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debitum, in magnam horrorem intuentium, ac human! generis scandalum, diutius manent insepulta." A representation of these facts in the year 1543 induced the Bishop and the Dean and Chapter to grant the people of Bredicot the right of sepulture at home. The first chapter clerk or registrar of Worcester Priory of whom we have any account - Goding, a priest - was in Saxon days paid for his services by lands assigned to him at Bredicot and Tibberton. A Roman urn was dug up in 1839, near Bredicot Court (now the residence of Henry Chamberlain, Esq.), in excavating for the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway ; it contained some copper coins. The church, a little oblong building, with a bell-cot, requires no remark. It was restored in 1843.

Tibberton - once known by the flowing name of Tidbrich-tingtone - belonged to the Bishop of Worcester's manor of Northwick, and was given by one of the Bishops to the Priory of Worcester, to find milk in the monastic kitchen and for guests' horse-meat. Those sanguinary and persevering heathens the Danes, when they overran Worcestershire, and induced the Bishop to make his exit "to parts beyond the seas," took away Tibberton from the Priory, but it was subsequently restored. The living was appropriated to the Priory in 1314, for the augmentation of the precentor's salary, which being then but 40s. a year, was naturally considered a not overwhelming allowance for an officer to keep a horse and servant, besides the copying of books and other duties. A copy of King Edward's grant of the living in the above year may still be seen among the Dean and Chapter's muniments; it is beautifully illuminated, a specimen of which is engraved in my " Monastery and Cathedral of Worcester," recently published. The Prior had a windmill here, and woe to the unlucky wight, living in the parish, who dared to grind his corn elsewhere. The Prior was in the habit of receiving New Year's gifts from the tenantry of the various monastic manors, and one John Glover, of Tibberton, used to send Prior Moore a peacock, while others forwarded fish, geese,