 

 Committee of Wilts, to officiate there, and receive the tithes,) 

 proceeded in company with Mr. Stokes, of Tytherton, being a 

 committee man, and J.P., to Langley Burrell Church, on a certain 

 Lord's Day, intending there to preach. On approaching the 

 church, he was interrupted and driven back by one Thomas Webb, 

 who through the influence of Mistress Mary White, wife of Henry 

 White, then owner of that manor, and other parishioners, by 

 promise of not taking tithes, had obtained the parsonage. This 

 fellow, openly guilty of unparalleled immorality, never having 

 had even a pretence of so-called ordination, and without any 

 order or authority, profaned the church of Langley Burrell for 

 many months by his mock ministrations, preachings and prayers, 

 charged as his indictment runs, by the most knowing Christians 

 of the parish to have preached false and unprofitable doctrines — i.e. 

 most outrageous blasphemies. He held possession of the rectory 

 house, and of the glebe, (then let for £70 a year,) in which he 

 made great sport and destruction ; cutting down and selling at a 



