By the "Rev. Canon Molerly. 



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son he was. 1 He resigned in favour of his son, who was collated 

 by Bishop Sherlock in 1735. 



After two Burnets follow two Humes, Nathaniel the brother, 

 and John the son of Bishop Hume, the uncle resigning" in 1774 in 

 favour of the nephew. The nephew was also prebendary of Combe 

 and Harnham. He exchanged both his mastership and prebend for 

 the vicarage of Bishop's Lavington, and the vicar of Lavington — 

 the Rev. Edward Emily — became by collation of Bishop Shute 

 Barrington prebendary of Combe and Harnham and master of St. 

 Nicholas'. 



Emily was a great friend of Bishop Barrington's ; and when he 

 died in 1792 he left an estate at Woking, valued at £6000, to the 

 bishop, who handed it over to trustees for the further endowment 

 of St Nicholas' Hospital. 



After this Dr. "William Coxe, afterwards archdeacon of Wilts, 

 held the hospital for a few weeks in 1 792 : and then Bishop Douglas 

 collated his son, William, who had held the archdeaconry of Wilts 

 before Dr. Coxe. Then in 1819 Bishop Fisher collated the Rev. 

 Arthur E. Howman, who died in 1822 : and two years after, two 

 successive intervening masters (Dean Talbot, of Salisbury, and the 

 Rev. T. Rennell) having died each the year after they were collated, 

 the same bishop collated the Rev. G. E. Howman (afterwards Little), 

 rector of Barnsley, co. Gloucester, son of the former master of the 

 same name. 



He was master for fifty- six years : and during his mastership the 

 hospital was entirely re- built, with the exception of the chapel and 

 master's house. Large fines on the several properties were con- 

 tinually falling in ; many men would have simply put them into 

 their own pocket, whereas he generously used them on behalf of the 

 hospital. These gifts, together with £1600 which he expended 

 upon a new Church at Manningford Bohun, a hamlet of Wilsford, 

 amounted altogether to the large sum of £5018 15s. Id.: and he 



1 He cannot have been of an age for orders when collated. His mother was 

 married in 1687, and there were at least four children older than himself. Life 

 of Burnet, pp. 24, 31. Yet in 1712 he was collated to the prebend of Lynn and 

 Halstock, which had been vacated by his predecessor at St. Nicholas'. 



