Also the said William Brodribb who departed this life Octr. ye 25th 1798 Aged 43 years.
6. Stone.—The inscription scaled off, only, this visible: In …… Henry B…… May 19th 18…
The following are on the west side of the churchyard:—
7. Stone.—Underneath lieth in hope of a Joyful Resurrection the body of Elizʰ wife of Mr Wm Brodribb of Stanton Wick, who died Octr llth 1800 Aged 39 years.
Also the said Mr Wm Brodribb who died Decr 17th 1831 Aged 78 years.
The said Elizabeth Brodribb was the daughter and co-heiress of John Adams Esqr of Chelwood House and the Grandmother of the Hon Wm Adams Brodribb of Sydney, whose son restored this Tomb 1894.
Also In Loving Memory of the Rev. William Kennedy Brodribb late Rector of Putley Herefordshire Born October 16th 1848 Died February 19th 1896. The Lord grant that they may find mercy of the Lord in that day.
Mr. F. Blacker of Glutton informs me that the Rev. W. K. Brodribb had wished to be buried at Clutton, "but, dying suddenly, he was buried away." Mr. Blacker adds that "he [the Rev. W. K. B.] showed me all the documents of all the Brodribb family for generations." Where are these now?
8. Stone. Sacred to the Memory of Betty Brodribb who died at Chew Magna Feb 28th 1823 Aged 58 years.
Mary Brodribb died at Chew Magna July 28th 1839 Aged 80 years.
Matthew Brodribb Gent who died March 7th 1831 Aged 71 years.
Anne Brodribb relict of the above Matthew Brodribb who died at Chew Magna July 28th 1839 Aged 70 years.
Also to the Memory of Ann Brodribb who died July 30th 1850 Aged 87 years.
Ann Purnell Brodribb daughter of Matthew and Anne Brodribb died at Chew Magna May 28th 1839.
9.—Stone. Near this place lieth the Mortal Remains of John Brodribb junr. Son of John and Elizabeth Brodribb of Northend in this Parish, who died Feb 1st 1815 Aged 28 years "Reader prepare to meet thy God."
Also of John Brodribb, Senr.[1] the Beloved and affectionate husband of the said Elizabeth Brodribb, died Dec llth 1831 Aged 74 years "Let me die the death of the Righteous and let my last end be like his."
Also Elizabeth, wife of the said John Brodribb Senr. died Janry 15th 1844 Aged 81 years.
10. Stone. In Memory of William Brodribb who died Aug 17th 1862 Aged 73 years.
Also of Joanna relict of the above who died Oct 23rd 1863 Aged 75 years "Her children arise up and call her blessed."
(To be continued.)
From 1252 to 1261 Roger de Ford, a native of Glastonbury, a man, we are told, of "great learning and eloquence," was Abbot of Glastonbury. Whilst on a journey to defend the rights of his church he died suddenly at the Bishop of Rochester's palace at Bromley, in Kent, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. It has been stated that whenever the Abbots of Glastonbury set out on a journey they were accompanied by two hundred horsemen. In the eighth year of Roger Ford's abbacy a return was made by a jury of seven of the rent and services of his demesne tenants, and in such return appears:—
"Robert [altered in another hand from Peter] Brodrib holds one furlong [ferdellum] and renders from thence by the year 18 pence, and gives to the salting-house 4 pence, to 'Peterspeny' 1 penny, to the wine 2d., and to the church scot 2 hens and a half, and makes from thence by the year 27 days' work, which is worth 5 shillings and 10 pence. And he comes with 1 ox if he has [one] and is worth 4d., and carries a horseload and [it] is worth 12d."
One of the seven jurors making this return was William Kitel, and it was at a school kept by "Ma'am Kettle" for juveniles at Keinton-Mandeville that John Henry Brodribb (afterwards Sir Henry Irving) received the first part of his education. In the year 1327 Peter Brodribbe was one of the tenants living within the hundred of "Glaston Twelve Hides." It has been pointed out by the late Mr. C. I. Elton, Q.C., M.P., that at an early date it was decided that there might be freemen holding bond-land, but a freeman could leave at any time if he did not wish to perform the conditions of the tenure. From the year 1472 to the year 1496 a John Broderybbe was the rector of Skilgate in Somersetshire. There is hardly the least doubt that Brodribb, in its various forms of spelling, is derived from Bawdrip, near Bridgwater.
It should be placed on record that the Brodrepp family of Mapperton, Dorset, came from Hunstile, in the parish of Goathurst, Somerset, and not from Hunspill in the same county, as has been so often reiterated by quoters of Hutchins's 'History of Dorset.' "Richard Broadripp ar. ignob." of Hunstile appears in the Heralds' Visitation of 1623, and he was buried at Goathurst three years later; whilst the same registers record that "Dorothy Brodrip of Hunstile was buried June 17th, 1586." The eighteenth century was well advanced before this family sold Hunstile to Sir John Tynte of Halswell, whose descendants still possess it. R. G. Bartelot.
- ↑ Sir Henry Irving's grandfather.
