44 THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF youngest sons were both christened ]ohn, the eldest left home. about the time the youngest was born. There were also two Henrys, both died in infancy. After they had been married about twenty years Edith, . while staying with her family at Bridport during her husband’s absence on account of the war, died in 1646 and was buried there. Some years later, when the Vicar’s eldest son ]ohn died, aged 30 years (16 57), leaving two sons Benjamin and Richard, Benjamin went to live with his maternal relations at Bridport and finally settled there. ]ohn Galpin, eldest son of the Vicar of Portisham, born 1627, created B.A. 1648, succeeded `William Beaumont, Vicar of Canford Magna, who was " ejected in 1652 or before for insuHiciency." He died 21 ]an. 1657. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, vol. xiii, pp. 268-9. john Galping seems to have been a man of a restless dis- position. From the time of his first appointment to the vicar- age of Portesham in 1628 he was frequently engaged in litiga- tion respecting his tithes, and after the outbreak of the Civil War was sometimes a soldier, and sometimes a minister. Having taken part with the Roundhead army in the early period of the war, he ofiiciated as minister first at Dorchester and later at Wareham, leaving his parish at Portesham neglected. But he was not disposed to give up the profits of his vicarage, and from Wareham made a descent, with some soldiers, on his parishioners, and by way of tithe took away all sorts of goods and farmstock, and in particular siezed [JIOO worth of wool I belonging to the luckless Mr. Weare. It was this that brought Galping in contact with Trenchard, who had presumedly marked out Weare as his own prey. Accordingly at a meeting of the Dorset Committee, held at the “ George " Inn at Dorchester in 1645, Trenchard warned Galping’s wife that if her husband did not resign his vicarage he would be seques- trated. The vicar capitulated the following year, and at Mr. Richard Bingham’s house, at Quarleston, whence Trenchard had summoned him, executed a deed resigning his living. As a reward for this act of submission Galping was at once appointed to the Rectory of Durweston, vacant by the seques- tration of the Royalist rector, Richard Hooke. For the next