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fiiiall pittance by the pradtice of phyfic. During thofe difmal 
times it was not uncommon for the depofed clergy to take up a 
medical charadlcr ; as was the cafe in particular, I know, with 
the Reverend Mr. 7'alden, redor of Compton, near Guildford^ in 
the county of Surrey. Vicar Longzvorth ufed frequently to mention 
to his fons, who told it to my relations, that, the Sunday after his 
deprivation, his puritanical fucceflbr ftepped into the pulpit with 
no fmall petulance and exultation ; and began his fermon from 
Pfalm XX. 8. " I'key are brought dozvn and fallen; but we are r'lfen 
" andjland upright." This perfon lived to be reftored in 1660, and 
continued vicar for eighteen years ; but was fo impoverilhed by his 
misfortunes, that he left the vicarage-houfe and premifes in a 
very abje6t and dilapidated ftate. 
July 1678. Richard Byfield, who left eighty pounds by will, 
the intereft to be applied to apprentice out poor children : but 
this money, lent on private fecurity, was in danger of being loft, 
and the bequeft remained in an unfettled ftate for near twenty 
years, till 1 700 ; fo that little or no advantage was derived from 
it. About the year 1759 it was again in the utmoft danger by 
the failure of a borrower ; but, by prudent management, has fince 
been raifed to one hundred pounds ftock in the three per cents 
reduced. The truftees are the vicar and the renters or owners of 
Temple, Priory, Grange, Blackmore, and Oakhanger-houfe, for the 
time being. This gentleman feemed inclined to have put the 
vicarial premifes in a comfortable ftate ; and began, by building a 
folid {tone wall round the front-court, and another in the lower 
yard, between that and the neighbouring garden ; but Was inter- 
rupted by death from fulfilling his laudable intentions. 
April, i6Z0f Barnabas Long hQC2imt\\Q?^r^ 
