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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 epis- 
copal throne.* 
1595, Richard Boughton, vicar. 
1596, William Inkforbye, vicar. 
May 1606, Thomas Phippes, vicar. 
June 1 63 1 , Ralph Austine, vicar. 
July 1632, John Longworth. This unfortunate gentleman, 
living in the time of Cromwell's usurpation, was deprived of his i 
preferment for many years, probably because he would not take I 
the league and covenant : for I observe that his father-in-law, p| 
the Reverend Jethro Beal, rector of Faringdon, which is the [ 
next parish, enjoyed his benefice during the whole of that un- 
happy period. Longworth, after he was dispossessed, retired to | 
a little tenement about one hundred and fifty yards from the I I 
church, where he earned a small pittance by the practice of ■ 
physic. During those dismal times it was not uncommon for I 
the deposed clergy to take up a medical character ; as was the | 
case in particular, I know, with the Reverend 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 puri- 
tanical 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 andi stand up- 
right.'' This person lived to be restored in 1660, and continued 
vicar for eighteen years ; but was so impoverished by his mis- 
fortunes, that he left the vicarage-house and premises in a very 
abject and delapidated state. 
July 1678. Richard Byfield, 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 
* See Godwiu de praesulibus, folio Cant. 1/43, page 2^9. 
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