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antiquities"^ 
[Sept. 6] 1596, William Inkforbye, vicar. [Buried 
Jan. 6, 1606.] 
May [16] 1606, Thomas Phippes, vicar. [Buried May 27, 
1631, at Harteley Mauduit.] 
June 1631, Ealph Austine, vicar. [Buried at Oxford, 
March 24, 1631.] 
July 1632, John Long worth. This unfortunate gentle- 
man, living in the time of Cromwell's usurpation, was de- 
prived of his preferment for many years, probably because 
he would not take the league and covenant : for I observe 
that his father-in-law, the Reverend 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 fifty 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, with the Keverend 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 depriva- 
tion, 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 impoverished by his misfortunes, that he left the 
vicarage house and premises in a very abject and dilapidated 
state. 
July 1678. Richard Byfield, [B.D.] who left eighty 
pounds by will, the interest to be applied to apprentice out 
poor children ; but this money, lent on private security, was 
in danger of being lost, and the bequest remained in an 
unsettled state for near twenty years, till 1700 ; so that 
little or no advantage was derived from it. About the 
year 1759 it was again in the utmost danger by the failure 
of a borrower ; but, by prudent management, has since 
been raised to one hundred pounds stock in the three per 
