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TCETtl&icntT.

THE HISTORY

TOWN AND PARISH
OF TETBURY,

ttt tilt Coantj; of AIonnsUT,

OOHnLED FBOH OBIOIHAb KS& AMD tymSK AirnllNTIC S01IKCI&

EEV. ALFRED T. LEE, M.A.

LONDON :
JOHN HENBT i JAMES PARKER, 377, SPTRAND.

nLOtED BT W. TOUJJOt, JKOtOB MESn.

ffl pbirt Staptr |0Uflrt,

OF WESTON BIRT,

M. P. FOR THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY

OF GLOUCESTER,

LORD OF THE MANORS OF UPTON & CHARLTON.

IN THE PARISH OF TETBURY,

IS BT HIS PERMISSION INSCRIBED, WITH EVERT TOKEN

OF RESPECT,

BT HIS VEST OBEDIENT SERVANT,

(Efie 9utf)ot.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Preface

List of Subscribers

xi.

CHAPTER I.

Tke HtsUny of the Town.

Tetborjr in the time of the Britains and Romans .1

Castle there in British times . • .3

Roman Coins found there • ^

Saxon Monastery, circa A.D. 680 . • .6

Tetbnry, in ** Domesday ** . . i » 7

Siege of Tetbary Castle by King Stephen .IS

Cistercian Monastery, A J>. 1170 . • .16
Chantry founded in Tetbnry Church by Walter de Waltres, A.D. 1363 18

Charles L visits Tetbnry . . . « 19

Tetbury in the Civil Wars . • 80

Charles II. and James IL visit the Town . .21

Rules and Bye-laws for prevention of the plague, 1666 .21

Severe visitation of Small-pox . .25

Account of old Henry West, of Upton .26

Old Ambrose Ind .28

Remarkable events . • .29

Tetbnry Church struck by lightning, A.D. 1789 .30

Colours presented to the Tetbury Volunteers at Kingscote 32

Government of the Town ... .32

Fairs, &c .34

Description of the Town .35

Ruins of Cistercian Monastery . .37

Projected Railway in 1839 .39

Springs near the Town . .39

Alms House. .42

Savings Bank .44

Dispensary . .46

VI.

Tetbory Institate ....
Tetbary Union ....

Population of the parish, 1801—1851
Proportion of arable to posture land in the parish
Hamlet of Doughton ....
Elmestree .....
Upton .....

Charlton .....
Inrestigation into the origin of the name of the Town

51
52
53
53
54
54
55
55

CHAPTER n.

Account of the Lards of the Manor.

Former and present jurisdiction of Lords of the ld[anor

Siward, Lord of Tetbuiy, temp. Edward the Confessor

Roger de Ireri, timp, William the Confessor

Reginald de S. Walerick

The fiunily of De Braose

The Berkeley family .

The Manor of Doughton

The Kanor of Upton

The Manor of Charlton

The Manor of ElmestiM

The Orange .

58
59
59
60
61
71
75
78
81
85
86

CHAPTER m.

Histofy of ths Monastery and Churches,

Ancient Saxon Monastory

(^tercian Monastery

Old Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen

Charities attached to the old Church .

Deed of Arbitration, 1467

Account of rebuilding of Parish Church

Rules of Society for rebuilding the Parish Church

The present Parish Church

8. SaTiour's Chapel of Ease .

The Rectory and Adrowson, account of

Particulars respecting the Rev. John Wight .

Extracts fh>m the Parish JEtegisters, ftc

Churchwardens' aecqpats

Monuments in the old Church

lOS

105

108

118

119

122

127

132

146

vu.

CHAPTER IV.
Th« Tetbufy Charities.

Chftneerj Scheme for regaUtion of Tetbuiy Charity Bvtatas

Sir William Bomney's Charity, 1610

Sir Thomas Estcoart's Charity, 1642

John Yeizey's Charity, 1677.

William Talboys* Charity, 1680

Richard Talboys' Charity, 1682

Charles Elton's Charity, 1696

Jonathan Shipton's Charity, 1710

John Avery's Charity, 1713 •

Elizabeth Hodges* Charity, 1723

Thomas Talboys' Charity, 1781

Gilbert Gastrell's Charity* 1792

Uop^Eak ¥«ldn*« Charity, 1789

Matthew Sloper's Charity, 1770

John Wight's Charity, 1774.

Esther Clark's Charity, 1774

Mary Howe's Charity, 1775 .

Ann Wight's Charity, 1788 .

Sarah Paul's Charity, 1795 .

Ann QaatTell's Charity, 1797

Eleanor Lndlow's Charity, 1804

Thomas Alexander's Charity, 1 805

James Webber's Charity, 1813

James Pickett's Charity, 1813

Sarah Lndlow's Charity, 1816

William Brookes's Charity, 1821

Idary Sammers's Charity, 1826 «

Lieutenant-Colonel Olney's Charity, 1836

Thomas Ponlton's Charity, 1851

Tabular account of the Charities

Tetbnry Charity Estates account, 1855-56

156

159

160

161

162

168

163

164

16S

166

167

168

169

170

171

172

173

174

175

176

CHAPTER V.

The Schools.

Sir William Romney's benefaction .

Hub. Hodges* benefaction ....

Ordinances of Tetbory School, 1623.

Present state of the Schools ....

Lives of celebrated persons connected with the Town

John Oldham, the poet ....

177
178
179
183
184
184

▼Ul.

Philip Biflse, Bishop of Hereford
Thomas Tnllj, D.I)^ Deen of Bipon
Thomas Gore» the antiquary
Joseph Trappy Frolessor of Poetiy, Oxford
Scrope Berdmore BaTies

U7
IM
189
190
191

CHAFTBB VL

HiaUiry of FamiUes comMcUd uwlA Tetbwry.

Estcourt of Estooort .196

Hontlejr of Bozwell Court . .208

Holford of Weston Birt .218

Paol of HighgroTe . .222

Sarage of Tetboiy . .228

Extracts from Parish Begisters respecting family of Sayage . . 287

n ft M Oastrell family . 24.^

n n H Talboys family . 244
Extracts from Shipton Moyne Begisters respecting the Estcoart family 246
Extracts from Long Newnton Begisters respecting the Estcoart family 248

Pedigree connecting families of De Braose afad Cotes . 249

CHAPTEB VIL
Notes on the Geology of Tetbory .

251

APPENDIX 1

Chronological events connected with the Town 261

Charter of King Ethelred to Malmesbmy Abbey 264

Charter of Beginald de S. Walerick to Eynesham Abbey . 265

Grant of Bernard de S. Walerick to Boger de Berkeley 266

Charter of Thomas de S. Walerick to Eynesham Abbey 267

Carte R de Berkeley .268

Grant of William de Brense to the Free Burgesses of Tetbory, 1291 . 268
Begrant of Beginald de Brahns ..... 269

Begrant of John de Bransa ...... 269

Charter of Edward lY. of Elmestree, to Westbnry College . . 270

Extracts from Pnblic Bolls relating to Tetbury . .271

Tokens issued at Tetbury, 1650—1670 .273

for repain of Tetbuiy Church .... 273

IX.

Eztncts from the Will of Sir William Bomnej
lists of Acts of FftrUament connected with the Town
Bishops of Qloncester firom 1541 .

279
285
287

APPENDIX II.

LifitofYicars from 1551 ....

. 289

List of Lecturers .....

. 290

List of Curates . , . . .

. 201

List of Churchwardens from 1569 .

. 292

List of FooSooB fit>m 1682 ....

. 298

List of Bailifis from 1592 ....

. 299

List of Schoolmasten from 1642

. 301

APPENDIX m.
Inseriptioiis on the existing Monuments in the Parish Church

302

APPENDIX IV.

Heads of Local Inlbrmation

311

INDEX.

Index to Names on Monuments
Index

313
314

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The former dnnvli «f S. Ubtj Magdalen .

Frontispiece

The Arms of Tetbuiy .....

Title Page

Arms of Holford .....

Dedication

Facsimile of order of Charles L to spare Tetburj dtirnig Aa Gml

Inr ars ......

The Old Market House, Tetbnry ....

Upton Grove, near Tetbury . . . ,

Arms of De Braoee .....

Arms of the Berkeleys .....

Elmestree House, near Tctbnry ....

Remains of Cistercian Monastery ....

Autographs of Vicars of Totbnry since 1 657

122

West Window, Parish Church, and Gastrell Monument

. 146

Arms of Estcourt ....

. 196

Estconrt House, near Tetbury

. 196

Seal of William Estcourt ....

. 197

Arms of Huntley .....

. 208

Arms of Holford .....

. 218

Weston Birt, near Tetbury

. 218

Arms of Paul .....

. 226

Arms of Sayage .....

. 228

Autographs of some of the Estcourts, and Lord and Lady Berkeley, 1 632 24 1

PREFACE.

The object of the Author in compiling the
following pages has been to preserve, if possible
from oblivion, such particulars respecting the Town
and Parish of Tetbury as would otherwise, in all
probability, have been lost. He has endeavoured
especially to record those which are likely to be
interesting to the historian and the antiquary ;
having been long convinced that local histories are
of great importance, if compiled with fidehty and
care. From works of like character with the pre-
sent, the future historians of England will be able
to gather facts and customs which otherwise would,
in the lapse of time, be for ever lost ; and to his-
tories such as these they must look for the record
of the common events of the every-day domestic
life of the English nation, which in larger works
are lumoticed and uncared for.

In the present history then, the Author has simply
endeavoured to do the work of a compiler with

xu.

88 much faithfulness and diligence as lay in his
power. When he commenced collecting materials
for it, he found but few ready to hand. The
notices of Tetbury, given in the various histories
of Gloucestershire, are, from the natinre of those
works, short and formal, and are not always trust-
worthy. His chief sources of information have been
numerous manuscripts intrusted to him by their
owners, and papers relating to various Chancery
suits, which at different periods have been carried
on respecting the affairs of the Town.

These documents, as well as those of interest in
the Town Chest, together with the Parochial
Blisters, and Churchwardens' and Feoffees' ac-
counts, have been examined with much care, and
every information calculated to throw light on
the past history of the Town has been extracted
from them.

The copies of aU the monumental inscriptions at
present existing in the Parish Church, given in
Appendix III., as well as the extracts from the
Parish Register at the end of Chapter VI. will,
it is hoped, be found valuable hereafter in tracing
pedigi^ which otherwise might become obscure.

It only remains for the Author to thank those

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ZUl.

kind friends who have assisted him in obtaimng
materials for his work. The owners of Estcourt,
Weston Birt, Upton Grove, and Ehnestree, have
presented him with the views of their respective
reddenoes. which appear in the Mowing pages.
From the late lamented Rev. R W. Huntley» of
Boxwell Court, he has received much antiquarian,
geneaJogical and heraldic infonnation. From
Messrs. J. T. and R. C. Paul, much documentary
evidence and constant assistance throiighout the
progress of the work. From Professor Buckman, of
the Boyal Agricultural College, Cirencester, a val-
uable Essay on the Geology of Tetbuiy. From
Bichard Filkin, Esq., M.D., of Bichmond, many
useful references to works respecting Tetbuiy and
its History; and from that valuable publication.
Notes and Queries, (to which all Antiquaries are
so constantly indebted,) he has obtained the
elucidation of many obscure historical point&

The materials thus obtained have been arranged
in the following order :

In Chaptbb I., the History of the Town is
traoed from ite earUeet appeatunce in British
History, to the present day; the most remark-
able circumstances that have occurred in conneo-

XIV.

tion with it are mentioned, and a description is
given of the present state of its Govemment,
Institutions, Public Buildings, &c.

Chapter II. contains a consecutive account of
the Lords of the Manor of Tetbury, and its Ham-
lets, from the time of Edward the Confessor to
the present day.

Chaptbb III. is occupied with a description
of the ancient Cistercian Monastery, and of the
former and present Churches existing in the Parish.

In Chapter IV., a full account is given of the
number and value of the different Charities of the
Town, by means of abstracts of the wiUs of the
various bene&ctors. A tabular accoimt of their
present state is appended.

Chapter V. describes the past and present
conditions of the Schools, giving also short lives
of celebrated persons educated in them, or other-
wise connected with the Town.

Chapter VI. contains the Pedigrees of those
families who are, or have been, prominently con-
nected with Tetbury. The Author is greatly
indebted to the members of these fiemiilies, who
have supplied him with authentic materials for
compiling them.

XV.

Chapter VII. contains Notes ou the Geology
of Tetbury, by Professor Buckman.

The Charters of the De Braose s in Appendix I.
are from an old English copy, preserved in the
Town Chest. The originals, in Latin, are in
many parts illegible.

The lists of Vicars, Feoffees, Churchwardens, &c.,
in Appendix II., have been now for the first time
compiled at a great expense of time and labour ;
they will be found correct, as fiir as they go.

Appendix III. contains Copies of the Inscrip-
tions on all the Monuments in the Parish Church.

In Appendix IV. the Heads of Local Informa-
will be found.

FuUy conscious of the numerous
defects which will be found in the foDowing pages,
the Author nevertheless commits them with confi-
dence to the candour and kindness of his readers,
believing that they will estimate their value, not
by their intrinsic worth, but by the interest which
they take in all that concerns the welfare and
prosperity of the Town and Parish of Tetbury,
the History of which it is the object of the follow-
ing pages to describe.

Ma^ 21, U57.

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.

Her Grace the Duchess of Beaufort, Badminton, (2 copies )

The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.

The Earl Fitzhardinge, Lord lieutenant of Gloucestershire.

The Earl of Dude, Tortworth Park (2 copies.)

The Earl of Ellenborough, Southam Park, Cheltenham.

Sir William Codrington, M.P. Dodington.

Sir Thomas Phillips, Bart Middle Hill, Worcester.

Sir B. W. Garden, Bart. M.P. 64, Wimpole Street, London.

T. H. Sotheron Estcourt, Esq. M.P. Estcourt, Tetbuiy,

(10 copies.)
B. S. Holford, Esq. M.P. Dorchester House, Park Lane,

(6 copies.)
John Neeld, Esq. M.P. Grittleton.
Greorge Poulett Scrope, Esq. M.P. Castle Combe.
J. Bolt, Esq. M.P. Ozleworth Park, Gloucestershire.
J. B. Mullings, Esq. M.P. Eastcourt House, Malmesbury.

Bannister, Bichard, Mr. White Hart, Tetburj.

Barrett, Thomas, Mr. Tetbury.

Battersbj, J. C. Ber. Vicarage, Tollesbury, Maldon, Essex.

Baylj, Charles, Esq. Garston House, Torquay.

Bennett, Bichard, Esq. Culkerton, Tetbury.

Besant, W. H. Esq. M.A. F.B.A.S. Fellow of S. John's

College, Cambridge.
Birch, W. S. Bev. Bectofy, Easton Grey, Malmesbury.

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XV1U.

Bowsher, Alfred, Mr. Tetbury.

Box, James, Mr. Tetbniy.

Bradflhawe, Henry, Esq. M.A. Fellow of King's College,

Cambridge.
Brookes, William, Esq. Elmesiree, Tetbuiy, (2 copies.)

•

Brookes, William, Mr. Mark Lane, London.

Brown, Charles, Mr. Tetbury.

Brown, Francis, Mr. Tetbury.

Brown, William, Mr. Malmesbury.

Bryan, Guy, Bey. sen. Woodham Walter Rectory, Essex.

Bryan, Guy, Bev. jun. Swanton Novers, Norfolk.

Byam, Samuel, Esq. Willesley, Tetbury, (2 copies.)

Butler, John, Mr. Tetbury.

Cartmell, James, Rev. D.D. Master of Christ's College,

Cambridge.
Cave, George, Mr. The CoUey, Tetbury.
Chew, Edward, Mr. Tetbury.
Cook, John, Esq. sen. Tetbury.
Cook, John, Mr. jun. Birkenhead.
Cook, Edwin, Mr. Tetbury.
Cook, Charles, Mr. Birkenhead.
Cook, George, Mr. Northwich
Cook, William, Mr.
Cooper, John, Mr. Tetbuiy.

ComwaU, A. G. Rev. Ashcroft House, Wotton-under-Edge.
Cotes, C. G. Rev. Rectoty, Stanton S. Quinton, Wilts.
Crow, Cyrus, Mr. Tetbury.
Croome, T. C. Esq. Cainscross, Tetbury.

Dalton, Edward, Esq. D.C.L. F.S.A. Dunkirk House, Nails-
worth.
Dalway, Marriott, Esq. M.A. Bella HiU, Carrickfergus, Ireland.
Dalway, Marriott Robert, Esq. „ „

Dixon, Greorge, Mr. Tetbury.

xiz.

Djer, Robert, Rev. Doughton.

Ellison, Nathaniel, Esq. M.A. Morton House, Durham.
Estcourt, William J. B. Rev. M.A. Rectory, Long Newnton,

Wilts.
Estcourt, Matthew, Rev. M.A. Long Newnton, Wilts.
Jlstcourt, Edward D. B. Esq., M.A. Charlton, Tetbuiy.
Everard, E. J. Rev. Rectory, Didmarton, (5 copies.)
Eykjn, Mrs. Reading.

Fewster, Anthony, Esq. Nailsworth, Stroud.

Filkin, Richard, Esq. M.D. Richmond, (6 copies.)

Foster, George Pitt, Mr. Tetbury.

Fowler, Robert, Rev. M.A. Fellow of Christ's College,

Cambridge.
Fowles, Charles, Mr. Tetbury.
Frampton, John, Rev. Vicar of Tetbury, (2 copies.)
Frampton, Edward, Esq. Cheltenham.
Eraser, William, B.C.L. Rev. Alton, Cheadle, Stafford.

Gibson, William Sidney, Esq. F.S.A. Bankruptcy Court,

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Goodwyn, J. G. Mr. Tetbury, (10 copies.)
Greenstreet, F. W. Rev. M.A. Frenchay, Bristol.
Gunson, W. M. Rev. M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Christ's College,

Cambridge.

Hale, R. B. Esq. Alderton, Gloucestershire.
Harding, Colonel, Mount Radford Terrace, Exeter.
Haygarth, J. S. Rev. M.A. Royal Agricultural College,

Cirencester.
Hays, John, Rev. M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Christ's College,

Cambridge.
HoUiday, William, I^Ir. Tetbuiy.
Holt, Thomas, Esq. Gloucester.

Home, Francis, Mr. Tetbury.
Hooper, Briscoe, Esq. Torwood Mount, Torquay.
Hughes, Joseph, Mr. Tetbury.

Huntley, Bichard Webster, Rev. (the late,) Boxwell Court,
Tetbury, (5 copies.)

Ind, George, Mr. Tetbury.

Jones, Miss, Chapel Street, Belgrave Square, London.
Jones, W. S. Esq. Malmesbury.

KeiUer, J. W. Mr, Tetbury.

Korslake, Thomas, Mr. Bristol.

Kitcat, John, Bev. M. 4. Swallowfield, Beading.

Ejtcat, David, Bev. M.A.

Lee, Lady, Claremont, Torquay.

Lee, J. H. Captain, Balsdon Lodge, Torquay.

Lee, Melville L. Bev. Bectory, Bridport, Dorset.

Lewis, T. Mr. Tetbury.

Lingwood, Thomas, Bev.

Maggs, Joseph, Mr. Tetbuiy.

Main, Professor, Bev. M.A. F.B.A.S. B.N. College, Ports-
mouth.
Maskelyne, Maurice, Esq.
Maskelyne, William, Esq. Captain 20th Foot.
Milner, C. F. Bev. Shadwell, near Leeds.

Napier, Edward Berkeley, Esq. Pennard House, Somerset.

Parker, J. H. and J. Messrs. London and Oxford.
Paul, J. T. Esq. Tetbury, (4 copies.)
Paul, B. C. Esq. Tetbury, (4 copies.)
Paul, Henry, Esq. Clifton.

XXI.

Paul, Frederick, Esq.

Paul, B. C. Esq. (the late,) Tetbury.

Paul, Edmund W. Esq. Exeter.

Paul, Walter M. Esq. Highgrove.

Price, Thomas, Mr. Tetbury.

Pricbard, B. A. Rev. Ashley Rectory, Tetbury.

Relton, H. E. Esq. Lewes, Sussex.

Bich, E. W. Esq. Didmarton, Tetbury.

Bicketts, William, Esq. Tetbury.

Boyds, Adelaide, Miss, Upton House, Tetbury.

Saunders, T. Albin, Esq. Tetbury.

Sarage, John, Esq. Grosvenor House, Bath.

Savage, Francis Walker, Esq. Springfield, Westbury-on-Trym,

(3 copies.)
Savage, Francis, Esq.
Savage, Mss, Cheltenham.
Sealy, George, Mr. Tetbury.
Sealy, William, Mr. Tetbury.
Slatter, W. Mrs. Stratton, near Cirencester.
Smith, Daniel, Mr. Tetbury.
Stanton, Charles, Esq. Bownham, Stroud.
Stanton, Charles H. Esq. Lincoln's Inn, London.
Stanton, Arthur H. Esq.

Tanner, Thomas, Mr. Shipton Moyne, Tetbury.
Tanner, A. H. Mr. Shipton Moyne, Tetbury.
Tayler, William, Mr. The Folly, Tetbuiy.
Tayler, Bichard, Mr. Ashley, near Tetbury.
Thomas, George, Mr. Lasborough.
Timmings, John, Esq. Southsea.
Townshend, Lady James, Baynham Hall, Norfolk.
Tugwell, Humphrey, Mr. Tetbury.

XXll.

Walker, C. Esq. Gloucester.

Walker, Henry, Rev. Incumbent of S. Andrew's, Westminster.

Walker, John, Mr. Tetbury.

Wallis, Rear-Admiral P.W.P. Commander-in-Chief, South
America.

Ward, John, Rev. M.A. Wath Rectoiy, Ripon.

Warn, William, Mr. Tetbury.

Warner, William, Mr. Lowfield, Tetbury.

Wayte, William, Rev. M.A. Fellow of King's College, Cam-
bridge.

Weare, George, Mr. Tetbury.

Webb, James, Mr. Tetbury.

Whishaw, James, Esq. 68, Gower Street, London.

Wickham, J. C. Esq. M.D. Tetbury, (2 copies.)

Wight, Robert, Mr. Painswick, (2 copies.)

Williams, George, Rev. B.D. Yice-Provost of King's College,
Cambridge.

Wilkinson, Mrs. Bath.

Wills, G. W. B. Rev. M.A. Rectory, S. Leonard's, Exeter.

Wills, Emily, Miss, Richmond Place, Mount Radford, Exeter.

Wiltshire, John, Esq. Shockerwish, Bath.

Witchell, Henry, Mr. Tetbury.

Wood, Joseph, Esq. The Close, Tetbury, (4 copies.)

Wood, Jacob, Mrs. The Green, Tetbury.

Wood, Benjamin, Esq. Newnton House, Long Newnton, Tet-
bury.

Wood, Charles P. Esq. 43, Bernard Street, Russell Square,
London, (2 copies.)

Wood, Jacob, Rev. Stratton, near Cirencester.

Wood, Henry, Esq. Barton End, near Tetbury.

THE HISTORY

THE TOWN AND PARISH OF

TETBURY.

CHAPTER L

The History of the Town.

Early History In the times of the Britains — Romans — Saxons— Danes. —
Account of Manor in Domesday. — Civil Wars, temp, K Stephen. —
Royal Visits.— Ciyil Wars, temp, K. Charles.— Bye Laws for Prevention
of the Plagne in 1666.— Old Age of Inhabitants. — Remarkable Events.
Government of the Town. — Situation. — Town Hall.— The Chipping.—
Cistercian Monastery, — Alms Houses. — Savings Bank. — Dispensary, —
Institute. — Population. — Hamlets, — Doughton, — Elmestree, — Upton, —
Charlton. — Investigation into the Origin of its Name.

There can be but Kttle doubt that Tetbury was
a military station, both in the time of the Britons
and Romans, The towns of the original inhabi-
tants of Britain were mostly situated on steep hills,
and deep ditches, and high ramparts, were added to
these natiuul defences, by way of increasing their
strength ; and the position assigned to Tetbury by
natxure, admirably fits it for purposes of defence.
Pleasantly situated, on the South Eastern extremity
of the Cotswold hills, in a healthy and salubrious air,
and commanding an extensive tract of surroiuiding
country,* it was sure to be seized upon by a warlike

' The town is thus described by Leland, Itinerary^ vol. ii.,
p. 24. — ** Tetbyri is vii. miles from Malmesbjri, and is a praty
market Town. Tetbyri liyth a 2 miles on the lift hand of from
Fosse, afl men ryde to Sodbyri. The Hed of Isis ia
Cotteswolde riseth about a mile a this side Tetbyri."
B

people, as a spot capable of being easily fortified,
and as easily defended.

In the account which the earhest historians of
Britain give of this part of the countiy, Tetbury
is but rarely mentioned by name. The splendour of
its near neighbour, Cirencester (which town was the
metropolis of the Dobimi, the ancient inhabitants
of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire before the in-
vasion of the Romans) entirely eclipsed its fame,
and in giving an account of its history during this
early period, we must content ourselves with de-
scribing, the everchanging fortunes of the inhabi-
tants of the district, comprehended between Ciren-
cester, Gloucester, and Bath, in which tract of
country, Tetbury is necessarily included.

Aulus Plautius, was sent by Claudius as propraetor
into Britain, and A.r). 45 placed garrisons amongst
the Dobimi, as Dio relates. This country firom Ciren-
cester (called by the Britains Caer Cori, and by the
Romans Durocomovium) to Painswick, Bisley,
Sapperton, Woodchester, Uley, and the adjoining
places, (probably including Tetbury) was much
peopled by the Romans. Cirencester was the
metropolis, and Gloucester and the hills about the
Severn were the great military posts.

Camden* in his description of Malmesbury, makes
mention of an ancient castle existing at Tetbury
in British times. We will give the extract in fiilL

" A very proper town this is {i. e. Malmesbury),

'Camden's BritanmcOf ed. 1610, p. 242.

and hath a great name for clothing, which (as we
read in the Eulogie of Histories) Cimwallow Mal-
mutius, King of the Britains, built together with
Lacock and Tetburte two castles, and called it Gaer
Baldon, which being at length by heat of wars
destroyed, out of the ruins thereof there arose, as
writers record, a castle wHch our ancestors in then:
tongue, called Ingelbom," At the same time, con-
tinues Camden, " the Saxon petty Kings had their
palace at Caerdiurburge now Brokenbridge, a village
scarce a mile from hence,"

If a castle was built at Tetbury, in the time of the
Britons, as thus related by Camden, it would at once
be seized by the Bomans on their occupation of the
country, and made by them a militaiy station ; and
we haTe proofs of tWs having beenle case, for aB
is justly observed by Bishop Kennet,* " an obvious
proof of places being frequented by the Eomans is
L diggbg up. of Jin, iindi. n.^ «^
other relics of that age and nation, for wherever
they spread themselves they either by accident or
design left their marks behind them, so that if none
of their antiquities can be found it is a just argu-
ment that they have never visited it."*

* Parochial AntiquitieBf vol. i., p. 14.

* This is confirmed by the account given in the Anglo Saxon
Ckromde^ a.d. 418. This year the Romans collected all the
treasures that were in Britain, and some they hid in the earth,
so that no one has since been able to find them, and some they
carried with them to Gaul.

The converse of this argument is applicable to
Tetbury, since many Boman coins have at different
times been found there, and the remains of a Roman
camp existed there till the middle of the last century,
when it was levelled to make room for improve-
ments.' Coins of the Emperors Claudius, and Phihp,
are at the present time, (1857) in the possession of
Mr. George Cole, an old inhabitant of the town,
and were dug up in his garden ; and the late Rev.
John Wight, vicar of this parish, had in his cabinet
coins of the Emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius,
and Constantino and his sons, all of whom at one
period visited Britain ; as also of Postumius Mag-
nentius, and a very fine one of Carausius in brass,
all foimd hera A coin of Annia Faustina, wife of
Marcus Aurelius,® (who died a.d. 1 75,) has like-
wise been discovered here ; and tmder the agger
several ancient English coins, buried doubtless at a
later period, particularly one of Edward the Con-
fessor, one of King Stephen, and two of Henry III.
When the camp was levelled (as mentioned above)
about a centiuy since, several heads of arrows and
javelins, with horse shoes of the ancient form, and

* The ruins and intrenchments were visible within these
twenty-six years, ue. in 1757. — MS. Account of Tidmry, by
R. C. [Robert Clark] written in 1783.

^ She was the daughter of Antoninus Pius. Her character,
which was not one of the best, is given by Gibbon, vol, i., p. 226,
Dr. Smith's Ed. See also his Oreds cmd Boman Mythology,
vol. ii.| p. 141.

spurs without rowels (such as were in use soon after
the Conquest) were discovered.

It would be extremely interesting to us, had we
any existing account of the marches of Vespasian,
during the time that Aldus Plautius, was governor
of Britain ; as it is, we only know that the third
year after his arrival in Britain, Plautius took pos-
session of Bath and Gloucester.' In all probability
Vespasian was the general, who conquered and co-
lonized, the banks of the Bristol Avon. During
the time that Plautius was Governor of Britain; the
Romans reduced all the tribes south of the Thames,
together with the Tribonantes, Dohuni^ and Cossi.

When Publius Ostorius Scapula arrived in Britain
as governor, A.D. 50, he found that many of the Bri-
tish tribes had revolted from Rome. Among other
precautions, he fortified the Banks of the Severn,
to prevent the SLliures, (the ancient inhabitants of
Herefordshire and Monmouthshire) from invading
the Roman province, and placed garrisons at Glou-
cester, Sodbury, Oldbury, &c. Bath, which was
originally a British town, was one of the nine
Roman colonies in BritaiQ, and had been previously
occupied and fortified by them.

From the time of the departure of the Romans,
in the middle of the fifth century, to the estab-
lishment of the Saxon Heptarchy, tliis part of
the country was included in the Kingdom of
Wiccia. It was afterwards incorporated with the

^ Richard of Cirencester, 1, 6, 28.

Kingdom of Mercia, and between 577 and 656 was
held alternately by the Mercians and West Saxons.
In aa ancient charter of Ethelred. King of the
MerdanSy to Aldhelm, the Abbot of MaLmesbury,
in 680, recorded by Dugdale,* mention is made of
the gift by that king of fifteen cassates of land,
"jitwrfa Tettan Moruxsteriv/m^ (near the Monastery
of Tettan) to the monks of Malmesbury. This mo-
nastery disappeared before the Conquest, and no
record of its existence, except this casual mention
of it, now remains.

In the reign of the above-mentioned King Ethel-
red, Osher, sub regulus of the Wiccii, persuaded him
to divide Merda, which had hitherto been under
one Bishop, into five dioceses, an example which
might with great advantage be followed in our own
times. The principal see then erected was that of
his own province, Wiccia. The pontifical seat was
erected at Worcester, the then famous metropolis
of the WicciL*

* Moncutieon Angl.^ vol. L, p. 258, ed. 1819. See also Tanner's
NoHtia Monastica, pp. 139, 148.

9 Anno 680, tempore ^thelredi Regis Merciorum, et Theo-
dori Arcbiepiscopi, constituta est sedes, Episcopalis Wigomensis
EcclesisB. Boselas Episcopns primus et yixit annis xi., obiit 689.
^^Annales de Eebua Ecclei, Wigom.

The Diocese of Lichfield formerly comprehended all Merda.
In the year 679, on the authority of Ethelred and Archbishop
Theodore, it was divided into five Dioceses ; one of them was
Worcester, which comprehended Worcestershire, Gloucester-
shire, and half of Warwickshire. The seat of the bishop was

Tetbury remained in the Diocese of Worcester,
tiU the erection of the See of Gloucester, by Hemy
VIII, in 1541.

The Danes made their first hostile invasion of Eng-
land in 783. In the reign of King Edgar (959-974)
they h^ so overspread the land that " there was
scarcely a village in England where the Danes did
not dwell with the English."* It is said, that they
were much favoured by the English women, from
their being of cleaner habits than their own country-
men. In A.D. 1013, the Danish king, Sweyn,
having been repulsed by the inhabitants of London,
marched to Wallingford, and thence to Bath ; he
there halted and refreshed his army.

In the reign of Edward the Confessor (1041-1066)
Siward was Lord of the Manor of Tetbury ; it was
held by Roger de Jueri, who had also large posses-
sions in Berks, Bucks, Oxford, Gloucestershire,
Himtingdon, and Warwick, in the time of William
the Conqueror.

The following account of this manor is given in
Domesday :* — " In Langetrewes Hund. isdem Bog.

Worcester. Tatfritb, '< vir strenuisdmus et doctissimas, atque
excellentis ingenii " was to have been the first bishop, but he died
suddenly, and Bosel was elected in his place. The division of
the Diocese of Lichfield was determined at the Council of Hat-
field, A.D. 675. — See Tanner's Notitia Monastica and Seyer's
Jlistonf ofBristoly vol. i., p. 227.

' Brompton.

' Domesday Book was caUed '' Liber Judiciarius vel censu-

ten. Tetebebie. Ibi xxiii. hide geld. Siward
tenuit T. R. E. In d'nio s't viii. car., et xxxii. vill'i,
et ii. bord, et ii. radchen ; cum pTbro inter om's
b'ntes xiiii. car. Ibi xviiii. servi et malin. de xv.
den. et pastura de x. solid., et. x. ac. p'tL

Isd. Roger, ten. Uptone. Ibi ii. hide, • et una
v'geld. Aluricus tenuit de rege. E. In d'nio sunt
ii. car., et v. vill'i. et iii. bord., ; cum iii. car. Ibi
viii. servi. Hie duo M. T. R. E. val'b xxxiii. lib.
modo simt ad firmam pro 1. lib.

•* Roger de Jueri* holds Teteburie, in Langes-
trewes Hundred. There are twenty-three hides

alia Anglise.'' It was a general aarrey of all England, with the
exception of Durham and Northumberland, and was com-
menced in the reign of William the Conqueror by five Justices,
A.D. 1080, and finished a.d. 1086. The taxes were levied
according to this survey till 13 Henry YUL (1522.) Its name
was derived, not as is generally supposed, from its being called
the Book of Doom, from its severity, but from the Liber
Judicialis, or Dom Boc of King Alfred. It was also called
BotuluM Wintontce^ Liber de WintoniOf and Liber Regis. — See Sir
H. Ellis*s Introd. to Domesday^ and Hadyn's Dictionary of Dates,

• This Roger de Jueri appears to have been on terms of friend-
riiip with Odo, Bishop of Baieux ; of Haseldene, one of the Manors
entered to him in Gloucestershire, it is said, " Hoc Manerium
tenuit quidam homo Bogeri de Episcopo Baiscensi pro xvi. lib.
Postea dedit Episcopus eidem Rogeris cum firm&." This Manor
a certain man named Roger held of the Bishop of Baieux for
sixteen pounds. Afterwards the Bishop gave it to the aforesaid
Roger with the farm.— Sir H. Ellis's Introd. to Domesday^ vol L,
p. 441.

which pay tax. Siward, held it in the time of
King Edward. There are eight carucates, and
thirty-two villeins, and two bordarers, and two
redchenisters, with a priest, having among them
all fourteen carucates. There are nineteen servi,
and a miU of 15d., and pasture of 10s., and ten
acres of meadow. The same Roger holds Uptone.
There are two hides, and one yard land taxed.
Alumcus held it of King Edward. There are two
carucates, and five viUeins, and three bordarers,
with three plow tillages. There are eight servi.
These two manors were worth £33 in the time of
King Edward, and they are now at farm for £50.''
By analysing tliis ancient survey, we may esti-
mate the quantity of land which the parish then
contained ; but first, it will be necessary for us to
consider, the number of acres contained in a hide,
and carucate, respectively. According to Sir Henry
Ellis, in his Introduction to Domesday y a carucate
was as much arable land as could be managed with
one plough, and the beasts thereto belonging in one
year, having meadow, p^ture, and houses for the
householders, and cattle belonging to it ; and Selden
also is of the same opinion. The carucate was of
Norman introduction, and usually in Domesday
follows the measure of the hide. We must also
bear in mind, that in this survey, the axable land
was measured by carucates, the common pastiure by
hides, and the meadow by acres. At diflFerent times,
the number of acres in the carucate differed, but

when considering the land mentioned in Domesday,
we may safely suppose them to contain the same

the distinction between the carucate and hide was
lost.

Beckoning at this yaluation, we shall find that the
quantity of land contained in the parish, as men-
tioned in Domesday, is much the same as at present.

1. In Tetbury — ACRE&
The twenty-three hides of common

pasture, at 120 acres per hide - 2760

The eight carucates of arable - - 960

The ten acres of meadow . . lo

2. At Upton —

The two hides of pasture - - 240

The fiye carucates of arable - - 600

4570

Whilst the parish, according to the present mea-
surement, contains 4,532 acres, statute measure.

The cultivators of this land in the time of the
Conqueror were —

1. At Tetbury— ViUani - - 32

Bordarii - - 2
Redchenisters - 2
Servi - - 19 — 55

2. At Upton — Villani - . 5

Bordarii - - 3
Servi - - 8 — 16

In all 71

In this reckoning, the wives and families of those
employed in the land is not included, and allowing
on an average a wife and three children to each,
the population of the parish at that period (1086)
would amount to 284 souls.^

It may not be uninteresting, if we add a few
words, respecting the sodal condition of the several
classes we have mentioned. The borda/rii, were in
a less servile condition, then the servi and viUani,
and were distinct from them. They had a small
parcel of land allowed them on condition of their
supplying their lord with poultry and eggs, and
other such provisions, for his board and entertain-
ment.* The viUaniy so called a viUd, because they
lived chiefly in villages, were employed in rustic
work of the most sordid kind. Their condition
much resembled that of the Spartan Helots ; they
could not leave their lord without his permission,
they were annexed to his person, and transferable

* At the time of the Domesday Borvey there were in Glou-
cestershire : —

TenaDts in Capite - • - - 102

Bordarii 1,792

Rachenistri - - - - - 137

Servi 2,044

'Vlllani 8,627

Uxoram Vlllanonim defiinctoram - 4

The total number of the inhabitants of the county was 8,366.
—Sir H. Ellis's IrUrod. to Damssdc^j vol. ii., p. 444.
^ Kennet's Paroch, AnUq. Ohssary,

by deed from one owner to another.® If they ran
away or were stolen, they might be reclaimed by
action, like beasts, or other chattels. They could
acquire no property, or goods, and if they purchased
either, the lord might enter upon them and seize
them for his own use.'

As regard the ii radchen, or redchenisters men-
tioned above, it is difficult to discover, what were
the exact duties assigned to them. Sir Henry Ellis
in his Introduction to Domesday, to which we have
referred above, says p. 72, that " the description of
tenantry named rachenistres, or radchenistres, ap-
pear likewise to have been called radmanniy or rod-
ToanSy and like the socmen were less free than
others.'* Dr. Nash, the historian of Worcestershire,
conjectiured that the radmanni, and radchenistres,
were probably a kind of freemen who served on
horsebLk.-

^ Wido de Areiues, gave to the Abbey of Oseney his land in
Mixburj. '^ Lex Yirgatus terrae de villenagio, cum villanis, et
eorum sectis et 8ervitiis."-^Kennett's Paroch. AnUq,^ vol. i.,
p. 299.

7 Blackstone's Comment^ vol. iii. p. 92, 93.

8 This word is also mentioned by Da Cange, who says, '^ De
terrft hujus manerii tenebant Radchenistres, i.e. liberi homines.
Yidentur iidem qai Bractono Rad4 Knights dicuntur, liberi
scilicet homines qui tamen arabant, herciabant, falcabant, mete-
bant, &c. Rady or Rede, signifies firm and stable, and these
Redchenistres were oflen called soehemansy or sokemanniy because
of their plough service from sokcy a plough. — See also Coke upon
Lyttlitony sec. 117.

In the war between the Empress Maud, and
Robert, Earl of Gloucester her brother, against
King Stephen, in 1143, Mabnesbury was beseiged
by the former, and the surrounding country forti-
fied by him ; he either built a castle at Tetbury, or
rebuilt the one which formerly existed there, as the
following extract from Seyer's History of Bristol^
will shew. He is here quoting from the Gesta
StephanV

" Malmesbury was holden by a garrison for the
king, and appears to have been a kind of frontier
town. The Earl of Gloucester, wishing to get
possession of it buUt three castles near it, whereby
the garrison was reduced to extremity from want
of food. When the king was informed of the great
distresses of his men, he collected together an im-
mense nimiber of soldiers, and suddenly and im-
expectedly came to Malmesbury, and having sent in
provisions sufficient for a long time, he raged most
cruelly with fire, sword, and plimder aroimd the
castles which the Earl had built ; and, setting up
his tents near Tetbury, a castle only three miles
distant from Malmesbiuy, he laboured earnestly

» Vol. i., pp. 448, 450.

^ The Qe8tm Stephana Regis Anghrum et duds N'amumnomm^ was
a record written bj Robert de Bee, a Norman Ecclesiastic and
firm adherent of King Stephen, and perhaps his personal friend.
The book is scarce and little known, not at all in English,
and all his histoiy is tinged with a favourable account ot
Stephen.— Sejer's History of Bristolj vol. i., p. 406.

with force and arms to take it The outward forttess
of the castle [tdteriore oasteUi prapugTuiciilo] being at
last bravely captured, and some soldiers being taken
and slain, and many others wounded and forced in
crowds into an inward retreat within a narrow
compass, the king immediately brought up his
machines on all sides, intending to shut them up
by seige. But the Earl of Gloucester, when he
heard of the king's approach, hastily collected an
immense number of cavalry (mmum), inaamuch
as he had very many castles in the neigfhbourhood,
«.^e of hi, Z righl ^ other, feithfUly oWying
him. He brought also together, a cruel and uncon-
querable army, of Welchmen and Bristow [Bristol]
men, and men of other cities in the neighbourhood,
intending to fight the king. Eoger, also. Earl of
H«ef„^*..d^ ^^intlefeu-uod^oudy
afireeuifi: to assist him, havins^ collected their forces
tiS came on ^th great Lpedition ; and being
now only two mUes dktant from the king's army,
waited until others who were hastening on, should
come to their assistance.

The Barons, who were with the king, hearing
that such a numerous swarm of enemies was come
together against them, and fearing the uncontrol-
able barbarity of the Welchmen and the disorderly
multitudes [incompositum vtdgus], of the Bristow-
ans, a wonderful number of whom the Eaxl was
leading in close array to fall upon them, dropped
prudent counsel into the king's ear, and advised

him to break up the seige for a time and remove
his army to some other place, where it might be
wanted, because it was unadvisable and bordering
on rashness, to expose his squadron of cavalry
(militicB sucB cunewm) to such a host of prize
fighters on foot, {tot pedestris muUUudinvi lanistas)
for whom it was not a match ; whereas, on the other
hand, their enemies coming out of their cities and
castles in the neighbourhood, would be stronger and
more prepared for battle ; that, therefore, it was
prudent to retire from the seige for the present,
lest the king being surrounded by fierce enemies,
should suffer a defeaf For these reasons the king
acquiesced in the prudent advice of his friends, and
hastily removing the whole expedition from those
places, suddenly came before Winchelcomb, where
Boger the new Earl of Hereford had raised a castle
against him, whidi was soon surrendered on
conditions.

A monastery existed in this town in the time of
the Saxons, but no particulars except the record of
its former existence now remain.' In the time of
Henry HI. a Cistercian monastery was established
here.' Beginald de S. Walerick, Lord of Haseldean,

* Dogdale's Mcnastican Angliccmum^ vol, i., p. 258.

* The Cistercian order was founded in 1098, bj Robert Hard-
ing, an Englishman, a Benedictine, and Abbot of Molesme,
in Burgundy, in the Diocese of Langres. He had made
most zealous efforts to revive the decaying piety of his Convent;
but not succeeding, he retired with about twenty of his monks

removed them from that plax)e to Tetbury in 1140,
but some years after, finding themselves incon-
venienced from want of water, they removed to
Elingswood, leaving Tetbury as a grange to the
abbey there. They remained settled at Kingswood
till the dissolution of the monasteriea

The land on which this town is built, and all the
manor belonging thereto, was formerly known by
the name of the Fforren. This town and manor
Henry I. gave to William de Braose. He granted
to the town its first charter of privileges, by virtue
of which they had a weekly market day on Wed-
nesday's, and one fair day yearly, on " Sancti De
Maria.^ " Matilda de Long Spee, who was after-
wards Lady of the manor, confirmed the charter
given them by King Henry to the burgesses of
Tetbury, "to hold to them also y* liberties and

to Citeaux, in the Diocese of Chalons. There he founded this
celebrated order. Their great and fundamental law was the
rule of S. Benedict, which thej rigorously observed. Eudes,
Duke of Burgundy, built a monastery for them. The first Cis-
tercian monastery in England, was that of Waverley, in Surrey,
1129. In the reign of Edward I. there were sixty-one Cister-
cian monasteries in England. — Dugdale*s Monasdcon, Hook's
Church Dictionary. '

^ This £eLir attained to great importance, towards the end of
the 13th century, and in the year 1303 a petition of grievances
was presented to the king, (Edward 1.) from the burgesses of
Bristol, against the Lord Berkeley and his son Maurice, for that
he beat, and imprisoned, divers of the burgesses of Bristol '^ at
the great faire of Tetburie."

ffiree customes contained in the Britain^ Law, in aa
ample a manner as the burgesses of Hereford had
or used."

Edward I., in the fifteenth year of his reign
(1287), brought a writ of quo warranto^ against
William de Braosa^ son of John, Lord de Braosa» for
the liberties he claimed in Tetbury. Whereupon it
was foimd ihsA. Tetbxuy was an ancient borough
town ; and that in the same he had a Market, Fair,
View of Frankpledge* in Longthiefe, weaved goods,
and free warren, which had used time out of mind.

^ A corporation maj be dissolved, bj forfeitare of its charter,
through negligence or abuse of its franchises ; in which case, the
law judges that the body politic has broken the condition upon
which it was incorporated, whereupon the incorporation has
become void. And the regular course is to bring an information
in nature of a writ quo tfforantOj that is, to enquire '* by what
warrant" the members now exercise their corporate power,
having forfeited it by such and such proceedings. — Blackstone's
Commentaries^ abridged by S. Warren, d.c.l., pp. 394, 395.

The nature of a writ quo warrwUo is thus accurately defined
by Blackstone himself. Comment.^ vol. ilL, p. 262. ed. 1809 : —
" A writ of quo warranto is in the nature of a writ of right for
the Eang, against him who claims or usurps any office, functions,
or liberty, to enquire by what authority he supports his claim
in order to determine the right."

* The view of Frank pledge or Court ket was a court of record
held once in the year and not oftener, within a particular Hun-
dred, Lordship, or Manor, before the Steward of the Leet,
being the King's Court, granted by Charter to the Lords of those
Hundreds or Manors. Its original intent was to view the frank

pledges, t.e. the freemen within the liberty; who, according to
c

and had also three tumbrils, pillory, and stocks ; all
which was declared in his favour by the verdict
of twelve freeholders of the Hundred of Longtree,
which verdict was returned to the Kingfs Court of
Exchequer, and was there registered

Edward HI, in the twenty-fourth year of his
reign (1351), granted to Thomas de Braosa (who
then held, by the King's grant, a fair for one day
at his manor of Tetbury) his royal permission to
add to that one day, six other days, for the
the continuance of the fair, viz. : " That the fair
be holden three dales before Sancti Maria (and on
that day), and three days after, at the said Manor
of Tetbury." In the thirty-sixth year of his reign
(1363), a license was granted to Walter de Walters,
of Tetbury, and others, to give twenty-four ines-
suages and sixty acres of land in Tetbury, " to a
Chantry Priest to sing for tiie souls of Peter de
Bmosa, and Agnes his wife, and Thomas their
son/'

In the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth (1586), there was an Inquisition held at
Tetbury, by virtue of a Commission from Her
Majesty's High Court of Chancery, directed to
Sir Thomas Estoourt, Sir William Sandys, and
others, according to the statute of charitable uses.

the institution of the Great Alfred, were all mutnallj pledged
for the good behaviotir of each other. — Blackstone's ConmmL^
vol. iv., p. 178.

Whereupon, divers presentments by the oaths of
Eichard Payne, Gfent., and fifteen others, were
sworn, and divers orders were afterwards made by
the said Commissioners, and returned into the
High Court of Chancery for the public good of
the town.

In 1643, Charles I. visited this town. His visit
is thus described in the Iter Carolinimi, a relation
of the marches of Charles L, firom 1641 to 1643 :
" Tuesday, August 8th, to Tetbury to dinner."®

During the Civil War there appears to have been
a good deal of fighting in the neighbourhood of
Tetbury ; and towards the end of the year 1643
the whole country was kept in a perpetual state of
alarm. Both parties established themselves in
every eligible spot, where a castle or defensible
house could be found. Colonel Massey, who
commanded for the Parliament, was continually
skirmishing, and kept all his adversaries on the
alert. " In the space of five months there was

6 See A List of his Majesty's Marches^ from Oxford to BristowSj
Gloucester seige^ 4rc»7 beginning the ist August, 1643 : —

8. From Oxford to Farrindon, dinner ; 1 - iQ.ia
Malmesbury, supper and bed - - J

Bristol taken bj the King.

2. To Bristol 6 22

8. To Tedbur^j dinner ; to Cirences- 1

ter, supper and bed; Sir Wm. > I 20-8
Masters )

9. To Pansweek - - - - 1 U

fighting at Berkeley, Beverstone, Cheltenliainy
Huntley, Marshfield, Newent, Painswick, Tainton,
Tetbury, and Wootton-under-Edge. He himself
was often expcwaed to extreme periL" ^

John Corbet, a Puritanical preacher, in his His-
torical Relation of the Military Government of
Gkmcester, published in 1645, states "that on the
other side of the city (Gloucester), the enemy
(the Royalists) was emboldened to erect new
govenmiente at Tedbuiy and Wotton-under-Edge.
Men did invite the govemour to march that way,
who withall had his eye upon Beverstone Castle,
newly gaxiiaon'd aad commanding the rich
dothiers of Stroudwater ; hither he advanced with
a party of three himdred foot, and fo\ir score horse.
These horse sent before were so formidable to the
enemy at Tedbury, that the govemour, Horatio
Cary, with his whole raiment, were put to flight,
and dissipated with the loss of fourteen of their
men slain and taken prisoners/' *

Afterwards he speaks of Colonel Massie attacking
Malmesbury, which was defended by CoL Henry
Howard, who resolutely refused to surrender when
summoned by CoL Massie. "Thereupon our foot
and artillery were brought up from Tedbury, and
within two houres drawne into the suburbs and

7 Washboum's BUfUotheca Oloucesterieimay vol. ii., p. 81.
* Historical Belation of the MiUtary Oovemment of Oloucetterj
by John Corbet, preacher of God's Word^ 1645, p. 66.

lower part of the towna"' The place was after-
wards taken by Colonel Massie.

In 1 663, Charles IL passed through Tetbury on
his way to Bath. He was acoompanied by his
Queen Eatherine. On the 5th of September, they
visited Bristol : they were received there by Sir
Bobert Cann, mayor, and Sir Bobert Atkyns, the
recorder.

On Tuesday, Sept 6th, 1687, James II. passed
through Tetbury on a progress to Bath.*

In 1666, when the plague was raging in London,
and causing dismay throughout the country, pre-
cautions were taken at Tetbury to prevent its
reaching the town, as the following Bules and Bye
Laws, enacted at that period by the inhabitants,
will shew :*

'* Bules and By Laws to be observed within the
Towne of Tetbury, in the County of Gloucester,
for the better preserving the s* Towne (by the
blessing of God) from the infection of the
Plague.
"Agreed upon by the greater number of the
inhabitants of the s^ Towne, mett together for
that purpose (ailer publique notice), on the
twenty-fifth day of September, in the seven-

9/^ p. 98.

> See Churchwardens' account of ihat year.

> See London OaztUe^ No. 2,276, Sept 12, 1687.

' The original document is preserred in the Town Chest

«(

teenth year of the Reigne of King Charles the
Second.

i. That eight persons, householders of the s'
towne (that is to say), the two constables for
the time being, together with six others of the
prindpale and most substantiale inhabitants of
the said towne (to be from time to time, as need
shall require, chosen by the greater number of
the householders mett together, upon a general
notice thereof first given, to be called assistants
to the said constables), shall take care to see
watch and ward constantly kept in the said
towne, by a competent number of the inhabitants
who are best able to undergoe and performe that
service.

ii. That every householder (who through poverty
is not disabled to performe that service, and to
spare soe much time from his daily labour, and
for that reason to be excused by the greater
number of the said eight pa:Bons,) shall either
by himselfe, or by such other sufficient person
to be approved of by the sayd constables, or the
8^ assistants, or any two of them, attend and
serve in watching and warding, upon due notice
given to that purpose.

iii. That if the said constables or assistants, or
any of them, or any persons appointed to watch
and ward, shaQ be negligent in performing their
respective services, that forthwith complaint shaU
be made thereof to some one or more of His

Ma"" JusticeB of the Peace, for the County of
of Glour"' that sudi course may be taken against
them, as shall be agreeable to law.
iv. That noe traveller from the dtty of London, or
any other place, nor any goods whatsoever, shall
be red^ into the sayd towne, unlesse good satis-
faction by certifficate, or otherwise, shall be first
given, to two or more of the s* eight persons,
that the said traveller, or goods, have not for
the space of a month before^ at the least, been
in any place infected.

V. That if any householder shall permitt any such
traveller, or other stranger, or other person what-
soever, or any goods, to come or bee brought
into his or her house, before such satisfaction
soe as afores^ given, to the sayd eight persons,
or two of them, then the s^ householder, and
all his, or her family, together with the said
stranger, or other person, or such goods, shall
be removed to some place out of the towne, there
to remaine for a month, and for such longer
time, if th^re shall be apparent cause for it,
as shall be thought fitt by the greater niunber
of the s"^ eight persons.

vi. That noe carrier, by horse, waggon, or waine,
or other caxiiage. sh^ bring or drive their
horses, waggons, or waines, or other carriages,
into, or through the s^ towne, or to baite, or
lodge in the s"* towne, but be directed to passe
some back way by the sayd towne, according

as his, or her journey lieth, being fiimished with
such necessaries, at reasonable rates, as the sayd
towne will afford, to be delivered to them out
of the towne.

vii. That the children or ffiiends of any of
the inhabitants of this towne, shall not be re-
ceived into the sayd towne, untill they have
remained by the space of a month in some
convenient place out of the s* towne, and not
then neither, if any two of the s* eight persons,
shaU see any just and apparent cause to suspect
there shall be still any infection with them, and
shall soe declare.

viii. K any inhabitant shall breake or transgresse
any of these rules or directions, complaint shall be
made forthwith thereof, to some one or more of
His Ma*** Justices of the Peace for this Coimty,
to the end, hee or shee, may receive due punish-
ment for the sama

ix. Wee the inhabitants of the towne of Tetbuiy,
whose names are hereimto subscribed, do nomi-
nate and make choice of (for to be assistants
unto the constables, according to the first of
these articles), Moses Wickea, Toby Mayo,
Mathew Beale, Senr., Edward Sloper, John
Sherman, and John Arrowsmith : And also
wee give our consent to all the articles aforesaid :
And to them have subscribed our hands the day
and year first above written.

" D. NoBRis, Vic. Matthew Beale, Junb,

George Blake
Tho. Uphman
Geobge Ghambebs
John Denning
Wm. Mayo
James Smyth

Will : Savage
John Savage
Hen: Chapman
John Undrill

FFRANCfIS HOBBS

BicHABD Amos
William Davis.

"We have perused these rules and by lawes,
agreed upon by f inhabitants of Tetbury, whose
Names are subscribed and do approve of y* same,
and of y* persons named for Assistants to y*
Constables, and order y* same accordingly.

RoBT. Atkyns (L.S.)
Tho. Estoourt (L.S.)
J. Sheppard (L.S.)"

These rules seem to have been rigidly enforced,
and the town in consequence kept free from in-
fection, as no record of the inhabitants having
suffered in any degree from the effects of the
plague remains.

But not many years after, the town was visited
with a most severe attack of Small Pox ; so severe,
indeed, that but few of the inhabitants escaped.
I have seen a handbill published at the time, in
which the event is thus described :

" The Tedbury Wonder : or a True and Exact
list of the Names of those Persons who have had
the Small Pox in the Town aforesaid, with the
Number of Persons that Died, and likewise those
that Recovered, froila the 14th of October, 1710,

to the 27th of April, 1711. Being near Seven
Hundred and Kfty/' * From the subjoined list, it
appears that about eighty persons died at this
time of that disease.

But in general the town is ceLebrated for its
salubrity, and many of its inhabitants have reached
a very old age.

The most remarkable instance on record, is that
of old Henry West, of Upton, in this parish, who
lived to the extraordinary age of 152 yeara The
following account of him is extracted from the
fly-leaf of a Bible published in 1599, now in the
possession of Mr. J, G. Goodwyn, of Tetbury.

Extract from au old writing in the possession
of one of the TyreHs, a descendant of Henry West,
formerly possessor of this Bible.

An Aocx)unt of a very Old Man.

"Gentlemen, — Be pleased to understand this
following discourse, I received from the information
of a very honest and creditable inan aa may Hve
by breath ; and although it may seem very
misterious and iacreditable to many, yet having,
notwithstanding, heard it so largely and oftentimes
made out, insomuch that I dare be bold to atest
it, for almost an in&llible truth.

"There was, in the days of King James the
First, a man that lived in a small hamlet called

* The originfil is in the i)088ession of Mr. T. A. Saunders, of
the Croft, Tetbiuy.

Upton, in the parish of Tetbury, his name was
Henry West, his occupation and employment what
it might be I know not, but in process of time,
it came to pass that this man had the number of
five wives. Now, by the four first he had no
child at all ; but by his bust wife, it pleased
Almighty Grod to give him the increase of ten
children. Furthermore be it known, that the
great Creator of all men, gave him such a large
space of time to live here on earth, that he saw
every one of these ten duldren, to have ten children
each of them ; and afterwards, having lived to
the age of 152 years, the Lord was to put a
period to his time, being old and full of days.
Now, I supose that the Uke example was not in
any time past, nor now to be equalised or foimd
in any part of the realm of England, or in any
part of Europe.'' *

ft Mr. Simon Moreau, formerly Master of the Ceremonies at
Cheltenham, in his Tour to the Rcyal Spa (published at Bath,
1793, by R. Cruttwell, p. 170;, notices the remarkably healthy
air of Tetbary, and continues—" as a proof of this, the most
extraordinary instance of longevity to be produced in this county
is, of one Henry West, who in the reign of James L, resided
at Upton, a hamlet in this parish. He lived to the age of 152
years, and one of his descendants has a Bible in his possession
wherein it is written that he had five wives ; by four, he had
no children, but by the fifth he had ten ; and lived to see a
hundred grandchildren, to each of whom he gave a brass pot or
kettle/'

Some of these pots have recently been offered for sale to the

Another instanoe of longevity is recorded by the
Eev. I. Wight, formerly vicax of Tetbury, in a
MS. on the fly-leaf of Parish Roister No. 1 :

*' Ambrose Ind, buried Jannaiy 15, 1685, was
106 years old when he dyed ; and having been
blind for several years, to such a degree that he
could not go to Church without being led, reco-
vered his sight after he was an hundred years old,
so that he was able to distingmsh the features of
every one that came near him. This account
being singular of its kind, and which I received
of his great granddaughter, I thought worthy of
being recorded, and which I have the greater
reason to credit, as I find he is entered among the
burials by the name of Old Ambrose In A*

John Wight, Vicar.'*

ironmongen in this town ; they were made of bell metal, and had
the name ^ West," cast on the bottom of them.

To show how fayonrable to long life the air of Tetbury is,
I have extracted the names of twelve persons, with their ages,
from one page of the Burial Register of the year 1760 : —

James Smith, gardener, aged 92, Feb. 3.

John Dobbins, labourer, aged 70, Feb. 4.

Eliz. relict of John Webb, fet. 82, Feb. 9.

John Chamberlin, aged 83, March I.

Margaret Bymer, Widow, aged 78, March 8.

Hester, relict of Josiah Paul, aged 76^ March 17.

Thomas Davis, aged 7 1, March 26.

William Ecot of Charlton, aet. 99, April 2a.

Lydia, relict of Richard Holdy, aged 83, May 2.

Mary, relict of Mr. Giles Body, aged 73, June 5.

1728.

April. Whilst burying a cotpse in the meeting
house at Tetbury, the grave being dug near a pillar
that supported a large gallery, it was imdermined,
and the gallery fell, and although many persons
were under it, but fortunately only two or three
were slightly wounded.'^

1763.

June 28. On this day, a desperate highwayman,
not above 18, after robbing several people on the
Gloucester road, met a man on his retiun from
Tetbury Market, with a boy before him. The man
making some demur in deUvering his watch, the
villain pulled out a pistol and shot him dead.
Having been soon after apprehended at a black-
smithes on suspicion, and in his examination con-
fronted with one whom he had robbed previously,
he pulled out a knife and cut his throat, though
not effectually enough to escape the gallows. He
was tried at the ensuing Gloucester assizes, and
received sentence of death, July 23.*

1769.

On Friday, September 22, a melancholy affidr

Edward Bailey, piglierd, aged 73, Not. 1L

Mary, relict of John Chamberlin, aged 82, Nov. 15.

The united ages of these twelve peraons amount to 962 years,
or an average of eighty years and two months, to each life.

7 Bead's Jaumalj Saturday, April 6, 1728.

• Annuai Begisierj 1763, pp. 88 and 91.

happened at Tetbury, a publican ran against a
beam in his house, and was killed.

1777.

Saturday, May 1 7. The wife of a tradesman at
Tetbury, in Gloucestershire, murdered her own
child in a shocking maimer. A short time before
she cut up some veal and sent it to be baked, and
then went up-stairs and found the child asleep,
and cut off its head with the same knife, and laid
the knife down by its side. The name of the child
was Jane, daughter of William Ludlam. She was
buried May 19.«

1781.

This year, the street leading from the Market
place to the Chipping Crofl, was widened at the
expense of the Feoffees. It cost upwards of £400.*

1789.

On the evening of Tuesday, the 3rd of February,
a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning fell
at Tetbury. The electric fluid broke a large hole
through the steeple on the west side of the Church,
which, if reduced to a square, would be four feet
wide. On the south side, it made ahnost a per-
pendicular crack, nearly six yards in length ; it
also shattered and displaced the ribstones on the
South- West and North- West sides, from the top to
the bottom. Many stones were scattered about

»/Wa; 1777, p, 244.
1 MSS., B.C., 1788.

the Churchyard, and one fell through a house at
a distance. At the time, it was thought that
the spire was so much shaken as to necessitate
its being taken down ; but this was afterwards
found not to be required The Church was not
materially damaged, although many small holes
were made in the Cloisters. It is remarkable,
that the lightning forced its way through the
stonework on the sides and tops of the windows,
more than through the glaas.'

1797.

A periodical, called "The County Oracle and
Political Intelligencer," was in 1797 published
fortnightly here. The motto it adopted was, " To
please and to instruct alike our aim.** How long
it existed is not now known. It was published
by J. Wilton, at the Apollo Press, Tetbiuy.

1803.

This year, when all England was alarmed by
the prospect of an invasion by Napoleon, Tetbury
was not behind-hand in Aimishing its quota of
men for the defence of the country. On the 15th
of August, 1803, a meeting was held in the Town
Hall, Thomas Saunders, E^sq., in the chair ; at
which it was resolved : " That, as most persons in
this town had enrolled themselves as Volunteers,
a Corps of In&ntry, with arms and dothes, be
formed, in conformity with the recommendation of

* Oenileman's Magcume^ Deer. 1789, p. 170.

His Majesty's Secretary of State." The following
gentlemen were appointed o£B[oers : Henry Hall
Sloper, Esq., Captain. Robert Clark Paul, and
John Wood, Esqrs., LieutenarUs. Henry Julius
Biedermann, Esq., Ensign. It was also intimated
that an additional Corps of Infantry could be fur-
nished from the town, if required.

1805.

On the 26 th of March, new colours were pre-
sented to the Tetbury and Horsley Volunteers,
under the command of Lieut.-CoL Saunders, at
Eongsoote Park, by the Countess of Berkeley.
On one side of the colours were the words>
" United in defence of our King and country f
and on the other, "Longtree Hundred." The
colours were consecrated, and appropriate prayers
offered by the Rev. Richard Davies, the Vicar of
Tetbury and Horsley.'

The principal government of the town is in the
hands of seven Feoffees, who are the Lords of the
Manor, and who manage its revenues and charities,
and each year, at Michaelmas, publish a general
statement of the income and expenditure of the
Tetbury Charity Estates, confided to their keeping.
The Feoffees hold a Court Leet every year, on the
Monday nearest the 11th of October, at which

' For a full acconnt of the presentation of these colours,
with 4he speeches detivered on the occasion, see the Olau*
cuter Herald of March 30, 1805.

court a King or Queen's Bailiff is annually chosen.
He is usually the senior Thirteen who has not
served that office/ The Thirteen are that number
of the "gravest, chiefest, and discreetest towns-
men/' chosen as brethren and assistants to the
Bailiff; they fill up vacancies in their own body
as they occur. When a vacancy occurs in the
number of the Feoffees, a new one is elected by
tiie survivors, and the Thirteen.

* Tlie duties of a King and Queen's Bailiff is to preserve
the rights of the Sovereign within his bailiwick. A county
was frequently so called in the writs. The term BaiUwick
was introduced by the Princes of the Norman line in imi-
tation of the French, whose country is divided into baili-
wicks, as that of England into counties. —Blackstone's Cam,^
vol. i., p. 344.

The word Bailiff is derived from the French, BaiUer^ to
deliver. Dutch, Body BaUliu. A Bailiff is a person to whom
authority, care, guardianship, or jurisdiction is delivered.
The meaning of this word, as used by our ancestors, will
be further illustrated by the following extracts from Chaucer
and Wicliffe: —

" Now brother, quod this Sompnour, I you pri^
Teche me, while that we ride by the way;
(Sith that ye be a baUUf as am I)
Som subtilee."

Chaucer, The Freres TaUj v. 7002.
'^And the haylyf seide withyne himself, what schal I do:
for my lord takith away fro me the haylie; delve I may
not: I schame to begge." — ^Wicliffe's Bibky St. Luke xvi., 3.
— See Richardson's Dictionary^ from which the above illus-
trations are taken.
D

The Lectiirer, Schoolmaater, and the Ahnshouse
people, are appointed by the Feoffeea

Anciently there was another body, called the
Twenty-fotir or C!ommonalty, from which body
were elected annually, two constables, two war-
dens, two camals (or assizers of bread,) two ale
tasters, and two leather sellers. These officers are
still elected annually from among the towns-people,
but there is now no recognized body called the
Twenty-four.

The Fairs of the town are held on Ash-Wednes-
day, and July 22nd, (formerly St. Mary Magdalene
day, to whom the Church is dedicated,) and
on the second Wednesday in November. They
are for cattle, sheep, &c.

The weekly market is held on Wednesday, from
twelve to two. The com market has been much
improved of late years, the system now used^
being that of pitched samples. On an average
one himdred and seventy quarters of wheat change
hands every market day. It is considered one of
the best com markets in the county, and is held in
the Arcade, under the Assembly Boom, at the
White Hart

The statute fairs for hiring servants, or " mops, '^
as they are usually called, are held on the Wednes-
day before the 5th of April, and the Wednesdays
before and after the 10th of October in each year.
A new system of registering servants who are hired,
similar to that in use at Chippenham, and Wootton

Bassett, has been thid year (1856) introduced, and
seems likely to be productive of much good.

In 1714 (according to Wanter, in his MS,
History of Gloucestershire,) as much as ^1000
exchanged hands in Tetbury every market day.
The chief commodities then sold, were wool, yam,
serge, com, bacon, cheese, and cattle ; but this trade
has almost entirely ceased, and the market toUs
are now let annually for about £1 4.

Having thus given some account of the past his-
tory of the town, we will now proceed to describe
its present condition.

The town of Tetbury stands on an elevated and
commanding situation, on the high road between
Bath and Oxford. On the whole it is well built,
and many of the houses are of considerable an-
tiquity. It consists principaUy of a Long Street,
crossed at right angles by two shorter ones, that on
the North Side leading to the spacious area, called
the Chipping (in which the market was formerly
held, and in which the remains of the old Cistercian
Monastery may still be seen) ; that on the South
to the Parish Church, from whence it derives its
name.

A spacious Town Hall, erected on three rows of
solid stone pillars, occupies the central space, at the
meeting of the streets. It was built originally in
1655, and was a handsome and commodious build-
ing. aa will be seen from the aooompaDying sketch.
It was altered and enlarged in 1817, at a great

expense, but although rendered more suitable for
modem purposes by the alteration, its outward
appearance has greviously suffered thereby.

In the principal room of this building, the Feoffees
hold their business meetings, and m it tl^e greater
part ofthe affairs ofthe parish are transacted In
it, also, the Petty Sessions are held fortnightly,
on Wednesday. The names of the Magistrates
serving on these Sessions are given below.*

The town clock is placed above the central window
of the Town Hall, one face of which is seen firom
Long street, the other from Church street. It is
much to be wished that the Chinxjh and Town
clocks kept the same time, but at present, they
are at perpetual variance.

In the arcade, beneath the Town Hall, is an
iron pump, which was erected at the expense of
the Bev. John Wight, formerly vicar of Tetbuiy.

^ Thomas Henry Songscote, Esq., Kingscote Park.
Thomas Henry S. Sotheron Estcourt, Esq., M.P.,

Estcourt
Robert Stajner Holford, Esq., M.P., Weston Birt.
Walter M. Paul, Esq., High Grove.
William Brookes, Esq., Elmestree.
Joseph Wood, Esq., The Close, Tetburj.
Edward Dagdale Backnall Estcourt, Esq., Charlton.
Lewis Clutterbuck, Esq., Newark Park, Ozleworth.
John Wallington, Esq., Crudwell House, Tetbury.
The Rev. R. W. Huntley, Boxwell Court.
The Rev. Wm. George, Cherrington.

It was opened for the use of the public, on Septem-
ber 29th, 1749; other public pumps have of late
years been erected by the Feoffeea

A spacious area, called " the Chipping, " is situat-
ed on the north side of the town. On it may still
be seen, some of the ruins of the old Cistercian
monastery ; that which now remains was probably
the Priory House.

An interesting Paper on this subject was ad-
dressed by Dr. Bamett to Sir Henry EUis, the
Secretary of the Koyal Antiquarian Society, and
published in its Transactions.^

In this Paper, Dr. Bamett deems it highly proba-
ble that the Convent in question not being suffici-
ently commodious to accommodate the Prior, forty
monks, and perhaps attendants, he might have had
a separate dwelling on the spot where now stands
the mansion called '' The Priory ;" and as an addi-
tional reason for this, I may add, that in sinking a
quarry a few years ago, between the two points,
the workmen struck upon a passage, which it is
much to be regretted was not followed up, as it
would probably have proved to have been a sub-
terranean passage between the Priory and private
^eidenoe. IhTe l«en informed tu/ dwdliig waa
called the Manor House, and an old account of
rents paid to the Lord of the Manor in 1594,
is conclusive on that point.

^ ArchaUogia^ yoL zzzi., p. 513-515.

The common seal represented the Blessed Virgin
crowned, holding in her arms the in&nt Jesus,
and standing between two elegant pilastres, sur-
mounted bj a canopy ; the field diapered ; in base
under the arch, the half figure of a monk praying.
The legend is much flattened, so that no more of
it can be read than

S. C!0E . . CONVKNTVS . . De B[ingwod.
The building stands conspicuously in the Chipping,
but great part of it has been modernised : and it
would appear that this alteration took place about
the end of the reign of Elissabeth, or beginning of
King James I., as the panelling in a smiall room
appears of that date. Tliere remains, however, a
considerable portion in good repair, consisting of
refectoiy, dormitories, arches, and cellars. I was
much struck with the appearance of this building
some years ago ; but all my inquiries ended in the
information, that it was known for the last eighty
or ninety years as the **old wool loft,'' it being
appropriated to such purpose when that commodity
was the staple trade of the town. It evidently
bears internal proo& of having been erected for
monastic purposes.
.} A Bull-ring till of late years was to be seen in

the Chipping ; but I cannot find any record of
buU-baiting being carried on there. The market
wa, formJly held on this spot, «.d ^ feir for
cattle in November is still held here. It derives
its name from the Saxon Ceaping, a buying, mer-

ohandiBe ;' as do also Cheapside, Chippenham, and
Chepstow.

A Bculway was projected in 1839, to connect the
important manufocturing districts of Stroud, NaUs-
worth, Tetbury, and Malmesbury, in. a direct line
with the North and South of England. It was to
have commenced at Cainscross, and passing by
Bodborough, Woodchester, Nailsworth, Avening,
Tetbury, Malmesbury, Hullavington, and Grittle-
ton, was intended to meet the Wilts and Somerset
line, at Thingley, near Chippenham. The line
was surveyed throughout, and the necessary plans
were made ; but the design was abandoned,
through its not receiving the energetic support of
the neighbouring landholdera We trust, however,
that it is but laid aside for a time, and that ere
long Tetbury will have the advantage of a Railway
direct to the town, without which, in the present
day, no place can be sure of any permanent pros-
perity.

^e »pri^ riau* in this parid. ™ worthy of
especial mention. The Bristol Avon takes its rise
from the spring in Magdalen Meadow, which is
one of the original sources of that river. It leaves
the parish almost immediately, and passing by
Brokenborough, Malmesbury, Chippenham, and

* ^ In Saxon, Ceapman is a merchant ; Ceagnmgy commerce ;
Cec^UnVf a markei place ; Cec^ng^ a buying, merchandise,
&c. (See Dr. Boeworth't Angh'Saw&n Dictkmarif,)

Bath, (where it becomes navigable,) runs to
Bristol, and there falls into the Severn. This
river was formerly the boundary between the
kingdom of Wiccia, and that of the West Saxons.

The water of the spring in Magdalen Meadow
was famed in past years, both for its healing and
petrifying nature. It was said to be exceedingly
good for sore eyes, and to possess many oth^
excellent qualities ; but at the present time it has
become mixed with other streams, and we are afraid
has lost both these virtues. The following extract
from Eiigland Displayed will shew in what esteem
it was held when this book was published.'

** A little to the north of this town is a meadow
called Maudlin Meadow, because, as we were told,
it belongs to Magdalen College, Oxford. Here the
inhabitants shewed us the head of a spring, which
flowing from thence runs along a hedge-trough,
and some tops of the wood that grows in the hedge
rotting, and falling into this rill of water, are by it
turned to stone. We took up a great many of
them, which are generaUy in the shape of pipes,
(as they are commonly called,) which the peruke
makers curl tteir hair upon, and of a whitish, Btony
substance. We broke divers of them, and in the
middle found generally a stick of wood, some as
big as a goose qmll, and others larger ; some had
but a thin stony crust about them ; in others the

^ Page 26, pablished by Adlard and Brown, London, 1769.

stick was no bigger than a large needle. Again,
some had no stick in them, but only a hole through
them like that of a tobacco-pipe ; and in some
others we could perceive no woody substance, nor
hole at all, but the whole was a soft kind of stone.
Hence we guess that the sand which the water
brings down with it, gathers and crusts about
these sticks, and that in time the stick consumes,
and the stony and sandy substance fills up and
supplies its place."

How much this spring was valued, and how
needed it was to the inhabitants of the town, is
shewn by the titles of the following deeds, bearing
date in the reign of Edward HI. and Henry VII.

" One deed wherein John de Breousa» L* of
Tetbiuy, sonne and heyre of L"^ Thomas Breousa,
granteth for ever to the inhabitants of Tetbuiy
firee liberty to fetch water in Magdalen Mead, with
simdry other dausea Dated Anno B. Edward III,
the 30th (1357).''

"One deed whereby it appeareth, that John
Lymericke, of Tetbury, gent., hath for him and his
heyres for ever, given leave to all the inhabitants
of Tetbuiy to fetch yrater at one, or well spring
butting uppon Maudlen Mead, in Tetbury Field.
Dated Jan. 19, Anno B. Hen. YH., the 2nd
(1487).''

The town, however, is now well supplied with
water, both fix>m public pumps and from the springs
of Cutwell, Fieldwell, Worwell, limewell, Sharp's

Well and Homewell, in the immediate neighbour-
hood

Magdalen Meadow is now the property of Robert
Clark Paul Esq.

The date of the foundation of the Alms Housb,
which is situated near the Parish Church, cannot
now be ascertained, with any degree of certainty.
It is usually supposed to have bten foimded
by Sir WiUiaL ^^, but tius, ^thout doubt,
is erroneoua An old deed, without date, shews
us that the spot on which it now stands was
many centuries ago dedicated to a religious pur-
posa Probably at the Beformation, when the
object for which it was originally given was done
away with, by the rejection of the superstitions
which the Bomish Church had grafted on the
faith of the Primitive Church, it was applied
to its present purpose.

The title of the deed referred to is as follows :

"Imp"" One deed, shewing how Will" Parson
and Xowdan his sonne, did give one peeoe of f
land knowne to be sdttuate, lying, and being
between the house of one Peter a Smyth, and the
Church yarde of Tetbury, to this intente, that one
lamph might be kept burning w^ oyle, and other
necessaries thereunto required, in the Pish. Churdi
of Tetbury, at the celebration of Masse for ever;
which deed is without date, but it is signified that
Philyp of Tetbury, Walter of Upton, Walter of

Doughton, and Will°^ of Bodmarton, were witnessee
to the sealing thereof"

At the present time, eight poor women imde
in the Alms House ; each having a room rent
fi«e, and receivmg about 308. a year from dif-
ferent benefactions left for that purpose. When a
vacancy occurs, the Feoffees fill it up.

The town of Tetbuiy is in the Eastern Division
of the County of Gloucester, at its South-Eastem
extremily, and in the Hundred of Longtree. Its
population in 1851 was 3,325, and the acreage
of the parish was 4,582. It is a hundred miles
from London, twenty-three from Bath, twenty-five
fifom Cheltenham, twenty-five from Bristol, twenty-
one from Gloucester, fifteen firom Chippenham, ten
from Cirencester, and six and a half from the
Tetbury Bead Station, of the Great Western
Railway.

According to the Ecclemastical Division, the
parish is in the Deanery of Stonehouse,^ the Arch-

B The p^irishes in the Deanery of Stonehouse are,

Avening, R. Coberley, R. Rodborongh, R.

NaUfiworth, C. Cowley, R. Misendon, R.

BiAley, y. Eastrington, R. Nympsfield, R.

Bussage, P.O. Edgeworth, R. Painswick, Y.

Chalford, P.C. Elkstone, R Shepscombe, P.C.

Oakridge, P.C. Hordey, V. Slad, P.C.

Brimpsfield, Wilts. Minchinhampton, R. Rodmarton, R.

Cranbam, R. Amberley, R. Sapperton, R.

Cherrington, R. Briiucombe, R. Shipton Moyne, R.

deaconiy of Gloucester, and the united Diooeses of
Gloucester and Bristol

The town is in Lat. 51' 38' N., Long. 2' 11' W.
The length of the parish from East to West is
about five miles. The town is about a mUe and
a half in circumference, and in 1851 contained 674
houses.

The principal hotels are, the White Hart, kept
by Mr. Bichard Bannister, and the Talbot, by
Mr. James Webb. The Assembly Booms, at the
former, were erected at the expense of B. S.
Holford, Esq., in 1851-2.

The Poor Bates for this parish, at a shilling in
the pound, amounted in 1855 to £1,282 18s. 2|d. ;
and the Paving and Lighting Bate in the same
year to £61 6a 2d.

In 1803, the money raised by the Parish
Bates, at a shilling in the pound, amounted to
£1,641 15s. 5^.»

There are Places of Worship in the town for
Baptists, Wesleyans, Plymouth Brethren, and
Independents.

The Tetbuby Savings Bank was instituted
at a meeting held in the Town Hall, on Monday,

Stanley Begis, B. Stroad, P.C. Winstone, R.

St. Leonard's, P.C. Whiteshill, P.G Woodchester, B
Stonehoose, Y. Syde, B.

St. Matthew, P.O. Tetbuiy, V.

' CarMe'd Topo^raphf.

the 8th September, 1817 ; Henry, sixth Duke of
Beaufort, in the chair. The first officers appointed
were: PresideTUy The Duke of Beaufort Vice-
PresidentSy Lord Dude, Lord Viscount Andover,
Sir C. B. Codrington, Bart., R. P. (Jordon, Esq.,
M.P., Robert Blagden Hale, Esq., Joseph Pitt,
Esq., M.P. TrusteeSy Thomas Estcourt, George
Holford, M.P., Robert Kingscote, John Paul
Paul, David Bicardo, Thomas Smith, and Edward
Sheppard, Esqrs.

At the end of the first year, (28th October,
1818,) the sum received from depositors amounted
to £4,743 lis. 7d At the year ending 20th
November, 1855, the number of depositors was
1,430, and the sum deposited amounted to
£40,994 9& 2d In addition to this, thirteen
charitable societies had in the bank £582 16a lid.,
and five friendly societies £506 19s. lid, making
in the whole £42,084 68. These figures alone
afford ample proof of the great success of this
ii^itution, and of the manner in which it is
appreciated by the inhabitants of Tetbiuy and
the surrounding neighbourhood

The Savings Bank is open every Wednesday,
from twelve to one, to receive and repay de-
posita Interest at the rate of three per cent, is
allowed on all monies exceeding a pound, which
remain above a year in the Bank. The managers
(selected by the Superintending Committee from
the neighbouring Clergy and Gentry,) are in

ntimber about forty. Two attend every Wed-
nesday in rotation. Mr. Francis Brown is the
axrtuary.

The Tetbuby Dispensaky was established at
a meeting held in the Town Hall, on Monday,
the 28th of September, 1818 ; Thomas Estcourt,
Esq., in the chair. At this meeting the following
oflSicers were appointed: President, Thomas Est-
court, Esq. Vice-Presidents, George Holford,
M.P., Joseph Pitt, M.P., John Paul Paul, Robert
Kingscote, John de la Field Phelps, Esqrs., and
the Rev. Edmund William Estcourt. Surgeon,
Richard Filkin, Esq. Secretary, Mr. James Myles.

An annual sermon on behalf of the Dispensary
was formerly preached in Tetbury Church. The
first was in 1819, by the Hon. and Right Rev.
Henry Ryder, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, when
£40 6s. was collected

In 1828, two silver goblets were presented by
the subscribers to the Dispensary to Richard
Filkin, Esq., "for his able and gratuitous ser-
vices during the several years that had elapsed
from the formation of the Institution." A piece
of plate, for similar services, was presented by
the subscribers to F. R White, Esq., in 1840.

In 1853, an arrangement was made, by
which it was agreed that it should be left
to the option of each patient, to which of the
medical gentlemen he or she should apply.
Each annual subscriber of a guinea is allowed

six tickets ; one of these signed by the subscrir
ber. is given to each pa^nt. who carries it
to the medical officer, and he, for the small sum
of 3a 6d., (the cost of the ticket to the sub-
scriber,) suppHe^ the patient with attendance
and medicine for eight weeks. If any subscri-
l«r wishes for additional tioketo, he L obtain
them on the payment of 3s. 6d. for each ticket.
This system has been found to answer well,
and, during the past year (1854-55,) 160
patients were relieved in this manner.^

1 It will be seen by the following returns tbat this is the
largest number of patients relieved in any one year since
the establishment of this Institution.

Patients.
At the end of the first year 12th of October, 1819,

there remained on the books 33

Admitted between 10th of October, 1819, and
12th of October, 1820 119

152

Of which have been cured and relieved • . . 119

Died 2

Bemained on the Books 81

152

In 1853. Remained on the books .... 17
Admitted, Oct. 1852, to Oct. 1853 .... 126

143

The income of the Dispensary for the year
ending Midsummer, 1855, (including a donation
of £15, from Miss Charlotte Estcoiut, of the
Priory, Long Newnton,) amounted to £46 6s. 6d

The present honorary secretary is Robert
Clark Paul, Esq.

The Tetbury Institute was established at
a meeting held for that purpose on February
16th, 1855, Josiah T. Paul, Esq., in the chair.

The object of its institution, as stated in its
rules, is "the promotion of the moral and intel-
lectual character of its members, by means of — 1st,
a Reading Room, — 2nd, a Library, — 3rd, Lectures."

The subscribers are of three classes : —

L Those who pay a guinea annually have
access to the Reading Room^ at all times of its
being open.

IL Those who pay half-a-guinea annually
have access to the room from 5 to 10, p.m.

III. All apprentices and mechanics who pay
Is. a quarter are admitted from 7 to 10, p.m.

The Library, which at present consists of
about 200 volumes, is open for the purpose of
taking out bodes every Wednesday evening,
from 8 to 9.

Of which there were cured or relieved . . . 122

Died 4 . . . . 4

Remaining on the books 17

143

The niimber of subscribers in the different
classes at present (Michaehnas, 1856,) are as
follows : —

Ist Qass 22

2nd Class 19

3rd Class 30

The officers for 1856 are as follows : President,
The Vicar of Tetbury. Vice-Presidents^ T. H.
Sotheron Estcourt, Esq., M.P., R. S. Holford,
Esq., M.P., E. D. B. Estcourt, Esq., Joseph
Wood, Esq., Josiah T. Paul, Esq., and the Rev.
Alfred T. Lee. R C. Paul, Esq., is the Hon.
Secretary, Mr. George Pride the Librarian.
Mr. J. W. Keillor the Hon. Treasurer.

The Reading Room is at Mr. Samuel Fowles,
in Church Street, where the library is also kept.

The income of the Institute for the year ending
Lady-day, 1856, was £45 9s. 9^d.

The approach to Tetbury from Bath is by
means of a bridge erected ax^ross a valley, which
was formerly a very dangerous and steep access
to the town. It was agreed to be built by a
Commission held on Friday, Nov. 4th, 1774,^ at

^ Tlic Commissioners were :

I. Henry Duke of Beaufort, (great-grandfather oJf

the present Dnke.)
2. Dr. Ilardwick, of Chipping Sodbnry,
B

the Gross Hands, Old Sodbuiy, and somewhat
more than £500 was allowed for that piirpose.

Mr. Thomas Webb, of Tetbury, was the ar-
chitect ; and the levelling was commenced Nov.
8th, 1774, and the bridge finished in April,
1776.

The Wiltshire Bridge, on the east side of the
town, is the approach from Malmesbnry. It is
situated partly in Gloucestershire and partly in
Wiltshire ; and each county keeps in repair the
portion belonging to it. The date of its original
erection I have not been able to ascertain.

The number of voters for the Eastern Division
of the County, in virtue of property situated in
this parish, was 164 in 1855. At the last con-
tested election, in January, 1854, the number
of votes for each candidate was as follows :

3. Rev. Dr. Bosworth, of Tortworth.

4. Mr. John Paul, of Tetbuiy.

6. Mr. Robert Clark, of Tetbuiy.

6. Mr. Richard Tugwell, of Tetbuiy.

7. Rev. John Savage, of Tetbury.

8. Mr. Faston, of Horton.

9. Rev. Mr. Bliss, of Tormarion.

10. Mr. Henry Stephens, of Leighterton.

11. Mr. Cowcher, of Didmarton.

12. Rev. Dr. Penny, of Cromhall.

13. Mr. Phillimore, of Dursley.

14. T. Estcourt Creswell, Esq., of Pinkney.

15. Mr. Hicks, of Wickwar.

Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bart. (Conser-
vative) 115

Edward Holland, Esq. (Liberal) ... 18

Majority for Sir M. H. Beach. . 97

which shews that the politics of this parish
are undeniably Conservative.

The Tetbuby Union (which is one of the
smaUest in the kingdom,) includes the parishes*
of Tetbury, Shipton Moyne, Weston Birt, with
Lasborough, Ozleworth, Beverstone, Oldbury-
on-the-hill, Didmaxton, Kingscote, Cherington,
Newington Bagpath, Boxwell with Leighterton,

' The acreage and population of these parishes in 1851 was
as follows :

Popnlatloii In No. of

Na o' Acres. 1851. OuardUna

1. Tetbury 4582 8325 3

2. Shipton Moyne 2298 403

3. Weston Birt, with Lasborough 1909 234

4. Ozleworth 1114 88

5. Beverstone 2360 199

6. Oldbury-on-the-Hill ... 1342 485

7. Didmarton 719 101

8. Kingscote 1810 297

9. Cherington 1880 220

10. Newington Bagpath . . . 2131 239

11. Boxwell, with Leighterton. . 2266 285

12. Ashley 946 84

13. LongNewnton 2289 294

25,646 6264 15

in the county of Gloucester, Ashley and Long
Newnton, in the County of Wilts.

The Workhouse, which is a large and com-
modious building, is situated on Gumpstool
Hill ; Mr. D. W. Smith is the master, and also the
reUeving oflScer for this union ; William Maskelyne
Esq., is the clerk to the Guardians; Mr. John
Hole is the parish surgeon.

The population of the town has gradually
increased since the commencement of the
present century. The following are the returns
of the number of the inhabitants in every de-
cennial period since 1801, when the Census re-
turns first commenced.*

Tor.

PopnlAtion.

iUlm.

Femaleft.

Hooaea.

Families.

HouM
Building.

Unin-
habited

1801

2500

1153

1347

533

1811

2533

1202

1331

1821

2734

1356

1378

528

580

1831

2939

1426

1513

554

608

1841

2982

1467

1515

603

•

1851

3325

1609

1716

674

In 1735 the town appears, according to an old
retiun, to have been in a very flourishing condi-
tion, the number of its inhabitants was 3115, and
the number of families 970; of these 2818 were
members of the Church. 235 were Presbyterians,
and 38 were Baptists.

* These returns are taken from the Census tables published
by the authority of Government.

The proportion of arable to pastiire land in
the parish, at the time of the taking of the
tithe apportionment, was as follows : —

ARABLE. PASTURB. WOODUlSD.

In the Tithing of ^. ^ ,. ^ lu p. a. ». f.

Tetbury - - 133 1 28 887 2 5 4 1 29

Charlton- - 500 1 7 503 1 19 30 19

Elmestree > 193 3 3 314 1 19 5 3 28

Upton - - 117 2 22 673 2 7 4 3 22

Doughton - 299 1 16 324 5 2

1244 1 36 2702 3 10 50 3 18
Glebe land in

Tetbury - - 6 16

Charlton- - 67 1 20 12 1 12

Exempt from

Tithe* in

Tetbury - - 27 1 31 226 1 8

1339 1 7 2947 2 36 50 3 18

Total.

Arable 1339 1 7

Pasture 2947 2 36

Woodland - - - - 50 3 18

4337 3 21

•The Hamlet of Doughton is situated to the
South of Tetbury, about a mile and a half on

* This is the Grange Farm. All estates held by Cistercian
Abbeys were tithe free.

the road to Bath. At the entrance of the vil-
lage, is Highgrove, the residence of Walter M.
Paul, Esq., the Lord of the Manor. It is a hand-
some stone building, surrounded by park-like
grounds. It was erected in the years 1796»
1797, and 1798, by John Paul Paul, Esq.
Doughton Cottage is the residence of the Rev.
Robert Dyer. There are two substantial farm-
houses here, the old Manor House formerly the
famUy residence of the Talboys, now occupied
by Mr. John Elnight, and that in which Mr.
Robert Tanner resides.

EtiMESTBEE, (the ancient Elmundestree,) is im-
mediately beyond Doughton. The present Manor
House is a handsome structure, built in the
Elizabethan style by William Brookes, Esq.,
the present Lord of the manor, in 1845. It is
situated about half a mile distant from the
Bath Road, and is approached by an avenue,
at the foot of which there is a lodge.

The Hamlet of Upton lies to the N.W. of
Tetbury, about a mile distant, on the road to
Nailsworth and Stroud. Upton Grove, the
property of R S. Holford, Esq., (formerly the
residence of the Saunders' family, who built it,
and now that of Nathaniel F. Ellison, Esq.,)' is
prettily situated on the road to Upton ; it is
surrounded by meadow land, in which there are
many fine trees. Upton House, the property of
Maurice Maskelyne, Esq., in which Lieut.-CoL

2 '^^

Boyds now resides, is a handsome stone building,
erected in 1752, by John Cripps, Esq. K S.
Holford, Esq., is Lord of the manor.

The Hamlet of Chablton lies to the W. of
the town, and on the road to Beverstone^ and
contiguous to it. It contains but few inhabi-
tants ; the principal residents are Edward D.
Estcourt, Esq., and Mr. Richard Barber.

I shall conclude this chapter with a few
words on the derivation of the name of Tetbury.

Sir Bobert Atkyns, Rudder, and other His-
torians of Gloucestershire, have agreed in the
opinion that Tetbury, in the time of the Britains,
was called Caer Bladon. This opinion is founded
on an obscure passage of Camden, in which he
quotes firom the Eulogium Historiarum, as men-
tioned in page 4. I cannot but think that
the words, "and called it Caer Bladon,*' refer
not to Tetbury, but to Malmesbury ; and I am
confirmed in this opinion by finding that Taimer.
in his Notitia MonoMica, caUs Malmesbuiy by
this name, and also Ingelboume.

Had the name Caer Bladon applied to Tetbury,
its derivation woTild be easily accounted for ;
since "Caer," in the language of the Britains,
signifies a fortified place, and the River Avon,
which rises in this parish, is called by andent
British Historians Bladon, or Badon ; so that

* Tanner*8 NoUUa Mantutioay under the head of Malmeabiiry.

Caer Bladon would signify a fortress on the
Eiver Bladon. But this reasoning applies with
much greater force to Malmesbury, which was
from the first a more important place than
Tetbury, and possessed from early times a cele-
brated Monastery, and also a Castle, which Castle
(says Camden) probably belonged to the Bishop
of the West Saxons, and, in all probability, is
the place from whence the Charters of Eleutherius
to Aldhelm, the Abbot of Malmesbury, are thus
dated, ** Actum publico juxta flumen Badon/'

Rejecting, then, the opinion that Tetbury was
anciently called Caer Bladon, I proceed to in-
vestigate the probable origin of the name. When
the Saxons overspread the country, they re-chris-
tened most of the places which they became
possessed of, but this was not universaQy the
case. They sometimes tried to call them by
the names which the British had bestowed upon
them, but in this they generally failed. How-
ever, they usually retained a part of the British
appellation, to which they added a descriptive
t-erm of their own, taken from their own lan-
guage ; and thus a name was produced which
on other grounds would be diOGicult to account
for. Several names in the neighbourhood of
Tetbury, may be derived in this manner; thus,
•^Tresham" is, obviously, " Tre," British for
houses or viQage, and **Ham," the Saxon for
enclosure. Cotswold, from " Coed," British for

wood, and "wold,'' Saxon for the same. IGngB-
cote, "KingV Saxon, because it belonged to
the Saxon monarchs, and "coed," wood In
the same way, the name of Tetbury may pro-
bably be derived. It is not composed simply
of Saxon words, and is probably, as in the
instances given above, derived partly jfrom the
British, partly from the Saxon. Thus, "Tedd"
in British, signifies an open space, an expanse,
which may, perhaps, apply to the Cotswold
Plain, in this direction, and " Bury ^ is the
Saxon for a place of some strength ; so that
the composite word " Tedd-bury," would signify
a fortress in an open plain. And when we
remember that in British and Saxon times, and
also in that of King Stephen, Tetbury un-
doubtedly possessed a Castle, we shall see at
once the appropriateness of the name, and the
probability of the derivation above mentioned.

CHAPTER 11.

Account of the Lords of the Manor.

I. Teibwjf. — ^Fonner and Present Power of Lords of Manors, — Siward
—Roger de Iveri,— The S. Walorick's,— The De Braose's,-— Berke-
ley's. S. JD0119AI011.— Earl of Warwick,— De Braose's,— Robert
de Doaghton, — De Stonore's, — ^Edward Dnke of York, — Elizabeth
Qaeen of Henry VIL,—Talboy*s,— Paul's. 8. C5»ft».— Alnric,—
Roger de Iveri, — De Braose's, — Tame's, — Yenkey*s, — HantleyX —
Dncie's,— R S. Holford, Esq. 4. CharlUm.—De Braose's,— William
de Ballecot,— Mortimer's,— Cicely, Dnchess of York,— R 8. Holford,
Esq. 5. Ehiestree.'S. Walerick's,— Westbnry College,--Sir Ralph
Sadleir, — ^TheTooke's, — Deacon's, — Jenner's, — ^Brookes*.

Lords of the manor had formerly much larger
jurisdiction than they have at present. William
the Conqueror divided England into thirty
thousand baronies, which henceforth were called
manors. The present Lords were styled Earls,
the lesser Barons ; manors were formerly called
baronies, as they are still called lordships, and
each Baron was empowered to hold a court
baron for redressing grievances within his manor.
Itis court fon,4 w- an inaepa«ble p^
of eveiy manor, but since the passmg of 9 &
10 Victoria^ a 95, sec. 14, the Lords of the
manor may surrender to the Crown the right

of holding such court ; and therefore, in many
cases the right to hold it has ceased.

In the time of Edward the Confessor, accor-
ding to Domesday, Siward was Lord of the
manor of Tetbury. Eoger de Oily was a great
Mend and warm supporter of WilUam the Con-
queror ; on his marriage with Aldith, the only
daughter of Wigod de Walengeford, the king
bestowed on him large estates, and among others,
probably the manor of Tetbury, He and Roger
de Iveri, (who at the time of the Domesday siu*-
vey, was Lord of Tetbury,) were sworn friends ;
and to him it was that Roger de Oily granted
that Honour which afterwards came to the S.
Walericks', and was called from them the
Honour of S. Walerick.

This Roger was the son of William de Iveiy,
who held one knight's fee in the Bailiwick of
Tenechebrai in Normandy, by the service of
cup-bearer to the Duke of Normandy, and
three other fees in the same liberty, as also
eight fees and a half in the Town and Castle
of Ivery. Roger de Iveri enjoyed the same
honour of cup-bearer to WiUiam, King of England,
which his &ther had held whilst he was Duke
of Normandy.

He married Adeline, eldest daughter of H\igh
de Grentmaisnil and Adelidis his wife, and died
in 1079, and left a widow, (who had inheri-
tance of land in Charlton in O* Wilts, &c.,) and

three sons, Roger who sucoeeded him in the
barony, and became cup-bearer to the King,
Hugh, and Jeffiy, who on the death of his
elder brothers, without issue, came into all their
possessions.

This femily of Ivery was descended fiom one
Rodulph, half-brother to Bichard the First, Duke
of Normandy, who, killing a monstrous bear,
when himting with his brother Duke, was by
him, for that service, rewarded with the castle
of Ivery, on the river TEvre ; and had from
thence the title of Comes de Ibreio.*

On the death of the above mentioned Jefiry
de Iveri without issue, in 1112, his lands fell
into the hands of the King, who soon after
bestowed them on Guy de S. Walerick, the
father of ReginsJd de S. Walerick, who had been
a faithful friend of his, and was now a great
favourite with the King.*

Soon after this, Beginald de S. Walerick*

' Both Aikjns and Badder spell this name '< Lueri." Bishop
Kennett in his Parochial Antiquities, Vol. i, p. 79, speaks
of the gro88 mistake made by the author of the Introduction
to the old English History, in calling Roger de Iveri by
the name of Boger de Lueri.

3 Eennett's Parochial Antiquitieay vol. i., p. 112.

' So called from a port of Normandy of that name. S.
Walerick was in 589, made Abbot of a Monastery in that
port, by Eong Clothaire. Guy de S. Walerick, the ancestor
of this family was a learned advocate of that place, and

was Lord of the manor of Hasildene, near Tet-
bury. He founded there in 1140, the Cistercian
Monastery, which afterwards was removed, from
want of water, to Tetbury, and afterwards about
1170, from want of wood, from Tetbury, (with
the consent of Bernard de S. Walerick, the son
of Reginald,) to Kingswood, where it remained
tiU the dissolution of the monasteries.

Maud de S. Walerick, the heiress of this family,
was married to the great William de Braosa,
Lord of Brecknock, son of William de Braosa,
and Berta, daughter of Milo de Gloucester,
Earl of Hereford ; and grandson of William de
Braosa, who came into England with William
the Conqueror, and who was an eminent bene-
factor to the monks of S. Florence, at Saumares/

married Papia, daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandj.
Rodnlph de S. Walerick, a son of his, came over with
William the Conqueror. Reginald de 5. Walerick, founded
the Cistercian monastery at Hasildean, which was after-
wards removed to Tethury. Bernard de S. Walerick married
Adela de Pontieu, heir to the lordship of S. Albine, near
Dieppe, in Normandy, and in 1160, founded a Church at
Tetbury, and dedicated it to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Thomas de S. Walerick, the last heir male, gave the ad-
vowson of the Church at Tetbury to Eynesham Abbey,
Oxfordshire in 1196. He died in 1219, and left Eleanor,
his only daughter and heiress, married to Robert, Earl of
Dreux, in France. — See Sir Robert Atkyns's History of
OhucesUTy p. 330.

* Dugdale's Baronage^ p. 414.

William de Braosa, in addition to his paternal
land, inherited large estates from his mother,
and also received from King John a grant of
part of the lands of Tetburie. He was a
personage of great power and influence, in the
reign of Henry II. and Eichard I. ; from the
former of whom, in the twenty-foxjrth year of
his reign, he obtained a grant of the whole
kingdom of Limerick, in Ireland, for the service

Tbe Anna o( De Braon.

of sixty knights' fee, to be held by the King
and his younger son John. He gave the
King 1 ,000 marks of silver, for his part of
the Honor of Barnstaple, in Devonshire. After
the accession of King John, be for many years
enjoyed the favour of that monarch, and his
power and poeseesions were augmented by divers
grants from the Crown. But in the tenth
year of his reign, when the kingdom lay

under an interdict, John deemed it expedient
to demand hostages from the Barons to ensure
their alliance, should the Pope absolve them
from their obedience to the Crown. On the
King's o£B[cers coming on this mission to the
Baron de Braose, they were met by his wife
Maud, who peremptorily informed them, that
she would not intrust any of the children to
the king, who had so basely murdered his own
nephew. Prince Arthur. De Braose rebuked
her for speaking thus, but offered, if he had
offended the king, to make satis&ction, but
refused to gi^e hostages. This answer being
communicated to the king, he immediately
transmitted an order to seize the Baron's person;
but he having received notice of the King's
intention, fled with his family to Ireland.*
Matthew Paris, who puts his death at 1212,
says, "that he fled from Ireland to France,
and dying at Ebuk, his body waa carried to
Paris, and there honourably buried in the abbey
of S. Victor." Matthew of Westminster relates,
that in 1210, "the noble lady, Maud, wife of

^ King John went to Karrickfergus in pnrsuit of Maud
de Braosa. When he arrived there, Duncan de Carrie, of
Gralway, informed him that thej had taken her and her
daughter, wife of Roger de Mortimer's son, and her son
William de Braosa. King John returned with them to
Bristol. — Dugdale's Baronage*

William de Braose, with William their son and
heir, were miserably fiaanished at Windsore, by
the command of King John ; and William, her
husband, escaping firom Scorham, put himself into
the habit of a beggar, and privately getting
beyond sea, died soon after at Paris, where he had
burial in the Abbey of S, Victor."

These historians differ as to the date of William
de Braose's death ; but there can be but little
doubt that the facts they relate are substantially
correct, as they were nearly his contemporariea

It is observed (Dugdale's Baron., p. 418,) that
William de Braose, in his usual communication,
would reverently use the Name of God, viz. :
" In God's name, let this he done ;" or, " if it
please God ;" or, " by God^s grace f so likewise, in
all the letters that he wrote. Moreover, that in
his journeys, whensoever he came into a Chui^^h. or
beheld a Cross, though he were then discoursing
with another, he would leave off, and betake
himself to his devotions ; and, having said his
prayers, return to his former discourse. Likewise,
when he met any children in the way, he would
salute them courteously, to the end he might
have a return, with the Benediction of the
Innocents.

William de Braose,* by his marriage with Maud

6 The seal of William de Braose is affixed, in the year 1301,
to the letter from the Barons of £ug1and to Boni&ce YIIL,

de S. Walerick had ten sons and five daughters ;
William famished with his mother at Windsor ;
Giles, Bishop of Hereford, died in 1215 ^; Eegi-
nald, Roger, PhiUp, Thomas, Walto:-, John, Henry,
and Bernard Maud married Griffiths, Prince of
Wales; Berta to William Beauchamp of Elmley,
Margery to Walter de Lacy ; Loretta to Bobert
Rtz Pemd, Earl of Leicester, and Flandrina.*
B^nald married Graecia, daughter and co-heir
of WiUiam de Bruere, and died 6 Hen. HI., and
had issue, William de Braose, who married Eve,

respecting the sovereignty of Scotland. This seal is remarkable
both from its containing a very earions reverse, and from the in-
flcripiion round it as engraved, being different from what actnallj
appears on the seal The legend on the plate is

+ S: Willi: de: Breotse: Dni: de : Goweb
but several words after Gowcr were clearly inscribed, and of
which two only are distinct, these are . . Db Brembeb • •

The reverse, which is of an oval form, and much smaller
than the other seal, contains a lion passant, holding a bird in
his paws ; the neck of the lion appears fretted^ and at his feet
is a cross moline, but which is not noticed in the engraving. —
Archceloffia, vol. xxi., p. 207.

^ Giles de Broase was consecrated Bishop of Hereford
Sept. 24th, 1200, (Hoved et Matt. West.) in the Chapel of
6. Catherinei's at Westminster, together with John, Bishop of
Norwich. He died at Gloucester, on the Ides of Nov. (13th
Nov.,) 1216, (Pat. 17, Johan. M. 12,) and was buried in
Hereford CathedraL He was succeeded in the Bishopric by
Hugh de Mapenore, Dean of Hereford. (Le Neve's Fasti Eccles.
Anffl. p. 468, by T. IX Hardy, 1854.

^ ColUctcmea Oeneahgiea H Topograpkicaj vol. vL p. 58«
F

daughter of Walter MarescLal, and sister to
Richard Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke. This
William was invited to an Easter Feast, and
treacherously murdered by Leweline, Prince of
Wales, being suspected by him of overmuch
fiuniliarity with his wife. He left issue, four
daughter& Isabel was married — ^first, to David,
the son of Leweline, Prince of Wales ; secondly,
to Peter Fitz Herbert ; Maud, to Roger, Lord
Mortimer of Wigmore ; Eve, to William de Can-
tilupe ; Eleanor, to Humphrey de Bohun. In
these four daughters, co-heiresses, ended the line
of Regindd dX^

We return now to that of his elder brother
William, famished at Windsor. He married
Maud, daughter of R Earl of Clare, and had
issue, John, sumamed Tadody, and Annora. John
married Maigaret, daughter of Leweline, Prince
of Wales. She survived him, and married
secondly, Walter de ClifforA He held the Manor
of Tetbury, with markets, fairs, courtleets, waifs
and free warren ; and his right was allowed in a
writ of qtio warrantOy 15 Edwayrd I. (1287.)
When his &ther William died, he was a minor,
and he was privately nursed at Gower, by a
Welsh woman. His lands were committed to
the custody of his imcle Giles, Bishop of Hereford,
and ailer his dealh, in 1215, to his unde Reginald.
On his coming of age, he gave up all his lands
in Wales to his uncle Reginald, and they were

finaily divided amongst his four grand-daughters.
John de Braose received a summons from the
King to defend his own marches against Leweline
of Griffin ; and the next year he was ordered to
attend the King at Chester. He died at his
Castle of Brembre, 16 Hen. III., from a fall
from his horse, his foot having caught in the
stirrup. By his marriage with Mai^garet Leweline,
he had a son William, who married three times
— first, Isabel, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, by
whom he had WiUiam, his son and heir ; secondly,
Agnes, daughter of Nicholas de Molis, by whom he
had Giles de Braose, Ent. ; thirdly, Maiy, daughter
of William, Lord Bos of Hamlake, and widow of
Balph de Cobham, and afterward wife of Thomas
of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, by whom he had
Bichard, Peter, William, and Mai^ret.

This William de Braose, in 41 Hen. IIL
(1255,) assisted the King against Leweline ap
Griffin ; and 42 Hen. III. attended the King at
Chester ; in 48 Hen. III. he undertook that the
King ^ould stand to the award of Louis IX.,
King of France, touching the differences between
him and the Barons ; in 14 Edward I., having
served with the King in Wales, he received
scutage* of all his tenants in Surrey, Sussex,

^ Scutage, from Latin scutum^ a shield, whereon thej wore a
device or military distinction. All tenants who held from the
king by military service, were bound to attend personally in
wars and expeditions ; or, in default of personal service, a

Wilts, GfUmcesler, and Dorset He died 19 Ed. I.
(1291.) and was succeeded by his son,

William de Braosb, who greatly distinguished
himself in the reign of King Edward I. In the
twentynsecond year of the reign of this king, on
June 8th, he was summoned to attend the King
on afl^rs of state : and in September of the same
year he sailed from Portsmouth to Gascoigne on the
Eling^s service ; 25 Edw. L, he attended the King
to Flanders ; 28 Edw. I., he was in Scotland on
the King's service ; 29 Edw. I., he was there again,
in the retinue of the Prince of Wales ; 32 Edw. I.,
he was summoned to Parliament as a Baron. In
14 Edw. II., he sold his lands of Gower. Thomas
de Walsingham says of this William, that he waa
** PercHves a parenteld^ sed dissipator substanttof
sibi r dicta f" — ^a person of large patrimony, but
a great spendthrift. He was summoned to all
the Parliaments, from 25 Edw. I, to 16 Edw. III.
He died in 1322, when the Barony of Gower fell
into abeyance. He married Aliva> daughter of
Thomas de Moulton, and had issue, two daughters.
Aliva^ married to John de Mowbray, and Joane

Kutagt^ or composition tax on ev^ry BciUum mUiUare or knight's
fee, and the proportional parts were assessed and levied for the
king's use. The barons and knights, when thej paid acutage
to the king, had power to levy the same tax of their tenants,
who held from them in military service. This power WiDiam
de Braose exercised when called upon to support Edward I. in
his ^ars as seen above. (See Bp. Kennet's Parooh. Antiq.i in verb.)

to John de Bohun, of Midhurst. Hugh de Spenser
purchased from Aliva the inheritance of the lord-
ahips which her grandmother, Mary daughter of
Lord Bos, had for life. The lands so purchased,
formed part of the Barony of Brembre.

WruAAM JOB Braose, the son of John de Bradse
and Isabel de Clare, gave to his half-brother, Peter
de Braose> the Manor of Tetbuiy, which he
assigned to Agnes, his wife, at the Church porch, and
died 5 Edw. II. (1312.) leaving Thomas, his son
and heir, and a daughter Beatrix. This Thohaa
DjB Bbaose was of great renown in the French and
Scottish wars of King Edward He was sum-
moned to aU the Parliaments, from 1 6 Edw. III. to
27 Edw. III. He had a grant of a fiur at Tetbuiy,
29 Edw. III. (1356.) He married Beatrix,
daughter of Boger de Mortimer, and widow of
Edward Plantagenet^ son and heir of Thomas,
Earl of Norfolk (a younger son of King Edward
L,) and had issue, John^ Thomas and Peter, and
two daughters, Elizabeth and Joane; upon each
of whom, and the heirs of their respective bodies
successively, the Manors of Bidlington, Segwike,
and Choreswoiili in Sussex ; Bokham, Meworth,
and Brownslep in Surrey ; Maniford in Wilts ;
Tethury in Ghucesterakire t and Wirthorp in
Yorkshire, were^ entailed, after the death of their
mother, by deed under his seal, dated at Boaeham,
46 Edw. HI. Lord Thomas de Braose died in
1361, and was succeeded by his son.

John db Braose, who married Elizabeth,
daughter of Edward de Montagu, died without
issu^ on the 3id of Feb., 41 Edw. III. (1368,) at
whidi time he was seized of the Manors of Wir-
thorp, in the county of York, and Tetbury in
Gloucestershire, which Manors had been settled on
him and his wife and the heirs of his body, with
reversion to Beatrix, his mother, to whom they
accordingly passed His brother Thomas was
found his next heir. He survived his mother,
and became heir of Tetbury, &a, upcm her death,
7 Back IL (1384.) He also survived his brother
Peter and both his sisters, and died without issue,
19 BicL IL (1396.) *

The Lady Beatrix, widow of Lord Thomas de
Braose, was seized of the Manor (7 Bichard H.,
1384.) She died before her son Thomas ; and
at his death t^e estates passed to his cousin,
Elizabeth, daughter of William Lord Say, who
had married — first, John de Falvesley, Lord of
Falvesley, in the county of Northampton, and
secondly. Lord Heron, of Applynden. Lord Heron
died without issue, 30th October, 1404.*

Margaret, the widow of Sir John Berkeley,
and whose first husband was Sir Thomas de
Braose, held in dower the Manor of Tetbiury of

> The above particulars respecting the Braose family are to be
found in Dugdale's Baronage; The Bolls of Parliament; <md
CoUtctanea Oenealogica et Tqpognq>hica, toL vi.

' See Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerages^ p. 588, ed. 1846.

the jointure of Sir Thomas de Braose, and died
seized thereof 23 Henry VI., (1445.)* It was
hy thia maxriiige that the Manor (^ Tethuiy
. into the hands of the Berkeley fainily.

Jambs, fifth Lord Berkeley, married Isabel,
daughter of Thomas Mowbray, first Duke of
Norfolk. She was the great-great-granddaughter
of John de Mowbray ; and Aliva, daughter and
co-heir of Lord William de Braose, of Gower,
as is shewn by the annexed pedigree.* He was
succeeded by his eldest son,

WiLLLAM, sixth Lord, created 28th Janiuury,

* Caitnd. Inquii. p tnortem, ^3 Heo. III. Marg&reta qun
fldt uxor Johaonifi Berkeley, militis defanct. Tettebuiy
Manor, Gloncester.

* This pedigree shews the connection between the foniiliex
of firaooe and Berkeley :

1489-90, Maxquess of Berkeley. He was ap-
pointed Earl Marshal of England, with limitation
totiie heire maJe of his body. He married-fiiBt,
Elizabeth, daughter of Reginald, Lord de la
Warre ; 2ndly, Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas
Strangeways ; and 3rdly, Anne, daughter of John
flennesy Lord Dacre; but he died without any
surviving issue, in 1491-92, and Ues buried in
the Chxirch of the Friar Augustines, near Broad
Street, London. He was succeeded by his brother,

,m^n ■ ■__ _MB-- - • ■ ^— ^^^^^^^^^^^^.^

Jomr DB MowBKAT, 9nd BaroD. »> Alita, D. and Coheir of Wm. de

He was Sheriff of Yorkshire, and
GoTemor of York. He was taken
in rebellion against £dw. L, and
hanged at York.

Braose, Lord Braose, of Gower, (2,)
Sir R. Peschale and D. 5 Edw. U.
(Borke, p. S77.)

JoBir DB MowBKAT, 3rd Baron. » Joav, D. of Henry, £. of Lan-

I caster.

Jonx DB MowBRAT, 4th Baroo. ■» Euzabbts, D. and H. of John

I Lord Segrave, by Margaret, Duchess
of Norfolk, D. of Thos. Plaotagenet,
of Brotberton, £. of Norfolk.

I 1

JoHir DB MowBRJLT, Earl of Not- Thomas, E. of Nottingham, created
tingham, d. 1379. D. of Norfolk in 1396, and died 1 400.

Elizabeth Fitzalav, S. and Co-
heir of Edward, Earl of Arundel.

Thomas, Earl Marshal. Maboabbt. Isabbl.

James, 6th Lord Bbbxblbt.

Leland, in his Itmeranfy vol. vi., p. 67, fol. 71, speaks of
Tctbury belon^g to the Mowbrays : '^ Tebbjrie was of later
tyines the Moulbrays lande.'^

'^The Lorde Maurice Berkeley lately lyving, had fair landes
in Northampton and Notinghamshire, that descended from the
Lord Segraye, by heires general, to Berkeley and Moulbray.*'

Maubice, seventh Lord, who, from his brother's
anger at his having married beneath his station,
enjoyed none of the estates^ except those he
inherited from his mother, Isabel Mowbray. He
resided chiefly at Yate, in Gloucestershire, and
died in 1506, and was succeeded by his son,

MAUBiOEy eighth Lord, who was made a Elnight
of the Bath, at the coronation of Henry VIII. ;
and in the seventh and eiirhth yeaiB of that
Mo»«ch'» «ign. ^ High^heriff of Glov.«,t«^
shire, and was afterwards appointed Lieutenant
of the Castle of Calaia He married Catherine,
daughter of Sir William Berkeley, of Stoke Gifford,
Enight, but died at Calais in 1523, without
issue, and was succeeded by his brother,

Thomas, ninth Lord, who held a command in
the celebrated battle of Flodden Field (Sept 9th,
1513) ; and for his signal services there, received
the honour of knighthood fix>m Thomas Howard,
Earl of Surrey, who commanded the army. He
married — first, Eleanor, daughter of Sir Marma-
duke Constable, of Flamborough, Yorkshire ; and
secondly, Cecilia, widow of Bichard Bowden, Esq.
He was succeeded by his son,

Thomas, tenth Lord, who married — ^first, Mary,
daughter of George Hastings, first Earl of Htm-
tingdon ; and secondly, Anne, daughter of Sir John
Savage, of Frodsham, in Cheshire. He died 19th
Sept., 1534, and was succeeded by his son,

Henby, eleventh Lord. He was Lord-Lieut.

of Glouoestershire, and married — ^fiiBt, Catherine,
daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ; and
secondly, Jane, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope.
By his first wife he had issue, Thomas and
Ferdinand. Thomas married Elizabeth, only
daughter of Sir George Carey, afterwards Lord
Hunsdon, and had issue, George, 12th Lord, and
Theophilus. Thomas died in the lifetime of his
father. Henry, Lord Berkeley, died in 1613, and
was buried in the family vatdt at Berkeley, and
was succeeded by his grandson,

Geobge, twelfth Lord. He was made Knight
of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince
of Wales, (afterwards Charles I.,) on Nov. 4th,
1616. He married Elizabeth, daughter and co-
heir of Sir Michael Stanhope, in Sudbury, SuflPolk,
and died 10th August, 1658.*

It was this Lord Berkeley, who ia 1632 sold
the Manor of Tetbury, with the Warren, or
North Hayes, and the Lordship thereof, " and all
their lands, and tenements, and hereditaments,
within the Manor and parish of Tetbury." to
Richard Talboys, John Gastrell, Richard Box, and
Toby Chapman, the then Feoffees of the town
for the sum of £840.

The fairs, markets, and waste lands in the
borough of Tetbury, were bought in 1640, of

^ All the Lords Berkeley mentioned in the text were Lords
of the Manor of Tetbury.

Jolin Smith, of North Nibley ; John Browning,
of Cowley ; Stephen Fowler, of Stonehouse ; and
Christopher Pamell, of North Nibley ; for £1,400.
Since this period, the Feoffees have been the
Lords of the Manor.

The Manob of Doughton.

This Manor formerly belonged to the Beau-
champs, Earl of Warwick ; but Peter de Braose
had free warren in Doughton, 29 Ed. P (1301.)
Nine years after, the jury found that John de
Thomdon obtained £14 rent in Upton, Doughton,
and Tetbury/ from William de Beauchamp, Earl
of Warwick, whose great-grandfather, William de
Beauchamp had it in dower with Berta, daughter
of WiUiam de Braosa.

Temp, Ed. II., Eobert de Doughtcm gave to
John de Stonore and his heirs, a stable, a cellar,
and a dovecote, with a messuage and a carucate
of land in Doughton.'

Edward III. and Bichard IL, his grandson

« Bot. IaL Claita. 29 Ed. i. Petor de Braose was a K. 6.,
11 Ed. iii., 1347. (See ArchofoiogicOj vol. xzzi., p. 123.)

^ CalentL Inquis. past morUm^ toI. i., p. 204.

^ Abhrtv. Flaeit.j p. 348. Ed. U., Bobertus de Doughton
pro eartam suam dat dno. John de Stonore miles et heredibus
snis, nnum stabulum, unam cameram, et unam columbarium
cum j mess, et j carr. terrsB in Doughton. (Boi, 180.)

gave six tenements in Doughton and Charlton^
to Edmund Langley, Duke of York.'

In 8 Edward III., a suit ensued between John
de Stonore, plaintiff and Hugh de Hamhule,
defendant, for twenty-four messuages and lands
in Doughton, Tetbury, and Henbury.

John, son and heir of Edward de Stonore,
died seized of these lands in Doughton, Sec.,
leaving Bichard, his son and heir. He was suc-
ceeded by Ralph de Stonore, who hdid his lands
of Thomas de Braose, leaving Gilbert de Stonore»
his son and heir.^ (1416.)

Edmund, Duke of York, died seized of six
tenements in Doughton and Charlton. Edward
Duke of York, his son and heir^ by lioense of
King Henry TV., long before his death, mort-
gaged the Manor of Doughton to Henry, Bishop
of Winchester, which Manor was worth forty
shillings or more, because divers immunities were
granted firom hence to different persons by this
Duke. Gilbert de Stonore left Thomas, his bro^
ther, heir to his Doughton estate. An act passed
in the reign of Heniy VIL for resuming the
possessions of Edward Langley, Duke of York,
in Charlton and Doughton ; and these two estates

» Pari 1 1 Hen. VH.

> Gilberttts de Stonore fir Bad'i de Stonore ten. Doughton
terr 'et ten' Tetteburje. (Oaiend. Inqma, past mortem^ 3 Hen. Y.^
No. 34.)

were granted to Elizabeth of York, Queen of
Henry VII., in dower (1 1 Henry VII.)

In 1591 (33 Eliz.,) John and Edward Seed
bought this Manor of Thomas Cripps, of Bar*
rowcombe, Wiltshire ; and Greorge Staples, of
York, Gloucestershire.

On the 20th January, 1627, Bichard Talboys,
Esq., descended from the Talboys of Whiston,
in Wiltshire, bought this Manor (which appears
to have been granted by letters patent from
Queen Elizabeth,) of Edward Alehome, Clerk,
and Anne his wife.* Mr. Talboys had previously,
in 1623, bought land in the same place, from
John Hooper. He was High-Sheriff of Glouces-
tershire in 1653, and died on the 3rd August^
1668, a^ed 87 yeara He was succeeded by his
eon. B^in. who married Alice, daughti of
Sylvester Grarrard, Esq., of Broadtown, Wilt-
shire. They had two sons — ^Bichard, who in
1688 was Lord of the Manor, and Benjamin.
This Bichard Talboys had an only child, Alice ;
and in 1 729 he devised this estate to his nephew,
Thomas^ son of his brother Benjamin. This
Thomas died in 1765, and left the estate to his
kinsman, Thomas, son of Charles Talboys. He
was succeeded in 1802 by his son Thomas, who
in 1818 sold the Manor to John Paul Paul,
Esq,, of Ashton Keynes, for £25,000. Mr. Paul,

> TUU Deed9.

who was High-Sheriff for Wilts in 1807, and
had been created an Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford, on
the 22nd of June, 1814 ; died in 1828 ; and
was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Walter
Matthews Paul, Esq., the present Lord of the
Manor.

Manor of Upton.

According to Domesday, Aluric held the Manor
of Upton in the reign of Edward the Confessor.
Roger de Iveri held it in that of William the
Conqueror.

In 47 Henry HI. (1263.) Upton was held of
Richard, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. Peter
de Braose had free warren here of Edward I.,
(1381.)»

' Calaid. Inqttis* post mortem^ roL i., p. 24o. Free warren
was a franchise erected for preservation or custody of beasts,
or fowls of warren, which being ferae naturce every one bad
a natural right to kill as he could ; but upon the introduction
of the Forest Laws at the Norman Conquest, these animals
being looked upon as Royal game, and the sole property of
the Sovereign, this franchise of free toarren was invented to
protect them, by giving the grantee a sole and exclusive power
of killing such game so Beur as his warren extended, on condi-
tion of his preventing other persons. The beasts so protected
were hares, conies, and roes ; the fowls were either campestres^
as partridges, rails, and quails, or eylveetreej as woodcocks and
pheasants, or aquatUee^ as mallards, and herons. (Blackstone's
Comment,^ vol. ii., p. 38.)

Greorge Braose was seized of Upton, 6 Henry
V. (1419.)

In 36 Heniy VIIL (1545.) the lands of God-
stow Nunnery in Charlton, Upton, Doughton and
Tetbury were parcelled out between Sir Edmund
Tame, who paid 21s. 4d rent for his portion ;
Lord Berkeley, who paid 8s. ; Bobert Wye,
who paid 12a ; and Thomas Wilkins, who paid
12s.*

Sir Edmund Tame* died seized of the Manor
of Upton, and left three sisters, co-heiresses ;
Alice, Margaret and Isabella. Alice married Sir
Thomas Vemey, who, in her rights was seized of
a third part of Sir Edmund Tame's estates.

BiCHARD Vbrney, son and heir of Sir Thomas
Vemey, died 26th July, 1667 (9 Eliz.) seized (as
appears by the inquisition taken at Gloucester
after his death,) of the entire Manor of Upton.

George, the son of Richard Vemey, died

« HarL MSS., 5,013.

* He was High-SherifF of Gloucestershire in 1536 and 1541.
The family is thus mentioned by Leland {Itinerary^ vol. vi.,
p. 16): *^The elder house of the Tames is at Stowel, by
Northleche, in Gloucestershire. Syr Edward Tame, of Fair-
forde, up by Crekelade, came oute of the house of Tame, of
Stowel. Tame that is now at Fairford, hath be married a
zit. yere, and hath no childe. Wherefore be likelihood Syr
Humfre Stafford, son to old Staford, of Northamptonshire, is
like to have the landes of Tame of Fairforde. For he maried
his aster. And so the name of the Tames is like sore to
decay."

smed of Upton, 16 Eliz. (1574,) leaving by
his 'wife Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucye,
a son and heir, Richard, who was but ten years
old at iuB father^s death. This Bichard Yemey
became a veiy eminent person, and was Knight
of the Shire for the County of Warwick in 31,
35, 39, 43 of EUz. and 1 Jac. L

George and Constance Huntley purdiased
the Manor of Upton and held it 42 Eliz. (1600.)

Upton Farm passed to Henry, Lord Berkeley,
in right of the Braose's.

In 1606, Bichard Cole of Woodchester sold
Upton, with the Grove, to Sir George Huntley.
This Sir George Huntley had previously enter-
tained Queen Elizabeth at Frocester Court, on
her way to Berkeley Castle.

This manor was shortly after sold to Sir Bobert
Ducie, as appears from a special Uvery granted
2 Car. L (1626,) by Lord Cottington, "Master of
BBs Highness' Courte of Wards and Liveries,*
and Sir Benjamin Budierd, Knt., Siuveyor of
said liveries," to Sir Bichard Ducie, son and
heir of Sir Bobt. Ducie, Sheriff of London in

« This Court was ioslitttled by statute 32 Hen. Vm., c. 46>
to inquire of what lands any one of the Ejiig*B tenants had
died seized of; who was his heir, and of what age. It was
abolished at the restoration oi Charles II., together with the
oppreasiye tenures on which it was founded. (Blackslone's
Conmunti vol. iii., p. 258.)

1620, that the manors of Upton and Charlton
formed part of the possessions of the late Sir
Robert Ducie. In this deed the Manor of Upton
is mentioned as containing "one bam and forty
acres of pasturage ;" and the Manor of Charleton
is spoken of as " Manor de Charleton, als Char-
leton juxta Tedbury, als Tedburye Charlton.**
Both manors remained in the Dude family till
sold in 1844, to R. S. Holford, Esq,, the present
Lord of the Manor,

Manor of Charlton.

William de Braose gave to Annora^ his daugh*
ter,^ 100 shillings, land in Cherleton and Cheriton
for maintenance during her widowhood, which
lands she gave to Godstow nimnery.

William de Ballecot held six yard lands in
Cherlington and Tetbury, 33 Edward I. (1305.)

Another William de Ballecot died seized thereof
20 Edward IIL (1347.) The manor afterwards
belonged to the Mortimers.

^ She was married to Hugh de Mortimer; and her brother
having offended the king, she obtained a grant of his lands.
Hugh de Mortimer died 2 Hen. lU., (1227.) upon whose
death his lands were seized bj Peter Fitz Herbert, as appears
from the following extract from Testa de Neml^ fol. 358, p. 77 ;
«* Fetrus Fil' Herbi tenet Tetebir que fecit W. de Braus, de
dono. R.'' (See also Dugdale's Monasi. i., 56-7.)

Edward de Mortimer, Earl of March and
Ulster, was seized of a yearly rent of 41s.
issuing out of Charleton, a member of the
Manor of Tetbuiy, 5 Eichard III. (1382.) He
died seized of this manor, 3 Henry VI. (1425.)

It was presented to Cicely, Duchess of York,
for her life,* 38 Henry II. (1460), and was con-
firmed to her 1 Edward IV. (1461.)

This Manor was afterwards made part of the
dowry of Catherine, Queen Dowager of Henry
VIII. On her death it was granted to Drew
Drury and Edward Downing, 6 Eliz. (1564.)
George and Constance Huntley purchased the
Manors of Upton and Charleton, and held them
42 Eliz. (1600.)

In 1630 (5 Charles I.) Matthew Himtley sold
the Manor of Charlton to Robert Ducie, Mr.
Ducie was Sheriff of London in 1620, and was
created a Baronet, 28th Nov., 1629, and in
1631 he was Lord Mayor. He accumulated

* She was the youngest daughter of Ralph, Earl of West-
moreland, and Joan his wife, and was married to Richard,
Duke of York, who was killed in an ambuscade near Wake-
field, Dec 31st, 1460 ; by him she had a fiunilj of eight sons
and four daughters, the two eldest of whom, Edward and
Richard, were successively Kings of England, under the titles
of Edward IY. and Richabd m. The Duchess Cicely died
at Berkhampstead, May 31, 1496, and was buried under a
handsome shrine, on the West side of the high altar of the
Collegiate Church of Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire. — Annals
0f England^ vol. ii., p. 67-69.

enormous wealth ; and although he lost £80,000
by Charles I., whose banker he was previous to
the breaking out of the Rebellion, he died
worth £400,000.

He was succeeded by his eldest son, Bichard,
who died, immarried, in 1656, and was succeeded
by his brother, William, third Baronet, who was
created Viscoimt Downe, in the peerage of Ireland,
and made a KB. at the coronation of Charles IT.
He married Frances, daughter of Lord Seymour,
of Trowbridge, but died without issue, when
his honom^ became extinct, and his estates
descended to Elizabeth, only daughter of his
yoimger brother Bobert. She married Edward
Moreton, Esq., of Moreton, County Stafford, and
had issue, a son, Matthew Ducie Moreton, Esq.,
who, on 2nd June, 1720, was created Baron
Ducie, of Moreton. Lord Ducie married Arabella
daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Prestwick,
Bart, and had issue, a son, Matthew, second
Baron, who was created, 23rd April, 1763, Baron
Ducie of TortwortL He died, unmarried, in
Dec, 1770, and was succeeded by his nephew,
Thomas Reynolds, who, in 1771, assumed the
name and arms of Moreton. He married, 20th
Feb., 1774, Margaret, daughter of Sir John
Bamsden, Bart., of Byron, County York, and
died without issue, 11th Sept., 1785, and was
succeeded by his brother Francis, as third Baron,
who likewise assumed the name of Moreton. He

married Maiy, daughter of T. Purvis, Esq., of
Shepton Mallett, Somerset, and died in August^
1808, and was succeeded by his son Thomas,
who was created Earl Ducie and Baron Moreton,
on 28th January, 1837. He died 22nd Jan.,
1840, and was succeeded by his son, Henry
Francis George, fifth Baron, who, on 24th August,
1844, sold the Manor of Charlton to Bobert
Stayner Holford, Esq., of Weston Birt, who is
the present Lord of the Manor.

Manor of Elhestree.

Beoinald de S. Walerick, in the reign of
King Stephen, gave the Manor of Elymundestre
to the Monks of the Benedictine Abbey of S.
Ebrulph, in Normandy.*

Alien Monasteries being deprived of their estates
in England, by Act of Parliament, temp, Edward
lY., that King, in the tenth year of his reign
(1465.) granted this Manor to Henry Sampson,
Dean of Westbury College, near Bristol, and to

^ This Monastery was built bj one Ebrulf, in the reign of
King Glothaire L, in 578 a.d. ; and being almost destroyed by
the wars, was restored by Bobert de Grentesmaisnil, and Hugh
his brother, (the father of the wife of Roger de Iveri.) The
latter made many grants of land in England to this Monastery.
(Bishop Kennett*s Paroch. Antiq. ; see also Budge's Gloucester'
ihirtj p. 362, and Buddeti p. 731.)

the Chapter of the same, to whom it belonged
till the dissolution of the Monasteries, at which
time the revenues of the College amounted to
£232 14s. yearly.

In 1544 (35 Henry VIII.,) all the land be-
longing to this College, including Elmestree, were
granted to Sir Kalph Sadleir.' He paid for this
Manor 24s. rent.

Afterwards the Manor passed into the hands of
the Tookes', (John Tooke, Esq., of Elmestree, died
in 1662,) and thence to the Deacons. Thomas
Deacon, of London, married Mary, daughter of
Thomas Haynes, a merchant, of Bristol She
survived him, and died in 1769, and left the

' Sir Ralph Sadleir was a person of considerable eminence in
the reign of Henry YUI., Edward VI., and Queen Elizabeth.
He was Grentleman of the Privy Chamber in 1537 ; afterwards
secretary to Thomas Cromwell. In 30 Hen. Vm., he was
Secretary of State. Knight, 1540. Treasurer of the War
against Scotland, 1544. Ambassador to James Y. of France,
1537. Edward VI. made him Knight Banneret at Maskel-
borowe Field. 10 Eliz. (1568,) he was appointed Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was also made Gover-
nor of Berwick, and joined with Sir William Pelham and
Sii Henry NeviU, in commission for the custody of Mary Queen
of Scots. He died in the 80th year of his age (1587.)
29 Elizabeth, and is buried in Standon Church. He left a
son, (Sir) Thomas Sadleir, who left a son, (Sir) Ralph, and
a daughter Gertrude. Ralph died s. p., and Gertrude married
Sir William Aston, of Toxal, in Staffordshire. {StaU Papers,
Rudder, p. 800.)

Manor to Thomas Jenner, Esq., Fellow of Merton
College, Oxford, and Rev. Robert Jenner, of
Christ's Church, Oxford. They sold it on October
11th, 1790, to William Brookes, Esq., who died
21st March, 1825, and was succeeded by his son
Joseph, who died 13th August, 1832, and was
succeeded by his son William, the present Lord
of the Manor.

The Grange.

The S. Walericks granted the Grange to Kings-
wood Abbey. It remained in their possession till
the dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was
granted by Henry VIII., in the thirtynsixth year
of his reign, to Richard Andrews and Thomas
HyMey.* It was aAerwaxda for maixy generations
the property of the GrastreUs, who long resided
there. It afterwards passed to the Fishers ; and
is now the property of Mr. Samuel Byam, of
Willesley. It is at present in the occupation of
Mr. William TiE The house and the estate are
tithe free.

There was an old Chapel here, but it has fidlen
entirely to decay.

See Atkyns's History of Oloucestenhire, p. 375.

CHAPTER III.

History of the Monasteries and Churches.

Ancient Saxon Monastery, — Cistercian Monastery Founded 1140, —
History of its Foundation and Progress, — Removed to Kingswood, —
Church Founded by Bernard de S. Walerick, — Account of Old Parish
Church, — Chantries in it, — Deed of Arbitration for its Repair, —
Pulled Down in 1777, — Circumstances attending the Rebuilding of the
Parish Church, — ^Description of it, — St, Saviour's Chapel of Ease, —
Particulars respecting the Advowson, the Vicarage, and the Impro-
priate Rectory,— Account of Rev. John Wight, — Extracts from
Parish Registers and Church Wardens' Books.

There can be but Kttle doubt, from a statement
of Dugdale's/ that a Monastery existed here
some time before the Conquest. By whom
founded, or to what order it belonged, it is now
impossible to ascertain ; but among the donations
to the Abbey of Malmesbury, recorded by him,
mention is made in a charter of King Ethelred.
to Aldhelm, the Abbot, of the gift of fifteen
cassates of land, which land is said to be situated
" juxta Tettan Monasterium f and in the con-
firmation both of the deed and gift, it is said
to be "juxta Tetteburie/' * This shews that a

' MonoBtf vol. i., p. 811.
^ The original charier is given in the ^* Appendix."

religious House existed here in the time of the
Saxons, but no further record now remains of it.

A more authentic account of the history of
the Monastery of Cistercian Monks which for-
merly existed here, is fortunately ascertainable,
but its history is so intimately connected with
that of Eingswood Abbey, that it will be necessary
in the first place to give a short account of the
origin of that Monastery.

In the year of our Lord 1131 (31 Henry I.,)
Walter de Clare foimded an Abbey of Cistercian
Monks at Tyntem, in Monmouthshire, and dedi-
cated it to the Virgin Mary. This Convent being
desirous of enlarging their order, applied them-
selves to William de Berkele,* (or Berkeley,)
with a petition to found a Cistercian Abbey at
Kingswoode, in the County of Wilts, of which
he was then proprietor. William de Berkele
yielded to thar request, and founded and endowed
a Monastery at Ejngswoode, to the honour of the
Blessed Virgin, in the year 1139, which was
partly supplied with Monks from Tyntem ; and
his grant was confirmed by a charter fix)m Maud,
the Empress, the daughter of King Henry I.

' He was son of Roger de Berkele, a leading Chief in the
army of William the Conqueror, when he invaded England.
In the 20th year of hiB reign (1086), he is styled <' RogeruB
Senior de Berkele," from the possession of Berkeley Castle in
the county of Gloucester. Burke's Extinct Peerage, p. 49, ed.
184P.

The wars which afterwards broke out, between
King Stephen and the Empress Maud, gave the
Monks at Eangswoode great uneasiness ; and
they determined to remove to a more retired
situation. They accordingly purchased some pro-
perty at Hasildene, (now a hamlet of Eodmarton,
in this county,) of one, John de S. John, to whom
King Stephen, during the wars, had made a
grant of it, although the lands belonged of right
to Eeginald de S. Walerick, Lord of the Manor
of Tetteburie, who had taken part with Maud.

When the war was over, aad everything was
restored .to its rightful owners, Beginald de
S. Walerick ejected the Monks, and repossessed
himself of Haseldene. The Monks, thus ejected,
made perpetual complaints to Beginald de S.
Walerick, of the injury he had done them ; and
by thdr importunity, at length so for prevailed
with him, as to induce him to restore Hasildene,
and bestow on them more lands, if they would
transfer Kingswoode Abbey thither;* for he told

^ The following particulars are given by Leiand. — Itinerary^
▼ol. vi., p. 41. £d. Oxon, 1744 :

Ex libro Donationum Monaster, de Kingeswod.

Gul. de Barkelej dedit Abbatise de Unteme, Kinggeswood,
ad fiindandum ibi Abbatiam.

mi de Eiogeswood ememnt Haseldene a Dno de S. Joanne,
cm rex banc terram tempore hoBtiHtaiis, nam erat Reginald!
de S. Walerico.

Reginaldus de S. Walerico suis restitutus terris abegit

them that he waa obliged, by a penance enjoined
him by the Pope, to found an Abbey of the
Cistercian order. To this proposal, the monks
80 far agreed, as to consent to divide their society :
one moiety of the religious were to stay at
Kingswoode, and the Abbot, with the rest, were
to remove to Hasildene.

They had not long been settled at Hasildene,
when they foimd themselves much inconvenienced
from want of water, of which there was a great
scarcity ; so at the suggestion of Reginald de
S. Walerick, they removed to Tetteburie, where
he generously bestowed some lands upon them,
near which was a perennial spring,* which would
never fiail to supply them with water.

This removal of the monks from Kingswode,
give great offence to Roger de Berkele (heir to

Monacbos de Haseldene. Postea autem recepit eos, et pars
major conventus de Kinggeswood, translata est ad Haselden.

Postea propter aqne penuriam Reg. de S. Walerico transtulit
eos ad Haselden ad TettebjrL

Bogerus Barkeley' filius Gul. Berkeley conabatur aut re-
ducere Monacbos de Tettebjri ad Kingeswood aut Kingswood
eis auferre tanquam suum fundum.

Bamardus de S. Walerico fundator ecclesise de Tettebjri eunt
Mireford prope Kingeswood & Bogero Barkelej, et eo quia
Tettebjrie ligni copia carebat monacbos transtulet.

Beg. Berkeley dedit manerium suum de Acholte Monastem,
S. MarisB de Eangeswood.

Henricns Loyel. Testis.

* Tbis WAS probably tbe spring in Magdalen meadow.

the before-mentioned William,) and he forthwith
drew up a remonstrance of this affair, and
presented it to the King, complaming of the
injury done to his &ther's foundation, setting
forth that Eingswode was lefb to him by his
predecessor as a noted Abbey, but that it was
only held as a Grang^e to Tetteburie, the main
W^ of the ..r^haviog „.„ved thither ;
and he insisted that either he might have his
land again, or the monks be recalled and settled
once more at Eingswoode. The Eang thought
this reasonable, and yielded to his request; but
by the interposition of the General Chapter of
the Cistemans, the King was induced to revoke
his order, and it was determined that Eingswode
should remain a Grange to Tetteburie, but that
the mass should be constantly read at ElingB-
wode, by some monk that was a Priest, at the
proper Altar deputed for that purpose ; and the
monks,^ in order to make matters easy, com-
poimded with Roger de Berkele, to give him
twenty-seven marks and a half of silver, and

* It maj be interesting to my readers to know in what cos-
tume the Cistercian Monks were accustomed to tread the streets
of Tetbury. The usual habit was a white robe, in the nature of a
cassock, with a black scapubir hood; this garment was girt
with a black girdle of wool. In the Choir thej had over it a
hood with a rochet hanging down round before to the waist,
and in a point behind to the calf. When thej went abroad,
they wore a cowl and a great hood, all black, which was also

one mark to his sod, (in all £19,) and thereupon
Boger de Berkele, by his charter, ratified the
compact, and confirmed to them his father's gift.
Affidrs being in this state, a Convocation was
held at Eirchstede, in Lincolnshire, in the Cister-^
dan Abbey there. Many Abbots were present^
among the rest Philip, Abbot of Elemosyne, Henry,
Abbot of Waverley,^ and Pagan, Abbot of Tette-
buria After the debates respecting the affairs
for which they were met were ended, the Abbot
of Waverley proposed to restore the Abbey at
Kingswode, and replace a sufficient number of
monks in it ; to which the Abbot of Tetteburie,
being a weak man,* gave his consent ; but without

the Choir habit The laj brothers were clad in dark colour ;
their scapular being down about a foot in length before, and
was rounded at the bottom. Their hood was like those which
the priests wore over their cowl, excepting the difPerenoe of the
colour. In the Choir they wore a cloak or mantle, reaching to
the ground, of the same colour as the habit. The novices who
were Clerks, wore the same habit in the Church, but it was all
white. Their scapular was not of the same length in all places,
for sometimes it reached only half way down the thigh, in
others to the mid-leg, or even to the heels. — BriUak Monachism^
hj F. D. Fosbrooke, p. 287. Natali, 1843.

^ Waverley was a Cistercian Abbey in Surrey, near Famham,
founded by William Gi&rd, Bbhop of Winchester, a.d. 1128.
It was the first house the Cistercians had in England.

* Dugdale speaks of *^ Paganus, Abbas de Tetteburia," as
<<homo simplex et nuUius astucias. — MonaaL AnglL^ vol. v.,
p. 426. Ed. 1819.

the knowledge of his convent, or the assent of
the Abbot of Tyntem, who, when they heard
of it, entirely disallowed and opposed it, and a
great deal of litigious dispute followed But at
last it was decreed, at a meeting of Cistercian
Abbots at Kingswode, that the Abbot of Waver-
ley should recall the four monks he had sent
to Kingswode, and remove all his goods and
chattels from thence, and Ejngswode should
return to its former use, to be Tetteburie Grange.
Yet there were still left at the monastery there
several monks, converts, clerks, and laics, with
Boger de Berkele, the founder, who was present
at these aoconunodations.

Some time after the Monks at Tetteburie, not
well liking their situation, and having scarcely
room enough for the commodious settling of an
Abbey there, and finding great inconvenience
through the scarcity of wood for firing in those
parts, being forced to fetch their fuel irom Kings-
wode, which lay at a considerable distance, they
determined to remove back to Kingswode ; but
the buildings there not being sufficiently large
for the reception of their number, Bernard de S.
Waleridc, the founder of Tetteburie Church, re-
quested and obtained from Boger de Berkele,
Lord of Kingswode, forty acres of land at Mireford,
a place bordering on Kingswode, near the water
side, and there erected a new abbey about 1170,

and transferred the Monastery of Tetteburie
thither.*

After the Monastery of Tetteburie was removed
to Kingswode, it is probable that Tetteburie be-
came a Grange to Elingswode ; for there is an
ancient &rm house in this parish, at a little
distance from the town, which formerly had a
Chapel attached to it. The house to this day is
called The Grange.'

It is mentioned above, that Bernard de S.
Walerick "was the founder of Tetbury Church.
An old MS. states that this Church was founded
in 1160; if so, none of it now remains; for,
jfrom the style of architecture, I cannot place
the present Tower and Spire earlier than 1400.
But whenever the old Church was built^ it was
entirely pulled down, with the exception of the
Tower and Spire, (which latter is a remarkably
fine one,*) in 1777, to make room for the pre-
sent Church.

No authentic account of the old Church now
remains; but from the Histories of Gloucester-
shire, and several MSS., I have collected the
following particulars respecting it.

^ The above is principallj derived from an old regprd written
by the Abbot of Kingswode, a.d. 1 180, and preserved in
Dagdale*s MonasL AngL^ vol. i., p. 811.

^ Dugdale, in his Mmaat, vol. v., p. 425, mentions that
Kingswood Abbey had common pastare in Tetbuiy.

' The following are the dimensions of the spire :

This Church was dedicated to S. Mary Mag-
dalen,' and, according to Sir Robert Atkyns,
was large and handsome ; it had an aisle on the
South side, and two aisles on the North side;
at the West end of each of which were windows
of five lights, with quatrefoil tracery above.
There was a Central Chancel with a Hood Loft,
and two side Chancels on the North and South
sides. Under the arch parting the South Aisle

Tdi. Ft. In.

From the ground to the floor of the leads . 24
From the floor of the leads to the top of

the stone-work of the spire .... 85 2
From the top of the stone-work of the

spire to the top of the upright bar that

supports the weathercock 2

And firom ditto to the top of the head of

the weathercock 10

The spire leans South 4 fl. 6 in., and towards the East
8 in. These observations were made by Mr. Thomas Webb,
architect, when the spire was repaired in 1774. {Parochial
Begister No. 1 .)

' Sir R. Aik3m8 and Rudder saj that the Church was
dedicated to the Blessed Virgin ; but from its being, from
ancient times, the custom to hold the &ir on the daj of
the Saint to whom the Church was dedicated, and Tetbury
Fair being beld on the 22nd of July (S. Mary Magdalen's
Day,) I have no doubt the Church was dedicated to that
Saint On this subject, see History of England, by R. Henry,
D.D., vol* iv., p. 205 ; Bum's Ecclea. Law ; and Kennett's
Faroch. Aniiq,

from the Chancel, was the monument of the great
William de Braose, lying cross-legged in his coat
of mail, his sword hy his side, and a lion at
his feet^ noted emblems of his having been
engaged in the Crusades.

On the South side was the porch, over which
was a room in which the Grammar School was
formerly kept. There was a Chapel on the left
hand entering the Church, in which "was a fiiir
wall piece, and lively effigy of John Savage,
Gent., in his sable robes^ kneeling."

In the North aisle was a statue monument
to one of the GastreUs. There was a small
vestry on the North side of the ChanoeL*

A Chantry was erected on the South side of
this Church, by license from the King, (36 Edw.
III.) dated 1 3th Jan., 1363, and granted to
Walter Waltres, John de Weston, Ealph Baily,
cmd John de Caldebom, all of Tetbury, to grant
twenty-four messuages and sixty acres of land
in Tetbury, in free alms for ever, to Kichard
Brevorchance, Chaplain of the Chapel of the
Blessed Virgin, in the parish Church of Tetbury,
and his successors, as a Chantry, to say mass
daily for the souls of King Edward, Queen

* The clear area of the Church, Chancel, Taylor's aisle, and
vestry room of this Church, within side, is 6,947 feet, when
the columns and pillars are deducted. Measured May 25, 1776,
by Francis Hiome.

PMllippa, of Peter de Brewys, and his wife
Agnes, and Thomas their son, and of Elizabeth,
the wife of John de Brewys.

This was confirmed by John,* Bishop of Wor-
cester, and signed with the seal of the com-^
munites of the town of Tetbury, in the reign
of Queen Elizabeth. Part of the Chantry lands
were granted by Seede to Edmund and Thomas
Estcourt. William Potter was the last incum-
bent; he had a pension of £6 13s. 4d, in 1553.*

5 Jac. I. The lands of this Chantry were
granted to Edward Newport and John Crompton«

7 Jaa I. The reserved lands of this chantry
were granted to Coxe and others. Sir Walter
Coxe, of Kensington, Middlesex, afterwards sold
them to Sir Thomas Estcourt, of Lasborough.'

There was another Chantry erected in this
Church by John de Grevil, 19 Edw. IV. (1480.)
It was dedicated to the Holy Trinity ; whereof
William Wotton was the last incumbent. He
had a pension of £6 in 1553. The lands be-
longing to this Chantry were granted to Simon
Wiseman and Richard Moon, 4 James I. (1607.)

There was also another Chantry, called Heme's

^ John Bamet, appointed Bishop of Worcester 1362. He
was afterwards Lord Chancellor, and was translated to Wells*
— Dugdale* vol. i, p. 120.

6 WlUiB*8 Miired Abbe^, toL ii., p. 90.

^ The above particulars are firom deeds now in the possession
of Mr. Sotheron Estcourt.
H

Chantry, of which Thomas Harman was the last
incumbent. He received a pension of £4 in
1553.»

From Jones's ** Index to the Public Records"
under the head '' Cirencestria»" it appears that
another chantiy, dedicated to S. Thomas was for-
merly attached to this Church ; but I have not
been enabled to discover any fiuther particulars
respecting it.

About the middle of the fifteenth century
(1467.) in the reign of Edward IV., a dispute
arose between the Abbot and Monks of the Monas-
tery of Eynesham, in Oxfordshire, who were the
Impropriators of the vicarage, and the inhabitants
of Tetbiuy, respecting the reparation of a Chancel
in their Parish Church. After much disputing,
both sides agreed to refer their grievances to Dr.
John Carpenter, the Bishop of Worcester, in whose
Diocese Tetbury was then edtuated ;^ and he seems

^ Harmera Dawne. — ^De. N. A. milite et aliis aasignatiB ad
inquirendum utrum unia Pecia vocata Harmers Downe, et una
acra Prati pertinebant, Cantarice S. Thomm^ in Te£bury^ in
Comitatu Gloucestriae, necne et quantum Talent per annum.
PasbsB Comminiones, 1 Eliz., Rotulo, 10.

' The new Dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol were founded
by Henry YUL, in 1541. Previously to this, the See of
Worcester, which about 680 was taken out of that of lichfield,
comprehended the province of Wiccia, and its Bishops were
called Epiacopi Wicdorwn. It contained all Woroestershire,
except sixteen parishes beyond Abberley Hills, belonging
to the Diocese of Hereford; all Gloucestershire on the East

to have settled the dispute by ordering the paxish-
ioners to build the said Chancel, and to repair
the North side of the same, and the Abbot and
Monasteiy to keep the South side in repair ;
thus wisely preventing the one side gaining a
triumph over the other.

The following is a copy of the original deed of
arbitration by which this settlement is effected.

"John/ by Divine permission Bishop of Wor-
cester, to all the sons of our Holy Mother y*
Church, to whom these presents shall come, or
whom y* imderwritten do or any way hereafter

side of the Severn, with tbe city of Bristol ; and nearly
half the Southern part of Warwickshire, with the town
of Warwick; (see Thomas's Survof of Worcester CcUhedralj
p. 1.) The Dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol were united
by Act of Parliament in 1836. Great efibrts are now being
made again to separate them, and we earnestly trust they
will before long be successful.

I This was Dr. John Carpenter, Bishop of Worcester from
1443 to 1476. He was formerly Fellow, and afterwards
Provost of Oriel College, Oxford ; and in 1437-8 was Chan-
cellor of that University. He was installed in his Cathedral
December 25th, 1444, and built a gate to the Episcopal palace
at Hartlebury, which was destroyed in the Civil Wars. In 1461
he erected a Library in the charnel house befonging to his
Cathedral He died al his Palace at Northwyke, in 1476, and
was buried, at his own request, in the South West comer of the
Chancel of Westbury Churchi Gloucestershire ; upon his tomb
in which, b carved the skeleton of a man. (Dugdale, and
Godwin, De PrcaMnts Anglue; .and I^otes and Queries^ 2uA
Series, vol. i., p. 24.)

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may conc«3ni, greeting. Be it known unto all
and every of you by those presents, y* whereas
a controversy has been long debated^ and a law-
suit carryd on between the Venerable and Religious
the Abbot and Convent of the Monastry of y*
Blessed Virgin Mary, of Eynsham, in the Diocese
of Lincoln, proprietors of the Faridbi Church of
Tetbury, in the Diocese of Worcester, of y* one
part, and the parishioneiB of y* said Parish Church
7r other pU^nceming the ordering, limits
tion, and reparation of a certain Chancel in the
same Parish Church of Tetbury aforesaid ; at
length the parties aforesaid, willing to avoid the
expense of law, and to preserve peace and quiet-
ness among themselves for the Aiture, appeared
before us by their proctors, thereunto sufficiently
and lawfully deputed and authorized : viz., the
part of y* said Abbot and Convent proprietors
aforesaid, by Eichard Bymer, clerk ; and the part
of y* said parishioners by Walter Heme and John
Hale, Clerks, and have jointly nominated and
chose me their referee or arbitrator, amicably to
compose this dijSerence among them, and have
likewise solemnly bound themselves, by a corporal
oath, taken on the Holy Evangelists by their
proctors, to stand to our award and arbitrement,
solely and wholly upon the premises. Hereupon,
at y* earnest request of y* parties aforesaid, taking
upon ourself y* office of an Arbritator, we have
given, passd, published and determined y* our

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award or arbitrement within the term limited
or set for this purpose^ in manner following —
viz., y* a certain Chancel in y* said parish Church
V* was new built by y* parishioners of the
same, situate and lying in the same Church,
between y* Chancel commonly called y* old Chan-
cel, on y* North Side, and the Chantery Chapel of
y* Blessed Virgin Mary on the South Side, shall
be y^ principal Chancel in the same Church, and
we will, appoint, ordain, and determine y* the
aforesaid Abbot and Convent proprietors and their
successors for ever, shall be bound and obliged to
retain and keep up the same, as far as the Bood
Loft exclusively, together w*** a certain wall an-
nexed to the same Chancel on the South Side ;
and we wi]l. / the parishoneia aforesaid, be for
ever obliged and bound to repair and keep up
the Chancel aforesaid, commonly called the old
Chancel, at their own proper cost and charge,
together w^ a certain wall annexed thereto on
the South side, provided always y* the parish-
i.n«. .fcreeaid A ha« ft« bgi. ^d V«
thro' the same principal Chancel in and to the
vestry lying near unto it, for the ornaments
of f said Church, and for other things appoin-
ted for Divine Service, which' award and arbi-
tration thus passed and published by us, the
parties aforesaid, have desired, may be confirmed
In compliance w*** this their desire, WE, John,
by Divine permission, Bishop of Worcester, have

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bj our authority ordinary, oonfirmed, approved,
and by these presents given a perpetual sanction
to this our award and arbitrement thus published
by us« In witness whereof we have set our
seal to these presents. Dated in the Monasteiy
of y* Blessed Virgin Mary, of Cirencester, the
26th day of October, in the year of our Lord
1467, and of our consecration the 26th."

Notwithstanding this agreement, in process of
time the Church fell into decay, and in 1729,
Mr. Francis Savage, and other parishioners, at a
vestry meeting, agreed to apply for a Brief to
enable them to collect monies in order to rebuild
Tetbury Church."

Accordingly a Brief* was applied for and obtained,
for rebuilding the Chancel, and some parts of the
Church, which greatly stood in need of repair,
the estimated cost of which was <£2»600. When
this collection under the Brief was made, it brought
in little over £400 ; a sum totally inadequate to
carry out the proposed design.

Upon this, some of the Parishioners who were
anxious to rebuild the Church, proposed that the

> This meeting was held June 22, 1729, and the names of the
parishioners present were, Francis Savage, Bev. Henry Wight-
wick, Ber. Robert Winch, John Sloper, Thomas Keen, Joseph
Wickes, Richard Harding, William Tomkinson, John Johnston,
Henry Crowther, Daniel Evans, John Wight, John Pumell,
John Barrett, John Philips, Barnard Wickes.

* For a copy of -ibis Brief, see Appendix.

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Advowson of the Living should be sold, this was
strongly objected to by other Parishioners, but the
Feoffees persevered, and applied to Parliament, and
brought a petition to the House of Lords, in which
they asked for an Act of Parliament to enable
them to rebuild their ChurcL

This was warmly opposed in the House by the
opposite party ; who, to obtain their end, engaged
to repair the Church in a strong and substantial
manner with the money collected imder the brief.
This proposal was accepted by the other party with
great reluctance, as likely to lead hereafter to
further litigation.

A recognizance was accordingly entered into in
the Court of Chanceiy. in which sevei^ persons
of known property,* obliged themselves under con-
siderable penalties, to put the Church in sound
repair. Two architects were engaged to view the
repairs when finished; Mr. Tully, of Bristol, on
the one side, and Mr. Smith, of Warwick, on the
other.

On their viewing the work after its accomplish-
ment, they disagreed, and chose Mr. Gibbs, the
famous architect, as umpire. He took with him

^Bj Thomas Estcourt, Esq., of Shipton Moyne, William
Savage, Richard Harding, Charles Savage, and Joseph Ralph,
of Tetbury, and John Taylor of Bristol, before Robert Holford,
Esq., and William Kinaston, Esq., two Masters of the Court of
Chancery, on lOth February, 1740. The amount of the re-
cognizance was £4,000.

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Mr. Philipps, the King's carpenter, and Mr. John
Townsend, an eminent master builder fipom Oxford.
They all inspected the Church, and Mr. Gibbs cer-
tified that the repairs were not executed in the
manner required by the recofmizance.

Upon ab. thoi P^dnoiTwho ™hed fcr a
new Church brought the matter before the Lord
Chancellor ; but it appearing that Mr. Gibbs» had
not in person viewed the roof, ^ as, indeed, he could
not well, being a person in years, and very cor-
pulent,*' but had depended on the report of
Mr. Philipps, and Mr. Townsend, the Lord Chan-
cellor, to the great surprise of many, ordered
another siurey to be taken, and recommended Mr.
Flitcroft, to the acceptance of both parties. After
making his surv^, Mr. Flitcroft certified that the
Church was not put into that good condition
required by the recognizance, and that it would
require at least £400 more to do it. These repairs
were forthwith ordered to be done, but only £15
or £20 were laid out upon them. Under these
drcomstaiices. the a^ waa again earned before
the Lord Chancellor ; but after some time the pro-
meters finding there was no hope of maJdng their
Chiffch more commodious, or obtaining a new one
by these proceedings, they desisted from aU further
litigation.*

^The abore particnlars are chiefly taken from a MS. in
the handwriting of the Rev. J. Wight.

lOo

Being thus disappointed in their hopes of re-
building their Parish Church, the Vicar (the Eev.
John Wight), and many of the inhabitants deter-
mined to rebuild it, by another method which
seemed open to them.

There was a Church House which had been
leased out by the Church Wardens for many gene-
rations, for their lives, for about £40 a year ; but
which, through the n^ligence of the lessee, had
been suffered to fall in. This house was forthwith
offered to the best bidder and sold for £250, which
was at once put out to interest at four per cent.
Money was thus accumidating every day, and the
Vicar, in 1 753, generously offered the Parishioners
to make the sum £1,000 if they would expend it
upon rebuilding the Church, upon a plan he himself
should approve. This proposition was accepted
by all present at the meeting where it was pro-
posed,* and the Parishioners also agreed to encou-
rage subscriptions, and in every other way in
their power forward the design.

The Parishioners in general now seemed fully
alive to the necessity of rebuilding their parish
Church, and many of them formed themselves into
a society for the purpose of collecting subscriptions.
The Rules by which they bound themselves are
curious, and as they are excellent of their kind,
I have subjoined them. They are as follows : —

« Held NoYember 12, 1753.

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''We, whose names are entered in this book,

agree to observe the following artides :

i First To meet four times in every year at the
White Hart, viz. : The first Thursday in
January, the first in April, the first in July,
and the fiiBt in October, between six and
seven o'clock in the evening.

ii. Secondly. Each of us to lay down half-a-crown,
as soon as he comes into the room, to be ap-
plied towards rebuilding our parish church.

iii. Thirdly. To do all we can to increase the
number of our society.

iv. Fourthly. When any dispute arises amongst
us, to submit to the decision of the majority
of the members present.

V. Fifthly. To send three shillings to be put in
the box, every time we cannot attend at the
usual time of meeting.

vi Sixthly. Gratefully to accept any present, be
it never so small, that shall be given to the
box by any person that shall not be a member
of this society."

JoHK Wight. John Slopbb.

T. Cboomb Wickbs. Bobt. Clabk.

Habrt Witts. Saiil. Sauitdebs.

Nathanubl Saundbbs. Josbph Butlbb.

BiCHABD Davibs. Johk Faul.

Jambs Sataob. Gbobgb Whttb.

Nath. Body. WnuAM Bbookes.

J. Pubtbb. Thomas Pikb.

Oeobge WnrrB. Edwabd Tuoweu^ &c.

In all nineiy-ihree*

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The first meeting was held on January 3rd,
1754, at which time there were 160 members
belonging to the society ; and the sum collected
on that evening amounted to £26 4s. 6d. The
sum total collected by means of this society,
amoimted to £535 6s. 4d., which shows how
much may be done in the way of Church building
firom small beginnings, if only persevered in with
energy and determination.

In 1765 (5 George III.) an Act of Parliament
was obtained "for applying a certain sum of
money firom the sale of a house in Tetbury, in
the County of Gloucester, and by donations of
several persons, for rebuilding the parish Church
and Chancel of Tetbury aforesaid.^'

The trustees appointed by this Act of Parlia-
ment to superintend the rebuilding of the Church
were "The Right Reverend lather in God, Wil-
liam (Warburton) Lord Bishop of Gloucester,
James (Johnson) Lord Bishop of Worcester,
the Rev. Thomas Croome Wickes, d.d., the Rev.
John Wight, Vicar of Tetbuiy, Samuel Saunders,
and John Saunders^ both of Tetbury, gentlemen,
and Joseph Butler, of Horsley, gentleman ;" three
of whom were to form a quorum.

The rebuilding of the Church commenced in
1777, under the superintendence of Francis
Hiome, of Warwick, architect, and it was re-
opened for Divine service on the 7th October,
1781, when the Rev. T. C. Wickes, D.i>„ the

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then Vicax, preached Mr. Wight, who had so
greatly promoted the rebuilding of the Church,
unhappily did not survive to see the restoration
complete, he having died on November 24, 1777.
Mr. Hiome received for his work

from the trustees . . £3658 16 1

In addition to the materials of the

old Church, for which he allowed . 400
Received for flooring and pewing it . 1000 17

Makmg the total cost of the Church £5059 13

From the exterior, the Church presents a very
handsome appearance, and the noble tower and
spire makes it a conspicuous and beautifril object
in the scenery for many miles round. We cannot
say so much for the interior ; by a curious arrange-
ment, we believe peculiar to this Church, doors
are placed at equal distances down the North
and South Cloisters, each door giving an entrance
to five pews, and thus making the collection of
alms by the Churchwardens, a long and somewhat
difficult process. Although the internal arrange-
ment's of the Church have but little respect to
Ecclesiastical order, it must still be regarded
as a great advance on the style of Church archi-
tecture, which was mostly prevalent in this
country at the time when this Church was erected.

The Chancel is very short, and is raised by
two steps above the body of the Church. On
the North side is a handsome marble monument

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to the memory of Sir WiUiam Romsey, with his
effigy above, erected at the expense of the Rev.
John Wight ; and on the South side, a some-
what similar one to the Rev. John Savage, late
Rector of Beverstone.

Over the Altar (which is of mahogany,) is a
picture representing the Holy Family. The East
window is very lofty, and of five Kghts, with
curiously elaborated tracery. The Altar rails are
also of mahogany. The Pulpit, Reading Desk
and Font, (which is of very small and mean pro-
portions,) are in firont of the Altar.

The Church is pewed throughout, the entrance
to the side pews are firom doors in the North
and South Cloisters.

The East wall of the Church, over the Vestry
and South doors, is covered with monuments,
erected to the memory of different families con-
nected with the town ; copies of the inscrip-
tions on them will be found in the Appendix.

The organ is in a gallery at the West end,
and there are also galleries extending half-way
along the North and South walls of the Church.

There are seven large, and very lofty windows
of four lights each on either side of the Church,
with tracery similar to that of the East windows.

The vestry is on the South side of the Chancel.
The two Town chests are kept one in the North,
the other in the South cloister. The interior
dimensions of the Church are as follows : —

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Extreme length fix>m North to South . 120 feet.

Extreme width, induding the cloisters . 62 feet.

Height £rom the floor to the ceiling . . 42 feet.
In the tower there is a fine ring of eight bells,

placed there in 1722. On them are the foUow-

ing inscriptions cast roimd the rim ; —

Ist and 2nd. Prosperity to the Church of Eng-
land.

3rd. Prosperity to this Town.

4th. Prosperity to this Town and Parish.

5th and 6th. Giles Body, Matthew Wilkins,
Chx wardens.

7th. I, to the Church the living call, and to the
dead do summons alL
In the centre of the inscription on all the

above bells is the date 1722, and the initials

A. R^

^ There can be but little doabt that these initials are those of
Abraham Radhall, a celebrated bell-founder of Gloucester.
The family has been engaged in this business for generations.
Abraham Rudhall, senr., from 1684 to 1736, in which year he
died, aged 78. Abraham Rudhall, junr., 1718 ; Abel Rudhall,
1738 to 1754; Thomas Rudhall, 1780; Charles and John
Rudhall, 1785 to 1828. To the latter succeeded the present
firm of Mears, of Gloucester and Whitechapel. Gloucester and
Lichfield seem to have been the earliest known places celebrated
for bell-founding. John of Gloucester was a bell-foander there
in 1310 ; whilst Henry Mitchell is quoted as contemporary with
him at Lichfield. In S. Michael's Church, Gloucester, is the
following inscription, on a cross : " Pray for the sonll of
Willm Henshawe, Belfounder, and late Maire of this Towne,

Ill

The eighth bell was erected in 1803 ; on it
is the following inscription :

8th. J. Rich and R M. Warman, G W., 1803.
J. Rudhall^ fecit.

There are also a set of chimes in the tower,
which were given by the Rev. John Wight, in
1749 ; they play the tune of the 113th Psalm
for about four minutes every four hours, viz., at
ten, two, and six.

The Parish Church, as rebuilt in 1777-1781,
consisted of one hundred and ten pews, which,
with liie exception of thirty two, were all appro-
priated under the Act of Parliament, for rebuilding
the Chinxk By this arrangement, only one hun-
died and sixty sittings in pews were set apart
for the use of the poor, and about eighty in other
parts of the Chiux^h ; in all two hundred and
forty.

At a subsequent period, gaUeries were erected
on the North and South sides of the Church, in
which the pews were all appropriated.

The evils arising from the very inadequate pro-
visions then made for the wants of the poor in
the parish Church, had long been felt, and various

and Alys and Agnes, his wyfes ; the whiche Willm deceased the
• . . day of • . in the jer of our Lord God a thousand occcc. ;
and the said Aljs deceased the seconde day of ffebruar thee
yere of our Lord mxycxix. — ^for whose soules of yor charite say
a pater nostr and a ave.*' — I am indebted for the aboTe to the
Rev. John Ward, of Wath Rectory, Ripon.

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plans were proposed for remedying the evil, but
none of them were ever carried into execution.

In the year 1842, a commission was issued by
Dr. J. H. Monk, then Lord Bishop of the Diocese,
for mftlring enquiries into its Ecclesiastical State.
Under the head of Tetbxu-y, the Commissioners
reported that it was very deficient in accommoda*
tion for the poor, and recommended that a Chapel
of Ease should be built.

By the sale of the Advowson of the Living in
1839, a thousand pounds had been set apart for
Church purposes, the Act directing ^* that the sum
of one thousand pounds sterling be applied by
the said trustees or feoffees to such purposes, and
in such manner, for increasing the number of
free sittings in the parish Chun^h of Tetbury
aforesaid, or in the erection of stoves for heating
the same, in fittings for lighting it witii gas. or
in the erection of a Chapel of E^e, in connection
with the aforesaid Church, or to any or all of
such purposes as the Vicar or Churchwardens for
the time being of the said parish shall, with
the sanction of Her Majesty's Commissioners for
building new Churches, order and direct."

In the year 1841, a vestry meeting was held
to take the subject of increased Church accom-
modation for the poor into consideration. It
was agreed to biuld a Chapel of Ease, and also
that so much of the above mentioned money as

had not been otherwise expended, should be ap-
plied to this work.

At this period, the population of the parish
was about 3,000, of whom it was assumed that
three fifths or upwards of 1,800 persons were
poor, as they occupied houses assessed in the
rate at a sum not exceeding £4. The accommo-
dation for these in the Parish Chiu'ch consisted
of two hundred and forty sittings only, and these
were mostly situated in a most remote part of
the Church.

The cost of the Chapel of Ease was as follows : —
From the Church fund above mentioned . £1000
From the Incorporated Church Building

Society ..... . 250

From the Diocesan Church Building Fund . 150

£1400

In addition to this, " a limited subscription, very
insufficient to cover the cost of the building,'' was
raised. The whole cost of this Chapel of Ease
exceeded by £2000 the sum thus obtained, for
which sum the Vicar is responsible, and has paid
interest upon it from the time the debt was
incurred."

A Chapel of Ease, dedicated to 0\tr Blbssed
Savioub, was consecrated by the Right Rev. James

B I am indebted to the Rev. John Frampton, Vicar of
Tetbuiy, for several of the above p^ticulars.
I

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Henry Monk, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Gloucester
and Bristol, on the 23rd of August, 1848 ; the
foundation stone having been laid by Miss Framp-
ton, the daughter of the Vicar, on the 31st of
March, 1846. It was erected through the instru-
mentality of the Vicar, assisted by Mends, and
the sum of £1,000 from the frmd arising from
the sale of the advowson in 1839 ; and contains
seats for about 400 persons. It is built in the
Decorated style, wit^ a Chancel, Nave, North and
South Aisles, Porch, and Vestry. The nave is
separated from the Aisles by five arches^ which
rest on piers alternately circular and octagonal,
their dripetones termmatmg in carved figures of
angels. Both Nave and Aisles are covered by one
roof, inclined at their junction ; it is of a high
pitch, open in the interior to the ridge piece
of foreign oak, with horizontal tie beams, &a,
the wall pieces resting on corbels covered with
foliage, and the cornice ornamented with the
baU-flower. The whole of the interior is lined
with ashlar, the stone used for this purpose
being the white Painswick, which in fineness of
grain and general appearance nearly approaches
the Caen. The North and South windows of the
aisles are single lights^ with trefoil heads ; those
at the East and West are^ however, of two
lights, with tracery in the head, and are all
filled with stained glass in patterns, with the
exception of the West window of the South

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aisle, which is of one lights and represents the
Baptism of our Blessed Lord by S. John. This
last portion of the Church, immediately adjoining
the entrance from the porch, forms a Baptistry,
the Font of which is octagonal, of Caen stone,
the bowl large and deep, the panels ornamented
with the Evangelistic symbols, alternately with
the Dove, Agnus Dei, the Cross, and the Sacred
Monogram. Its base rests on a small raised
pavement of encaustic tiles ; the oaken cover is
of open work. On the left hand side of the
South- West door, near the font, is a poor-box of
stone, restincr on a pedestal, and surmounted by
the half figL of aV angel, bearing the legend
** He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the
Lord''

The West window of the Nave is of two lights ;
one representing the Blessed Virgin and the In-
fant Saviour, the other our Blessed Lord, holding
in his hand a Cross. All the seats are of oak,
and open, terminated by poppy heads. An open
Lectern is placed on the South side of the Chancel
arch ; and on the North is a low pulpit of Caen
stone, with carved panels, and surmounted by a
canopy, the entrance to which is by a passage
through the Chancel wall. Between these, imme-
diately before the entrance to the Chancel, looking
East, is the faldstool,^ at which the Litany is said.

^ Faldstoolj a small desk at which Uie Litany is enjoined

]16

A light screen of oak, of elegant tracery, with gates,
and a gnded cornice, divides the Chancel from
the rest of the Cliurch. It is entered by a
single step, and displays at the end a rich window
of three lights. In the centre hght, the Cruci-
fixion is represented, with S. Mary Magdalen
kneeling at the foot of the Cross. In the light
on the North side is the figure of the Blessed
Virgin ; in that of the South, that of S. John
the Evangelist. In the flowing tracery above
are the figures of angels, and the emblems of the
four Evangelists. In the apex our Lord is re-
presented sitting on His Throne of Glory. The
glass of this window is very rich, and the effect
of the whole exceedingly good. The Altar is a
slab of marble on oak legs, with a frontal of
crimson velvet, on which is worked an ornamental
Cross in gold, with the Sacred Monogram in the
centre ; it stands on a black marble foot piece,
raised upon a floor of encaustic tiles, and is ap-
proached by three steps from the ChanceL The
reredos, of Caen stone, richly gilt, is of five
arched panels, surmoimted with canopies, and
adorned with crockets and finials. In the centre
is a Cross in relief, the points and shafts of which
are ornamented with the emblems of the Four

to be sung or said. This word is probably derived from
the barbarous Latin fodda, a place shut up, a fold. (Hoohf^
Church Dictionary,)

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Evangelists. Two windows also of stained glass
light the Chancel, under one of wEibh is the
Sedilia. There is a Piscina on the South, and a
Credence on the North, and next to the latter
is a canopied recess, containing a brass plate on
a black marble tablet, wlach records the date of
the Consecration of the Church, and the sources
from which the building fund was derived. There
is a Priest's door on the South, and another on
the North into the Vestry, which also has an
open roof of oak, and two wmdows of stained
glass. The organ chamber is on the North side
of the Chancel, and is separated from it by an
open stone screen. There are stalls on the North
and South sides of the Cliancel for the Clergy
and Choir. The roof is of oak panels, with gilt
bosses, and the cornice is ornamented with ball
flowers gilt. The whole of the interior fittings
of the Church are most substantial and complete,
and reflect the greatest credit on the architect
and all connected with its construction. The
exterior is also in good keeping. An oak Porch,
of open wood work, forms an entrance on the
South West of the Church, and a well propor-
tioned lych gate,* surmounted by a Cross, is
the entrance to the churchyard. A bell gable is
placed on the Western end of the Nave, and

* Lych gaU^ or corpse gate, from kick « dead body, hence
Litchfield. Ilook*? Church Dictionary,

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GroBBea on the EaBtem end of ihe ChaaoeL On
the day of Consecration (August 23rd, 1848),
the Clergy met at the school room, and awaited
the Bishop, on whose anival, they fcnrmed a pro-
cession in their surplices to the Church. Amongst
them were the Rev. R. W. Huntley, of Box-
well, George Madan, of CSam, Rural Deans, Sir
George Rrevost, Bart., W. F. Powell, of Ciren-
cester, and about twenty others. The petition
Sac Ccmsecraticm having been read, the Bishop
and Clergy entered the Churdi, and proceeded
to the Chancel, repeating the twenty fourth
Psalm; after which, the Bishop duly signed
the deed of Consecration. The service for the
day then commenced The Prayers and litany
were read by the Curates, the Rev. C. F. Lowder,
and the Rev. H. H. Wyatt. The Lessons by the
Rev. W. F. Powell, and Sir George Prevoet^ the
Psalms and Canticles were chanted to Gregorian
and English chants. The service for the Holy
Communion was read by the Bishop, his two
Chaplains, the Rev. T. Murray Browne, and Rev.
G. N. Barrow, reading the Epistle and Gospel
The sermon was preached by the Vicar, the Rev.
John Frampton, from the fortieth chapter of
Exodus, and thirty foin*th verse. The Offertory
s^itences were then read, and the prayer for the
Ch\ux)h militant followed ; after which, his Lord-
ship consecrated the burial groimd, and the non-
communicants having left the Church, the Holy

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Communion was administered. After the service,
theBiahop. Clergy, aud many of the pariduoners
were entertained by the Vicar. The children of
the School, to the number of three hundred, to-
gether with the workmen and others connected
with the building of the Church, were also liber-
ally entertained.

There was a second service in the evening at
seven o'clock, when the sermon was preached
by the Rev. W. F. Powell, the Vicar of Cirencester.*

Mr. S. W. Daukes, of Whitehall Place, London,
was the architect. The Church of S. Andrews,
Wells street, London, and the Agricultural College,
at Cirencester, were also built by him. Mr.
Francis Brown, of Tetbury, was the contractor for
the worka

The foUowing particulars respecting the Advow-
son of Tetbuiy may not be out of place here.

The Rectory and Advowson of Tetbury were
originally granted by Thomas de S. Walerick
(the last male heir of that family), in 1196, to
the Benedictine Abbey of Eynesham,' in Oxford-

> For the above particulan, see Oiaueeater Cknmicley Sept. 1848.

'Egnesham or Eynahain Abbey, was of the Benedictine
order, and was founded by Etheknare, Earl of Cornwall and
Devonshire, before a.d. 1005, to the honour of the Blessed
l^rgin Maiy, S. Benedict, and All Saints. It was valued at
the dissolution of monasteries, 26 Hen. VUL, at £421 16s. Id.,
and was granted 35 Hen. Yin., to Sir Edward North and
William Darcye. (Bishop Tanner's MomutMcaiu)

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illiire, and confirmed by the Bishop of Worcester,
in whose diocese Tetbury was then situated/
To this Abbey it wa« afterwards made appn,priate.
and a Vicarage" was oidaiued and endowed with
the whole tithes of one part of the parish (Dough-
ton) and ihe small tithes of the rest. The Rectory
and the Advowson continued to be part of the
possession of the Abbey of Eynsham, until its
suppression aa one of the greater monaateries
under the statute enacted for that purpose. 31
Henry VIII (1540.)

They both came then into the hands of the
Crown, where they remained but a short time,
being made by the King part of the endowment
of Christ's Church, Oxford. This grant took place
under Lettera Patent, 38 Henry VlIL (1547.)

Christ Church, Oxford, continued to possess
both the impropriate Rectory, and the Advowson,
of the Vicarage until the 3rd of Elizabeth, 1561,
when the College exchanged the advowson of the
Vicarage of Tetbury, with Henry, Lord Berkeley,
for that of Wootton under Edge, but retained
the impropriate Rectory.

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^ The grant of Thomas de S. Walerick, of the advowson of
Eynsham Abbey, and the confirmation thereof bj the Bishop
of Worcester, is to be found in the Appendix to Steven's
Supplement to the Manastictm, p. 99 to 101.

* When an J Church b a vicarage, it maj be presumed that
It formerly belonged to some reli^ous foundation. No vicarages
existed in England before the reign of King John.

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George, Lord Berkeley, sold the Advowson of
the Vicarage in 1632, to the Feoifees of the town,
in trust for the inhabitants. The Feoffees ap-
pointed the Vicar from that period, till the advow-
son was sold (under the authority of an Act of
Parliament), in 1839, to John Stanton, Esq. It
has since been disposed of to Charles Stanton,
Esq., of Bownham, Stroud, the present Patron of
the living.

The impropriate Rectory is at present held under
Christ Church, Oxford, by R. S. Holford, Esq.,
M.P., for twenty one years, by the usual lease
renewable every seven years. Its annual value
is £266 16s.

The tithes* of the Vicarage were commuted by
agreement on the 28th October, 1837, for a rent
charge of £807 17s., per annum, and this was
confirmed by the Commissioners appointed under
6 & 7 William IV., c. 91, on the 31st of December,
1839. The value of the glebe, which consists of
59 acres, 2 roods, 30 poles, of excellent arable and
meadow land, is about £150 per annum. The
reserved rents on property leased for lives,
amounts to £52 7s. 6d per annum.

There is a commodious Vicarage Hoiise and

6 Tithes were anciently paid to any religious person at the
will of the owner of the land, until the decree of Pope
Innocent m., which confined the tithes to be paid to the
Parson of the parish, about the year 1200. (Sir R. Atkyn's
OloucesterMrty p. 7.)

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garden, opposite the Paxish Ghurch. The Vica-
rage is endowed with the whole tithes of Dough-
ton, and the small tithes of Upton, and of the
rest of the parish (tJie Orange excepted), all but
com.

In Pope NichoW tax^ the Ghurdi of Tettebur,
was placed at £24, and in the King^s books'
£36 13& 4d. ; first fruits, £36 13a 4d. ; tenths,
£3 13s. 4d. ; procurations, 10s. ; synodals, 2a ;
penticostals, 2s. 6d

Pabticulabs respecting Rev. John Wight.

The Rev. John Wight, who was vicar of Tetbury
from 1741 to 1777, was a great bene&ctor to the
town, and the principle means of the present
Parish Church being built, to which he himself
subscribed £1500. He was Curate of Tetbury in
1740, and from a MS. note in his own hand-

^ Pope Nicholaa' tax (he waa the Fourth of that name, and
held the Popedom from 1288 to 1292), was begun in the reign
of Edward L, in the year 1288, and finished in 1291. The
whole was under the direction of John [de Pontoi^, Bishop
of Winton, he died in 1S04, and Oliver [Sutton] Bishop of
Lincoln, who died in 1300. All the taxes were regulated by
it, till 26 Heniy VIII. Preface to ike edition of Pope Nkkolas*
TaXf puhUahed hy order of the Home of Commona.

' See Dugdale's Monasticonf yol. ii. 168, where the parsonage
of Tedburye, in the countie of Glostere, parcelle of Eynesham
Abbey, is ii>|dued at zxxvjlL xi^s* iii|)d. See also Harl. MSS.y
British Museum, No. 4316.

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writing, I have obtained the following particulars
respecting his appointment to the Vicarage of
Tetbury. **! was nominated to y* Vicarage of
Tetbury, Thursday, Jan''. 2l8t, and presented
January 23rd, 1741-2. I was instituted April
16 th ; present Mr. Sandford, of All Souls College,
and Mr. Pitt, y* Bishop's Secretary (the Bishop at
this time was Dr. Martin Benson, who died in
1752), and inducted April 17th, 1742. Instituted
by Dr. Anoel, inducted by Mr. Bryan.'' During
the whole time of his Incumbency, he seems to
have directed his best efforts to promote the
prosperity and wdfere of the town; there being
a scarcity of water, he erected the pump under
the Market House, at his own expense ia 1749,
and in the same year placed a set of chimes in
the Church tower.

In his endeavours to rebuild the Parish Church,
he met with much opposition firom many of his
parishioners ; who, fearful of the expense, wished
to patch up the old building, which however was
so &T decayed, as to be incapable of substantial
repair. By his energy and self denial he tri-
umphed over aU opposition, but unhappily did
not live to see the Ailfilment of his designs.
In the midst of all his trouble he seems to have
had the warm and energetic support of the Bishop
of the Diocese (then Dr. Benson), as the following
letter will shew. It is a copy of the original in
the Town Chest —

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Glocester, Dec. 19, 1743.

Good Sir, — I thank you for y* paper you sent
me enclosed in your letter. I had before heard of
it, but not seen it.

I am sorry for y* imhappy division and differ-
ences w^ are in your parish. It is a satisfac-
tion, however, to myself, that I did all that was
in my power to quiet those y* were there, and
prevent y* raising of any new ones. And if they
would have hearken'd to me, all this unhappiness
would have been prevented.

You have I dare say y* same satisfaction, y*
it has been ever since you came among them,
your study and labour, to heal animosities, and
to make and promote peace among them. It is
by y* account you give, out of yoiu* and mine now
and any one's power to be able to effect this. I can
only pray for this blessing to them, and it is to be
hoped y* themselves will at last see, what they can-
not but feel, y* evils and mischief w** this unhappy
spirit brings upon themselves and their parish.

I was very glad to receive an account of some
good, at y* same time, y* you sent me of so much
iU in your parish.

I beg of God to lessen y* one, and increase y®
other; and, for this end, to bless you and your
pastoral laboiuB, and am with much esteem.
Your faithful humble servant,
And affectionate brother,

M. GLOCESTER

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Mr. Wight was never married ; he was the
first cousin of the Rev. Robert Wight, Rector of
8. Mary Arches, Exeter, and Prebendary of
Exeter Cathedral. The Wight's were an ancient
family, formerly residing on their estate, near
Bangscote and Wootton imder Edge. The Rev.
John Wight, died 24 November, 1777, when the
Rev. Dr. T. Croome Wickes, was elected vicar.
The new Church was begun in 1777, and re-
opened for Divine Service, October 8, 1781.

In an old MSS. book belonging to Mr. Wight,
lent me by a relative of his family, I found the
following memorandum written partly in Greek,
partly in English characters. It contains a very
valuable testimony to the generosity and self
denial of his character. It is as follows : —

" I do promise in y"* presence of Almighty
God, if He shall give me His grace, without
the assistance of which, we can do nothing, to
apply the fourth part of my income to public
uses, if I can do it consistently with the perfor-
mance of my duty to Him, my neighbours, and
myself." October 9th, 1745.

It was doubtless this goodly determination,
made thirty two years before his death, which
enabled him to contribute so munificently to the
rebuilding of the Parish Church, and to other
public objects.

The extreme anxiety which he had always
manifested for the rebuilding of the Parish Church

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never left him, and the following letter addressed
by him, to those who had opposed his plans, and
ordered by him not to be sent till after his death,
shews how near the design was to his heart.

Gentlemen,

This is deUver'd to you when
praise and blame will affect me aUke ; and, I
hereby assure you, that I was ever a sincere
friend to my Parishioners, and never acted any
part among them, but what would be for their
benefit and advantage. Guided then at this
time by the same good inclinations toward them,
I earnestly entreat you to rebuild your Church,
upon Mr. Hiom's best plan. It is beautiful, it
is substantial, it is extremely elegant, and would
be no small ornament to your town. Consider
that if you collect no more monies among your-
selves, V* I cannot think but you will the sooner
to compleat the work, the interest itself will in
a little time, enable you to do all you want Be
pleased to accept my hearty wishes for your wel-
fare in both worlds, and believe that to my last
hour, I offered my prayers for you all, being, I
assure you, my good friends,

Your fisdthfrd Pastor,

And most affectionate friend,

JOHN WIGHT.
Feb 11, 1775.

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Extracts from Parish Eegistebs and Church

Warden's Books.

Parochial registers for asoeitaiiiing the dates,
te, of birthT^Lriage,. .>nd burii wer. firrt
established by Cromwell, the Vicar General of
Henry VIII., in 1536. By a constitution made
by the Archbishop and Clergy of the province
of Canterbury, 25th of October, 1697, it was
ordered that Parish Register Books should be pur-
chased at the expense of each Parish, and that
there should be transcribed at the same Parish
cost from the paper books then in use, into parch-
ment registers, not only the names of those who
had been baptised, married, or buried during the
reign of the then Queen (which commenced in
1558, a period of thirty nine years prior to the
mandate), but also the names of those who thence-
forth should be baptised, married, or buried.
Such transcripts to be examined, and their cor-
rectness certified at the bottom of each page, by
the Clergyman and Churchwardens. Copies of
the Registers were to be forwarded annually,
within one month of Easter, by the respective
Churchwardens, to the Registrar of the Diocese,
that they might be faithfully preserved in the
Episcopal archivea The constitution was approved
of by the Queen, xmder the Great Seal of Eng-

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land, and ordered to be observed in both pro-
vinces of Canterbiuy and York,*

But although parochial roisters were ordered
thus early to be kept, and provision also made for
their preservation, the earliest existing registers of
this parish commence on the 25th of March, 1631.
(6 Car. L) As ordered by the constitution men-
tioned above, all the early register books are of
parchment, but are not always signed at the
bottom of the page by the Vicar, and never, as
I can find, by the Churchwardens.

The first entry in the Baptismal Register, is-
Thomas Austen, the son of Thomas Austen,
baptised the 27th of March.

The first in the Marriage Roister —
Nicholas Lyde, and Susanna Shreefe, married
7th of May.

The first in the Burial Register, is—
Clement Nicholas, buried 25th of March, 1631.
There are no entries of marriages in the years
1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1646, 1648, 1649,
which is probably to be accounted for by the
irregularities consequent upon the Civil Wars,
diuing the Great Rebellion.

There are no entries of burials in 1641, 1643,
1644, 1645, 1646, and only one in 1647. Many

^ See Sims' Manual for the Oenealogiat, Topographer^ Antiquary^
and the Legai Professor, Russell Smith, 1856 ; and Notes and
Queries^ 2nd Series, Vol. ii, p. 378.

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of the entries of burials before 1661 are scarcely
legible.

Many of the marriages contracted during the
Commonwealth were mere civil contracts, no reli-
gious ceremony being performed between the con-
tracting parties. The first two entries of mar-
riages in 1654 are signed by " Nath. Cripps,"
probably a magistrate residing at Upton. These
are entered thus —

John Haywood and Joane Saimders were mar-
ried y* 6 of Aprill.

Richard Nowell and Elizabeth Horwood were
married 24 AprilL

Nath. Cripps.

Some other of the registers axe curiously
enough entered, e,g.

Saturday, December y' 13th, 1656, was borne
Sarah Deninge, daughter of John Deninge, one
quarter of an hour before 6 of the dock at night.

1696. April 14, we have the entry, "A Quakers
child borne." no name being given, probably from
the parents refusing to allow the child to be
baptised.

1702. Oct 17, Elizabeth, daughter of John
Bliss, Tetbury, borne on Friday morning at six,
Oct. 16, and baptised Oct. 17. The old Vicar
evidently being anxious that the date of his
daughter's birth and baptism should be accurately
known.

In the following extracts I have endeavoured

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to select those who were closely connected with
the parish, and therefore have an especial claim
on our notice.

From the Burial Register —
Eichard Talboys, Esq., deceased, the 3rd of
August, and was buried the 18th of August^ 1663.
1658 The 15th of January, deceased ould Ambrose

Inde.
1665 John Denning, Clerk of this Parish for

about fifty years, was buried the 25th

day of May, iEtas 91.
1667 Eliz. Creed, iU^ttimata (buried).
1669 An Ejiowles, murdered by her own son, and

buried Aprill y* 19th, 1669.
Richard Knowles, hanged in irons, for mur-

deren his own mother, August 4th.

1674 Mr. Sam^ Gastrile, Oct. y* 30th
Mr. John Elton, Dec. y* 18th.

1675 Good wife Huging, May y* 24th.

A child of Witch Warrand, Martch y* 12th.
1678 Henry Heaven, scoolmaster.
1689 A child of Witch Comleys, May y* first.
1681 Mr. William Savage, Esquire, Octob. y* 3.
1685 Mr. James GastrUe, deceased Octob. y® 12th.
1696 Mr. Daniel Norris, Vicar, Aprill 22nd.
1695 A child of Wm. Holfords, Dec. 5th.

Mr. Deacon's kinswoman, 30th.

A Quaker, January 31st.

1700 Dr. Stedman, May 3rd.

1701 A Stranger, Feb. 18.

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A Scotchman, May 28

1703 Mr. Hall, Schoolmaster, June 5th.

Old Crowther, a Quaker, January 21,

1705 W°*. Holforda child, Nov. 4th.

1708 A child found dead in the Church porch,
buryed Feb. 14th.

1 720 Charles Fisher, a soulder, was shot on Mon-
day, May the 25th, 1720, at the four
mile house for desertion-
Witness, John Mitchell, Clark.

1738 Elinor and AquiUa Turtell, kiUed by y*
fall of an house, March 8.

1769 Mrs. Mary Deacon, aged 84, much lamented,
March 2.

1773 James Stephens, our excellent Parish Clerk,
aet. 53, November 6th.

1775 Mary, d. of John Bamfield, killed by a
waggon, Aug. 16.

1777 Jane, d. of William Ludlam, a child mur-
der d by its mother, May 19.
The Kev. John Wight, M.A., Vicar of this
Parish, aged 70, Nov. 24, *

1786 Robt. Williams, Schoolmaster, May 17,

Thomas Croome Wickes, D.D., Vicar of this

Parish, April 7,
A chimney-sweeper, name unknown, June 26,

1788 Elizabeth, the relict of T. C. Wickes, D.D.,'
late Vicar, Dec. 27.

1792 Rev. Mr. Jn"* Richardes, Vicar of this
Parish, May 31st

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1795 William Preen, found drown in a Canal

between Stroud and Salperton, July 8th.
1797 Mrs. Ann Taylor, in her life time a great

benefactress to the Tetbury Sunday

Schooljs, Dea 21st.
1800 A poor soldier belonging to the 43rd Regt.

of Foot, Dec. 1 7th.
1803 The Rev. Mr. John Savage, Rector of Be-

verstone, March 26th.
Thos. Cripps, of Upton, Dea 30th.
1807 Mary Smith, of Doughton, who was blind

for many years, Dea 15tL
1806 Mr. Robert Wight, one of the Feoffees of

this Borough, March 5th.
John Pill, jun'- who was executed at

Fisherton, March 26.
Mary Peters, found dead in a well, April 21.
1811 Josiah, S. of Samuel and Sarah Lee, a

gipsey boy, who was shot, Oct. 5.

Churchwabdens' Accx>UNTa

It may seem to some that the Churchwardens'
accoimts of any parish are, in themselves, but of
little interest, and are incapable of affording any
information worthy of recording. However true
this may be with respect to Churchwardens'
accounts of modem date, which are generally
arranged so as to give the least possible infer-
mation» it certainly is not applicable to those

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of padt years, for it is from the entry in these
aoooimts of various payments on several public
occasions, that these events are rescued from
entire oblivion. As has been truly observed
by Mr. Nichols, in his Progresses of Queen
Elizabeth^ ** Trifling as it may at first appear
to enter the payment for ringing the bells at
S. Margaret's, Westminster, Lambeth, &c., and
the Churchwardens' accounts of other places, they
have been of material service in pointing out
dates of many a Royal visit, which had hereto-
fore always escaped notice!' And although the
the pariah accounts of such a country town as
Tetbury could not for a moment be brought into
competition with those of our great metropolitan
parishes, in which many events of historical impor-
tance annually occur, still many interesting facts
respecting the fortunes of the town, and the
manners and customs of our for^fetheiB. may be
elicited from them ; which, but for these, and
similar records, would be entirely lost to us. I
have endeavoured to classify the extracts which
follows in such a manner, as to place facts re-
lating to similar events in the same category,
adding explanatory notices whenever they seemed
necessary.

The Churchwardens' accounts for the Parish
of Tetbury, commence in the year 1589. Edward

' Pre&ee, vol. i., p. 1 10.

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Kenter, and Thomas Bird, are the names of the
first Churchwardens recorded. For the first two
or three years this is all that is put down. The
first regular account is in the year 1592, and is
as follows : —

Ano. Dno. 1592,
the seoonde of Apprill, in the xxxiiij*

yere of the Queens Maiestes raigne.
An even aocounte delivered by Richard
Bridgwood and Bayley Woodroofe, Church-
wardens in tedburie, before Roberte
Walker Bailie, Mr. Greorge Estcourte,
Willm. Myles, the day and yere above said

Delivered in money to John Warrant

and John Boxe, Churchwardens, xviiijs. ijd.

Item. More uppon an ould account by
Each*. Bridgwood and Bayley Woodroffe
to gether up in their yere, xvs. ijd.

Ch\u:che bookes delivered

w"* other goodes imto John Boxe,

and John Warrand, by Rich^

Bridgwood, and Bayley Woodroffe,

Churchwardens, y* day and yere above said

Imprimis, on surples, on silver cupp w*** a cover
It. One table clothe w^ iij napkyna
It. One brasse pott, and wood bucket.
It. vj. bookesj w"* oertayne lead.*
In the following years the Church vessels,

^ The spelling here is identical with the original MSS.

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books, and furniture delivered from the Church-
wardens of the preceding year to those of the
following one, are regularly entered at the bottom
of the year's accounts, and signed by those pre-
sent at the Vestry at which the accounts were
audited. The Bailiff usually signs first.

I shall first mention the books which the Church-
wardens of this parish were accustomed to hand
over to their successors. They appear to have
consisted of a Book of Homilies, a Book of Canons,
Bishop Jewell's Apology, the Book of Articles,
Foxe's Book of Martyrs, and the Paraphrase of
Erasmus. The first entry of a book is —
1594 One Homely [Homily] Book.'
1599 The Parrifase of Erasmus, and a register
book of parchment.*

1607 One booke of Constitutions.'

1608 The booke of y" Canons."

1611 One booke called Jewell's book. In 1613, it
is called Bishop Jewell's Apology.^

' The First Book of Homilies was put forth in the earlj part
of Edward Yl's reign (1547,) the second hook in the 5th of
Elizabeth (1563,) by order of Convocation.

^ Desiderius Boterdamus Erasmus, was bom at Rotterdam
in 1467, and died in 1536. He was a very learned man and
published many works. In 1522-24, his Paraphroiis m
Novum TesUmentum was published at Basil, in 2 vols* folio.
In 1548, this paraphrase was published in English and Latin,
in black letter, 4to.

^ The book of Canons was enacted by Convocation in 1603.

® Jolin Jewell, Bishop of Salisbury, was born at Buden, in

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1614 A new Comon Prayer Book.

1633 One Table of Degrees/

1640 Item, p*. for a booke against the fast,* 2

1657 Layd out for an act for the observinge

of y* Sabaoth, 00 00 6

1664 P*. flfor the booke of Articles/ 00 01 00

1665 For a booke for the fast,' 00 01 00

Defvon, m 1522, and died in 1571. His Apologia EccUsub
Anglicana was first published in London, in 1562, in large
8to., other editions were published in 1581, 1591, 1599, &c.
It was frequently printed in England, and several times on
the Continent, where it was translated into German, Italian,
French, Spanish and Dutch. A Greek translation was pub-
lished in Oxford in 1614, and in Welch at the same place.
By the order of Queen Elizabeth, James L, and Charles I.,
and four Archbishops in succesmon, the Apology was ordered
to be read, and chained up in all parish Churches throughout
England and Wales. Watts' Bibliotheca Britannica.

* The Table of Ejndred and Affinity, " Wherein whosoever
are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry
together," was ^rawn up by Archbishop Parker, in 1563, and
is ordered by the 99th Canon, to be set up in all Churches.

* Nov. 12, 1640, the Commons, in concurrence with the
Lords, moved the King for a fast which was appointed and
held. British Chronologistj vol. i., p. 203.

* In 1552, Forty-two Articles of Beligion were published,
they were reduced to thirty-nine in 1562, by Archbishop
Parker and Convocation. They received again the authority
of Convocation in 1571, as well as that of Parliament. See
E. H. Browne's Introduction to Expotitum of Thirty-nine ArtieltSf
and Hardwick*s History of the Articlea.

1 1665, April 5. A fast was observed on this day for the
success of the war against the Dutch. British Chronohgist^

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1671 P. for y* booke of Marters,* 01 00 00

1688 Paid for a booke with thanksgiving

Prayer for a Prince of Wales,* 10

1689 Paid for a proclamacon for the ffast^

and the booke of Prayers, 00 01 06

1689 Ffor a statute book, and y* K*. deda-

racion, 00 03 00

1696 P. charges for 3 warr*" ag*. Sabbath

breakers, 3

The Church Furniture next comes under our
notica In 1612 a Pulpit Cushion is first men-
tioned.
1613 linen for the Communion Table is first

mentioned
1617 One oiwe glass.
1629 This year a green Pulpitt cloth.
1656 It. Paid for a new Pulpitt cloth, 01 08 06
1662 Payd Samuell Saunders for Holland

to make y* surpluss, 04 07 06

yol. L, p. 261. July 5, 1665; a &8t was ordered to be
observed on account of the plague, the first Wednesday in
eyerj month.

* John Foxe, Prebendary of Salbbury was bom 1517, and
died 1687. He published in folio, London, 1563, "Acts and
Monuments of these last and perilous days, touching matters
of the Church." It passed through ton editions between that
year and 1683; since which, no complete edition has been
published. Watts' Bibtiaiheca BrUanmca,

* June 10, 1688. A Prince of Wales bom, who was named
James.

^ May 23, 1689. A proclamation for a fast was made to be

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1676 Ffor an houre glasse, 00 00 09

1688 P. for a Communion cup, 4 16

The following are the most remarkable entries
relating to the history of the times : —

1640 Item. P*. to the ringars on the 5 of

November, 2 6

1641 Item. For the ringers the 7th of Sep-

tember and the 5 Nov. 4 6

1649 Item. Payed for the [ . *] money and

unto the Sessions for maymed soldiers

and for widdowes and orfans, 2 10 3

1649 Item. Payed to poor passengers that

came with passes, 2 11

1656 It. Payd for the exchanging of y*

clapper for y* greate bell, 00 19 00

It. Paid for a bason and fi^me for
baptizinge of Infanta, 00 19 00

1657 Paid to travellers with breifes, 00 03 00
Payd the High Constable an impo-
sition, layd upon the towne and
pish towards the repairing of Chep-
stowe Bridge and Cainesham. 01 09 03

1659 It. P*. for ringeinge on Gunpowder
Treason day and proclaimoinge the
L*. Protector.®

kept about London on the 6th of June, and on the 19th in
other parts of Engbuid.

^ A word ifl here illegible in the original MSS.

^ Oliver Cromwell was proolaimed Protector, Dec. 12, 1653.

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1664 Given to the ringers when the King
[Charles II.] came through the town,

00 15 00
1 675 Ffor ringing on Gunpowder Treason day,

and on the Kings birthday,^ and at
routing the rebells* and other times,

01 12 06
1687 Ffor ringing the bells when K. James

came through the town,^ 01 05 00

For ringing on the late K*. birthday,'

00 05 00
For ringing on Coronation day,* 00 02 06

7 James 11. was born the 14th Oct., 1683.

^ This probably refers to the defeat of the rebels, under the
Duke of Monmouth, at Sedgmoor, on the 6th of July, 1685.
For full particulai's see Macaulay, vol. i., p. 608-612.

9 James II., on the 16th of August, 1687, left Windsor for
Portsmouth, 'when he '* walked round the fortifications, touched
some scrofulous people, and then proceeded in one of his yachts
to Southampton." From Southampton he went to Bath, where
he left the Queen. When he departed, the High Sheriff of
Somersetshire accompanied him to the frontier of the County,
where the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire was in attendance.
The Duke of Beaufort soon after met him and conducted him to
Badminton, where a splendid banquet was prepared. In the
afternoon he proceeded to Gloucester, and in so doing, probably
passed through Tetbury. — Compare Macaulay, vol. ii., 294-295.

1 King James EL was crowned at Westminster Abbey, on the
2drd of April, 1685. The sermon was preached by Francis
Turner, Bishop of Ely, and Lord High Almoner. — ^Macaulay,
vol. i., p. 473-476.

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1688 Ffor ringing at our K'. coming in,* 10
Ffor ringing at the K'. being pro-
claimed,* 12 6
Ffor the late K*. declaration,' 10

1691 Gave for ringers 9'. 5'. (Nov. 5), for

the victory in Ireland,* the return
of the Eonge,^ and at severall other
times, 01 08 00

1692 Gave the ringers for the victory at

sea,* 5 00

1693 Paid by my partner for ringing on

the Kings birthday,'' the return of

* William III. landed at Torbaj, on the 5th November, 1688.
— ^Macaulaj, vol. ii., p. 483. He was proclaimed 12th Feb.,
1689, bj the Heralds, at the usual places in London and West-
minster.

* April 27 th, 1688, James H. issued another Declaration of
Liberty of Conscience, in which the former declaration, of 4th
April, 1687, is recited. — British Chron,, vol. i., p. 846.

* The yictorj in Ireland here mentioned, is the celebrated
Battle of the Boyne, fought between William HI. and his
&ther-in-law, James II., on the Ist July, 1690, in which the
army of the latter was totally defeated. — Macaulay, vol. iii., p.
629-636.

* William HI., returned from Ireland, sailing from Waterford,
and landing at Bristol, Sept. 6th, 1690. He stopped one day
at Badminton, on his way to London.

^ This victory was the Battle of La Hogue, fought May 19ib,
1692, in which the English fleet, under Russell, totally defeated
the French, under Tourville, and destroyed twenty-one of the
largest French men-of-war.

7 William, son of Henry Frederick, Prince of Orange, and

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the King from Flanders, and on Gun-
powder Treason day, 13 5.
1693-4 For tolling at the Queen's ftineral,* 3 0.
1695 To the ringers when Namur was sur-

surrendered,' 5

For ringing at the Bangs return,* 6 0.
1698 Gave the ringers on the news of

peace,* 12

Gave them when peace was proclaimed,'

15
Nov. 19, being the day of the Bang's
retium, gave the ringers,* 10

Marj, daughter of Charles I., was bom at the Hague, 14th
Nov., 1650.

^ Queen Mary died at Kensington, 28th Dec., 1693, and was
buried with great magnificence at Westminster Abbej, on the
5th of March following. The Dukes of Norfolk, Somerset, and
Northumberland, the Marquess of Normanbj, and the E^rls of
Kent, and Derby, were the pall-bearers. Tenison, Archbishop of
Canterbury, preached from Eccles. vii., 14. All the bells of
the Churches throughout England were ordered to be tolled
on that day. (Sandford's Qenealogy of Eoyal FcanUy^ p. 720.)

^ The town of Namur was surrendered 23rd July, 1695.
William III. was the English general. Marshal Boufflers the
French.

> William in. returned from Flanders, 11th October, 1695.

> The Treaty of Peace was signed at Byswick, between
England, France, Spain, Holland, and Germany, on the 20th
of September, 1697. By this fiunous treaty the peace of
Europe was established. — Haydn.

* Peace was proclaimed in England.

^ William in. returned from Holland in the autumn of 1698,

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1700 Paid for ringing on S. George's day,* 2 6.

The items that follow relate to the repairing
and beautifying of the ChnrcL

1663 Item. Paid for pointing the steeple,

and mending and gilding the weather-
cock and work, 6 16 6
1661 Payd for mending the King's armes,

that is carved in tymber, 00 10 00

Payd for the makinge of the new
King's armes in the flfram', 04 00 00

1664 P*. to Thomas Avery for leading the

font, 02 03 10

P^. for the cover for the ffont to R.
Groom, 02 09 06

1671 Paid for raissing y* bailifes seat and
timber, and mending other seats in
the Church, 01 10 11

1678 Payde towards the mending and re-

pairinge the tower and steeple to
W". Chapman, 45 14 02

1679 Payd Stephen Lews for repairing of

the Church porch, 02 01 08

having settled there the Treaty of Partition. This treaty was
signed on the 11th Oct., and regulated the succession to the
Spanish Crown.

^ James II. was crowned on the 22nd of April (being S.
George's Day.) Perhaps some Jacobites at Tetbury, in their
zeal for the exiled King, caused the bells to be rung on this
day. James II. died at S. Germains, Sept 6th, 1704, aged 68.

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1685 To John Sherman, for making a gallery,
a ringing loft, aixd a beare, and seal-
ing [ . ®] in the Church, and other
work, and for timber and irons, 59 06 06.

1691 Paid to Tho. Thombnry for a candle-
stick, 03 15 00
P. to Robert Meddy for the King^s

Arms, 05 05

Paid Thomas Thombury for another
candlestick, 3 10

1695 P*. James Browne for work about the

tower in new leading thereof, 15 9 11
For casting the brasses, 1 1 10

1698 For the pulpit candlestick, 15 6

1702 P*. for a box to put the surplice in, 1

The following entries occur for killing vermin : —

1673 Payd for killing of 5 hedhoggs, 00 00 06

1678 Payd for a killinge a foxe, 00 01 00

1680 Payd for 4 fFoxes heades, 00 04 00

1684 For a ffoxes head, 19 hedghoggs, and

4 joyes (jays), 00 03 01

1685 For 22 foxes heads, 01 02 00
1687 P*. for ffour fFoxes heads to Mr. Hunt-
ley's man, and 12 to the Duke of
Beaufort's man, 00 16 00

A word is here iU^ible in the MSS.

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MlSCELLANEOU&

1640 Item. For bread and wine the whole

year for Sacramenttes, 5 14 7

1633 Item. Ilec^ gathered for bread and wine

5
1624 Item. Rec*. for Mr. Gastreirs rate, 10
1626 Item. One lease of the Church House,

granted to Mr. Sperte, to be delivered
from Churchwardens successively one
to another
1630 Item. Rec*. for the Church house rent,

6 3 4
1638 Item. A gift of £3 that was given by

the Widow West, of Upton, unto the
Church, was bestowed towards the
building of a gallery.

1656 It. Payd out in expenses in o' journey
to Glouc*" being warned to deliver
in accompt of y* Ministers salary.

1659 For send^g th; money forTLd to

y* Sheriff, 10

1674 To Roger Webb, for looking to the

Church in tyme of catechising the
children, 00 01 00

1675 Payd for bridge money 00 19 00
1684 To John Hooper, for writing the re-
sponses in the Book of Comon Prayer,

00 01 08

To John Holland for writing rules of
instruction for charitable uBes, 01 02 06
In this year mention is made, in tjie Church
goods delivered by the old to the new Church-
wardens^ of a copy of ** The Kings' declaracon of
touching for the evil ".'

1694 Spent in making 3 journeys to the

EJarl of Berks, before he would pay

me, 5

1656 Under the head of convicion money

is mentioned—

Rec*. of John Wild^ being convicted for

tiplinge' 3 4

Rec*. of Nicholas Porthurye, of Bibury,
for swearing foure oathes,' 13 4

' The King's evil was supposed to be cured by the touch of
the Sovereign of En^and. The first who touched for it
was Edward the Confessor, 1058. In the reign of Charles II.,
this credulity had risen to such a height, that in 14 years
92,107 persons were touched, and according to Wiseman, the
King's physician, they were nearly all cured I Queen Anne
announced in the London OazetU^ March 12, 1712, her Royal
intention to touch publicly for the cure ^ the eviL The
custom was ultimately dropped by George L, 1714.

* By statute 4 Jac. I., c. 5 (1607), drunkenness is punished
with the forfeiture of 68., or sitting six hours in the stocks ;
and there were many wholesome statutes passed in the reign
of King James, which regulate the licensing of ale houses,
and punish persons found tippling in them. Blackstone's
Chmmeniariu^ Book iv*, e. 4, sec. 10.

* The last statute against swearing and cursing is 19 Geo. 11^
c 81, which repeals all former ones, and orders that eveiy

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Bep^ of Phillip Greene, for swearinge, 3 4
Bee* of Anthony Pokon, for selling
beare lesse than meajsure, 20

1700 Bec^ of Jonathan Skelton, for suffering
tipling in his house on a Lorde's
day, 10

John Morton, for two curses, 4

James Johnson Scott, for being drunk,

Monuments in the Old Chubch,

The old Church, which was pulled down in
1777 to make room for the present one, contained
many valuable monuments, especially an Altar
one to the great William de Braose, which was
erected under the arch which separated the
Chancel from the South Aisle. It with many
others was destroyed at the time of the re-
building of the Church ; but the inscriptions on
several of the monuments have been preserved
in Budder, and in some of the Parish Begisters.
These are given below together, with some of
most remarkable in the present Church. Copies
of aU the remaining inscriptions in the Parish

labourer, soldier, or sailor, profanely sweaiiDg shall forfeit Is.;
every other person under the degree of a gentleman, 2s.; and
every gentleman or person of superior rank, ffs. Ibid.,, Book
iv., c. 4, sec. 5.

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Church at present, are given in the Appendix
No. IIL

On the left-hand entering the old Church was
a little Chapel, wherein stood "a fair wall pieoe
and livelj effigies of John Savage, Gent., in
his sable robes. kneeUng."

In the same Chapel lyeth the body of William
Savage, Esq., the father of Charles Savage,
Gent., " a great lover of antiquity, and a studious
gentleman in Heraldrie."

There is also another wall piece in memory of
Mr. John Savage.

Over Mr. Savage's seate, facing the pulpit,
hangeth a large tablet, whereon is written in
letters of gold :

To the happy memory of Chaslbs Savage, of Broadway,
in the County of Worcester, Esqre., and Elizabeth his wife,
the daughter of Anthony Abington, of Dowdswell, Esqre.^

On a brass tablet let into a stone slab in the

South Cloister of the present Church, having

evidently been removed from the old one, is the
following inscription :

Hic JACET Franciscus Savaob
FiLius QyALTERi Savaoe db Brod-

WAT IK com. WiGORN. ARMIG. QUI OBI-

rr 2o DIE March, ano. Doboni 167 1.
Maria uxor ejus Filia Edhun-
Di EsTCOURT Gen : obmt 26®
DIE August Anno Dom. 1645.

» Abel Wantner'i MS. Hist, of

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In the old Churdh, on the West side, there
was a monument to John Savage, who was re-
presented kneeling before an Altar ; and this
quaint inscription upon it in capital letters :

Oar bodies all received of earth, Earth must againe them

keepe,
Uhtill the Lord shall raise them up, to life from deadly

sleepe :
Our souls aloft to Heaven shall mounts where death them

cannot inresse ;
Death only is a Dore to us, the true life to possesse;
Our glofj here still vanishing, prone to decay* to &U,
Shall after death be stablished, be made Angelicall.
What then I what then ! Though Savage Death, our Savage

thus hath slayne.
Regard it not, 'tis nothing, for, it was with Christ to raigne.
John Sayaob, Gknt, deoeas'd, the 28th Maye, Anno Dot
1608.

In the present Church, On a handsome Monu*

over the Yestiy door. ment on the South side

M.S. of the Altar.

Joannis Sitvage, Arm.
Qui e vitk cessit, m.8.

Decembris 19, Joannis Savage, AM.

A.D. 1772. Yin innocni, probi, pii,

Frauds Savage, Gen.. q^j yj^jj^ annos liz.

OWit Oct 18, A.i>. 1769, M.64. Qbiit xvii. Mart mdccciU.

EHzabeiha Savage,
OUitNov. 14, A.D. 1777,iB.69.

Eleanora Savage,
Obiit Aug. 6, A.D. 1763, JB. 49.

On a monumental tablet on the North side of
the Chancel was this inscription:^

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. Eito fidelis nique ad mortem, at dabo tibi CdFooam Yitn.

In Remembrance
of tbat Grave Gentleman^

RiOHABD TaLBOTS, EsQ.,

Who, after a Pilgrimage of 67 years,

Departed this Life, drd Aug., a.d. 1663.

Eatherine his wife

as a pledge of surviving Love hath erected [this monument]

Senibus uxors est in januis juvenibus

vero in insidiis. Attende tibi ipsi viator.

On the South side of the Chancel, ''under a
feire blew grave stone/' were interred the bodies
of John Elton, of Tetbury, Graduated Doctor
of Physick, and Joan, his wife, and Charles their
youngest son.'

In the old Church, upon a flat stone in the
South aisle, was the following inscription :*

Here lyeth y* body of Makt, the wife of Nathanisl Cbipps,
Gknt, daughter of Samitbl Bubooxbe, of Sodburj, Gent, who
departed thb life the ISth day of July, 1710, iBtatis suas 86.
Her body earthly was, and to the earth
Descended is, from whence it took its birdi ;
Her soul from a more high original
Mounted aloft> became AngelicaL
Clog not her wings, then, with your dewy tears.
On which she's raised above the starry spheres :
Cease, husband ; children, cease ; ^ve Qod the pnuse.
Which she now warbles in immortal layes.
Also Margaret, the daughter of y* said Nathaniel and
Margaret, departed y« life y« 13th of July, 1710.

Here also lyeth the body of the aforesaid Nathaniel Cripps,

* Wantner's History of OloucetUrMre,
* Rudder, p. 782.

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who departed thifl life the 23rd day of March, Anno Dom.
1739-40, ^tatia suae, 65.

An epitaph in old Tetbuiy Church :

See here ihi».plott for all her store,

WiUi greedie throale still gapes for more ;

For newlj now she has tomb'd in earth

The bodj of Sam. Gastrbll, Gentile by birth,

Bereft of life in the month of Sept' ,

One thousand, six hundred, and seventy four.^

In a vault under an old Church were found, in
the year 1771, an amazing quantity of human
bones, merely laid one upon another. The heap
was about four feet in depth, eight feet in breadth,
and eighteen feet in length ; they were tolerably
sound, and must probably have been there for
many hundred years, as tradition does not give
us any information concerning them.*

On the North side of the altar in the present
Church, is the monument of the great bene£su^tor
of this town, Sir William Romney ; a marble bust
of Sir Wflliam is placed over the inscription, which
is as follows : —

'* This monument was erected in memory of

St' William Romney, Kn^ , one of the Aldermen and

Sheriffs of London, in the year of Our Lord, 1603,

a native of Tetbury, and a great Bene&ctor to it,

at the desire of John Wight, M.A.,

36 years Vicar of the Parish, and a sincere lover of it,

which he manifested by many Public Charities, as well

^ Paroch. Register No. 2.
• MSS. note of the Rev> John Wight, Paroch. Reg. No. 2.

161

aa being Uie principAl BenefiMStor and Promoter of
building this Church, which was opened Oct 7, 1781*
The said John Wight departed this life
at the age of 70 years, Nov. 24, 1777.
Reader, encourage no unnecessary suits of law amongst thy
neighbours, but always follow after the things that make for
Peace ; be Public Spirited, and if thou art of sufficient ability,
be sure to add some ornament to the House of God. Give some-
thing to thy Poor Brother, to the Widow, and Fatherless. Amen.

Underneath are the arms of Romney and
Wight. The former are — ^Azure, on a bend cotised
argent, three escalop shells, gules.^ The latter —
Gules, a Chevron between three boars' heads,
couped, or.

On a tomb in the Church Yard :

Here lieth the Bodie of William Packer,

Who was to truth a Friende.

He lived a godly life.

And made a godly end.

Sept. 11^. 1752, aged 61 years.

On a small oval marble tablet, near the West

door of the present Church :

M. S.
DeborsB Uxoris Jacobi Roche de Merriott de Comitatu
Somersetensi Grenerosi, Quaa obijt quinto Die mensis
Julij, A.D. MDOCXX, anno suas aetat xxix. Nee non
Patricij eorum filij in&ntuli, qui obijt ultimo
die ejusdem mensis et Anni.

On the top are their arms, gules, three roaches
in pale proper : underneath

MoKapioi oi viKpoi oi cv jcvpcy airodvq<ricovrcc-
7 Harleian MSS., No. 1463, p. 102.

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Affixed to the Vestiy wall is a tablet bearing
the following mscription :

In memory of
Mr. John Thomas, who

died Feb. the 13^ 1705. ,

He gave j* overseen i

of the poor of this parish

Ten Pounds to be left in

the Parse for ever.

This tablet was erected in y^ year 17 10,

By James Thomas, His Son and Executor.

On a marble slab near the West door b in-
scribed 88 follows :

In a Vault underneath

lie several of the Sauhdkbsbs

late of this Parish : — Particulars

the last day will disclose. Amen.

Underneath are the arms of the Saunderses^
Per chevron, sable and argent; three elephants'
heads^ erazed, two and one, countercharged — with
the Motto— iVbn ad pemiciem sed ad defmdonem.

I shaQ conclude this diapter with a few re-
marics on the proper character of mscriptions on
Christian monuments.

"The principal intention of epitaphs" says Dr.
Johnson,' " is to perpetuate the examples of virtue,
that the tomb of a good man may supply the
want of his presence, and veneration fi>r his me-
mory produce the same effect as the observation
of his virtues.'' This dictum of the great doctor.

• Worka^ rol. ii.» p. 272, hy Arthur Murphy, 1792.

153

if generaUy carried into practice, would preserve
us from many of the fulsome and laudatory in-
scriptions which now disfigure so many of our
Churches.

That man would deserve well of his countiy-
men who would persuade them to erect Christian
memorials to their departed frienda Monuments,
and the inscriptions upon them, should ever be
strictly in accordance with the spirit of the place
where they are erected. When we commit our
beloved ones to the earth, in sure and certain
hope of the general Besurrection at the last Great
Day, should we not also seek to mark the spot»
were they rest tUl the mom of the Besurrection,
as the sleeping place of a Christian, of one, who,
having for a time laid aside the burden of the
body, awaits in hope the coming of his Lord to
judgment 1

Surely it is not too much to ask that the
monuments in English Churches should harmon-
ize with the character of the sacred edifices, and
the inscriptions on them accord with her doctrines ;
yet how seldom is this the case ? How rare, till
of late years, to find in any Churchyard the sym-
bol of our redemption, the Holy Cross* erected over

' Crosses were yerj anciently fixed as carved monuments
and grave stones. Among the laws of Kenneth, King of
Scotland, a.d. 840, we meet with this ; Esteem every sepulchre
or grave-stone sacred, and adorn it with the sign of the Cross,

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the grave of those, who, if they were Christians,
indeed, had daily borne it after their Lord. Yet,
how common is it now to see in every Church-
yard, the symbols wherewith the Pagans of old,
marked the burial places of their dead, the inver-
ted torch, to symbolize that all hope had fled ;
think of this over the grave of a Christian,
whose hope should be in his death 1 The sepid-
chral urn, which in heathen times contained the
ashes of those, whose bodies had been burnt after
death ; think of this as a Christian memorial
over one, whose body had been the temple of the
Holy Ghost ! If Christian mourners for a moment
allowed sudi thoughts as these to take possession
of their minds, they could not permit the resting
place of their beloved ones to be desecrated by
these symbols of a heathen worship, a worship
which delighted to honour, not the God who
created and redeemed them, but the devil and
his angels, who ever seeks to ruin and destroy
them.

The proper designs of a Christian epitaph is
to exdte in the mind of the reader, penitential
sorrow, or consolatory reflection. The tomb of a
Christian should speak to the passer-by, of the
uncertainty of life, of the blessedness of purity
and holiness, and of the sure reward laid

which take care you do not so much as tread upon. Gough's
Sepulchral MonumeniSf p. 3^.

166

up in store for the godly. If such were the
case, they being dead, would yet speak to us>
would urge us to follow their example, would
incite us to greater humility and watchfulness;
as we passed by their silent tombs to enter the
House of God, solemn thoughts would arise in oiu*
hearts, we should remember that we were treading
on holy ground, that around us rested the dust
of Saints, waiting for the quickening breath of
their Lord and Giver of life to awaken them to
an immortality of bliss.

Such are the thoughts which Christian memo-
rials in a Churchyard might raise in our hearts ;
and, therefore, it becomes the duty of every
Christian to seek in his measure to render the
graves of our departed ones, teachers of good to
those who yet live. Each one, however humble,
may bear his share in the good work. And we
have good hope that such a spirit is even now
arising in our land, as will, before many years
elapse, altogether banish even the thought of
erecting any symbol of heathenism in omr Church-
yards.

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CHAPTER IV.

The Tbtbury Chabities.

Scheme for Regulating the Tetbnry Charitj Estatei,— Abstract of Wills
of Different BeneflMstors,— Sir William Bomney,— Sir Thomas Estcourt,
— John Veisey, &&

The Charities of this town are very numerous,
^ were <mginany given by nZj different
indiwluala Ihoy' £. di^Lted Lder the
superintendence of the Vicar, Churchwardens, and
Feoffees. Those given away by the latter, are
regulated by a scheme drawn up for the future
application of the revenues of the Tetbury Charity
Estates, and confirmed by the Court of Chancery^
on the 24th of February, 1830, which is as
follows : —

In the matter of the Tetbury Estates.
Scheme for the fiiture application of the revenues
of the Tetbury Charity Estates, laid before the
Master,' to whom this matter was referred by
the Trustees of the said Charities, and approved
of by him m his report, bearing date the 24th
day of February, 1830, and subsequently con-
firmed by the Court.

I Sir Giffin Wilson.

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First. That thirty pounds per annum be be-
stowed in gowns for the poor Vf Tetbury, in such
manner as the Feoffees for the time being, or the
majority of them, ahaU think fit.

Secondly. That seventy poimds per annum be
paid to a schoohnaster, for teaching poor children
of the inhabitants of the said town, to read, write,
and cast accounts ; and that the Feoffees for the
time being, or the majority of them, shall have
the appointment of the said schoolmaster.

Thirdly. That thirty five poimds per annum be
paid to a schoolmistress^ for teaching poor female
children of the inhabitants of the said town, to
read, write, and cast accounts, and also for in*
structing them in needle-work ; the schoolmis-
tress to be appointed and removed firom time to
time as occasion may require, by the majority
of the Feoffees for the time being.

Fourthly. That the sum of thirty pounds per
annum be allowed for books and the general
expenoes of ike boys and girls school, to be kid
out at the discretion of the Vicar and Feoffees,
or the majority of them for the time being.

Fifthly. That the Feoffees for the time being,
or the majority of them, be at liberty to cause
such part of the Market House of the said town,
to be fitted up for school rooms for the said boys
and girls schools as they shall think fit, and that
the expence thereof be defrayed out of the Charity
Estates.

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Sixthly. That the management of both the
boys and girls schools, be under the superintend
d^ice of the Vicar of Tetbury for the time being,
as weU as of the Feoffees of the said Charity
Estates.

Seventhly. That thirty pounds per annum be
paid to a Lecturer, to be chosen by the greater
number of the Feoffees for the time being ; the
lectures to commence every year on the third
Sunday in April, and continue to be given every
Sunday following until the third Sunday in
September.

Eiirhthly. That twenty pounds per annum be
paiTfor Tppr^nticing p^r childreTbom in the
said town.

Ninthly. That thirty-one pounds four shillings
per annum, (being at the rate of twelve shiUings
a week,) be paid to a night watehman, t« watch
che said town and borough, who shall be ap-
pointed and removed as occasion may require,
by the majority of Feoffees for the time being.

And lastly. That the surplus revenues of the
said Charity Estates (after such annual payments
shall be fully made and discharged,) be applied
for the best use, general good, and advantage of
« the said town and borough of Tetbury, in such
manner aad form aa the said trustees for the
time being or the majority of them shaU in their
discretion think advisabla

They are distributed among the poor parish-

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ionens according to the regulation of the will of
the several donors, principally on S. Thomas day.
New Year's day, Lady day, and Easter Monday,
in each year.

The following abstract of the wills of the
different benefactors will give the most trustworthy
information respecting the nature of the different
charities, and the objects which the donors had
in founding them.

1610. Sm William Romney, Knight, bom in
Tetbury, and one of the Aldermen of London,
having a lease of the toUs and profits of the Fairs
and Markets of the town of Tetbury, determining
in a few years after his decease, by his will gave
the same lease during its continuance to the town,
for the uses following, viz :—

Five shillings per week to the poor.

Thirteen pounds per annum for a Schoolmas*
ter to teach the children of the town and parish,
gratis.

Six pounds towards the maintaining of a weekly
lecture, and the residue to the Bailiff of Tetbury,
for the time being.

In 1640, a purchase was made by the princi-
pal inhabitants (the savings fix)m the said lease
forming part of the consideration money,) of the
Markets and Fairs of Tetbury, and the tithes
and profits thereof ; and it was, by an agreement
called the Tripartite Deed (which had been pre-
viously executed,) declared that.

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Ten pounds per annum, should be distributed
in gowns to the poor.

Twenty poimds per annum, paid to a school*
master and ush^ to teach the children of the
said town.

Ten potmds per annum, paid for a Lecturer.

Five pounds per annum, laid out in appren-
ticmg poor childmi bom in the said town.

But that if the profits of the Fair and Markets
should decay, then, the payments should be dis-
continued or abated. It was also agreed that
the fifty pounds given by the will of William
Langstone, and twenty pounds received for the
detaining thereof, should be laid out towards the
payment of the purchase aforesaid ; and, that
four poimds by the year, (now called Bailiff's
money) mentioned in the will of the said William
Langstone, payable to the poor, from the said fifty
pounds, should be continued for ever to the poor.
And that the twenty pounds given to the poor
by John Maltbt, derk, should be employed
towards the pinx)hase aforesaid, and that twenty
shillings by the year should be for ever paid for
the said twenty pounds to the poor in the alms-
house there.

1642, April 10th. Sib Thomas Estoourt, by
wiQ of this date, gave and appointed forty shillings
a year, chargeable on his tenements in Tetbury,
for a lecture in Tetbury foxur times in the year,
for ever ; and the residue of the said rents to

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be distributed for the relief of the poor of Tetbury
and Dursley, equally between them.

* 1677. John Veizby, by his will, gave to his
kinsman, John Witney, and his heirs for ever,
his ground adjoining to the way leading from
Upton to Tetbury, and charged upon the said
ground the sum of thirty shiDings per annum,
to be distributed as follows : —

Ten shillings per annum, to be paid to the
Vicar of Tetbury, for preaching a sermon in the
Parish Church of Tetbury every year, on the
day of the said testator's burial ; and after the
death of the said Vicar, to be paid to such Minister
as the Churchwardens for the time being shall
appoint to preach such sermons.

Twenty shillings per annum, to the poor of the
town and parish of Tetbiuy for ever, to be
distributed there.

Five shillings, to the poor of Upton for ever.

Fifteen shillings, to be bestowed in bread for
the poor of Tetbury, Doughton, and Charlton in
the parish of Tetbury.

Eighteen shillings and sixpence, to be bestowed
in 4d. loaves, to be distributed by the Church-
wardens and Overseers for the time being, to such
ancient poor people as they shall think fit^ upon
the said day of the month, every year for ever.

* The Benefactors marked with an Asterisk, are those who

have left money for Sermons to be preached on especial days

appointed by them.
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Six shillings and eight pence, to be laid out in
forty two-penny loaves, to be bestowed upon forty
poor children of Tetbury, Doughton, and Charlton,
aforesaid, upon the day before mentioned, for ever.

1680, Oct. 8tk WiLUAM Talboys, by wiU of
this date, gave an annuity of twenty shillings for
ever chargeable on an estate called Barley Crofts for
the buying of books for the poorer sort of children
in the Grammar School of Tetbury, as the Minister
of the said parish, and the Schoolmaster of the
said school,' shall order and direct.

1682, Dec. 20tL By indenture of this date,
made between Giles Stedman and Katherine, his
wife, (Executrix and Widow of Bichard Talboys.
Esq., deceased,) it appears that the said Eichabd
Talboys, by will, dated 4th of June, 15 Charles IL
(1664,) had given twenty pounds to the poor
of the parish of Tetbury for ever ; but, that
hitherto, the bequest of the said Richard Talboys,
had not been settled or disposed of as the will
directed, but that the said Katherine, out of
respect to the will of her first husband, had given
yearly to the poor of Tetbury, twenty-four dozen
of bread It was agreed by this indenture, that
an aimuity of thirty shillings for ever, on the
dose of pasturage ground called Babton Cboft,
to be laid out yearly by the Churchwardens and
Overseers in six-penny bread, to be distributed by
them to sixty families of the eldest sort of poor
people within the said parish, with a power to

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the Churchwardens and Overseers to enter upon
the said close^ and distrain for the said annuity
in case of non payment.

* 1696, Dec. 2nd. Charles Elton, of Tetbury,
County of Gloucester, by his will of this date,
gave unto the Churchwardens and Overseers of
the said parish, a dear annuity of fifty shillings,
to be issuing out of all his messuages, lands, tene-
ments, and hereditaments, situated in the West
street, of Tetbury, aforesaid, to be paid on the
Friday next before Bogation Simday, for the uses
therebafter mentioned, viz :-

That the said Churchwardens and Overseers
should give yearly upon Ascension day, the sum
of ten shillings to the Vicar of Tetbury, for the
time being, for preaching a sermon yearly, for
ever, on Ascension day, in the parish Church of
Tetbury, aforesaid ; and lay out forty shillings
upon bread, to be distributed by them yearly,
for ever, upon the said day, immediately afler
such sermon, to the poor people of the said parish
of Tetbury.

* 1710, Feb. 13th. Jonathan Shipton, of Tet-
bury, clothier, by will of this date, gave his
freehold house, situated in Tetbury, aforesaid,
(now occupied by Messrs. J. T. and R C. Paul,
Solicitors, as offices,) to his wife, Mary, and to
her heirs and assigns for ever, chargeable with
an annuity of thirty shillings a year as follows : —

Ten shillings a year for the preaching of a

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sermon yearly, to commence from the day of his
decease, and so to continue on the same day in
every year for ever.

Twenty shillings worth of bread yearly, to the
poor of the town and parish of Tetbury, aforesaid,
to be given yearly, on the same day as the sermon
should be preached, (February 18th.)

* 1713, Jan. 24tL Johk Avery, of Hambrooke.
in the parish of Winterbome, county of Gloucester,
gave and devised an annuity of eleven pounds,
three shillings, clear of all taxes and payments
whatsoever, to be payable out of all his messuages
and tenements, lands, bereditaments, and premises
with their appurtenances, in the county of Somer-
set, and city of Bristol, for ever, in manner
following : —

Ten shillings, to the Minister of the parish
Church of Tetbury and his successors for ever,
to preach a sermon in the said parish Church
of Tetbury each year, on the day of the testa-
tor^s decease ; but, if that day should happen to
be on a Sunday, then he appointed the sermon
to be preached on the next day.

Three shillings, to the Clerk of the said parisL

Two shillings, to the Sexton, and their succes-
sors for ever, for their respective attendances
at the sermon, as aforesaid; and ten pounds
eight shillings, residue of the said eleven pounds
three shillings, to be given in bread weekly, on
every Sunday in the year, in eight six-penny

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loaves, by the said Churchwardens and Overseers
for the time being, to such poor relations of his
as should be in want ; and, if there should -be
no such poor relations, then to eight poor house-
keepers not receiving ahns of the parish of Tet-
bury, but inhabiting in the said town.

1723, May 13th. Elizabeth Hodges,, of Ship-
ton Moyne, in the county of Gloucester, by her
will of this date, gave and devised unto Thomas
and Edmund Estcourt, of Biirton hill, in the
parish of Malmesbury, Co\inty Wilts, Gilbert
Grastrell, of Tetbury, John Sloper, of the same
place, and Edward Morse, the younger, of Dursley,
County Gloucester, and their heirs, an aimuity
or yearly rent charge of sixty pounds ; to be pay-
able out of her capital messuage, manor or farm
and lands called Lorwick, alias Lorrage, in the
several parishes of Leonard Stanley, Cam, Stinch-
comb and Berkeley, or some of them, in the said
County of Gloucester, to hold to them, their heirs
and assigns for ever, upon trust that they fdiould
give thirty pounds yearly, for the augmentation
of the Charity Schools in the town of Tetbury,
in such manner as by them should be thought
meet, for teaching poor children to read, write,
and cast accounts, and making them the better
capable of trade and callings for gaining their
livelihoods.

The remaining thirty pounds was bequeathed
for the Charity Schools at Malmesbury. The

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present surviving Trustees under Mrs. Hodges'
will, are Thomas H. S. Sotheron Estoourt, Esq.,
M.P., Robert S. Holfoid, Esq., M.P., Walter M.
Paul, Esq., and S. B. Brooke, Esq.

* 1731, May 1st. Thomas Talboyb, of Hoxton,
Ooimty of Middlesex, by will of this date, gave
and deviaed unto the Minister and Churchwar-
dens of the parish of Tetbury, and their successors
for ever, one annuity or yearly sum of £20, to be
by them paid and distributed on S. Thomas' Day,
yearly for ever, in manner foUowing :—

Fifteen pounds, to be equally distributed among
forty poor housekeepers belonging to the said
parish, that did not receive alms of the said
parish.

Four pounds more thereof, to be laid out in
bread, to be that day distributed amongst the
poor of the said parish.

Twenty shillings, being the remainder of the
said annuity of twenty pounds, to the Minister
of the said parish for the time being, for preaching
a sermon on that day, in remembrance of the said
charity. And he further directed, that no poor
person or persons whatsoever belonging to the said
parish, should receive any benefit of the said cha-
rity, but such as should on that day duly attend
Divine Service. And to the intent that his will
should be duly observed and performed, he further
directed that the Minister of the said parish for the
time being should, yearly, on S. Thomas' Day,

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before Divine Service, read openly in the said
parish Church, so much of his said will as related to
the said charity ; and it was his further will, that
if it should happen that there should be at any
time any poor person or persons belonging to the
said parish of his name, the same should always
have the preference, before any other, in par-
taking of the said charity.

* 1 732, Dec. 5tL GiiiBEBT Gastbell, of Tetbury,
by his will of this date, gave to the Vicar of
Tetbury, and his successors for ever :

Ten shillings yearly, for preaching a sermon on
the day of his, the said testator^s, death ; also he
gave twenty shillings more yearly to be laid out
in six-penny loaves, and distributed to forty
poor persons of Tetbury, immediately after such
service ended; and he chaxged his dwelling house
in Tetbury, with the payment of the said sum.

1739, Feb. 25. Hopeful Vokins, of Tetbury,
by his will of this date, gave to the poor people
of Tetbiuy, the sum of £2 10a per annum for
ever, to be laid out yearly in bread on the 1st
of January, and given imto such poor people as
did not receive collection, by the constables of
the said parish of Tetbury, as they should think
fit and convenient ; which annuity he ordered to
be paid out of the rents of his estate, called
Hillsome Farm, in the said parish of Tetbury.

1770, May 1st Matthew Slofeb, Esq., of
Tetbury, by his will of this date, gave to the

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Churcliwardens of this parish £10, to be laid out
by them in the same stocks and i^nds, and for
the same charitable uses, as the charity monies
of Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, and ^ Thomas
Estcourt, were invested by the Churchwardens of
the said parish of Tetbury.

1774, Sept. 27th. John Wight, M.A., Vicar
of Tetbury, by his will of this date, gave to the
Feoffees of the said parish for the time being,
£100 in trust, to place the same out to interest^
in real or Government securities, and apply the
interest thereof in purchasing such encroachments
in the streets of Tetbury, as might be supposed
to be more than forty years standing, and in the
prevention of aU future encroachments that might
be attempted in the said town, and he also gave
to the next succeeding Vicar of Tetbury, and his
successors for the time being, £100 then vested
in the said testator's name, in the South Sea Old
Annuities, in trust, to continue the same in that
fund, and receive the interest thereof, and apply
the same for repairing the monument appointed
by him to be erected to the memory of Sir
William Bomney, Bait. And if there should be
any surplus of interest, above what the monu-
ment might require, the same was to be ex-
pended in adorning the Church.

1774. EsTHBB Clakk, wife of Mr. Eobert
Clark, gave by her will £50, to be invested in
the funds; the dividends to be applied for the

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better maintenance of the poor women in the
Alms House.

1775, May 4th. Maby Howe. By indenture
of this date, Giles Pike, and Mary his wife
(heir-at-law and administratrix of Mary Howe,
late of Tetbury, spinster, deceased), agreed to
pay the Rev. John Wight, Vicar of Tetbury,
£150, in accordance with the request of the said
Mary Howe, to be invested in Grovemment secu-
rities. The dividends whereof, should on Christ-
mas day yearly, immediately after the Evening
Service, be divided among so many poor widows,
being inhabitants and parishioners of the parish
of Tetbury aforesaid, not receiving alms of the
said parish, as would extend to pay twenty
shillings to each widow. Such widows to be
members of the Established Chtux^h of England^
to be nominated by the said John Wight, and
his successors. Vicars of Tetbury, and such
widows to attend Divine Service ^the morning
and evening of that day, unless prevented by
infirmity or illness ; and in case there should be
any surplus remaining under the sum of twenty
shillings, such surplus to be given to the eldest
widow that should receive one of the above
mentioned sums of twenty shillings. No widow
to be entitled to the above mentioned charity,
or any part thereof that should receive alms of
the parish.

1788. Ann Wight, of Tetbury, gave to Robert

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Clark and Joedah Paul Paul, their executors, ad-
ministratoiB, and assigns, the sum of one hun-
dred pounds in trust, to pay and apply the same
for the use of the Sunday Schools in Tetbury,
aforesaid, in such maimer and form as they in
Uieir discretion should see W, for the advice-
ment of that good and charitable institution.
The Trustees laid out the one hundred pounds
in the purchase of £104 19s. 8d. Four per cent&,
the dividends whereof are applied to the use of
the Sunday Schools.

1 796. Sarah Paul, by will, gave to the Rev.
Bichard Davies, Vicar of Tetbury, and her nephew,
Bobert Wight, their executors, administrators,
and assigns, the sum of fifty pounds, in trust,
to place the same in Government securities, and
pay the interest thereof to and for the benefit of
the Sunday Schools of Tetbury, aforesaid, as they
in their discretion shall see fit.

1797, May 25tlL Ann Gastbell, by will, of
this date, gave one hundred pounds to be laid
out in the name of Thomas White, and such
other persons as should have the management
of the Sunday Schools, established in the town
of Tetbury, the interest thereof to be applied
for the benefit of the said Schools.

1804, March 4th. Eleanor Ludlow, by her
will of this date, bequeathed to the Bev. Bichard
Davies, Vicar of Tetbury, the sum of twenty
pounds in trust, to be mvested in Government

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securities, for the use of the poor dwelling in the
Almshouse of Tetbuiy aforesaid, and to apply
the interest thereof, from tiine to time equally
among such poor dwellers, by the Vicar and his
successors for ever.

^1805, Feb. 4th. Thomas Alexander, by his
will of this date, after various dispositions of
parts of his property, directed that the residue
thereof should be placed out at interest on Grovem-
ment securities, four per cent., in the name of
his Trustees, and the number of these Trustees
to be filled up from time to time, by the sur-
vivors or • survivor of them, as they in their
discretion shall think best to answer the purpose
thereinafter mentioned; and he appointed the
Vicar of Tetbury for the time being, to be always
one of the said Trustees, and that the interest
should be made payable to him, to be by him
laid out for the following purposes : —

1. To repair his Monument, and new paint
ihe palisading round it every two yeaia

2. One guinea of the above interest to the
Vicar to preach a sermon yearly, on the first
Sunday of July, one year at morning, another
at evening service ; the subject to be taken from
the 145th IWm, begimu^ mth the first ver«
and then proceeding r^ularly throughout the
Psalm to the last verse.

3. That five shillings should be given to the

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Choir, to sing at the before mentioned time, the
Anthem as therein particularly directed

4. And the remainder of the said annual inter-
est should be laid out for Bibles, containing only
the Old and New Testament; the said Vicar to
give one Bible on the day of marriage to every
couple married in the Church of Tetbury by
banns ; each Bible to have printed on the cover,
"The gift of Alexander."

1813, Jan. 5th. James Webber, by will of
this date, directed that the sum of five pounds,
for ever, should be distributed in bread among
the poor people of Tetbury, as the Minister
thereof, for the time, shall think proper; and,
likewise, that the ftirther sum of five pounds
per annum, for ever, should be appropriated by
the said Minister for the time being, at his dis-
cretion, in aid and support of the Sunday Schools
of the Church, in Tetbury aforesaid ; and for
this purpose, he bequeathed unto the Minister
of the said Church at the time of his decease,
80 much money as would purchase stock in the
public funds, sufficient to produce the said two
annual sums of five pounds.

1813, March 1st. James Pickett, by his will
of this date, gave to the Rev. Richard Davies,
the Vicar of Tetbury, two hundred pounds in
trust, to be vested in the public fiinds, the in-
terest arising therefirom to be distributed by the

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Vicar, and his successors for ever, yearly, to the
second poor of the parish of Tetbury.

1816, Jan. 16th. Sarah Ludlow, by her will
of this date, gave twenty pounds to the Rev.
Richard Davies, upon the same trust as that
given by Eleanor Ludlow (1804), and in the
same terms.

1821. William Brookes, by will, gave to
the Minister and Churchwardens of Tetbury ;
one hundred pounds. Five per cent. Annuities,
the dividends to be distributed yearly, on Easter
Monday, among ten poor widowers or widows,
parishioners of Tetbury, not receiving parochial
relief.

1826, July 27th. Mary Summers, by will of
this date, gave unto the Vicar and Churchwardens
of the parish of Tetbury, for the time being,
fifty pounds^ Three per cent. Consolidated Bank
Annuities, upon trust, that they, the said Vicar
and Churchwardens, should lay out the dividends
arising therefix)m, in the purchase of Common
Prayer Books; and that the said Vicar for the
time being, should give one of each of such Prayer
Books on the day of marriage, to every couple
who might be married in the Church of Tetbury
aforesaid, by banns, if they should think fit to
accept of it ; each Prayer Book to have printed
on it, "The gift of Mary Summers." And the
said Testatrix, also gave unto the Vicar, Church-
wardens, and Overseers of the poor of Tetbury

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aforesaid, the further sum of one hundred pounds
New Four per cent. Annuities, upon trust, that
they the said Vicar, Churchwardens, and Over-
seers for the tune being should, on New Lady
Day in every year, pay and divide the interest and
dividends arising therefrom, in equal proportions,
to so many maiden women, not exceeding the
number of ten, of the age of thirty years and
upwards, being parishioners of the parish of
Tetbuiy aforesaid, and residing there, as in the
discretion of the said Vicar, and Churchwardens,
and Overseers, should be thought proper objects
for 'receiving the same.

1836, January 3rd. Libut.-Colonel Olney,
by his wiU of this date, gave three hundred
pounds to the town of Tetbury, to be invested
by the Minister and Churchwardens of the said
parish, in public securities, the interest to be ex-
pended in the purchase of coals and blankets, to
be distributed amongst deserving persons amxuaJly,
at Christmas.

1851, Feb. 22nd. Thomas Poulton, of Low-
field, by deed of gift of this date, gave to the
Minister and Churchwardens of Tetbury, four
hundred poxmds, to be invested in Government
securities, the interest to be appKed annually,
on the first Monday in January, in the distribu-
tion of bread, coals, and blankets, amongst the poor
householders of the parish of Tetbury, being forty
years of age, and not receiving parochial relief.

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Tabular Account of the Charities.

(Under the control of the Vicar and Churchwardens.)

Name of Bene(hetor.

Estcourt and \
Hodges (arrears) J

Paul and Wight 1
(Sunday Schools) j

Gilbert Gastrell .

J. Alexander .

John Wight

James Webber •

James Pickett .

Miss Summer \
(Maiden Women) j

Thomas Poulton

William Brookes .

Col. Olney . • •

Thomas Talbojs

Sarah Ludlow .

Prlnctpal.

469 13 9

213
141 11 10

In what Invested.

Consols

Ditto
Ditto

Interott.
£ n d.

13 6 3

5 17 9
4 4 10

235
276

New 3 per Cents 7 3

210
219 6 4

100

402
105
320 8
226 19
62 11

6
3
1

Ditto ;

Ditto

Consols

7 9

5 18

6 10 11

3 1 6

11 6 2
3 8 2
9 4

25 14 10
18 9

Sir Thomas Estcourt paid by Mr. Sotheron Estcourt 12

gan Money b
Subscription

Org^in Mon^y^ by 1 j^^ ^^ j New 3 per Cents 5 7 2

This is, I believe, a correct account of the present
state of the above Charities. I am indebted for
it to the Vicar of Tetbury, the Rev. John
Frampton.

The account of the Tetbury Ch«jity Estates
for 1855-1856 (of which the FeoflFees have the
control,) is as follows : —

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TETBURY CHARITY ESTATES.

Oeneral Statement of the Income and Expenditure, from Michaelmas,

1855, to Michaelmafi, 1856.

Cr,

INCOME.

BalaiiM tn Bank
Reirenae from Tolls
„ from Kdnti
M from DiTldends oa

Stock Inretted
,, fiwn nneo, Ibr renewal
of Leases
from Retun of Income
Tax

£
6S5

IS
479

17
9

Its 4
41
11 19

£1«M 6

EXPENDITURE.

BaUilTs Money
Poor in Almsbooae .
Lecturer, Diridends on Stock .
Tithe and Bates
Court Dinner BDl .
Insurance • • . .
Town Clerk's Commission
Tradesmen's bills and Incidental

Expenoes • • . .
Law Charges, indading Printer's
John Pitt, for looking sAer Town

Clock

Clerk to Foreign Jury
John Smith, Town Beadle
Annual Payments directed

•

Scheme:

Oowns

Schoolmaster

Schoolmistnsss

Books, &c .

Lecturer

Apprentioeship fees

Payments directed by Act,
S4le of the Adrowson :

Commissioners of Pa-
ring Act, less In-
come Tax . €5 6
Blankets and Coals SO

for

Payments directed \ff Feofltes
to be made out of Surplus
ReTennes:

Subscription to In-
(knt School . SO

Expended in Impro-

Tements h Repurs 166 IS 9

Cash in Tetbury Bank

4
11 6

8 8
88 18
16 ft

1 7
98 19

Dr,

98 16

81 18 8

9 9

91ft

Oft 6 8

186 IS 9
. ftftO 8 7

£1906 6 6

By Order of the Feoffees,

JosiAB T. Paul,

Town Clerk.

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CHAPTER V.

The Schoom.

Qnunmar School Founded by Sir W. Romney, 1610,-^Mra. Hodges'
Charitjr, — Ordinances of Tetbniy Scliool, 162S, — ^New Schools, 1836.
— ^Enlarged, 1850,— Present State, — Celebrated Persons formerly
Educated in them.

The Grammar School m this town was founded
by Sm William Romney, who died in 1610,*
and by his will bequeathed thirteen pounds per
annum during the term of years contained in
his lease of the fairs of the town, « to provide,
procure, and maintain some honest, godly, aad
sufficient Schoolmaster, there to teach and in-
struct the diildren and youths of the said town
and parish, gratis, to read and write, and to
cast accounts in arithmetick, thereby the better
and more sooner to become fit for service, both
for their own good, and the good of the Common-
wealth. And, therefore I do earnestly recom-
mend to them especial care to be had, that the
Schoolmaster shall be very skilful in arithmetick,
which art teacheth much wit^ unto all sorts of

> See Orammar Schcokj bj Nicholas Carlisle, vol. i., p. 460,
1818.

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men and traders, but is too little known in our
land, especially in our country towns and cities/'*

In 1632, the town purchased the Manor, Market
Tolls, and Advowson of the Living, of Lord
Berkeley, and thus established the School on a
firmer ba^.

Mes. Euzabetth Hodges, of Shipton Moyne,
Gloucestershire, by will dated May 13, 1723,
gave thirty pounds yearly, "for the augmenta-
tion of the Charity Schools, which there were
or should be in the town of Tetbury, for teaching
poor children to read, write, and cast accounts,
and making them the better capable of trades and
callings for gaining their livelihood^' *

The present trustees of Mra Hodges' Charity
are, Thomas H. S. Sotheron Estcourt, Esq., M.P.;
Robt. S. Holford, Esq., M.P.; Walter M. Paul,
Esq.; and S. B. Brooke, Esq.

The education formerly given at this School
was of a much higher kind than it is at present.
This is shewn by the rules of the School, re-
quiring that the Master should be a graduate
of Oxford, or Cambridge, and also from such men
as Bishop Bisse, of Hereford, Dr. Trapp, Professor
of Poetry at Oxford, and Oldham, the Poet, being
educated at it. During the periods of the Great
Bicbellion, when Dr. Tully (afterwards Principal

* Sir William Romney's Will.
» Mrs. Hodges' Will.

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of S. Edmund's Hall, Oxford), was Master, it
seems to have flourished greatly, and also for a
century afterwards, till towards the end of the
last century, it ceased entirely from want of funds.

The following Ordinances of Tetbury School,
dated " AnnoDom. 1623, 8' die Aprili," will shew
what was the character of the education formerly
given at the School.

"Constitutions and ordinances made and ap-
pointed for y* Schoole of Tetbury, to be required
by y* Thirteen, and observed by y* Schoolmaster
that shall always supply the same : —

1. First, It is ordained y* y* Schoolmaster shall
be chosen by common consent of y' Thirteen,
and y* no one person whatsoever shall oversway
y* same.

2. Y^ none shall be thereunto chosen except
he be a Master or Batchelor of Arts at y* least,
in one of the Universities, and be approved of
for his sufficiency by two Preachers y* have skill
to examine him, and to w*^ two Preachers he
shall be accountable, and y* Thirteen, by them
to be satisfied, as also to approve himself after-
wards, by an honest and sober life and conversa-
tion befitting his calling.

3. It is ordained y* y^ Schoolmaster shall re-
ceive into the Schoole, and not refuse any of
y* children y* are of y* burrough of Tetbury,
being first able to read the Bible in English
in any good sort.

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4. That he shall, being required, teach the
children to read, cypher, and cast aocompts, or
procure one y* shall do it under him, whereby
they shall be fitted for apprentices..

5. That he shall teach the Latin tongue by
the use of Lottie's grammar, and such ordinary
books as are most approved in Schools, and in
like manner for the Greek, by such grammars
and authors as are most usual, and not by any
quaint^ strange, or new devices of his own.

6. That he shall not read unto the Schollars
any of y* obscene odes, satyres, or epigrams of
Juvenal, Martial, or Horace, or any other, but
pass them over, choosing y* best in the same
authors, and in others; and y* he shall not at
all read in the Schoole Ovid de arte amandi
nor [ *] but utterly omit.

7. That he shall, every Saturday, cathechize
y* SchoUers in y* grounds' of the religion now
taught and maintained in the Church of England,
and out of some approved catechism, acquaint-
ing them with y* Scriptures withalL

8. That he shall cause y* prayer now used every
morning to be continued by y* schoUers, with
the reading a chapter in course, and shall not
suffer swearing, cursing, or any other rudeness
among them to his best endeavour.

9. That none unless he hath been an inhabitant

* The words are illegible in the MS.

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in the burrough of Tetbury, by the space of three
years at the least, shall have any benefit or pri-
vflege by y* Schoole, without leave first had and
obtained for y* same, by y* Thirteen or y* greatest
part.

10. That y* Schoolmaster shall be constantly
resident, nor take upon him any cure out of the
towne, and shall bring with him to Church all
his schollers, causing 'em to write sermons and to
behave themselves quietly and reverently during
the time of Divine Service, and to give an accompt
of their profitting to him, and he shall bestow
some time in the Schoole every Lord's day, in
exercising them in religious duties, y* our youth
may learn to know and fear the Lord."*

The Grammar School was formerly held in a
room over the Church porch, till the Church was
rebuilt m 1777-81.

A School was for a long time carried on in the
town, separate firom the Grammar School (in virtue
of Mrs. Hodges' charity), where fifteen boys were
taught to read, write, and cast accounta It is
now merged in the Town SchooL

In 1836, a School room for boys and girls was
erected at the West end of the town, at the
cost of £474 3s. 2d. which was obtained as foUows :

^ This was transcribed from the orijpnal by John Wight,
Vicar.

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By subscription

Grant from the Treasury

Grant from the National Society

Feoffees

Ditto

181

145

100

474

The principal subscribers to the Schook were,
the Rev. John Frampton, the Vicar, £20 ; Lord
Dude, Mrs. Paul ; R C. Paul, W. M. Paul, Jacob
Wood, Thomas Poulton, Thomas Witchell, John
Cook, Esquires ; Mrs. Savage, and Mrs. Edwards,
£10 each; J. T. Paul, Joseph Wood, William
Taylor, Benjamin Wood, Hugh Vaughan, Thomas
Birch, Samuel A. Saunders, Esqrs., £5 eacL

In 1850, the Boys' School was enlarged, and
Schools for girls and infants, with class rooms to
each, were added, at the expense of £621 7s. 6d.
obtained as follows : —

From Committee of Council
By Subscription ...

Feoffees by Donation .

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139

300

621

Among the principal subscribers were, R S.
Holford, Esq., £50 ; T. G. Bucknall Estcourt,
Esq., £20 ; William Brookes, Esq., £10 ; the Rev.
John Frampton, R C. Paul, W. M. Paul, J. T.
Paul, C. W. Paul, R C. Paul, jimr., Jacob Wood,

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Joseph Wood, and Maurice Maskeljnie, Esquires,
£5 each.

The management of the boys' and girls' school
is in the hands of the Vicar and Feoffeea The
management of the in&nt school is in the hands
of a Committee, which at present consist of the
Vicar, William Brookes, Esq., R C. Paul, Esq., and
Mr. Edwin Cook.

The infant Schoolmistress is appointed by this
Committee. The Schoolmaster and Mistress by
the Feoffeea

The boys' School which is one of the best, if not
the best in Gloucestershire, is under the efficient
and able superintendence of Mr. J. W. Keillor,
the present Schoolmaster; who, during the last
twenty years, has shewn unwearied diligence and
activity in forwarding in every way the moral and
intellectual interests of those committed to his
care. An industrial department is attached to the
boys' School.

The salary of the Schoolmaster is, on the whole,
about £120 ; that of the Schoolmistress, £50 ;
And of the Infant Schoolmistress, £40.
The number of bojrs on the books of the

School, who are educated gratuitously, is. 166
And the average daily attendance throughout

the year 163

The number of girls on the books (who pay

Id. a week for their education,) is . .100
And the average daily attendance .98

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The number of infants on the books (who
also pay Id. per week,) is . . . 182

And the average daily attendance .140

The pence collected from the Girls' School

amounts, on an average, each year, to £15 ; and

from the In&nts, £17 lOs.

All the Schools have been under Government

Inspection since 1846, and the salaries of the

Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress are augmented

by the usual grants for pupil teachers.

Lives of Celebrated Persons Connecied

WITH THE Town.

John Oldham, the poet, was the son of a
Nonconformist minister, who had a congregation
at Nimeaton. He was bom at Shipton, near
Tetbury, on the 9th of August^ 1653 ; and, after
having received the rudiments of his education
at home, was phtoed at Tetbury School, where he
remained for two year& He was indebted for
to rtep in hi. 4nua«y c»,«er to ^ AId«^
of Bristol, who had a son at the School, anid waa
anxious that the boy should have the advantage
of reading with young Oldham, from which it
may be inferred that the latter had abready shewn
more than average diligence and ability. Oldham
made rapid progress at Tetbury ; and in June,
1670, was entered at S. Edmund's Hail, Oxford,

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probably on account of Dr. Thomas Tully, who
had been Master of Tetbury School, being then
Prrndpal of that College. His College studies
were superintended by the Rev. Mr. Stephens,
who early discovered his genius. He made great
progress in Greek and Latin. His favourite
authors were the poets ; indeed, so incessantly
did he study them that, at last, poetry took com-
plete possession of his time and thoughts. In May,
1674, he took his B.A. degree, and shortly, against
his own wishes, left the University, being summoned
home by his father. He afterwards became usher
at the Free School of Croydon, in Surrey, and
remained there till 1678, when he became tutor
to the two grandsons of Sir Edward Thurland,
a Judge, residing in the neighbourhood of Eeigate.
He remained there till 1680, when, for a short
time, he became tutor to the son of Sir William
Hicks ; not long afterwards he was offered the
office of Private Chaplain to liis household, by
the Earl of Kingston, which offer he refused, but
accepted his invitation to visit him as a guest at
Holmes Pierpont, in Nottinghamshire. He had
not long enjoyed the seclusion of this retreat when
he was seized by an attack of the small-pox, and
died on the 9th of December, 1683, in the 30th
year of his age. The Earl of Kingston attended
as chief mourner at his funeral, and afterwards
erected a monument over his grave. In appear-
ance Oldham was tall and slender, with disagree-

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able features, a long face, a prominent nose, and
a sarcastic expression in his eyes. His chief works
are his Satires^ especially four against the Jesuits.
As a satirist, Dryden esteemed him nearer to his

This panefiTVnc is sustained by Mr. Hallam, who
«^ Lt^ldha^ «. supJor in hiB «tir» to
Marvell, ranks, perhaps, next to Dryden.*' The
affecting lines in which Dryden laments his early
death are given below.^

Farewell, too little and too lately known,

Whom I began to tliink and call my own ;

For sure our souls were near aUied, and thine

Cast in the same poetic mould as mine.

One common note on either lyre did strike,

And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike ;

To the same goal did both our studies drive,

The last set out the soonest to arrive.

Thus Nisus fell upon the slipping place,

While his young friend performed and won the race.

I early ripe! to they abundant store :

What could advancing age have added more ?

It might (what Nature never gives the young,)

Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue ;

But satire needs not these, and wit will shine

Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line :

A noble error, and but seldom made.

When poets are by too much force betrayed.

Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their time,

Still showed a quickness ; and maturing time

^ Abridged from his Ltfcy by Bobert Bdl, in his Armotated
Edition of the English Poets.

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But mellows what we write to the dull sweets of rhyme.

Once more hail and farewell. Farewell, then young,

But ah I too short, Marcellus of our tongue ;

Thy hrows with ivy and with laurels hound,

But fiite and gloomy night encompass thee around.** ^

PhtTiTP Bisse, Bishop of Hereford, was bom at
Oldbury-on-the-Hill, near Tetbury, and was educated
first at Tetbury School, and afterwards at Win-
chester, and New College, Oxford. He was ad-
mitted as a Founder's Kin Fellow of that College,
on the 8th of June, 1686. He took his degree of
B.A. in 1690, M.A. in 1693, and B. and D.D. in 1705.
In 1706 he vacated his Fellowship by marrying
Bridget, daughter of Thomas, Duke of Leeds, and
widow of Charles Fitz Charles Earl of Plymouth,
(a natural son of King Charles II., by Mrs.
Catiierine Pegge,) to whom he had been Chaplain.
He was consecrated Bishop of S. David's, on the
9th of November, 1710, and translated to Hereford,
in 1713. His wife died on the 9th of May, 1718,
and the Bishop survived her only three years, and
died at Westminster, on the 6th of September,
1721, and was buried in his Cathedral, where he
had erected a monument for her and himself A
portrait of him hangs in New College HaU. He
was a benefexjtor to that College, having bequeathed
to it one thousand pounds.

His character is most favourably described in
his epitaph, (a copy of which is to be seen in the

^ Diyden's Wcrksj edited bjr Robert BeO, vol. iii., p. 150.

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Bodleian library,) and much to the same effect is
the account given of him in the newspapers of
of the day. « On Wednesday, September 6th, died
at the house of Lord Willoughby of Brook,
Dean of Windsor, in Queen Square, Westminster,
the Bight Eevd. Father in God, Philip, Lord
Bishop of Hereford. A person most universaUy
lamented for his sanctity and sweetness of hia
manners, of clear honour, integrity, and steadiness
in all times to the Constitution, in Church and
State, of excellent judgment, and penetration in
most kinds of learning, a great benefactor to his
Cathedral Church, and especially to his Palace,
which last he hath in a manner rebuilt/'

He was the brother of Dr. Thomas Bisse, Chan-
cellor of Hereford, and Author of " The Beauty
of Holiness in the Booh of Common Prayer!*

Thomas Tully, the son of George TuUy, was
bom in S. Mary^s Parish, Carlisle, on the 22nd
July, 1620, and educated at Barton Kirk, in
Westmoreland. He entered at Queen's College,
Oxford, in 1634, and afterwards became a Fellow,
and well known disputant there. In 1642 he
was created M.A., and soon after Oxford being
garrisoned, he became Master of the Grammar
School, at Tetbury ; after the surrender of the
garrison, he returned to Oxford, and became a
celebrated Tutor and Preacher there. In 1657
he was admitted B.D., and soon afterwards was
made Principal of S. Edmimd's Hall. Aft«r the

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restoration of Charles IL, he was created D.D.
by diploma^ and appointed Chaplain to the King,
and Bector of Grittleton, Wilts. In April, 1673,
he was made Dean of Bipon. He was a pious
man, in many ways very learned. He was of
severe morals, and puritanically inclined, being a
strict Calvinist. He wrote against Bishop Bull's
Harmonia ApostoUcOy and also against Baxter's
AfhorismSy and had a long controversy with
the latter. He died at Grittleton, January 1 4th,
1675, and was buried in the Chancel of the
Church there.

His principal works were :

PrcBcipuorum TheologicB capitum Enchiridion
didoicticum. London, 1665-68.

Appendicula prcujtica De Ccmd Domini
(printed with the Enchiridion.)

Justijicatio Paulina sine operihus ex mente
EcdesicB AnglicancB omniumque Rdiqaorum qucB
ReJormatcB audiuntj assert a^ et iUvstrata? Oxon,
1674.

Thomas Gobe. He was bom in 1631, of an
ancient and honourable family, at Alderton, in
County of Wilts, at which place his ancestors,
who formerly resided at Whitleigh, near Melkes-
ham, had lived 300 yeara He was educated
at Tetbury Grammar School, under the Bev.
Thomas Tv^y ; and in May, 1674, entered as

8 Wood's Athena, hj PhUip Bliss, 1817, vol. iii., p. r055.

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a Commoner at Magdalen College, Oxford, under
John King, Fellow, as Tutor ; afterwards, Mr.
Thomas TuUy, of Queen's College, was his tutor.
He took his B.A. d^ree, and entered at Lincoln's
Inn, but after a short time retired to Alderton, where
he Hved the greater part of his life. He became
very celebrated for his knowledge of heraldiy
and antiquities. He served the office of High
SherijBf of Wilts in 1681, and died March 31st
(Easter Monday,) 1684, and was buried in the
Church at Alderton. He left behind him a number
of MSS., besides his published works, together with
a choice collection of heraldic books.

His principal works were :

Nomenclator Geogi*aphicu8y Oxon, 1667.

Catalogus in certa Capita^ seu Classes Alphor
hetico ordine concinnatuSy plerorumque omnium
authorum (tarn antiqtcorum^ quam recentiorumj
qui de re Heraldicd^ Latine, GaUicey Italy Hispan.,
Germ.y Anglicd scripserunt. Oxon, 1668.

Loyalty Displayed and Falsehood Unmasked^
or a just Vindication of Thomas Gore^ Esq.y High
Sheriff of County of WiltSy in a letter to a friend.
London, 1681, 4to.®

Joseph Trapp was bom at Cherington, in
1679, of which parish his fether was Rector.
He was educated at ^etbury School, and at
Wadham CoUege, Oxford. He was admitted

^ Wood's Athewgy vol. iv., p. 132.

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B.A. 1699, and M.A. 1702. He was appointed
Professor of Poetry in 1708, which office he held
till 1718. In 1720 he was Rector of Dauntsey,
Wilts, and in 1 727 was created D.D. by diploma.
In 1 733 he was appointed Rector of Hartlington,
Middlesex, and in 1734 Lecturer of S. Martin
in the Fields. He died in 1747. He wrote
Notes on the Gospels^ and Prcdectiones Poetuxt,
in 3 vols. Dr. Trapp was a hard student^ and
published a great variety of theological, contro-
versial, political, and poetical writinga He wrote
also jtEdes Badmintonianw^ a poem most humbly
presented to His Grace Henry, Duke of Beaufort,
&a, and to Her Grace Mary, Dutchess Dowager of
Beaufort, &a, upon their magnificent and delight-
ful seat in Gloucestershire. London, 1701, folio.*
ScROPE Berdmore Davies, the son of Rev.
Richard Davies, Vicar of Tetbury, (firom 1 792 to
1825,) was bom 1781, and educated at Eton and
King's College, Cambridge. He took his degree of
B.A. in 1806, and M.A. in 1809, and was for many
years Fellow of King's CoU^je.' He was a most in-
timau &i«.d of Lorf BjTOn^^o dedicated hi. poem
of Parisina to him in the following words : **To
Scrope Berdmore Davies, Esq., the following poem
is inscribed, by one who has long admired his

1 H. J. Rose's Bioff. Did. ; Anecdotes of Britkh Topography^
p. 179.
' See Oraduaii Cantabriffiensee curei, J. Romillj, 1856.

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talents and valued his friendship/' A great mis-
fortune happened to Byron in 1811, by the death
of his dear CoDege friend, C. S. Matthews, Fellow
of Downing,' who was drowned whilst bathing in
the Cam, on the 2nd of August. Bjrron lost his
mother about the same time. The following passage
of a letter written at this time by Byron to Scrope
Davies, will show the terms of intimacy on which
they stood : " My dearest Davies, — Some curse
hangs over me and mina My mother lies a corpse
in the house ; one of my best Mends is drowned
in a ditch. What can I say, or think, or do?
I received a letter from him the day before yes-
terday. My dear Scrope, if you can spare a
moment do come down to me : I want a friend.
Matthews' last letter was written on Friday ; on
Saturday he was not. In ability who was like
Matthews ? How did we all shrink before him.
You do me but justice in saying I would have
risked my paltry existence to have preserved his.
This very evening did I mean to write, inviting
him, as I invite you, my very dear friend, to
visit me. What will our poor Hobhouse feel?
HiB letters breathe but of Matthewa Come to
me, Scrope ; I am almost desolate, left almost
alone in the world!"*

> B.A. 1806 ; Members Prizeman 1807 ; Fellow of Downing
1808 ; M.A. 1809. OradwUi Cantabrigienm.

< Byron's fForib, toI. i. p. 65 ; Murray, 1839.

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The Mr. C. S. Matthews^ thus passionately la-
mented over by Byron, was the son of John
Matthews, Esq., M.P. for Herefordshire in the
Parliament of 1802-6.

Another anecdote respecting Scrope Davies and
Byron occurs in connection with the first four
lines of the sixty-first Stanza of Beppo :

« Crush'd was Napoleon bj the Northern Thor,
Who knocked his army down with icj hammer ;
Stopp'd by the ekmentSy like a whaler, or
A blmidering novice in hb new French grammar.'

" When BrummeU was obliged to retire to
France, he knew no French, and having obtained
a grammar for the purpose of study, our friend
Scrope Davies was asked what progress he had
made in French. He responded * that Brummell
had been stopped, like Buonaparte in Russia, by
the dements/ I have put this pun into Beppo,
which is ' a fisdr exchange and no robbery ; ' for
Scrope made his fortune at several dinners (as
he owned himself,) by repeating occasionally, as
his own, some of the buffooneries with which I
had encountered him in the morning." ^

Raikes, in his Journal^ says of him : " Davies
was the intimate friend of Lord Byron ; and, as
he lived much in his society at one time, has
naturally imbibed many of his ideaa He is a
classical scholar, with veiy good natural abilities." •

' Byron's Diary ^ 1821 ; WorhSj vol. ii., p. 342.
» Journal May 24, 1834, vol. ii., p. 114.
O

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He was an intimate friend of Mr. J. C. Hobhouse,
(now Lord Broughton,) and the late Earl Grey.
During the latter part of his life he resided
chiefly at Paris, where he died, rather suddenly,
in May, 1852. He was never married, and at
the time of his death was Senior FeUow of King's
CoUege, Cambridge.

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CHAPTER VL

History of Families Connected with

THE Town.

EstooQTt of Estooart,— Hantloy of Boxwell,— Holford of Weston Birt,-—

Paal of Highgrove,— Savage of Tetbnrj.

The history of &milies connected with any
particular locaUty. by long residence and per-
manent association in its welfare, must always be
a matter of interest to those who reside in its
neighbourhood In the following chapter, by the
kind assistance of leading members of the &inilies
whose histories are here recorded, I am enabled
to place before my readers authentic pedigrees of
the principal families who, in times past, or at
the present day, are intimately connected with
the town of Tetbury. They have been compiled
with much research and care, and in every case
revised by a member of the fiimily, whose par-
ticular history is related, so as to render them
thoroughly correct and trustworthy. One of these
families has been for more than five centuries
permanently resident in the immediate neigh-
bourhood ; during which long period they have
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who knew them ; whilst others, who at a former
period were closely connected with the town,
have now ceased to reside in it. The two re-
majning families, whose history is here given,
are at the present time intimately concerned in
its prosperity. So that the history of all will,
I trust, be acceptable in no slight degree to my
readers. At the end of the pedigrees will be
foxmd extracts from the Parish Registers, relative
to the families of Savage, Talboys, and GastrelL

ESTCOURT OF ESTOOURT.

This ancient family has
been settled in Glou-
cestershire, and been
possessed of lands in
the Parish of Shipton
Moyne, as appears by
deeds at Estcourt, since
1300.

The first of whom
mention is recorded in
these deeds is Walter
BE LA EsTOOXJRT, who held an estate at Shipton,

in this County. He married Margaret ,' and

died about 1325, and was succeeded by his son.

^ These Christian names are obtained from old wills and
deeds in which the surnames are not mentioned.

I i 1 1 'i i i t
it "i "i 'i \ 'I tX

• • • • • • • •

n ^ ( >■ '^ '* I
1 1 'i 1 1

Anns of Ettconrt

♦^

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Symon de la Estcourt, who married,

1. Margaret de la Woodemill.

2. Johanna .

He had four sons, Walter, Richard, William,
and John. He was succeeded by his son,

Walter de la Estcourt, (living in 1373,)

who married Juliana , and was succeeded

by his eldest son,

John de la Estcourt, who married Alice,
heiress of the Beauboys, of Shipton Moyne, and
Fairwood, in Dorsetshire, and thence obtained
a separate estate at Shipton. His wife survived
him, and married, second, John Wynter, of Wot-
ton-\inder-Edge. He was succeeded by his son,

John de la Estcourt, who married,
1. Eleanor. 2. Margaret.

He had two sons by his first wife, Eleanor,
1. John. 2. William, d. a p.

John de la Estcourt married Elizabeth Sey-
mour, and had issue,

1. Thomas de la Estcourt.

2. Walter de la Estcourt*

This John obtained a pardon from K Richard
III., for some offence committed against him.
(The original document is now in the possession
of Mr. Sotheron Estcourt.)

' WiLUAM EsTCOUBT, Warden of New College, Oxford,
in 1429, was son of Walter de la Estcourt. He was bom
at Shipton, was admitted Scholar of New College, June 5,

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Thomas de la Estcoubt married,

1. Catherine, daughter of Richard Ellyott,
Serjeant-at-Law ;

2. Catherine, daughter of Bichard Hall.
By his firet wife he had issue.

Edmond de la Estcoubt, who married Johanna,

daughter of William Button, of , Wiltshire,

and had issue,

i Thomas de la Estcourt, married Emma
Asoough. He was a Welsh Judge, and a
handsome monument is erected to him in
Shipton Church. He had issue,

1. Thomas, knighted by E. Jamed I.,
Nov. 17, 1607. He married Mary, d. of
William Savage, Esq., of Elmsley Castle,
Worcestershire. He was M.P. for Glouces-
tershire, and died in 1624, at Cirencester, of
the Plague, whilst on his return from London
from attending Parliament. His case became

1400, and Fellow, June 5, 1402. In 1417,
he was appointed by the College, Vicar of
Writtle, in Essex, which he held till 1425.
In 1429, he was elected Warden of New
College, which he resigned in 1435. He
was also a Canon of Salisbuiy.

In the papers of the Privy Council, men- *^e2SSi?J 7«hS"
tion is made of ^'Maister John Estcourt," brother of the
Warden of New College, who was employed as Ambassador
by Henry IV. firom 1405 to 1427, on four different embassies.

• Tbis to the lixe of the origlBsl, ^rtiidi Is of sUver, and in the posMnion of Mr. Sotheron
Ettoonrt

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a precedent to shew that a member of Par-
liament is compellable to serve, if elected.'

2. Edmund married, first, Mary, d. and
co-heir of Kichard Pateshall, of Cricklade ;
and secondly, Mary, daughter of Thos.
FoUiott, of Pirton, in Worcestershire, by
whom he had two sona

1. Thomaa 2. Edmond.

' See Hatsell's Precedents. He was buried at Shipton Mbyne
Church, where is the following inscription on the Monument
erected to his memory.

*^ Vita introitus Mortis. Mors ^ternitatis.

Death foUoweth life, life death ; when men would die,

Their buriale is a new nativitie.

Then gentle reader call not this a tomb,

But of a second life the happy womb.
Here rest the bodies of Sr^ Thomas Estcourt, of the Manor
of EsTCOCRT, in Shipton Mojne, in this County, Knight ; and
of Dame Mart his wife, the daughter of William Satagb, of
Elmly Castle, in the County of Worcester, Esq. He was a
pillar of this Country, and much honored and beloved for
his Wisdome and Hospitality : he lived religiously, and (in his
retume from the Parliament., being then one of the Knights
for this County,) died at Cirencester, the 4th of July, A^ Dni.
1624.

In whose memory his foresaid wife caused this Monument to
be erected.

Thy houre-glasse is first run, and there remaines

In mine, but a small part of falling graincs ;

Thou wcr't my leader to this hallowed place,

And I come afU^r, though with slower pace ;

My voyage done, here I my rest will take.

And in this bed, sleepc wit^i thee and awukc."

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u. Giles de la Estcourt, of the City of Salis-
bury, married Elizabeth Webb, and had issue,
1. (Sir) Edward Estcourt, of the City of
Salisbury, who married Mary, d. of Sir John
Glanvil, of Tavistock, Devon, Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas.

1. Honor, married, first, to Thomas, son
of Sir G. Monpeson, Kt. ; secondly, to
Thomas Harding.

2. Mary, married James Thurbarme, of
New Romney, in Kent.

iii George EBtcourt. married Joane Steede.
and had issue.

i Edmond, married Maiy Bernard, and
had issue,

1. George, and several daughters.
iL John, married Grace Lygon, and had issue,
1. Edmund, and other children,
iv. Richard Estcourt married Anne Wilcox,
and had issue,

1. Edmimd Estcourt, married to Jane,
daughter of Sir G. Snig, one of the
Barons of the Exchequer, and had issue,

1. Thomas. 3. Edmond. 5. John.

2. Richard. 4. Georga 6. William*

2. Thomas.

3. Richard, married Agnes, daughter of
Sir G. Ive.

4. Jasper, married Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir J Kt., and had issue, a daughter,

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Eleanor, married to Rev. Thomas Wor-
borough, Rector of S. Michaers, Gloucester.
6. Cicely, married to William Poole.

6. Mary, married to Richard Guynett.

7. Joan, married to Thomas Blanchard.

8. Elizabeth, married to Toby Chapman.*
Giles Estconrt^ of the Newnton and Salisbury

branch of this &mily, was created a baronet on
the 17th of March, 1626-7. He married Ann,
daughter of Sir Robert Mordaunt, Bart., of Little
Massingham in Norfolk; and was succeeded by
his son, Sir Giles Estcourt^ who died unmarried
on his travels, near Lepanto, in Greece, in 1675,
and was succeeded by his brother, William, who
was killed at the Devil's Tavern, London, by Sir
Henry St. John,* in 1684. At his death this title

* From this line are descended the Branch of Estconrt
settled at Pinkney.

^ This qaarrel occurred Dec. 20tb, 1684, and is noticed by
Evelyn in his Diary, Bishop Bomet mentions the story thus :
That in 1684 a yonng gentleman of noble family (Sir Heniy
St John, the fisUher of Queen Anne's secretary,) being at
supper with a large party, a sudden quarrel arose between
him and another gentleman (Sir William Estcourt,) warm
words passed, and swords were drawn. Three persons were en-
gaged, one of whom was killed on the spot ; the other two were
indicted for the murder. It was uncertain by whom the &tal
wound was given ; nor did the proof against either amount
to more than manslaughter. Yet Sir Henry St John waa
advised to confess the indictment, and let sentence pass for
murder. He was threatened wiih the utmost rigour of the

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became extinct, and the estate of Newnton passed
to his sisters, and was bequeathed by the last
survivor to her cousin Edmund, of Burton Hill,
upon whose death it passed, with his estates of
Shipton and Lasborough, to Thomas, the son of
Matthew Estcourt, of Cam.

Walteb, the son of Thomas Estcourt of Ship-
ton, who died in 1 725, lefl the estate to Thomas,
the son of Edmund Estcourt, of Saloombe, in
Hertfordshire. He died Oct. 6th, 1746, aged 49,
and left the estate to his brother Edmund, who
died in 1750, and left the estate to Thomas, the
son of Matthew Estco\n:t, of Cam.

law if he neglected to follow this advice ; if he complied
he was promised a pardon. He complied, and was con-
victed, but found that his pardon was to be purchased bj
paying £1,600. One half of this the King converted to his
own use, and bestowed the remainder on two ladies then
high in favour. This is the Bishop's story. It appears,
however, that after hu conviction a doubt arose as to whether
the King could pardon him. The matter was much debated ;
and Bishop Barlow wrote one of his Casta of Conseiencey 8vo.,
1692, on the subject, and determines it in the affirmative*
It is said that, to obviate all doubts, the King granted him
a reprieve ; in confirmation of this, no pardon seems to
have been enrolled. The reprieve was for a long term of
years, which the extreme old age to which he attained
(ninety,) rendered it not improbable that he may have sur-
vived. Amongst the records at the Rolls Chapel, is a resti-
tution of the estates of Sir Henry St. John, forfeited to the
Crown by his feloniously killing and murdering Sir William
£stcourt (See NoUs ami Qaeriea^ 2nd Series, vol. ii., p. 372.)

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Matthew Ebtoourt, of Cam, married Lydia
Hailing, and had issue, Matthew, who died s. p. ;
Thomas, of whom hereafter; Edmund, Solicitor
to the Excise, who died in 1714 ; Edward, D.D.,
in holy orders. Rector of Long Newnton and Did-
marton; he died 17th Sept, 1802, aged 51, and
was buried at Shipton Moyne ; Lydia, who died a.
p., in 1804, and waa buried at Cam ; Esther who
also died a p., 1785, and was buried at Shipton.

Thomas Estoourt married, 6th Oct., 1774,

Jane, daughter of James, second Viscount Grim-

ston (by Mary his wife, d. of John AskeU Bucknall,

Esq., of Oxhey, in Hertfordshire.) She died Feb.

3rd, 1829, aged 80, and left issue,

i Thomas, of whom hereafter.

iL Edmund William, bom 18th April, 1782;

M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, in holy orders ;

Rector of Long Newnton and Shipton Moyne.

He married Bertha Elizabeth, daughter of

Thomas Wyatt^ Esq., of Wargrove, Berks ;

and had issue, Edgar Edmund, Matthew

Hale, Chas. Wyatt, Arthur Harbottle, Mary

Jane. Mr. Estcourt died I7th May, 1856.

i. Harriett Jane Bucknall, died s. p., 2dth July,

1839.
iL Charlotte, of the Priory, Long Newnton.
Mr. Estcourt was M.P. for Grickdale, and died
Dec. 2nd, 1818, aged 70. He was succeeded by
his son Thomas Grimston Estcourt, who as-
sumed, in 1824, the name of Bucknall, in addition

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to his &mily name, and married 12th May, 1800,
Eleanor, daughter and oo-heiress of James Sutton,
Esq., of New Park, Devizes, (she died June 23rd,
1829, aged 49,) and had issue :

L Thomas Henry Sutton, bom 4th April,
1801. Educated at Harrow, and Oriel Col-
lege, Oxford ; RA. 1823 ; M.A. 1826. KP. for
Marlborough from 1829 to 1832; for Devizes
from 1835 to 1844 ; and for North Wilts since
that date. He married, in 1830, Lucy Sarah,
daughter of Admiral Frank Sotheron, M.P., of
Kirklington, Notts, whose name he assumed, by
sign manual, in 1839, and re-assumed his pa-
ternal name, by sign manual, in 1855. Mr.
Sotheron Estcourt is a captain in the Boyal
Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry, and magistrate for
Wilts and Gloucester.

ii James Bucknall, bom 12th July, 1802.
He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and
in 1820 entered the army as ensign, in the 44th
Foot, fix)m which he immediately exchanged into
the 43rd light Infantry. He obtained Ins lieu-
tenancy in 1824, and his captaincy in 1825,
both by purchase. In 1834 he accompanied
Colonel Chesney on his Euphrates expedition,
as second in command He obtained his major-
ity by purchase, in 1836, and in August, 1837,
married Caroline, daughter of Kt. Hon. Beginald
Pole Carew, of Antony, Cornwall. In 1838
he was ordered to Canada; and in 1839

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gazetted lieut-Colonel, for his services on the
Euphrates. In January, 1843, he was ap-
pointed by the Secretary of State, British Com-
missioner to settle the boundary line between
the United States and British America, from
the Bay of Fundy to the River St. Lawrence,
which arduous task he successfrdly accomplished
in three years. From 1848 to 1852 he was
M.P. for Devizes. On the breaking out of
the Russian war, he was gazetted Adjutant-
Greneral of the Crimean army, and in the Brevet
of 1854 was appointed Major-GeneraL He
was in close attendance on Lord Baglan at
Alma ; accompanied him in his celebrated flank
march to Balaklava, and attended him from
dayUght on the battle field of Likermann.
Through the trying winter of 1854-55, he
faithfully performed his duty ; and without
retiring a day from his post, discharged the
onerous duties devolving on him till the 20th
of June, when unmistakeable symptoms of
cholera appeared, and he expired on the morn-
ing of the 24th, in the presence of his wife
and sister, four days before the death of his
friend and chiel^ Lord Baglan. A fortnight
after the news of his death reached England,
his name was gazetted as one of those on whom
Her Majesty would have conferred a K.C.B.,
had he survived. His widow has since, by
special command of Her Majesty, assumed that

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rank which she would have been entitled to,
had her husband survived to enjoy the honor
which he so justly earned

iiL Edmund Hiley, bom 22nd November,
1803. M.A. of Merton College, Oxford, in holy
orders ; Rector of Eckington, Derbyshire, Mar-
ried, 16th April, 1830, Ann, daughter of Sir
John Lowther Johnston, Bart., of Westerhale,
County Dumfiries, and has issue,
i. George Thomas, bom 1840.
ii. Charlotte Eleanor. Married in 1853,
Rev. Fred. Gipps, Vicar of Corbridge, Nor-
thumberland,
iii. Jane.

iv. Gertrude. Married, 1856, Rev. Thos.
Golightly, of Bodington, Northampton, now
Rector of Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershira
V. Isabella. vii. Evelyn,

vi. Clara. viii. Eatherine.

iv. Walter Grimston, bom 16th May, 1807.
Commander, R.N. Died of fever contracted
on the coast of Africa, whilst in command of
H.M.8. Eclair, Sept. 16th, 1845.*

V. William John, bom 17th May, 1812. In
holy orders ; M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford ;
Rector of Long Newnton, Wilts. Married, in

* A monument has been erected to hia memoiy in the
Chapel of H.M. Dockyard, Portsmonih, by his brother
Officers and Friends, on which is the following inscription :

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1848, Mary, daughter of Rev. John Drake, and
has issue a daughter, Eleanor.

vi. Edward Dugdale, bom 6th Feb., 1818, Bar-
rister-at-law, and M.A. of Balliol Collie, Oxford.

L Eleanor. Married, in 1836, the Right Hon.
Henry Unwin Addington, nephew of first Vis-
count Sidmouth.

iL Mary Ann.
Thomas G. B. Estoourt, who was M.P. for
Devizes, firom Jan. 1805 to 1826, and for the

Sacred to the Memory

Commaader W. G. B. Estcourt,

Late in command of Her Majestjr's steam sloop Eclair, who

died on the 16th of September, 1845,

Aged 38 Years,

On passage fix)m Bona Vista to Madeira, firom fever contracted

on the Coast of Afirica, while employed in the suppression

of the

Slave Trade.

His Brother Officers and Friends,

to whom he had become endeared by many virtues, have

erected this

Tablet

to record the deep sense of their loss, and perpetuate the

memory of his worth.
With Commander Estcourt perished 65 Officers and Men, in

the short period of two months.
Is not this the &st that I have chosen? to loose the bands
of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the
oppressed go firee, and that ye break every yoke t

Isaiah 58, 6.

University of Oxford,' from that date till 1847,
died July 25th, 1853, and was succeeded by his
son, THoa H. S. SoTHBRON EsTCOURT, the present
owner of Estcourt

Arms. — £rmine on a chief indented, gules,
three estoiles, or.

Crest. — Out of a mural crown, azure, a demi
eagle, with wings displayed, ppr. beaked, or.

Seat. — Estcourt, Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

HiTNTLEY OF BOXWELL CoURT.

This family is one of the oldest in Gloucester-
shire.

GwYTHENOC, or Wythb-
NOC, came from Brittany to
England with William the
Conqueror. He held the
Castle and Barony of Mon-
mouth. He founded the
Abbey of Monmouth, and
died ante 1086.

His brother Baderon,
who came into England with
Wythenoc, had five sons : *™ "* """'^

i. WllxiAM Prrz Baderon, Baron of Mon-
mouth, mentioned in Domesday, Uving in 1119.
il Jevan.

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iii Koaps or Robert, who had a son, John
Fitz Robert.

iv. Pagan, who had a son, Thomas Fitz Pagan.
V. Owen the Slender.
William Fitz Baderon had issue, Baderon db
Monmouth, Baron Monmouth, living in 1128,
married Roesia, daughter of Gilbert de Clare,
and sister of Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, and
had issue,

L Gilbert de Monmouth, Baron Monmouth,
(died about 1290.) He married Bertha, daugh-
ter of Philip de Braose, and had issue,

i. John de Monmouth, Baron of Monmouth,
married, first, Cecily, daughter and co-heiress
of William Walleran ; and secondly, Agnes,
daughter and co-heiress of Wm. de Musgros,
and had issue, L John de Monmouth, who
married, firsts Maud, daughter of David, Earl
of Huntingdon, and had issue, a daughter ;

married, secondly, Catherine . He died

before 1274. ii. Richard de Wyesham, an-
cestor of the Wyeshams.
ii. James de Monmouth,
iii. Roaps or Robert,
iv. Sm Walter de Huntley, the son of
Baderon de Monmouth and Roesia de Clare, mar-
ried Petronilla, eldest daughter and co-heir of
Walter de Musgros. He had granted to him
Huntley, parcel of the Barony of Monmouth, by
John the Baron, who styles him ^^ Consanguieus

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meua'' Sir Walter de Hiintley, by his marriage
with Petromlla de Musgros, had issue,

i Sm Walter db Huntley, Juil, who
married the daughter and co-heiress of William
de HaHdngs, younger son of Lord Hastings.

ii. Elchard de Huntley, living in 1243.

Sir Walter de Huntley, Junr., had issue, Sir

Thomas ds Huntley, who married the daughter

and co-heiress of — Grendour, Lord of S. Brides,

Netherwent. He was living in 1299, and had issue,

i Thomas, (called Tomlyn by the WelsL)

He married Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir

William Wallis, of Treowen.

ii. John Htmtley, Lord of Purton, Worces-
tershire, 1313 ; and of S. Brides in 1315. He
died & p.
Thomas Huntley had issue,

i. Gwilym, or William Huntley, of Treowen,
fix)m whom descend the Huntleys of Treowen.
ii. John Huntley of S. Brides,
iii Hugh.

iv. David, living 1382.
V. Adams ap Tomlyn, living in 1389 ; d. s. p.
vi. Robert ; d. s. p., 1376.
John Huntley married Elizabeth, daughter
of John ap Adam, (heir of her brother John, in
1399,) and had issue,

L John Huntley, of S. Bridea
ii. A daughter, married to Thomas Pell, of
Usk, and living in 1441.

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John Huntley of S. Brides, married Jane,
daughter of Sir Roger Vaughan, of Bredwardine,
(who was killed at Agrncourt, Oct. 25th, 1415,)
and had issue.

i. John Huntley, (living in 1449,) who mar-
ried Johanna, daughter and heiress of John
RouAis als ap Adam, and had only female issua
ii. Thomas Huntley, of Hadnock, who mar-
ried Margery, daughter of C3mstopher Baynham,
and had issue,

L Hugh Huntley of Hadnock.
ii William.
Hugh Huntley, who was living in 1526, had
issue,

i. Richard Huntley, who married Margaret
Owen, or Gwyn.
ii John Huntley of Hadnock; living in 1537.
iii Elizabeth,
iv. Catherina
John Huntley married Margaret Andrewes,
and had issue,

i Thomas Huntley, of Hadnock, who died
before 1564. He married Anne, daughter of
Eichard Bra3me, and had issue, daughters.

ii. John Huntley, of Standish, in Glou-
cestershire ; mentioned by Sir R Atkyns and
Rudder, living in 1545. He married Alice,
sister and heiress of Edmund Langley, of Sid-
dington, in Gloucestershire, and had issue,

i George Huntley, of Frocester Court, Glou-

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cestershire. He married Catherine, daughter

of John Walsh, of Sodbury, and had issue,

i. John Huntley, of Frocester Court,

who married Jane, daughter of Sir Edward

Kame, Knt, of Glamorganshire, and had

issue.

i. Greorge Huntley, of Frocester Court,
who married Eleanor, daughter of Sir
William Winter, and died 22nd Sept.,
1622, s. p. This Sir George Huntley
entertained Queen Elizabeth at Frocester
Court, on her way to Berkeley Castle,
ii. William,
ii. Henry Huntley, of Boxwell Court,
Gloucestershire, (will dated 1556.) He mar-
ried, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Wm.
Throgmorton, of Tortworth, Gloucestershire,
and had issue,

i. George Huntley, of Boxwell Court,
of whom hereafter.

u. Frances, married John Bowdler, of
Tortworth.
iii. Elinor.
Henry Huntley married, secondly, Anne, daugh-
ter of John Bufford, and had issue,

i. Edmund Huntley, Colonel in the
army ; served in the Low Coimtries. He
waa married to Anne, daughter and heir^
of John Kemys, and died s. p. (Will
dated 26th Jime, 1591.)

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George Huntley of Boxwell Court, was M.P.
for Cricklade in 1555, and High Sheriff of Glou-
cestershire in 1563. He married Constance,
daughter and co-heiress of Edward Ferrers, of
Wood Bevington, and Baddesley Clinton, County
Warwickshire, and had issue,

i. John Huntley. He married Frances, daugh-
ter of Sir John Conway, and died vitd patris.
He had issue, a son John, killed at the storm-
ing of Cirencester by Prince Kupert.
iL George, d. s. p.

iii. William, who married Aime, daughter of
Thomas Morgan, and had issue, an only child,
Elizabeth.

iv. Matthew the Cavauer, (baptized at
Boxwell, 1580 ; buried there 1653.)

V. Constance, who married, first, Richard
BaskerviUe ; secondly. Sir John Sidney.
Matthew Huntley married, first, a daughter

of Algini, and had a son, Matthew, who died

young ; secondly, Frances, daughter of Sir (Jeorge
Snigg, Baron of the Exchequer, and had issue,
L George Huntley, bom 1623, of whom
hereafter, died 1670.
ii. WiUiam, d. s. p.
iii. Thomas, d. s. p.
iv. Henry, d. s. p.
V. Gabriel, d. s. p.
vi. Edmund, A, s. p.
viL Francis, d. s. p.

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viii. Alice, married to Sir John Wynniard,
and died in childbed.

iz. Maiy, married to George Lyte, of Ljte's
Gary.

X. A daughter, married to Thomas Smith, of
the Inner Temple.

Geobge Huntley, of Boxwell Court (who died
in 1670, aged 47,) married Sylvester, daughter and
heiress of Edward, the son of Nicholas Wekys,
Esq., (she died in 1675,) and had issue,

L George, d. a p. 1679. Buried at BoxwelL
ii. Amy, married — Guise ; died in childbed.
iiL Matthew, of whom hereafter,
iv. Henry, dap.
V, Edward, d. a p.
vl WekyB.
vii. Henrietta,
viii. France&
ix. Susamia.
X. Elizabeth,
xi. Anne,
xii. Alice.

xiii. Mary, married, 1st, Sir Thomas Engle-
field, Bart., of Englefield, Coimty Bucking-
hamshire ; second, Walter Allday.
Matthew Hxtntley, of Boxwell Court, was
bom in 1655, married Elizabeth, daughter and
heiress of John Chandler, and niece and heiress
of Edward Chandler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Dur-
ham, and had issue. He died in 1711.

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L BiCHABD, of whom hereafter.

iL Matthew, buried at Boxwell, 1711, da p-

Hi Elizabeth, d s. p.

iv. Bose, buried in 1714, dap.

V. Mary, d, a. p.

vi. Elizabeth, married Thomaa Johnson, of
Newcastle-on-Tyne, and dap.
RiCHABD Huntley was bom in 1690. He
was in holy orders, Kector of Boxwell and Castle
Coombe, buried at Boxwell, 1723, set. 39, married
Anne, daughter of Colonel Lee, of the Donjon,
Canterbury, and of Walsingham, Norfolk, and
had issue,

i. Bichard, who died an in£mt.

ii. Richard, bom 1721.

iiL Dorothy, d s. p.

iv. Elizabeth, d s. p.

V. Anne, married Henry Stephens, Esq., of
Chavenage.

vL Mary, married Daniel Woodward, of Bris-
tol, from whom are descended the Lee Warners
of Walflingham Abbey.

Bjchasd Huntley, bom in 1721, in holy
orders, Bector of Boxwell and Shipton Moyne,
buried at Boxwell, 1794, set. 73, married Anne,
daughter and heiress of Nicholas Beaker, of Net-
tleton. County Wilts, and had issue,

L Bichard, died an in&nt.

u. Bichard, bom 1766.

iil Wadham Huntley, in holy orders. Vicar

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of Aston Blank, and Bector of Eastington, died
unmarried, 1844, set. 73.

iv. Anne, married James Hardwicke, D.D.,
and d. s. p.

V. Mary, married, first, Thomas Hughes, sur-
geon ; second, W. W. Darke, M.D., and d s. p.

yi Catherine, married Rev. Benjamin Spry,
from whom are descended the Skrines of War-
leigL

vii. Sarah, married William Veel, Esq., and
had issue, Joseph Colboume Veel, Esq.
BiCHABD Huntley, bom in 1766, in holy
orders. Rector of Boxwell and Dodington, died in
1831, set. 65, married Anne, daughter and heiress
of James Webster, LL.B., Archdeacon of Glou-
cester, and ultimate heir of William Warburton,
D.D.y Lord Bishop of Gloucester, and had issue,
i RiCHABD Webstbb* bom 2nd April, 1793,
at BoxwelL

iL James Webster, in holy orders, Vicar of
Thursby and of Kirklington, Cumberland. He
married Anne, daughter of Samuel Goodenough,
son of Samuel Goodenough, Lord Bishop of
Carlisle, and has issue,

L Anne. ii Frances.

iiL (Sir) Henry Veel, Kt, RN., married Anne,
daughter of General Skinner, and has issue,
i. Spencer Robert, RN.
ii. Henry Ferrers,
iii. Constance.

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iv. Edmund, married Harriett, daughter of
William Goode, of Brompton, Middlesex, and
had issue,

i. Osmond Currie Huntley, an only son.

V. William Warburton, married Emily Theresa,
daughter of Sir Lewis Versturme, Knt., d. s. p.

vi Lee Warner, d. s. p.

vii. George, A a p.

viil Osmond Charles, d. s. p.

ix. Anne, d. s. p.

X. Frances, d. a p.

XL Clara Jane, married William Miles, of
Great Saxham Hall, County Suffolk, and has

■«u^ two sons «d si. daih.-

xiL Frances, married W. B. Brodie, Esq.,

late MR for Salisbury, and has issue, four
sons and four daughters.

xiiL George Henry, living unmarried in 1856.
Rev. Richard Webster Huntley, M.A. and
late Fellow of All Soids, Oxford, and Proctor for
that University in 1825, is Rector of Boxwell
and Vicar of Alberbury. He married Mary,
daughter of Richard Lyster, Esq., M.P., of Row-
ton Castle, County Salop, and has issue,

i. Richard Freville, bom 15th Dec., 1833,
of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, of Bal-
liol College. Oxford.

iL Henry, bom 23rd Feb., 1835, of Exeter
CoU^e, Oxford.

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Arms. Argent, or a Chevron sable, between
three stags' heads, erased of the second, as many
bugle horns of the first.

Crest. A Talbot ppr. Collared and lined or, on
a wreath.

Motto. Je Youl droit avoir.

Seat. Boxwell Court, Glouoestershire.

HoLFORD OF Weston Birt.

The first of this family
who possessed property
in Gloucestershire was

Sir ElCHARD HOLFORD,

Ent., a Master in Chan-
cery, (appointed June
28, 1694.) He married,
first, Sarah, daughter
and heiress of John Crew,
Esq., of Weston Birt,
and thence became pos-
sessed of that estate; Ti»eAnD.ofth0Hbifcrt..

secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir
Richard Stayner, by whom he had issue, a son,
Robert, and other children ; thirdly, Susanna,
daughter of Samuel Trotman, Esq.

Robert, his son by his second wife, was bom
in 1686, and was also a Master in Chancery,
(appointed Oct. 17, 1712.) He married Sarah,

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daughter of Sir Peter Vandeput, and had issue,
a son Peter, and other children. Mr. Kobert
Holford died in 1753.

Peter, his son, was bom in 1719. He also
was a Master in Chancery, (appointed Aug. 14,
1750.) He married Anne, daughter of William
Nutt, Esq., of Buxted, Sussex, and had issue,
L Adam, bom 1753, died an in&nt.
ii. Robert, bom in 1758, died s. p. 1838.
iii. George Peter, of whom presently.

i. Sarah, married in 1806, Sir Charles G.
Hudson, Bart., of Wanlip, County Leicester,
and died s. p. in 1812.

iL Charlotte, married in 1796, Charles
Bosanquet, Esq., of Bock, Cotmty Northum-
berland, and died in 1839.
George Peter Holford, Esq., was bom in 1767,
and married in 1802, Anne, daughter of Bev.
Averell DanieU, of lifford, County Denial, and
had issue,

i. Egbert Stayner, now of Weston Birt.
L Ann Jane, married in 1832, Bobert Blag-
den Hale, Esq., of Alderley, late M.P. for the
Western Division of Gloucestershire, and has
issue,

L Bobert, bom in 1834.

ii. Matthew Holford, bom in 1835.

i Anne.

iL Theodosia

iii. Georgina.

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ii. Georgma^ married in 1856, Robert Peter
Burrell, Esq., of Stoke Paxk, Suffolk.

iiL Emily Elizabeth, married in -1836, Sir
George J. Palmer, Bart., of Wanlip, County
Leicester, (she died in 1852,) and has issue,
I Archdale Robert, b. 1838.
iL George,
i Emily.
Robert Stayner Holford, Esq., was bom in
1808, and was educated at Harrow, and Oriel
College, Oxford, and is M.P. for the Eastern
Division of the County of Gloucester. He served
the office of High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in
1843, and is in the Commission of the Peace for
that County and Wiltshire. He married in Aug.
1854, Mary Anne, daughter of Major General
James Lindsay, of Balcarres, County Fife, and
has issue,

i Margaret. iL Evelyn.

Arms. — ^Ar. a greyhound in full course sa
Crest. — ^A greyhound, head and neck couped on

a baton.

Seats. — Dorchester House, Park Lane, London ;

Weston Birt, Tetbury.

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/*
\

Paul of Highgrove.

The first of this family who settled in Tetbury
was JosiAH, the son of Nathaniel Paul, of King
Stanley. He married Hester, daughter of Giles
Pike, of Tetbury, and had
issue,

I John, bom 1707.
Married Sarah, daugh-
ter of — Wight, of
Wot ton - under-Edge.
Died September, 1789,
aged 80.
ii. George,
iii. SamueL
iv. Josiah

i. Elizabeth ; married John Bamford, of
Tetbury, and had issue.

ii Mary ; married John Gethin of Durs-

ley, and died s. p., August 2nd, 1782, aged 72.

iii Hester ; married Richard Tippetts, of

Dursley, in 1745, at Newington Bagpath.

She died in 1784, and is buried at Tetbury.

Mr. JosiAH Paul died Oct. 2nd, 1744, and

was succeeded by his son John, who died without

issue, Sept. 2nd, 1789, and was succeeded by his

nephew, Josiah Paul Tippetts, son of his sister

Hester, by her marriage with Kichard Tippetts.

The Anns of the Paar&

222

He was bom at Dursley, in 1748, and in accord-
ance with the will of his maternal uncle, John
Paul, assumed the name of Paul, under sign
manual, 12th Nov. 1787. He married, in 1771,
Mary, the daughter of Robert Clark, Esq., of
Tetbury, and had issue,

L John Paul Paul, bom August 24th, 1772.
He married Mary, only child of Walter Matthews,
Esq., of Clapham, Surrey, and had issue,

1. John, bom July 2nd, 1795, and d. s. p.,
14th Oct., 1817, aged 22.

2. Walter Matthews, bom 7th Feb., 1797 ;
married, Ist of July, 1819, Elizabeth, second
daughter of John Hawker, Esq., and had issue,

I Walter John, bom 20th Jan., 1823.
ii. Arthur George, bom July, 25th, 1831.
lieut. 23rd Kegt. h.e.lc.s.

iii. Francis, bom Jan. 12th, 1836. En-
sign 23rd Kegt. H.E.LC.S.

i Mary Elizabeth ; d. a p., March 10th,
1850.
ii. Susan.

iii. Letitia Margaret.
Mr. Walter Paul is a Magistrate for Gloucester
and Wilts, and Captain of the Tetbury troop of
the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry.

1. Mary, who married, first, in 1813, Gerard
Martin Berkeley Napier, Esq., of Pennard House,
Somerset^ (he died in May, 1820,) and by him
had issue.

228 '

- ^

L Edward Berkeley, bom Nov, 5, 1816, \

and married the daughter of General Sir
John Wilson. ^

ii Charles Walter Albin, bom 1819, in - ^

holy orders, married Marianne Flora, second
daughter of Lord Talbot de Malahide. ^

Hi Gerard John, bom 1818, Captain RN.

i Letitia Mary, married May, 1839> Fred
Cripp,, a,,, and dirf Aug., 1889.

ii Julia Arundell, died in 1849.
Mrs. Napier married secondly, 28th September,
1835, Sir John Dean Paul, Bart., and died 6th
February, 1842.

2. Anna Maria, married June 15, 1820, the
Rev. WUliam S. Birch, Rector of Easton Grey
and Luckington, and had issue,

L William Paul, bom December 8, 1821,
(of Exeter CoUege, Oxford,) and dap. 1843.

iL George Edward, bom December 9, 1831,
of Oriel College, Oxford.

iii Henry John, bom September 13, 1833.

iv. Walter Albin, bom February, 1836, and
died May 22, 1841.

L Haniette, d. s. p. 1840.

ii. Mary, d. s. p. 1839.

iii. Emily.

iv. Elizabeth.

▼. Frances Adelaide, died s. p. 1840.

vL Ann Maria.
Mr& Birch died October 13, 1839.

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3. Hariette, married in July, 1839, the Rev.
John Frampton, Vicar of Tetbury, and had issue,
i. John Paul, bom December 6, 1830, and
died October 25, 1840.

ii Edward, born December 23, 1831.
iii. Frederick William, bom Feb. 20, 1833.
iv. Walter, born August 22, 1837.
• V. John, bom February 8, 1841.
vi James Henry, bom Nov. 5, 1842.
i. Harriette.
iL Mary.
iiL Anne.

iv. Hannah Audrey Grace, died & p. March
30, 1848.
Mrs* Frampton died 18th January, 1851.
Mr. John Paul Paul was educated at Queen's
College, Oxon, and was High Sheriff of Wilts
in 1807. He was created D.C.L. of Oxford,
22nd June, 1814, and in 1818 he purchased the
Manor of Doughton of Thomas Talboys, Esq., and
died in 1828, and was succeeded by his eldest
surviving son, Walter Matthews PauL

ii. Robert Clark, bom September 9, 1775,
married July 2, 1794, Elizabeth, only child of Ed-
ward Browne, of the city of Bristol, and had issue^
i. Edward Browne.

ii. Josiah Tippetts, bom 13th April, 1801,
He married, firsts September 24, 1827, Char-
lotte, only child of the Rev. John Harman
Howes, Rector of Easton Grey, and had issue,

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i. Clara Frances, married September 25,
1856, Rev. David Kitcat, M.A, of Trimty
College, Oxford

ii Charlotte Augusta Maria.
Secondly, in 1848, Mary Ann Jane, daughter
of the late Captain Henry White, of Tetbury,
and has issue,

i. Alfred Henry, bom July 30, 1849.

ii. Josiah Edward, bom April 24, 1852.

i. Ada Mary.

3. Bobert Clark, bom May 30, 1804.

4. Henry, bom December 13, 1805, and mar-
ried in 1837, Sarah Kingstone, and had issue.

5. Frederick, born February 22, 1809, and
married in 1838, Elizabeth Y. Haines.

6. Alfred John, bom January 11, 1811, Com-
mander RN., died August 18, 1845.

7. Charles William, bora Feb. 13, 1813, mar-
ried Sept. 21, 1844, Ann, daughter of William
Maskelyne, Esq., and died s. p., March 14, 1854.

1. Ann, bom September 9, 1797, and died
8. p., October 10, 1856.

2. Maria Harriette, married April, 1830, Rev.
John Duffiis, and has issue, two sons and five
daughters.

Mr. Robert Clark Paul died 25th Oct., 1856.

iii Josiah, bom January 2, 1779, Lieutenant

RN., d. 8. p., September 28, 1799, at the

Holder, on the Coast of Holland, whilst engaged

in the service of his country.
Q

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iv. Samuel Paul, bom July 18, 1781, educated
as a Gentleman Commoner at New College, Ox-
ford, married February, 1810, Mary Pearce, eldest
daughter of the Rev. William Jenkins, Vicar of
Sidmouth, (she died 31st December, 1847,) and
had issue,

1. Edmund William, bom November 9, 1810,
married Charlotte, daughter of Harry James,
Esq., and has issue.

2. Augustus, bom 1814, d. s. p. 1854.

3. Henry John, bom 1816, and married
Bessie, daughter of James Ford, Esq., and has
issue.

1. Charlotte Elizabeth Mary.

2. Emma Maria Frederica, married Oct. 14,
1835, Baynes K Beed, Esq., M.D., and had
issue, five sons.

Mrs. Beed died in 1847.

3. Harriet Emily Kingscote, d. s. p. 1845.

4. Caroline Mary, married in 1846, Charles
Kitson, Esq., solicitor of Torquay, and has issue.
The Bev. Samuel Paul Paul was elected Vicar

of Tetbury 25th July, 1825, and died 29th of
July, 1828.

V. George, b. June 2, 1783, and d. s. p. 1829.

vi. Bichard^ b. Jime 11, 1785, and d. s. p. 1815.

viL Charles, b. May 30, 1790, and d s. p. 1846.

L Maria Sloper Tippetts, bom January 2, 1774,
and d. s. p., 1805.

ii. Esther, d. s. p., 1778.

227 ^ "^

iii. Eleanor, married 17th February, 1820, Jacob
Wood, Esq., of Tetbury, and has issue,

1. William Paul, bom 24th January, 1823,
M. A. of S. John's College, Oxford, in holy orders,
Rector of Saddington, Leicestershire, married
Jaqu^te Maty, daughter of William Hole, Esq.,
and has issue, a son and two daughters.

2. Charles Paul, solicitor, born August 17,
1828, mairied 28th March, 1854, Mary, daugh-
ter of John Lyall, Esq.

1. Eleanor, married in 1843, William Brookes,
Esq., of Elmestree, (Justice of the Peace for
Gloucestershire, and Captain in the Eoyal North
Gloucester Militia,) and had issud,

i Alfred William, bom Aug. 15, 1847.
ii Charles Henry, bom January 25, 1849.
iii Francis Avenel, bom June 30, 1850.
i. Marianne Ellen.
ii Harriette Agnea
iiL Elizabeth Ann.
Mrs. Brookes died in May, 1854,

2. Eliaabeth, died s. p., 1852,

3. Maria Paul.

4. Frances Paul.

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The Anns of Sftrage.

Savage of Tetbury.

The family of Savage,
as may be inferred from
the name, is of Norman
extraction ; they most
probably settled in Eng-
land immediately after
the Conquest. The name
is first mentioned as Le
Sauvage, and together
with the names of many
of our oldest famihes in
England, it still exists in Normandy at this
present day. The Savages of Bock Savage, &c.,
descended firom the Savages of Steinesby, CSounty
Derby, who were seized of this manor in the reign
of King John. It remained in their family till
1580, when John Savage conveyed it to Lord
Chancellor Bromley, by whom it is probable it
was again conveyed to Sir William Cavendish.
It « ^the property of the Duke of Devo-ahire.
John Le Savage, living circa 1090, had a
son, Adam Le Savage, (by deed without date),
whose son Bobebt Le Savage, of Steinesby,
County Derby, had a son John Le Savage,
Lord of Steinesby, aforesaid. He was succeeded by
his son Sir Geoffery Le Savage, of Steinesby,
Knight, 1 Bichard L (1 1 90.) He married Lettice,

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daughter of Sir Henry de Ardeme, Knight, by
whom he had a son, John Savage, of Steinesby,
in lief anno Johannis, (1205.) He was succeeded
by his second son John Savage, of Steinesby,
who married Agatha, daughter and heiress of
Henry S. Andrew, and by her had a son. Sir
Thomas Savage, of Steinesby, Knight, Uving
29 Edward I. (1301.) He had a son. Sir Egbert
Savage, of Steinesby, Knight, 41 Edward III.,
(1367,) who married Amicia, daughter and heiress
of Thomas Walkingham, by whom he had a son,
Snt John Savage, Knight^ in lief 49 Edward III.
(1375.) He married Margaret^ daughter and
heiress of Sir Thomas Dangers, Knight, de Bradley.
She afterwards married Sir Peter Leigh, of Lyme,
Cheshire ; by this marriage, Clifton, County Ches-
ter, afterwards called Bock Savage, came into
the family. Sir John Savage died in 1386, and
his wife in 1427. They had issue, two daughters,
Elizabeth and Blanche, and a son,

Sm John Savage, Knight, of Clifton, County
Chester, was knighted at the battle of Agincourt,
in 1415. He, instead of the arms which had
always heretofore been borne by his family, viz.,
ar. six lioncels sa., took his mother's arms, ar. a
pale fusile sa, and for the crest, a unicorn's
head, couped, ar., which she granted him to bear
aft»r the death of her father, 3 Henry V. (1416.)
He married Maud, daughter and heiress of Sir
Bobert Swimmerton, Knight, of Mojme Barrow,

2dO

County Chester, Rushton, Comford, axid Aufitan*
field, County Stafford ; she inherited them fix)m
her father, and had issue,

i. John. iii. Arnold. v. Roger,

ii. William. iv. George,
i. Margaret, married John Dutton, second son
of Sir Peirs Dutton, of Dutton.
John Savage, of Clifton, married Eleanor,
daughter and heiress of Sir W. Brereton, and
died in 1463, aged 53, he had issue,
i. John.

i. Marjory, married first, to Edmund Leigh,
of Bagsleigh ; second, to Thomas Leycester, of
the then Tabley, County Chester.

ii. Margaret, married first John Maxfield,
second, Eandle Mannering, of Over Pevon,
County Chester.

Sir John Savage, Knight, of Clifton, married
Catherine, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas
Stanley, and sister to Thomas Stanley, Earl of
Derby, and had issue,

i. Sir John, Knight of Clifton. He led the
charge of the left wing at the Battle of Bosworth
Field, in 1485, and was very Instrumental, together
with his uncle, Thomas, Lord Stanley, afterwards
Earl of Derby, in the promoting of Henry VII. to
the Throne, and in gaining the Battle of Bosworth
Field. He was a valiant man^ and an expert
soldier, and was made KG. by Henry VII. He
was killed at the siege of Boulogne, in France, in

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1492, during the life-time of his father. He
married Dorothy, the daughter of Kalph Vernon.

Sib John Savage, great-grandson of the above
Sir John, built a magnificent, mansion at Clifton.
County Chester, and called it Rock Savage ; he
died in 1597. He again took for his arms, ar.
six lioncels sa., and for his crest, a lion's gamb sa.
erect out of a ducal coronet or, which coat was
afterwards always borne by his fiimily. John,
his son and heir, the ninth of that name in suc-
cession, was created a Baronet, in 1611. Sir
John Savage, a younger son of the first Baronet,
was murdered in 1609, by one Ralph Bathurst,
who being arraigned for the act, and refusing
to plead, was pressed to death. Sib Thomas
Savaqe, second Baronet^ entertained King James
I. and his whole Court, at Rock Savage in 1617,
He was created Viscount Savage by Charles I. in
1626. His son was in 1639 created Earl Rivers ;
his mother being daughter and heiress of Thomaa,
Lord d'Arcy, who enjoyed that title. By the
death of John, fifth and last Earl Rivers, with-
out issue, in 1728, the Manor of Clifton, or Rock
Savage, passed to James, Earl Barryman, who
had married Elizabeth, only daughter of Richard,
fourth Earl Rivers, and fi-om them to Penelope,
their only daughter. She married James, younger
son of the Earl of Cholmondeley, in whose family
the estate still remains, as well as the title of
Earl of Rock Savage.

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ii. Thomas, who was in holy orders, was
consecrated Bishop of Rochester in 1492, and
translated to London in 1497, and from thence
to York in 1501. He died in 1503, and was
buried in York Minster, where there is a splendid
altar tomb, with his effigy, erected to his memory.
His heart was bnried at Maxfield, Comity Chests,
where he had built a Chapel. It afterwards be-
came the burial place of his family, and in it
there are many magnificent monuments to them,
iii. Sir Homfrey.
iv. Lawrence.
V. James.

vi. Sir Edmund, who fell at Flodden Field, in
1515. He married Mary, daughter of William
Sparke, of Surrey, and widow of Roger Leigh,
of Ridgeweigh, Maxfield, County Chester, and had
issue, a son, Edmund, knighted by the Earl of
Hertford, at Leith, in Scotland, in 1544.
vii. Sir Christopher, of whom hereafter.
viii. William,
ix. George.
X. Richard.

Sir Christopher Savage married Anne, daugh-
ter and heiress of Sir Richard Lygon, and died
seized of the Manors of Aston-sub-Edge, Broad
Campden, Burrington, and Westington, County
Gloucester. In the 36th year of his reign,
Henry VIIL granted to him the estates of
Elmley Castle, County Worcester. He had issue,

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i. Francis.

ii George, in holy orders, Archdeacon of
Gloucester, and Hector of Seagrave, married
Anne, daughter of George Turvile, the sister
of Sir William Turvile, of Aston. He obtained
the Manor of Walter fix)m his father-in-law.
Francis Savage, of Elmley Castle, married
Anne, daughter of William Sheddon, or Sheldon,
of Borley Court, County Worcester, and had issue,

i. Willkm. who married Anne, daughter and
heiress of John Knotsford, of Great Malvern,
(who brought the Priory at Great Malvern,
and the estates into the family,) and had issue,

1. Sir John Savage, Knt., married Dorothy,
daughter of Sir Henry Poole, of Saperton,
County Gloucester.

2. Giles, married Elatherine, daughter of
Sir Richard Dalston, and had issue,

I Thomaa, married Mary, daughter of
Sir John Ham. iiL Gile&

ii. William. iv. John.

1. Mary, married to Sir Thomas Estcourt.
iL Walter, of whom hereafter,
iii. Anthony, who sold his possessions at
Broadway, to Lord Keeper Coventry.

iv. John.
Walter Savage, of Broadway, (which he in-
herited £rom his mother,) married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of John Hall of Idlecote, County Worcester
and had issue,

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i. lUchaxd.
iL Balph.

iiL Chables Savage, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Anthony Abbingdon, of Dowda-
well, County Gloucester, and had issue,
i. Abingdon, died 1625.
iL William of Tetbury, bom 1622, Magis-
trate and Deputy Lieutenant for County of
Gloucester, died 1681, aged 59. He married
Mary, daughter of William Bird of Wotton-
unde]>Edge.
iii. Anthony, bap. in 1623.
iv. John.

i. Anne, bap. in 1623.
iL Mary, bap. 1627.
iii. Elizabeth,
iv. Anthony.

V. Francis, of whom hereafter,
vi. John.

viL Walter, who went to Spain in 1660.
L Valentine.
iL Bridget.
Francis Savage, married in 1621, Mary, daugh-
ter of Edmund Estcourt, of Shipton Moyne,
brother of Sir Thomas Estcourt. He inherited
the property of Dame Mary Estcourt, widow of
Sir Thomas Estcourt, and also acquired consider-
able property together with the old Mansion House
in Tetbury, from his wife, the whole of whidi was
devised entail to his son John and his heirs.

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By his marriage with Maiy Estcourt he had
issue.

i. Francis, bap. 1626» d. 1636.

\L John, bap. 1630, of whom hereafter.

iii. Walter.

iv. William, bap. 1633.

V. Francis, bap. 1636.

vL Thomas, bap. 1638.

i. Mary, bap. 1622.

ii. Lucy, bap. 1628.

iii. Elizabeth, bom 1629, d. 1683, aged 54.
John Savage of Tetbury, married Jane, daugh-
ter of , and had issue.

i. Francis, bap. 1651.

ii. William, bap. 1663.

L Elizabeth, bap. 1657.

ii. Eatherine, bap. 1661.

iii. Jane, bap. 1668.
Francis Savage, in 1675, married Dorothy,
daughter of — Solway, of Worcester. He re-
sided at Severn Stoke, Worcestershire, until the
death of his father in 1683, when he removed to
Tetbury. He had issue,

L Francis, bap. 1676.

ii. John, bap. 1677, died 1691.

iiL WiUiam, married Sarah, daughter of J.
Jenkins, of South Cemey.

L Jane. iii Dorothy.

iL ]fflizabeth. iv. Eatherine.

Francis Savage died in 1740, aged 63. He left

2a6

to his son John all his fireehold messuages, land,
and tenements, except the house and garden at
Westoourt^ and all the land in the tything of
Upton, in the parish of Tetbuiy, which he left
to his second son, Francis. He had issue,

i John, of Tetbury, who d a p. in- 1773.
He survived his brother Francis, and left aU
his property to his nephew John.

iL Fbancis, of Tetbuiy, married Mary ,

and died intestate in 1769, when all his pro-
perty passed to his only child, John,
i. Elizabeth.
iL Elinor.
The Bev. John Savage, Rector of Beverstone
and Weston Birt, married Charlotte, daughter of
Walter Wiltshire, of Shockerwick House, County
Somerset. He died in 1803, aged 56, and left
his house and property, situated in or near Tet-
buiy, for the use of his widow for her life, and
after her death to his son John.

Mrs. Savage died in 1846. The issue of this
marriage was»

i. John, of whom hereafter.
iL Francis, of Springfield, Westbury-on-Trim,
Coimty Gloucester, who married Juliana, daugh-
ter of Thomas Walker, of Bedland, County
Gloucester, and had issue,

L Francis Walker, now of Springfield.

ii. Charles Walter.

L Louisa Walker, d. 1845.

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ii. Francis Harriet,
iii. Juliana Charlotte.
Mr. Francis Savage died in 1845.
i Chajrlotte, d. s. p. 1847.
ii. Elizabeth.

iii: Louisa^ married Jacob Wilkinson, of Bath.

John Savagb, of Tetbury, married Bachel,

daughter of Robert Claxton, Esq., of the Island

of St. Christopher, in the West Indies, and has

issue,

i. John Claxton, d s. p. in 1836.
ii. Heniy, d. 8. p., in infeucy.
iiL Francis.

iv. William, married Anne, daughter of Rev.
Charles Holdsworth, of Dartmouth, County
Devon.

L Maria» died 1842.
Mr. Savage sold the Mansion House and the
close adjoining, which he inherited after the death
of his mother, to Joseph Wood, Esq., banker of
Tetbury, in 1850. The rest of the fiirms and
other lands still belong to him (1856.)

Extracts from the Parish Register of Tet-
bury RESPECriNG THE FaMIUES OF SaVAGE,

Talboys, Gastrell, &c.

The following extracts from the Parish Register
will be best understood by a few words being
prefixed to them, respecting the alteration in

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the Calendar made by Pope Gregory XHL
(1582.) Julius Caesar (B.C. 45,) fixed the solar
year at 365 days, six hours ; but this was de-
fective, since the true solar year consists of 365
days, five hours, and forty-nine minutes. In
the time of Pope Gregory XIII., this difference
amounted to ten entire days, so that the vernal
equinox fell on the 11th, instead of the 21st of
March. The errors in the Julian style had for
a long time attracted the attention of astronomers,
when Pope Gregory XIIL undertook to reform
the Roman Calendar. The alteration was made
in October, 1582. In the Pontiff's new Calendar,
ten days were deducted firom the year 1582, by
calling what would have been the 5th the 15th
day of October. It was attempted shortly after-
wards to introduce this new style into Englaad.
A bill waa brought into the House of Lords for
reforming the Calendar, on the 16th of March,
1584-5 (27 Eliz.) It was read on the 18th of
the same month, after which no notice of the
proposed measure appears.

The historical year has for a long time com-
menced on the 1st of January. The legal year
commenced in England on the 25 th of March*
until 24 Geo. II., c. 23, (1751,) in which year *
an Act of Parliament was passed, entitled, "An
Act for regulating the commencement of the year,
and for correcting the Calendar now in use." It
was ordered that the 1st day of January next

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should be reckoned as the first day of the year
1752, and so on in all future years. The Gre-
gorian style was received in France in 1582 ;
in Spain, 1582; in Germany, 1584; in Great
Britain and Ireland, 1752. Russia still retains
the old style.

The civil, ecclesiastical, and legal year, which
was used by the Church, and in aU public in-
struments, until the end of the thirteenth century,
began at Christmas. In and after the fourteenth
century, it commenced on the 25th of March, and
so continued till the 1st of January, 1753.'

This will explain why the years in the fol-
lowing extracts begin at the 25th of March,
until the year 1753.

The Savage Family.

1626 July 13, Francis, s. of Francis Savage, gent., bap.

1627 October 4, Marj, d. of Charles Savage, bap.

1628 April 24, Lucj, d. of Francis Savage, bap.

1629 November 5, John, s. of Charles Savage, bap.

1 630 August 5, John, s. of Francis Savage, gent., bap.
1633 October 17, William, s. of Francis Savage, bap.

1635 September 10, Ann, d. of Francis Savage, gent., bap.

1636 July 8, Francis Savage bur.

December 29, Frances, d. of Francis Savage, bap.

1638 August 10, Frances Savage bur.

^^ ^^^ •

February 19, Thomas, s. of Francis Savage, bap.
1640 April 7, Thomas, s. of Francis Savage, bap.

* Sir Harris Nicholas's Chronology of History, p. 34-41 ',
Haydn's Did. of Dates,

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1649 September 27» Mr. Anthony Ashfield and Mrs. Mary

Savage mar.

1650 September 20, Mary, d. of Anthony Ashfield, b^.
1661 December 19, Francis, s. of John Savage, bap.

Jan. 18, Mr. Joseph Norwent and Mrs. Mary Savage mar.
1653 April 17, Elizabeth, d. of Joseph Norwent, bap.
November 23, John, s. of John Savage, bom.

1655 April 23, Mary, d. of Mr. William Savi^e, bom.
May 25, Mary, d. of Mr. William Savage, bur.

1656 October 5, Charles, s. of William Savage, bora.

1657 July 31, Elizabeth, d. of John Savage, born.
January 4, Mary, wife of Mr. Joseph Norwen^ bur.

1658 July 28, William, s. of William Savage, bom.

1659 September 24, Mary/d. of John Savage, bom.

1660 May 22, George, s. of Mr. William Savage, bap.
August 12, Jane, d. of John Savage, born.
August 12, Ann, d. of John Savage, bom.
September 13, Mrs. Ann Savage bur.
December 21, Jane, d. of Mr. John Savage, bap.

1661 November 21, Ann, d. of William Savage, gent.
January 16, Katherine, d. of John Savage, gent, bap.

1662 February 21, Thomas Savage and Elizabeth Hall mar.

1663 October 8, William, s. of John Savage, gent., bap.
October 15, Richard, s. of William Savage, gent., bap.
October 17, Richard, s. of William Savage, bur.
November 19, Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Savage, bap.
February 2, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Charles Savage, bur.

1665 June 22, Charles, s. of John Savage, gent.
January 11, John, s. of Thomas Savage, bap.

1666 July 20, Abington, d. of William Savage, gent., bap.
August 6, Susannah, d. of John Savage, gent., bap.
August 21, Susannah, d. of John Savage, bur.
September 13, Abington, d. of W. Savage, bur.
November 1, Charles, s. of John Savage, gent., bur.
January 1, Mary, wife of William Savage, gent, bur

1667 December 15, Thomas, s. of Thomas Savage, bap.

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1668 April 16, Thoinai Savage bur.

May 1, Jane, d. of Mr. John Savage, bap.

1669 November 19, Ann, d. of Mr. John Savage, bap.

1671 March 8, Mr. Franda Savage, sen., bar.

1672 December 8, Jane, d. of John Savage, gent, bap.

1675 November 25, Elizabeth, d. of John Savage, bap.

1676 April 25, Barbara, d. of Mr. William Savage, bap.

1678 March 25, Barbara, d. of Mr. William Savage, bap.
April 1, Margaret, d. of John Savage, bap.

May 7, Katherine, d. of Mr. William Savage, bap.

1679 December 10, Elizabeth Savage born
1681 July 30, Thomas, son of John Savage, bap.

October 3, William Savage, Esq., bur.

1683 September 8, Mr. John Saval^e, bur.

1684 January 17, Hannah, d. of John Savage, bap.
May 6, Mary, d. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap.
September 4, Mr. Anthony Savage, bur.

January 1, Mr. William Savage and Mrs. Hues, mar.

1686 September 7, Dorothy, d. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap.

1687 February 15, Katherine, d. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap.

1689 June 13, Ann, d. of Frauds Savage, Grent., bap.
March 10, William Savage, Gent. bur.

1690 November 21, Susanna, d. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap.

1691 May 16. John Savage, bur.

October 23, William, s. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap.

1692 February 20, Charles, s. of Francis Savage, bap.

1693 June 26, Sarah, d. of John Savage, bap.

1694 May 7, Walter, s. of Francis Savage, bap.

1696 October 20, Ann, d. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap.

January 11, Daniel Johnstone and Jane Savage, mar.
1698 April 9, Charles, s. of Francis Savage, bap.

1702 October 16, Mary, d. of Francis Savage, juiir. bap.
October 17, Mr. Francis Savage's wife bur.

1703 March 24, Mary, d. of Widow Savage, bur.

1706 June 13, Nathaniel Body and Katherine Savage, mar.

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1708 April 16, Elizabeth, d. of Fnmeis Savage, bap.

July 1, Mr. John King and Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, mar.

1709 October 5, John, s. of Thomaa Savage, bap.
1711 February 24, Mary, d. of Thomas Savage, bap.
1713 September 14, Eleanor, d. of Francis Savage

October 6, Widow Savage, bur.

1715 April 28, Francis, s. of Francis Savage, bap.

1716 Januaiy 16, Thomas, s. of Thomas Savage, bap.
1719 November 8, William, & of Thomas Savage, bap.
1722 February 22, Charles, s. of Thomas Savage, bap.
1724 January 19, Mr. Dorothy Savage, bur.

July 16, Charles, s. of Thomas Savage, bom.
1728 February 26, Thomas, s. of Thomas Savage, bur.
1730 March 1, Michael Madbing and Mary Savage, mar.
1735 August 16, Thomas, s. of John Savage, bap.

November 5, Thomas, s. of John Savage, bur.
1 738 March 29, Jane, wife of John Savage, bur.
1740 April 19, Mr. Francis Savage, bur.

1744 March 24, Elizabeth, d. of John Savage, bap.

1745 December 26, Elizabeth, wife of Charles Savage, bur.

1749 March 18, Sarah, d. of John Savage, bap.

1750 April 16, Mr. Charles Savage, bur.

1751 January 13, Mrs. Mary Savage, bur.

1753 March 17, Abigail, Relict of Mr. Fn Savage, bur.
1759 August 27, Thomas Oatridge and Ann Savage, mar.

1762 January 7, John Boulton and Alice Savage, mar.

1763 May 8, Thomas, s. of William Savage, bap.
August 10, Mrs. Eleanor Savage, bur.

1764 January 20, John Savage and Jane Parker, mar.

1765 January 21, Mary, d. of John Savage, bap.

1766 September 28, William, s. of John Savage, bap.

1767 April 30, Elizabeth, wife of John Savage, bur.
May 31, John, s. of James Savage, bap.

July 23, Sarah, wife of Mr. William Savage, bur.
1769 October 20, Francis Savage, bur.

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1 770 April 5, Theodore, s. of James Savage, bur. '
August 28, John, s. of James Savage, bap.

1771 April 28, Elizabeth, d. of John Savage, junr., bap.
August 24, Edward Hill and Elizabeth Savage, mar.

1772 December 22, Mr. John Savage, bur.

1775 October 19, Mr. William Savage, bur., aged 84.

1777 Nov. 18, Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, bur., aged 69.

1 779 Julj 26, Thomas Savage and Sarah Hill mar.

1787 August 6, John Savage, junr., bur.

1790 February 24, Francis, s. of Rev. John Savage and

Charlotte his wife, bap.
1797 September 29, James Savage, bur.
1803 March 26, Rev. John Savage, Rector of Beverstone, bur.
1815 November 2nd, Mrs. Jane S&vage, widow, aged 88, bur.
1827 March 20, Jane Savage, bur.
1836 January 26, John Claxton Savage, aged 23, bur.
1842 February 12, Maria Savage, bur.

1845 July 1, John Savage, aged 65, bur.

1846 September 18, Charlotte Savage, aged 92, bur.

1847 August 31, Charlotte Savage, aged 71, bur.
1852 October 7, Sarah Savage, aged 87, bur.

Thb Gastbell Family.

1634 November 20, Rebekah, d. of Mr. John Gastrell, bap,
1650 November 18, Jane, d. of Mr. Samuel Gastrell, bap.

1652 April 10, John, s. of Samuel Gastrell, gent., bap.

1653 June 18, Samuel, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bap.
1655 March 23, Fabian, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bom.

1658 September 3, Henry, s. of Samuel Gastrell, born.

1659 October 19, James, s. of Samuel Gastrell, born.

1660 November 28, Mary, d. of Samuel Gastrell, bap.

1663 May 5, Gilbert, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bap.

1664 June 16, Thomas, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bap.

1665 February 2, Nicholas, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bap.
January 28, Edward, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bap.

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1668 June 12, Charles, b. of Samuel Gastrell, bap.

1673 June 12, Mr. William Window and Mrs. Jane Gastrell

mar.
October 15, Elizabeth, d. of Mr. Samuel Gastrell, bap.
Oct. 18, Mrs. Grastrell, wife of Mr. Samuel Gastrell, bur.

1674 October 30, Mr. Samuel Gastrell bur.
1676 Jul J SO, Charles Gastrell bur.

1678 Feb. 16, John, s. of Mr. John Gastrell, bap.
1680 March 4, Richard, s. of Mr. John Gastrell, bap.

1687 May 15, Marj, d. of Mr. Gilbert Gastrell, bap.

1688 November 12, James, s. of Gilbert Grastrell, bap.
March 21, Joanna, d. of Nicholas Grastrell, bap.

1693 November 1 3, Samuel, s. of Edward Gastrell, bap.
1695 July 20, Ann, d. of Mr. Gilbert Gastrell, bap.
1701 May 29, Jane, d. of Gilbert Gastrell, bap.
1732 December 8, Gilbert Grastrell, gent., bur.
1738 October 5, Ann, d. of James Gastrell, bap.

1747 July 21, Gilbert, s. of James Gastrell, bur.

1748 January 14, James Gastrell, set 61, bur.
1789 September 7, Mary Gastrell, bur.

1801 November 14, Miss Ann Grastrell bur.

Thb Talbots Family.

1631 October 4, Mr. Bichard Talboys wife bur.

1634 September 4, Benjamin, s. of Richard Talboys, bap.

1635 December 26, Samuel, s. of Richard Talboys, bap.

1637 May 7, Andrew, s. of Richard Talboys, bap.

1638 July 5, Elizabeth, d. of Richard Talboys, bap.
March 14, Elizabeth Talboys bur.

1639 September 5, Rebecca, d. of Richard Talboys, bap.
1650 Jan. 25, Elizabeth, wife of Richard Talboys, gent., bur.

1656 May 30, William, s. of Richard Talboys, bom.

1657 September 22, Francis, s. of Mr. Richard Talboys, born.
1659 December 20, Mary, d. of Richard Talboys, Esq., bap.
1662 April 22, Samuel, s. of Richard Talboys, Esq., bap.

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1663 April 20, Mary, d. of Richard Talbojs, bap.
June 9, Samuel, s. of Richard Talbojs, bur.
August 10, Richard Talboys, Esq., bur.
December 31, Alice, d. of Benjamin Talbojs, bap.

1664 Apiil 26, Giles Stedman and Katherine Talboys mar.
Feb. 23, Katherine, d. of Giles Stedman, bap.

1665 August 25, Elizabeth, d. of Andrew Talboys, bap.

1666 September 10, Benjamin, s. of Benjamin Talboys de

Dufton, bap.

1667 September 14, Frances, d. of Mr. Andrew Talboys, bap.

1668 February 8, Thomas, s. of Mr. Richard Talboys, bur.
1670 June 23, Anthony, s. of Mr. Benjamin Talboys, bap.

1672 April 11, Richard, s. of Mr. Richard Talboys, bap.
June 29, Richard, s. of Mr. Andrew Talboys, bap.

1673 April 3, Benjamin, s. of Mr. Richard Talboys, bap.
June 12, Sylvester, s. of Mr. Benjamin Talboys, bap.

1675 December 2, Alice, wife of Mr. Benjamin Talboys, of
DufVon.
Jan 13, Mr. Charles Smith and Mrs. Frances Talboys mar.

1679 September 20, Sibella Talboys bur.

1680 June 17, Ann, d. of Mr. Richard Talboys, bap.
February 19, Mr. Andrew Talboys bur.

1688 May 8, Mr. Benjamin Talboys, bur.

1695 April 11, Richard, s. of Benjamin Talboys, bap.

1696 December 3, Richard, son of Mr. Richard Talboys, bap.

1697 May 3, Benjamin, s. of Mr. Talboys, bur.

1699 Sept. 28, Nancy, daughter of Mr. Richard Talboys, bap.
1706 July 29, James Morton and Ann Talboys, mar.
1710 March 5, Mr. W. Talboys, bur.

1712 November 23, Benjamin Talboys and Mary Powell mar.

1713 September 15, Richard, s. of Benjamin Talboys, bap.
March 10, Mr. Richard Talboys wife, of Dufton, bur.

1715 April 12, Alice, d. of Benjamin Talboys, bap,
1717 November 3, Ann, d. of Benjamin Talboys, bap.
1721 July 29, Mr. Benjamin Talboys, bur.

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December 15, Mrs. Hester Talbojs, widow, bur.

1722 August 18, Richard, s. of Benjamin Talbojs, bap.

1723 April 14, Mary, wife of Benjamin Talboys, bar.

1724 January 14, Mrs. Frances Talbojs, bur.

1725 June 27, Toby Mill and Frances Talboys, mar.

1726 February 28, Mr. Richard Talboys, bur.

1727 May 18, Joseph Blake and Elizabeth Talboys, mar.
1729 August 26, Mrs. Alice Talboys, bur.

1732 June 13, Mary, wife of Benjamin Talboys, bur.
1737 July 14, Thomas, s. of Thomas Talboys, bap.

September 6, Thomas, s. of Thomas Talboys, bur.
1741 January 12, Sarah, wife of Thomas Talboys, bur.
1747 January 7, Benjamin Talboys, bur.
1749 February 6, Richard, s. of Benjamin Talboys, bur.
1767 April 1, Mr. Richard Talboys, bur.
1801 August 29, Elizabeth Corbett, d. of Thomas and Elizabeth

Talboys, bap.
1 803 January 27, Mary Taylor, d. of Thomas and Elizabeth

Talboys, bap.
1814 August 2, Henrietta Jane, d. of Thomas and Elizabeth

Talboys, bap.

Extracts fbom the Registers of Shifton Motns, rela-
tive TO THE ESTCOURT FaMILT.

1573 June 4, Edmund, s. of Thomas and Mary Estcourt, bap.
1579 January 16, John, s. of Thomas Estcourt, bap.

1586 May 2, Anne, d. of Thomas Estcourt, Esq. bap.

1587 October 23, John, s. of Thomas Estcourt, Esq., bap.
1592 May 12, Mary, d. of Thomas Estcourt, bap.

1641 February 2, Thomas, s. of Mr. Thomas Estcourt, bap.
1643 May 30, Anne, d. of Thomas Estcourt, Esq. bap.^

' There are no entries of Baptisms relating to the Estcourt
family in the Parish Registers of Shipton Moyne, after the year
1643

AUTOGRAPHS OF SOME OF THE
ESTCOURT FAMILY. FROM CHURCHWARDEN'S BOOK

^A^ fe %f^ ^A

^ 3^>vY^ f^hrviy^^Uj-

'iij

AUTOGRAPHS OF LORD & LADY BERKELEY.
FROM DEEDS -1632.

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1573 January 30, John Estcourt, bur.

1574 February 1 1, Walter * Edward Estcourt, bur.
February 19. Margaret > Estcourt, bur.

1575 January 23, Ursula > Estcourt, d. of — Estcourt, bur.
February 10, Mary, d. of Mary and Thomas Estcourt, bur.

1593 September 7, Mary, d. of Thomas Estcourt, bur.
1599 December 4, Thomas Estcourt, Esq., bur.
1681 November 15, Thomas Estcourt, Esq., bur.
1693 December 7, Mrs. Elizabeth Estcourt, widow, bur.

1758 September 21, Edmund Estcourt, Esq., bur.

1759 December 5, Lydia, d. of Matthew Estcourt, Esq., bur.

1760 March 6, Catherine, d. of Matthew Estcourt, Esq., bur.

176 1 February 21, Elizabeth, d. of Matthew Estcourt, Esq., bur.
1777 June 7, Mrs. Lydia Estcourt of Cam, bur.

1781 November 23, Mr. Matthew Estcourt of Cam, bur.

1785 September, Esther Estcourt, bur.

1802 The Rev. Edward Estcourt, L.L.D.; Rector of Newnton,
Wilts, and of Oldbury and Didmarton, Gloucester-
shire, died 17th of September, and was interred on
the South side of the Chancel, in the burying ground
belonging to the Estcourt fiunily, on the 20th day of
March, following, aged 51.

1814 November 24, Edmund Estcourt, Esq. of Lasborough,
Gloucestershire, bur.

1814 March 1 1, The Honble. Jane Estcourt, the Priory, Long
Newnton, Wilts, bur., aged 87.

1829 July 3, Eleanor Bucknall Estcourt, New Park, Wilts,
and Estcourt, Gloucestershire, aged 49

1853 August 2, Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt, aged 77.

9 These Christian names are doubtful, being almost illegible
in the Register.

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From Monumemts in Shiptok Motnx Church.

1726 October 23, Walter Estcourt, d. aged 82.

1746 October 6, Thomas Estooort, d., aged 49.

1818 December 2, Thomas Esteourt, d., aged 70.

1829 February 3, Honble. Jane Esteourt, widow of Thomas

Esteourt, d., aged 80.
1846 September 16, Walter Grimstone Bucknall Esteourt,

fourth son of T. O B. Esteourt, d., aged 38.

Extracts from Long Newnton Parish Registers

RESPECTING THE ESTCOURT FaMILT.

1669 December 29, Sir Thomas Esteourt and Mrs. Annie

Kobham mar.
1673 January 22, Alexander Hatton, Gent, and Mrs. Amy

Esteourt, mar.
1648 March 8, Amy, d. of Sir Giles Esteourt, bap.
1663 April 6, Giles, s. of Sir Giles Esteourt, Bart, bom.

1654 May 15, William, s. of Sir Orfed Esteourt, bom.

1 655 July 2, Grace, d. of Sir Giles Esteourt, bora.
July 2, Annie, d. of Sir Giles Esteourt, bom.

1655 July 6, Lady Annie Esteourt, wife of Sir Giles Esteourt,

bur.
1655 October 6, Grace, d. of Sir Giles Esteourt, bur.
1668 November 18, Sir Giles Esteourt, bur.
1673 July 15, Richard Esteourt, Esq., bur.
1684 Sir William Esteourt, Bart, murdered in London.
1689 Henry Esteourt, Gent, bur.
1697 Margaret, wife of Giles Esteourt, Gent, bur.

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The following Pedigree shews the Descent (through
THE Female Line) of the Cotes of Woodcote, Salop,

FROM THE De BrAOSE's, LoRDS OF TeTBURT.

William de Braoie, Lord of Breck-»Maad, d. of Richard Earl of Clare
nock, famiflhed in Windsor Castle I

Peter, second son, died in the Holyss
Land, 25 Hen. III. (1241) <

Sir Peter de Braose of Gloacester,BB
temp. Edw. I. and £dw. IL I

Alice de Braose ^Ralph do St. Owen

I Arms, Qules, 3 chcv. or

John de S. Owen of Qerurston and=Joane d. and heiress of Sir Hugh

Bnrton

T^rell, Lord of Bromscroft and
lu)rman's Croft, Co. Stafford
Arms, az. a lion rampant, argt. within
a bordure indented, or

John de S. Owen, Lord of Burton,= Elisabeth d. of . . Barkley
Co. Hereford I

Joane, d. and at length heiress, obt=Boffer Downton of Downton, Co.

Hereford. Arms, 3 Piles in chief
meeting in base, sable

4 Hen. IV.

Thomas Downton = Margaret d. of Richd. Lingaine of

I Lingaine, 2nd wife

Elizabeth, 3rd d. and co-heir = John Cotes of Cotes, Co. Stafford,

High Sheriff of Stafford, 35 Hen.
VL Arms, 1st and 4th ermine,
and and 3rd

Hnrophrejr Cotes, of Cotes, slain at= Elinor d. of Sir Hamphrejr Blonnt
Bosworth Field I

John Cotes, of Cotes and Woodcote,= Ellen d. of Richd. Littleton of

Co. S alop , served in France, temp.
Hen. VIIL

PillatOD, Co. Stafford, 2nd wife

John Cotes, of Cotes and Woodcote s= Jane d. of John Bradock of Adber-

I stone, Co. Stafford

John Cotes, of Woodcote sMary d. of Sir Anthonj Coleloogh

John Cotes of Woodcote, High sKair d. of Walter Bagot, Esq. of
Sheriff, Co. Salop. 1614 J Blithfleld

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John Cote8= Dorcas d. of Sir George Clarke,
Bart, of Watford, Co. North-
ampton

Charles Cote8=Lettice d. of KUdare, Snd Lord

John Coles of Woodcote, mar. 1700, sDorothjr d. of Bobt Earl Ferrers,
obiit 1756. I obit 1721

Shirley Cotes bEUs. d. of FranciB Chambre of
I PMton, Ca Salop

Lucy d. of Lord Yisct. Coortenay.ss John Cotes of Woedcote, ILP. for
roar. 19 Oct, 1777 I Co. Salop

John Cotes, BC.P. for Salop =8 May, 1794, Maria d. of George

Harry, 5th E. of Stamford and
Warrington

John Cotes of»Lottsia Harriett, Rev. Chas. Cotes, =Francis,d. of Sir

Woodcote, High
Sheriff Ca Sa-
lop, 1826, M.P.
Co. Salop, 1834.

8rd d. and co- Rector of Stan- I Geo. Pigot, Bt,
heir of Charles, ton St Qninton, J of Patshall, Co.
lastEariofLiy- Wilts | Stafibrd

erpooL Arms, |

as. a fess wary, Issne.

Ajst charged
with a cross pa-
tee gnles, in
chief two estoi-
les,or

Victoria, for whom Her Majesty stood Sponsor.

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CHAPTER VII.

Notes on the Geology of Tetbury.*

The town of Tetbury stands on a sKght
eminence, which may geographicaUy be described
as a knoll of the Cotteswold range of hills. The
approaches to it (especially the one £rom Ciren-
cester,) are, first, by a descent from the surround-
ing hill, and then crossing a slight valley, we
make an ascent up a steep road, through the
streets, which all incline with a greater or less
angle of dip towards the valley.

The land around the town is very fertile,
especially for the Cotteswolds, most of it being
in meadow. The vale is watered by a small
rivulet ; and the neighbouring hills all around
yield stone of various qualities ; the freestone,
of which the town is built, being of the age and
character of the Bath building stone, whilst
some of the upper beds of the district afford a

> I am indebted for the following notee on the geology of
Tetbniy toProfeeeor Buckman, F.6.S^ FX.S., Ac, of the Royal
Agricultoral College, Cireneester.

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fissile limestone, much used for roofing purposes ;
whilst lime, both for building and agriculture,
may be procured in abundance and of good
quality.

That in this district the hills do not lose their
character of the "stony Cotteswolds/' may at
once be observed, from the prevalence of waUs in
field partings ; and those who are accustomed
to observe the quality of stone, will soon be
aware that various layers of stone are employed
for this purpose, as at one place a road'-side wall
wiU be made of flat slabs of a reddish brown
silicious limestone ; further on, it will be com-
posed of limipy squared blocks of true freestone;
while still further, the hard and flat sharp-^ged
slabs will betoken an entirely different layer ; so
that, indeed, according to the amount of elevation
in the district. 80 the abundant qiiames wiU yield
stone of diverse character, and fit for different
purposes.

However, all the beds which will come under
review for our present purpose, belong to what
geologists term the Oolite^ Rocks, and all have
reference to that part of the series called Great
Oolite, which extends in a scarcely broken line
from the neighbourhood of Stroud to Bath, being at

3 From woVf egg, and XiOoc, stone, as the sabstance of
many of the beds is made up of small granules simulating
the roe or eggs of fishes.

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Stroud underlaid by the inferior, or Lower OoKte ;
hence, then, the former is the prevailing rock of
the South Cotteswolds firom Bath, through Tet-
bury to the heights around Stroud, whilst the
North Cotteswolds are more occupied by the lower
beda

Here, then, our description of rocks will have
reference to the following :

3. Forest Marble, consisting of layers of more
or less sandy and fissile oolite, intersected
by thick bands of a blue tenacious clay.

2. GreaJt Oolite. The white freestone and lime-
stone, in thick blocks, fissile at the base.

1. FvUen^s Earth. A blue unctuous clay, which
separate the great from the inferior oolite
beds.

1. The FuQer^s Earth is a deposit of a blueish
clay and marl, which separates the two oolites ;
and, as it is an impervious bed underlying the
porous stones of the Great Oolite, it is the
source whence arise the springs of the valleys
in the Tetbury district, and so gives rise to
the Avon, which runs thence through Malmes-
bury and Chippenham to Bath and Bristol It
may be seen weU exposed at its outcrop towards
the Cotteswold scarps, such as at Kushmire Gate,
and is also arrived at in well sinking. The
geologist, however, will find the best exhibition
of this stratum on the top of the Sapperton
Tunnel, on the Great Western Railway, as here

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it was removed in making the tunnel, which for
a great distance runs through it. At this place
and at Rushmire, we have collected the following
fossils^ which are, for the most part, in great
abundance.

Ostrea acuminata^ Avicvla echinata, Pholadomya
truncata (Buckman,) Pecten vaganSy Terebratula
globata, RhynconeUa media.

The fossils are usually well preserved, but of
a dark blue colour, from contact with the clay,
which is of a like tint, from the quantity of
protoxide of iron which it contains.

2. Great Oolite is a thick stratum, attaining
at Tetbury as much as 100 feet. It may be
divided into three stages for the district under
review.

3. Beds of white freestone, with oblique ^

cleavage, about - - - - 20
2. Blocks of building and limestone - 60
1. Beds of a sandy ooUte, breaking up
into thin blocks with squared edges,
the Stonesfield Slate of the North
Cotteswolds, about - - - - 20
1. This lower bed has much of the texture
of the true Stonesfield Slate of Oxford and parts
of the Cotteswolds ; at the same time, it is not so
fissile, so that tiles are not here made of it, though
it affords good flat and square slabs for walling.
U «. indeel of the same l^-. but being remo^S
fix>m those tidal influences which, in the Stonesfield

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Slate, has resulted in a mixture of such terrestrial
remains as plants and insects, with marine shells
of several species, this lower bed in the Tetbury
district bears evidence of having been further in
the middle of the oolite sea, as it contains bits
of broken stems, and portions of vegetable matter,
drifted further from the main deposit, intermixed
however, with many of the same marine shells
as we find at Stonesfield, near Oxford. The shells,
which mark this bed in the neighbourhood of
Tetbury, are as follow :

Ostrea acuminata, Pecten vagans^ Trigonia
(two species,) Lima cardiiforme^ Lim^i duplicata,
Cardium gibberulum, Nucida micronata, Acteon,
Mdania, Delphinula, and other univalves.

2 and 3. The two upper beds are soft and
porous, easily chiselled into architectural forms,
and when* carefully quarried is one of the best
and most durable building stones in the kingdom.
The lower bed of the two is the one which yields
the magnificent blocks of freestone, which are
transported from Box all over England. The
obliquely laminated slabs are much used for
paving and the like purposes.

The fossils of these beds are very numerous.
My friend Mr. John Lycett, of Minchinhampton,
in his beautiftd Monograph^ of the Fossils of the

> This work, which forma part of the magnificent series
of the Palaeontological Society, should be in the hands of all
stadents of oolite geology.

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Great Oolite, has figured and described several
hundreds of these. The following are amongst
those which we have collected in the neighbour-
hood of Tetbury :

Terebrattda maxillaia, (fine specimens, occur in
a slight band of marl which separates the beds
2 and 3,) Bhyncondla media^ Pecten vagans^
Pecten lameUosits, Lima cardiiforme, Cardium
Buckmanni (Lycett,) Cypricardia rostratOy Iso-
cardia tenera, Pachyrisma grande, in the hard
white limestone. Trigonia costaJta var. ptiUus.
Lima duplicata. Purpuroidea nodvlata: This
univalve, which has been found in such perfec-
tion at Minchinhampton, occurs both in the neigh-
bourhood of Cirencester and Tetbury, in the hard
band of limestone, but only in the shape of casts.
Naiica, Nerincmy Alaria^ in the shape of caste
and portions of other univalves. Palates of
Psammodus, NucUolites Woodwardiy and other
JEchinoderms in the same zone as the species named
after the accomplished curator of the British
Museum, occurs in the Cirencester district.

3. The Forest Marble stone is so called firom
Witchwood Forest, where it is extensively quar-
ried, and the thicker slabs polished for rougher
ornamental work. In the Tetbury district it
is mostly quarried for walling and road metal

The intersecting clay bands give rise to nume-
rous small springs in a wet period, and forms
what the farmer terms "sour land," where not

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efficiently drained A wide stretch of this may-
be seen between Hodmarton and Tetbury.

The fossils of this bed are very numerous, but
they are generally in so broken a state as to ren-
der identification very difficult. They are, however,
mostly those of the Great Oolite, the following
of which greatly prevail :

Ostrea. Lima cardiiforme. Pecten vagans.
Pecten lens. Pecten lamellosiLS. Modiola Lack-
enhyi. Avicvla. Leda lachryma. Cylindrites,
Stomatia, FissureUa : All new species of univalves
may be found to distinguish this stratum.

The Forest Marble slabs are of great in-
tereet from the ripple marked and ridged surfax^es
they so often present, giving us the evidence of
" ribbed sea sand " in past ages, when the Cottes-
wold formed the bed of the ocean. They are
further mteresting from the tracks which their
surfaces have handed down to us of Cmstaceans
(crabs,) of the ancient sea ; tracks of Gasteropods,
stomach-walkinfi: creatures, (imivalves,) and lines
kft by the p4e«ion of l<^ tether with
the holes where they have disappeared in the soft
and yielding sea sand, having been, as now. daUy
added to and moistened by the ever recurring
tidal wave.

The beds just described are evenly and regularly

disposed ; that is, are conformable. One on the

other, they are tolerably uniform in thickness,

and are found in the following localisation about
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Tetbury : the tops of the hills are of Forest Marble.
The hill on which the town of Tetbury stands
is probably just capped with it. The slopes of
the hills (that is, their scarps,) are of Great OclUe.
And the watered valleys rest on the Fuller's Earth.
This will be made more plain by the following
diagram:

1. FuUer's earth. fl. Great Oolite.

8. Foraet ICarUe CUy.

Water Bearing Strata : From the order of
superposition of the strata^ it will be seen that
the heights of Tetbury and those around it are,
for the most part, composed of a porous rock,
Great Oolite, resting upon a day or an impervious
one, the Fuller's Earth; hence, then, the Great
Oolite is a collecting bed, or a water filtering
area, and the FuUer's Earth below a water bearing
bed, so that, where the valley cuts the Fuller's
Earth, springs break out on the one hand, whilst
the elevation above this latter stratum must be
got through in well sinking on the other. The
wells, therefore, at a 6 c will vary according to
the level, and we may state them hypothetically,
for we could not measure them, as follows :

's sw^ j ^ j -wT i T^ f^^^m^'^^^mmm^^^m'mmmmm^^^^mmmif^^^^^a^

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1. At the highest part of the town, *"*•

the Talbot, about - - - - 120

2. The Town Well .... 90

3. Welk on the slope - - - . 30
Thus, then, in this point of view Tetbury offers

a curious exception to anything like an important
town being built so far above a water level, as
the expense of deep wells is enormous, and the
depth here has to be attained by working the
whole distance in hard stone. The situation of
towns is mostly influenced by a facility for getting
water, either from rivers or shallow wells. Thus
the neighbouring town of Cirencester has the
River Chum, a tributary of the Thames, nmning
through it, besides which it is in a valley of de-
pression ; that is, the space on which it stands
has bodily fallen in, just as though the hill on
which Tetbury rests had suddenly dropped to a
level with the valley aroimd it ; and, as the
upper stratum is a thick bed of Forest Marble
clay, covered up with gravel from the once broad
and brawUng Chum, the gravel is the collecting
area, whilst the clay is the water bearing one»
so that the wells in Cirencester are only of from
10 to 25 feet deep.

This subject of wells, therefore, renders the
geology of Tetbury of peculiar interest to those
who study the physical aspect of a district as
influenced by geological arrangement and phe-
nomena ; and, as the country around Tetbury is
s*

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much cracked (faulted,) in the language of the
science, the student resident at Tetbury or its
neighbourhood, may gather rich stores of know-
ledge by investigating its strata^ and contemplating
the changes that have gone on since its materials
formed the bottom of the ocean.

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APPENDIX I.

A Chronological Table or Events Connected with

THE Town.

A.D.

680. At this period a Saxon Monastery existed here. {Vide

Dugdale, toI. i., p. 811.)

1140. A Cistercian Monastery founded here by Reginald de S.
Walerick.

1160. A Chorch built here by Bernard de S. Walerick.

1170. The Cistercian Monastery removed to Kingswood ;
leaving a Grange at Tetbury.

1400. At this period the tower of the present Parish Church
was built,

1467. A Deed of Arbitration executed between the Abbot
and Monks of the Abbey of Eynsham, Oxfordshire,
anil the Parishioners of Tetbury, by Dr. John Car-
penter, Bishop of Worcester, who had been chosen
Arbitrer by both parties.

1547. Advowson of Tetbury granted by Henry VIII. to
Christ Church, Oxford.

1586. An inquisition held at Tetbury, under the statute oi
charitable uses.

1589. The Churchwardens' accounts commence from this date.

1631. March 25. The Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and
Burials commenced from this date.

1632. The Manor and Advowson sold, by George Lord Ber-

keley, to the town.
1640. The tolls of fairs and markets purchased by the town.

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1643. Aug. 8. King Charles I. vbited this town.

1663. Ang. 3. Richard Talboys, Esq., one of the original

Feoffees, died, aged 87.

1664. Charles II. passed through this town.

1687. Sept. 6. James II. passed through on his way to Bath.

1722. Seven new bells placed in the Church tower; Giles
Bodj and Matthew Wilkins being Churchwardens.

1730. May 13. Peter, Lord King, being then Lord Chan-
cellor, ordered that fifteen boys only should be educated
at Mrs. Hodges' charity.

1749. Sept. 29. New pump under the Market house, opened ;
erected at the expense of Rev. John Wight

1 749. This year a set of chimes was given to the Church by
Rev. John Wight.

1762. Upton house built.

1766. Sept Riots all over England. At Tetbury the rioters
took the cheese and bacon from the provision houses,
and sold the cheese at 3d, the bacon at 4d per lb.

1766-67. The Priory buOt

1771. July 11. At Tetbury races this day, H.R.H. Frederick,
Duke of Cumberland, won the plate.

1777. Jan. 19. New Parish Church began to be built.

1777. May 17. The wife of a tradesman murdered her son.

1777. Nov. 24. The Rev. John Wight, for 36 years Vicar
of this parish, and a great benefactor to it, died, aged 70.

1781. Oct 7th. The new Parish Church first opened. The
Rev. T. C. Wickes, D.D., the Vicar, preached.

1783. New part of the Churchyard, near the Bartons, con-
sisting of twenty-two perches, consecrated by Saml.
Hallifiuc, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester.

1789. July 24. Tetbury races. Duke and Duchess of Beau-
fort, Lord and Lady Clifford, Sir Geo. O. Paul, Bart,
&c., &c., present.

1789. Feb. 3. Tetbury Church struck by lightning, and
severely damaged.

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1793. Jan. 6. Meeting held in the Town Hall against Re-
publicans and Levellers; Robert Clark, Esq., in the
chair.

1796-98. High Grove built.

1803. Aug. 16. Enrolment of the Tetbury Volunteers. H.
H. Sloper, Esq., Captain ; R. C. Paul, John Wood,
Esqrs., Lieutenants; H. J. Biederroan, Ensign.

1803. The eighth bell placed in the tower. J. Rich and R.
M. Warman, Churchwardens.

1805. March 26. Colours presented at E[ingscote, by the
Countess of Berkeley, to the Tetbury and Horseley
Volunteers; Lieut.-Colonel Saunders commanding.

1813. Oct. 28. Meeting held at the Town Hall, at which
it was agreed to apply to Parliament for an act to
enable the Feoffees to enclose the Common.

1816. Town Hall and Market House rebuilt.

1817. Town paved, under the authority of an Act of Par-

liament.

1817. Sept 8. Tetbury Savings' Bank established at a meet-
ing held in the Town Hall ; the Duke of Beaufort in the
chair.

1818. Sept. 28. The Tetbury Dispensary established at a
meeting held in the Town Hall; Thomas Estcourt,
Esq., in the chair.

1818. Manor of Doughton sold by Thomas Talboys, Esq.,

to J. P. Paul, Esq.
1831. The Tetbury troop of yeomanry cavalry raised by

T. G. B. Estcourt, Esq.
1836. The town first lit by gas.

1836. Boys' and girls' school built; the foundation stone being
laid by Miss Eleanor Wood, aflerwards Mrs. Brookes.

1837. Oct. 28. The tithes of this parish commuted by

agreement under 6 and 7 William IV., c. 71.
1839. Advowson of living sold to John Stanton, Esq., under
authority of an Act of Parliament.

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1844. The Manors of Upton and Charlton aold by Lord Dacie

to R. S. Holford, Esq.
1846. March 31. The foundation stone of S. Saviour's

Chapel of £ase laid by Miss Frampton.
1848. Aug. 23. S. Saviour's consecrated by J. H. Monk,

D.D., late Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.
1850. Bojs' and girls' School much enlarged. In&nt School

built.

1855. Feb. 16. Tetbury Institute established at a meeting
held in the old reading-room in the Chipping; Josiah
T. Paul, Esq., in the chair.

1856. May 2. Peace with Russia proclaimed from the Town

Hall, by J. T. Paul, Esq., Town Clerk.

L
Charter of King Ethdred to Malmetibury Albey,

Charted ad cenobium Malmesburiense spectantes. Quo modo
idem Bex dedit eidem EcclesiaB quindeceim cassates juzta
Tetteburi.

Li Nomini Domini nostri Jesu Christi saluatoris. Nihil
intuHmus ut apostolicum testatur oraculum, in hunc mundum
verum nee auferri quid possumus. Iccirco terrenis ae
caduds etema et mansura mercanda sunt Qua propter ego
^thelredus Bex Merciorum rogatus, a patritlo meo et pro-
pinque meo cenfrito pro remedio anime mee, ac pro oratione
fratrum in Meldunesburg Deo servientium xv. caascttoa prope
Tettctn moncuierium Aldhelmo Abbati libenter largitus sum.
Si quis yero hunc donacionem augere et amplificare voluerit,
augeat Deus partem ejus in libro vite, quod si quis tyrannic^
potestate fretus demere vel auferre satagerit, sciat te coram
Christo noyemque Angelorum ordinibus in tremendo examine

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radonem redditamm. Scripts est autem hec Cjrographi
cartula anno ab incarnacione Domini dclxzx. Indictione ix.

+ Ego Theodorus gracia Dei Archiepiscopus confirmari.^

+ Ego Saxulphus epiacopus similiter.'

+ Ego Bosel episcopus subscripsi.'

+ Signum manus iEthelredi regis Merciorum.*

+ Signum Cenfrithi Comitis.

II.

Charter o/Beginald de S. Walerick to Eyneaham Abbey.

Reoinaldus db Sancto Walbbico, salutem, &c. Sciant
quod ego dedi monasterio de Ejneshani ecclesiam de Tette-
buria, pro salute Henrici regis, et A. reginae Anglise, et
liberorum suorum, et pro salute me&, et Bernard! filij mei,
et pro animabus patris et matris mesB et antecessorum et
benefiuitorum meorum. Concedo etiam prsedictaa ecclesiaa
terram de Finestoches sicut Radulphus Basset eum dedit, et
Godrefridus, Abbas de Eynesham et conventus dederunt mihi
X marcas argenti, et Bernardo filio meo ij marcas, teste
Roberto capellano, Waltero de Bleia, Radulpbo Hareng.

1 657. After that another Archbishop came to Canterbniy, who was
called Thsooorus, a very wise and good man; and he held his Synod
with his clergy. Then was Winfred, Bishop of the Mercians, deposed
from his Bishopric; and Abbot Saxolf (Saxulphus) was then chosen
to be Bishop, and Cnthbald, a Monk of the same Monastery, was chosen
Abbot This Synod was held 673 years after the birth of Christ.
'^Am^Sastm CkromcU.

Archbishop Theodore died 690. He was Archbishop 22 years, and
was buried at Canterbary; and Boorhtwald succeeded him in the
Bishopric. Before this the Bishops had been Romans; but from this
time they were English.— /6uil

s Saxulphus was Bishop of Lichfield from 676 to 691, and previously
Abbot of Medeshamsteden now Peterborough.

* For an account of Bishop Bosel, see page 6

4 704. .£thelred son of Fenda, King of the Mercians, became a monk.
He had been king 24 years. Coenred succeeded him.

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Rbqinald de S. Walbbick greeting. Know ye that I have
given to the Monastery of Eynesham, the Church of Tetbury,
for the safety (of the sool) of Henry the E^ng, and Anne,
Queen of England, and their children ; and for the safety of
my own soul, and of Bernard my son, and for the souls of my
fitther and mother and ancestors, and of my bene&ctors. I
grant, also, to the aforesaid Church, the land of Finestoches,
as Randulp Bassett has given it; and Godfrey, Abbot of
Eynesham, and the Convent, have given to me ten marks of
silver, and to Bernard, my son, two marks. Witness : Robert
the Chaplain, Walter of Bleia, and Radulp Hareng.

III.

Grant of Bernard de S. WaUrick to Roger de Berkeley.

Bernardus de Sakcto Walebico, omnibus hominibus et
amicis suis, Francias et Anglias sal u tern. Sciant prsesentes
et futuri quod ego Bernardus concessi Rogeri de Berkeley,
et hseredibus suis auxiliem et consilium meum in curi4 domini
mei regis Anglias salva fide meH et quitantiam in portu Sancd
Walerici sibi et haeredibus suis, et omnibus hominibus mensas
suse et ipse dedit et concessit mihi, annuenle R. filio suo
xl acras terne apud Mireforde, ad removendam abbatbiam
meam de Tettebiria.

Testes, &c.

Bbbnabd de S. Walerick to all men, and to his friends
in France and England, greeting. Know ye, that are here
present, or shall be hereafter, that I Bernard, have granted to
Roger de Bercheley and his heirs, my assistance and advice in
the council of my Lord the King of England ; save my alle-
giance and quitance in the port of S. Walerick, to him and
his heirs, and to all men at his table ; and he himself has given
and granted to me R.. his son, assenting, 40 acras of land at
Mireforde, to remove thither my Abbey of Tetbury. Witnesses,
&c.

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IV.

Charter of Thomas de S. Walerick to Eynetiham Abbey.

Carta Thomas de S. Walerico monachis de Egnesham, super
eccl'iam de Tettebur» quam R. de S. Walerico, avis suus,
dederat eis:

THOifAS DE S. Walerico, omnibas hominibus suis Francis
et Anglis salutem. Sciant praesentes et futuri quod ego
concessi et prsesenti charta confirmavi Deo et ecclesiaa S.
Mariffi de Egnesbam, et monacbis ibidem Deo servientibus in
puram et perpetuam elemosinam et pro salute animas meae et
patris mei et matris meae, et omnium antecessorum meorum,
et baeredum meorum ecclesiam de Tettebiri, cum omnibus
pertinentiis suis et libertatibus, sicut eam habent ex dono R.
de S. Walerico avi mei. ♦••♦•♦•♦♦♦•
Hujus autem concessionis et confirmationis meae prassenti
scripto et sigillo meo apposito roboratae, testes sunt Clemens
prior Osen. Magister Walterus sub prior S. Frideswydae,
Magister Alardus de S. Mildrida. Rad. Hareng, Rad. de
Norton, Rob. de Estrop, Rog. de Nova Foresta.^

Charter of Thomas de S. Walerick to the Monks of Eynes-
ham, concerning the Church of Tettebiri, which Reginald de
S. Walerick, his grandfather, hath given to them :

Thomas de S. Waxebick to all his men in France and
England, greeting. Enow je that are here present or shall
be hereafter, that I have granted, and by the present charter
have confirmed to God and to the Church of Saint Mary of
Eynesham, and to the Monks there the servants of €rod, in
pure and perpetual alms, and for the safety of my soul, and
my fi&ther and my mother, and of all my ancestors and my
heirs, the Church of Tettebiri, with all things pertaining to
it and the liberties, as they have it from the gift of R. de

4 Dagdale's Montut^ vol. iil., p. 19.

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S. Walerick, my grandfather • * • This grant and
confirmation is my present writings and confirmed by my seal
placed opposite. Clemens, Prior Osen, Master Walter sub-
Prior, &c., are witnesses.

Carta B. de Berkeley.

[Ex Begistro Abb. de Kingeswode penes Johannem Smith
di Nibley, in Com. Glouc. an. 1651.]

B. DE Berkelst omnibus fidelibus qui litteras istas in-
spexerint salutem. Notum sit vobis quod Willielmus de
Berckley dedit abbatisB de Tyntema pro salute anims Henrici
regis Angliae et suae, totum Kingeswode cum omnibus perti-
nentus suis ad constniendan ibi abbatiam de ordine Cbterciensi
et pater mens illud gratum habuit et ratum tenuit. £t post
quam abbatia de Kingeswode translata erat ad Tettebinam,
consensu patris mei B. de Berkeley ipse pater meus, conseusu
et Toluntate me^ dedit et concessit Bernardo de Sancto
Walerico, quadriginta acras apud Mureford ad removendam
illud abbatiam suam quae fuit prius apud Tettebinam.' Hiis
testibus, &c

VI.

Orant of William de Breuse to the Dree Burgesses of Tetbury of
common pasture tn the North Hayes. 1 9 Ed. I., ( 1 291 .)

To all true Chrysten people to whom this psent writtinge
shall come to be scene or hearde, Wiluam of Breusb,
Sonne and heir of Williah of Breusb, sondeth greetinge
in our Lord God everlastinge. Know ye us to have remisede
and granted for us, and our heires or assignes, to our free
Burgesses of the Boroughe of Tedburie, the common pastour
which do dayme to ptaine and belonge to their burgages in the
pasture which is North Haye ; so that thaie, the said Burgesses,

* Dugda1e*s Afonatt. Angl^ v. 425.

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do use the same in the spring time as thaie have nsede it bie ann-
ciente costome. In witness whereof to this present writtinge^
we have put to our seale, these bearing witnesse, Peter de la
Mare, Knight, Henry de Mojngne, Rjchard of Wokaey,
Adam Sylman, John of Seyntlej, John Mahele, AUande de
Forwoode, and others. Dated at London, the Mondaie, the
vith daie of the moneth. of Marche, in the njnetene year of
the raigne of Kynge Edwarde.

vn.

Ee grant of Beginald de Brahm^ of the liberties former^ granted

to the Burgesses of Tetbtay.

Be it known unto all men, that Rainalds of Brahus have
given, and bie this my psent writtinge, confirmed to the
Burgesses of Tbdbusie, all liberties and customes which thaie
have, or ought to have, in the town of Tedbubib, as the
writings of the Lobd William of Brahus, my fiither, which
they have, do shewe and testifye ; and because I wolde y* this,
my confirmacon, maie abide and remaine sure and sted&ste,
I have to this pnte writtinge put my seale, these bearinge
witness: The Lord Pagan of Burchell, Hugh of the Ash,
Walter of Tandey, Richard the sonne of Vincent, Symmes
y* Clerk, and many others.

vm.

Be Orant of John de BrausOf of former UbertieSj to the Burgesses

ofT^bury.

Be it known to all men that I, Johk, of the Old Hall, have
given, and by this my present writnnge, conferred to my
Burgesses of Tedbubib, all liberties and free customes which
ihaie were wont to have in the time of my ancestors, as it is
contained in the writUnge which they have of the Lord
Willm, of the Old Hall, my grandfather ; and that this my

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pnte graant and confirmadon may abide in bis force and effect,
I bave to tbis pnte writtinge set my seale, tbese bearing wit-
ness: WiUm. de Maca, Baynolde of Bolmron, Mr. Raife
Mailon, Jobn Omll, Roger of Dunchton, Walter of Upton,
Pbillippe of Tedbarie, and many otbers.^

IX.

The Charter of King Edward IV. of the Memor of Almnuter to

Weathury College,

Thb Kmo to all to wbom, &c., greeting. Know ye tbat
of our special favour and sincere love and affection wbicb
we bear towards tbe College or Collegiate Churcb of West-
bury, in tbe County of Gloucester, and tbat tbe Dean and
Canons, and otber officers of tbe College and tbeir snocessorB,
may in particular pray and implore God for our wel&re, and
of Coecilia our motber, wbilst we live, and for our souls
after we are dead ; and for tbe souls of our most dear
fiitber, Ricbard, Duke of York, and of Edward, Earl of
Rutland, our brother, we bave given and g^ranted, and by
tbis our cbarter, bave confirmed, to Henry Sampson, clerk,
Dean of tbe said College, and to tbe Cbapter tbereo^ tbe~
Manor of Aylminstre, otherwise called Elmystre, with its
appurtenances, in tbe said County of Gloster, to bave and
to bold tbe said Manor with the appurtenances, unto the
aforesaid Dean and Cbapter and tbeir successor, of us and
our heirs, in perpetual alms for ever, together with court leets,
franck pledge, privileges, and otber liberties, profits, and
commodities, to the said Manor belonging or appertiuning,
tbe statute of &c., notwithstanding. In witness whereof,
&c. Witness, tbe IQng at Westminster, tbe twenty-first day
of March.

6 The Latio original of these three Charters are in the Town Chest, but
they are in many parts illegible.

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Extracts from Public Bolls bslatino to Tetburt.''

Rotiili Literarum Clausarum.

17 Johan. A.D. 1215. Rex Vicario Glouc, etc. Prtecip-
simas tibi quod sine dilatione facias habere dilecto et fideli
nostro Thom& de S. Walerico id quod de jure haberi debet
in manerio de Tettibiri, et Hugoni de Mortuo Mari id quod
habere debet de jure in eodem manerio. Ne amplius inde
clam audiamus. Si quid autem de catallis que ipsum Thomam
contingunt de eodem manerio captum vel amotum fuerit, id
ei sine dilatione reddi facias. Testis me ipso apud Langar.
zxvij die Dec.

18 Johan. A.D. 1216. Mandatum est vicario Glouc. quod
habere fiicias eidem Hugoni plenam saisinam de manerio de
Tbttebiri cum pertinentibus suis clam esse jus suum. T. ut
supra.

Calendarium Inquisitionem post mortem.
3 Hen. V. Num. 34.
Gilbertus de Stonore fil' Bad'i de Stonore ten.
Doughton terr' et terr* Tetteburye.
23 Hen. VI. Num. 24.

Margareta quse fuit uxor Johannis Berkeley mllitis defunct'
Tettebury maner' Gloucester.
13 Ed. lY. Jocosa Beauchamp vidua

Tettebury maner* vill' et domini' cum membris

Upton juxta Tettebury I ii/r.»a«„a«:- ^^^
Charleton et Doughtoi | Messuagia terr*

f I have selected a few extracta from the Pablie RoUs lelatiDg to
Tetbaiy, to illustrate the maimer io which the town is mentioned in
them. The namber of references to it are far too numeroas for publi-
cation, and would be of little use in a work such as the present.

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20 Ed. IV. No. 72. JoWes GraTiUe MUes
Tettebnry nuuier' vill' et domini'

Upton JMta Tettcbnry I Measoacia torr^
Charlton and Donghton J ''^ Gloucest.

6 Hen. Y. No. 48. Georg' Brewes ai^

Upton jnxta Tetteboiy messuagia et redditns.

Glouces.

Testa de Nevill.
Isti tenent de dno. B^e in capito in com' Glonc*
Glouc* p. 77 b.
Petrus fil' Herbti tenet Tbttkbir qae fecit W. de Braus
de dono B.
p. 79. b. Handnn de Langetr*
In Tettebra zxxij came'
. Upton. Osbertos de Grava tenet ana caruc' terre in
UrroN p' archeriam.

IV.
Taxatio Ecdesiastica P. Nicholai.

Tftzatio.

£ M, 6.

A ■. d.

2 8

Ecclesia de Tettebar

Pret h. porco Abbas de Ejneshm

Pret hie porco Abbas de Kjmeswood

major' dec* in grang* de Tettebar' et de ^048 5^

uno Grufto

rood inl
etde >-

Valor Ecclesiasticas Temp. Hen. VIII.

Auctoritate Begis institutos—

Tetborj Vicaria.

Valet dare in reddit^ et firm' ana cam x'' ibm
p ann altra xyj solat' pro sostentac' kmpad x*
arctio ibm ij* pro cenag. et viii' dno epo pro
Tisita* juxta rat^ cajuslt iij^ anni ij*

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x<n* inde Ixz

Tettebrj Jst Chantry. Valued at viij xiij

x«n» xvij UJ

Tettebiy 2nd Chantrj. Valued at cxv vij

X™* inde "xj vj

•• •••

NUMIBMATA GlOUCE8TBI£N8IA, >

Or a Collection of Tokens iaaned in the Seventeenth Century^
from 1650-1670, hy Tradesmen and Towns m
the County of Gloucester,

Those belonging to Tetbury are mentioned p. 238. They
are as follows :

1. ob. Arrowsmith Obadiah

rev. In Tetbury Baylef q"^

2. ob. Stephens John

rev. In Tedbury 1664 j j

3. ob. Swinnerton Antipas (a Woolpack)
rev. Of Tedbury, Wollman j^^

4. ob. Teakle Samuel g ^

T
rev. Clothier in Tetbury ^ ^

•5. ob. In Tetbury this farthing is owned
rev. The armes of that Burrough

Bbibf fob the Ripaibs of Tbtbubt Chitbch.

Tetbary Church, in Com' Gloucester. Charge £2,600 and
upwards; to be collected from house to house.

T. Hickes, 12th Oct, 1730.
G^rge the Second, by the Grace of Grod, of Great Britain,
France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.,

m^^^ - II I I — ^— 111 ■ ,1 I ■ -

1 By Mr. Phelps of ChATenage House, near Tctbnry.

874

to all and singular ArohbisliopSy Bishops, Archdeaoons, Deans,
and their officials, Parsons, Vicars, Curates, jand all other
fq>iritaal persons ; and to all Teachers and Preachers of every
separate congregation ; and also to all Justices of the Peace,
Majors, Sheriflb, Bailifis, Constables, Churchwardens, Chapel-
wardens, Head-boroughs, Collectors for the Poor, and their
Overseers; and also to sdl officers of Cities, Boroughs, and
Towns Corporate ; and to all other our officers, ministers, and
subjects, whatsoever they be, as well within liberties as
without, to whom these presents shall come, greeting.

Whereas it hath been represented unto us, as well upon the
humble petition of the Minister, Churchwardens, and Inhabi-
tants of the parish of Tetbury, in the County of Gloucester, as
also by certificate under the hands of our truly and weU-beloved
— Hyett, Esq., Dr. Walter Hodges, and Dr. Nath. Lye, ICinard
de la Bere, Thomas Cooke, John Stephens, and Edward Field,
Esquires, and several others, our Justices of the Peace for
our said County of Gloucester, made at their General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace, held at the Booth-hall in the City of
Gloucester, in and for the said County, on the 15th day of
July, in the third year of our reign — ^That the said parish
Church and Chancel of Tetbuiy is a very antient builcting, con-
sisting of four isles, which by length of time is become so very
ruinous and decayed in the foundation, walls, and roof thereof,
that the same cannot be repaired and amended without taking
great part of it down ; and that the Parishioners and Inhabi-
tants of the said parish have for many years last past, used
their utmost endeavours to keep up and support their said
Church and Chancel, having within few years coUected, laid
out, and expended, above the sum of £600 in the repairs
thereof; but being burthened with a numerous poor, (for
whose maintenance they have for several years last past paid
above three shillings in the pound, besides other parish duties
and assessments,) they are not able, amongst themselves, to
raise a sum sufficient to repair or rebuild the ruiaous and

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decnjed parts of thoir said Church aDd Ghancal, which is
now (notwithstanding their great care, and the expense which
thej have already been at) in such manifest danger of felling,
that the Parishioners cannot, without hazard of their livesy
assemble therein for the public worship of Almighty God.

That the truth of the premises hath been made to appear
unto our said Justices in their open Sessions of Peace, not
only by the petitioners, but also upon the oaths of divers able
and experienced workmen who have carefully viewed the said
Church and Chancel, who have made a moderate estimate and
computation of the charge of repairing and rebuilding the said
Church and Chancel, which amounts to the sum of Two thousand
six hundred pounds, and upwards ; and the said parishioners
having given us full satis£EU}tion, by the affidavit of some of
the inhabitants of the said parish, of the truth of the matters
aforesaid, and that they have done, and are still ready and
willing to do, to the utmost of their power, to repair and
keep up so antient a structure. But, finding themselves
unable to raise so large a sum as will be necessary to go
on with and finish so great a work, unless assisted by the
charity of our well disposed subjects, they have therefore,
most humbly besought us to grant unto them our most gra-
cious letters patent, licence, and protection, under our Great
Seal of Grreat Britain, to empower them to ask, collect, and
receive the alms, benevolence, and charitable contributions
of all our loving subjects, throughout England, Wales, and
Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the repairing and rebuilding the
ruinous and decayed parts of their said Church and Chancel.

Unto which their humble request we have graciously con-
descended, not doubting but that when these our inclinations
for promoting so good a work shall be made known to our
loving subjects, they will readily and cheerfully contribute
their endeavours for accomplishing the same.

Know ye, therefore, that of our especial grace and favour,
and we have given and granted, and by these our letters

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patent^ under our Great Seal of Great Britain, we do give
and grant unto the Minister, Churchwardens, and inhalntants
of the parish of Tetburj aforesaid, and to their deputy and
deputies, the bearer and bearers thereof^ (authorized as here-
inafter is directed,) full power, license, not only masters an4
mistresses, but also lodgers, servants, and strangers, withiil
all and every our coundes, cities, towns, boroughs, hamlet^
cinque-ports, districts, parishes, chapelries, and aU other places
whatsoever, throughout England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-
Tweed, for the good intent and purpose aforesaid.

And therefore, in pursuance of the tenor of an Act of
Parliament made in the fourth year of the reign of the late
Queen Anne, intituled, ''An Act for the better collecting
Chaiitj Money on Brie&, by letters patent, and Preventing
Abuses in relation to such Charities,'' our will and pleasure
is, and we do hereby (for the better advancement of these
our pious institutions,) require and command all Ministers,
teachers, and preachers, Churchwardens and Chapelwardens,
and the collectors of this Brief and aU others concerned, that
they and every of them observe the directions in the said
Act contained, and do in all things conform themselves there-
unto; and that, when the printed copies of these presents
shall be tendered unto you, the respective Ministers and
Curates, Churchwardens, Chapelwardens, and to the respec-
tive teachers and preachers of every separate congregation,
that you and every of you, under the penalties to be inflicted
by the said Act, do receive the same.

And you the respective Ministers, and Curates, and teachers,
and preachers, are by all persuasive motives and arguments
earnestly to exhort your respective congregations and assem-
blies to a libera] contribution of their charity finr promoting
so good a work.

And you the respective Churchwardens and Chapelwardens
of the several and respective parishes within the Connfy of
Gloucester, (and not elsewhere,) together with the respective

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Ministers, or some of the substantial inhabitants of the several
parishes accompanying you, are hereby required to go fix>m
house to house within your respective iMuishes and liberties,
within the said County of Gloucester, upon the week days
next following the publication of these presents, to ask and
receive from the said parishioners, as well masters, mis-
tresses, and servants, as others in their fiunilies, their Christian
and charitable contributions, and to take the names in writing
of all such as shall contribute hereunto, and the sum and
sums by them respectively given, and indorse the whole sums
upon the said printed Briefe, in words at length, and sub-
scribe the same with your own proper hands, together with
the name of the place where and time when collected ; and
enter the same in the publick books of account kept for
each parish and chapelry respectively within the said County
of Gloucester ; and the sum and sums collected, together
with the said printed Brieft so indorsed, you are to deliver
to the deputy and agents authorized to receive the same.

And we do by these presents nominate, constitute, and
appoint, the Most Noble Henry, Duke of Beaufort ; the Right
Ilonourable Henry, Earl of Berkshire ; James, Earl of Berk-
ley; Allen, Lord of Bathurst; and Matthew, Lord Ducie;
the Right Reverend Father in God Joseph, Lord Bishop of
Gloucester ; the Honourable Henry Berkeley, Esquire ; and
Sur John Dutton, Baronet ; the Reverend Walter Hodges,
Doctor in Divinity ; Thomas Estcourt, Nathaniel Stephens,
John Stephens, Benjamin Bathurst, John Neale, William
Kingsbote, Joseph Small, William Vaughan, Samuel Shep-
herd, Hawkins Chapman, and John Hickes, Esquires, and
the Minister and Churchwardens of the parish of Tetbury
for the time being, Trustees and receivers of the charity to
be collected by virtue of these presenta, with power to them,
or any five or more of them, to give deputations to such
collectors as shall be chosen by the petitioners, or the major
part of them. And the said Trustees, or any five or more.

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are to make and sign all necessaiy orders, and to do all
other reasonable and necessary acts for the due and regular
collection of this Brief and advancement of the said charity ;
and to see that the monies, when collected, be effectually
applied for the repairing and rebuilding the ruinous and de-
cayed parts of the said Church and Chancel.

And, lastly, our will and pleasure is, that no person or
persons shall receive any the printed Briefis or monies col-
lected thereon, but such only as shall be so deputed and made
the bearer and bearers of these presents or duplicates hereof.

In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be
made patent, and to continue in force for one whole year,
firom Christmas next, and no longer.

Witness, Our self, at Westminster, the twenty fourth day
of September, in the fourth year of our Beign.

GrOD Save the Kmo.

BOBERTS.

The above is endorsed outside,

Tetbury Church.
Pray return all Brie& the next Visitation.

T. GRANT, Collector.
For Messrs. Hodgson and Worrall.

£ s. d

Collected upon this Brief at Hothfleld, in the County

of Kent, the sum of one shilling, this twenty

second day of August, in the year of our Lord

One thousand, seven hundred, and thirty one .010

By John Norcross, I^Gnister.

NICHO. RUSSELL, ) p. „,^,^„^
HENRY TERREY, / Churchwardens.

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EXTUACTS FROM THE WiLL OF SiB Wm. BoMNET, BaRT.

In the Name of God, Amen, for bo much as we have
oot here any perpetuity or long reeidence, but are as pilgrims
and strangers looking for a city whose builder is God eternal
in the Heavens, and seeing the days of men passeth away
swift, and death taketh us on the sudden, without giving
warning or respit to bethink us, and being warned by the
example of King Hezekiah to set our house and worldly
affairs in order, because we must die, and having orderly
disposed and settled my estate, I shall depart hence the more
quietly in myself, and the more peaceably for others that I
leave behind me. Therefore, I, William Romney, of the
city of London, Unworthy Knight and Alderman, being in
sound health and memory, I thank God for it, and desirous
to go the way of all flesh at the good pleasure of God, do
make this ray last will and testament, disannulling all former
wills whatsoever by me made, in manner and form following :
First, because my soul and spirit is the chief part of me, and
come from above, I commend the same to the Father of Spirits,
God Almighty, distinguished in three persons ; to wit. Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, but one in Deity and Godhead, most
humbly beseeching the same God, of His infinite mercy, to
pardon and forgive the infinite number of my sins, hoping
and believing most assuredly in my heart that, all be it, my
grievous offences have deserved the intolerable curse of Gk>d,
and everlasting torments of Hell, yet, through and only
through the obedience, hitter passion, and death of my sweet
Saviour Jesus Christ, I shall not only be fully and freely
ac^iuitted and discharged from all, both from the puiiishmonts
and &ults, but also I shall be reputed righteous through his
righteousness laid and clothed upon me; and so, finally, I
shfUl inherit the unspeakable joys of the Kingdom of Heaven,

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for He, the Lord of Glory, which knew no sm, was pleaaed
to be made the price and ransom for my 8ins; and like as
mj sins were laid upon Him to His death, so His righteousness
shall be imputed to me for my everlasting life and salTation.
Secondly, for that my body is from beneath of the base sub-
stance of the earth, whence it came and whither it must
return. I therefore commit and commend it to the grave,
desiring that it may be accompanied with my kindred and
friends, and Christianly buried with the smallest pomp of
heraldry that conveniency will tolerate, at the discretion of
my executrix, either in my Parish Church where I dwell,
or in St Magnus on the Bridge, there lying my wife, good
father, and mothers, and divers of my own children already,
where my said body shall remain a corruptible lump until
the last day, at what time I believe it shall be raised up
again a spiritual body, joined again to my soul, clothed
with incorruption and immortality, and made like to the
glorious body of our Saviour Christ, and my most merciful
Bedeemer shall then be my most gracious Judge. And from
thenceforth I shall be ever with the Lord, in the Kingdom
of Heaven, accompanied with His blessed Angels and Saints,
in such joys as the eye of man hath not seen, the ear of
man hath not heard, the tongue of man cannot express,
nor his heart able fully to conceive ; which inexpressible
mercies and everlasting blessedness I most humbly beseech
the Lord to grant me, for his great Name's sake, and for
Jesus Christ's sake, my only Saviour: Amen. Thus much
of my win and desire, and briefly also of some part of my
fidth and religion, concerning my body and soul, and the
estate of them both, as weU in this life as in the life to
come. All which I believe with my heart, (praying God
to help my unbelief and to increase my frdth,) confess with
my mouth, and write with my own hand. And thirdly,
touching my worldly goods, whereof the Lord hath made
me but a steward for a short time, and which should have

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been taken from, if I had not been taken from it: I will,
bequeath, and devise the same as hereiifier foUoweth.
• «#•««

Item. I give and bequeath Ten pounds to be given and
distributed to and amongst the poor people of the town of
TetbuTj, at the discretion of my sister Butt, Henry Chap*
man, Edward Chapman, Heniy Mayo, William Mills, Robert
Wyer, and William Wyer, or any four or more of them,
within six months of my decease.

Item, Touching the lease term and interest I have fit>m
and under the Right Honble. Lord Barcklay, of and in the
marketts, waights, of wove yam and other things, towls,
standingiB, and others profitts, in Tetbuiy, in the county of
Gloster, my will and meaning is, that the issues, revenues,
and profitts thereof^ shall go and be employed to their
uses, intents, and purposes, and in manner and form here-
under following (that is to say,) First, that the rent reserved
and to grow due by and upon the said lease, be duly paid
to the said Bight Honble. Lord Barkdey during the said
lease, according to the said lease, at or within the term
therein limited for the pajrment thereof. lUm^ that those
shall be paid, given, and distributed weekly, and every week
during the term of years contained in the said lease, to and
for relief of the poor, sick, aged, and impotent persons there,
the sum of five shillings, /(mi, to the end there may be
provided, procured, and maintained some honest, godly, and
sufficient schoolmaster there, to teach and instruct the
children and youths of the said town and parish gratis to
read and write, and to cast accounts in arithmetick, thereby
the better and more sooner to become fit for service, both
for their good and the good of the commonwealth. And
therefore I do most earnestly recommend to them special care
to be had that the schoolmaster shall be very skilfiil in
arithmetick, which art teacheth much wit unto all sorts of
men and traders, but is too litUe known, in our land especially,
m owr Umd eepedalfy^ in our country towns and cities ; I say to

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this end and purpoaes, I will that there shall be given, paid,
and allowed, so long aa mj lease hath any being, to and
for such schoolmaster, the sam of thirteen pounds a year,
the same to be paid him quarterly by even portions.

lUm. I will that six pounds a year shall be paid, given,
and allowed towards a godly lecture or sermon, to be
preached in the said town of Tetbury once in a week,
besides that which the Parson or his deputy there per*
formeth, whose care and duty in this behalf is not as it
ought to be, the more pity, at such a day and time as the
King's Bailiff for the time being, and his brethren that
have been bailiffs, or the most part of them, whereof the
said bailiff to be one shall think fit and expedient; the
same six pounds to be paid quarterly by even portions.

Item. I will that all the residue of the profitts, issues,
and revenues, over and besides the charges and payments
above-mentioned, shall remun and be to the bailiff of the
King's majesty, his heirs and successors, commonly called
the King's Bailiff of the said town of Tetbury for the time
being, therewith the better to maintain and keep hospitality
to credit and countenance his place for the well governing
the town, and to keep such servants and officers as shall be
needful for the service of the town, and for the just and
true weighing of wool, yam, and other things. Itemj I will
that the officer for the weights of weighing wool, yam, and
other things, shall be solemnly sworn yearly, in the court
or leet there, for trae and upright dealing between the byer
and seller.

Item. I will that nomination and election, placing and dis-
placing, as weD as of the said lectures, the school-master, the
officer for weighing, and the poor that shall receive weekly
provisions as aforesaid, shall remain, and be on good, godly,
provident and charitable, discretions, power, and treasure of
the King's bailiff of that town for the time being, and of
twenty other persons, honest, and discreet, of the said town,
and his assistants, or the most part of them, of which twenty

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persons I will, that Edmund Escott,] William Tanner, John
Dryrer, Henry Mayow, Richard Huggens, Tobye Chapman,
John Bentley, Thomas Huggens, William Wyer, and Edward
Tanner, shall be thirteen ; and the same twenty persons I will,
to be supplied and chosen from time to time, of the better sort,
and most honest, discreet, and sufficient persons, inhabitants
of the said town, among whom shall be so many such as have
bom the office of King's Bailiff, old Geoi^ Escott and his
sons always excepted and fore prized. And the election and
choice shall be made by the King*s Bailiff for the time
being, and the other assistants, such as have bom the said
office there, if there are so many in the town ; if not, then
others of the better sort of the inhabitants, (the said George
Escott the elder and his sons excepted, who I forbid to
have either hand or voice in this business,) or the most part
of them, if they upon reasonable warning shall be present, they
being at the least eleven persons so assembled and come
together. But under eleven persons no act shall be of force,
value, strength, or virtue. And I will that the said twenty
persons above-mentioned, or the most part of them, four
times in every year, or oftener if need and occasion so re-
quire, by direction and appointment of the said King's Bailiff
for the time being, shall assemble themselves together in the
Tolsey or Town-house, or some other convenient place there,
for the performance of that herein to them referred; and of
my intent and tme meaning herein and therein, I will that
the King's Bailiff for the time being from time to time
shall be the chief director of the meeting and action, and
shall have his voice with the rest. And in the scrutiny
or lotts of voices, the said bailiff shall have two voices, if
need be, to decide the difference or question ; and upon
special trust and confidence for the good performance of the
premises, and of my trao intent and meaning herein, I give
and bequeath all my said lease and interest and i/sna of years
to the said Edmund Escott, William Myles, Hany Chapman,

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Edward Chapman, John Dryver, William Tanner, Hany
Mayow, Bachard Haggens, John Bentley, Thomas Huggens,
Edward Tanner, Toby Chapman, and William Wyer, willing
withal, that the most part of them decreasing, assignment
to be made and renewed to other discreet and honest persons,
inhabitants of the said town, to be therefore named and ap-
pointed to fill up the number of thirteen, by the least, by
the one and twenty persons or the most part of them, upon
like trust and unto like uses and intents as aforesaid. And
further, I provide and will that no one man do or shall hold
or contain in the said office of Elng^s Bailiff in the said
town of Tetbury about the space of one year and some few
days ; but i£, through favour of the Lord Barckley, or any
other that may be lord of the town, or of any of his or
their stewards, who have chief hand in the election of the
bailiff, or through any other means, firiendship, plott, or
devise, or what cause or pretence soever, the bailiff should
be new elected for another year, or continued longer In his
place or office than one whole year and some few days : then I
will and appoint that all the revenues, profits, and sums
of money which shall be collected and received for the
weighing of wool, yam, and other things, whatsoever tolls
standing or whatsoever, shall be wholly given to the lec-
tures, to the poor, and to the schoolmaster of the said town
of Tetbury, equally to be divided amongst them (that is to
say,) the lecturer shall have the one third part, the poor
shall have one other third part, and the schoolmaster shall
take the other third part; but the King's Bailiff shall have
no part nor portion thereof during the term of years which shall
be then to come. Nevertheless, I hereby provide that it shall
and may be lawful to and for the inhabitants of the said town,
and the steward, to present and elect one man, if they shall
think him fit and worthy to be the King's Bailiff, more than
once or twice, so that there shall be three years, at the
least, of vacancy between the times of his election, and in

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such case such bailiff so elected shall enjoy the benefit of
my said bequest Anything hereinbefore to the contrary
notwithstanding.

List of Acts of Parliament comnectbd with tbs Town.

I. 5 George m. (1765.)

An Act to apply a certain sum of money firom the sale
of a house in Tetbuiyy in the county of Gloucester, and by
donations of several persons for re-building the Parish Church
and Chancel of Tetbury aforesaid.

IL 54 George m., c 144. (1814)

An Act for vesting certain common fields and waste
grounds within the town and borough and parish of Tetbury,
in the county of Gloucester, in trustees, discharged of any
right of common thereon, and upon certain trusts declared
thereof; (17th January, 1814.)

The North Hayes or Warren contains

The Hill .....

Several small pieces of waste land lying dis-
persed in the lordship of the Manor •

The Chipping Croft.

Several small pieces of waste land lying dis-
persed in the town and burroug^

A. R. P.

199 8 8

23 8 80

1 20

1 8 25

1 1 18

228 2 11

m. 57 George HI., c. 2. (1817.)
An Act for paving the footways, and for lighting and
cleansing the streets, lanes, and public places, within the
town and borough of Tetbury, in the county of Gloucester,
and for preventing nuisances therein ; (Hth March, 1817.)

IV. 2 Victoria, c. 7. (1839.)
An Act for the sale of the advowson of the Vicarage of
Tetbury, in the county of Gloucester ; (14th May, 1839.)

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ComOBSION FOB THE ADMISSION OF THB ReV. DaN. NoBBIS

TO THE ViGABAGB OF TSTBUBT.

Know all men by these presents, that the 17th day of
November, 1658, there was exhibited to the Commission for
approbation to pablique preachers, a presentation of Daniel
Norris, Clerk, Master of Arts, to the Vicarage of Tetbury,
in the county of Gloucester, made to him by Richard Talboys,
Esq., John Sheppard, William Savage, and John Savage,
gentlemen ; Obadiah Arrowsmith, Antipas Swinnerton, William
Denning, Samuel Teakle, and John UndriU, the patrons thereof;
together with a testimony in the behalf of the said Daniel
Norris, of his holy and good conversation. Upon personall
and due consideration of the premises, and finding him to
be a person qualified as in and by the ordinance for such
approbation is required : the Commission above-mentioned
have adjudged and approved the said Daniel Norris to be
a fit person to preach the Grospell, and have graunted him
admission, and doe admitt the said Daniel Norris to the
Vicarage of Tetbury albresaid, to be full and perfect pos-
sessor and incumbent thereof. And doe hereby signify to
all persons concerned therein, that he is hereby intitaled to
the profltts and perquisitts, and all rights and dues incident
and belonging to the said Vicarage, as fuHy and efiectually
as if he had been instituted and inducted according to any
such lawes and customs as have in this case formerly been
made, had, or used in this realme. In witness whereof they
have caused the comon scale to be hereunto affixed, and
the same to be attested by the hand of the Register, by his
Highness in this behalf appointed.

Dated at Whitehall, the seaventhenth day of November,
one thousand, six hundred, fifly and eight

The aeal hiu the Royal Arms laid on a peculiar shield, with the words
roand, *' The seale for approbation of pablick preachers,** and the name,
M. Howia, probably that of the Begistmr, outside.

The MS. from which this is taken is now in the British Museum.

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Bishops of Gloucester from the Foundation of the

See in 1541.^

1541 September 20. The See founded. John Wakeman,

last Abbot of Tewkesbury, consecrated, died 1549.
1550 May 15. John Hooper, deprived 1553, burnt Feb. 9,

1555.
1554 April 1. Jahbs Brookes, Master of Balliol College,

Oxford, d. Sept. 7, 1558.

See vacant three years.
1562 April 19. Rxchard Cheney, d. April 25, 1579.
1581 August 15. John Bulunoham, d. May 20, 1598.
1598 August 28. Godfrey Goldsborouoh, d. May 26, 1604.
1605 March 19. Thomas Bayis, Dean of Christ Church,

translated to London May 18th, 1607.
1607 July 12. Hbnbt Parrt, Dean of Chester, translated to

Worcester 1610.

161 1 March 15. Giles Thokfson, Dean of Windsor, d. Jan.,

1612.

1612 July 15. Miles Smith, Canon of Hereford, d. Oct. 20,

1624.

1624 November 26. Godfrey GtOOdman, Dean of Rochester,
d. Jan. 16, 1665.

See sequestered in 1640.

1660 November 26. William Nicholson, Archdeacon of
Brecknock, d. Feb. 5, 1672.

1672 October 10. John PRrrcHErr, d. Jan. 1, 1680.

1681 March 27. Robert Framfton, Dean of Gloucester, de-
posed by William and Mary, Feb. I, 1691.

1691 April 23. Edwin Fowler, d. August 26, 1714.

1715. January 15. K. D. Wilus, Dean of Lincoln, translated
to Salisbury 1722.

1 This list will be found usefnl for reference ; seTeral of Ihe Bishops
here mentioned being referred to in the preceding pages.

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1722 Jos. WiLCOCKB, tranfllated to Rochester 1731.

1781 Elias Stdall, d. 1734.

1734 Martin Benson, Prebendary of Durham, d. 1752.

1752 Jambs Johnson, Canon of St PauFs, translated to Wor*
cester 1760.

1760 William Wabbubton, Dean of Bristol, d. June 7, 1779.

1779 Honble. Jambs Tobxe, translated to Ely July 21, 1781.

1781 July 24. Samubl Hallifax, translated to S. Asaph
March 21, 1789.

1789 May 30. Bighabd Bbadon, translated to Bath and Wells
1802.

1802 April 21. Gbobgb J. Huntinqfobd, translated to Here-
ford 1815

1815 July. Honble. Hbnbt Rtdeb, translated to lachfield and
Coventry 1824.

1824 March. Chbistophbb Bbtbbl, translated to Bangor
April, 1830.

1830 June 11. Jambs Hbmbt Monk, d. May, 1856.

1856 July. Chablbs Basing, D.D.

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APPENDIX IL

List op Vicaks.

The Vicarage of Tetbnry was formerly in the Diooese of
Worcester: (see page 98.) Henry VJJLl. founded the See
of Gloucester in 1541 ; since that period Tetbury has been
in the Diocese of Gloucester. Previously to this, no authentic
account of the Vicars exists. I have only been enabled to
discover the names of two or three. In 1279, during the
Archbishopric of John de Peckham, temp. Edward I., Gregory
de Karwent was Vicar of Tetbury ; 2 Richard IL (1388,)
John Philip was Vicar; and in 1462 (2 Edward IV.,)
Henry Allen was Vicar.

The names of the Vicars since 1551 are as follows:

Nftme of Vicar.

Date of Instltatlon.

Fatnm.

Thomas Holt .

1551

Christ Ch., Oxford.

Humphrey Horton

1556

Henry Walmesley

1583

Henry, Lord Berkeley.

William Edwards >

1614

Gkorge, Lord Berkeley.

Daniel Norris *

1658

Feoffees of the Town.

John Bliss *

1681

William Scammel ^

1712

>»

Ralph Willet .

1726

Miles Gastrell >

1728

John Turner ® .

1739

1 Died Januaiy U, 1658. « Buried March 24, 1726.

s Boned April 22, 1687. ^ Died December 9, 1738.

5 Buried June 23, 1712.

6 He was Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester, and in 1739 was pre-
sented to the Vicarage of Somerford Keynes, Wilts. He died Dec 16, 1 741-

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Name of Vicar. Date of InaUtnlloo. FMraa.

John Wigbt ^ . . 1742 Feoffees of the Town.

Thos. Croome Wickes, •

D.D. . . Dec. 16 1777 „

John Richardes ^ . April 22 1 786 „

Bichard Davies > . June 18 1792 „

Samuel Paul Paul > . April 1825 „

John Frampton . Aug. 29 1828 „

The advowBon was sold in 1839. Charles Stanton, Esq.,
is the present Patron.

List of Lbctubebs.

The Lectureship was founded in 1610, by Sir William
Romney, who left £6 per annum for that purpose. It was
raised to £10 on tlie purchase of the lease of the fairs, Ac,
by the town. By the scheme confirmed by the Court of
Chancery in 1830, £30 per annum was assigned to the Lec-
turer; but it having since that period laid for some years in
abeyance, the stipend now amounts to £38 3s. 4d. Formerly
the lecture was delivered eveiy Thursday, and four Lecturers
(usually the Clergy of the neighbouring parishes,) were ap«
pointed. The duty now attached to it is to preach a sermon
in the Parish Church, on every Sunday evening from the
third Sunday in April to the third Sunday in September.
The Feoffees appoint the Lecturer.

The names of the Lecturers, as far as I have been enabled
to collect them from MS. and other documents, are as follow :

(reorge Bull, D.D., Bector of Avening, from 1685 to 1705,

f A great benefactor to the town. Died Nov. 24, 1777.

9 Died March 81. 1766.

9 He was fonneiiy Lecturer and Schoolmaster here; alao Chaplain to the
£arl of Pembroke. He died May 27, 1792.

1 Also Vicar of Horsdey. Died April 8» 1825.

9 Died July 29, 1828. He was baptised in 1781, being the first perwn
baptized in the new Parish Church.

291

and afterwards Bbhop of St David's, was lor somo tiine

Lecturer here.

1726 Bey. Mr. Lewis, of Holt 1788 Be v. John Bichardes.

1738 Bev. Mr. Hackman. Bev. Mr. Bowen.
Bev. John Wight Bev. Mr. ComwaU.
Bev. Mr. Bennett 1790 Bev. Bichard Davies.
Bev. Mr. Bryan. 1792 Bev. Lancaster Dodgson.

1739 Bev. Mr. Gregory. 1799 Bev. W. Everett
Bev. Mr. Freer. 1800 Bev. Mr. Thorpe.

1749 Bev. T. C. Wickes.

From this date till 1844 the Lectures ceased, horn want
of funds.

1844 May 7. Jacob Wood.'

1845 March 19. Jacob Wood.'

1846 April 22. Heniy Herbert Wyatt

1848 April 17. Henry Herbert Wyatt

1849 April 11. Thomas Lukjn Williams.

1850 March 25. Charles Fuge Lowder.

1851 March 29. Charles Fuge Lowder.

1852 March 90. James Hamilton.'

1853 April 5. Fred. Waters Greenstreet

1854 April 6. Fred. Waters Greenstreet.

1855 March 29. Alfred T. Lee.

1856 March 27. Alfred T. Lee.

1857 March. W. B. Brownlow.

List op Cubatbs.

1598 Nicholas Bonner 1681 John King

1602 George Haines 1708 Mr. Lodge

1607 Bichard Lambert 1710 William Bishop

1612 Tobias Higgens 1735 Mr. Verreby

Mr. Sheen 1740 John Wight, Vicar of

Mr. Hicks Tetbury, 1741 to 1777

s £lectad, but did not serve.

292

1819 W. S. Biich, Sector of

Easton Gkey&Lucking-
ton, Wilts

1 820 Thomas T. L. Jones, late

Incum. of North Niblej,

Glooeestershire
1823 Edward D. Slade
1825 Thomas Davies

1828 Charles E^rck
John Duffiis

1829 Heniy S. Sajce, Incum.

of Shirehampton, Glou-
cestershire
1831 Jacob Wood, Hector of
Sjde, Gloucestershire

1 838 James Hogan

1839 Edward Hebson

1841 Peter Blackburn

1842 Joshua Bennett, Incum-

bent of Cayersham,
Oxfordshire

1843 Charles B. Garside

1844 Henry Walker, Incum.
of S. Andrew's, West-
minster

T. H. Chase, Incum. of
Ljdbrook, Gloucester-
shire

1846 H. H. Wyatt, Incum. of
Trin. Chapel, Brighton
Charles F. Lowder

1849 T.L.Wimams, Incum. of
Forthleven, ComwaU

1852 B. H. Poole, Incnm. of

Beeston, Leeds
F. W. Greenstreet

1853 H. H. Hardy, Yicar of

Preston,Gloucestershire

1854 Richard Bramley
Alfred T. Lee, Incum. of

Elson, Gosport, Hants

1855 John Hughes

1856 Thomas J. Lee
W. R. Brownlow

List of Chubchwabdens.

1589 Edward Renter
Thomas Bird

1590 Henry Mayo
Robert Poole

1591 ]^chard Brinkworth
Bayley Woodrofe

1592 John Warrant
John Boxe

1593 John Hoopper
John Howman

1594 William Myles
George Estcourte

1595 Francis Taylcr
John Chapman

1596 John Driver
William Chapman

1597 George Potts
Thomas Gwynn

1598 Robert Cotte
Richard Hope

293

1599 Bichard Boxe
Robert Gotte

1600 John Sandys
Richard Webb

1601 Thomas Byne
Edward Mayo

1602 Edward Chapman
William Tanner

1603 Edward Carter
John Apprichard

1604 William Taylor
William Denninge

1605 John Browninge
Richard Compton

1606 Thomas Hnggins
Toby Chapman

1607 Heorie Norris
John Watts

1608 John Driver
Bryan Hooper

1609 William Wyer
Jasper Chapman

1610 Henrie Nixon
William Yaisey

1611 Thomas Brinkworth
John Hooper, jun.

1612 Toby Chapman
John Hooper, sen.

1613 William Tanner
Charles Writte

1614 Richard George
Robert Bird

1615 John Digby
Henry Weller

1616 William lancke
Richard Arrowsmith

617 Henry Cr^>pe
Jasper Weyer

618 William Yaisey
William Denninge

619 ( ^^""7 Mayo

•< Arthur Tanner

620 i *«*«w

iThomasByrd

621 Richard Boxe
Roger Hiller

622 Robart Hibbart
Thomas Goodall

623 Richard Hooper
Charles Wright

624 Toby Chapman
Thomas Burgess

625 Henry Wells
Edward Mayo
William lincke

626 William Yeysey
William Denninge

627 The same
WilUam Denning

628
629

Jasper Weare

John Adey

630 Jasper Wyer
John Adey

631 Richard Hooper
William Hooper

632 Roger Webb
William Lynke

633 Richard Arrowsmith
Richard Hillyer

634 Henry Mayo
Robert Hooper

635 Hugh Dun
Toby Mayo

294

1636 Henry Willis
John Wickes

1637 Toby Mayo
William Denninge

1638 Arthnr Tanner
John Adey

1639 Jasper Swinnerton
John Shorlocke

1640 WiUiam Davies
Obadiah Arrowsmith

1641 WiUiam Lincke
Richard Player

1642 William Lincke
John Browninge

1643 The same

1644 William Packer
William Bachelor

1645 The same

1646 The same

1647 William Denninge
Thomas Whittinge

1648 John Undrill

1649 Obadiah Arrowsmith
Samuel Teakle

1650 William Davis
Frands Hobbs

1651 Antipas Swinnerton
John Miles

1652 The same

1653 Matthew Beale
Timothy Okes

1654 The same

1655 William Hodges
Henry Wells

1656 Thomas Curtis

John Veysey of Upton

1657 Edward Pamell, aUas

Bumell
John Gkde of Doughton

1658 Samuel Brasington
Joseph Browninge

1659 Mr. William Savage
Thomas Whitinge

1660 The same

1661 Stephen Thomas
AnUpas Swinnerton

1662 The same

1663 John Savage, gent.
Christopher Harris

1664 Moses Wickes
John Holland

1665 Richard Amos
Edward Teakle

1666 John UndriU
Edward Slopar

1667 Samuel Denninge
Toby Mayo

1668 Frands Hobbes
Samuel Saunders

1669 Samuel Teakle
John Thomas

1670 John Sherman
Nathaniel Body

1671 John Gale
William Hooper

1672 Joseph Browning
John Linkinghold

1673 John Vayzey
James Stancomb

1674 Edward Pumell
Thomas Morton

1675 Roger HiUer

295

William Hodges
1676 <& 1677 The same

1678 Isaac Browning
Samuel Witcomb

1679 Thomas CuUimore
William Mayo

1680 Charles Mayo
Daniel Mason

1681 Jeremiah Watts
Thomas Edgerley

1682 Nathaniel Mayo
Samuel Wickes

1683 John Gale
Robert Seale

1684 Christopher Harris
Jonathan Shipton

1685 Edward Teakle
Robert Mershant

1686 The same

1687 Charles Savage
John Thomas, jun.

1688 William Jones
William Dolman

1689 & 1690 The same

1691 Edward Sloper
WiUiam Wickes

1692 Joseph Wickes
William Damsell

1693 John Butler
Joseph Punter

1694 The same

1695 Edward Teakle, jun.
James Walkey

1696 to 1698 The same
1699 Nathaniel Batchelor

Thomas Skammell

1700 John Taylor
Nathaniel Body, jun.

1701 Gilbert Gastrell
Nathaniel Body, jun.

1702 Nathaniel Cripps
John Sloper

1703 The same
1704

1705 Samuel Saunders
Jonathan Wickes

1706 Francis Savage
Matthew Wilkins

1707 Thomas Deacon
Jonathan Shipton

1708 The same

1709 John Wickes
John Hillier

1710 to 1712 The same
1713

1714 John Weight

Thomas Butler
1715

1716 Richard Talboys
William Damsell

1717 GUes Body
Matthew Wilkins

1718 to 1724 The same

1725 Giles Body

1726 GUes Body
Eldward Esbury

1727 Giles Body

1728 Giles Body
Christopher Clark

1729 The same

1730 Thomas Cooper, sen.
Christopher Clark

296

781-2
733

734 Thomas Talboys
Jofieph Wickes

735 to 1741 The same
742 Joseph Wickee

Daniel Oatridge
743
744
745

746 Thomas Butler
John Saunders

747 to 1752 The same
753

754 Nathaniel Saunders

John Ledgenham
755
756
757

758 Joseph Wickes
Samuel Saunders

759 Robert Clark
John Paul

760 The same

761 Joseph Wickes, jun.
Thomas Pike

762 Thomas Pike
George White

763 & 1764 The same

765 Daniel Damsell
William Fisher

766 The same

767 lliomas White
Daniel Damsell

1768 Thomas Oatridge
Daniel Damsell

1769 William TugweU
Thomas Oatridge

770 The same

771 Hopeful Lockey
Daniel Oatridge

772 Josiah Paul Tippetts
Walter W. Pike

773 Edward Tugwell
Wm. Ship. Osborne

774 The same

775 Thomas Cripps
William Wood

776

777 Robert Wight
William Bamford

778 The same
779
780
781

782 Thomas White
John Tugwell

783 WiUiam Wood, jun.
Samuel E. White

784 Samuel White
Richard Crooper

785 Matthew P. Bamford
John Rich

786 The same

787 Simon Rich
T. Saunders

788 Giles Pike
Joseph Cooper

789 Simon Oatridge
T. F. Wickes

790 The same

791 Charles Wickes

297

John Arundell

1792 R. M. Warman
Robert Warn

1793 Jos^h Woodward
Thomas Alexander

1794 The same

1795 Jeremiah Bainton
Robert Bamford

1796 Thomas Brookes
Humphrey Tugwell

1797 Jeremiah Wigmore
James Hill

1798 Thomas Hawkes
George Hopkins

1 799 Robert Clark Paul
James Pickett

1800 Thomas Spearing
Timothy Shewing

1801 WiUiam Oram
William HoUidaj

1802 R. M. Warman
Simon Rich

1803 Simon Rich
Thomas Seymour

1804 to 1806 The same

1807 Joseph Wood
Joseph Smith

1808 Daniel Bennett
H. A. Biedermann

1809 & 1810 The same

1811 Daniel Bennett
John Cook

1812 Thomas Pike
John Wood

1813 John Benjamin
WilUam Rich

1814 John Benjamin

William Talboys
1816 to 1818 The same

1819 Jacob Wood

. John Benjamin

1820 John Benjamin
Stiles Rich

1821 Joseph Smith
Stiles Rich

1822 T. E. Biedermann
Joseph Brookes

1823 Joseph Brookes
Henry White

1824 John W. Biedermann
John Allaway

1825 The same

1826 James R. Dacres
John Allaway

1827 James R. Dacres
John Cook

1828 James R. Dacres
Charles Wickes

1 829 Joseph Brookes
Charles Wickes

1830 The same

1831 Charles Paul
Samuel A. Saunders

1832 & 1833 The same

1834 Thomas Poulton
William Tayler

1835 to 1839 The same

1840 Joseph Wood
W. A. Glover

1841 The same

1842 H. E. Relton
W. A. Glover

298

1843 Jacob Wood
W. A. Glover

1844 George Clark
Thomaa Ind

1845 to 1847 TheBame
1848 George Clark

WilUam urn

1849 Edwin Cook
William Till

1850 Edwin Cook
Bidiard Barber

1851 to 1855 The same

1856 George Cave
Joeiah T. Paul

1857 The same

LlfTT OF FbOFFKXS.

The first FeofTees seem to have been appointed in 1632,
when the town bought the Advowson and Market Tolls of
Lord Berkeley. Their number must not exceed seven.

1632 Bichard Talboys

Gilbert Gastrell

Bichard Boze

Toby Chapman
1683 John Sarage

Jasper Chapman

Charles Savage

Francis Savage

Giles Stedman

John Thomas

Christopher Harris
1707 Matthew Wilkins, senr.

Nathaniel Body, senr.

Jonathan Shipton

Samuel Saunders
1714 Toby Mayo
1718 Gilbert Gastrell

Joseph Wickes

George Wickes

Nathaniel Cripps

Giles Body, d. July 21,
1738
1721 Joseph Punter

1738 Dec. 11, Samuel Saunders
Francis Savage >

1739 Nov. 15, Thomas Butler
Joseph Wickes
Charles Clarke, d. June

8, 1743

William Savage

James Randolph
1753 Samuel Saunders

Thomas BuUer

Joseph Wickes

Christopher Clarke
1778 Bev.T. Croome Wickes

Samuel Saunders

Robert Clark

HopefoU Lockey

Edward Tugwell

1 When Bev. John Tnrner was appointed Vicar, these were the only EeofitBee.

299

Thomas Pike, senr.
1786 Wiltiam Fisher
1790 Rev. John Savage

Josiah Paul Paul

Robert Clark

Thomas Saunders

William Byam

Robert Wight

William Wood, senr.

1803 Thomas White, of Long
Newnton

Richard Cooper

John Arundel

Rev. Thos. F. Wickes
1816 June 27, William Wood

Charles Wickes

John Paul Paul

R. M. Warman

1822 Nov. 28. Robert Clark Paul was appointed in lieu of

William Wood, d.

1823 Mar. 27, John Wood

1828 June 26, Jacob Wood

1829 Mar. 5, George Paul
1829 Sept 17, Henry White

1831 June 28, Joseph Overbury

1832 Oct. 23, Stiles Rich
1836 June 6, John Warn
1836 Nov. 15, Charles Paul
1838 Oct. 18, John Cook i
1844 Oct24,WALTERMATTHEW8PAUL* Josoph Overbury, d.

1844 Nov. 28, Joseph Wood " John Wood, d.

1845 March 13, Fredssick B. Whifb > R. M. Warman, d.

1846 Nov. 20, William Tatleb > Charles Paul, d.

1850 Jan. 15, Thomas Poulton Jacob Wood, d.

1851 April 15, Joseph Hughes ' Thomas Poulton, d.
1856 Nov. 11, Cthus Crew > Robt. C. Paul, d.

Rd. Cooper, d«
J. P. Paul, d.
Rev. T. F. Wickes, d.
George Paul, d.
Henry White, d.
Thomas White, d.
Stiles Rich, d.
Charles Wickes. d.
John Warn, d.

List

1592 Roberte Walker
1596 Edward Carter
1602 Henry Chapman

OF BAHJFrs.

Satncs I.

1604 John Driver

1605 Edmund Estcourte
1608 George Mayo

> The present Feoflees.

300

1609 John Savage

1610 Edward Chapman

1615 Henry Majo

1616 William Tanner
1623 Robert Sperke
1625 Robert Hibbert

Cfiatks I.

1629 Richard Hooper

1630 John Driver
1683 Arthur Tanner
1638 Richard Boxe
1641 William Denning

CornmoniDealtfi.

1650 Obadiah Arrowamith

1654 John Undrill

1657 Obadiah Arrowsmith

1660 Obadiah Arrowemith
1662 Daniel Perkins
1 676 Moses Wickes

WUaium Mh
1688 Nathaniel Body
1690 John Carpenter
1693 Robert Wright
1695 Edward Teakle, junr.
1698 William Tanner
(Quttn %mt.
1705 Gilbert Gastrell
ffieotge M.
1753 Henry Crowther

ffieotge IIS.

1778 Robert Clark

1779 William Bennett
1787 1 William Wood, sen.

788 Robert Wight

789 William Byam

790 Thomas Wight

791 WiUiam Wood, jun.

792 Simon Rich

793 James Dalby

794 John Bowdler

795 Joseph Cooper

796 John Arundel

797 Robert Warn

798 Charles Wickes

799 Thomas Hancock

800 H. H. Sloper

801 John Paul Paul

802 R. M. Warman

803 Robert Clark Paul

804 Thomas Seymour

805 William Butt

806 WiDiam Wood, jun. (2)

807 Simon Rich

808 Robert Warn (2)

809 Charles Wickes (2)

810 John Paul Paul (2)

811 R. M. Warman (2)

812 Thomas Seymour (2)

813 Joseph Wood

814 John Wood

815 Jacob Wood

816 George Paul

817 Henry White

818 Joseph Overbury

819 J. W. Biedermann

CErfCitfie lU.
1820 William Brookes

1 IVom this date the List is complete ; the names before this are correct
as far as they go, hot from want of authorities it was impossible to fonn
a complete list.

30i

1821 Stiles Rich

1838 Cyrus Crew

1822 John Warn

1839 John Ralph

1823 Joseph Brookes

1840 Thomas WitcbeU (2)

1824 Charles Paul

1841 Walter M. Paul (2)

1825 John Cook

1842 Joseph Wood (2)

1826 Thomas Witchell

18r43 J. B. Williams

1827 Richard Filkin

1844 William Tayler (2)

1828 Robert Bamford

1845 J. G. Goodwyn

1829 Walter M. Paul

1846 Maurice Maskelyne

nStUtam W,

1847 William Brookes

1830 Joseph Wood

1848 John Cook, jun.

1831 F. B. White

1849 Edwin Cook

1832 William Tayler

1850 George Clark

1833 Benjamin Wood

1851 William Williams

1834 John Brown

1852 Isaac WitcheU

1836 John Warn

1853 Cyrus Crew (2)

1836 Thomas Poulton

1854 J. G. Goodwyn (2)

C^utm UtctoTta.

1855 WiUiam Brookes (2)

1837 Joseph Hughes

1856 Edwin Cook (2)

List of Schoolmastebs.

1642 Thomas Tully, afterwards Principal of S. Edmund Hall,

Ozfoid.
1678 Henry Heaven, was buried 20th August.
1698 Rev. Christopher Hanley, M.A.
1703 Mr. Hall, buried June 5th.

Rev. John Lewis.
1721 Rev. Heniy Wightwick, d. Nov. 22, 1763.
1764 Rev. John Richardes, afterwards Lecturer and Vicar.
1786 Robert Williams.
1789 Rev. J. Evans.
1791 Rev. Lancaster Dodgson.

At the beginning of this century, the School (with the exception of Mrs.
Hodge's scholars,) ceased till 16S6, from want of funds.

1836 J. W. KeiUer, the present Schodmaster.

302

APPENDIX III.

INSCRIPTIONS ON THE MONUMENTS AT PRESENT (1867)
EXISTING IN THE PARISH CHURCH.

(South Cloister.)
HicjacetFBAMCiscus Sayaob,
Filios Gnaltieri Savage de Brod-
way in Com. Wigorn. Armig. qai obi-
it 20 die March Ano. Domini 1671.
Mau ta ^ uxor ejus filia Edmon-

di Estoonrt, gen., obiit 26°
die August, Anno Domini 1645
J.a 1689.
C.S. 1760.
J.CS. 1836.
M.S. Feb. 7th, 1842.
J.S. 1803.
C.S. 1846.

Here lyeth the body

of Vramqib Sataob,

late of this place, gent,

who departed this life

the seyenteenth day

of April, in the year

of our Lord 1740,

aged 63 years.

Underneath
are interred the mortal remains

Sabab, wifb of William Savage

of this town, gent,

who died the 19th day

of July. 1767,

aged 73.

William Savagb died 15th Octr.

1775.

aged 84.

C. S. 1847.

(South side of East wall, on a mar-
ble slab.)

M.a

JoBAMXiB Sayaos, Arm.

Qui e vita cessit

Deoembris 19,

A.D. 1772,

^tatis suie 63.

Framoibcub Sataob, Gen.

Obiit Oct' 17, A.D. 1769, ^t 54.

R.LP.

ElIZABBTHA SAYAffB

Obiit Nov. 14, A.D. 1777, ^t 69.

Elbabora Sataob
Obiit Aug. 6, A.D. 1763, JEL 49.

(South side of the Altar.)
M.&

JOABBIB SaTAQB, A.M.

Viri, innocui, probi, pii,
qui vixit annos LIX.
Obut XyiL Mart MDOCCm.

303

(North wall of South Cloister.)
Near this tablet
Lies interred the body of
JoHV Claxtoh Sayagb, B.A. Oriel

ColL Oxfords

eldest son of John and Rachel Savage,

of this place, and of Henleaze,

in this Coanty.

Ho died at Oxford the 80th of Jany.,

1836,

Aged 23 years.

** What I do thon knowest not now,

" Uut thoa Shalt know hereafter."

(Sonth Cloister.)

Mabia,

only daughter of

John and Rachel Savage,

who died at Henleaze,

Februaiy 7th, 1842,

aged 18 years.

** The Lord knoweth those that are

His."

(South side of East wall)

Sacred to the memory

Of Maet Dbaoon,

Of Elmestree, in thif parish;

Who died February S3rd, 1769,

Aged 84 yean.

And to the memory

Of Tbomab, her father.

And Mabt, her mother.

And Mart, his second wife,

who died August 14th, 1745, ^t. 78.

Also Jamks, son of Gilbert

and Anne Gastrell,

who died Jan. 12th, 1749, ML 60.

Also Mast, his wife,
who died March 12th, 1774, JEL 77.

And GiLBBBT, their son,
who died July 19th, 1747, ML 24.

Also Jambs Dalbt, genu,

who married Jane, their daughter,

and died Novr. 6th, 1773, ^t. 51.

And Mart, daughter of the said

James and Jane Dalby,
who died Deer. 6tb, 1775, Ml 25.

And Jambs, their son,
who died Aug. 29, 1794, Mi. 37.

Jakb Dalby, widow,

died December 1 8th,

l785,J9St. 65.

Mabt Gastbbll, spinster,

her sister, died Sept. 3rd,

1789, Ml 65.
Their bodies are deposited

in the North Cloister,

with Abh, theur sister,

who died Novr. 6th, 1801,

iEt 63.

Elizabbtb, daughter

of Thomas Berkeley, Esq.,

dyed Jany. 27, 1753,

Aged 81.

(North side of Bast waR)

Near this place lie the remains

of GiLDBBT Gastbbll, gent,

who died Deer. 6th, 1782, ML 70.

Also Anmb, his wife, daughter

of William Savage, Esq.,

who died July I8tb, 1695, iEt 34.

(North side of the Altar.)

To the memory of

Josbfm WiGKBS, gent.

And EuzABBTH, his wife.

He died Jany. 17th ) & aged 70

She died Aug. 15th $ I aged 64

And also of their son.

304

ThOIUB CaOOMS WlCKJM, DJ).

late Vicar of this pariah,

who diod March 3l8t» 1786, aged 60;

and is buried with his father

and mother, on the North side

of this Chnrch.

Joseph Wickbs, gent.,
died August 2l8t, 1771. ^t. 60.

Eleanob Wickjis, Spr.,
died January 13th, 1788, JFa, 49.

Am Bdtt, widow,
died March 19th, 1791, ^t. 49.

Their bodies are deposited

under a tomb in the North

part of this Church yard.

(North wall of South Cloister.)

To the memory of

Arabella Botd Dacees,

wife of Captain Dacres, of the Royal

Nary, and

daughter of General Sir Hew

Daliymple, Bart

She departed this life on the 11th

April, 1828,

in the d6th year of her age;

having ever acquitted herself

of her duties to the husband, and

the nine children she has left,
in a manner the most exemplary.

(South waD of South Cloister.)

In memory of

Jambs Richard Dacrbs, Esqre.

Vice- Admiral of the Red Squadron,

who died at Catisfield Lodge, Hants,

on the 4th December, 1853»

aged 64 years.

AJso of his son,

Jaxbs Richard Daorbs, Esqre.,

Commanding H.1IC. sloop Nimrod,

who died at Mozambique, on the

14th February, 1848,

aged 37 years.

And of his youngest son.

Hew Dalrtmple Dacrbs, Esqre.

Lieut in H.M. 67th Begt,

who died at sea, on his passage from

Barbadees, llth July, 1835,

aged 21 years.

(Near the last door of the South

Cloister, on an oval brass.)

Here

lyeth the body of

Sarah, the wife of

Cbristr.* Clarit,

who departed this life ye

31 St day of January,

AnnoDom. 1737,

JRUit BtUC

30.

(North side of East wall.)
Elbakor,
wife of Robert Chirk,
died September 29th, 1755,

aged 23 years.

Esther, his second wife,

died May 8th, 1794,

aged 75 years.

Robert Clark, gent,

died January 16th, 1795,

aged 62 yean.

(South Cloister.)

Tbohab Cripfs, Esqre.,

of Upton, in this parish,

died Deer. 19th, 1803,

aged 77.

Masoaebt Cripp^ relict

of the above T. Cripps,

died Feby. 22nd, 1797,

aged 66.

Mart Cripps,

305

died Octr. 22nd, 1796,

aged 68.

John Cuffs, Esqre.,

Died Feby. 1201, 1818,

aged 88.

(South side of the Altar.)

Sacred to the memory of

four children of
George & Atice White:
RiGHAmD Talbots, who died Feb-
ruary 13th, 1774,
aged 8 months.
Thouab Ck>LTHirs8i; who died June
dOth, 1775,
aged 4 months.
AuGB Talbots, who died
June 5th, 1779, aged 6 months.
And Gkoaoi, who died January
28rd, 1788.
aged 17 years.
And also of the said Aucb, wife of
the aboTe-mentioned George White,
who died Deer. 6th, 1794,
aged 58 years.
Also Mr. GaoROB Whitb, Att. at
Law, died Deer, 4th, 1807,
aged 74 years.

(North Cloister.)

In memory of Elizabbtb Whitb,

Widow,

who died Deer. 6tb, 1827,

aged 74.

Mamma Axx Pitt,

niece of the aboTe,

Died Janoary 10, 1841,

aged 68 years.

Also EUSABBTH PlTT,

Died April 24th, 1846,
aged 68 years.

(West walL)

Ibaao Bbrkbt, Esqre.,
died 21st November, 1815,

aged 68.

Dakul Bbbbbt, Esqre.,

of this town, died ICarch 12th, 1821,

aged77.r

Martha, his wife,

died Feby. 20th, 1821,

aged 63.

Sacred to the memory of

JosBPH Otbbburt,

who died 7th Oct, 1844,

aged 64 years.

Elizabbtb, wife of

Joseph Overbury,

died September 25th, 1832.

aged 50 years.

Harribttb Sarah

Dayies, died Not. 6th, 1842,

aged 52 years.

(On a brass plate in the S. Cloister.)

Sacred to the memory

of Hbrrt Bajcford, son of

Bob. and Dorothea Bamford,

of Newhoose, in the parish of Stroud,

who died Jan. 13. 1832,iigod 5 years.

Also of

Maria Bamford, their daughter,

who died May 4th, 1832, aged 1 year.

Also of Sdward, son of the aforesaid

Robert and Dorothea Bamford,

of Newhottse, Stroud; he died Aug.

13th, 1836,

aged 3 years and 8 months.

Also of TsABBfj.A, daughter of

Robert & Dorothea Bamford,

of the Lammas, Minchinhampton,

who died 5th Jany., 1855,

aged 26 yearn

306

In memory of

Joseph Smiitb,

who departed this life

December 4th, 1834,

aged 6S years.

Also of

MiAT Smith, spinster,

who died August Ist, 1845,

aged 79 years.

(North side of East wall)
Sacred
to the Memory

Mart Suxmsbs,

who died 21st March, 1826,

aged 85.

Sacred to the memory of

Thoxas Fxshbr,

of the Orange, in this parish, Qent,

who died November 12th, 1736,

aged 63 yean.

And of Am, his wifSe,

who died Juno 10th, 1756, aged

69 years.

And of BfAKT, their daughter,

who died Fsbruary 9th, 1744, aged

28 years.

Their remains are deposited

in the North Cloister.

In memory of Mart,

wife of William Fisher,

who died November 28th, 1795,

aged 66 years.

William Fi8HiB,gent,

died February 27, 1807,

aged 79 years.

Maby,

daughter of Thomas

and Ann Fisher,

of the Grange,

in this parish,

died Feby. 9th, 1744,

aged 28.

Sacred to the memory of

Thomas Fishbb Btam, gent.,

who departed this life

June 16th, 1810,

aged 26 years.

Also An, his wife, who died Juno

12th, 1843,

aged 67 years.

(South Wall of South Cloister.)
SiMOK Oatridob, Esq.,
died Febniaiy 6, 1801,

aged 61 years.

Mart, his wife,
died December 24, 1792,

aged 46 years.

(South Cloister.)

the memory of

Darirl Oatridob,

of Doughton, in this parish,

who died March 7th, 1771,

aged 72 years.

Also of

Maroarbt, his wife,

who died April dOth, 1741,

aged 35 years.

Mart Oatridob,

wife of

Simon Oatridge, gent,

of Doughton, in this parish,

Obiit Deer. 24(h, 1792,

SiMOX OATRIDOBygent.,

ObiitFeby. 6th, 1801,
JEL 61.

307

Masoabbt Gsjltrbll,

died April Ist, 1783,

agedSS.

Dahixl OatbxdoMj gent,

died Match IStb, 1787,

aged 53.

Mabt, hia relict,

died Biarch 13th, 1806,

aged 73.

(South side of Bast wall.)
Sacred to the memory
of JoBR Paul, Eeqre.,
who died Se]>tember, 1787,

aged 80.

And of Sabah, his wife,

who died Aagnst S8th, 1796.

aged 83.

Also of li^BT, his sister,

Belict of John Gethin, gent.,

who died Aagnst 8nd, 1788,

aged 72.

BlOHAM> TiFPBTTS, gCnt,

died February 18th, 1741, aged 41.

Hbstkb, his wife, sister of John

FWil, Esqre.,

died April 16th, 1788,

aged 64.

JoBiAB Paul Paih:^ Esq.,

died September 83rd« 1797,

aged 48 years.

EsTHBB, his daughter, died February

10th, 1778,

aged 8 months.

JoBiAB, his son.

Lieutenant in the 69th Begt of FooL

died in the serrice of his country,

at the Helder, on the coast of Holland,

September a8th, 1799,

aged 80 years.

Mabt, relict of Josiali Paul Poul,

Esqre.

died January 13th, 1814,

aged S!i years.

Sacred to the memory of
the BcTd. Saxubl Paul Paul,

late Vicar of this parish,
Obt. 29th July, 1828, ML 47.
*' Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
** And thou shalt be saved."

Acts, chap. 16, verse 31.

Sacred to the memory of

JoBK Paul Paul, Esqre.,

who died the 10th of June, 1828,

aged 55.

Also of JoHH Paul, Esqre.,

his eldest son,

who died the 13th of Octr., 1817,

aged 22.

Abo of ACabt, relict of

John Paul Paul, Esqre.,

who died the 6th day of Octr., 1843,

aged 73.

Alfbsd Johh Paul, Esqre.,

Commander R.N.,

sixth son of Robert Clait Phnl, Esqre.

of this town,

bom llth January, 1811,

died 18th August, 1845.

He entered the Naval Service

in January, 1824;

was midshipman of the Dartmouth,

at Navarino,
and Flag Lieutenant in the Wellesley,
at the taking of Chusnn,aDd in the

operations against Canton

and subsequent capture of that city,

in the year 1841 ;

308

for which serrioe he obtained

his promotion.

ThiB tablet is erected by his brothers

as a token of the sincere love
and afibctton which they bore him.

(North side of East wall)

In memory of

Cbabubs William Paul,

Solicitor,

seTcnth son of Robert Clark Panl,

Esqre.,

bom 13th Feby.» 1813,

died 14th March, 1854.

(Soath Cloister.)

HARRnm Fbamptok,

January 18, 1851.

R.I.P.

(North Cloister.)

Willuk Wood

died June 25th, 1799,

aged 7S.

Hajihab, his wife,

died Hay 7th, 1787,

aged 55.

Sabah Wood

died NoTT. 83rd, 1832,

aged 72.

William Wood

died Nov. 2, 1822,

aged 65.

Elubabbtb, his wife,

died Sepr. 23rd, 1827,

aged 73.

William Wood

died Oct 2nd, 1834,

aged 51.

(Sonth Wall of North Cloister.)

Sacred to the memory of

Jacob Wood, Esqre.,

who departed this lifeDecr.3l8t,l849,

aged 65.

(South Cloister.)

memory of

JoBH Lbtall,

who died Deer. 17, 1830,

aged 62 years.

(North wall of Sonth Cloister.)

In memoiy

Thomas Albtahdkb,

a loTer of learning, truth, and virtue,

who died December 4th, 1806,

aged 68 years.

And of Anv, his wife,

who died Janoaiy 3rd, 1804,

aged 74 years.

Search the Scriptures in hope oi

glory, honour, and immortality.

JOBN AXUHDXLL

died June 17th, 1808,

aged 66 years.

Sarah, his wife,

died Septr. 1st, 1814,

aged 80 yean.

In memory of

Amh Clusold,

died May 8th, 1808,

JEL 82.
Maxt, daughter of

Ann Clissold,

died Oct. 11th, 1806,

Mi, 49.

309

(Floor of West Cloister.)
In memory of

WaLTSB WiLLSHIRB PlKB,

who died December,

aged 35.

Also of Gharlbs Pike,

who died Oct 1 5th,

Also of ELiacABBTH and

Crahlotts, daughters of

Thomas and Sarah Pike,

who died in their infancy.

Thomas Pikb,

died Feby. 2drd, 1813,

aged 63 years.

Sarah, wife of

Thomas Pike,

died Feby. 16th, 1819,

aged 63 years.

(Soath side of East wall, on a marble
slab.)

To the memory of

Waltbx Wiixshibx Pikr,

Commander Boyal Navy,

son of the late

Thomas and Sarah Pike,

of this parish.

He died at Bristol, Deer. 7th, 1849,

aged 64.

And his remains lie Interred

within this Church.

Captain Pike senred as lienteoant

in the Earyalns frigate,

at the e?er-memorable battle of

Trafalgar;

and was not less respected in his

profession as an ofllcer,

than he was esteemed by a large

circle of friends

in private life as a gentleman.

(West wall of the Chnrch, on a

marble slab.)

In a Tanlt in the Church yard

lies interred the remains

of Hbmhy Harybt,

wife of Samuel Clay Harvey, Esqr.,

of Cooling, in the county of Kent,

who died the 81st of November, 1789,

aged 53 years.

In memory of whom

this monument is erected.

In the same vault are interred

the remains of

Samubl Clat Harybt, Esqre.,

who died the 18th of February, 1791,

aged 75 years.

Also of Joseph Coopxb,

brother of the said Henny Harvey.

He died the 16th of Jannaiy, 1798,

aged 50 years.

Sacred

to the memory of Mabia,

the wife of Samuel Albin Saunders,

formerly of Upton Orove,

in this parish, Esqre.,

who was bom on the 11th of August,

1808.

and died at Hastings, on the 28th of

Kay, 1859.

Also of their children,

Saxitbl Allbx Saokdbbs,

who was bom on the 93rd of March,

1847,
and died on the 1st of November

following.

And of Ro6A ICaria Saundbbs,

who was bom on the 97th of April,

1848,

and died in London,

on the 28th of April, 1850.

810

(North iide of the Cbnrchjftrd.)
To the memory of Anr Brookbb,
daughter of Williem ft £liua>eth

Brookea,
departed thit life SOth day of Novr.

1798,

aged seTenteen yeara^ ten months,

three weeks, and three days.

To the memory

Tbos. Bbookbs, son of William

and

Elisabeth Brookes, of Slmestree,

in this parish,

who

departed this life SOth Jany., 1806,

aged SI years.

To the memory of

JoHH Brookes, son of

William & Elisabeth Brookes,

of Ebnestree, in this parish,

died Augost Ist, 1810,

aged 25 years.

To the memory

Mart Bro<ikb0, spinster,

of Ebnestree, in this parish,

who

departed this life S4th Jane, 1805,

aged 64 years.

To the memory of

Thos. BROOKxa, of

Elmestreo, in this parish,

bachelor,

who departed this life

the nth dayof Febmary, 1812,

aged 83 years.

To the memory of

Elisabstii, wife of

William Brookes,

of Elmestree, in this parish,

who departed this life, Jane S8, 1821,

aged 68 years.
From yonth thrtmgh life not free

from worldly eare^
Yet harmless as the Dore her man-
ners were:
She held that FtUA on earth to

Christians gtTen,
In hope to merit a reward in Hbjitrr.

William Beookbs,

died

March 21, 1825^ aged 85 jrears.

** The righteons shall be had in

everlasting remembranoe."

Sacred
to the memory of

JOSBPH BROaKKfl,

son of

Will, and Elisth. A. Brookes,

of New Street Square, London,

who died the S5th of Jane, 18S4,

aged five months.

Sacred to the memory of
J06RPB Brookss, of Elmestree,

in this parish,
who died Ang. IS, 1832,

aged 40 years.

311

APPENDIX IV.

HEADS OF LOCAL INFORMATION.

The following particulars respecting the Public Officers of
the Town will be found useful for reference :

Fboffkbs who arb also Lobds or thb Mahob.
John Cook Elected October 16, 1838.

Walter Matthews Paul
Joseph Wood
Frederick B. White
William Tayler
Joseph Hnghcs
Cyrus Crew

f»

October 24, 1844.
NoTember S8, 1844.
Ifarch 13, 1845.
Noyember 20, 1846.
April IS, 1851.
Norember 11,1856.

BaOUfffw 1856-7. Edwin Cook.

Thomas WitchoU
Richard Filkin, M.D.
Benjamin Wood
John Brown
John Gale Ooodwjn
Manrice Maskeljnc
William Brookes
John Cook, jnn.
Edwin Cook
Qeorge Clark
William Williams
Isaac Witehell
Waiiam Warner

Tomn CkrlL

Thb TmBTBBH.

Elected November 9, 1824.

n Angnst 8, 1826.

Augast 21, 1832.
October 30, 1832.
October 31, 1844.
December 5, 1846.
March 20, 1845.
December 3, 1846.
July 13, 1848.
Jannary 22, 1850.
May 30, 1850.
April 22, 1851.
November 20, 185&

Josiah T. Paul, elected 1831.

»*

»♦

812

SoHeiior$. Measn. Josiah T. and Robert C. Paul, Long Street

ICr. William Maskelyne, Long Street
Surgetmg. John C. Wickham, BID., M.R.C.S^ Hill Hovsc.
John Hole, M.R.C.S., Silver Street
William WiUiams, IIRCS., Market Place.
BoMkart, Ckmntj of Gloncester Bank. Joeoph Wood, Manager.

London Bankers. Glyn and Co.
dark to the MagUirateM. Josiah T. Paul
Clerk to ike Ouardiaiu. William Maskeljme.
BeHeving OJfieet. Daniel W. Smith, The Workhooso.
Tcntm Crier, John Smith, The Chipping.
Natiomal SckooL Matter, John W. Keiller.

Miatreee, Mrs. Bobinson.
Unitm WorkhoMwe. Maator, Daniel W. Smith.

MUtrtMM, Mrs. Susannah T. Smith.
PbUee Station, Market PUce. William Wood, Sergeant
Savingi Bank, The Chipping, (Francis Brown, Actoaiy,) open on Wed-
nesdays ftom 12 to I.
HoteU. The White Hart R Bannister.

The Talbot James Webb.
Stan^ Office, John G. Goodwyn, Sab-distributor, Long Street
Tke Literary InsHtittitm, Church Street B. C. Paul, Esq., Hon. Sec
Pariek (^wrck (S, Marj^e), Services. Sundays, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Daily at 8 a.m., except Wednesdays,
Fridays, and Holy Days, when it
is 11 a.m.
S, Savumr*s ( Ckapei of Ease). Sundays, 11 a.m. and 3 p.nL

Daily at 4*30 p.m.
Omnibue, Every day, at 9*15 a.ro., to the Tetbnry Boad Station (distant
6| miles,) returning at 1*50 p.m. James Coventry, Church
Street, Proprietor.
Poet Office, F. Home, Postmaster.

London MaUe, Arrive at 6*15 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Dispatched at 9 a.m. and 6*30 p.m.
Box closes at 8*30 a.m. and 5*30 p.m.
The North and Stroud, Arrives at 8 a.m.

Dispatched at 4*30 p.m.
Box closes at 3*30 p.m.
Mdtaey orders issued from 9 a.m. to 5*30 p.m., except from
3 to 4*30 p.m.

313

INDEX TO MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS.

Aleundar, ThoniM
Ann

Anudell, John

Foffe

SdwMTd
InbalU

DaoM
MariSbM

Bttfcdsr. SUntefli

Brooks, Ann

Thomif

John

Uary

TbomMM (i)

Fllwtwtti

WnUam

Joooph

JoM|ih(s;

Biitt» Ann

Byam, J. F.
Ann

CUurktSanh

RolMrt

IfHJ

Gooper, Joieph
Cltppt, ThomM

lUiy

John

DidVf.Ji

Hut

J«aiM(S)
Juki

DiCiM, A. B.

JmbmR.,
J. R., (9)
HtwD.

DftTlottH.S.

• •

806

aoi
so»

SIO

804

806

804

805

0eioon, tfftry

Thomas
Man

Flaher, lliomaa

Mary

ii«pyW
WnilAm

Mary (8)

Fnunpton, HArriette

GaitrbD, Oiltert
Anne

Jamaa

HMyW

CHlbert(IJ

Maryg)

QMkivU, ICirguet

HirrtT, B>
S.C.

LetaU.J.

Oatridge» ainum
Karr
DMdd
Margartl

StanonCl)
DMilel(8)
Mmt<3)

Offlilnifft Jonph

FMdiJohB
teah
Xarj
JodahP.
Brther

Samuel P.
John P.

A2fiped J.
GbarleoW.

Pike, W. W.
Gharlea
Elliabeth

Pag§
808

806
808

807
809

306

807

806
lb 809

Pike, Charlotte
lliomas
Sanh

Pitt, M. A.
EUsaheth

flamden, Maria
aA.
&M.

flange, Francla
Maria

FrandaCS)

Sarah

WllUam

John

FrandafS)

EUsaheth

Eleanor

John (8)

JohnC.

Maria (i;

Staath, Joeeph
Manr

Bwmiuew, Mary

TIppetta, Richard

White, Eliaa

a.T.

T.C.
A.T.
Qeorae

EUzaEetti

Wkkaa, Joaeph
BUnbeth
T. Croone
Joeeph (2>

Wood, WnUam

aarah
WnUamrS)

William (9)
Jaeob

• m

80S

803

• •

806

807

808
804

806

314

INDEX.

Worcester

Accident whilst burying a corpse in Meeting Hoose, 1728

Acres, number of, in Tetbnry parish, now and at the Conquest

AdTowson, particulars respecting the . . .

Age, old, remarkable instances of, from Burial Register, 1 760

Abr of Tetbury, great salubrity of .

Alexander's, Thomas, Charity

Alms House, the .

Aluric, Lord of Telbury, temp. Edward the Confessor

Antiquities discovered at Tetbuiy .

Arable, proportion of, to pasture land in the parish

Arbitration, deed of, itmp, Edward IV., by Bishop of

Assembly Booms ....

Avery's, John, Charity

Bailiff, duties of, and derivation of the name

Bailiffs, list of, from 159S . .

Bath Bridge, built in 1774—1776 .

Bells in the Parish Church, account of

Berkeleys, Lord, the, Lords of Tetbury

Bisse, Philip, Bishop of Hereford, life of

Bishops of Gloucester ftom 1541 .

Bordarii, number of, at Tetbury, mentioned in Domesday

, Social condition of, 11; Number in Gloucestershire leiiip<

William L . . n. 11

Bosel, first Bishop of Worcester . . n. 7

Braose, De, the. Lords of Tetbuiy, 61 s Braose, William De, Manor of
Tetbury granted him by Henry L, 16; had a fair at Tetbuiy 1287,
17; Braose, Thomas De, had a fair at Tetbury 1351 . 18

Braose and Berkeley families, pedigree shewing connection of . n. 71

Braose, De, history of the family of . .61-71

Bridge, Wiltshire, the ...... 50

Brookes, the. Lords of Elmestree .86

Brookes*, William, Charity . .173

Carpenter, John, Dr. Bishop of Worcester 1444—1476, account of . n. 99

Carucate, number of acres in a . .10

29
10
119
11.28
26 & n. 27
164
42
78
3
53
98
44
164

n.33

299

100

187

287

315

Castle, Tetbury, mentioned by Camden, 3; besieged by Robert, Earl
of Gloucester, for the Empress Mand, 1113

Carta R. de Berkeley ....

Chancery scheme for regulation of Tetbury charities

Chancery suits respecting rebuilding of Parish Church

Charities in Tetbury old Church, 96; Charity endorsed by William
de Waltres, &c.

Charities, account of the Tetbury Charities .

Charles L visits the Town .

Charles II. visits the Town on his way to Bath

Charlton, hamlet of, description of, 55; Lords of the Manor, history of

Charters rehiting to Tetbury, 264; of King Ethelred to Malmesbury
Abbey, 264; of Reginald de S. Walerick to Eynesham Abbey,
265; of Bernard de S. Walerick to R. de Berkeley, 266; of
Thomas de S. Walerick to Ejmesham Abbey, 267 ; of Edward
lY. of Manor of Elmestree to Westbury College

Chipping, the Street leading to, widened

Chipping, the, account of .

Chronological events, list of, connected with Tetbury .

Churchwardens' accounts, extracts from

Cistercian Order, when founded, early progress in England .

Cistercian Monks, Abbey of, at Tetbury

Civil Wan, Tetbury during the .

Clark's, Esther, Charity .....

Coins, Roman and English, found at Tetbury

Commission for admitting the Rev. D. Norris to Tetbury Vicarage

Com Market, account of .

Corporation, by what means it may be dissolved

Cotes of Woodcote, their descent from De Braose of Tetbury

Davies, Richard, Rev. Vicar of Tetbury, consecrates colors of Tetbury
and Horsley Volunteers, 1805 .

Davies, Scrope Berdmore, life of

Deacons, the, of Elmestree .

Deeds respecting the Alms House

Description of the present state of the Town

De Stonor^s, the, of Doughton

Dispensary, Tetbury, the

Dissenter's Chapels .

Dobuni, the, ancient inhabitants of Gloucestershire

Domesday Book, account of Manor of Tetbury in
■ description of various titles of

Doughton, hamlet of, 53; History of Lords of the Manor

Robert de Doughton ....
Ducie's, the. Lords of Manor of Upton, 80; hiiU vf Charlton

of, 76

PAOB
\3

268
156
103

18
156
19
21
81

270

261

132

11.15

168

286

n. 17

249

191

n. 7

75
82

316

E.
Electors for the County in the pariih of Tetbniy .50

Ebnestree, description of, 54; aoooiiut of Lords of the Manor of 84

Elton's, Charles, Charity .163

Estoonrt's, Thomas, Sir, Charity, 160} Estconrt of Esteoort^ histoiy of
the finnily of, 196; William, Warden of New College 14S4,
n, 197; Sir William, aoconnt of death of, a. SOI; l^jor*Oeneral
James Bncknall, life of, 204; Bztracto from Begister of Shipton
Moyne respecting the family of, 246; from Long Newnton Be*
gisters ..••..•• 948

F.
Fairs of the Town . .34

Feoflbes^ the Seven, Lords of the lianor, 33; List of, since 1688, 998 ;

the present ..••.•• 311
Ffoiren, the, land oo which Tetbnry is built, ibrmeriy called . . 16

Fossils found in and about Tetbuy. 254-857

Frankpledge, Tiew of, meaning of . • • n. 17

G.
Gastrell's, Gilbert, Charity, 167; Gastrell's, Ann, Charity . .170

Gastrell family, the, extracts from Parish Begister respecting the 843

Geology of Tetbnxy, notes on .... . 861

Gesta Stephani, written by Bobert de Bee • • . a. 13

Gloucester, See of, founded by Henry YIIL 1641, 7; list of Bishops

of, from that date . . .887

Gore, Thomas, the antiquary, short life of • .189

Government of the town • . .32

Grange, the, account of . • .86

Grant of William de Breuse of free pasture in the North Hayes, 1291 268

H.
Bide, number of acres in a . • . .10

89
195
178
218
44
169
88

Highway robbery, desperate, near Tetbury, 1 763

IGstory of fiuniUes connected with the Town

Hodges, Elizabeth, Charity, 165; Trustees to, 166; augmentation of

Holford of Weston Birt, account of fiunily of

Hotels, principal in Tetbuxy ....

Howe's, Mary, Charity .....

Huntleys, the. Lords of the Manor of Upton and Charlton •

Huntley of Boxwell Court, account of family of

I
James n. passed through Tetbury ....
Jenners, the. Lords of Manor of Ebnestree .
Ind, Ambrose, old .

Inquisition under statute for charitable uses, held at Tetbuiy 1586
Institute, literaiy, the • . • . •

Inscriptions on Christian monuments, thoughts on
■ on monuments in the Parish Church

21
86
88

18
•48
152
302

317

Ireri, Roger, de

Ludlow's, Eleanor, Charity
Ludlow's, Sarah, Charity

Magdalen Meadow spring .....

Magistrates serving on Petty Sessions at Tetbory

Manors, Lords of the, histoiy of .

Markets ...•..•

Mary Magdalen, S.. the Parish Church dedicated to •

Massie, Colonel, attacks Malmesbnry during the Civil Wars .

Matilda de Long Spee, Lady of the Manor .

Mercia divided into five dioceses ....

Monastery, Saxon, at Tetbury, A.D. 680; Cistercian, founded ten^

Henry IIL . . . • •

Monuments, remarkable, in old and present Parish Church
— ^— ^ Inscriptions on all the, in Parish Church.
Mops, or fairs for hiring servants
Murder of a child at Tetbury by its mother, 1777 •

O.
Officers of Tetbury Volunteers, 1803
Oldham the poet, short life of
Olney's, Lieutenant-Colonel, Charity
Orade, County, The, and Political Intelligencer, 1797
Ordinances of Tetbury School, 1623.

P.
Parish Church, particulars respecting the old, 94; Chantries in old, 96

rebuilding o( 102; present state of, 108; monuments in
Parishes in the Deanery of Stonehonse
Parish Begisters, curious extracts fh>m
Paul's, Sarah, Charity
Pauls, the. Lords of Manor of Doughton
Paul of Highgrove, account of family of
Parliament, Ust of Acts of; connected with the Town
Pickett's, James, Charity .
Plague, the, rules for prevention of, 1666
Poor-rates, amount o^ in 1855
Population of Tetbury
Ponlton's, lliamaa. Charity .
Priory, the. Dr. Bamett's Paper to Boyal Society on
Public Bolls, extracts fWnn, relating to Tetbury

Q.
Quo warranto, nature of a writ of .

B.
Bailway projected in 1889 .

who they were and the duties assigned them

FAOC

170
173

n.36

11.95

15,88

146

302

32
184
174

31
179

302

11.43

128

170

77
221
285
172

43,52

174

37
271

39
12

318

rAQ*
Redchenisters, number in Gloucestershire temp, WiUiam I. . . n. 11

Begisterv, Parish, particulars respecting, 128; extracts from . .127

Re-grant of Reginald de firahns of liberties of Tetbuiy . . 269

— — John de Brause of h » . • 269

Romnej, William, Sir, benefoctions of, 159; inscription on monument

of, 150; extract from will of . .279

Rttdhalls, the, celebrated bell-founders, account of . .n. 110

Rules of the Society for.rebuilding Parish Church . .105

S.
Sadleir, Ralph, Sur, Lord of Elmestree tea^. Henry YIIL 85

Savage, the fiimily of, account of, 228; extracts from Parish Register

respecting ....... 239

S. Saviour's Chapel of Ease, description of . . .113

Schools, the, when first founded, 177; Mrs. Hodges augmentation of

them, 178; ordinances of, 1623, 179; new Schools built 1836, 181 ;

enlarged 1850, 182; present state, 183; salaries of Master and

Mistress, 183; lives of celebrated persons educated at . .184

Schoolmasters, list of, from 1642 ..... 301
Servi, number of in Gloucestershire temp, William I. . n. 1 1

Shipton's, Jonathan, Charity . . .163

Siward, Lord of Tetbury temp, Edward the Confessor 7

Sloper's, Biatthew, Charity . . .167

Small-pox, Tetbury visited with severe attack of, 1710 . 25

Shipton Moyne, extracts from Register of, respecting Estcourt family. 246
Springs rising in Tetbury parish . . .39

Summers's, Mary, Charity . .173

175,176
Extracts from Parish Re^sters

. 244

. 162

• * • . 166

. 162
79

Tabular account of Charities

Talboys, the Lords of Donghton, 77
respecting family of

Talboys, Richard, Charity .

— ^— Thomas, Charity

— WUUam, Charity

Tames, the. Lords of Upton

Tatfrith, first elected Bishop of Worcester . . n. 7

Tenants in capite, number of, in Gloucestershire, temp, WUliam L . n. 1 1

Tetbury: Military station in time of the Britons and Romans, 1;
early history of, 2; Castle, 3; coins found at, 4 ; account of, in
Domesday, 7; Castle besieged by King Stephen. 13; during
Civil Wars, 19; remarkable occurrences at, 29; government of,
32; fairs at» 34; public institutions of, 44; derivation of name,
55; Lords of the Manor of, 58; account of monasteries existing
at, 87; account of old Parish Church, 94; present Parish Church.
108; S. Saviour's Chapel of Ease, 113; particulars respecting
advowson of, 119; extracts from Parish Register of, 127;
Churchwardens' accounts of, 132; monuments in old Church of,

319

PAOI

146; Charities, account of, 156; the Schoob, 177; history of
families connected with. 195; notes on geology of, 251 ; chrono-
logical table of events connected with, 261 ; charters respecting,
264; extracts irom Public Bolls relating to . .271

Tetburj Volunteers, officers of, in 1803, 32; colours presented to, in

1805 ........ 32

Thirteen, the ...... 33,311

273

190

188

Thunder and Lightning, remarkable storm of, in Tetbury, 1789

Tokens, tradesmen's, issued at Tetbuxy 1650 — 1670 .

Tookes. the. Lords of Elmestree

Town Hall, the

Trade, the, of Tetbniy

Trapp, Joseph, Professor, short life of

Tully, Thomas, short life of.

Twenty-four, the, or Commonal^ .

U.
Union, Tetbury, the .....

Upton, hamlet of, description of, 54 ; Lords of the Manor of .
Uzorum villanorum defunctomm, number of, in Gloucestershire,

femp. William L

V.
Veizey's, John, Charity
Vemey's, the. Lords of the Manor of
Yillani, social condition of, temp. William L, 10; Number in Glou

cestershire of .....

Vokin's, Hopeful, Charity .....
Voters for the County in Tetbuxy parish

W.
Walericks, S. the. Lords of Tetbury.

Walerick, S. Reginald de, founder of Tetbuxy Monasteiy, 1 140
Webber's, James, Charity .....
Wells in Tetbuxy, average depth of .
West, Henry, of Upton, remarkable old age of
Westbuiy College, near Bristol, possessed of Elmestree, leaip. Edward

XV. .....

Wiccia, Saxon kingdom of, Tetbury included in

Wight, John, Bev. Vicar of Tetbury, short account of, 122; his

charity
Wonder, Tedbury, the
Workhouse, the
Worcester, the See of, founded 680 .

51
28

11.11

161
79

167

172

259

84
5

168

II. 6

320

DIBECnONS TO THE BINDER.

Toft»eptge
The former Church of B, Matjt Magdalen, Tetbniy (frontiapieoe)
IVicsimile of the Order of King Charles L to spare Tetbniy dnring

the Civil Wan. ...... 19

Old Market Honse ....... 3S

Upton GroTe, near Tetboiy. .54

Elmestree Honse, near Tetbniy .86

Bemains of Cisterdan Monasteiy . .94

Autographs of Vicars of Tetbury since 1657 . .122

West window of Parish Chnrch and (hutrell monument 146

Estcoort Hoase» near Tetbary ..... 196

Weston Bhrt, near Te^nry . .218

Autographs of some of the Estoourt fiimily, and of Lord and Lady

Berkeley, 1632. .246

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