80 BUSHLEY.

III. There is a tradition that the parish registers were destroyed because of a church scandal related in them to the effect that the clergyman (a long time ago} had an intrigue with the wife of a farmer, who with him conspired to murder the husband and bury him under the stairs of the old parsonage; that some time after the farmer's brother came from a distance to see his brother, of whom he had heard nothing for a long time; that he arrived on a Sunday during service, and walked into the church ; that the clergyman was so taken aback at sight of him - [he was the very image of his brother] that he fainted, and the whole thing came out. How the woman was punished I know not, but the parson was shut up in a cage and hung up in Churchill "big oak," with a leg of mutton and " trimmings" within his sight, but out of his reach, and thus he was starved to death ! ! !

Broughton church is merely a small oblong building, with wooden bell-cot. The little edifice was in 1843 rebuilt except the north wall, the tower, and the roof of the nave, had a new porch, was re-pewed and new floored. It is dedicated to St. Lawrence. The living is a rectory in the patronage of the Crown; value, £95; church accommodation, seventy; free, thirty-five; Rev. H. M. Sherwood, rector. There are a few Romanists in the parish.

The principal enclosure here took place in 1807. In the time of Elizabeth there were nine families in Broughton.

Bushley.

ANOTHER model little parish, in the neighbourhood of Tewkesbury, famous for harvest homes and picnics, for its fine pastures on Severn banks (which said river, however, sometimes takes liberties with the adjoining lands), for its crops of corn and hay, and for its worthy resident