425 
cents, reduced. The trustees are the vicar and the renters 
or owners of Temple, Priory, Grange, Blackmore, and Oak- 
hanger House, for the time being. This gentleman seemed 
inclined to have put the vicarial premises in a comfortable 
state ; and began, by building a solid stone wall round the 
front court, and another in the lower yard, between that and 
the neighbouring garden ; but was interrupted by death 
from fulfilling his laudable intentions. [He lies buried in 
t^o chancel of his church; and a black slab, within the rails 
of the communion table and near the north wall^ com- 
memorates him.] 
April [7], 1680, Barnabas ■ Long became vicar. [Dr. 
Long appears to have resigned the vicarage in consequence 
of obtaining other preferment. We learn from Wood that 
on the 6th of February, 1681, he was installed prebend of 
Botesant in the church of York ; and, on the 24th of May, 
1682_, of Stillington also. From the same authority it may 
be added that he died in 1685.] 
June [23], 1681. This living was now in such low 
estimation in Magdalen College, that it descended to a 
junior fellow, Gilbert White, M.A., who was instituted 
to it in the thirty-first year of his age. At his first coming 
he ceiled the chancel, and also floored and wainscoted the 
parlour and hall, which before were paved with stone and 
had naked walls; he enlarged the kitchen and brewhouse, 
and dug a cellar and well : he also built a large new barn in 
the lower yard, removed the hovels in the front court, 
which he laid out in walks and borders ; and entirely 
planned the back garden, before a rude field with a stone-pit 
in the midst of it. By his will he gave and bequeathed 
^' the sum of forty pounds to be laid out in the most neces- 
sary repairs of the church : that is, in strengthening and 
securing such parts as seem decaying and dangerous. 
With this sum two large buttresses were erected to support 
the east end of the south wall of the church ; and the gable 
end wall of the west end of the south aisle was new built 
from the ground. 
By his will also he gave One hundred pounds to be 
laid out on lands; the yearly rents whereof shall be em- 
