Elizabeth died in 1708, Their father a poore in the Kingdom of father caus'd this monument | to be put up. aged 6. John died in 1711, aged 5. man, born in the province of Dophine, France; he beleivs that his sins were the cause that God took | the life of his children.* | Pechur navanse pa un pas sins panser a la mort. [This motto is in the patois, or provincial language of France; in English thus:-A sinner doth not advance a single step without an approach towards death.-Bigland.] 23. Near this place | are deposited the remains of Samuel Worrall, Esq, many years resident at Knole, in this Parish, | and | Town Clerk of the City of Bristol. | Ætat. 65, obiit 6 Nov3, 1821. 24. On the west side of this Churchyard the sleeping dust of | Mary Amelia Hill, aged 29 years, awaits its reunion with the immortal spirit, which peacefully passed from time into eternity | on the 4th day of June, 1835. 25. (South aisle) Near this place is interred the body of Catherine, wife of Edward Parrott, of Over, in this Parish, who departed this life the 16th day of June, 1781, aged 45 years. Also of Sarah, wife of the above | Edward Parrott, who departed this life April 4th, 1787, aged 21 years. Near this place also are interred the remains of the aforesaid Edward Parrott, who died at Aust on the 12th day of April, 1821, | aged 92 years. 26. George Hunt, A. M., | 17 years Minister of this Church, | born Sept 29th, 1770, died Jany 21st, 1843. | Esteemed for amenity, | admired for erudition, | and | for benevolence | universally beloved. 27. In memory of Ebenezer Ludlow, Esq, | Sergeant at law, | formerly Town Clerk of the City of Bristol, | Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions for this Division of the County of Gloucester, one of Her Majesty's Commissioners in the Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol District. | Born at Chipping Sodbury, in this County, March 5th, 1777. He died at Oaklands, in this Parish, March 18th, 1851, aged 74 years. | Also of | Jane, for 47 years the beloved wife, and during 10 years widow of the above. She was born January 29th, 1784. Died at Compton Greenfield Rectory July 23rd, 1861. Bigland has recorded the following as on a flatstone in the chancel :-John Marone, of this Parish, Gent., died May 25, 1745, aged near 80 years. Grace, wife of the said John Marone, died April 21, 1742, aged near 76 years. On two black boards these benefactions are recorded: 1. : Edward Terrell, late of the City of Bristol, scriviner, by his will of 25th Sept, 1683, gave to the poor of this Parish £50, to purchase land in fee, the yearly income to be given to successive poor in the winter season for ever; which £50 was laid out in the purchase of a close called Blakeland, abt 4 acres, in Hempton & Patchway, in this Parish, upon the trust aforesaid. Also several lands and hereditaments situate in this Parish & the adjoining Parish of Olveston, called Almondsbury Church Lands, are vested in trustees or feoffees for the repairation of this Church and the relief (if they see cause) of the poor aged & impotent people within this Parish. 2. Thomas Jefferis, late of this Parish, by his will of 30th Nov3, 1717, gave to the Minister and Churchwardens on trust a messuage or tenement, with garden, situate at Woodland, in this Parish, for the use of two poor widows with children, to live rent free; and in case no such to be found as afores, then to two of the most aged and decrepit men or women of this Parish. Also a paddock of land at Woodland, abt 2 acres, upon the trust aforesd, to be let for as much annual rent as may be gotten; and out of the yearly income the sa messuage to be kept in sufficient repair; and out of what remains, 10sh to be pd to the Minister to preach a sermon on every Good Friday, and all the remaining part of the yearly income to be laid out in bread, and distributed to the poor housekeepers of this Parish on every 25th day of Decem1 and Friday next preceding Easter Day. On the front of the west gallery, with texts in Hebrew and Greek, this may be read : : Erected A.D. MDCCLXXXV. | Mr Richd Griffith, | Churchwarden. In the surrounding churchyard there are many inscriptions, old and new, nine of which are as follows:: 1. Underneath lye interred the remains of John Rolph, of this Parish, who died 26th January, 1757, aged 86 years. Likewise Elizabeth, wife of John Rolph, died 15th June, 1746, aged 61. [Some particulars illegible.] John, second son of George Rolph, by Sarah, his second wife, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Clark, of Thornbury, died 22nd March, 1772, aged 4 months. abovesaid George Rolph died 30th August, 1792, aged 65 years. 2. The George Rolph, died April 20, 1840, aged 41. Susannah Rolph, died May 28th, 1856, aged 66. 3. Sacred to the memory of Frances, the beloved wife of William Rolph, Esq, of Thornbury. Also of the abovenamed William Rolph, who died Oct 15th, 1858, aged 67. 4. Sacred to the memory of Jane, the beloved wife of Capto Henry Simmons, who departed this life Oct 21st, 1853, aged 50. 5. Henry Gray, sometime Vicar of this Parish, fell asleep Sunday, June 5, 1864.* 6. In memory of Mary Ann, relict of the Revd Thomas Lewis, Rector of Merthyr, Carmarthenshire. She died on the 28th Feb, 1867, aged 86 years. 7. Thomas Murray Browne, M.A., Vicar of Almondsbury, and Hon. Canon of Gloucester, died Sep 24th, 1879, aged 77. his widow, died February 22nd, 1882, aged 80 years. 8. Catherine, Sacred to the memory of Mary Elizabeth, widow of RearAdmiral Charles Hope, born 23 June, 1821, died 22 April, 1882. Also to her brother, Daniel Sykes, of Oaklands, in this Parish, youngest son of the late Joseph Sykes, Esq', died 14 May, 1887, aged 47 years. 9. Sacred to the memory of William Hedley, Clerk in holy orders, Fellow and Tutor of University College, Oxford, late Rector of Beckley, Sussex, who died at Clifton the 28th of March, 1884, aged 65 years. Rudder, whose History was published in 1779, gives the following as on a headstone :— Here lies, alas! long to be lamented, Benjamin Dobins, Gent., who left his friends sorrowing, Feb. 2, 1760, aged 42. The costly marble may perhaps express, In lying lines, the unworthy's worthiness: Full short, but full of honour, was thy span, Thou tender husband, and thou honest man. ABHBA. 1517.-LINES ON SIR BAPTIST HICKES, FIRST VISCOUNT CAMPDEN. -(See vol. iii., p. 57; no. 1046.) I have a note of the following lines commemorative of the first Viscount Campden, but I do not remember the source from which they come. Perhaps they may be of sufficient interest for your pages. Lord Campden was See ante, p. 4. a munificent benefactor to the little Cotteswold borough from which he took his title. He died in 1629, and "lyes bury'd," says Camden, "in the South Ile of the Church, with such noble monuments of marble as equal, if not exceed, most in England." St. Mark's Vicarage, Gloucester. Reader, know, Whoe'er thou be, And Charitie. Faith true, Hope firm, Baptist, Lord Campden, Was these three. Faith in God, Charitie to brother, Hope for himself; What ought he other? Faith is no more, Charitie is crown'd; 'Tis only Hope Is under ground. S. E. BARTLEET. 1518.-A JOURNALIST IN TROUBLE, 1728.-A few extracts from the Monthly Chronicle, 1728, relative to Robert Raikes, Sen., of Gloucester, may not be without some interest to your readers, and therefore I send them. Mere. T. H. B. March 14.-A complaint being made to the House of Commons of a printed pamphlet intituled The Gloucester Journal, &c., Tuesday, March 12th, 1728, printed by R. Raikes, &c., in which the resolutions and proceedings of the Commons were printed, in contempt of the order, and in breach of the privilege of the House, the said pamphlet was delivered in at the table; and divers paragraphs having been read, it was ordered, that the said R. Raikes should attend the House that day fortnight. 28th.-Robert Raikes, printer at Gloucester, and J. Wilson, bookseller at Bristol, attending according to order, the former was called to the bar of the Commons, where he confessed the printing the pamphlet abovementioned, and said he had his intelligence relating to the proceedings of the House from Edward Cave, of the Post Office, London, and that J. Wilson was not concern'd in the printing thereof. Then he withdrew, and the Commons resolv'd, That Robert Raikes was guilty of a breach of the privilege of the House, and ordered, 1. That the said Robert Raikes be, for his said breach of privilege, taken into the custody of the Serjeant at Arms attending the House. 2. That the said J. Wilson be discharged from his further attendance upon the House. 3. That Edward Cave, of the Post Office, London, do attend the House upon Saturday morning next. 30th. Edward Cave attending according to order, he was called in and examined at the bar of the House of Commons touching his sending to Robert Raikes the intelligences beforementioned. He own'd, that he had sent him several written news-letters, which contain'd intelligences relating to the proceedings of the House, and deliver'd in other written news-letters which he said he received from William Wye, John Stanley, John Willys, and Elias Delpeuch, containing likewise intelligences relating to the proceedings of the House. Being withdrawn, the Journal of the 23rd of Jan., 1728, was read; upon which it was resolv'd, That Edward Cave, having presum'd to disperse written news-letters containing accounts of the proceedings of the House, is guilty of a breach of the privilege of the House; and he was ordered to be taken into custody of the Serjeant at Arms. And William Wye, John Stanley, John Willys, and Elias Delpeuch were ordered to attend the House on the 2nd of April. April 3.-William Wye, John Stanley, John Willies, and Elias Delpeuch attending at the door were severally called in and examined. Whereupon it was resolved, That they were guilty of a breach of the privilege of the House, and they were order'd to be taken into the custody of the Serjeant at Armis. 8th.-Robert Raikes, printer at Gloucester, was brought to the bar of the House; where, upon his knees, having received a reprimand from Mr. Speaker, he was order'd to be discharg'd, paying his fees. Upon the humble petitions of John Stanley, William Wye, Edward Cave, and Elias Delpeuch, the Commons order'd that they be brought to the bar on Wednesday following in order to be discharged. 10th-John Stanley, William Wye, Edw. Cave, and Elias Delpeuch were brought to the bar of the Commons; where having, upon their knees, receiv'd a reprimand from Mr. Speaker, they were order'd to be discharg'd out of custody, paying their fees. 1519. SOME BRIEFS AND COLLECTIONS IN EAST BUDLEIGH CHURCH, DIO. EXETER, 1669-1816.-From Nov. 5, 1669, until their abolition by statute in 1828, the churchwardens' accounts of the parish of East Budleigh, Devonshire, contain lists of collections made upon briefs; but although several hundreds are enumerated, the following six are all that relate to places in Gloucestershire :— 1721. "Collected a breife ffor Tewkesbury Church in the County of Glocester the sume of two pence. 1722. Collected A breife for Addington Randwick And Alderton in the County of Surry & gloucester the sum to pens. |