58 BREDICOT AND TIBBERTON.

capons, pigs, larks, &c., abundantly furnishing the larder of an institution where mortification of the appetite was by no means the rule. R. Berkeley, Esq., is now the principal landowner. The church is dedicated to St. Peter ad vincula. It is a very small building, chiefly thirteenth century work; has a chancel, nave, and little wooden tower and spire at west end. There was an old rhyme here -

" A stone church, a wooden steeple,

A drunken parson, a wicked people."

The incumbent alluded to, however, spent several hundred pounds for the benefit of the parish in his lifetime; and, at his death, left a legacy of £100 towards the restoration of the church. A new church is now being built, by Mr. Hopkins.

The Rev. Thomas Biddulph, who filled the pulpit here in 1767, was a great promoter of the sect who followed Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, and placed his house at Worcester at their disposal. There are two other historical matters related of Tibberton :

1, Roger Tandy,"in the reign, of James I, was so prodigiously strong that he once raised a hogshead of beer in his arms and drank out of the bunghole!!

2, Hugh Pescod, alias " The little Turk," was hung in a pear tree by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers, August, 1651, but being afterwards cut down and thrown into a sawpit, he recovered, and attended Dean Warmstrey as a guide through the parish, in memory of which event he planted some elm trees near his orchard at Wood Green, which were standing a few years ago.

Products of the parishes - wheat, barley, peas, and beans.