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modern, except the Perpendicular tower, which is a part of the previous edifice. Its buttresses bear the sculptured figures of a bear, the symbol of the Norman Urso, who held the parish under the Abbot of Westminster at the Conquest, and who was as great a bug-bear in those days as was Buonaparte to naughty children in the period of our own infancy. "Tradatur Urso," or "Give him to the bear," was a common threat to any one who misbehaved himself. Among the inscriptions in the church is one to a Captain Wambey, which, after describing his warlike deeds when in the flesh, alludes to his present quarters in "box of oak below."

"Confined in earth in narrow borders,

He rises not till further orders!"

The Littletons, Hunts, Robinsons, and Dineleys, also lie here. The parish took the largest portion of its name from the Beauchamps, who possessed it as the heirs to Urso. Naunton Court and the rectory house are ancient structures. Mr. Jesse Gerrard occupies the former.

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NEAR Great Malvern, to which it was formerly a chapelry, the monks of that priory having had a grange here. It is now a perpetual curacy, value only £50, the Beauchamp Charity trustees being patrons, and the Rev. J. Skinner incumbent. There is a population of nearly 200, and an acreage of 787. It was noted for a large common, over which the traveller in coaching days passed from Worcester to Malvern; for an ancient hostelry, made prominent by an heraldic swan (one of the supporters in the arms of Earl Beauchamp, the principal landowner hereabout) inviting the wayfarer to turn in and refresh; and