[1209]Seth Ward, episcopus Sarum:—Whereas I put downe in my memorandums, from his owne mouth, viz. that he said, occasionally, that 'he was borne when the great comet appeared' (that, I am sure, was in anno 1618); but his nephew, Seth Ward, treasurer of the church of Sarum and his executor, told me that the last sommer he searched in the register at Buntingford where he was born, and finds thus:—
'Seth Ward christned April 5, 1617.'
Notes.
[CN] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'See of Sarum; impaling, azure a cross moline or.' Dr. Philip Bliss has added the references 'see parts ii and iii,' i.e. MSS. Aubr. 7 and 8, as cited supra.
[CO] Hawes resigned Sept. 12, and died Sept. 14, 1659. Ward was elected on Sept. 14.
[CP] Thomas Pierce, installed dean May 4, 1675, died March 28, 1691. Anthony Wood comments on Pierce's quarrelsome and tyrannical disposition; Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 420.
[CQ] The paragraph in square brackets is a copy of the inscription on the building, sent to Aubrey by some correspondent. Over the date is the coat of arms, as above, ensigned with a mitre and encircled by the Garter buckle and motto.