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parish of Harford, and " being driven to shift for himself betimes, 
and having a pretty good tuneable voice," he tried to become parish 
clerk at Ugborough. It wag arranged that he and a competitor 
should "tune the psalm" on the next Sunday, "one in the fore- 
noon, the other in the afternoon." Prideaux failed, and used 
afterwards to say : "HI could have been parish clerk of Ugborough, 
I had never been Bishop of Worcester." He afterwards walked 
to Oxford " in habit very mean and sordid — no better than leathern 
breeches ;" became a Bible clerk at Exeter College ; and rose at 
last to be rector of his college and Eegius Professor of Divinity. 
He had attained these dignities, when coming into Devonshire to 
"pay his duty to his parents," and passing through the parish of 
Ugborough, "he heard the bell toll for the funeral of a poor old 
woman who had been his godmother ; on which the doctor diverted 
out of his way, went to her burial, and gave her a sermon." 
Scarcely less important than the church at Ugborough is the 
parish church of St. Patrick at South Brent. Though of rather 
smaller dimensions, the plans of the two churches generally agree. 
The building at Brent is chiefly Decorated and Perpendicular, with 
Norman and Early English remains at the west end. 
The restoration of this church, under my direction, a year 
or two ago, brought to light several architectural features which 
had been concealed under the accumulated coats of plaster and 
whitewash for probably two centuries. The roofs were rotten, the 
windows all mutilated, and the sedilia and piscina in the chancel 
had been partially destroyed and blocked up with fragments of 
sculpture, masonry, and mediaeval tiles. The piscina in the north 
chapel (where there was formerly an altar to our Lady), and the 
stoup within the south porch, were also found filled up with 
fragments of demolished stone carvings. Built into these recesses 
and niches were discovered some beautiful and highly finished 
parts of a life-size recumbent effigy and high tomb, with the 
original colours (vermilion, emerald, and gold) on them. These 
fragments (which have been carefully preserved), I have con- 
jectured, belong to the tomb of a murdered vicar of the 
fifteenth century. There is a record that in the year 1436 
Bishop Lacy reconciled this church, after profanation by the murder 
of its vicar, and dedicated three altars there — that of the patron ; 
in the north aisle, that of our Lady ; and in the south, that of St. 
Catherine and St. Margaret. 
