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December 1912 - A Former Vicar, Reverend John Rawlins

A FORMER VICAR

The Vicar has recently acquired from a London bookseller a copy of "A Sermon preached before the University of Oxford, At St. Mary's, On Sunday, Aug. 2, 1761. By John Rawlins, A.M. of Christ-Church, And Minister of Badsey and Wickhamford in Worcestershire." The sermon, the subject of which is The Scripture Prophecies consider'd and compar'd with the Oracles of the Heathens, shows Mr. Rawlins to have been a man of considerable learning.

A mural tablet in the transept of Badsey Church bears the following inscription: