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also supplies Isle Brewers and parts of Barrington : the 270. Here is a brewery and rolle~r flour mill carried water is derived from the range of hi]ls above the vil- I on by Messrs. H. M. Lang and Co. The Curry Rivel, lage of Barrington, 4 miles south, where there is a Drayton, Langport, Huish Episcopi and Muchelney Agri­ reservoir with a storage capacity of 30,000 gallons; cultural Association, which is affiliated with the National there are also two reservoirs in this parish with Agricultural Union, holds its meetings here at the a storage capacity of 3o,ooo and 6o,ooo gallons Bell hotel. A.ttwood's and Selway's charities are dis­ respectively. The church of St. Andrew is a building of tributed in bread t.o the poor; Miss Dinham's in stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, blankets; and Alford's, of £2o yearly, in clothing. nave of five bays, aisles, south porch, a north chapel Robert Sewers esq. of Townsend House, who died July, dating from the 13th century, in which are some very 1873, by his will left Ios. each to 30 poor people of this fine Decorated monuments of the L'Orti family, includ- parish, to be given them by his trustees on Christmas ing one in t.he north aisle to Henry de L'Ortiay, who Eve for ever. In 1898 the Charity Commissioners was summoned among the peers to Parliament in 1297, framed a scheme for the adminstration of this charity, and died 1oth Sept. 132I : the church has an embattled under which in 1907 the " Robert Sewers Hall "-was western tower containing a clock, presented by Miss erected. His sister, Miss Louisa Sewers, left {,1oo, the Gamlin in OctDber, I88o, and 8 bells, of which the interest to be given yearly in coal. In I904, Reuben tenor was recast in May, 1887, and three new bells l Payne, of Belfast, left £3oo to be invested, the interest added in 1897 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of to be applied among the deserving poor of Curry Rivel. Her late Majesty, Queen Victoria: there are remains of On the .summit of a hill, about one mile west on the ancient glass in the north aisle windows, and the west Taunton road, is Burton Pynsent, formerly the resi­ window is a memorial to Miss Pinney: the east window dence of Sir William Pynsent bart. widower of Mary, of the south transept, inserted in 1913, was the gift of daughter and co-heiress of •Thomas Jennings esq. to Mr. R. Alfred: there are sittings for 5oo persons, JJf V'hom the ancient manor of Burton Pynsent belonged: which 250 are free. The register dates from the year Sir William, who died 15th June, 1754, bequeathed it 1653. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of to William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham, and the Weston annexed, joint net yearly value £2o6, with property, on the death of Lady Chatham, 3rd April, residence, in the gift of Waiter Hanning Speke esq. and 1803, passed by sale to the Pinney family: Burton held ·since I9I7 by the Rev. Philip Henry Unwin B.A. Pynsent House and grounds is now the property of of Selwyn College, Cambridge. In the time of Richard I. Mrs. Crossley: on the estate is a monument erected in Cury was the property of Richard Rinel or Rynef, and I768 to Sir William Pynsent by Lord Chatham. Heale· the titular head of his land barony; Collinson (History House, the property and seat of Robert Alford esq. J.P. of Somerset) calls him Richard Revel, a great baron of stands in a park of about 6o acres. Mr. Harry Alfred Somerset, several years sheriff of Devon ana Cornwall; Summerhayes, who is lord of the manor, Major Maurice Sir William Pole, the Devonshire historian, nlludes to F. Cely-Trevilian .T.P. Mr~. Waiter Bagehot and William him as the son of William Revel and gives William Lang esq. J.P. are the principal landowners. The soil Renel as seated at Exeter Castle I Richard I. holding is clay and sand; the subsoil, blue lias, quarries of his lands direct from the King; the name originated which are worked. The chief crops are wheat, barley from Renel, ro. seigneury in France; Waiter de Rynel and beans. The area is 4,657 acres of land and 24 of is named as a companion of the Conqueror; the family water; rateable value, £ro,o4I ; the population in 19II arms, Ermine a chevron gules, is given by Berry was I,524 in the civil and r,o33 in the ecclesiastical (Encyclop~.edia Heraldica) under Rynell, and the same parish. arms under the spelling Revell; Sabina, daughter and WICK, I mile north-east, and Burton, I south-west, heir of the second Richard Renel of Cury (d. 1222), are hamlets in this parish. brought the estates by marriage to Henry del Ortiay or A portion of Westmoor, formerly extra-parochial, has de Lorty, who had licence to empark Cury Rinel in 1237, been annexed to this parish, and by Local Government and died in 1242; his widow, Sabina, died in 1254, and Board Order 17,645• March 25, 1886, ,a detached part of his grandson, Henry, son of Richard de l'Ortiay, died in Drayton added to it for civil purposes. 1321; Henry's widow, Sybella, had the royal licence to Sexton, Edward Pitman. marry John de Mohun, baron of Dunster ; in 1335 the patroness of Cury was Sibella de Mohun, domina< de Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-William Lenton, sub-post~ Cury Rynel; John de Lorty, son of Henry, in 1331, sold master. Letters through Taunton his reversion in Cury Rinel, Langport, Hambridge, ·wan Letter Boxes.-Wiltown, cleared week days only Broadway and .Earnshill manors, the hundreds of & Church Hay, cleared week days only .Abdick and Bulstone, and the advowsons of Gury and Police Station, Lewis Mason, constable in charge Earnshill; William de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1876, for died seized of them in 1344. There is a Congrega­ 18o children; Bertram Bromley Guy, master; Mrs. tional chapel at WILTOWN, erected in 1866, seating Louisa Wheller, infants' mistress (Marked thus * receive letters thro' Spilsbury Robert Spilsbury Jeffery, Giles Harry, farmer,Dyer's Hole farm Langport.) Lower Wiltown Grinter Charles, farmer, Townsend PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Stacey Morrish, Wiltown Gunn Rose (Mrs.), aparh. Albany ho Alford Miss, Heale Stickland Mrs. Golden Hill villa House Herbert, farmer, Wiltown Alford Robert M.A., J.P. Heale house Thurlow William, Townsend .Jay Percival .Alfred,Bell hotel; motor *Bagehot Mrs. Walter, Herd's Hill Trevilian Mrs. Stanche<;ter house g-arage & good accommodation for Berry Mrs. Townsend Unwin Rev.Philip HenryB ..A.Vicarage visitors Bull Miss, Greystones Vereker Richard Henry L.R.C.P. & *Keirle Charlotte (Mrs.), basket Chambe-rs George Philip Higginson S.I., L. M. Eastleigh maker, Wick Fayle, Hanover house, Wiltown Wheller Mrs. Somerset villa Kimber Henry William, cycle agent Crossley Mrs. Burton Pynsent house COMMERCIAL. Lang Henry M. & Co. millers (gas Darlington Rev . .Jo•hn D.D. (vicar of .Arnold Charles, tailor & water), brewers & wine & spirit St. Mark's, Kennington, London; Barnard Keith, bakPr merchants, Hambridge roller flour

•president of St. Mark's Traffic Baulch Fredk. farmer, Arundel farm mills & brewery Workers' Brotherhood of the Bown Orlando .Alford, wheelwright Lan!! William, farmer, Wiltown United Kingdom), Stoneley Buttle William, boot maker Lent{)n Samuel, wheelwiight,Wiltown Flemmich Max Davy, The Yewe *Calder Reginald Edward, farmer, Lock Edward, smallholder, Wiltown Goode Wm. Winter, Wiltown place Wick farm, Wick Lock William Lewis, farmer, Water Griffin Frank Levi, Chatham house Champion Charles, smallholder, Street faJm Havward Mrs Lower Wiltown Lovell George Gilbert, school attend­ Hoiloway F. H. Townsend house *Chidley Fred, farmer, Wick ance officer. relieving officer & re­ Hunt Fredk. Lumsden, Hillards Coate Henry & Son, withy merchants, gistrar of births, deaths & mar­ .Tones Miss, Old GOJ.te cottage Red Hill farm riages, 1st district, Lang-port union Jones William, Fair View house Coggon John, farmer, Lower Wiltown Mounter Paul, coal dealer Kirkpatrick Rev. Harry (Congrega- *Colman William, Railway hotel Munckton William Webber, farmer, tional), The Manse Cross .John Lock, g-rocer Pars{)na.!!"e farm Lang Henry, The Elms, Wiltown Curry Rivel, Drayton, Langport, Osmond William John, baker, clerk Lang Joseph, The Limes Huish Episcopi & Muchelney Agri- to Parish Council & assistant oversr Lang Joseph, jun. Highfield cultural Association (R. S. J. Spils- Pope Ernest Louch, saddler Lang- William J.P. The Elms,W1ltwn bury & F. L. Hunt, joint hon. secs) Proles William, blacksmith Lutley Robert Waiter, WiHown Curry Rivel Stores (Meade Brothers Rabbage Mary (:Mrs.), dress maker Meade E. T. Westcott, Wiltown Ltd. proprietors), grocers Salway Henry, thatcher Miles Mrs. Court house Dyer James & Sons, builders & con- Savid!!e Benjamin Robert, butcher *Pag-e Mrs. The Grange tractors, ironmongers et house de- Sawtell Henry, insurance agent Pearce ThomM, Woods corators