482 THE ANTIQUITIES [LETT. 
June 29, 1528, William Fisher, vicar of Selborne, resigned to 
Miles Peyrson. 
1594, William White appears to have been vicar to this time. 
Of this person there is nothing remarkable, but that he hath 
made a regular entry twice in the register of Selborne of the 
funeral of Thomas Cowper, Bishop of Winchester, as if he had 
been buried at Selborne ; yet this learned prelate, who died 
1594, was buried at Winchester, in the cathedral, near the 
episcopal throne.^ 
1595, Eichard Boughton, vicar. 
1596, William Inkforbye, vicar. 
May 1606, Thomas Phippes, vicar. 
June 1631, Ealph Austine, vicar. 
July 1632, John Longworth. This unfortunate gentleman, 
living in the time of Cromwell's usurpation, was deprived of 
his preferment for many years, probably because he would not 
>*'**"'t;ake the league and covenant : for I observe that his father-in- 
law, the Eeverend Jethro Beal, rector of Faringdon, which is 
the next parish, enjoyed his benefice during the whole of that 
unhappy period. Longworth, after he was dispossessed, retired 
to a little tenement about one hundred and hfty yards from the 
church, where he earned a small pittance by the practice of 
physic. During those dismal times it was not uncommon for 
the deposed clergy to take up a medical character ; as was the 
case in particular, I know, wdth the Eeverend' Mr. Yalden, 
rector of Compton, near Guildford, in the county of Surrey. 
Vicar Longworth used frequently to mention to his sons, who 
told it to my relations, that, the Sunday after his deprivation, 
his puritanical successor stepped into the pulpit with no small 
petulance and exultation ; and began his sermon from Psalm 
XX. 8, " They are brought down and fallen ; but we are risen, 
and stand upright." This person lived to be restored in 1660 
and continued vicar for eighteen years ; but was so im.poverished 
by his misfortunes, that he left the vicarage house and premises 
in a very abject and dilapidated state. 
July 1678. Eichard By field, who left eighty pounds by will, 
the interest to be applied to apprentice out poor children : but 
1 See Godwin, " De Prsesulibus," folio, Cant. 1743, p. 239. 
