Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine: 1854 Vol 1 Nos 1 3

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THE
WILTSHIRE
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MAGAZINE,
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Strrctton of
FORMED IN THAT COUNTY
A.D.
1853.
YOL.
I.
DEVIZES:
HENEY
BFLL, SAINT JOHN STREET.
LONDON
G. BELL, 186, FLEET STREET
;
J.
E. SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.
1854.
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610
V.I
DEVIZES
PRINTED BY HENRY BULL, SAINT JOHN STREET.
CONTENTS OF YOL.
I.
PAGE
PEEFACE
iii.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION RULES OF THE SOCIETY

LIST OF OFFICERS LIST OF MEMBERS
y.
vi.
xi.
xii.
:
COMMEMORATIVE LATIN INSCRIPTION By Rev. F. KILVERT GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE INAUGURAL MEETING, viz. REPORT of the Provisional Committee INAUGURAL ADDRESS of the President, G. P. SCROPE, Esq., M.P. GENERAL ADDRESS, by the Rev. J. E. JACKSON On the ORNITHOLOGY OF WILTS. No. 1 By the Rev. A. C. SMITH ADDRESS, by J. BRITTON, Esq QUERIES relating to the Archaeology, Topography, and Natural History
: .
xv.
1
25 41
45
of Wilts
49
List of Articles exhibited
:
The MUSEUM
Etymologies wanted
1.
55-57 67
:-
ON CERTAIN WILTSHIRE CUSTOMS By

The Wootton-Basset Clicking
2.
F. A. CARRINGTON, Esq.
Stool
3. 4.
5.
Mummers Harvest Home

The Wooset
Dog-rappers
:
,
68 79 86 88 89
91
WILTSHIRE CHURCH GOODS seized 1553 By F. A. CARRINGTON, Esq. On WILTSHIRE ENTOMOLOGY By Rev. W. C. LUKIS
:
95
ft
:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS FOR WILTSHIRE, in the Library of Sir Thos. 97-104 Phillipps, Bart. By the Rev. J. E. JACKSON On ORNITHOLOGY. No. 2. The Classification of Birds By the Rev. 105-115 A. C. SMITH On WAYLEN'S HISTORY OF MARLBOROUGH: By G. P. SCROPE, Esq. 116-131 LELAND'S JOURNEY THROUGH WILTSHIRE, A.D. 1540-42. With a Memoir and Notes By the Rev. J. E. JACKSON 132-195 [Cricklade, 135. Malmesbury 137. Corsham, Haselbury, South
:
.
Trowbridge, 150. Farley Castle, Old Sarum, 161. Burials in Bath, 155. Salisbury, 157. Fisherton Delamere, 173. StoneSalisbury Cathedral, 164-71. henge, 175. Ramsbury, Bedwyn, and Marlborough, 176. Silbury Hill and Avebury, 179. Ludgershall, 179. Devizes, 180. Steeple Brooke Hall, near Westbury, 182. Ashton, 182. Edington, 185. Westbury to Trowbridge and Bath, 190. Marshfield to
Wraxhall, 142,
152..
Bradford, 148.
Trowbridge and Frome, 191.

192.
Bradford, 191.
Selwood Forest,
:
Maiden Bradley, 193. Stourton, 193.] ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AT HARNHAM HILL, near Salisbury Rev. J. E. JACKSON ,.,. WILTS TITLES' REGISTRATION By J. WAYLEN, Esq. ,
:
.
By the
196-208 208 210
MALMESBURY ABBEY
Corrody at
By
J,
WAYLEN, Esq.
CONTENTS
11
NO.
ii.
(continued.)
PAGE
GARSTON" Explained NATURAL HISTORY Rare specimens occurring

CUNNINGTON.
Icthyosaurus Camnylodon (Fossil}
131
in Wilts
:
By
Mr.
^14
Maugei Snake Fly, and Chalcis Aptera AND QUERIES Calne, WILTS NOTES
henge
(a Pastoral), 212.
Testacellus
215
131.
Dog-whippers, 212.
Harte, 212.
213.
Stoneat
Rev.
W.
Queen Anne
Whetham,
212. at Devizes, 214.

to
The Princess Wilbrahama,

Library
Penates found
CONTRIBUTIONS
Museum and
216
No. ffi.
THE EARL OF HERTFORD'S CORRESPONDENCE, relating to Co. Temp. Jas. I. By J. WAYLEN, Esq. ( To be continued.} BOYTON CHURCH. No. 1 By the Rev. A. FANE ON ORNITHOLOGY.' No. 3. The Structure and Faculties of By the Rev. A. C. SMITH
:
:
"Wilts
217-232 233-238
Birds:
239-249
:
MAUD HEATH'S CAUSEY
MALMESBURY ABBEY. License for By the Rev. EDW. WILTON

:
its
conversion into a Parish Church
249
251-264 the Rev. J. E. JACKSON 265-302 KINGSTON HOUSE, BRADFORD By the Rev. J. E. JACKSON [The House, 265-270. Family of Hall of Bradford, 270. Of Baynton, 273. Of the Dukes of Kingston, 274. Pedigree showing Miss Chudleigh, Duchess of the Descent to Lord Manvers, 275.
By
House restored by Mr. Moulton, 278]. Ancient Deeds discovered at Kingston House .. 2. Extracts from other Papers found there Ditto relating to the Manvers estate at Bath SILBURY HILL. Lines on the Excavation By Miss E. FISHER WINTERBOURNE MONKTON. Tumulus found at By Mr. W. HILLEER MURDER OF HENRY LONG, ESQ., A.D. 1594 By the Rev. J. E. JACKSON THE ANCIENT STYLES AND DESIGNATIONS OF PERSONS By F. A. CARRINGTON, ESQ WILTS NOTES AND QUERIES Salmon Fishing in Wilts, 350. Rebecca A Peep at the Wiltshire AsRiots, 350. Steeple-Flying, 351.
Kingston, 274-8.
1.
SCHEDULE No. SCHEDULE No.
279-295 296 299 302 303-304 305-321

322-349
sizes,
DONATIONS
352. to the
Museum and Library
352
Illustrations*
PAGE
Cucking Stool at Wootton Basset
Ditto
The Rudge Cup Plan of Castle Grounds
near Worthing
at Marlborough, A.D. 1723 Farley Castle in A.D. 1645 Old Stourton House, destroyed A.D. 1720
:
Anglo-Saxon Relics at Harnham Boyton Church Windows in Lambert Chapel

Ditto Sir Alex. GKffard's Effigy
Kingston House, Bradford

Ditto
Wood
carving of
Arms
68 74 118 128 152 194 200 236 237 265 268
PREFACE.
IN laying before the
under the present form, an Account
public,
of the Inaugural Meeting of the Wilts Archceological and Natural
History Society, an opportunity
is
offered of explaining the character
of the Publication which the Society
now
proposes to put forth.

is
It will be seen in the Rules, that a
General Meeting
to be
held once in every year, at some time and place to be fixed by

the Committee, for the purpose of receiving an Annual Report,
transacting business, and reading such Papers as
may have been
prepared for the occasion.
These, with the Proceedings of each
Meeting, will of course appear in print.
But
it
has been thought advisable not to confine the Society's
efforts to
an Annual Report.
In the hope of sustaining a more
lively interest in the objects for

is
which
it
has been established,
it
proposed to commence, as a
medium
is
of intercourse, a series of
publications,
of which the present
the First, relating to the
general History and Antiquities of the County of Wilts.
To those
who
reside in the
more remote parts of

it is
it,
such a means of commu-
nication, will be,
presumed, particularly acceptable.
In order
to place it within the reach of readers of every class, it
will require to be of a
more inexpensive kind than

:
is
commtm
in
Archaeological and Topographical works
so that illustrations in
engraving or lithograph, cannot frequently be introduced, unless
iv
PREFACE.
the correspondents, or others,
may have
the liberality to contribute
them
case.
gratuitously, as
it
is
hoped may not unfrequently be the
Such a form of publication presents the advantage of being open

not only to original and finished Articles, as the History of an
entire Parish or
Manor, a
series of Historical Papers, or
an account
;
of the Geology, and Botany, &c., of the County at large

to
but also
:
communications of a
less original
and elaborate character

of,
as
for example, extracts from, or
abstracts
rare
and expensive
Books already published upon Wiltshire; casual notices and descriptions,
however
brief,
of Antiquities
or objects of Natural
History
accounts of local customs, etymologies of names, or other
miscellaneous notices
upon any of the various
subjects
embraced
within the Title of the Society: even to queries on obscure points,
such as
is
may
elicit
an answer in some following number.
Attention
particularly requested to the
Rule which forbids the introduction

It is
of political, or religious discussions.
hoped that such a work
may
may
not only be a means of providing popular amusement and
instruction, but
may
also serve as a valuable assistant to those
who
hereafter undertake the
more
serious task of finishing the
History of the County.
The present number
will, therefore,
be succeeded by others, in
the same form, and at a low price to the public.

of the Society will receive their copies gratuitously.
tion will be continued,
The Members
The
publica-
whenever by contributions or correspondence,
material of sufficient
to jtistify the issue.
amount and
interest shall
have accumulated
it is
In the infancy of the Society

for its fixed
impossible
to give
it
any pledge
and periodical appearance.
But
is
hoped that communications will flow in abundantly: and
PREFACE.
V
whether resident
in,
we would
invite the
Members, and
others,
or
only connected with the County, to further this object in any

that
way
may
be most suitable to their
own
convenience.
It is respectfully suggested that, in order to assist this
experiment
most
effectually, those
who
take an interest in the History and
Antiquities of Wiltshire, natural or archaeological, will support
the Society by becoming Members.
TERMS.'
.
s.
d.
Annual Subscribers : for the First Year For succeeding years

*'
'
r
Life
Members
1O 6 1O 1O O
to write to
Persons desirous of joining the Society are requested

that
effect,
inclosing a
POST OFFICE ORDER for

Devizes.
the amount, to
MR.
WILLIAM CUNNINGTON,
Articles of correspondence intended for insertion,

to the
may be addressed
Rev.
J.
Rev.
W.
C. LUKIS, Great
Bedwyn; or
to the
E.
JACKSON, Leigh Delamere, Chippenham.
Orders for the "WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE," to be sent through the
County Booksellers,
to
Mr. HENRY BULL, Saint John
Street, Devizes.
RULES OF THE SOCIETY.
I.
THIS Society shall be called " The Wiltshire Archaeological and

Its object shall
Natural History Society."

1.
be
To
collect
and publish information

;
On
the Antiquities of Wiltshire
including Ancient Monuments,
Architecture,
Manorial History, Ecclesiastical History and En;
dowments, Records
the
and
all
other matters usually comprised under
name
of Archaeology.
its
On
the Natural History of the County:
Geology, Botany,
Ornithology, &c.
2.
To
preserve,
by the formation of a Library and Museum,

History
:
illustrations
of
its
viz.,
published works, manuscripts,
drawings, models, and specimens, &c.
II.
The
society shall consist of a Patron; a President, elected for

;
three years
taries
;
Vice-Presidents
general and district or local Secreat each anniversary
and a Treasurer elected
meeting
with
a Committee of twelve, six of

rotation, but
whom
No
shall
go out annually by
may
be re-elected.
person shall be elected on the
committee until he shall have been six months a member of the

society.

III.
vii
Anniversary general meetings shall be held for the purpose

officers,
of electing the
of receiving the report of the committee for
the past year, of reading papers and reports, and of transacting all
other necessary business, at such time and place as the committee
shall appoint, of
which meeting a fortnight's notice shall be given to
the members.
IV. All members shall have the privilege of introducing one

friend to the anniversary
and general meetings.
V. The committee
is
empowered
to call special general meetings
of the society, upon receiving a requisition signed
by ten members.
be
Three weeks' notice of such special meeting, and

given to each member.
its object, shall
VI. The property of the society shall be deposited at Devizes,
and
shall
be vested in thirteen trustees, in

;
trust, for the
purposes of
the society
and
shall not be disposed of or
made
applicable for
any
other purpose, except with the consent of five-sixths of the subscribers;
and
shall not be disposed of or severed, so long as
any
society exists in the county,
having in view objects similar to those

trustees shall be
of this society
and whenever the number of the
reduced to
five,
the vacancies shall be supplied at a general meeting.
VII. The
(of
affairs of
the society shall be directed by the committee
which the
officers shall
be ex-officio members),
who
shall
;
have
the
management and
application of the funds of the society
and
meetings of the committee, shall be held monthly, or quarterly, as
may
taries
be found expedient, for receiving reports from the secre-
and sub-committees, and
for
transacting other necessary

business: three
of the committee shall be a
quorum; members
official
may
attend the committee meetings after the
business has
been transacted.
VIII. The chairman at meetings of the society shall have a

as a casting vote, in addition to his vote
member.
IX. One
(at least) of
the secretaries shall attend each meeting,

its
and
shall
keep a record of
proceedings.
All manuscripts, and
communications, and the other property of the society, shall be
under the charge of the
secretaries.
X. Candidates for admission as members, shall be proposed by
two members
at
any of the general or committee meetings, and the
election shall be determined
by
ballot at the next
committee or
general meeting; three-fourths of the

shall elect.
members
present, balloting,
The Rules of the Society
shall be subscribed
by every
person becoming a member.
XI. Ladies
ballot,
shall be eligible as
members of the
society,
without
being proposed by two members, and approved by the
majority of the meeting.
XII. Each member shall pay ten shillings and sixpence on

admission to the society
subscription
year, and
; ;
and ten
shillings
and sixpence
first
as
an annual
which
shall
become due on the
of January in each
shall be paid in advance.
XIII. Donors of ten guineas, or upwards, shall be members

for
life.
IX
XIV.
At general meetings
of the society, the committee
may
recommend persons eminent
for their literary, or scientific acquire-
ments, to be balloted for as honorary, or corresponding members.
XY. When any
office shall
become vacant, or any appointment

have power to
fill
shall be requisite, the committee shall
up the same
such appointments shall remain in force only to the next general

meeting,
when they
shall be either confirmed or annulled.
XVI. The made
treasurer shall receive all subscriptions
and donations
to the society,
:
and
shall
pay
all
accounts passed by the com-
mittee
he
shall
keep a book of receipts and payments, which he

shall require it : the accounts
shall produce
whenever the committee
shall be audited previously to the anniversary meeting,
by two
members
of the committee chosen for that purpose, and an abstract
of them shall be read at the meeting.
XVII. No change
shall be
made
in the laws of the society, except
at a general, or special meeting, at

shall be present.
which twelve members,
at least,
Of the proposed change a month's

;
notice shall be
to each
given to the secretaries
who
shall
communicate the same
member
three weeks before the meeting.
XVIII. Papers read
at meetings of the society,
and considered by
the committee of sufficient interest for publication, will be printed, (with the author's consent) in such manner as shall be determined
by the committee
to be the best for the purpose, for gratuitous
distribution, or otherwise, to the
members of the
society ;
and
for
such price to the public as
may
be agreed upon.
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XIX. No
religious or political discussions shall be permitted at

;
meetings of the society
nor any topics of a similar nature admitted
into the society's publications.
XX. That any

Museum,
shall
person contributing books, or specimens, to the
be at liberty to resume possession of them, in
the event of the property of the society ever being sold, or transferred, otherwise
than to any similar society in the county.
Also
persons shall have liberty to deposit books, or specimens, for a

specific
time only.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
XI
The following
Officers
of the Society were elected at the
Inaugural Meeting:
THE MOST HONBLE. THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, E.G.

(Lord Lieutenant of the County.)
)j)rtlTCtlt*
GEORGE POULETT SCROPE,
ESQ.,
M.P.
THE RIGHT EEV. THE LORD BISHOP OF

SIB
J.
SALISBURY.
W. AWDRY.
ESQ.
JOHN BRITTON,
EARL BRUCE.
H. M.
CAPT. G. H.
J.
R. PARRY NISBET, ESQ. LIEUT-COL. H. S. OLIVIER. W. W. SALMON, ESQ. T. H. S. SOTHERON, ESQ. M.P.
CLARKE, ESQ. N. GLADSTONE, R.N., M.P. W. HENEAGE, ESQ., M.P. THE RIGHT HON. SIDNEY HERBERT, WALTER LONG, ESQ., M.P. JOSEPH NEELD, ESQ., M.P.
M.P.
^t*a0Ut*tt%
LIEUT. -CoL. H.
S.
OLIVIER, Devizes.
iBmeral Secretaries
THE REV. W. C. LUKIS, Great Bed. THE REV. J. E. JACKSON, Leigh-Delamere, Chippenham.
Zh'setntt,
at Hocal Secretaries
Ogbourne, Marlborough.
THE REV. JAMES BLISS,
THE REV. ARTHUR FANE, Warminster. JARYIS HIGHMORE, ESQ., M.D., Bradford. MR. KENRICK, Melksham. MR. J. N. LADD, Calne. THE REV. F. LEAR, Bishopstone, Salisbury. THE REV. E. MEYRICK, Chisledon. MR. W. OSMOND, JUN., Salisbury.
N.
MR. E. BRADBURY, Cnippenham. MR. W. CUNNINGTON, Devizes.
MR.
J. P.
THE REV.
MR. N. V. MR. R. E.
PRANGLEY,
A. C.
SMITH,
Heytesbury. Yatesbury.
SQUAREY, Salisbury. VARDY, Wanninster. Committee.

MR. FALKNER, MR. H. A. MEREWETHER,
DR. DR.
MR. THOMAS B. ANSTIE, MR. H. BUTCHER, MR. H. M. CLARKE, MR. W. CUNNINGTON,
ARCHDEACON MACDONALD,
SEAGRAM,
THURNAM,
2
THE REV.
B. C.
DOWD1NG,
MR. WAYLEN, MR. WITTEY.

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Natural
LIST OF MEMBERS.
[Those marked
,
(*)
are Life Members.']

Cleather, Rev. G. P.,
Alexander, Dr. Hammersmith, Lond. Astiey, Sir F. D. Bart., Everley Anstie, G. W., Devizes.
Anstie, T. B., ditto Anstie, E. B., ditto Anstie, F. E., ditto Attwood, F., the Close, Salisbury Attwood, Mrs., ditto
Aldboume
Clutterbuck, E. L., Hardenhuish Cotton, Rev. G. L., Marlborough Cosens, Rev. W. R., Warminster Crawley, Rev. R., Steeple Ashton Crook, Rev. H. S. C., Upavon Crook, Mrs., ditto
Awdry, Sir J. W., Notton- House Awdry, Justly, Melksham Awdry, Rev. E. C., Grittleton
Badger, T., Devizes Bathurst, Sir F. T. H., Bart., Claren-
Cunnington, W., Devizes Cunnington, H., ditto Cunnington, E., ditto
Dodd,
S.,
Kentish Town, London
don Park
Beach, Sir M. H. H., (M.P.) Bart.,
Domville, Rev. C. C., Nettleton Dowding, Rev. B. C. Drury, Rev. H., Bremhill DuBoulay, Rev. F H., Heddington
Netheravon
Biggs, 11., Devizes Biggs, Dr. R. W., ditto Blockwell, T. E., Clifton
*Duke, Rev. E., Lake House

Earle, Rev. Francis, Wootton Rivers
Edmonds, E.
Ogbourne Brabant, Dr. R. H., Bath Bradbury, E., Chippenham Bradford, T., Swindon Biscoe, Rev. W., Combe Bisset Broughton, Rt, Hon. Lord, ErleStoke Brown, Rev. M., Nonsuch Brown, W., Winterbourne Monkton Brown, W., Broad Hinton Brown, G., Avebury *Bruce, Earl, Tottenham Brunton, Rev. "W., Warminster
Bliss,
J.,
Rev.
jun., Trowbridge Ellen, J., Devizes
Esmeade, G. M. M., Chippenham

Estcourt, Lieut-Col., Eaton-place
Evans, M., Devizes Everett, Dr. W. G., ditto

Falkner, R., Devizes Falkner, T. A., Weymouth Falkner, G., Devizes Fane, Rev. A., Warminster Farley, Rev. G., Cherhill Fellowes, T. A., Chippenham
Gabriel, Miss, Rowde *Gladstone, Capt. (M.P.)Bowden Park
,
Buckerneld, Rev. F. H., Lit. Bedwyn Bull, H., Devizes Burne, Rev. W. W., Grittleton Burrows, W., Devizes Burt, J., ditto Butcher, H. jun., ditto
Goddard, Rev. F., Alderton Goddard, Rev.G. Ashe,ClyffePypard Goddard, H. N., ditto Goodwin, J., Salisbury
Gore, A.,
Canington, F. A., Ogboume Saint George Champ, J., Devizes Christie, Rev. R. C., Castle Combe
Clark, T. jun., Trowbridge Clarke, H. M., 1V\
Cleuth.
r,
Melksham
Grantham, H., Heytesbury Grant, J., Manningford Grooby, Rev. J., Swindon
Guthrie, Rev. J., Calne
Harris, Rev. E., Devizes Green
Uov. G. E., Chirton
LIST OF MEMBERS.
X1U
Hayward, J., Devizes Hayward, Johnson, Etchilhampton Hayward, W. P., Wilsford *Heneage, G. H. W., (M.P.) Compton *Herbert, Rt. Hon. Sidney, M.P., Wilton Hillier, W., Monckton Highmore, Dr. N. J., Bradford Holland, A. P., Wilts County Asylum Ho well, J., Rutland Gate, London Howse, T., 19, St.Paul's Churchyard Hughes, Miss, Bath Hulbert, H. H., Devizes
Jackson, Rev. J. E., Leigh Delamere Jacob, J. H., the Close, Salisbury Jones, Rev. W. H., Bradford Joyner, R., Brompton, London
Montgomrey, R., Devizes Morgan, Rev. D., Ham

Moulton,
S.,
Bradford
Mullings, R., (M.P.,) Cirencester

Neale, H., Foxhangers *Neeld, J., (M.P.) Grittleton *Msbet, R.P., Devizes
Noyes,
J.,
Chippenham
*01ivier, Lieut-Col., Potterne
Osmond, W., jun., Salisbury

Palairet, S. H., Woolley, near
Bradford
Picton, Rev. J. 0.,
Rowde
Kernm,
T.,
Avebury
Kent, S. Savill, Baynton House Kenrick, G. C., Melksham Killick, Rev. R., Urchfont Kingsbury, Rev. T. L., Marlborough Kingsland, Rev. W., Devizes Kingsley, Rev. H., Tottenham Park
Pigou, H. M., Devizes Phipps, Rev. E. J., Stansfield Plater, Rev. H., Marlborough Player, J., Devizes Prangley, J. P., Heytesbury Popham, F. L., Littiecote Popham, Rev. J. L., Chilton
Proctor, W. Stapleton, Bristol Proctor, T., Bristol
Prower, Rev. Canon, Purton
Ladd, J. N., Calne *Lansdowne, The most Honble. the Marquis of, Bowood Leach, R. V., Briton Ferry Lear, Rev. F., Bishopstone Little wood, Rev. S., Edington Locke, F. A. S., Rowdeford *Long, Walter, (M.P.) Rood Ashton Lukis, Rev. W. C., Great Bedwyn Lukis, F. C., (F.S.A.) Guernsey Macdonald, the Ven. Archdeacon Maskelyne, E. S., South Street, Grosvenor Square Mackrell, H., Devizes Matcham, G., New House, Salisbury Markland, T. H., (D.C.L.,) Bath Maysmor, R., Devizes Medlicott, Rev. J., Potterne
Radnor, Rt. Hon. the Earl

hill
of,
Coles-
Randle, N. B., Devizes
The Lord Bishop of The very Rev. the Dean of *Salmon, W. W., London
*Salisbury, Salisbury,
Saunders, T. Bush, ditto Seagram, Dr. W. B., Devizes

*Selfe,
H. Martin, Great Bedwyn Seymour, Capt., Ramsbury

G. Poulett,
(M.P.) Castle
*Scrope,
Combe
Shuter, James, Chilton Simpson, G., Devizes Skipper, Rev. J. B., Marden
Sloper, G. E., Devizes Sloper, G.E., jun., ditto Sloper, S. E., ditto Smith, Rev. A., ditto
Merriman, W. C., Marlborough Merriman, T. B., ditto Meek, A., Devizes Meyrick, Rev. E., Chisledon *Merewether, H. A., Bowden Hill Miles, J., Wexcombe, Great Bedwyn Morgell, Rev. Crosbie, Knoyle Rev. W., LongbridgeMorrice,
Deverell
Meredith, Capt.
Bromham
Smith, Rev. A. C., Yatesbury Smith, R., Shaw House *Sotheron, T. H. S., (M.P.) Estcourt House, Tetbury
Spencer, J., Bowood Strickland, Rev. E., Warminster Suffolk, Rt. Hon. the Earl, Charlton
Squarey, N. V., Salisbury Stanton, Rev. T., Burbage
XIV
LIST OF
MEMBERS.
Warren, Rev. E. B., Marlborough Waylen, James, Etchilhampton Waylen, R., Devizes Wayte, W., Highlands, Calne Wilkinson, Rev. Dr., Lavington
Wilkinson, Rev. J BroughtonGifford Wilton, Rev. E., Lavington Wittey, S., Devizes Wood, Rev. P. A. L.; ditto
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Tanner, J., Mudeford House, Christchurch Taylor, S. Watson, Urchfont

Tayler, C., Trowbridge Thurnam, Dr., (F.S.A.) Co. Asylum. Tinker, W., Conock Tuffiaell, Rev. E. W., Beechingstoke
Tugwell,
W.
E., Devizes
Vardy, R. E., Wanninster Vicary, G., ditto

"Wansey, W., Bognor Ward, Rev. J., Wath, Ripon
Woodman, H. Wyatt, T.H., 77, Gt. RusseU Street Wylde, Rev. W. T., Woodborough
Wyndham,
E., Blandford
Square
THE
WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE,
" MTJLTORTIM MAKIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS."
OVID.
GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE INAUGURAL MEETING.

THE first Meeting of this Society was held at the Town-Hall, It was very well Devizes, on Wednesday, October 12th, 1853. attended from two to three hundred persons, including many of the neighbouring Gentry and Clergy, being present in the morning ; and about two-thirds of that number, at the Conversazione in the evening the Dinner which intervened, having been attended by upwards of fifty gentlemen. At Twelve o'clock the company began to assemble; and after a short examination of the Museum, temporarily formed in an adjoining apartment, they proceeded to the Assembly Room; when on the motion of Mr. SOTHERON, M.P., the Most Honourable the Marquis of LANSDOWNE was called to the Chair. His Lordship offered a few words in accepting the post, and then called upon the Rev. "W. C. LUKIS to read the Report of the Provisional Committee, which he did as follows " Before proceeding to the further business of this day, it is the of the Provisional Committee of the Wilts Archaeological and duty Natural History Society to state to the meeting the steps by which they have attained to their present position, and to request the sanction of the Members of the Society to the measures which up to
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they have undertaken on their own responsibility. "The first impulse to the present movement, was a proposal made by Mr. Britton in the early part of the year 1852 to dispose
this time
of his collection of Books, Drawings, &c., relating to Wiltshire, either some gentleman connected with the County, or to a public Society established at some one of its principal towns. Mr. W. Cunnington, to whom we must all confess ourselves deeply indebted, lost no time in communicating with some of the principal nobility and gentry, and was successful in organizing a Provisional Committee, and in obtaining the sum of 100 for this special purpose.
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Negotiations were immediately opened with Mr. Britton, and the whole of the Collection alluded to passed into the hands of the Provisional Committee for the sum of 150 the terms of purVOL. I. NO. I. B
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General Account of Inaugural Meeting.
chase being arranged by Mr. John Taylor, of Gower Street, a with the value of literary property. It gentleman well acquainted consists of a large number of original drawings of Salisbury Cathedral, and other ecclesiastical edifices in the county (some of which are now destroyed) of illustrated copies of Mr. Britton's own works relating to Wiltshire and of large gatherings of extracts from newspapers, &c., made by him through a long series of years. In addition to these may be mentioned the unique Celtic cabinet containing models of Stonehenge and Avebury, together with a considerable number of Books, MSS., &c., relating both to those remarkable monuments, and to others of a like kind in different
; ;
parts of the world. " It is hoped that a Collection so useful to the Antiquary and the Topographer, may serve as the nucleus of a Repository, into which may flow by degrees, a much larger number of curious and interesting objects, illustrative both of the Natural History and
Archaeology of the County. " The next step of the Provisional Committee was taken on Nov. It was then 'resolved, that having secured 5th, in last year. Mr. Britton's Collection, an endeavour be made to form a Society for the purpose of establishing a Museum and Library, and for the promotion of all objects connected with the elucidation and study of the general Topography of the County of Wilts.' "In pursuance of this object a request was preferred to the Mayor and Corporation of Devizes for the use of a portion of the Town-Hall for the purposes of the Society, and for the deposit of This permission was most readily conceded and the collection. the Committee proceeded accordingly to invite a meeting of the principal gentry of the County, which was held on the 4th of January last when it was resolved that the Provisional Committee should have power to add to their number that they should make the necessary arrangements for the formation of the Wilts Archceological and Natural History Society, and that a meeting of gentlemen interested in the subject should be held about, or soon after, the following Easter/ " It is unnecessary to enter at any length into the subsequent It may be sufficient to proceedings of the Provisional Committee. appeal to the favorable results which have hitherto attended their efforts. Many unforeseen hinderances have occurred which have delayed the Inaugural Meeting till the present time. Many objections had to be combated relating to the locality of the Museum and Collection but there has been evinced on the whole an earnest desire in every part of the county to co-operate in the design and up to this time 140 persons have enrolled themselves members of the Society which it is proposed this day to inaugurate. "Having now laid before the meeting a summary of their proceedings, it only remains for the Provisional Committee to
; ; ; ; ;

retire
from the duties assigned to them. But before doing so, they venture to offer a word of suggestion with respect to the future course and prospects of the Society. " It may first be desirable to point out more specifically its twoto promote the study both of Antiquities and fold objects Natural History. These two may seem at first sight incompatible but the success which has attended their union in the case of the Somersetshire Society, leads us to believe that both pursuits can be carried on under the same auspices and even independently of this instance of success, it was considered advisable to adopt this course as being likely to increase the success of our Institution, and to make the contents of our Museum and Library as various and as interesting as possible to a larger number of our members. Besides which, as one of our chief purposes is to collect materials for a County History, it is obvious that so interesting a subject as its Natural History could not with propriety be omitted. " The success then of our Society under these two great heads, obviously depends not on the attendance at one or two large In meetings, but on constant and earnest application to our work. the department of Antiquities, how large a sphere of operations is Remains of almost every aera are lying before us, open to us
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The traces of British, presenting an unexampled field for research. Roman, and Saxon occupation require to be carefully studied and The period prior to the Conquest has greater and illustrated. more interesting remains in Wiltshire than in almost any other The theories which have been advocated respecting county.
Avebury and Stonehenge demand
And passing on investigation. to a later period, every parish has its own object of interest in its Church or baronial Castle, its domestic Mansion, its Traditions, its
peculiar Superstitions, its family History, its Registers, and the very Monumental Inscriptions which, especially in our churchyards, are gradually crumbling to decay. want a sufficient body of active coadjutors to observe and describe all these. And we may venture to hope that from the resident gentry and the parochial would clergy we shall receive ready and valuable assistance. especially point out that great service may be conferred upon us by those who will contribute to our Portfolios any drawings of either present or previously existing buildings. " In the department of Natural History we may hope, also, that the Geologists of our county will assist not merely by communicating new facts, but by adding to the stores of our Museum. The Ornithologist, the Microscopist, the Entomologist, and the Botanist, may each in like manner furnish their stock of information. The smallest contributions, though in themselves of little value, acquire
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a higher importance when added to those of others. " To those who are residing in the neighbourhood of this town, the Museum will of course be more particularly useful and it is
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this, or that locality, will our friends in every part of Wiltshire, from adding to the preclude Collection which will be gathered within these walls. "But in a county in which intercommunication is, from various causes, by no means easy, it appears desirable that the interest of our members should be kept up by some cheap periodical publication. "The Naturalist," and "Notes and Queries" will furnish an example Almost every day is adding to the of what we would suggest. stock of local information, which if contributed and embodied in a permanent form, might thus become useful to others. "It may seem to be urging what would be only of special use to the neighbourhood of Devizes, but which we yet trust may not be without its value to the county at large, if we lay stress on the formation of a Library, in connection with our Museum. It is plain that such an addition is necessary to the completeness of our plan. Topographical, Antiquarian, and scientific pursuits require above all others very expensive books for their prosecution. County Histories and works on Natural History are notoriously of the most costly And many persons are checked at their very first entrance kind. on these branches of study, by being unable to purchase the books
hoped that no unworthy jealousy of
may
In this case, also, we requisite for carrying them on successfully. venture to hope for contributions from our friends. Many a
is now lying comparatively useless on the shelves of the owner, which would become of general utility if merely deposited in our Library, without being permanently presented to it. It may be added, in confirmation of this remark, that this system was adopted with respect to some of the most valuable works in the Library of the Bath Institution. "It need hardly be pressed on your notice, that, for the prosecution of your designs, some subdivision of labour is imperaIt is suggested, therefore, that sub-committees tively required. should be formed in each respective department, Antiquarian, And with the view of obtaining definite Scientific, and Literary. local information, we would propose the circulation of a series of questions according to a form to be laid before the meeting, subject, of course, to such additions and corrections as may appear desirable. "In setting forth this plan for the future proceedings of the
volume
Society, we an earnest
must apologise for its brevity and defects, and express hope that what is now but faintly delineated may be more boldly drawn out by those who will be deputed in our stead to carry on the design which we have begun. The Provisional Committee here terminate their labours. They have felt many anxieties in carrying on their work to the present point they hope the meeting will pardon the imperfect manner in which they have fulfilled this trust, and they commend the future welfare of the Society to the good feeling of the county at large."
:
Sir J. W. AWDRY, Knight, then proposed that the above Report should be adopted. Mr. NISBET seconded the proposition, which was unanimously adopted. The RECORDER OF DEVIZES (Mr. H. Merewether) moved the next
resolution,
"That a Society be formed, to be called the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society; and that its objects shall be to cultivate and collect information on Archaeology and Natural History in their various branches, and to form a Library and Museum, illustrating the History, natural, civil, and ecclesiastic, of the County of Wilts."
expressed great pleasure in assisting, according to his humble formation of a Society which would not only be of great but which would also be instrumental in preserving traditions beyond the limits of the county. Colonel OLIVIER seconded the motion, and added a few observations on the success which had attended the progress of the
ability, in the local interest,
He
proceedings hitherto. The Museum which had already been formed had succeeded beyond expectation, and there was every prospect of
enlargement and establishment. Rev. J. E. JACKSON, Rector of Leigh-Delamere, then read a code of Rules and Regulations which had been approved of by the Provisional Committee, the adoption of which, for the future guidance of the Society, he then moved. Mr. H. BUTCHER seconded the motion, and the noble Chairman
its
having put it to the meeting, it was unanimously adopted. Rev. A. C. SMITH, Rector of Yatesbury, in proposing the next resolution, said that a very few words from him would be sufficient
commend it to their acceptance. They had already heard, by the report of the Provisional Committee, how very valuable was the collection of books made by that distinguished antiquary, Mr. Britton how intrinsically valuable, and also of what additional interest they were to the Society, inasmuch as they particularly related to the antiquities of Wilts. They had also had an opportunity of seeing them in the room adjoining, and it would therefore require no further preface from him in proposing " that this collection of books, &c., should become the property of the
to
Society." (Cheers.)
Dr. THTJRNAM seconded the motion, which was adopted.
The Yen. ARCHDEACON MACDONALD said You all know the eminent services which the Marquis of Lansdowne has rendered to this country and are aware of the high position he occupies in your county, and the great interest he takes in everything concerning it. I have therefore the greatest confidence, as well as the greatest pleasure, in proposing " that his Lordship be requested to become the Patron of this Society." (Cheers.)
;
Mr. HENEAGE, M.P.

shall
am
best consult his feelings,
sure, in his Lordship's presence, I and also the feelings of all the
that his Lordship, from his persons present, by simply saying in this county, and from his talents and acquirements, is position the fittest person we could select to preside over this Society. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE This is a motion which I can I may say, however, that I am hardly put to the meeting. to accept the office which your kindness disposes extremely happy you to confer on me, notwithstanding that it is one of which I consider myself unworthy, having but little knowledge of those of this Society to follow out. At the pursuits, which it is the object same time I feel equally flattered by the distinction you propose to confer upon me by electing me as its Patron, although I feel that the
You all know office must, in a great measure, be a nominal one. that in these times the real patron of any Society like this, must be the public. If it is well supported by the public it will flourish ; and if not, the influence of no individual can give it permanency, (Cheers.) I am glad to be here this day, to see the very general disposition to support the Society on the part of the public, represented as it is by the gentlemen present, and also, I am happy to say, by the ladies, in whose hands the research into subjects of antiquity may be as well prosecuted as in the hands of gentlemen, and who may therefore contribute to the welfare of a Society a county which established now, for the first time, in this county undoubtedly does afford as much invitation for such an establishment as any county in England, inasmuch as we all know there is not a barrow opened that does not tell its own tale, nor an excavation made which does not reward the industry and enterprise of its conductors. The question that I conceive to be of the greatest
importance to you now is, not who shall be the Patron, but who shall be the President ; and I do hope you will very shortly place that presidency into the best hands. (Cheers.) Mr. SOTHERON, M.P. I have been requested to propose a resolution, upon which, perhaps more than on any other, I think the
efficiency of this Society will depend,
justify your reasonable expectations. to express the universal sense of all,
and I hope in doing so I shall I wish I had time, or ability, who take an interest in this Society, of the peculiar and eminent qualifications of Mr. Scrope for the office of President. I might remind you of (Loud applause.) what Mr. Scrope has written and done. I might mention that, of which most indeed must be aware, namely, that there is hardly any department of the science of Archaeology with which he is not perfectly acquainted, and that in many branches of Natural History he holds, not only in this county, but throughout the country, a high and distinguished position. I might also state that there is scarcely whether the parties concerned in it be rich or any social question poor to which Mr. Scrope has not contributed useful suggestions
of various kinds and in various forms suggestions sometimes sometimes of designed to meet the requirements of the moment, and I might also add of my own personal a more permanent nature. of knowledge, that which is a very great qualification to a President a Society like this, namely, that amongst the many gentlemen of whose old acquaintance I can boast, as dating back to the days when we were schoolfellows together at Harrow, I know of no one more than Mr. Scrope possessing the qualifications of urbanity, kindness, readiness of eloquence, and other excellent qualities, rendering him as we have to-day peculiarly fitted to preside over such a Society Without further preface, therefore regretting that I instituted. cannot do it better, but doing it with all my heart I beg to propose that George Poulett Scrope, Esq., be requested to accept the office of first President of the Society. (Cheers.) Mr. H. M. CLARKE, in a few words, seconded the proposition, which was put and carried with acclamation. Mr. SCROPE said in obeying your command to take the chair as the first President of the Society which you have now established, I feel myself wholly overwhelmed by the unexpected compliment paid me not in respect of such appointment, for that I was led to expect but in the far too flattering and favourable terms in which my friend, Mr. Sotheron, has spoken of my qualifications for the I regret these encomiums the more, because I feel myself office. inadequate either to do justice to the duties of the office, or to I can only say, in accepting satisfy my own views in that matter. the ground merely of the strong interest I feel, and have it upon
always felt, in the study of those pursuits which it is the main that I must trust object of this Society to propagate and encourage to your indulgence to overlook the manifest deficiencies which will show themselves very shortly and at the same time to request you
;
me one further indulgence before I address myself, at greater length, to the business of the day namely to permit me to propose a resolution to the meeting for this purpose are honoured to-day with the presence of the Lord Lieutenant it of the county his time is not his own, belongs to the public, and is most valuable and I do not think it is desirable he should be detained during the time which I shall probably consume in reading a very dull paper. At the same time you would not wish him to withdraw, without having the opportunity of thanking him for being so good as to take the office upon him, which you have now requested him to fill. Before I proceed to what has been advertized, rather too prominently, as an "Inaugural Address," I therefore venture to ask you to allow me to propose the thanks of the meeting to his Lordship for his kindness in permitting himself to be nominated as Patron of this Society. (Cheers). Mr. JOHN BRITTON said It is with very singular gratification I second the motion Mr. Scrope has proposed to you. I have had the
to be
kind enough to allow
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pleasure of
his Lordship, I think for about fifty-six years, boy, and I was grown up tolerably well to what is called manhood. I remember, at that early period, his devotedness to study, and particularly to activity at Bowood, his the improvement of Bowood, which at that time was a very different
knowing
a
when he was
little
It is now not only an honour to the county, place to what it is now. but to all England (cheers) and its noble and magnanimous for his past services in possessor is not only entitled to gratitude
connection with this county, but additionally for what he has done to benefit this glorious country. (Cheers.) God bless his may he live to my own age, and be as happy as I am Lordship at the age of eighty-two, and for many years may he come before
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or your successors, to celebrate the establishment of this Society, which will, and must redound to the honour of Wiltshire, and to the advancement of topographical and archaeological pursuits
you,
in general. (Cheers.) The resolution having been carried by acclamation, the noble most sincere MARQUIS said I hope you will allow me to return
thanks for the unexpected honour you have conferred upon me just now, in addition to that paid me before, when you requested me to become your Patron. I can only say the Society has my most sincere good wishes, as I trust it will have the good wishes of every gentleman in the county, for its success. And if I have the good fortune to live as long as my friend Mr. Britton has stated that he has lived, doing good all the time, and exerting himself for the benefit of his native county, I hope I shall be in as good condition at the wholesome age of eighty-two as he appears to be in now.
(Cheers.)
my
(His Lordship then resumed his seat, but did not leave the meeting until the conclusion of Mr. Scrope's address.) Mr. SCROPE then rose and delivered the following
ADDRESS.
My
Lord, ladies and gentlemen,
In obeying your command
that I should take the chair as President of the Society, which we meet to day to inaugurate, I feel that I am undertaking duties which I shall be unable to fulfil with the efficiency necessary to
justify
your confidence. I can only plead in apology the interest I take in the studies which it is the object of the Society to encourage, and my desire to do anything within power to promote their more
my
general cultivation. The title of our Association sufficiently indicates the purposes it has in view. And the means by which it is proposed to carry them out have been already explained to in detail.
It
this
you may, however, be not inappropriate for me, on the occasion of our first meeting, to make a few general remarks upon the
Mr. Poulett Scrape's Address.

advantages that
we may reasonably expect to gather from the Institution of which we are to-day laying the foundation. It is scarcely necessary for me to state that Archaeology, the
pursuit of which we are uniting to promote, is the study of antiquities, not for the gratification of an unreasoning curiosity, but with the view of bringing them to bear upon and illustrate history and especially local history, or topography ; which indeed, may be said to be included in the term. The investigation of the ancient monuments of a country, of its buildings, military, civil, and ecclesiastical, of the weapons, implements, furniture, dress, and ornaments of its inhabitants, from the earliest period to the present day, is as indispensable towards the due comprehension of its history as the examination of its written records, which are, in part, themSo underselves, likewise, the subjects of archaeological research. stood (and in these days it is always so understood) Archaeology remains no longer open to the good humoured ridicule which has so often been levelled against antiquaries the Jonathan Oldbucks of other times as a sort of learned triflers over things of no real value or interest " Nought but a world of old nick-nackets, Of rusty swords and fusty jackets."
the contrary, this pursuit has assumed a position of honour and respect in popular estimation, and has been elevated to the rank of
On
a science.
Such researches, indeed, could only have been undervalued, at any time, by those who shut their eyes to the remarkable influence exercised over the human mind by every object that can claim an
association with interesting characters, or important events. There an eager desire, of which all mankind, perhaps, are sensible, to attain some tangible, or visible memorial of the great men of other
is
days, to visit the spots which they frequented, to linger in the ruins of their habitations, the scenes in which their great deeds were performed, the tombs in which their ashes repose. Proofs of the universality of this feeling pervade all ages, and are obvious to all " It is seen most conspicuously perhaps, in the " eyes. Pilgrimages of ancient and modern days, or still more in the contests carried on
between entire nations, and through centuries, even up to the present hour, for the possession of what are called the "Holy Places" of Judea that is to say, of the material objects most closely associated with what to every Christian must always be the most intensely interesting event and personage in history. This feeling, like all other powerful instincts of our nature, is liable to abuse, and apt to run into extravagance, as witness the absurdities of relic-worship. And some may consider it beneath the dignity of history to avail herself of it. But no sentiment so
universal,
and
so powerful in its influence, can be wisely disregarded
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or contemned.
this is
The true course
to pursue is to direct it into whole;
and unworthy channels and the province of Archaeology rightly understood. No doubt some antiquarian, and even historical relics, are of a trivial character, and some as apocryphal as any monkish reliquary ; interest attaches to objects which are yet a real dignity, and a true authentically associated with noble characters, and deeds of high could view without a thrill of interest in the emprise. formed in Windsor Castle the identical weapons armoury lately worn and used in their heroic encounters by Charlemagne, Edward can look the Black Prince, Cromwell, and Napoleon ? unmoved upon the original copy of Magna Charta in the British Museum ? or raise his eyes to the window in Whitehall where the Royal Charles was beheaded? or tread the pavement of Westminster Hall, the scene of so many stately pageants of the middle ages? or of the adjacent Abbey, where lie so many of the illustrious dead ? or who can walk unconcerned over the field of Flodden, or of Waterloo ? It is, then, to this universal sentiment, this yearning after some material evidences of the great facts of history, that the archaeologist appeals when he points, with almost reverential regard, to the camps, the battle-fields, the castles, the monuments, that witnessed the occurrence of splendid actions or important events, or when he offers to the curious eye medals impressed with the likeness of some heroic sovereign, the armour of a Roman warrior, or the ornaments of an Egyptian beauty. collection of. antiquities is, indeed, It is by these means history itself made palpable to the senses. that the personages, places, and facts with which history deals are brought, as it were, bodily before us, to illustrate what otherwise would be but a dry narrative and nomenclature. Archaeology presents, moreover, to us, in vivid forms and colors, the actual life and manners of our ancestors, and the scenes and memorials of their less distinguished actions affixing the stamp of reality to what would else be scarcely distinguishable from the fictions of
some and legitimate, in
lieu of morbid
Who
Who
romance.
the study of the works of former generations less imporART, of the highest practical utility. It is well known that the most perfect examples of the beautiful, in almost every department of art, in architecture, sculpture, and design, are derived from And, even in this utilitarian age, the antiquity. quality of beauty is found to possess an intrinsic mercantile value, and its study to be indispensable to the prosperity of a commercial, and manufacturing nation, wholly beyond, and besides, the genuine
is
Nor
tant, as affording lessons in
pleasure it is calculated to afford, and its elevating and civilizing influence on our tastes and habits. I may give as one instance the great development that has taken place of late years in the ceramic art, entirely through the attention
Mr. Pouktt
Scrope's Address.
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paid to the beautiful forms and ornaments of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan pottery preserved in our Archaeological Museums. But a yet more striking example may be noted in the improvement observable on all sides in our ecclesiastical edifices, owing to the It is not much more than increased study of the mediaeval models. half a century back since Gothic Architecture was still regarded by the many as the rude work of barbarians devoid of taste. Now we have the gratification of seeing those stately and magnificent piles, upon which the piety of our ancestors lavished untold wealth, and their architects the resources of unexampled skill, taste, and genius, preserved, or restored, with a judgment and devotion parallel to that
see, too, new churches, originally raised. of almost equal beauty and grandeur, rising to meet the wants of an increasing population some of them fully comparable to the work of the best ages, such as that superb Basilica which the munificence of one of our county members has reared in the town from which the county derives its name. All this improvement in the style of our sacred buildings is the result, be it remembered, of the greater attention now paid to Archaeological pursuits, and the judicious investigation of the works of antiquity. It is possible that some persons may fail at first sight to discern the connection between the two studies which are conjoined in the title of our Society But, Archaeology and Natural History. as has been said by others, "The student of nature is a student of An antiquities, quite as truly as the explorer of ancient art." inquirer into God's works is as much an antiquary and historian as he who examines the early works of man. The rocks and minerals of a country are the materials of its construction, and the monuments of the vicissitudes through which its surface has passed, both before and since its occupation by man. Fossils have been aptly termed the "medals of creation," and the geologist, indeed, like the coin collector, learns from them to distinguish the successive ages of the earth's history. Ethnology is as much a natural science as a branch of history, to which Archaeology supplies the means of comparing the various races of mankind. In truth, to complete the history of a country, there is required a thorough knowledge of its physical geography, its mineral structure, and of the plants and animals, no less than of the human beings, which from first to last have inhabited it. So much (too much I fear you will think) in vindication of the general character and aim of societies such as this which you are to-
by which they were
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day sanctioning with your approval. But we have a further and special purpose in view, to which I must now ask your attention. It is suggested in the words of the
printed circular proposing the formation of the Society; namely "the collecting and concentrating information on the Natural and Civil History,Topography and Antiquities of our county" inparticular.
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Societies have been formed for a similar end in several other counties for example, in Somerset, Sussex, and Northamptonshire, have and eminently successful, and popular. It is,
prosecution of encouragement and sympathy from others, may either wholly desist from them, or waste their powers in imperfect efforts, which often terminate without leaving a trace behind for the assistance or
engage,
indeed, obviously desirable that some such means should be employed for bringing into union and cooperation those among the inhabitants of a provincial district who are already engaged, or are willing to of these researches and who, for want in the
;
they
proved
instruction of others.
No
doubt
it
may
Societies of the
be said that there exist already several National kind to which they may resort. But the place of
meeting of these, generally in the metropolis, is probably distant from their residences. And the interest felt by each person in researches, extended over so wide a field as the whole island, is
Just as the history of England is a matter proportionably diluted. of deeper interest to Englishmen than the history of Europe, or of the world, so to a Wiltshireman the antiquities and history of his own County, and especially of his immediate neighbourhood, must offer an object of much stronger regard than those of remote places. Few persons, perhaps, are to be found insensible to the former, while it requires the peculiar constitution of a professed antiquary to feel much zeal in the pursuit of the latter. Mr. Hunter in the preface to his admirable work on the Deanery of Doncaster, puts this generally prevailing sentiment in a strong "What person," he asks, "of taste and feeling, or of a light. cultivated mind or, even, who is not utterly devoid of a natural in a district which curiosity, but feels the difference between living has been well described by topographers, and one which is a blank in these respects? In the former there is not an edifice of any antiquity, a church, a castle, a manor-house, a cross, or a fragment of ruin, in his neighbourhood, that is not connected with some " incident or character that makes it a matter of interest." Topohe goes on to say, "calls up the spirits of past generations. graphy," see them gliding among the trees planted by them, or through the ruins of the buildings they inhabited. see them in their proper apparel, and with all the rank and port that belonged to them. Where there is no written recovery of the past, we can live only in the present generation. In the ages that are gone by all is indistinctness; and the want of knowledge of the events that formerly occurred around us, in the spots that we frequent, deprives us of a source of great intellectual enjoyment, and of information often of much practical value." It is this local interest and attachment that has occasioned the compilation and publication of many county histories a matter in respect to which Wiltshire is unfortunately much in arrear of
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Mr. Poidett
others.
Scrope's Address.
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of
Indeed there
is
scarcely
any
district
local history has been, till very lately, so much neglected, or so much, even now, remains to be accomplished.
England whose where
And
yet
how
rich
it is
historian,
and the antiquary
in matters of commanding interest to the In the uncertainty which rests on

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the early annals of the island, through the want of written records, or the fabulous contradictions of such as we possess, history turns for information to the monuments of antiquity which its primitive And where are to be found inhabitants have left upon its surface. remains of this class in any degree comparable to the wonderful Celtic temples, and tumuli, and earthworks, with which our county abounds ? Stonehenge and Avebury are to Britain what the Pyramids are to Egypt the colossal and mysterious relics of an otherwise unrecorded age, and people Passing on to a period, the darkness of which is penetrated by some faint gleams of historical that of the Roman occupation of the island we find the light their vestiges of these military propagators of civilization and art roads, camps, stations, villas, thickly strewn over the soil of our county, and attesting their lengthened residence here. In a still later age, Wiltshire is known to have been one of the chief theatres of the sanguinary and protracted warfare waged by the invading Danes and Saxons with the aboriginal Britons, and with one another. Within its limits the heroic Arthur, and still more illustrious Alfred, contended at different periods for the liberties of their country, and won their most celebrated victories. Again, when the Normans had in turn conquered the isle, and imposed their feudal system on the self-governed Saxons, this district was the chief battlefield in that memorable contest, between rival sovereigns and their mailed Barons the issue of which determined not only the ruling dynasty, but also the constitutional character of the realm. And the dwarfed remains of the Baronial strongholds of Sarum, of Ludgershall, of Devizes, Malmesbury, and Marlborough, are invested with a halo of interest from their connection with the fierce and At a much later epoch desolating struggles of that stormy period. of civil warfare, that of the Great Rebellion, and again in the Revolution of 1688, this county was likewise the scene of important events, deeply interesting to the Constitutional historian. It may, therefore, be safely asserted that the history of no part of the kingdom is more deserving of close examination and study: while it is too certain that few counties have profited less from the labours of the local historian. It is true that considerable attention has been paid to the ancient and mysterious monuments of our Downs and some rather startling theories have been broached in explanation of them; though I am far from intending to depreciate such speculations, for which there is ample ground in the singular character of these remains. The work on Ancient Wiltshire of Sir Richard Hoare is, indeed, a splendid contribution to the early
! ; ;
14

;
whose inhabitants can never be too grateful history of the county for the munificence exhibited in its publication, and the persevering labours which it records labours in which a near relative of our valued honorary Secretary, Mr. W. Cunnington, bore a prominent Still, after all that has been effected by their spirited efforts, part. there is ample room remaining for further research and discovery
in the direction of our ante-Norman history. It is true, again, that to the liberality of the same generous individual, Sir Richard Hoare, and the industry and ability of his able is indebted for descriptive coadjutors, the South of the county
Hundreds inferior to few, if to any, topograIn this respect it stands proudly distinguished phical publications. and exempt from the reproach which rests upon the Northern And hence, together with the honoured memory of Sir section. Richard Hoare, will always be associated in the regard of every cultivated Wiltshireman, the names of Offer, Matcham, Bowles, Cunnington, Wansey, Harris, Black, Nichols, Benson, and Hatcher. Indeed, even in the North, the Abbey of Lacock and some single manors have been examined and described. But these monographs are merely exceptions proving the rule, and it is still a sad truth that the history of more than one-half of the county remains Of its twenty-nine inadequately investigated, and unwritten. hundreds, fifteen have been described in the handsome (but rather costly) folios published under the title of Sir Richard Hoare's
histories of its several
"Modern Wiltshire." But they are, speaking generally, neither the most extensive, nor the most important. The undescribed fourteen hundreds comprehend by far the largest moiety of the shire, and contain some of the most interesting subjects. The magnificent and early Monastery of Malmesbury, second only to Glastonbury in the whole West of England; those of
Edyngton,
assembled,
Bradenstoke,
Kington
of the
St.
Monkton Farleigh; the important town

with
its
Michael, Bradfield, in which we are
and
now
castle
which
also figured largely in the
12th century; Marlborough, baronial wars of that period ;

;
Corsham, the palatial residence of our Saxon kings Chippenham, still retaining its pure Saxon name, the station of Alfred's court and army for years, both before and after his decisive victory over
the Danes in the neighbourhood; Calne, Cricklade, Highworth, Wootton Basset, Ludgershall, towns whose early possession of the elective franchise attests their ancient importance; Trowbridge, Bradford, and Melksham, for centuries past the flourishing seats of the staple manufacture of the county, and the cradles of some of our wealthiest proprietary families; the venerable and handsome churches which abound in the north of the county, as, to mention only a few examples, Bishop's Cannings, Great Bedwyn, Steeple Ashton, Seend, Sherston, Lydiard, Purton, and Kington; all this, and much more, remains, as yet, undescribed, or nearly so,
Mr. Poulett Scrape's Address.
15
said of
and
with
its
history a blank.
The same must be
many
of the
seats of the ancient nobility

its
and gentry of the county
Tottenham,
quasi-Royal Forest, so long the residence of the Seymours Littlecot, one of the most interesting and best preserved manorial houses of the kingdom Charlton, the northern rival of Loiigleat; Corsham, sometime the residence of the Hungerfords; Bo wood, the favourite retreat of more than one generation of great statesmen, the hospitable resort of wit, poetry, and philosophy, literature and high art; Draycot, for centuries the chosen Rood Ashton, that of another seat of the elder stock of the Longs branch of the same ancient and well- regarded family Bromham the seat of the Bayntuns, Dauntsey of the Danverses, Alderton of the Gores, Swindon of the Goddards, Burderop of the Galleys, Lydiard of the St. Johns, with many others of which the entire catalogue would exhaust your patience all remain, not unknown, of course, but as yet undescribed in a manner worthy of the interest which justly No doubt some useful topographical notices of attaches to them. North Wilts have been published by our worthy and venerable to whom, for this and other of his life-long friend, John Britton labours in the cause of topography, the county stands, in the estimaBut he himself would tion, I am sure, of us all, deeply indebted. I know, be the first to admit that his volumes contain only very And the proof cursory, and inadequate, sketches of their subjects. of this is that, no one has been more active and zealous in his endeavours to obtain the cooperation of the friends of topographical research throughout the county, in the task of collecting materials for, and ultimately publishing, some satisfactory history of this northern portion, in which he was born, and which appears to be the object of his affectionate regard. (Cheers.) One evil consequence of the neglect with which so large a portion of the county has been hitherto treated is, that every year's delay adds to the difficulty of gathering the information necessary for compiling its history. Decay is everywhere at work on our ancient records of every class. Manuscripts are lost or destroyed buildings and monuments, such as churches, priories, chapels, manor-houses, crosses, tombs, are pulled down or suffered to fall: libraries and collections of drawings are dispersed sculptures, paintings, stained glass,monumental stones or brasses, and other relics, are removed or Much, no doubt, that might have been preserved, or at destroyed. least imperishably recorded by full descriptions, measurements, and drawings, only half a century back, is now irrecoverably gone. Much that we may now save by fitting exertion in the present day will, otherwise, in another half century nay, in another ten or twenty years perhaps such is the rapidity of modern improvements, by which old lumber of this kind (as some consider it) is swept away be irretrievable. Who is not grateful to the antiquaries of former times, the Hearnes, the Lelands, the Camdens, the Dugdales,
and the Bruces;
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for the information they have preserved to us, however imperfect, on matters of local interest, which, without their labours, would have been now beyond our reach ? Who does not not done in those days when so much remained regret that more was within reach, which time, accident, or the march of improvement, have Towards the close of the seventeenth century, since annihilated? some of the gentlemen of the north of this county, who felt an interest in its history, seem to have entertained an intention of combining to undertake the task; John Aubrey, Thomas Gore, and Bishop Tanner, men fully competent to the work, were the originators of the design, and made some progress in the collection of the The chief of Aubrey's MSS. happily remain necessary materials. Those of Gore and Tanner have in some of our public libraries. But who does not regret that this project fell to the disappeared.
and the Groses,
ground unaccomplished?
served which
is
How much
would have been then preprevent further losses of
But,
hopelessly lost at present? at least, it is in our own power to
this deplorable character. petuate, for the gratification
We may rescue from oblivion,

and instruction of our
and per-
successors,
much
which they cannot be but grateful to us. Buildings and monuments of great interest still remain to be described, correct admeasurements and drawings taken of them, and their history explored and committed to writing. Some it may be possible to preserve from
for
further decay or destruction by the joint exertions of such societies as this. Collections of MSS. no doubt exist in the private archives of many a noble or ancient family, or among the title-deeds of the landed proprietors of the county, from which a large amount of local history of great interest might be extracted, were access allowed If we can only to them for trustworthy and experienced persons. excite a general spirit of inquiry into our local history and antiquities, much cannot fail to be discovered, which has been hitherto concealed or supposed to be lost. Individual searchers, each working within his own limited sphere, will be able to do what no one or two individuals can do for the county at large. Surely we may hope that a society supported (as this promises to be from the meeting of to-day) by such influential patronage, and composed of so numerous and respectable a body of members, by encouraging such researches, and giving publicity to their results, may be expected both to throw a new light on the history of those parts of the county which have been already described, and to retrieve the annals of its neglected portions from the obscurity that at present envelopes them. may then hope, many of us at least, to live to see a complete County History of Wiltshire, worthy of the title worthy of this most important part of England in which so many interesting historical events have occurred with which so many remarkable historical characters have been connected. (Cheers.) In the meantime, the printing and circulation of on the
We
papers
Mr. Poulett Serope's Address.
17
history of separate localities or antiquarian remains, will make this task the easier, by preparing some of the requisite materials. That work will likewise be further aided by another of the intended objects of our Society, to which already your attention has been called, namely, the formation of a Central County Museum of Antiquities and Specimens of Natural History. This, indeed, is as important an element as any, in the proposals
submitted to-day to your consideration. How many valuable objects are almost daily from want of some such means of preservation.
lost or dispersed,
Looking
to anti-
quities alone, there is perhaps scarcely a parish in the county in which some coins, ornaments, sculptured or inscribed stones, vessels, and similar relics, are not from time to time found, and after a
very brief interval again lost; or, if not lost, so treated, at least, that their local interest, and with it their historical value, is deHow many such cases must have occurred within the stroyed knowledge of every one of us. These articles, or the greater proportion of them, if a Central County Museum had existed, would in all
!
probability have found their way there, accompanied by explanatory statements from which students of the County History could not fail to gather much valuable information. Even entire collections of local antiquities formed by the zeal of individuals, are not unfrequently, after their decease, dispersed or rendered unavailable for any useful purpose, which the owners would willingly have bequeathed or presented to a County Museum, had any such been in And all that I have here said applies with equal force existence. to specimens illustrative of Natural History. I have been rejoiced to hear it announced to-day that the nucleus of such a treasury has been already formed, and placed at the disposal of the Association, by a committee of gentlemen who subscribed
recently for the purchase of the "Wiltshire Collections of Mr. Britton. These consist chiefly of models, drawings, and works relating to the Celtic monuments of the County, of which they form, unquestionTo these will, we may ably, the most complete collection extant. hope, be added before long, contributions from many of our members,
will perhaps feel to how much better a purpose they may thus apply objects of the kind, which they may possess, or may come into possession of, than by allowing them to gather dust on their Alchimney-pieces, or within rarely opened drawers or cabinets. ready several such contributions have been sent in, at least for temporary inspection during the present meeting, and it is not improbable that on the condition of their being returned in case the County Museum is ever broken up, many of those which possess a local interest may be permitted permanently to occupy our shelves. It was one of the most useful results of the despotic sway of the Emperor Napoleon, that he established such local museums in the chief town of every department of France, under the superintendence
who
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of the municipality. Every one who has travelled much through must have been made sensible of the great advantages that country offered by these local collections of antiquities, discovered in the surrounding districts, as well as of its minerals and fossils, its botanical and zoological productions, arranged by the side of a And if these collections are full library of works of local interest. of attraction to a stranger, how much more valuable must they be In this country, steps have recently been taken to an inhabitant? the legislature to enable the municipalities of the corporate towns by to establish similar museums and libraries at the cost of local funds.
But the genius of our people tends rather to the attainment of such associations than by executive authorities and objects by voluntary we hope consequently, to some extent, to secure this most desirable benefit for our county by means of the Society we are now
;
organising. remarks almost entirely to our local I have hitherto confined But the department of desiderata in reference to Archaeology.
my
Natural History affords an opening of, at least, equal utility to our aim. Without pretending to assert for this county any preeminent claims as a field for the researches of the naturalist, I am yet in this respect not justified in saying, that it offers advantages The Geology of Wiltshire is indeed not inferior to any other. very elaborate, extending only from the London clay to the old red sandstone, but the palaeontology of this limited range is peculiarly The fossils of our green sand beds have an European reputarich. one formed by a tion, chiefly owing to two remarkable collections lady of this neighbourhood, Miss Benett the other by our respected
;
The coral rag is nowhere honorary secretary, Mr. Cunnington. more abundant in zoophytes, and nowhere assumes more strikingly its true character of an ancient coral reef, than in the hill range running northwards from this town through Bowood and Bremhill. Our Oxford clays are peculiarly rich in cephalopoda. The Kelloways rock is known to all geologists for its rare molluscs. Our corn-brash and forest marble beds, are little else than masses of organic remains. The laminated tilestones of this formation, in their ripple-marked surfaces strewed over with fragments of coral and water- worn shells, and impressed with the footprints of Crustacea, really present the exact appearance of a sandy shore just left by the retiring tide though we know that countless ages must have elapsed since the waves of the ocean broke upon them. The oolitic limestone of Bradford has given its name to a rare and curious variety of encrinite. The great oolite of our Cotswolds, is a storehouse of organic And the lower oolites abound matter, including reptiles and fishes. in molluscs. In fact few counties offer a more fertile field for study to the palaeontologist. And a closer examination would very
;
probably discover many new or rare species of extinct animals, further to enrich the Fauna of our Wiltshire strata.
still
Mr. Poulett Scrope's Address.

It is possible, however, that
startled
19
some who hear me may have been by the number and variety of the strange sea-monsters,
I have already alluded to as the former inhabitants of our now If so, let them take heart, and with the aid orderly inland county. which this Society will, I trust, soon afford, apply themselves to the study of geology. They will then speedily become familiar with yet They will learn that all our seemingly solid and greater marvels. immovable continents have been and still are continually undergoing changes of place and structure, amounting in the lapse of ages to absolute revolution at one time raised above, at another depressed beneath the level of the ocean, ground down by the action of water, baked by subterranean heat, and broken up by earthquakes and volcanoes above all, that the rocks and strata which compose them are almost wholly made up of the remains of countless myriads of organized beings, once enjoying light and life, like ourselves, that, in the words of Bryon,
whom
"The dust we
tread upon was once alive!"
the deeper insight they may obtain, by these or other congenial inquiries, into the exhaustless wonders of Creation, the more impressed they will become with reverential awe and gratitude towards the Almighty Creator
And
"Who
sits
above the Heavens,
To us invisible, yet dimly seen In these His glorious works!"
For
the most gratifying result of such inquiries. and inlead the mind "from Nature up to Nature's God" a devotional feeling in those who pursue them, which favourspire (Cheers.) ably influences their religious and moral character. I possess too little acquaintance with the kindred sciences of Botany and Zoology to be able to give an opinion worth anything on the degree to which the county may afford employment to the student of living genera and species. But it cannot be otherwise than desirable that local observers of these fields, likewise, of scientific research, should be put in communication with each other, and a Museum formed in which our existing Fauna and Flora, no less than those of our Ancient History, may be studied and
this, after all, is
They
appreciated.
provincial students of Natural History, that the greatest philosopher of the day, Sir John Herschel, in his admirable "Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy," speaks of the advantages possessed by local residents for acquiring and communicating correct information, as infinitely superior to those of observers of a more general character. "Those alone," he says, "who reside upon the spot, where the phenomena occur, can make such a continued series of regular observations as I
As some encouragement to
may remind them
D 2
20
is
necessary for their complete proof.
details of geological structure,
and
refer each stratum
They alone can mark all the by a careful
its fossil contents, to its true note the habits of the animals of each country, and epoch, can alone the limits of its vegetation, or obtain a satisfactory knowledge of its universal contents with a thousand other particulars essential to a complete acquaintance with our globe as a whole." And it is to the increased number of such local cultivators of science enjoying
;
and long-considered observation of
these peculiar opportunities, that he ascribes the immense progress a progress which in its of late years in the physical sciences advance cannot but entail, as Herschel goes on to remark, incalcu-
made
lable benefits
upon mankind.
Fortified with this high authority, I will venture in conclusion to urge upon aid who now favour me with their attention, to avail themselves of the advantages of this nature which their position enables them to enjoy, to take a share in labours, which, by extend-
ing the boundaries of human knowledge, hold out the promise of such vast results and not merely to lend their names and pecuniary aid to our Society though this of course is essential to its vitality but to contribute likewise their personal exertions in the furtherance of its objects. Supported, as it appears likely to be from this day's proceedings, it will be in the power of the Society, in
;
its
collective
;
workers
is
" say to one and all of you, Try to raise the reputation of our county to a level with that of the most cultivated!" (Applause.) " Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna!" Let every Wiltshireman strive to win credit for Wiltshire, by doing his best towards the illustration of her ancient annals, the preservation of her historic monuments, the instruction and mental elevation of her inhabitants. Such objects afford a worthy and a common aim to the highest as well as the least among us. Let all whose pulses beat with a love for their country, and a sense of national pride all who feel in themselves, or desire to encourage in others, noble aspirations and a preference for intellectual over sensual enjoyments, assist in the good work of which we are laying the foundation to-day; and, by all the means in their power, strive to advance the objects of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
by
capacity, to centralize the operations of scattered to advise, encourage, and report their useful labours. But it the energy of individuals that all real success is to be gained.
Let
me
The address having been concluded, amidst loud applause, The Noble MARQUIS said I may be allowed to give momentary
expression to the great delight which, indeed, every one present feel, at the address we have just now heard; so well designed to promote the objects of the Society, and to perpetuate the spirit upon which it must depend for support. You must all wish, instantaneously and unanimously, without waiting for the close
must
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of the meeting, to return your most cordial thanks to Mr. Scrope, for the address he has now delivered. (Loud cheers.) Here the Noble Marquis left the meeting amidst hearty cheering from the company, and the Chair was taken by the President
elect.
list
Rev. A. FANE, Vicar of Warminster, next rose to propose a He said there was one point which he of Yice-Presidents. was glad of an opportunity of laying before the President and the Committee. The striking peculiarity of this county was that it
was divided into parts, by its physical conformation, more effectively and completely than were the different Ridings of Yorkshire. And it was a strange thing to say that in that room, with the exception of himself and a kind friend and neighbour who had accompanied him, there was not a single gentleman present from the Southern The list of names that had been given him to part of the county. contained those of two gentlemen only from the South of propose, Wilts, and he frankly warned them, that it would require great caution on their part to avoid a separation between the two divisions of the county, as far as the present Society was concerned. Although the Southern part had been better cared for by Sir R. C. Hoare, they must not think there was nothing to be done there. There were many antiquities, many seats, and many churches,
with the lordly mistress of all the churches, the Cathedral at Salisin the Southern Division. It gave him great pleasure in saying that the first name on the list was that of one who took great interest in the restoration of the churches in the neighbourhood the Lord Bishop of the diocese (cheers.) The second name was that of one who belonged to the North, but, with a strange admixture, happened to hold the office of Chairman to the Sessions in the parish of which he (Mr. Fane) happened to be the The third belonged to the Yicar; he spoke of Sir John Awdry. The next was a gentleman from the public John Britton. North Mr. H. M. Clarke. The next was also from the North The next was Mr. Heneage, the member for the Capt. Gladstone. Northern town in which they were then met. Then they really had one from the South, for the committee could not well leave out the name of the builder of Wilton Church. Next came the names of seven gentlemen, all residing in the Northern division, and some of them in its most extreme parts. Mr. Fane then referred in complimentary terms to the admirable address by the President,
bury
parts of it really and truly struck home to listening to it, he had put his hand into his pocket, and taken out a valuable ring, which any lady might covet, and which had recently been found under the hearthstone of a cottage in the neighbourhood of Warminster. It had belonged to a man who was beheaded in the reign of Henry the Second. Just outside the door of the room in which they were then assembled was a fine
said that
and
many
him.
While
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These had been obtained from land becollection of flint fossils. an ingenious geologist, who had asked leave longing to himself, by to go over it for the purpose of searching for such remains, and who had found a perfect treasure of fossils so extensive and valuable that he (Mr. Fane) had been almost inclined to charge him a he might afterwards find. (Laughter.) per centage upon what He did trust that there would be the greatest care taken to avoid He all jealousy between the North and South of the county. trusted they would give them an opportunity of meeting in the He had been told in a whisper that the next meeting South. might be held at Salisbury. He hoped it might be so. Their object should be to unite the two parts of the county divided by Everywhere in the county, South as well as Salisbury Plain. North, there were valuable remains. Fossils were to be found under their feet, and ladies might find rings under hearthstones. He concluded by proposing that the following gen(Laughter.) tlemen should be the Vice- Presidents, viz., The Lord Bishop of
J.W. Awdry, John Britton, Esq., H. M. Clarke, Esq., Capt. J. N. Gladstone, M.P., G. H. W. Heneage, Esq., M.P., The Eight Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., Walter Long, Esq.; M.P., Joseph Neeld, Esq., M.P., E. P. Nisbet, Esq., Lieut-Col. H. S. Olivier, W. W. Salmon, Esq., T. H. S. Sotheron, Esq., M.P., and
Salisbury, Sir
Earl Bruce. With Eev. JAS. BLISS of Ogbourne, seconded the resolution. reference to the observations of Mr. Fane, he said the Committee had been most anxious that no difference should exist between the Mr. Fane was the only person North and South of the county. from the South who had condescended to accept the office of Local Invitations had been extensively sent out, but declined, Secretary. he hoped, not through jealousy on the part of the Southern division of the county. ("No, no/') The Committee were not to blame it was the fault of the gentlemen who had been communicated with, but had refused to join with them. He trusted, however, that they would yet have, in a very few weeks, a large accession from that part of the county, that was yet comparatively unrepresented. Mr. CUNNINGTON The circulars were sent rather more generally into the South than into the North. I felt, from the beginning, that it was most important such a course should be adopted. Mr. Bliss made a mistake in saying there was only one local Secretary in the South. Besides Mr. Fane, there are two secretaries at Salisbury, and one at Bishopstone; and there are eight or ten members from that division of the county. THE PRESIDENT I am sure Mr. Fane will allow that in his good;
humoured
observations, there was something rather taunting to the gentlemen who got up the Society and he must not be surprised at the degree of warmth displayed by Mr. Bliss, in repelling those taunts. It appears, however, that they consulted the South
;

;
23
as well as the North of the county and if the gentlemen from the South will now come forth and unite with the others, I am sure their accession will be hailed with gratitude.
AWDRY Being one of those whom they had just honby naming them as Vice-Presidents, thanked them for the honour conferred upon him. Mr. Fane had adverted to the fact that he (Sir J. Awdry) had the honour of presiding over his brother justices himself a North Wiltshireman, but called to that position by the kindness, and certainly the absence of local
SIR
J.
oured,
In the next (Cheers.) jealousy, of a South Wiltshire bench. their attention had been called to the physical conformation place of the county, by which a natural division was effected between the That had been aggravated by the civil separation carried parts.
he did not say improperly, but the effect had been that the had been separated, instead of being concentrated. The fact was, they did associate less than he could wish, But he, for one, or under other circumstances would have done. had no jealousy towards the South, and he believed he might say He only the same for the entire Northern part of the county.
out
local civil business
hoped that the excellent local Secretary, who had addressed them on the subject, would shortly obtain such an adhesion of members, from the South, as would remove what certainly had the appearance of jealousy on its part, although he believed it was only the appearance, and not reality. Mr. WITTEY then proposed that the Rev. W. C. Lukis and the Rev. J. E. Jackson should be appointed as General Secretaries, and he also suggested that Mr. Cunnington should be appointed to the same office. Rev. Mr. LUKIS expressed a wish to retire from the Secretaryship, pleading his incompetency, and the distance at which he lived from Devizes, the head quarters of the Society. (This was met by cries of "No, no.") Mr. CUNNINGTON said he should be quite willing to act as a local Secretary, but must beg to decline to serve in the more general
capacity.
The motion, as it originally stood, was seconded by the Rev. B. DOWDING, and adopted. The PRESIDENT said it was really to the labours of these gentlemen, who went by the comparatively unostentatious title of "secretaries/* that they look for the efficient management of the Society. All the hard work fell to them, and the general body of the members could not feel too much indebted to those gentlemen, who had accepted those more important offices, which at the same time passed under less high-sounding names than some others in the Society. Mr. KENRICK, of Melksham, next proposed the names of several
C.
gentlemen as the Committee for the year ensuing. Mr. JOHN BRITTON seconded the nomination.
He
said he per-
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Conversazione.
suaded himself they would follow up the example the temporary committee had set them in the establishment of the Society. He hoped at the next anniversary meeting of the Society, those gentlemen would be able to report that the greatest unanimity had prevailed between the two parts of the county in an eminent degree. Rev. GK GODDARD next proposed the appointment of the local
Secretaries.
Mr. FALKNER seconded the motion, which was carried. Mr. SOTHERON proposed the thanks of the meeting to the Mayor and the authorities for the use of the Hall and also to the President for the manner in which he had conducted the business of the day. He could not but hope, from the meeting of that day, and the admirable manner in which the President had acquitted himself on that his first appearance, that the Society would meet with much And long might they have the good fortune to have a prosperity.
;
them the objects of the Society in as had heard that day. (Cheers.) The MAYOR of Devizes acknowledged the vote on behalf of the municipal authorities, and assured them that the council would
President, eloquent a
who
could state to
as they
manner
always
feel
much
pleasure in placing the Hall at the disposal of the
Society.
Mr. CLARKE then proposed and Mr. MEREWETHER seconded the appointment of Lieut. -Col. Olivier as Treasurer, which appointment was duly affirmed and accepted.
THE DINNER.
At
of
half-past four o'clock, about fifty
members of the
Society, (all
were present at the meeting in the morning) sat down to a sumptuous dinner at the Bear Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. Sotheron. Immediately afterwards the company left the dinner table, and proceeded to the
"
whom
CONVERSAZIONE" AT THE HALL,
which, as at the meeting in the morning, was graced by the presence of many ladies; and the respectability of the company evinced the great interest taken, by the more educated classes, in the object of the Society. Mr. POULETT SCROPE occupied the chair, and after a few
preliminary remarks
Rev. J. E. Jackson's Address.
25
The REV.
J.
E. JACKSON, Rector of Leigh-Delamere, proceeded

:
to deliver the following address
assist, to the best of power, in setting this Society I have thought that perhaps it might be useful to lay before you, a simple statement of the purpose for which it has been
Wishing to
foot,
my
on
formed.
Its object is to promote a taste for those pursuits which are included under the general names of Natural History and Archaeology and the principle by which the Society proposes to effect this is, by bringing together occasionally, for conference and mutual information, both those who have already followed such pursuits, and the converts whom they hope to make. By Natural History is meant the history of the productions and contents of the earth the works of nature, as they are called. These, I need hardly say, are numerous beyond reckoning. They " beasts and include all the varieties of animals fowl, and creeping things and fishes;" all the varieties of trees and plants, "from the cedar of Lebanus to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ;" and all the lifeless substances of which the solid earth itself is made. The common way of classing all these is, into the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. Together they form Natural History. But by the name of Archaeology, as it is used in the title of this Society, and of others like this, is meant something of a different kind. It means the history, not of any of the works of Nature, but of some of the works of mankind themselves more particularly such as remain to us from former times, showing what was the taste, or skill, or way of life, of those who lived before us. If, then, there should be, as we hope there is, or soon will be, a number of persons who spend some of their time in the study of these things, each in his own way, and with such opportunities as they may privately have, which are sometimes not very great does it not seem reasonable that some means should be contrived, for
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enabling them to meet together, to compare and communicate, "pro bono publico," what they have learned? Mutual inquiries and explanations are very useful: we save one another trouble by them; we correct one another's errors; we give information, and take it, and such information, moreover, as is very often not to be got from books. Of course the difficulty is to bring people together from a distance, as inconvenience sometimes attends it. But they don't mind distance for other things; some of which, without in any way setting up as censors of our neighbours' ways and pursuits, we may fairly say, are, at any rate, not more rational, not more This is an effort to collect the intelligence and useful, than this. of the county, not for any political purpose, nor for mere strength pleasure, but with the view of seeing what may be done towards making better known what there is in Wiltshire, on its surface,
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or in its past history, worthy of being described and
illustrated.
I sincerely trust that this effort may prosper, because if it does so in any ordinary degree, one may see new openings, made by it, to information of an interesting kind. What will make that information interesting is, that it will concern, not distant countries which we have never seen, and perhaps may never see; but the researches and collections of a "Wiltshire Society," will relate to our own homes and neighbourhood to the homes and neighbourhood of our
friends.
is
The Natural History which we wish to learn more about that of the country which we can see out of our own windows, or from the tops of our own hills the antiquities are those which are familiar to our eyes and by name, but are by no means fully
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understood as to their origin and history. It may not be the largest or most important county in England, it may not be the most picturesque, it may not be able to boast the driest climate, nor the most elegant and harmonious language. Never mind " with all her faults, we love her still." Whether we are strangers or born in the land, it is ours, whilst we live in it, " for better or for worse." And those who have set this Society on foot desire to live in Wiltshire "for better," and not " for worse." They desire to exert themselves on its behalf, by rescuing from local oblivion what deserves to be rescued, by bringing more forward whatever is less known, and by leaving behind them, when it is their turn to depart, more information upon these subjects than they found. There is much in the county to invite those who live in it It is as liberal in its natural to pay some attention to these things. as most of the other parts of England. With respect productions to marks and memorials of former ages and former men, it can show some things that are almost peculiar to it things which speak with
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silent eloquence to cultivated
minds, asking only for a little curiis bestowed they reward us richly. Some perhaps may think that we do already know all that is to be known about the county, both naturally and archseologically. It is clear that those who have formed this Society are not of that opinion. There may be, no doubt, individuals well informed upon all such points but in the first place, such persons are not " Wise very common and in the next, they do not live for ever. men die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for others :" that is, they leave not only what they may happen to have had of the good things of life, but also what they have learned the riches of the mind as well as of the pocket the store of information which such wise men had collected by industry and inquiry. But there is this difference between the two sorts of riches, and the fates which await them the wealth of the pocket is sure enough to be looked after there is no fear of that being lost. But, unfortunately, it is not always so easy to
osity
and care
and when that
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If he has secure and to perpetuate the wealth, of a man's mind. not done that himself, before he dies if he has not put his own into such a shape that his thoughts and knowledge into shape then all his acquisitions will be for successors may make use of it ever lost. It is, therefore, a point in the intentions of this Society, to secure, if possible, the fruits of the labour of those who may have turned to invite their attention to the subjects which it would encourage them to make, for general information, a contribution from their In case of their death, it would be private store of knowledge. glad to secure such papers upon these subjects as they may have left, and which on those occasions are often overlooked and lost. It is for want of some system of collecting and preserving, that the same ground has so often to be trodden over and over again. One generation follows in the track of another makes the same inquiries reaches the same point leaves nothing for the next to start with and so no progress is made. No doubt amongst the many generations of men who have lived and died in this county before ourselves, there have been those who knew, and could have told us, all about it. I only wish they had. I wish they had only been so provident as to form a Society for handing down to their successors the conIf they had done so, we might have turned quests they had made. our attention to something else. I do not therefore think that we already know all that may be known about our county. Take one branch only of Natural History, the science of Geology by which is meant, in its widest sense, the history of the structure of the earth, but which, as the word is commonly used, means only the history of the fossils and minerals which it contains. Those who have never turned their attention to this particular subject have very little notion of the wonderful discoveries that have been made even during the last ten At the beginning of the present century, the most ridicuyears. Those curious stones which are lous ideas prevailed about fossils. now so well understood to be the remains of ancient animals and plants successively entombed in the crust of the earth, were looked upon as monstrosities, lusus naturce : and the most childish interpretations, as they now seem, were put upon them by men otherwise not wanting in knowledge. There is nothing in the history of the growth of science more remarkable than the rapid progress of Geology. Even those who at first opposed it as hostile to Scriptural truth, have found that it is more of an auxiliary than an enemy. The very structure of the earth, (i.e., of the crust of it,) so beautifully arranged as it is to provide us who move on the surface, with every variety of material, every variety of useful produce this circumstance, as well as the marks of order and adaptation to their purpose, found in the animals and plants whose remains occur in a fossil state all this bespeaks, as strongly as any example that E 2
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the hand of a beneficent and wise designing Providence, acting from the first. Geology has a special claim to the attention of Wiltshiremen. I speak within hearing of some who may easily contradict me but without fear of any such interruption I say, that in no part of England did the science receive an earlier or stronger impulse than
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Your own neighbourhood supplied in this very neighbourhood. The district between the men who first detected its true principles. Warminster, Bath, and Pewsey, included the residences of three men, whose names have been mentioned in connection with this
particular point at metropolitan associations ; and who should not be forgotten by a Society formed on the very spot near which they Those three men were the late Mr. lived. Smith, engineer
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of the Kennet and Avon Canal the Rev. Mr. Richardson, Rector To their of Farleigh; and the Rev. Mr. Townsend, of Pewsey. industry and power of original observation, more especially to those of Mr. Smith, we owe the first table of regular stratification, and the first geological map of England. Stratification, i.e., the succession of the different layers of rock and earth, in a certain uniform and it was arrived order, is one of the great principles of Geology at in the right way, by experiment. It is the foundation on which a great deal has no doubt since been laid by others, but that was the foundation, and those were the men who laid it. Their observations and experiments were carried on very much in the district I have described nor could you easily find a better The different layers or coats The reason is this for the purpose. of which the earth is formed, and which follow one another like the leaves of a book, do not lie exactly flat one upon the other, as flat as when the book lies on the table, but they lie edgewise so that the edges, first of one, and then of another, appear in succession upon the surface of the earth. It is over these that we travel when we
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pass from chalk to green sand, green sand to freestone, and so on. They have a considerable breadth, sometimes extending for many miles. Now it so happens that in this part of England they are
narrower than elsewhere, and consequently they approach nearer to one another something like the ends of the leaves of a lady's fan. You have therefore more of them brought together within easy reach. Within ten or twelve miles north-east or south-west of Bradford, you may see almost every variety of the fossil-bearing strata of England. In Somersetshire the varieties of rock are still and I have often heard Dr. Buckland say that he knew no greater; better school for beginners in Geology than that county. But we must not meddle with Somerset, for they have a "Natural History and Archaeological Society" of their own; who will be However we do not covet it, jealous if we poach upon their manor. for there is plenty of game at home. In proof of this that is, to show the richness of fossiliferous Wiltshire I cannot here forbear

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mention a collection of fossils formed chiefly in the neighbourhood of Bradford by the late Mr. Channing Pearce, a surgeon of that town. I have had many opportunities of seeing it, having lived for several years at no great distance from that place: and a more Mr. Pearce died some beautiful private collection I never did see. and his museum was removed to Bath, where, I believe, years ago, are in Somerset again; but we have it still remains entire. full right to go there this time, for the collection I speak of was undoubtedly formed in this county. But you who live at Devizes need not follow Mr Pearce's fossils to Bath for you have in your own town, a private museum, which, I speak so far as it goes, may challenge competition with any other.
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of that which
is,
Cunnington
and which
of course, well known as formed by Mr. is one instance more of the abundance
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and
variety of the illustrations which your own neighbourhood presents, to tempt you to the study of this branch of Natural History. Though it is one of the latest that has been brought forward in this country, and is therefore in that sense very young; yet in another, Geology is extremely old ; for it deals with things that are of immense Compared with fossil organic remains, those which we antiquity. commonly call Antiquities are absolutely modern. As for Nineveh This will not I hope deter you from it is a history of yesterday. approaching with respect, the Archseology of Wiltshire, i.e., the study of those monuments which owe their origin to the art and labour of mankind. Standing as we do within a few miles of British earthworks, temples and camps of Roman ways and stations of cathedrals and churches built in Saxon and Norman times; of the remains of
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castles, religious houses, and residences of ancient gentry, all more or less connected with past English History; it is needless to say
who are curious in such matters have surely plenty here to inquire into and those who are not curious have plenty to tempt them to become so. It is a little strange that such places are, so often as they are, allowed to crumble to pieces and disappear, without its being ascertained when they were built, who lived in them, and how they were It is remarkable that standing as they have done for so destroyed.
that those
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many years, their history has not long since been fixed with accuracy, and placed within easy reach of all who wish to know it. I believe that people even of the commonest sort, who have no leisure or means
of attending to such studies themselves, still like to hear what others are able to tell them about objects of antiquity, with the sight of which they are familiar. No places are more in favour with holidayfolk than a picturesque old monastery, or castle yard. There is a sort of charm about ivy-covered towers and mouldering arches;
where great people once lived, though who they were nobody knows and where great deeds were done, though what they were nobody
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About such places there is very often nothing to be learnt tell. upon the spot by the visitor but some trumpery story some exag-
gerated or distorted tradition. Indeed this is sometimes the case, I am sorry to say, even with buildings whose history has been written but so long as books are published in so costly a style that none but the wealthiest can afford to buy them, small people are
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remain ignorant. I remember once visiting Glastonbury Abbey, a place whose history has been pretty well ascertained in fine folio volumes, and I was informed by the enlightened individual who conducted me over the ruins (and to whom of course I was obliged to make, for his information, a valuable return), that the Abbey had been built, "as he'd heer'd tell," by Oliver Cromwell. "Then" said I, "who do they say pulled it down?" He "warn't quite sure, but did believe it war William Norman." Now that the county of Somerset has its Archaeological Society, we may presume that no such distressing confusion of national history may ever occur again, to shock the nerves of visitors. I mention this absurdity not so much for its own sake, as because it leads one to think whether one of the uses of such a Society as the present may not perhaps be that of making local information better known; and putting it within reach of many who can't afford to pay much for it. It is (as I have already said) not only literary and educated people who like to know about their own neighbourhood, but I do believe that speculations upon old castle and abbey stories often furnish evening talk for cottage firesides. In almost every parish you have somebody or other to play the part of "Old Mortality," who picks up fragments of tradition, and is the oracle of past times: who takes pride in "minding an old house;" or "a deal more stained glass in the church windows, than there is now;" or who has, perhaps, got some wonderful treasure of an old writing, coins that have been dug up, and the like. One meets with such people very often.
likely to
so again, when newspapers contain, as they sometimes do, about some matter of local curiosity, you will find that such articles are read with interest by the people of the place to which they relate. All this shows that the desire to know something about their homes and neighbourhood is popular enough and that all such persons want is only some cheap publication, to furnish them with the rational amusement. Newspapers are, no doubt, useful in this way, as they now-a-days fall into everybody's hands.
articles
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And
But being too cumbrous in size for common preservation, they are read and thrown aside. Many articles again, and notices of county history and antiquities, find their way to magazines and other periodicals. Perhaps some means might be devised by which such communications might
appear not in remote, but in local publications. If all that is scattered here or there were collected and embodied, so that any one
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and if, besides folio his hand upon it when he wanted it volumes, costing their tens and twenties of guineas, for the gratification of the wealthy, there were Wiltshire History of a cheaper sort many more would be gratified by this kind of literature than can possibly be now; and so another rational object of the Society would be answered. This leads me, with your permission, to enter a little more upon the Topography of the County. By Topography is meant a description of any district, its towns and villages. This includes a great many things the history of memorable places, persons, and events the descent of manors and lands through successive families; the history of buildings, ecclesiastical, military, and civil; the charitable foundations, ancient In the mirror of such description usages, language, coinage, &c. the reader sees the reflection of past times an epitome of the changes
might lay
which have raised what it is now.
his country
from what
it
was centuries ago, to
It is the business of a Topographer to drag, as it were, the pool of Lethe; to recover facts and events that have fallen into that melancholy receptacle of things forgotten. He has not merely, like the gazetteer, to give the names of parishes, the number of acres, and the distance from a post town, but to search, far and near, for names and circumstances, form these into some orderly outline, then fill it up with such connecting narrative, that the reader's mind shall see, as in a picture, the history of the place from beginning to end. Every parish in England has some history belonging to it; and almost every one contains some peculiar relic or fragment; some curious church or cross; some battle field, old mound, or the like. In new countries, like America, English people have no ancient local recollections of that kind. They have noble scenery, greater novelty in animals, plants, and minerals; a fine field for Natural In England, in History, but a very barren one for Archaeology. the old country, every village has some story to tell. It is certainly so in Wiltshire. Well, then, what has been done for the Topography of this have, first of all, the history of the lower part of it, county? in the splendid volumes of the late Sir E. C. Hoare, of published Of the merits of that work it scarcely becomes me to Stourhead. Of course in so large and laborious an undertaking, imperspeak. fections must be expected. But speaking of it as a whole, it is an important and valuable history. It is however got up in a style unnecessarily expensive ; the effect being that few can afford to buy it, and those who do, soon discover that by ordinary compression and a different arrangement, it might have been easily presented to the public in a more manageable size and for much less money. Still this, as well as another work, called " Ancient Wiltshire," to the preparation of which, the late Mr. Cunnington contributed so much, reflect the highest credit upon the patriotic gentleman
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I only regret that the information which bear. contain is not also placed within reach of the more ordinary they With reference to this Society and any project which purchaser. it may by-and-by entertain of finishing the History of the County, it is to be hoped that the gentlemen of Southern Wiltshire will not altogether abandon us of the North, and rub their hands with complacency because their History is written. The privilege of enjoying, as they do, light and knowledge, ought rather to inspire them with an active compassion for us who are sitting in darkness. Yet not in total darkness for a few rays of topographical light have from time to time broken out to illuminate even our Northern have the labours of Mr. Britton, in the " Beauties hemisphere. of England and Wales/' and the " Beauties of Wilts :" The History of Lacock, by Nichols and Bowles The Histories of Bremhill and Devizes has its annalist in Mr. James Waylen, of Malmesbury. who, (as I believe I may say, having seen it advertised,) is about to confer the same service upon Marlborough and its district. To these we may add the History of a place, which enjoys the (now very unusual) distinction of having belonged to one and the same family for 500 years a family which has given to England two Earls, and I know not how many Barons, one Chancellor, four
whose name they
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Treasurers, two Chief Justices, one Archbishop, two Bishops, five Knights of the Garter, and numerous Bannerets. Such a Wiltshire parish deserved a separate volume from an accomplished historian and Castle Combe has found one in Mr. Poulett Scrope. Several publications have issued from the private press of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. but they have been limited to so few One of these copies that it is now very difficult to meet with them. " Wiltshire is of great utility, Institutions," as it is viz., the called, being the Ecclesiastical Register of Salisbury transferred to print. The permission to make such an use of that record was most creditable to Bishop Fisher, and Mr. Davies, the late Registrar. It is of great assistance to any one interested in our Topography,
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as
it
supplies an important
key
to
Manorial history.
Of another book printed by
Sir
Thomas
Phillipps I
must now
speak more at length, as it relates especially to the Northern part of the county. It also enables me to introduce to your notice a worthy of former days, who ever deserves kind mention by all Wiltshiremen John Aubrey, of Easton Piers. It is impossible to refer to the subject of Wiltshire history without mentioning Aubrey and it would be ungrateful to omit him, for no man was more attached to his native county, or laboured more
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though in an odd way of his own, on its behalf. born in 1626, on the site of what is now the farm-house of Lower Easton Piers, in the parish of Kington St. Michael, three miles north of Chippenham. Though by position and education, a gentleman, he was from an early period of his life so involved in
diligently,
He was

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and trouble that he was never independent and never at a barrister, without anything to do so spent his time in riding to and fro from Easton Piers to another property which he had near Salisbury, and in the enjoyment of visits and converHe was an accomplished man, sation at the houses of the gentry. a good classical scholar, knew French and Heraldry, could draw, and had a quaint way of expressing himself which makes his deHe was a quick observer of things, but scriptions amusing enough. often in such a hurry to make them his own, that he did not very He was unmarried, but had, stop to observe them quite accurately. The as he tells us, several hairbreadth escapes from matrimony. history of these little adventures is not preserved to us, but they seem to have been the cause to him of infinite trouble. Being at length reduced to poverty, he spent the latter years of life no one could tell how finding shelter, in adversity, under the roof of the
He was
Earl of Abingdon at Lavington, or of the Longs at Draycote. He left behind him a miscellaneous collection in manuscript, which he bequeathed to the Ashmolean Library, then newly formed, There they are still preserved, and I lately had occaat Oxford. The manuscript room is not one of those sion to pay them a visit. of the Institution which are usually shown to the public, but parts having expressed a wish to go down into it, to see our friend's The remains, I was immediately and politely permitted to do so. descent is down a dark and crooked staircase lined with dingy old volumes on astrology and magic; and after passing through one or two gloomy apartments, also full of the same valuable lore, I came It is a small wooden cupboard, to the den in which he is confined. about two foot square. Against the door of it hangs a miniature, of which, by the courtesy of Mr. Duncan the Principal Keeper of the Museum, I was allowed to take a Daguerreotype. That likeness I have now in my hand, and it is a valuable memorial, being the only one that has ever been made. Inside the little cupboard are the relics of the toil of our Wiltshire antiquary, and a strange medley they
are.
In
illegible,
quire, or on scraps of paper, bound and unbound, legible and could you see at once the man in his memoranda.
He
pleased, a very fine, strong, clear hand ; but this he did not always please to do, writing, for the most part, as people
write,
when he
who write a great deal and in a hurry, i.e., very badly. The particular manuscript which I was most curious to see was that to which he gave the name of "An Essay towards the History of
will
North Wilts."
curious
Aubrey made at different times a great many memoranda about the Natural History of Wilts, (extracts
from which were published a few years ago ;) but he was also anxious to preserve the Archeology and Topography of the county, and for this purpose he had at an earlier period of his life, made a sort of attempt to form a company on the principle of division of labour, as we hope we are doing now. What is still more to the purpose, F
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set it on foot in this very town ; but how long it lasted, and how He says, in the preface ended, you shall hear in his own words. "At a meeting of gentlemen at the Devises to the "Collections" " for choosing of Knights of the Shire, in March 1659 (just 200 years it was wished by some, that this county, wherein are many ago,)" observable antiquities, should be surveyed in imitation of Mr. too great a Dugdale's Illustrations of Warwickshire. But it being task for one man, Mr. Yorke, Councellor at Lawe, and a lover He of this kind of learning, advised to have the labour divided. I would undertake himselfe would undertake the Middle Division. the North. Thos. Gore, Esq., Jeffery Daniel, Esq., and Sir John Erneley would be assistants. Judge Nicholas was the greatest antiquary as to Evidences that this county hath had in memory of man, and had taken notes of all the ancient deeds that came to his hands. Mr. Yorke had taken some memorandums in this kind too. Both now dead. 'Tis pitie that those papers should fall into the But this good merciless hands of women and be put under pies. design vanished over their pipes, and was never thought of since." Though Aubrey's smoking friends deserted him, he went on by himself with his design, so far as regarded the Northern part of "Wilts; and the collections which he made form the manuscript which led me to introduce the mention of him here. It consists of one folio volume, marked A. Another, to which he constantly " Liber refers as B," has been lost for many years. There are two parts in the one that is left ; both of which have been printed by The way in which Aubrey made his collections Sir T. Phillipps. He took a commonplace book ; entered seems to have been this at the head of separate pages the names of the different parishes in the district, and then jotted down from time to time any notice or memorandum that he happened to meet with about any of those Of no one of them is there anything at all approaching to places. a regular account. Sometimes his memoranda are merely inscriptions in the church, sometimes a Latin deed, sometimes a bit of
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village gossip ; in fact, a miscellaneous gathering which he never digested or finished, and which he never himself regarded as anything more than a mere accumulation of occasional notes. In one
point the manuscript
is very valuable. Aubrey drew and coloured with his own hand, all the armorial bearings and figures that he found in the churches and with these are intermingled a few rough outline sketches of old houses of the gentry that have now long
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since disappeared. In Sir Thomas Phillipps's edition (which indeed is the only one ever printed,) these curious illustrations, 700 in number,
nearly
are almost wholly omitted, though descriptions of most of them, in words, are inserted but the very use of Heraldric blazonry being,
:
to speak to the mind through the eye, the omission of the figured illustrations themselves, is, so far, a great deduction from the value
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As to the original memorials which Aubrey saw in of the book. the windows of churches and houses, they have nearly all been destroyed long ago so that his collections, if properly put forth, would be a curious and interesting volume. I have lately taken the trouble to make at Oxford, a correct copy both of the manuand they form the contents script itself, and of all the illustrations I merely mention and exhibit of the portfolio which I have here. them now, as we are talking about Wiltshire Topography, and are
; ;
wishing to know what we have got upon that subject. The company will be so kind as to pardon me, if I take this opportunity of saying a few words on another matter, much connected with Wiltshire history, which has occupied my attention for a
considerable time.
When
first
came
happened been formerly the property of the celebrated family of the Hungerfords. They and their history were at that time totally new to me but having under my immediate notice the interesting chapel and monuments there, we very soon became better acquainted. In following up the acquaintance, I found relics of them of their name and connexion scattered all over this county, and very
;
to settle at Farleigh Castle, a place well
into this part of England, I known as having
to say that there is hardly a corner of it, with which, at some period or other, or in some way or other, they were not associated. good deal about them, their pedigree, and family history, has been printed in a little work of Sir E,. C. Hoare's but it is not accurate and of their estates his notices are most inadequate. It was this point which rather took and I set to work to find out, if I could, all that they my fancy had really had, and where. rent-roll of the reign of James I., I found in the library of Col. Houlton another still older, of the reign of Elizabeth, I discovered at the bottom of an old box full of rubbish at Farleigh but a more perfect and valuable register was kindly lent to me by the Right Hon. Henry Hobhouse, of Hadspen, near Bruton; who, upon my case being properly stated to him, with the greatest courtesy placed the volume in my hands to use and consult at convenience. I am induced to mention this circum stance more emphatically, because one of the greatest difficulties that persons engaged in such researches have to contend against, is that of obtaining access to documents in private hands. It is, of course, and ought to be, a delicate matter, to ask for a sight of family documents. Title-deeds are dangerous things to meddle with. In most cases, however, that have fallen under my own notice, the documents that are of most value to an antiquary, are those which, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, are of very little importance to the owners of estates, so far as regards their title. Antiquaries do not deal much in modernities. Their fancy lies rather towards those venerable stores of parchment which have been F 2
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been supplyreposing for centuries in dust and cobwebs, or have ing dinner after dinner to successive generations of rats and mice. Still, it it impossible always to know where to draw the line between those deeds that are of importance to a title, and those that are not and as the possessors of the documents cannot be expected to know where the line should be drawn, there is of course on the one hand, a natural hesitation in showing ancient documents and In there ought to be, on the other, a delicacy in asking for them. a case like the one I am speaking of, the fear of any risk is certainly very slight, where a family has disappeared a long time ago, and where the evidences refer so far back as to the Wars of the Roses. Still, the permission to see such a thing is a favour which those to whom it is allowed, are bound to acknowledge with gratitude more especially when, as in this instance, it is made greater
; ; ;
by the permission
to carry the volume off and use it at leisure. For I need hardly say that, without such permission, the privilege granted would, in some cases, be no privilege at all. No person can possibly make much, in a few hours, of a large pile of illegible writing. He may take hasty extracts of names, and dates but without leisure for examination, he cannot give accurate statements, and without accurate statements, what is topography worth ? In the Register of which I am speaking, there were nearly 1,300 deeds, some of very great length and curiosity, almost all in Latin and Norman-French, and engrossed in those crabbed and tortuous characters under which it has always been thought necessary to disguise the already mysterious meaning of legal documents. They related entirely to the estates of the Hungerford family. From the sources, then, which I have mentioned, by personal visits to many places, by collecting in the usual way from public records, wills, registers, and other similarly dark receptacles, which people of this peculiar taste are compelled to dive into, I have, I believe, succeeded in accumulating, pretty nearly, an account of the scattered estates, both in this and other counties, that, first and The subject is one so much connected last, belonged to this family. with Wiltshire, that I have no doubt, there are many gentlemen in this county, who must possess deeds and papers that would correct I have brought my collections with me points of imperfection. upon this occasion, partly for the purpose of enlisting public interest in my own favour, so far as to say that if any gentleman should hereafter meet with any documents relating to the Hungerford family, or any memorial of them, he may now know where such information will be acceptable and I have also thought that on a matter which so thoroughly belongs to the history of the county, it was right to take this opportunity of making known what has been done, in order to save others the trouble of doing it
; ;
again.
Of one thing
I hope
we
shall all be convinced, after
what I have

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taken the liberty now of saying to you, which is this If we desire to see the History of Wiltshire finished, the best, though I will not say the only way to do it, is by such a cooperation as that which this Society contemplates. I do not mean that all its members are to turn writers and antiquaries, and to involve themselves in wearisome researches, any more than that all its members are to turn geologists and beat Mr. Wm. Cunnington's collection. Neither do I mean to say that I allude to pecuniary assistance from funds of this Society, as likely to be of such amount as would be sufficient to bring out any work of magnitude, were any such forthcoming. The funds of the Society will probably be, for some time, only enough for its ordinary expenses, or to be laid out in purchasing objects of local interest, as books or collections which it may be desirable to rescue from destruction. To meet any publication of magnitude, such as the additional volume or volumes which would be necessary to complete the history of Wilts in the style of Sir R. C. Hoare's work, or even in one much less costly, we must hope that other means will be forthcoming, when they are wanted. And therefore in alluding to the subject of aid to be expected from this Society, it is not so much pecuniary assistance that I mean, as help of another kind. I mean that help and encouragement which may be derived from a concurrence of persons of similar pursuits; by exciting general
interest; by making local history and antiquities popular; by making them better known in their details by stirring up the spirit and the good will of the many, to favour the labours of the few.
;
It is in the power of the landed gentry who may join us, to assist, by communicating (of course under necessary restrictions and when properly applied to) any curious information that may be lying on the shelves of their muniment rooms. It is in the power of gentlemen of the profession of the law to assist, by their local knowledge of property, and by the preservation of ancient documents that fall into their hands. It is in the power of the Clergy to render considerable aid; and they will, I am sure, permit me to suggest one mode of doing it. The church is always a building of importance, and very often
the only one, in a parish. It is a repository of parish history. Its monuments and memorials, of whatever kind, often very interesting in themselves as works of art, guide us by the inscriptions, the
names, dates, and events, which they mention, and still more frequently perhaps by the heraldic emblems which they contain, to the facts and truth of the remote past. With respect to the ancient heraldry on church windows, and other devices in wood and stone that may be found about the building, these are not generally intelligible, except to persons who have made county genealogy part of their study. When this has been done, it is curious how slight an indication is required to put an antiquary on the right scent. If he has a quick eye and knows
38
Conversazione. to use
it,
1 a glance round the church will show him what ground and what families he is at liberty to connect with the upon, High up in the tracery of some window, or far back in some place. neglected corner, he will spy a bit of coloured glass, half covered with whitewash, turned inside-out or topsy-turvy by some un-archaeological glazier, a fragment which nobody perhaps had thought of noticing before he asks the clerk for a ladder, which when that
how
he
is
astonished functionary has produced, your antiquary creeps up, puts on his spectacles, scrapes off the whitewash, detects some faded mark of ancient chivalry, something which tells him, as plainly as if he were reading it in a book, that he is within an old dominion of Seymour, or Hungerford, or Scrope. Our parish churches are therefore places that require very close examination ; but the labour of visiting so many, of copying inscripof doing all this, perhaps, in tions, and of describing architecture, unfortunate weather, or under pressure of time, is a great tax upon the patience of a single individual who after all can only have one pair of hands and one pair of eyes. It is, therefore, in the power of the resident clergy, either by themselves, or some one under their direction, to be well acquainted with all the history and contents of their own churches. They are on the spot know the local history can easily get drawings and copies of memorials. It would be no very great trouble to put these things down, on " rainy days, in a book kept for the purpose, and marked parochial, not to be removed or destroyed." If this had been done years ago, and if every parish chest contained, besides the official registers, some such archaeological volume, in which successive incumbents had only entered the several changes and events (and few enough they often are that would require to be noted) still, if this had been done, or even were now to be done, you may easily conceive how useful and welcome a mass of materials would be ready, whenever the general dealer in literature of this kind should go his round, with the intention of embodying the collections in one Nobody but those who have tried it can tell systematic history. how much trouble it takes to prepare, correctly and properly, the What then must it materials for the memoir even of one parish. be where there are hundreds to be described ? And how greatly is that difficulty increased when centuries have passed away when family after family has died out, when their very names have been lost from the list of living county gentry, and the site of their once hospitable castle or mansion has become a pasture for flocks leaving only tradition to tell the tale.
; ;
Certainly, an imaginative mind may fill up blanks, and supply the want of regular history. Some writer of works of fancy may visit our ancient monuments, strike his magic wand upon them, and conjure up for our delight the forms and sights of ancient days.
Imagination
may do anything
and
to digress for one
mo-
39
ment, whilst the word is on my lips, I cannot help expressing my have, surprise that it has not done something for Wiltshire. or rather I am ashamed to say we had, one of the most singular monuments of remote history that the whole world could exhibit. The Temple that once stood at Avebury was, perhaps unique. It was a most extraordinary structure, connected probably with the And when any person earliest inhabitants of our native land. contrasts in his mind the wonderful transformation that has passed over England; the changes that this little island now presents, timing as it does with civilization and wealth commanding as it I say that is almost does, the commerce and luxury of the world without the help of a strong imagination, to carry oneimpossible, want some author of Ivanself back to the days of Avebury. hoe to bring those days back before our eyes. Of the destruction of that temple I am ashamed to speak. It was an act of barbarism : a national disgrace. But in wandering to Avebury we are getting upon a subject and upon times too remote to be enlightened by historical researches. No illustrations of that dark period have come down to us, and the topographer is not at liberty to invent them. He must keep to
We
We
and produce evidence for his statements. I was saying that was very hard and very weary work, when the enquiry extends over a large district, to recover evidence and materials for history. It is so even with respect to times comparatively modern for the memory of persons and things soon passes away. With the cirfacts,
it
:
cumstances of our
own neighbourhoods
as
they
now
are
with the
we are all of us familiar enough. parishes, the places, the events But it is this very familiarity which blinds us. In a few years, a very few, much fewer than we are apt to think of, all that we now
of local events and persons will have faded into oblivion, unless some one records it. The changes that are daily taking place, and that seem to us to be mere matters of course, following one another as naturally as wave follows wave, amount in the course even of half a century, almost to obliteration to an effacement almost as complete as that which those waves make upon the sand of the sea-shore. new order of things soon grows up, and of the
know
former one nothing but fragments can be recovered. Some Aubrey jots down a few passing memoranda of his own times things which those about him would hardly take notice of, knowing them so well as they do, and supposing that they will always be as well known as they are but let a couple of hundred years go by, and what was common and notorious has grown to be antique and curious. I have addressed you now at an unpardonable length upon the particular subject of Wiltshire Topography, having been, as it is by this time too late to explain, rather given to pursuits of that kind myself. It is with pleasure that I join this Society, hoping that it may soon number amongst the other rational objects which
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40
it
Conversazione.
of some effort to complete the History of the proposes, that County. The use that it may be of in this respect, I have endeavoured to describe. It is, in a word, that of effecting, by the cooperation of many, a task which you will not easily find one person fit to undertake alone. Not that such a task is beyond the strength of one person, if he had life before him, and certainty of health and encouragement. The emdescribed part of Wiltshire is not so frightBut it needs no oracle to tell you, that many are fully large. better than one, when hard work is to be done. One able-bodied man, or a man and a boy, might make your branch railway from Devizes to Melksham but I think none of us would live to ride upon it. And so a single person may write the history of the hundred-andfifty or more of parishes that remain to be described in this part of the county. But some of us, at all events, would not live to read it. It is a task which requires a number of opportunities and qualifications which are more likely to be found in several persons than And even if any one possessed them, yet time and in any one. The very fondness for health and eyesight are perishable things. such studies will itself also sometimes wear off; and if in addition to these infirmities the writer is also liable to be chilled by the indifference of those whom his labours chiefly concern, no wonder that he retires from the task, even if he does not sink under it. Several
;
have attempted large undertakings single-handed, and have sunk under them and that perhaps may explain to us how it comes to All pass that so many of our county histories are still incomplete. this seems to warn us that the best way is, to try what union of industry, and union of accomplishments may do; to collect the scattered elements of strength, and to set several to work instead of one. That is what I believe to be the principle and object of the
;
present Society."
On sitting down, a vote of thanks was moved to the Rev. gentleman by the Recorder of Devizes, which the Chairman pronounced
carried by acclamation, and expressed his belief that the general Archaeological History of the County, which Mr. Jackson hoped would result from the combined labours of the Society, would be accomplished at no very distant period. He then called on any lady or gentleman who wished to make any remark on Mr. Jackson's address to do so, and no one responding to the call, he requested the Rev. A. FANE to address the meeting, which he did, to the great gratification of the company illustrating, in the course of his remarks, the manner in which country clergymen might assist in the work Mr. Jackson had suggested, by a short but vivid description of Boyton Church, built by one of the Giffards, whose tomb, with the effigy of the cross-legged knight and the mastiff, afforded a theme for a glowing account of his gallant deeds in the Holy Land, and the unfortunate fate of his nephew, who, being in rebellion with other Barons against his Sovereign, was taken and
On
the
Ornithology of Wilts.
41
This was coupled with such a humorous account of the village tradition connected with the effigies, as to make his hearers look with anxiety for the more full and elaborate account of the structure in question, which the Rev. gentleman has promised. In conclusion, the manner was shown in which his own Archaeological investigation afforded a clue to the origin of this tradition, which these villagers believed with an almost religious perand the way in which such a Society as the Archaeological tinacity was calculated to sweep away these dim legends, and leave the mind more open for the reception of a higher and holier belief. Tea was provided in an ante-room for such of the company as required this refreshment, and at ten o'clock thanks were given to the Chairman, and the company separated.
beheaded at Gloucester.
ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF WILTS.

By
If Wiltshire
logical
is
the Rev. A. C. SMITH, Local Secretary.
preeminent among other counties for
its
Archaeo-
Remains (as it undoubtedly is), presenting to the antiquary such numerous and highly interesting relics of by-gone ages, so I
think
it
cannot be disputed that
it
offers to the natural historian
no
an ample field for his researches, to whatever branch of Natural History he may devote his attention. Now it is an undisputed fact in Zoology as I may say, in Natuless
generally that those districts afford the greatest of species which comprise the greatest variety of scenery ; variety for as some kinds of creatures prefer an open plain, others a sequestered valley, as some delight in the recesses of deep woods, others court the margin of streams, and all these are usually to be found in their own peculiar locality; the Zoologist in search of particular species will devote his attention to the country suited to the habits of the animal of which he is in search ; thus to confine myself to Ornithology (to which I am now anxious more particularly to direct your attention) and to take an example which must be familiar to everyone, who would think of beating a thick wood for snipe or of wading through a marsh for partridges ? It is the same with every species of bird, as well as with all quadrupeds, reptiles, insects and other inferior tribes in the animal kingdom. The Almighty Creator has peopled with the living creatures which He has made, no less the wild dreary plain, than the sunny smiling valley, no less the bleak open down, than the sheltered sequestered nook. I myself have found specimens of animal life far above vegetation amongst the eternal snows of the Swiss Alps, 9000 feet
ral
History
42
above the
On
the
Ornithology of Wilts,
sea, and on the immense deserts of rock and snow, comEven more than this, that indethe Norwegian "fjelds." posing De Saussure, who first surmounted the avalanches fatigable naturalist, and glaciers, which presented, till then, an impassable barrier to the ascent of Mont Blanc, discovered on the very top of that glorious mountain several minute insects, revelling in the cold and rarified Now air of that exalted spot, upwards of 15,000 feet above the sea. if there are living creatures to be found in every kind of country, in remote, inhospitable, and almost inaccessible rocks and snows, as well as in more genial and milder regions, and if each creature, of whatever class and however minute, is still most wonderfully formed and fitted for the particular locality assigned to it, we may assert again, without fear of contradiction, that the district which comprises the greatest variety of scenery, will also be found to afford I have been induced to digress a the greatest variety of species. little on this point, because I would clearly show that an opinion which I have heard frequently expressed with regard to this county is not tenable, viz., that whereas the greater part of it is composed of bleak open downs, therefore it is impossible there should be a good field of research for the naturalist. Now I contend that Wiltshire is especially rich in Ornithological productions ; and for the same reason I doubt not in the productions of other branches of Zoology, because of that great diversity of scenery, which manifestly belongs to it. It is scarcely necessary for me standing in the very midst of the county, to call attention to this fact. have, it is true, our broad expanding downs (and what native of Wiltshire does not glory in them?) but we have at the same time our richly-timbered enclosed vales if we have hill we have also dale if we have open From this very plains we have also large woods and thick forests. of scenery, we should expect to find a variety of variety, then, species of birds, and such is certainly the result of our inquiries. Taking into consideration that this is an inland district, and therefore cannot be expected to abound in birds whose habitat is the sea and sea- shore, I maintain that Wiltshire yields to no other in
We
;
the
number and variety of the species of birds to be found there, and I now proceed to prove this more in detail. Of the five orders into which birds are commonly divided, three compose that large class called the "Land Birds," and two the "Water Birds." Now the work which is at this present day almost universally accepted by Ornithologists as their manual and book of reference (I mean YarrelTs British Birds,) contains in the last edition, published and revised up to 1845, a list of 171 land This list contains the names not only of every bird which birds. inhabits this country throughout the year, or which being migratory is a periodical sojourner here during the summer or winter, or an occasional visitant, passing us on its way to northern or southern latitudes, but also of every bird which has ever been seen in this country. If an accidental straggler from Africa or America
By
the Rev.
A.
C.
Smith.
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happening to fall in with a storm of wind should be hurried out of its course, and carried to our shores, that one single occurrence suffices at the present day to place its name on our British list. I remark not now on the benefit or disadvantage to science of such a method; I only state that this is the method adopted by our British Ornithologists, and that by this means three or four new And yet notwithstanding species are annually added to our list. this modern method of swelling the list of British birds, and that with such additions to it from year to year, the last edition of our chief Ornithological work contains but 171 land birds, I have been enabled without difficulty and somewhat hurriedly to verify the existence of above 100 species in this county: doubtless by more
extended inquiry this Wiltshire list might be still very much enlarged; but the fact of above 100 land birds being known to exist in the county is quite enough to prove the object of this paper that "Wiltshire presents a very good field for Ornithology. Of the two orders composing the other class of birds, I mean the "water birds," it cannot be expected, as I before said, that this, as an inland district, should present a very large supply. Still even of these, there are some families (as \:he Plovers) which affect our
open downs to a great degree, and there are others of essentially sea birds (as the Gulls and Terns) which are very frequent visitors. Besides this we have an occasional visit from many other varieties of water birds continually occurring; so that, again, the diligent Ornithologist, though he confine his observations to his own county, will not unfrequently meet with specimens of birds whose more peculiar domain is the sea and the sea shore. Another and a strong proof of the favourable retreat afforded by this district of England to certain species of birds, and one which by no means must be omitted in speaking of its Ornithology is, that for a great number of years our downs were the resort of that glorious bird, the Great Bustard, and though of late years it has most unhappily become extinct in Great Britain, in consequence of the draining, enclosing, and cultivating of our waste lands yet the downs of Wilts deserve honourable mention as one of its last
;
strongholds.
Now
with
all
these facts before us,
it is
hardly necessary for
me
remark again, that Wiltshire does offer a very large field to the In great measure, too, it is an open and inquiring Ornithologist. an untrodden field for though in speaking of its Ornithology, one
to
;
not be silent of him, who, at the close of the last century, in an adjoining shire, was the great promoter and scientific observer of Natural History and Antiquities, and whose inquiries extended into Wiltshire (I mean Gilbert White, the author of the charming Natural History of Selborne :) and though here we may recollect with pleasure that the zealous naturalist and talented author of the Ornithological dictionary published in the early part of the present century Col. Montagu was a native as well as an
may
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On
the Ornithology of Wilts.
inhabitant of Wiltshire ; yet since their time, in the rapid strides made of late in every branch of Natural History, and in none more than in the one of which I am speaking, partly owing to the exertions of these industrious and accurate observers, there have been but few in this county who have given much attention to this branch of science. If, then, the county abounds in Ornithological riches, and the field of research for these riches has been of late but little trodden, I would earnestly hope that the Inauguration of this Society may prove the beginning of better things, and stir up some amongst us to more diligent inquiry. I am convinced that Ornithology is a
most fascinating and interesting study, carrying its votaries along the most pleasant paths, and adding tenfold interest to every walk.
that all birds are alike, exin size and colour the casual observer may imagine that in cept this pursuit there can be little to learn ; but the truth is, that in all pursuits of this kind, and certainly not the least so, in the one before us, the farther he advances, the more he sees to admire, the more he sees how little he knows. Let him examine the plumage
;
The unobservant passer-by may think
of a bird, let
its
it
him take a
;
single feather,
its
mysterious colouring,
how
Let him examine the different methods of nidrfication adopted by the different species, how every species adopts a method peculiar to itself, yet one which is exactly followed by all the members comprising that species. What consummate skill and ingenuity are displayed in the construction of their nests Or to take how beautiful and curious and varied are their eggs a hurried glance at the five great orders or divisions, into which birds are commonly divided. Is the first order composed of those birds which live by prey ? Mark how powerful and compact their
! ; !
was made what an light and buoyant
and see its wonderful growth, perfect adaptation to the end for which admirable defence against cold and heat,
how strong and hooked their bill, how muscular their limbs, how curved their claws, how keen their vision, how rapid their
bodies,
Is the second division that extensive one, comprising all the smaller birds which perch? See how their anatomical construction is in every point adapted to their habits hard bills to the seed-eating, soft bills to the insect-eating tribes how their feet are adapted to perching and grasping. Does the third order consist of ground birds ? Mark the shortness of the wing, for their deficiency in the faculty they need not extensive flight of grasping with their feet, for they rarely perch; but see
flight
! ;
:
and endurance in running, their strong powerful Does the fourth order comprise the muscles, their short toes. waders ? Mark the length of leg and bill, which usually characterizes this order, and is so adapted to their habits. And is the fifth order that which embraces all the swimmers ? See the structure of their feet, the shape of their bodies, and how well they are
their swiftness
formed for swimming and diving
Mr.
J. Britton's Address.
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These and a thousand other such things, unnoticed by many, but discovered at every turn by the student in Ornithology, point out how perfect are the works of God, how varied and beautiful, how suited to their several positions are the creatures of His hand. The contemplation of them not only fills the heart with pleasure, but lifts it up in praise and adoration to the great and bountiful
Creator,
whose
least
work
so far surpasses the greatest
triumph of
the most scientific men.
In concluding this paper, I may perhaps be allowed to express a hope, that the Inauguration of this and other kindred Associations may be the dawn of a happier era of kindness towards the whole animal creation that the system of wanton persecution of God's creatures, hitherto unhappily so much practised in this country, and especially among the uneducated classes, may now at length receive a timely check from the remonstrances of those who compose this Society. The persecution of which I complain is in many cases prompted by ignorance of the true habits of the animal persecuted in more cases by superstitious fears, in most, by a sheer love of cruelty but I trust that this Society, as it advances, will kindle in its members so true an appreciation of the whole animal creation, that it may be a means of putting an effectual check to this barbarity, as well as of dispelling the many erroneous and absurd fictions respecting the furred and feathered tribes, now, alas
; ;
for their safety, so generally rife.
ADDRESS BY JOHN BRITTON,

For the Inaugural Meeting of the "Wiltshire Archa3ological and Natural
History Society, October 12th, 1853.
It is usually thought and asserted, that in old age all the physical and mental powers of man become torpid and insensible. What-
ever may be the case in other instances, I can venture to assert that in my 83rd year, my nervous and bodily system are as susceptible of pain, whilst my mental sensibilities are as acute, as they were in days of youth. Hence all the beauties of nature the countless wonders of the world the finer works of art the numerous but better productions of literary talent, are sources of never-tiring enjoyment ; whilst the company and confidential intercourse with men of congenial minds and pursuits, continue to excite the tripartite " " " pleasures of memory," and of friendship." imagination," of Hence time never seems to flag days are too short for the duties
and
gratifications
which every succeeding morning presents
and
46
Mr.
I venture to sa ennui is unknown in my personal vocabulary. thus much of self, retrospectively, as a prelude to what I have to remark on the origin, prospects, and probable results of the Society
we
are
now met
is
to inaugurate.
fine, a remarkable, a truly interesting county. Its geographical, geological, and other branches of Natural History abound with matter and materials calculated to exercise and reward Its Topography and the lovers of those branches of science. are replete with objects of moment, and therefore canAntiquities not fail to furnish endless food for the mental appetite. In Celtic or even in the world Antiquities there is not a district of our island which contains such an amount of the tangible records of the history and customs of the aboriginal and primaeval inhabitants. Its castrametations and other earthworks are numerous, various, and remarkable whilst the evidences of Roman population, with the customs of those invaders, are apparent in the military roads, castra, and stations of the county. Of Architectural Antiquities, Wiltshire presents many important and interesting specimens in the unique and beautiful Cathedral Church of Salisbury, in the fine fragment of Malmesbury Abbey Church, and in several parish churches. Though it cannot boast much of castellated architecture, we find some remains at Ludgershall and Wardour, and also in the lofty keep mounds at Marlborough and at Devizes. In ancient Domestic Architecture, we recognize interesting and curious specimens in Lacock Abbey, Bradenstoke Priory, Longford
Wiltshire
Castle, Longleat, Wilton House, Charlton Park, Littlecote, South Wraxhall, Great Chaldfield, and Kingston House at Bradford. It is true that John Aubrey, Bishop Tanner, Thomas Gore of Alderton, Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, Thomas Davies, and a few others, had made collections, and produced certain volumes on the county, generally; whilst the Rev. Mr. Cooke, Dr. Stukeley,
Dr. Wm. Smith, Twining, Kennedy, Price, Richardson, Wood, &c., had written and published treatises on particular objects and places. Mr. Wyndham of Salisbury translated the Domesday survey, in the preface to which he strongly urged the nobility and gentry of the county to assist in, and promote a Topographical History. His appeal and advocacy were unheeded, and when I first visited Salisbury, in 1796, he received me with much courtesy and kindness. It should be borne in mind that he had previously manifested both partiality and qualifications for Archaeology and Local History, by two volumes, on South Wales, and on the Isle of Wight. The advice and patronage of such a gentleman were of importance, and I profited by them for the first year of my topographical novitiate but on a subsequent visit to Salisbury, having met with some
;
with the Wiltshire Militia, who invited me to join them occasionally, at the mess-dinners, I was induced, at their instigation to perform in a farce with Mr. Stratford's theatrical
officers stationed there
Mr.
47
I made my appearance on the stage, in the city. but was thenceforward estranged from Mr. Wyndham. It was some time before I was made conscious of the offence, and longer before I was favoured with his renewed correspondence and
company then
advice.
In the "Beauties of Wiltshire" I have related the history of that publication, which led to a general connection and intercourse with the county. That work gave origin to the "Architectural Antiquities," "The Cathedral Antiquities," and lastly, though not the least in my estimation, the "Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society." This association, I do most ardently hope, may prosper, progressively advancing in popularity and usefulness, and thereby becoming an honour to the county, and also
to its founders
and patrons. In the Auto -biography which I
am now
will be found other notices of this Society,
writing and printing, and of my personal
connection with many public persons, and of distinguished places in the county of my birth. In July 1849, I printed copies of the following address to be circulated at the congress of the "Archaeological Institute" at Salisbury, and now repeat it to show what was then said and done, though ineffectually, towards establishing a Society similar to that
which we
this
day meet
to inaugurate
British Association for the Advancement of Science has been, and continues to be, not only popular, but eminently long Archaeological interesting and useful in its working and results. Societies have followed in its wake, and imitated some of its principles and regulations ; and they have given a new impulse and direction to that department of Topography which relates to local antiquities. It is only eight years since the British Archaeological Association commenced its ambulatory course, by visiting the metropolitan city of Canterbury, where by exploring, lecturing, and conversing on the antiquities of the place and its vicinity, as well as by publishing subsequent accounts, it produced a powerful effect on many old inhabitants of the city, and on several old and young antiquaries, in the British metropolis, and different parts of the country. Other Societies, in imitation of the parent, have since been established; and though principally limited to a single county, some of them
"The
have enrolled numerous members, realised large subscriptions, and

published several useful and valuable works. "Following such examples, and profiting by experience, it is thought advisable to convert the Wiltshire Topographical Society, into a Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Institute, with the hope of rendering it more popular, and consequently more useful than the former had been. "The history of the Wiltshire Topographical Society and the nature of its publications, shew that there are few persons, either duly qualified or willing to write a comprehensive history of a
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Mr>
J- Britton's Address.
a parish whilst the experience of county, of a hundred, or even the Societies above referred to proves that there are many persons who are at once capable and ready to prepare short essays on the of an ancient castle, history, the architecture, and the characteristics a mansion, a monastery, a church, or some other single subject, and thereby contribute essential matter towards a County History. "The counties of Gloucester, Somerset, Kent, Northampton, Hertford, Northumberland, York, Sussex, and Norfolk, as well as the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, already possess their and when respective Archaeological and Architectural Societies the many remarkable and important objects of antiquity which belong to Wiltshire are considered, it must at once be acknowledged that the Historian, the Topographer, and the Archaeologist will find within its limits ample subjects for study and for elucidation." The Congress of the Archaeological Institute at Salisbury, as above stated, constituted a memorable epoch, not only for the city, but for the county and exhibited to the inhabitants of both, the spirit, the zeal, the varied knowledge which the members possess, and have successively displayed, in Canterbury, Winchester, York, Norwich, Gloucester, Bristol, and Lincoln. The results of their visits to those interesting cities, have been partially exhibited to the world by the publications they have produced but the seeds sown in the minds of many who attended their meetings, cannot
;
;
yet be known, though they must germinate, and eventually produce abundant crops. Had such a Society met in Salisbury at the end of the last century, it would have experienced a cordial and cheering reception from the antiquaries of that city, and others in the county and the Topographer and Archaeologist of the present " age would have seen very different works on Ancient Wiltshire," " " South " Beauties of Wiltshire," or on Wiltshire," Salisbury Cathedral," than the volumes which have been published with those titles. To this appeal there were not replies enough to justify a public meeting and until the commencement of 1853, nothing more was done on the subject. Having amassed a large collection of books,
; ;
manuscripts, drawings, sketches, models, &c., relating to Wiltshire, I printed a catalogue of the whole, and distributed a few copies amongst my friends in the county. Mr. Scrope and Mr. Cunnington immediately saw and felt the desirableness of securing such a mass of Topographical and Archaeological materials within the area of the shire to which they referred. The latter, in the true spirit and zeal of his revered and amiable grandfather, to whom the county and Archaeology are essentially indebted for the contents of the two splendid volumes on " Ancient Wiltshire," now before the public, after some entreaty amongst his friends at Devizes, formed a committee in that town, appealed to several gentlemen in the county, and raised a subscription to purchase my collection. One hundred and fifty pounds have been raised and paid to me, the whole
Queries relating to Parochial History.
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collection so purchased, has been transmitted to its Devizes, near the centre of the county, the Mayor and Corporation have kindly and judiciously given it safe and respectable shelter, and the large and influential assembly, which met there on
of
my Wiltshire
new home at
the 12th instant to inaugurate the Society, cannot fail to gladden my heart, and render the event, the time, the place, and the flattering expressions used, the most memorable in the life of their old friend and well-wisher. Some thirty years ago, I had correspondence with Sir Richard Colt Hoare, about forming a Wiltshire Topographical Museum and Library in the county I offered to present my collection, if he would do the same. He, however, declined, as he intended to preserve them in his own mansion. Family considerations have restrained me from giving the whole of the materials and objects I had amassed relating to my native county but as a Society is now formed, and has "a local habitation and a name," and as it has paid me the sum above specified, for the articles I had enumerated in the printed catalogue above mentioned, it is my intention to
;
present additional models, busts, drawings, books and manuscripts to the value of fifty pounds, and trust that this example will be followed by other gentlemen, and even ladies, before the anniversary meeting of next year.
QUERIES
RELATING TO
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EU& Ifotarol Instnnj nf
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PAROCHIAL HISTORY.
1.
What was
Are there
written;
2.
name and supposed derivation? any ancient or modern accounts of it by whom whether in MS. or in print?
its
ancient
3.
4.
What What
the
historical events
have occurred?
circumstances worthy of note have taken place within memory of man?

letters, papers, or
5.
Are there any
other documents of interest
in possession of any of the resident individuals, or supposed to exist elsewhere?
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6.
Queries relating to Ancient Buildings,
fyc.
Are there any remarkable

dividuals,
pictures in the possession of inits
tending antiquities, &c. ?

7.
to
illustrate
biography,
history,
Have any
celebrated characters been born in
it,
or connected
themselves with
8. 9.
What manors
Is
history? are there in it;
its
and who are the lords?

any peculiar manorial
rights,
any part
tithe free; are there
10.
customs, privileges, tenures, or courts of judicature? What is the date of the earliest entry in the parish registers?
11.
Are there any
entries calculated to afford interesting infor-
mation on the ancient customs, habits, &c., of the parish?
ANCIENT BUILDINGS, MONUMENTS,

ANTIQUITIES,
1.
&c.
Name
the most ancient buildings, with their dates, peculiarities of structure, forms, &c.
2.
3.
Have any been injured or destroyed within the memory of man? Are any remarkable circumstances connected with their
history?
4.
Are there any
crosses,
market or wayside, or monuments of

state, traditional particulars, &c.,
antiquity; add the present connected with each?

5.
Are there any
heraldic sculptures, dates, or inscriptions, either
in or attached to particular houses, or insulated?

6.
Are any ancient carved oak
chests, or other articles of fur-
niture existing in the parish?

7.
Are there any barrows? Have they been opened and what
discovered ?
8.
Are there any rocks or

bear?
stones
tradition, or popular superstition,
which are objects either of and what name do they
9.
Are they adherent
to the
soil,
or placed there
by the hand of
man?
How
arranged?
Queries relating to Idiom, Diakct,

10. 11. 12.
fyc.
51
Of what nature
Is there
(geologically considered) are they?
any camp, and by what name known? Are there any ancient roads or track- ways, boundaries, dykes, &c.; and what are their direction and name?
glass vessels, tessellated pavements, seals, stone
13.
Have any coins,
arrow heads of bone or

spears, swords, or other
or metal hatchets, pottery, bone pins, rings, beads, collars, flint, bronze and iron articles,
weapons been discovered; where, and under what circumstances, and by whom possessed?
14.
Is there a site of a British village?
15.
Are
there
any
traces other than the above mentioned, of
16.
Are there any
supposed Celtic, Roman, Saxon, or Danish occupation? trees of superstitious or traditional interest?
TRADITIONS, CUSTOMS,
1.
&c.
Are there any

events?
traditions
referring to historical or local
2.
Are there any customs, Are there any

tinued ?
festivities, &c., occurring on certain days in the year, such as wakes, perambulations, &c. ?
3.
fairs of ancient date existing, or
any discon-
4.
5.
Are any Are any
superstitious practices still observed?
peculiar customs observed at funerals?
IDIOM, DIALECT,
1.
&c.
Are any words or phrases

district ?
peculiar to the people of the
2.
3.
Any proverbs ? What is the characteristic
of the
common
dialect ?
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Queries relating to Churches
and Churchyards.
THE CHUECH.
1.
Of what form
what
style ?
is
the church
about what period built, and in
Is the founder of
;
any part known ?

coeval with its
2.
3.
Of what materials and whence procured ? Are there any arms, inscriptions and dates
structure, or with any part ?
4.
5.
Are there any low side windows in the chancel ? Are there any monuments, inscriptions, or other
in the church worthy of notice ? Any remains of wood or stone screen
Is there
antiquities,
6.
work ?
7.
any ancient stained glass ?

brasses ?
What
are the subjects,
inscriptions, &c.?
8. 9.
Are there any
What number
of bells, with their date
and
inscriptions ?
10. 11.
12.
Is there any church library ? When formed ? To whom is the church dedicated ? Is the
communion plate ancient and does tion, date, and armorial bearings ?
;
it
bear any inscripaltar cover-
13.
Are there any ancient embroidered hangings or

ings?
Is there
14.
the date of
any early churchwarden's account book ? What is first entry ? Does it contain early inventories
of church goods, copies of injunctions, &c.
CHUECHYAED.
1.
Is there any covered gate ?
2.
Any
churchyard cross ?
3.
4.
Are there any curious monuments, or epitaphs and dates ? Is there any remarkable tree; and any tradition connected
with it?
5.
Has anything worthy
of observation occurred in opening old
Questions on Ornithology Entomology,

6.
fyc.
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Have any
coins, ancient coffins,
weapons, or other antiquities
been discovered in
making graves ?
QUESTIONS ON ORNITHOLOGY, ENTOMOLOGY,

1.
&c.
Has any
If
so, at
rare bird appeared in your neighbourhood, whose
occurrence has not been recorded ?
what date, (as near as possible) was it seen ? what kind of weather, and from what quarter was the During wind blowing at the time ? In what locality and under what circumstances was it ob;
served ?
Was
it
captured ? If
so,
with what particulars of time and
place ?
Did the wing and tail feathers and general plumage bear marks of the bird having lived in confinement ? Was the bird in mature or immature plumage and was the sex
;
ascertained ?
2.
Has any remarkable

If
so,
nest been observed ?
in
what
position,
and of what
size
was
it ?
Of what materials, externally and internally, was it constructed?
What was
Did
it
the date of
its
contain eggs ? size and colour ?
discovery ? If so, what was their number, shape,
Did it contain young birds ? If so, what was the date of their hatching and leaving the nest ?
3.
Are the commoner
birds in your neighbourhood designated
4.
by any peculiar provincial names ? Are there any superstitious notions prevalent amongst the
peasantry, with regard to the fortune or misfortune portended by the appearance of certain birds ?
5.
Has any unusual occurrence of our migratory birds come under your notice, either as making a very early appearance,
or prolonging their stay to a very late day ?
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6.
Questions on Ornithology, Entomology,
fyc.
Have you remarked any

in a wild state ?
peculiarity in the plumage, nidifi-
cation, song, or general habits of
any of our British birds
7.
8.
Can you record any remarkable instances of instinct as displayed by the feathered race ? Does any Heronry exist in your neighbourhood ? If so, how Whence are the Herons suplong has it been there? to have come in the first instance what number of posed
;
nests does
it
now
contain ?
On what
kind of trees
and in
what
9.
locality is it placed ?
Does any single nest
(or more) as a detachment from a neighoccur ? If so, how long has it existed ? Is bouring Heronry it still occupied ; and of what Heronry is it an offshoot ?
10.
Are there any
records or traditions of an extinct

? If so, in
your neighbourhood
Heronry in what locality? Of what size?
When
did it flourish ? How long since it was last colonized? Whither did the Herons migrate? Was it wantonly destroyed ? or what were the circumstances of its decay ?
particulars of the
11.
Can you glean any
now
extinct Bustard,
from old inhabitants of the Plain, shepherds, labourers, farmers, and others, who have been eye-witnesses of the
bird in a wild state ?
N.B.
is
The most
trivial information
on
this point (if well authenticated)
very valuable, as in a few years, no one who has seen the bird wild in this county can exist.
12.
Has any
seen?
rare insect
at
come under your notice?
If
so,
at
it
what date ; and
what hour of the day or night was

what
Was
in the air, on the ground, or on shrub, or plant ?

it
f
species of tree,
Was more than one specimen of the same species observed ? Was it seen in the larva or caterpillar state ? In the pupa
'
'
'
or chrysalis ? Or the image a perfect insect form ? Have you observed any peculiarity in the instinct, feeding,
'
'
metamorphosis, reproduction, or habits of the insect world ?
The Museum.
13.
55
Can you
anything of interest with reference to the remaining branches of the animal kingdom; as fishes,
state
reptiles,
worms, zoophytes, molluscs, &c.
their
nature,
peculiarities, food, retreats, general or individual habits, &c. ?
GEOLOGY.
1.
Have any remains
of shells or other organic bodies been found
in the Sarsen Stones ?

2.
What remains of mammalia have been found

drift of Wiltshire ?
in the superficial
3.
What
Does
is
4.
5.
it
the extent of the lower green sand in this county ? occur in the Vale of Wardour ?
Do
beds similar to those at Seend (described in the Journal of the Geological Society, vol. VI.) occur in any other parts of
If
so,
the county ?
what are
their physical characters,
and
what
N.B.
fossils
have been found in them?

this country, it will be very desisubject,
As
these beds are at the present time attracting the attention of
some of the principal Geologists of

rable if
any information can be given on the
and as early as
6.
Have any meteoric

what
stones or aerolites fallen in Wiltshire,
and
particulars are
known
respecting
them
THE MUSEUM.
The temporary Museum,
collected
upon a short
notice,
and
arranged under circumstances which prove the zeal and assiduity of the gentlemen to whose care this very important portion of the
day's entertainment was consigned, attracted much attention, and was highly creditable to the readiness with which its contents were
contributed for exhibition
by various
parties
whose deep
;
interest in
the Archaeological Society has been thus pledged
exceeded only
56
The Museum.
liberality of those
patronized the undertaking commencement, by actually presenting many articles of value, and of special reference to the antiquities of Wiltshire.
by the
from
who have
its
The
site
productions of the county were represented by exquispecimens from the rich cabinet of our respected townsman,
fossil
Mr. Cunnington, to whose ability and untiring effort the Society owes a debt of deepest obligation, and who, like his worthy ancestor, rejoices in the success of services for which his modest worth
will scarcely endure to receive its
due meed of
praise.
The
fine,
exhibi-
tion also of
Roman and Saxon
remains was unusually
and the
several private collections of the neighbourhood
so far as their
contents have come under our personal observation were made to contribute whatever could add to the extent and interest of the
Museum, with a liberal readiness most gratifying to the Committee, and encouraging the confident hope that the Archaeological Society
will not
fail
for
want of support.
Very numerous and
inter-
esting were the spoils of barrows, and other carefully hoarded memorials of early days, placed in juxta-position on this occasion.
Roman
pottery and coins in large
number
Anglo-Saxon
fibulae,
and instruments in great variety
conventual and ecclesiastical
seals, (presented to the Society by the Reverend John Ward, Rector of Wath, Yorkshire) ancient documents of considerable importance warlike weapons of early date urns of beautiful form, and frag-
ments of British pottery
in short, ample materials for a philo-
sophic comparison of all that was with all that now is, were supplied to a contemplative mind in passing from case to case through
this pleasing exhibition.
Small in extent and hastily collected

either as regarded the
together,
still it
was of no common character
value of the articles themselves, or the care with which they had been preserved. By their ascertained existence within a few miles
of the proposed
Museum, a pledge seemed
to be afforded that, as
off, Wiltshire may not be years pass on, deprived of these memorials of her ancient inhabitants but that
;
and their possessors drop
the Archaeological Society may afford a safe repository for many a trifle, little valued till its worth becomes apparent when filling an appropriate place in the cabinets of such an Institution as this.
The Museum.
57
1 Kwi
of
Mdwf
IN THE
TEMPORARY MUSEUM AT THE TOWN-HALL,

October 12th, 1853.
DEVIZES,
Those marked with an Asterisk have been presented to the Society.
BY
Cotta.
at
G. POTJLETT SCROPE, ESQ.,
Castle Combe.
Head
in
Terra
Roman Lamps in Terra Gotta, found within tombs opened Cumse, in 1821. Unguentaria or Lachrymatories in glass, from
Portion of the Decorated Plaster of a room in a
CuniEe.
Villa,
Roman
Obsi-
from Cumao, near Naples.
Roman
Circular Mirror.
dian, or Volcanic Glass of Peru, used for knives, arrow-heads, &c.
Fossil Fish,
from Monte Bolca, in Northern

in
Italy.
Schist,
from
the Pyrenees. Pebble, exemplifying the and character of a fault in stratification, from the appearance Pyrenees. Portion of the Aerolite which fell June 15th, 1821, at
the Pic-du-Midi,
the village of Croz-du-Libonnez, Commune d' Antraigues, Dept. Ardeche, weighing 2201bs French. MS. Copy of the Castle Combe Cartulary, chiefly in the handwriting of William of Worcester,
circa 1460.
Combe, in
Sixth.
MS. Copy of Knight's Fees of the Barony of Castle the name of Richard Scrope, Esq., with Seal of Edward
LIEUT.- COLONEL OLIVIER, Potterne. *102 Specimens of Fosfrom the Upper Green Sand of Potterne, &c. *Impression of an sils, ancient seal, found at Potterne. *Sword, ploughed up in Potterne
BY
Ring, found at Potterne, in 1800. *Small object of Bronze, from under the foundation of a house pulled down in Potterne street.
field,
in
1836.
* Ancient
58
The Museum.
BY
REV.
W.
C. LUKIS,
Great
Bedwyn.* Ancient
Pax, found at
Draw*Large number of Engravings, Lithographs, of which are by the donor.) *Eight Rubbings, ings, &c., (many Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of from Monumental Brasses, viz. Robert de Waldesby, in Westminster Abbey. Gloucester, 1399,
East Grafton.
:
John Estney, Archbishop of York, in Westminster Abbey, 1397. Abbot, from ditto. Sir Wm. Calthorpe, 1420, Burnham Thorpe,
Robert Baynard, Esq. and Wife, 1501, Lacock, Wilts. Nicholas Aumberdene, c. 1350, Taplow, Bucks. Thomas Chichele, 1400, Higham Ferrars, Northamptonshire. John Brown and Wife,
Norfolk.
All Saints', Stamford, 1480. BY REV. J. E. JACKSON, Leigh Delamere Painting of Farleigh Old Manor House at Norton, near Castle, when entire, 1645.
Malmesbury.
Leigh Delamere Old Church, taken down in 1846.
*Silver Coin, &c.
BY MR.
CUNNINGTON,
(restored.) Silver
Roman Urn, found at Rushall, Devizes. Model of a Romano-British Urn, from Stonehenge.
*Ancient British Sepulchral Urn, found at Beckhampton. *Fragments of ditto, found at ditto. *Bellarmine, or Long Beard, found
at Devizes Castle.
Mazer, in Maple wood, with silver rim and foot round the rim legend
"
Thy
blessing
life
Lord, grante
mee and mine,

be thine."
Thatt in
and death,
clay,
Wee maye
Septarium, three feet.)
penham.
Trowbridge, (diameter about Fossil Jaw of Crocodile, from the Oxford clay, ChipAmmonites Lewesiensis, chalk marl, near Calne. Ditto
from the Oxford
Ammonites Giganteus, Portland Oolite, rostratus, Upper Green sand, Devizes, (large Tisbury. Ammonites rusDitto, Upper Green sand, Devizes. specimen.) Ammonites biplex, Kimmeridge clay, ticus, chalk, Roundway. Potterne, (very large specimen.) Ammonites perarmatus, Calcareous
Calcareous grit, Seend.
Ammonites
grit,
Seend, (two
specimens.)
Ditto,
Portland Oolite, Swindon,
mouth perfect.) Ammonites Gualteri, Oxford clay, Trowbridge. Ammonites Konigi, Oxford clay, Chippenham, (large specimen.) Ammonites rostratus, (mouth perfect.) Humerus of Saurian,
The Museum.
59
Kimmeridge
clay,
Wootton
Bassett.
Vertebra of Saurian, Kim-
meridge clay, "Wootton Bassett. Ditto, Foxhangers, near Devizes. Nautilus elegans, chalk marl, near Calne, (two specimens.) Iron
Pyrites,
Baydon, Wilts. Turrilites tuberculatus, chalk marl, near Calne. Inoceramus involutus, chalk flint, Baydon. Ditto, Boyton. Glass Case containing 108 specimens of Fossil Sponges from the
sand,
Upper Green
and 380 from the chalk
flint
of Wiltshire.
Belemnoteuthis Antiquus, Oxford clay, Chippenham. Fossil Tooth of Rhinoceros tichorinus, Bulford. Ditto, Bradford, (four specimens.) Case containing 55 specimens of Ventriculites, from the
chalk
nites
flint
of Wiltshire.
(a
Case containing 17 specimens of Choa-
of Sponge.) Two Drawings, shewing view and sections of ditto, with spiral vessel. enlarged exterior Case containing 22 specimens of Fossils, from the Oxford clay,
Konigi,
species
Chippenham. Case containing 1 08 specimens of Fossil Terebratulso, from the Upper Green sand of Wiltshire. Yolume, published by
the Palseontographical Society, in which some of these specimens are engraved. Drawing of Stonehenge, by Cattermole. Ditto,
Devizes Market Cross, &c., by Bartlett. Minute Photograph of Stonehenge. View of Stourhead Gardens, Wilts. Engraving of
St.
View
James's Church, Devizes, by Pye, (artist's proof.) North East of St. John's Church, Devizes, drawn and engraved by James
Waylen, Esq. St. John's Church, Devizes, East View, original drawing, by John Britton, Esq., 1805. Engraving from the above, " by J. C. Smith, for Britton's Beauties of Wiltshire." Bronze
Celt,
from Abury.
Model of an Ancient British Necklace, found
by the late Mr. Cunnington, of Heytesbury. Asbestos Cloth, found in a barrow at Upton, Wilts, by the late Mr. Cunnington, of Heytesbury. British Stone Celt, from Manat Upton, Wilts,
ningford.
Two
Weapon, formed of Jade, from the South Sea Islands. One fine large Flint Spear Heads, from North America. Stone Celt, from North America. Three small Arrow Heads, one
Medallion of Bay.
Plaster cast of Stonehenge. large ditto. Ditto (brass,) found at Wardour.
BY JOHN
of
BRITTON, ESQ., F.S.A., Burton Street, London. *Bust modelled by Scouler. Portrait of Robert Elliot, himself,
i
60
The Museum.
Views of two Cromlechs in of Chippenham, painted by Provis. Three Views of British Urn, from near Silbury Hill. Cornwall.
Salisbury Cathedral.
Bristol.
dral,
Models of North Porch, St. Mary Redcliffe, Chapter House, Salisbury. Fonts in Winchester Catheand Wrington Church. Bronze Celts, from Ireland, &c.,
A. FANE, Warminster. *Twenty-six specimens of Wiltshire Ventriculites and Sponges, from Boyton.
BY THE REV.
BY THE BY THE
a
REV. A. C. SMITH, Yatesbury.
*Two Roman
Giffbrd.
Sepul-
chral Urns, (one containing
human
bones,) found near Bromham.
REV.
J.
WILKINSON, Broughton
*Model of
Skew Bridge, at Broughton Gifford. British and Roman Coins. BY THE REV. G. STALLARD, Maryborough. *Engravings, Mace of the Corporation, and View of St. Mary's Church, Marlborough
;
five
Wiltshire Fonts
Cromlech
at Clatford, &c.
BY MR.
A. STRATTON, Rushatt.
*A
large collection of Bronze,
and other Roman Antiquities.
Fibulae,
Rude Quern, Stone

and bronze.
Celts,
Anglo-Saxon Weapons, BY MR. G. FALKNER, Devizes. *Five Rubbings from Monumental Brasses. Sir Edward Baynton and Family, 1578, Bromham,
Wilts.
Implements, &c., in iron
Elizabeth St.
Baynton, Esq., 1516,

St.
Amand, c. 1490, Bromham, Wilts. John Bromham, Wilts. William Chaucey and
John Kent, Esq. and Wife, 1630, Rubbing from a Carving on the wall
Wife, 1524, Charlton, Wilts.

John, Devizes, Wilts.
in
found near Ellbarrow.
ConocL*Smsi\l Iron Spear Head, for working wax on from Ellbarrow. *Rude Iron Weapon, (supposed to have Tablets, been used at the time of Monmouth's rebellion) found in a house at
ESQ.,
Bromham Church. BY W. TINKER,
*An Instrument
Imber, after a
fire.
*Bronze Fibula.
BY MR. W.
P.
HAYWARD,
Wilsford.
Ancient British Arrow
Heads, (four specimens.) Celts, (supposed British, three specimens.) *Pair of Querns, found on the Down, near Wilsford. Sling Stones, Bronze Ring. Small Iron Spear Heads, (three (four specimens.)
specimens.)
Bronze
of
Long Iron Spear Head, from Rushall Down. Long ditto, from Wilsford Down, (in fine preservation.) Card 14 Articles, Five Fibulae. Bronze Two Bone Pins. Key.
The Museum.
61
Small Silver Medallion.
ment of
ditto.
Twisted King. Small object of Bronze.
Two
Armlets. FragHorse Shoe, and six
Head
Implements of Iron, probably of the Anglo-Saxon period. Eagle's of Bronze, and Bone Pin. Fragments of an Ancient Earthen A large Collection of Gold, Silver, and Copper Coins, Strainer.
of Roman and other periods.

Antiquities.
Rude British Urn.
Case of Egyptian
Four American Arrow Heads, of
Flint.
BY
G. E. SLOPER, ESQ., Devizes.
Eleven Wiltshire Tradesmen's

Five Cases of Coleopterous
Tokens.
BY MR.
Insects.
G. E. SLOPER, JUN., Devizes.
Three
ditto Lepidopterous ditto.
Specimens of the Stones of Stonehenge. Bones, found in the area of Stonehenge. Shells from the centre of Silbury Hill. Four specimens of Druid Sandstone, or
Devizes.
BY MR. FALKNER,
Sarsen Stone, from Abury. Ground Plan of the Druidical Temple at Abury, (drawing.) *Ditto ditto in Plaster. Two Drawings of
Two Views of Stonehenge. Bones, from large stones, at Abury. the excavation at Silbury Hill. Ground Plan and Sections of Slice from the excavation at Silbury Silbury Hill, (two sheets.)
Hill,
hill.
showing the natural ground, and the artificial portion of the Compressed Turf and Moss, from the centre of Silbury Hill.
Globular and Pear-shaped Flints, from Tan Hill. Four Plates of Forameniferous Shells of the chalk flint, with a description by
Part of a Leaden Coffin, found at Roundway, Wilts, (supposed to be a Roman interment,) also some of the substance found lying on the floor of it. *Roman Coins, found on Salisbury
D' Orbigny.
Plain.
Sixteen
Numbers of the
Archaeological
Journal,
and
Evelyn's Sylva. Concrete, from the base of one of the stones at Stonehenge. A Case, containing a large number of Fossils from
the chalk, chiefly Foramenifera,
Terebratulaa,
and Spicules
of
Sponge. Another Case, containing numerous minute Corallines. A small Case, containing numerous minute Corallines. Another
Case of Corallines and Terebratuloa.
Five smaller Cases.
Fossil
of a Fish from the chalk, one-eighth of an inch long, containtwelve teeth. ^Drawing of a Cromlech. ing
Jaw
BY MR.
Long
R. STRATTON,
Broad Hinton.
*Two
Bellarmines, or
Beards, found at Broad Hinton.
62
The Museum.
A-ncient British Urn, found PINNIGER, Beckhampton. Ancient Iron Lock and two Keys. Ancient at Beckhampton.
BY MB.
Iron Horse Shoe.
BY
MR. B.
Ancient Iron Spear Head. HAYWARD, Easterton. Small Ancient

Fossil
Shield
of
Bronze.
Fibula, (with perfect spring.)
BY THE
Teredo,
REV. E. WILTON, West Lavington.
Wood, with
(new species,) Upper Tobacco Stopper, temp. James 1st., found at West Lavington. Five Cards of Fibulaa, Armlet, &c., from ditto. Two Impressions of Ancient Seals in GHitta Percha. Bronze Figure of Minerva.
Green sand, West Lavington.
Bronze Key. Bronze Celt, from Lavington Downs. One Leaf of Five Ancient Documents a Diptych, found at Market Lavington. Fourteen Wiltshire Tradesmen's relating to the Castle of Devizes.
Tokens.
*Medals dug up at West Lavington.

Street, Bath.
BY
Miss HUGHES, Brock REV.

J.
*Seventy-two Ancient
*Fifty Casts and
Deeds, chiefly relating to the Westley family.
BY THE
WARD, Wath,
Yorkshire.
Impressions of Seals, anciently used in the county of Wilts.
by monastic and other bodies,
BY
F. A. S. LOCKE, ESQ.,
Eowde Ford.
*Roman and
other
Coins, found in the neighbourhood of Devizes.
BY W. BY THE
E. TUGWELL, ESQ., Devizes.
*Roman and
other Coins.
REV. E.
J.
PHIPPS, Stansfield, Suffolk.
*" The Booke
of Constitutions of the Fraternity of the Mercers of the Boroughe of Devizes." *Impressions of Ancient Seals, Ancient Deeds, &c.
BY
mark.
DR. THURNHAM,
Seal.
Ancient
Two
Wilts County Asylum. Împressions of Stone Implements and Weapons, from DenEight Stone Spear Heads, from North America. Two Sling
Hill.
Stones,
from Worle
Eleven small Flint
objects,
Arrow
Heads, &c. Two Bronze Celts, from Yorkshire. Bronze Armilla, (Roman) found at Farndale, North Riding of Yorkshire. (See
vol. 8.) Large Flat Ring, of Bronze, (Roman.) Circular Cup of Bronze, with Bone Pin, (Roman) from the Rhine. Circular Anglo-Saxon Fibula, from Bedfordshire.
Archaeological Journal,
Large Oval Bronze Fibula, from Norway. Small Card of Bronze, and other objects, from tumuli, in Norway. Small Card of Bronze and other objects, from tumuli in Livonia. Iron Sword, from
The Museum.
63
tumulus, near Christiana. Board, with Axe, Boss of Shield, and other Weapons, from tumuli in Norway. Ancient Spur, with Mediaeval Bronze Buckle, Rowel, from near Scarborough.
from York.
Fragments of
Flint,
illustrative
of formation of
weapons, found near Drew's Pond, Devizes. Seven small Arrow Heads, &c., of Flint. Five Glass Beads, from a British tumulus at Five Amber ditto, from an Arras, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Anglo-Saxon tumulus, Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire. Beads of shell, and two conical objects of baked clay, from Halle. Earthen
Pot,
made by peasants
1.
Three Skulls.
Yorkshire.
2.
of Jutland. Specimen of Limoges Enamel. Ancient British, from Arras, East Riding of Anglo-Saxon, from Fairford, Gloucestershire. 3.
Scandinavian, from Danes' Graves, Kilham, East Riding of Yorkshire. Heron, in glass case. Fungus, from Birch tree, New
Lanark, New Brunswick. Four Fossils, from Mamhead, Devon. BY A. MEEK, ESQ., Devizes. " The Booke of Constitutions of
the Boroughe of Devizes," written and illuminated by John Kent, *" The Booke of Constitutions Esq., Town Clerk and Mayor, 1628.
of the Fraternity of the Drapers of the Boroughe of Devizes." BY DR. BIGGS, Devizes. Model of Devizes Market Cross.
Book, containing 58 pages of Original Drawings (by Cocker) of Antiquities found in the County of Wilts, and in the Collection of the late Mr. Cunnington, of
BY MRS.
CUNNINGTON,
Devizes.
Heytesbury. Synopsis of Ditto. BY Miss MEREDITH, Bromham.

Plants.
Sixty-eight Fasciculi of British
his voyage
Tea Cup and Saucer, which accompanied Captain Cook on round the world. Rubbing from the Monumental
Brass of Sir Roger de Trumpington, 1289, in Trumpington Church, Cambridgeshire. Rubbing from the Monumental Brass of Eleanor
de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, 1399, in Westminster Abbey. BY MR. R. V. LEACH, Vernon House, near Neath. Gilt Spur.
Part of a Bronze Handle.
An
Egg-shaped Stone.
Several Bullets
and Keys. Piece of Chain, all found in the ruins of Devizes Castle. BY THE DEVIZES LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. Stone
Celt,
mounted
as
an Adze.
BY MR.
battle-axe,
T. B. ANSTIE,
Canadian Goose, in glass case. Stone Celt, mounted as a Devizes.
from Samoa, South Sea Islands.
64
The Museum.
Etchelhampton.
BY MR. JAMES WAYLEN,
*A
large
number
of
Wiltshire Tradesmens' Tokens, &c.
BY MR. R. WAYLEN, Devizes. Thick Folio Book, containing Patterns of Waistcoatings, &c., manufactured in Devizes. BY Miss CTJNNINGTON, Devizes Large Case of British land and
fresh water Shells, mostly found in Wiltshire.
Yase, ornamented
with Skeleton Leaves.
Case of Skeleton Leaves.

ESQ., Devizes.
BY H. BUTCHER,
Fuchsias, &c.
JTJN.,
Models of Stonehenge.
Twenty-six
BY MR. A.
P. HOLLAND,
Wilts
County Asylum.
viz.
:
John Lisle, Rubbings Hants, 1407. Sir John Bettesthorne, Mere Church, Thruxton, Wilts, 1398. Fragment of Figure in Plate Armour, from ditto. Elizabeth Rowdon, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, 1625. A Priest, c. 1500, Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire, (2 copies.) Elizabeth Askew and Husbands, c. 1530, Edmonton, Middlesex. Nicholas Boone and
from
Monumental
Brasses,
Sir
Wife, 1530, Edmonton, Middlesex.
1600, Edmonton, Middlesex. Elizabeth Burrough and Husband, 1616, Lavington, Wilts. Middlesex. Lady Margaret Irby, Tottenham, MiddleTottenham,
sex, 1640.
Edward Nowell and Wife, John Dauntesey, Esq., 1559, West
Two Female Figures, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire. John
John Seysell, 1493, Baynton, Esq., 1516, Bromham, Wilts. Tormarton, Gloucestershire. Richard Coton, Esq. and Wife, 1556 60. William Henshawe (Bellfounder) and Wives, 1519,
St.
Michael's, Gloucester.
Edmund
Geste, Bishop of Salisbury,
William Heathcot, Aylestone, LeiBailey, Esq. and Wife, 1518, Preshute, Wilts. Sir Edward Cerne and Lady, c. 1400, Draycot Cerne, Wilts.
1578, Salisbury Cathedral.
cestershire.
John
Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, 1399, Westminster Sir Morys Russel and Wife, 1401, Dyrham, GloucesAbbey.
Thomas Lord Berkeley and Lady, Wootton-under-Edge, Sir John Cassy and Lady, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, 1392. 1400. John Jay and Wife, 1480, St. Mary, Gloucestershire,
tershire.
Robert Wyvill, Bishop of Salisbury, 1375, Cathedral. Two Swords. Map of the city of Gloucester. Salisbury Portfolio of Drawings ; Little Cloister, Gloucester Cathedral ;
Redcliffe, Bristol.
Booth Hall, Gloucester.
Corbel Heads, St. John's College,
Cam-
The Museum.
bridge.
Piers,
65
Incised Slabs,
Llanthony Priory. Mouldings, Tinterne Abbey. * Ancient Silver and Brasses, &c. Copper Coins, &c.
BY MR.
"W.
BROWNE, Winterbourne Monkton.
Two
Cases of
Lepidopterous Insects, chiefly from the neighbourhood of Wintejbourne Monkton. Preserved head of Shetland Sheep.
BY MR. W. HILLIER. Stone Curlew, in glass case. Ditto, in ditto. BY MR. S. H. SMITH, Broad Hinton. Bronze Celt, found on
Broad Hinton Downs.
BY MR. Gr. BROWN, Avebury. Preserved Head of the old Wiltshire Horned Sheep, bred by the late Mr. John Nalder, of
Berwick Basset.
BY MR. H.
Devizes Castle.
BULL, Devizes.
Iron Spur, found on the
site
of
Carter's Illustrations of Wiltshire Churches.
BY MR.
E. KITE, Devizes.
:
Brasses, viz.
Anne Longe,
Fifteen Rubbings from Monumental 1601, Bradford, Wilts. Thomas
Horton and Wife, 15, Bradford, Wilts. Sir Edward Baynton and Family, 1578, Bromham, Wilts. John Baynton, Esq., 1516,
Bromham,
Wilts.
Wilts.
Elizabeth St.
Amand,
Wife,
c.
1490,
Bromham,
Wilts.
WiUiam Chaucey and
1524,
Charlton,
John Kent, Esq. and Wife, 1630, St. John's Church, Devizes, Wilts. Sir Edward Cerne and Lady, c. 1400, Draycot Cerne,
Wilts.
Knight (probably of the Quintin family) c. 1380, Oliffe John Stokys and Wife, 1498, Seend, Wilts. Pypard, Wilts. William Bayly, (demi-figure) 1427, Berwick Basset, Wilts. John Dauntesey, 1559, West Lavington, Wilts. Agnes Button,
1528,
Alton Priors, Wilts. Robert Baynard, Esq. and Wife, William Moor, Priest, 1456, Tatter1501, Lacock, Wilts. shall, Lincolnshire. Etching of a Fresco Painting, formerly on the
wall of the Hungerford Chapel, in Salisbury Cathedral. Etching of the Monumental Brass of Bishop Wyvill, in Salisbury Cathedral.
BY MR. AYTON, Devizes. BY MR. N. B. RANDLE,
Bronze
Devizes.
Celt,
A
:
found at Roundway. large number of Photo-
St. graphs by Mr. Russell Sedgefield, viz. Salisbury Cathedral. Thomas's Church, Salisbury. St. Edmund's Church, Salisbury.
Poultry Cross, Salisbury. Stonehenge.

St.
St.
John's Church, Devizes.
Mary's Church, Devizes.
Old Town Hall, Devizes, &c.
66
The Museum.
J. GOODWIN, Salisbury. (Articles belonging to Mrs. Alabaster ornament, representing the Head of St. John Sanger.) the Baptist in a charger; from the Cathedral Church of Old
BY MR.
Nine Bronze Celts, from tumuli, near Salisbury. Antique from King Manor, the occasional residence of King John, at Lock, Clarendon. Fragments of Armour, and curious Thumb-piece, from ditto. Curious Key, large iron Arrow-head, and three-sided
Sa.rum.
weapon, resembling a dagger, from Old Sarum. Mediaeval Seals, found at Harnham, consisting of 1. The Sacred Monogram, sur-
mounted by an ecclesiastical corona. 2. Curious merchant's mark. 3. Seal of John Hertwell, Lord of Preston, Northamptonshire.
4.
Monastic Seal, of early date. BY MR. BAKER, Warminster.
Hundred and
fifty
Specimens of
Flint Fossils, from Boyton. BY MR. E. GUY, Devizes. Împressions of Ancient Seals. Coin.
Roman
BY MR. PALMER,
Melksham.
*Stone Celt, from the Shannon.
In concluding the " List of Articles" exhibited have two or three words to say to our readers
:
at Devizes,
we
if
the purpose of this Publication, they would kindly communicate drawings or wood-engravings of a suitable size, illustrative either of any of the Antiquities above de1.
They would greatly
assist
scribed, or of
any others that may be met with relating to
this
county.
vastly increased, if they would lend to our the blocks of any wood- engravings that may have been printer
The kindness would be
made.
not perhaps be generally known, that there is a very cheap process of illustration of which advantage may easily be taken,
It
may
in Cowell's Anastatic Press, Ipswich.

first
The drawing having been
made with a
copies
may
particular ink, (to be obtained from that house,) be multiplied to any extent.
The Museum.
2.
67
It
is
hoped that the
success
which attended the exhiit
bition of Wiltshire Antiquities at Devizes, formed, as
really was,
at a very short notice, will be an encouragement to the inhabitants of the county, to collect and preserve such things with an in-
The spade and plough are continually bringing creasing attention. of curiosity, which, for want of any body to refer to, to light objects
to explain
will, in future, always find a
what they are, are mislaid or thrown away. Such things welcome reception at the Devizes
as a gift, or as a loan,
Museum, where they may either be deposited

according to the wishes of the owner.
3.
and of
One more request we have all who take an interest

;
to
make
of members of the Society
respective locality
which is,
in the Archaeology, &c., of their that they will be so good as to further
the objects which the Society has in view, by returning answers, The so far as they can, to the questions printed a few pages back. Clergy of the county, especially, have it in their power to supply a
great deal of valuable information, and it is hoped, that they will not consider time wasted and labour misapplied which is given to
the collection of materials for the History of their County. They may at least be able to furnish information respecting their
Churches and Churchyards, and the Traditions and Customs of

their parishes.
All communications
local Secretaries.
may
be forwarded through the general and
ETYMOLOGIES INVITED.
1.
" The GARSTON."
This word
of a
field,
:
is
of very frequent occurrence
in Wilts, as the
name
ously spelt
and pronounced
generally near a town. It is varisometimes " The Gaston," or " The
" Gaston-ground ;" sometimes The Garsen." 2. "ELSTUB." One of the names of the "ragged" Hundred of
Elstub and Everley. " STAPLE." 3. One of the names of the Hundred of Staple and
Highworth.
K 2
68
Ancient Wiltshire Customs.
dto Certain Itmnit !0iltejrirt
1.
THE CUCKING STOOL,

AT
WOOTTON
BASSET.
This by-gone terror of the unruly-tongued fair one, remained in good preservation, till within these forty years, at "Wootton Basset,
and the pair of wheels on which the machine ran, with the arm chair in which the scolds received their immersions, are still to be
seen in a
loft,
over the
Town Hall
of that place.
The machine when complete
consisted of a chair, a pair of wheels,

shaft, at
two long poles for shafts, and a rope attached to each a foot from the end of it.
about
The person
to be
ducked was tied into the chair and the machine
pushed into a pond, called the Weir-pond, (which is now filled up,) and the shafts being let go, the scold was tipped backwards into
the water, the shafts flying up, and being recovered again by means of the ropes attached to them. The chair is an oak arm chair with
the date 1668 carved on the back of
to those of a small cart,
it,
and the wheels are similar
and are three
feet three inches in diameter.
Wootton Basset some ten years ago, I was introduced to a lady named Cripps, whose brother had been mayor of the town, and who remembered the different parts of the Cucking Stool in a perfect state, and by her I was favoured with the
I was at
When
drawing of the Cucking Stool at Wootton Basset, which I send

herewith.
Russell in his
on the subject of scolds Sir William work on Crimes and Misdemeanors, one of the best text-books on our criminal law, says (in the last edition by Mr.
respect to the law
:
With
Greaves, Q. C., published in 1843, vol.
1. p.
327,)
"A common scold,
WVI
The Cucking
y
Stool.
it
69
to tlie feminine gender,
communis rixatrix for the law confines
is a public nuisance to her neighbourhood, and for the offence, and upon conviction, punished
may
be indicted
by being placed
in a certain engine of correction, called the trebuchet, or cucking

stool."
In the case of Regina v. Houston, in the Court of Queen's Bench, in Trinity Term, 6. Anne, (1707) reported in Blackerby's cases, the Court (the celebrated Lord Holt, then (Tit. Scolding p. 285,)
" being at the head of it,) said that to make this a crime indictable, there must be several repeated instances before they can be indicted
for
common
scolds ;"
and in the case of Janson
v.
Stuart, reported
in the first volume of Durnford and East's Reports, p. 754, Mr. Justice
Buller, said,
" In the case of a
common
scold, it is not necessary to

it is
prove the particular expressions used; generally, that she is always scolding."
sufficient to
prove
Upon these authorities,
it is
scolds, if convicted, are still
by the laws of England, punishable by the Cucking Stool, as

as clear, that
that drunkards are to be punished
by the
stocks.
In the case of Steverton against Scrogs, in Michaelmas Term,

41 Elizabeth, (1599,) reported by Sir George Croke, in his Reports temp. Elizabeth, p. 698, it appeared that at the Court Leet of the
of Renold, of which Oliver Scrogs was the lord, it had been presented by the jury, that there was not within the Yill any
Manor
pillory or tumbrel to punish offenders,
and therefore the Vill was
it was held by Lord Chief Justice Popham, Mr. and Mr. Justice Fenner, that the pillory and tumGawdy, brel ought to be provided by the Lord of the Liberty and not by the Yill, unless there be a prescription to the contrary, which ought
amerced
Justice
20s.
but
to be specially alleged.
Lord Chief Baron Comyns, in his " Digest of the Laws of England," a work of high legal authority, says (Tit. Tumbrel A.) "The tumbrel or trebuchet is an instrument for the punishment of
women
"and
that scold or are unquiet, now called a Cucking Stool," a pillory, tumbrel, furcas, &c., by grant or a
man may have

and
prescription,
every
Lord of a Leet ought
to
have them, and for
default, the liberty may be seized, or the lord of the liberty shall be fined to the king for a neglect in his time."
70
Lord Chief Baron Comyns died in the year 1740, and he founds his last observation on a dictum of Lord Chief Justice Scrope,
the cases reported in Keilway's Reports, page 148, where among is a case of tried on an Iter in the time of Edward the third, there quo warranto, in which the defendant claimed to have the punishment of offenders who broke the assize of bread and beer, and it was found by the jury " que n'avoit pillor ne tumbrell," and Lord " Chief Justice Scrope agard que il enjoyara son franchise, mes il serra en le grace le Roi, pur ceo que il n'avoit pillorie & tumbrell."
The jury found that the defendant had neither pillory nor tumbrel, and the Lord Chief Justice Scrope "awards that he shall enjoy
he shall be in the grace of the king," (i. e. at the and tumbrel." king's mercy) "for this, that he had not pillory There is no precise date to the Iter, so that whether this is Henhis franchise, but
ricus le Scrope, or Galfridus le Scrope, is uncertain, as both
were
Lord
Chief Justices of the Court of King's Bench, in different parts
of the reign of
It is
Edward the
third.
worthy of remark, that Lord Chief Baron Comyns speaks of the tumbrel, or trebuchet. Now although both were Cucking
they were different instruments the tumbrel being moveand upon wheels, the trebuchet being permanently fixed on a able, short post at the side of the village pond and in proof of this, it
Stools,
; ;
may be observed, that the ammunition waggon used in the French The trebuchet war, which ended in 1814, was called a tumbrel. being a name for an implement of war, which worked on an axis,
throwing of stones into besieged towns, and is described by Captain Grose in his Military Antiquities, vol. 1. p. 382, and by Sir Samuel Meyrick, in his work on Armour, vol. 3. Glossary Tit.
for the
Trebuchet.
The Rev. Daniel Lysons, F.A.S., in

vol. 1,
his Environs of
London,
extract from p. 233, printed in 1792, gives the following

:
the Chamberlain's accounts of Kingston-upon-Thames " 1572. The making of the Cucking Stool
,, ,,
,,
8 3
7
Iron work for the same
Timber
for the
same
Three brasses for the same, and three wheels
4 10" "
To
this the
Rev. D. Lysons appends this note
The Cucking
The Clicking Stool

Stool
71
women
was an instrument of punishment for scolds, and unquiet it seems to have been much in use formerly, as there are
;
frequent entries of
money paid
for its repairs
this arbitrary
attempt at laying an embargo upon the female tongue, has long been laid aside." This Cucking Stool must have been a tumbrel
like that at
Wootton Basset, except in its having three wheels instead

of Gravesend, (quoted
of two.
The books of the Corporation
by Mr.
Cruden, in his History of Gravesend, p. 268,) contain the following entries on the subject of Cucking Stools
:
"
1628,
Novem.
9.
Paid unto Mildman for mending the

7
Cucking Stool
1629,
Sept.
4.
Paid unto the Wheeler for timber for

Stool
for
mending the Cucking

1635,
Oct.
23.
Paid
Stool
two Wheeles and Teekes

3
for the
Ducking
7.
1636, January
Paid the Porters for ducking of Good2
wife Campion
1646,
June
12.
Paid two Porters for laying up the

8
Ducking
1653,
Stoole
Paid John Powell for mending the

Stoole
Ducking
Paid Gattet for a proclamation, and 1680, for carrying the Ducking Stoole in market
6"
(Id. p. 270) this" the Ducking Stool or Cuckwas placed upon wheels, and by the ministration of the Fellowship of Porters, was plunged with the occupant into the river, at an inclined plane called the Horse Wash, at the Town
Mr. Cruden adds
ing Stool
Quay, there being no other place so suitable for the operation within the town and farther it appears that the porters were not only recom;
pensed for giving the ducking, but also for restoring the machine to This also must have been a tumbrel. its place in the market."
Messrs.
Manning and Bray,
in their History of Surrey, vol.
1.
p. 343, printed in 1804, in treating of Kingston-upon-Thames, say "a new Cucking Stool was made in 1572, at the expense of
This machine was frequent in former times, but is now disused that it may require some explanation. It would wholly seem that heretofore there were women who made so much use of
1. 3s. 4c?.
so
72
their tongues as to disturb their neighbours, as well as their

families
;
own
in-
to check this, the instrument here It is generally called a

is
mentioned was
Cucking Ducking Stool, or chair. If there was a pond in the parish, a post was set up in it across this post was placed a transverse beam turning on a swivel, with a chair at one
true
vented.
Stool, or chair, bnt the
name probably
end of it, in which, when the culprit was properly placed, that end was turned to the pond, and let down into the water. This
was repeated
as often as the virulence of the distemper required.
This disorder, like the leprosy, being no longer Cucking Stool is probably not now to be found."
It should here be remarked, that Messrs.
their work, describe a
known
here, the
Manning and Bray,

it
in
trebuchet, although
is
clear
that the
Cucking Stool to which they are referring, viz., that at Kingstonupon-Thames, was a tumbrel, as is manifest from its having
wheels, as stated in the account for
its
construction, published
by
the Hev. D. Lysons.
That Cucking Stools of the trebuchet kind must have been com-
mon in the time of the poet
Gay,
is
evidenced by the
fact,
that in his
Pastorals called "the Shepherds' week," in the pastoral of Thursday, " or The Dumps," Sparabilla, the heroine, who thinks of committing
suicide, says
11
I'll
speed
me
to the pond,
where the high
stool
On
the long plank, hangs o'er the
muddy
pool
That stood the dread of ev'ry scolding quean; Yet sure a lover should not die so mean."
is
In the Gentleman's Magazine of December, 1803, (page 1104,) a letter from Mr. James Neild to Dr. Lettsom, the celebrated
physician, dated from Liverpool, October 16, giving
an account of the prisons at Liverpool, and in it Mr. Neild says, " The House of Correction built in 1776, is much improved since my former visit
;
the wanton severity of the Ducking Stool used upon a woman's first admission, is now discontinued (it was formerly the punish;
ment
is
in almost every country town in Cheshire and Lancashire, for scolds and brawling women,) but the whipping-post for females
the
pump
in the men's court, and this discipline
still
continues,
The Cuckmg
Stool.
is
73
kept very clean by the
though not inflicted weekly. The prison matron, Jane Widdowes salary 63."
;
To
this passage
Mr. Neild has appended the following note
"What
I have called a
Stool.
Ducking
Stool, is
in Cheshire called a
Choaking
a chair.
It is a standard fixed at the entrance of a pond,
to this is attached a long pole, at the extremity of
which
is
fastened
In
this the
woman
ducking thrice repeated. sons now living, was in the great reservoir in the Green Park." That the scold was, at least in some instances, subjected to three
placed, and undergoes a thorough Such an one, within the memory of peris
immersions, further appears from the following passage in the Poems of Benjamin West, of Weedon Beck, printed in 1780, (p. 84.)
"Down
in the deep the stool descends,

;
But here at first we miss our ends She mounts again, and rages more Than ever vixen did before.
So throwing water on the
fire
Will make
If
so,
it
burn up
still
my
friends,
pray
let
the higher her take

;
A second turn into the lake

And
Thrice,
rather than your patient lose,
and again, repeat the
dose.
No brawling wives, no furious wenches, No fire so hot, but water quenches."
Mr. Beesley, in his History of Banbury, published in 1841,

" The 223, n. 21.) says Cucking Stool existed till within these at a horse-pool, at the lower, end of the Market-place fifty years The pillory stood near it." (at Banbury.)
(p.
Mr. Curwood, the eminent
barrister,
who
died at an advanced
age, in the year 1847, recollected to have seen a Cuckmg Stool of the trebuchet kind, in a perfect state, at the edge of a pond, in a
village green, near
Worthing.
He
said,
that a short post was let
into the
ground
at the
beam at the top of it, this beam could be moved

;
edge of the pond, and that a transverse had a rude seat at one end. He stated, that
horizontally, so as to bring the seat to
the edge of the pond and that when the beam was moved back, so as to place the seat, and the person in it, over the pond, the
74

like a see-saw,
beam was worked up and down,

in the seat
and
so the person
was ducked. When the machine was not in use, the end of the beam which came on land was secured to a stump in the ground, by a padlock, to prevent the village children from ducking
each other in sport, and perhaps drowning each other. Mr. Curwood favoured me with a drawing of this Cucking Stool,
of which he said he had a most distinct recollection, and I
it
now send
herewith.
for
I afterwards showed this drawing to Mr. Bellamy, who was many years Clerk of Assize on the Oxford Circuit, and had
circuit for
very important legal offices, and had travelled the more than sixty years. He said that he had never seen a Cucking Stool with the seat still attached to it, but he had
filled several
seen several with the transverse

post,
beam
still
fixed at the top of the

still
and that the post without the beam was
when he
1846.
edges of village ponds, in many first went the circuit.
remaining at the places in the midland counties, Mr. Bellamy died in the year
pretty clear, that about one hundred, or one Lundred-and-fifty years ago, Cucking Stools were as common on village greens as the stocks are now.
It is therefore
In the early part of the reign of Queen Anne, Mrs. Hannah Saxby, the wife of Mr. Joseph Saxby, a mercer at "Westerham in
Kent, [but whose name in all the law books is printed Foxby,] had been convicted upon an indictment for being a common scold and
;
it
appears from her case,, in the 6th volume of Modern Reports, (n. 11,) that the Court of Queen's Bench, in Michaelmas Term,
2 Anne, (1702,) held the indictment bad, in arrest of judgment, because the indictment charged her with being Communis Calum" the niatrix, instead of Rixatrix ; and the report adds punishment " it were better of a scold is and Lord Holt said ducking
;"
ducking
in a Trinity than in a Michaelmas Term."
This prosecution having thus
failed,
Mrs. Saxby must have been
again indicted, as Mr. Sergeant Salkeld, in his Reports, (vol. 1, p. 266,) under the date of Trinity Term, 3 Anne (1704) states, in the case which he styles Regina v. Foxby, that "the defendant was
The Cucking Stool
75
convicted at the Sessions for a scold, and adjudged to be ducked." She brought a writ of error, and in another Report of the same
Term, 3 Anne (6 Mod. Rep. p. 178,) it is was convicted by the Justices of the Peace, at the Quarter Sessions at Maidstone, upon an indictment for being a common scold, and judgment given, that she should be ducked.
transaction, in Trinity
said that she
Whereupon
she brought a writ of error (Id. p. 213,) and on a sub-
sequent day, an application was made to dispense with her personal attendance in the Court of Queen's Bench, to assign error, as she
she could not come up " say, Scolding once or twice is no great matter, for scolding alone is not the offence, but the frequent repetition of it, to the disturbance of the neighbourso
ill,
was
that without danger to her
life,
out of Kent, where she lived.
The Court
hood, makes
it
a nuisance, and as such
it
always has been punish-
able in the Leet
and
ideo indictable,"
ducking would rather harden than cure her, and if she were once ducked, she would scold on all In Michaelmas Term, (1704,) her husband the days of her life."
said,
next term, to see mean time. And Lord Holt

time
till
and here they enlarged the how she would behave herself in the
"
and she came into court that they might assign error, which they did, and on a subsequent day in this same Michaelmas Term
(Id. 239,) the
judgment of the Quarter Sessions
at Maidstone,
was
by the Court of Queen's Bench, "the indictment being for that she was Communis Rixa instead of Rixatrix"
reversed
The Record of Mrs. Saxby's second case still remains among the Records of the Court of Queen's Bench, of Michaelmas Term, 3
Anne, (1703.)
It states
an indictment found
at the
Kent Quarter
Sessions, at Maidstone, "die Martis in prima septimana post festum sci. Michis. Arch', soil: quinto die Octobris, 2 Anne;" "against
Hanna uxor Joseph Saxby de Westerham

:
in com. pred. Mercer," her with being " Communis Rixa" It then states which charged her plea of not guilty at the same Sessions, and that the Jury found
her guilty, and the judgment against her
is
in the following form :
"Ideo considerat'
malegestur' pd. mercurii tcio die
Hanna p. transgr' offens' et de Westerham pd. in com, pd. die apud poch
est p. Cur. hie qd. pd.
May px'
futur' in
quoddam
Sedile ligneum [anglice.
L 2
76
a Clicking stool] supra aquas situat' ponatur et in eadem sede in et exinde immediate aquas sit semel immersa [anglice. ducked]
desumpta
et interea capiatur,
&c."
The judgment
against
Hannah
the wife of Joseph Saxby, of Westerham, Mercer, therefore, is "Therefore it is considered by the Court here, that the aforesaid
Hannah,
for the trespass, offence,
and misbehaviour
aforesaid, at the
parish of Westerham aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, on Wednesday, the third day of May next ensuing, be put into a certain wooden
seat, [anglice seat, in the waters
a Cucking Stool,] situate above waters, and in the same may be once immersed, [anglice ducked,] and
thereof immediately taken out, and in the mean time be taken, &c." The record then states the proceedings on the writ of error, and
concludes with the judgment for the defendant, in the usual form, " quod eat inde sine die" [i.e. that she should go thereof without day.] From this record it appears that persons who were punished by the Cucking Stool had not always three immersions, as stated by Mr. Neild to be the practice, at the House of Correction, at
Liverpool.
This
is
further confirmed
lawyer, in his Memoirs and Observations in his Travels in England, (p.40) thus describes the Cucking Stool, and its applications
who
travelled in this country,
by M. Misson, a distinguished French and died in 1721, and who
La maniere de punir les femmes querelleuses est assez en Angleterre." plaisante "On attache une chaise a bras a Pextremite de deux especes de
de douze ou quinze pieds, et dans un eloignement parallele, en sorte que ces deux pieces de bois embrassent par leur
solives longues
" Chaise.
M. Misson must have travelled in England in the reign of King William the third, as he appears to have been present at the coronation of King William the third, and Queen Mary, on the llth of He also mentions April, 1689.
Princess Anne of Denmark, by that title, (she having been afterwards Queen Anne,) and that he was present when King James the second received a letter on the 30th of October, 1688, announcing the dispersion of the Prince of Orange's fleet, when that monarch said to M. Barrillon, " at last then the wind has
declared itself a papist."
The Cucking
Stool.
77
deux bouts
par
le cote
voisins la chaise qui est entre eux, et qui
est attachee
comme
doit
avec
un
essieu, de
telle
maniere qu'elle a du jeu

et horizontal
soit
et qu'elle
demeure toujours dans Petat naturel

tre, afin
auquel
une chaise
qu'on puisse s'asseoir dessus,
qu'on
Peleve, soit qu'on Pabaisse.
On
dresse
un poteau
sur le bord d'un
etang ou d'une riviere, et sur ce poteau on pose presque en equilibre la double piece de bois, a une des extremites de laquelle la chaise
se trouve
et
au dessus de Feau.
On met
la
femme dans
cette chaise,
on la plonge
Mr.
ainsi autant de fois qu'il a ete
ordonne pour rafraicher

in 1715, thus
un peu
sa chaleur
immoderee"
Ozell, in his translation of this
work printed
the
translates this passage
"
:
Cucking Stool
way
scolding pleasant enough. They the end of two beams, twelve or fifteen foot long, and parallel to each other, so that these two pieces of wood with their two ends
women
is
fasten
of punishing an arm chair to
embrace the chair which hangs between them on a sort of axle, by which means it plays freely, and always remains in the natural
horizontal position in which a chair should be that a person may sit conveniently in it, whether you raise it or let it down. They
upon the bank of a pond or river, and over this post almost in equilibrio the two pieces of wood, at one end of they lay which the chair hangs just over the water they place the woman in this chair, and so plunge her into the water, as often as the
set
up a
post,
sentence directs, in order to cool her immoderate heat.*'

It would seem that a punishment nearly or quite the same as that of the Cucking Stool was applied at Chester, as early as the reign of Edward the Confessor, to persons making bad beer, as in the Domesday Survey Div. Chester, (p. 262, of the printed copy of
that work) is the following entry " T. K. E. Yiv sive mulier falsam
: :
deprehensus iiij solid, emendabat aut in cathedra ponebatur stercoris aut
mensuram in civitate faciens similiter malam cervisiam faciens

iiij
or solid,
dabat prepositis,"
which may be thus translated

a
"In
false
the time of
King Edward,
man
;
or
woman
taken making
4s.
likewise, one
making bad
beer,
city, was fined was either put in the chair of
measure in the
muck, or gave
4s. to
the stewards."
78
also had its chair of correction for reguthe temperament of the ungentle portion of the gentle sex of lating that place. The date of its introduction there is not recorded, neither
The parish of Liverpool
is it known when, by the improvement in female manners, it was no longer found to be necessary but that it was in request, (and probably from its condition had been frequently so,) so late as the
;
year 1695,
may
diture of that year,
be inferred from an item in the parochial expenwhen " Edward Accres was paid for mending
the Cuck Stool, fifteen shillings." Neither does its use in Lancashire appear to have been confined to the ladies. In the Book of Customs of the Manor of Preston, in
written that fraudulent tradespeople and insolvent JSTo 26, burgesses, occasionally underwent the cooling operation. " Also if a burare in runs thus of the Customs
it is
that county, a
Latin,) (which be in mercy for bread and ale, the first, second, or third time, he shall be in mercy 12d but the fourth time he. shall go to
:
gess shall
the Cuck Stool."

parish are
still
Some fields in that ("Ibit at Cuckestolam.") called " Cuck Stool Pit Fields :" and not more than
Cuck
Stool complete, stood over a pit
forty-five years ago, a
by the
turnpike road on the In the county of
The author of
way from Preston to Liverpool. York also there was punishment for scolds. the History of Morley, in the West Riding, menwere very particular in this
tions that the villagers in old times,

:
that for some reason or other, the Puritans had good usage been very anxious to preserve it that he had often observed these instruments near churches and he is of opinion that if with the
: :
stocks for brawlers of the other sex, they were more in use, it would be no worse for society b In one of the books of the Exchequer for Cornwall we are told c by Borlase that the following curious entry may be found
. :
"Manor of Cotford
of brawling
Farlo, temp.
Hen.
III.,
Whereas, by reason
arise
women, many
evils are
introduced into the Manor, and
quarrels, fighting, scandal,
and other disturbances
through
See Baines's History of Lancashire, vol.

'
iv. pp.
83 and 300.
i.
Scatcherd's Morley, [1830.] p. 192.
Borlase's Cornwall,
303.
The Mummers.
their
79
hue and cry
therefore our custom with respect to
them
is,
taken, they undergo the punishment of the Stole :" and there stand barefoot, and their hair down Coking their backs, so as to be seen by all passers by, as long as our bailiff
that "
when they be
shall determine."
" It was called by the Saxons the Scealfing " Stool." Stole," or Scolding I have been thus particular in describing the two species of the tumbrels at Wootton Basset, Kingston Cucking Stools, viz.
:
upon Thames, and Gravesend, and the trebuchets at Liverpool, the Green Park, Banbury, near "Worthing, and also those mentioned by Messrs. Manning and Bray, and Mr. Bellamy, and referred to
in the
poems of Gay and West, and by M. Misson in his travels, no doubt be found as to Wiltshire Cucking Stools, some of which would hardly be intelligible without this exas entries will
planation.
2.
THE MUMMERS.
In several parts of Wiltshire, groups of persons grotesquely dressed go round from house to house on the morning of Christmas Day, and act a sort of drama, founded on a legend of St. George.
There were a few years ago and probably are still, Mummers at Wootton Rivers, and on Christmas Day, 1852, a party of Mummers came from Avebury, and after performing there, came round to
the neighbouring villages, when going from house to house they acted their Drama and after it sung a Hymn.
by the Mummers of the different places are all founded on the same origin, but as they are not committed to writing they vary in a trifling degree, and have in some instances
The
verses repeated
considerable interpolations.
About
fifteen years
ago one of
my friends applied to different sets

same with
different sets of
of Mummers, and wrote
down their verses from their dictation. The

indeed some of the
interpolations were of course not the
Mummers, but the original verses were so
80
interpolations had reference to Napoleon, and the French war which ended in 1814, and were easily separated from the original text.
The Characters
1.
in the
Drama
as performed in Wiltshire are
OLD FATHER CHRISTMAS.

MINCE PIE. A TURKISH
ST.
2.
3.
(evidently a Saracen) KNIGHT.
4.
5.
6.
GEORGE.
ITALIAN 'DOCTOR.
An
A character called LITTLE

;
JACK
And
the verses they repeat, divested of modern extraneous matter,
were as follows
Enter OLD FATHER CHRISTMAS, with a long beard.
Oh
here come I old Father Christmas, welcome, or welcome not,

I hope old Father Christmas will never be forgot. Make room room I say !
! !
That I
may
lead Mince Pie this way.
"Walk in Mince Pie, and act thy part,
And show
the gentles thy valiant heart.
Enter MINCE PIE.
Room room you

! !
gallant souls give
me room
to rhyme,
I'll
show you some
festivity this Christmas time.
Enter a TURKISH KNIGHT, with a wooden sword.

I am a valiant Turkish Knight, And dare with any man to fight Bring me the man that bids me stand, Who says he'll cut me down with audacious hand,
;
I'll
him and hew him as small as a fly, And send him to Satan to make mince pie.
cut
Enter ST. GEORGE with a wooden sword.

George, the man of courage bold, buckler I've won three crowns of gold ; I fought the fiery dragon and brought him to the slaughter I won a beauteous Queen a King of Egypt's daughter
!
Oh
in
come
I, St.
With my sword and
The Mummers.
If thy mind If thy blood
[ST.
is is
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high, my mind is bold, hot, I will make it cold.

fight
the latter falls. ~\
!
GEORGE AND THE TURKISH KNIGHT
Turkish Knight. Father Christmas.
Oh
! St. George spare my Is no Doctor to be found
life
To cure this man who's bleeding on the ground.

Enter
the
DOCTOR.
Yes an
!
Italian Doctor's to be found
To cure the Knight who's bleeding on the ground:

I cure the sick of ev'ry pain, And raise the dead to life again.
Father Christmas.
The Doctor.
Doctor, what is thy fee ? Ten pounds is my fee, But fifteen I must take of thee
Before I set this gallant

Father Christmas.
free.
Work
thy
will, doctor.
The Doctor.
I have a
little bottle
by
my
side
The fame
of which spreads far
I drop a drop on this

[ The
and wide, poor man's nose.

nose y
DOCTOR
touches the
TURKISH KNIGHT'S
recovered.']
and he
instantly
springs on his feet quite
Enter LITTLE JACK, a Dwarf, with several
dolls
strapped at his back.
Oh
in
come
I, little
saucy Jack,
With
all
my
family at
my
back.
Christmas comes but once a year, And when it comes it brings good cheer
Roast beef, plum pudding, and mince Who likes that any better than I ?
pie,
Christmas ale makes us dance and sing
Money
The acting
a very fine thing. Ladies and gentlemen give us what you please.
in purse
is
of this
to Wiltshire, as
Drama, more or less modified, is not confined the Right Hon. Davies Gilbert, M.P., mentions it
and Mr. Hone,
at
in the county of Cornwall,
Whitehaven, in the
82

;
county of Cumberland
of
it
indeed,
it
will be seen
from the extracts
given hereafter, that the play is the same,
though in these versions
some of the characters are omitted.
Work on Ancient Christmas Carols, " Two of the sports most published in 1823, (preface p. 4,) says used in Cornwall were, the one, a metrical play exhibiting the successful prowess of St. George exerted against a Mohammedan
Mr. Davies Gilbert, in his
adversary
;
actions at a
the other, a less dignified representation of some transmarket or fair.
[In the first, ST. GEORGE enters accoutred in complete armour and
exclaims
" Here come
I, St.
George,
Champion bold, And with my sword and spear

three crowns of gold. I slew the Dragon he,
I've
The
valiant
won
And
brought him to the slaughter

fair Sabra,
By
which I gained
The King
of Egypt's daughter."
enters.
The PAGAN
"Here come
I,
the Turkish Knight,
Come from
the Turkish land to fight
:
,
bold
And
if
your blood
is
hot
I soon will
make
it
cold."
rising on one knee
[They fight
the
TURKISH KNIGHT falls; and
"
Oh pardon me St. George Oh pardon me I crave Oh give me but my life And I will be thy slave !"
!
[SAINT GEORGE however again

relenting, calls
strikes
him down; but immediately
out
The Hummers.
" Is there no doctor to be found
83
To cure a deep and deadly wound
?"
[A DOCTOR
the juice of
enters, declaring that he has a small phial filled with some particular plant capable of recalling any one to life;
he
tries however,
and fails, when

Soon after
ST.
want of
of ST.
success.
this, the
GEORGE kills him, enraged by his TURKISH KNIGHT appears per-
fectly well,
and having been fully convinced of his errors by the strength GEORGE'S arm, he becomes a Christian, and the scene closes..]
Fair, or Market, usually followed as a farce.
The
sons arranged on benches were supposed to sell applying to each seller in his turn, enquired the price, using a set form of words to be answered in a corresponding manner. If any
error were committed, a grave personage
" Several percorn, and one
was introduced, with much
stick, ceremony, who, after stipulating for some ludicrous reward, such as a gallon
grotesquely attired,
and provided with a large
of moonlight, proceeded to shoe the untamed colt, persons in error on the sole of the foot."
by
striking the
the whole of the account given by Mr. D. Gilbert of these Cornish Dramas.
This
is
Mr. Hone, in his Every Day Book, (vol. 2, p. 1646,) under the date of Christmas Day, gives extracts from a Mumming acted at Whitehaven. The title page of it is " Alexander and the King of
WhiteEgypt, as it is acted by the Mummers every Christmas haven printed by T. Wilson, King-street ;" (eight pages, 8vo.) AlexIt appears also from Baker's Biographia Dramatica (Tit
: :
ander,) that this
Drama was
:
printed in 4to. at Newcastle, in 1788.
The
characters fore
THE KING
OF EGYPT.
his son.
PRINCE GEORGE, ALEXANDER.

/
A DOCTOR.
And ACTORS
who were
to be
a sort of Chorus.
The Actors say at the beginning (inter alia) " Room room brave gallants, give us room For in this room we wish for to resort
!
!
to sport,
84

Kesort, and to repeat our
merry rhyme,
this is Christmas time."
For remember, good

Prince George says
"I
:
sirs,
am
For with
Prince George, a Champion brave and bold, my spear I've won three crowns of gold
'Twas I that brought the Dragon to the slaughter, And I that gained the Egyptian monarch's daughter."
And
Alexander says
(inter alia)
flies,
" Tis I that will hash thee, and slash thee, as small as
And
send thee to Satan to make mince pies."
[PRINCE GEORGE and ALEXANDER j&/7^, and PRINCE GEORGE falls.'}
The King of Egypt
says
" Is there never a doctor to be found,
That can cure
my
son of his deadly
wound ?"
The Doctor says
" Yes there
is
a Doctor to be found
That can cure your son of his deadly wound."

All the other verses are quite different from those of the Wiltshire Mumming, but the almost identical phrases in these appear
to
shew that both must have had one common origin. In the Penny Magazine, (vol. vi. p. 339,) published in 1837, by Mr. Charles Knight, to whom we are greatly indebted for the preservation of
are given
;
much Antiquarian lore, the verses of the Mummers but in that version of them, the character of the Saracen
it is
Knight does not occur, and

vanquished by
;
Mince Pie who fights with, and

is
is
St. George but the drama the same as that enacted in Wiltshire.
in substance identically
Sir Walter Scott (in the notes to the 6th Canto of Marmion,) gives the characters in one of the Masques of Ben Jonson for the Court and their Costumes. The characters are Christmas and his ten
children
one of
whom
is
Minced
Pie, but the other characters are
wholly unlike those in the
Mummings which
I have referred to.
The Mummers.
85
Christmas, 1853, a party of Mummers performed at Painswick in Gloucestershire the interlocutors were Father Christmas ;
;
At
Turkish Knight ;
A Doctor and his Man
and Beelzebub.
:
The following
is
a specimen of their verses
Enter OLD FATHER CHRISTMAS.

" In come
I,
old Father Christmas,
Welcome, Old Father Christmas must not be forgot."

Enter TURKISH KNIGHT.
or welcome not,
" In comes I a Turkish knight, I came from a Turkish land to
fight,
fight I will till I am slain, For my blood is good in ev'ry -vein:"
And
[FATHER CHRISTMAS and the TURKISH KNIGHT fight;

Father Christmas.
the latter falls."}
" Five
pound, ten pound, fifteen pound,
If there's a doctor to be found
To
[ The
raise this
dead
man from
the ground."
y
DOCTOR is introduced after some laudatory verses from his man

tlie
and performs
cure.~\
BEELZEBUB then
" In comes
I,
enters
and $ays
old Beelzebub,
On my
In
my
back I carry a lump, hand an empty can,
And
This
is
don't you think I'm a jolly old
man."
evidently the same character who is called Little Jack, in the Mummings at some other places, and affords a clue to the
explanation of
who
Little
Jack originally was.
86
3.
THE HARVEST HOME.
At
a Harvest home, which in Wiltshire
is
called a
Home harvest,
;
care is taken that the last load shall be a light one
and when
best team, (with their bells on) a little boy, with a shirt decorated with ribbons worn over his other On the top of the load the rakes, clothes, riding the fore horse.
loaded
it is
drawn home by the
&c., are placed
and
as
many
as possible of the
work
people,
male
and female,
side.
walking on each As they proceed homewards, they chant in a sort of monotone

ride
:
on the
load, the rest of the party
the following verse
"
Ploughed well, sown well
;*
Reaped
well,
mown well
Carried well, housed well
Nur'a load overdrowd:

Harvest home
!"
a subsequent evening, or as it sometimes occurs, on the same evening, all the work people are regaled by their master with a
On
hot supper, at which the head carter takes the head of the table, as the head shepherd does at the sheep-shearing supper. At the Harvest home supper the following song is sung
: 1
'Here's a health unto our Master the founder of the feast,

I hope to
God with
works
all
my heart his
and
soul in heaven
may
rest
That
all his
may
prosper that ever he takes in hand,

all at his
For we are
all his servants,
command;
well,
* In Mr. Hone's Every Day Book (vol. ii. p. 1164,) another version of "Sown grown well," is mentioned as being repeated at the Harvest homes in " Here's a health unto our Gloucestershire; and the song Master," with some
alterations,
and an ungallant omission of the Mistress
is
given
(Id. p. 1168,) as
sung at the Harvest homes in Norfolk.
The Harvest Home.

Then drink boys drink, and see that you do not spill, if you do, you shall drink too, with a hearty free good
Drink boys drink, &c.
87
For
Chorus
will.
And now we've drunk
our Master's health our Missis shan't go For I hope and trust her soul will rest in heaven as well as Tie : That all she's works may prosper, that ever she takes in hand,
free,
For we are
all she's servants,
and
all at she's
command
Then drink boys drink, and see that you do not spill, For if you do, you shall drink too, with a hearty free good will. Chorus Then drink boys drink, &c."
I was once describing the first Harvest home supper at which I She to an old Wiltshire lady near ninety years of age. asked me if any one was " booted." I asked what this was. She
was present,
told
me
that
if,
during the harvest, a load was thrown down, the
person through whose fault this happened was "booted" at the Harvest home supper that is, after the cloth was removed, he is
;
taken and laid on the table with his face downwards, when the head carter having procured one of the master's boots, takes hold of it
by the
end of
bones.
foot end,
it,
in a
and gives the delinquent three blows with the top manner more calculated to injure his honour than his
is
This punishment
Spiritual Quixote,"
" The referred to in Dr. Graves' s novel,

it is
where
stated,
that
Jerry Tugwell,
the
attendant upon Mr. Wildgoose the hero of the story, having made himself drunk and ridiculous, is subjected, amongst other indignities, to
" the ancient discipline of the boot." (Book x. chap. 29.) Where a master gives no Harvest home supper, the chant is
sung in derision by the workmen of those masters who give suppers,

as follows
:
" The bread's not baked,
The The
beer's not brewed,

table's not spread,
all such,
Devil take
Harvest home."
Till
very recently at the Harvest homes at Ogbourn
St.
a very ancient
anthem or hymn was sung.
It appears to
Andrew, have
88

to the harvest,
had no reference
character.
and was evidently of a
religious
I have not the words, but I believe that they are in the possession of the Rev. J. BLISS, the vicar of that place.
4.
THE WOOSET.
mock
is
In the
villages near Marlborough, this is a
procession got
up by the
village lads,
when
conjugal infidelity
imputed to any
of their neighbours. At a little before dusk, a blowing of sheeps' horns and a sounding of cracked sheep bells may be heard about the village, and
soon afterwards the procession is formed. I saw two of these "Woosets ; one in the year 1835, at Burbage, the other about five
The procession was in each years after at Ogbourn St. Q-eorge. "a instance headed by what is called rough band," which in the
latter instance
was numerous.
Some
beat old frying pans, others

;
shook up old kettles with stones in them some blew sheeps' horns, others rang cracked sheep bells, and one of the performers was
trying to extort music from a superannuated fish kettle, by beating its bottom with a marrow bone. Four more carried turnips on each turnip being hollowed out very thin, and the long sticks,
still on it, and a lighted candle put These were followed by a person bearing a cross of wood of slight make, and seven feet high on the arms of which was placed a chemise, and on the head of it a horse's scull, to the
features of a face cut thinner
in the inside.
sides of
which were fixed a pair of
deer's horns, as if they
grew
there
and
to the lower part of the horse's scull the
bones were so aflixed, that by pulling a string, together as if the scull was champing the bit and this was done
;
under jaw the jaws knocked
to
make a snapping
noise during pauses in the music.
This procession is repeated on three nights following, when it goes past the houses of the supposed guilty parties it is then dis;
continued for three nights
resumed for three nights more
dis-
Dog -rappers.
89
procession Skimmingwhich takes place when a woman beats her husband. ton/' When I was quite a boy I saw a Skimmington in Gloucestershire
;
continued for another three nights, and then resumed again for three other nights, and then it concludes. from that called the " This is a different
of a
man
the principal group in the procession being a stuffed figure placed on horseback, behind whom rode a man in
clothes,
woman's
stuffed figure about the
who, as the procession went on, kept beating the head with a wooden ladle.
tions to Hudibras,
they
Skimmington is represented in one of the illustraand is described in part ii. canto 2, of that work. The Wiltshire people called the Wooset procession a " ooset" as wood " and the like. w before never
I believe that a
pronounce
o,
calling
ood,"
5.
DOG-BAPPERS.
first,
In the reign of King Charles the
there was one of these
now obsolete and

St.
almost forgotten
officers of
the church at
Ogbourn
George.
In an old churchwarden's account book of that parish, (which has been mislaid within these last few years,) there are the following entries
:
" 1632.
To Looker for whipinge the doggs out Church for one quarter
of the
xijd.
iiijs.
s-
1633. 1639.
To Looker for keepinge out doggs a whole yeare To Looker for keepinge the doggs &c
Payde
Looker for keepinge the doggs out of the church
to
ij
"
ij-
Payments of
entries do
4s.
not state for

first
a year to Looker occur in other years, but the what service those payments were made.
entries, I did not quite
When
saw these
understand their
meaning, but on
my
mentioning them
to
Mr. Gray, the magistrate
90
at
Newbury,
lie
told
me
that there are two ancient officers attached
to the great church there,

is to
who
are paid 4s. a year each
their
walk up and down the church, each bearing a present duty black wand, and show the inhabitants to their pews they are now generally called vergers, but when he was a boy they were called
;
Dog-rappers.
They
still
receive the ancient salary of 4s. a year as
Dog-rappers, though they also
make a
collection at Christmas for
their present services as vergers.
I was also informed by the Rev. ~W. Heslop, the vicar of East Witton in Yorkshire, that in his parish there was a person ap-
pointed at a salary of 8s. a year, who had a whip hung up in his pew in the church, and was called the Dog-whipper. Probably one
person at
8s.
It also appears
a year, instead of two at the usual salary of 4s. each. from the church books of St. Mary's parish at
Reading, (cited in Man's History of Reading, p. 301,) that in the year 1571, Mr. John Marshall was chosen clerk and sexton of that
" for the more orderly discharge of Divine service, it was agreed by all the parishioners present that from henceforth, John Marshall now being admitted
parish
;
and the entry goes on
to state that
clerk
and sexton,
;
annum
shall have thirteen shillings and fourpence per in consideration thereof he shall, from time to time, see
;
the church clean kept, the seats swept, and clean made the mats beaten, the dogs driven out of the church, the windows made clean,
and
all
good and cleanly keeping of the church, and

service."
other things done that shall be necessary to be done for the the quiet of Divine
At
the time
when Dog-rappers were
required, the state of the

;
canine race must have been very different from what it is at present " Sketch however, Captain Grose in his Olio, in an essay entitled " The of worn-out Characters/' says, country squire was an indeof 300 a year, [worth eight or nine hundred pendent gentleman
now,] who commonly appeared in a plain drab or plush coat, large silver buttons, and a jockey cap, and rarely without boots. He
was commonly followed by a couple of greyhounds and a pointer, and announced his arrival at a neighbour's house by smacking his whip,
or giving the view halloo."
This was the squire of about 1745
Church Goods.
91
and
of these gentlemen attended by their dogs came to a But I have heard from church, Dog-rappers might be needed.
if several
old persons, that an
immense reduction in the number of dogs

first
occurred in 1796,
when the dog tax was
imposed.
whip had a small bell fixed to the end of the handle, which he rang when dogs came into the church, in order to frighten them away. In the churchwarden's account book, of the parish of Banwell,
The
sexton's
county of Somerset,
"1572.
1568.
is
the following entry
Paid for a bell for the whipe Paid for Korde for the whipe
jd.
j."
F. A. CARRINGTON.
Cimrrlj
The Book of Church Goods in Wiltshire,
under a Commission dated March
of the Commissioners,
3,
seized
is
1553, which
by the Crown signed by two
contains the following entries, plate, and the number of bells at that time
Antony Hungerford, Wyllya' Wroughton." which show the extent of the church
:
"
pmutrvttr of
Ovncis
Bellis
West bedwyne.
Deliuered to Willm davnce

-
and to William Yince won Cuppe or Chal. by Indenture of xiiij ovnce & v bell
xinj ovnc
xlij
bells
In plate
to the King's vse.
ovnc
East bedwyne. deliuered to John Dodsone and to Nicholas Eawlings wone Cuppe or
Chals by Indentuer of xj ovnce & iiij In plate to the Kings vse
bells
xj
ij
ovnc ovnc
bells
iiij
&
di
N 2
92
Church Goods.
Ovncis
Bellis
Eastone.
deliuered to mighell busshell and to James Myste won cuppe or Challis
by Indentuer of
In plate
Milton,
to the
vij
ovnc di
&
iij
bells
deliuered to
Kings vse John bovncke and

challs
bells
xj
ovnc di
to
John Smythe wone cupe or Indentue of viij ovnc and iij

In plate to the Kings vse
by
viij
ij
ovnc
bells
iij
ovnc
Alborne.
to
deliuerede to
Thomas
hatte and
bells
viij
iij
Willm< Sexton won Cuppe or Challis by Indenture of viij ovnc di & iiij
bells
.
ovnc di and a
sanctus bell
_.,...'.
^^,
_.*_.
Winterborn Basset.
deliuerede
to
John
Brown and
Challis
bells
to
John Webbe won cupe or

vj .ovnc
.......
by Indenture of
&
iij
vj
ij
ovnc
ovnc di
bells
iij
In plate to the Kings vse >., Ocbourne Sci Georgii. Deliuered vnto John
!>
Potter and Willm Potter by Indenture

of
iiij
great bells
i::
:>*.,
.
bells
.
iij
Kinge no plate Brodehenton. deliuered to John francleyne and John Marchaunte won cuppe or
to the chalis
Itm
by Indenture of
deliuered
to
xj
ovnc
&
ij
bells
xj
ovnc
ij
bells
Presshatte.
Hodges and Thomas Hiscocks won Cuppe or challis by Indentuer of xj ovnc & iij
. . .
Robert
bells
xj
iij
ovnc
bells
iij
In plate to the Kings vse Ockbourne Seynt Andrewe.

-
ovnc
deliuered to
Raffe Cole and Willm Blake

or Challis
bells
won Cuppe
by Indenture of xj ovnc
Kings vse
& iiij
xj
ovnc
iiij
bells
In plate
to the
x ovnc
Church Goods.
Ovncis
Bellis
93
Aberye.
deliuered to
John Sherocker and
to
Jone Truslowe won cuppe or Chalis by Indentuer of xj ovnc and iij bells
xj
ij
ovnc
iij
bells
In plate
to the
Kings vse
deliuered to
ovnc di
Marlbroughe seyncte peter. Willm> Andrewes and
to Rycharde wone cuppe or chalis by IndenChaynye tuer of xij ovnc & v bells
to the
In plate
King
....
deliuered to
.
.
xij
ovnc
bells
xyj ovnc
Marlbroughe seynct maris.
John
Younge & to Robert Gary won cupp or chalis by Indenture of xvij ovnc & v
bells
. .
i.'
;
xvij
ounc
bells
In plate to the Kings vse
xx ovnce
^ttntrrctr of
Rainysburie.
&amtsftur$
deliuered to Roger bouncke and Willm> deane won cuppe or challis by Indenture of xj ovnc and iiij
bells
.
..
xj
iij
ovnc ovnc
bells
iiij
In plate
to the
luddington.
Kings vse deliuered to Robert
Walron
ovnc
bells
to henrye Taylor j cuppe or challis Indentur of vj ovnc iij bells by Swyndon. deliuered to Rob heathe and to
.
and
vj
iij
t(
George Carleys j cupp or denture of xij ovnc di iiij

In plate
dreycott
to the
ffoliat.
chalis
bells
by In.
Kings vse deliuered to
Ivij
ovnc
Thomas "Weke
ovnc
ovnc
bell
bells bells
vij
and to Thomas
Weke
xiiij
by Indentur of
cuppe or challis ovnc & ij belles

j
xiiij
ij
Wanboroughe. deliuered toNycholas escroupe and to John heringe j cuppe or chalis
iiij
by Indentu of vij ovnc and In plate to the Kings vse
iiij
bells
and a saunctus
xvij ovnc
94
Cheasledeane.
Church Goods.
Ovncis
Bellis
deliuered to Robert hoskines

j
bells
xij
iiij
and Thomas Newse

Indentur of
xij
cvpp or
iiij
clialis
.
by
.
.
ovnc
and a
ovnc
bells
,
saunctus bell
xij
In plate
to the
Kings vse
ovnc
This book contains entries as

of Wiltshire
;
to, nearly or quite, all the parishes but of the Indentures very few remain the following
;
which
relate to
Wanborough and Liddington,
will
show the form
of them.
Wiltes hund. de Kinbrige in com Wiltes

th of Thenventorye Indented made the xxij
-
Wanbrough.
maye in the seventh yere of the reyne of or< sowayne lorde Kinge Edward the vj th of all bells and Chalices deliued by Sr An-
thonye Hungerforde, Wyllm Sherington, & Wyllm Wroughton, Knyght, unto the custodye of John heyringe nycolas ristrope of the
same pysh
r sauflye to be kept to thuse of o sayd

-
sowaugne lord the
Kyng
as hereafter
more playnlye may Appere
Inprimis
Challis of Silver weinge vij ounc
Item
iiij
belles
th
a saun 8
bell.
Hundr. de Kingbridge
loodington
The Inventory Indented made the xxiij of maye in the vij yere of the
rayne of our sowaygne lord Kinge Edwarde the vj* of all the belles Challis of the parishe of Loodington delyued by Sr Antony hung'ford Sr Willm Sherington And Sr Willm Wroughton Knyghtes Comyssoners the Custodie of
-
Robert
Walk & hary taylo

Kinge
of the same parishe to thuse of our said
sowaigne lord the
as herafter
Apereth
ounc
F. A. CAKRINGTON.
Imp'mis
I.
iij
A Challis of Silver weyinge vj

belles
th
a sauncs belle
Wiltshire Entomology.
95
%,
fan tnnrk ta Mteijtre
6trtamnlnpte.
which have been taken
It is very desirable that lists of specimens
in the county should be supplied by those who have given their attention to Entomology; they are invited to do so.
There are no doubt
many
Entomological collections in Wiltshire,
little or no practical use, beyond the interest and which they confer on the individual collectors. These pleasure collections may now become more generally useful, by their cata-
which are of
logues being brought together and compared. But a caution must be given here, for perhaps no class of collectors
are so careless as Entomologists, in the
cabinets
manner
of keeping their
and Catalogues. They do not mark their specimens with sufficient care and it frequently happens that after a year or so, and even after a few months, they are unable to remember the
;
It is not an uncommon exact localities where they were taken. occurrence in works upon the subject, as well as in cabinets both
private
and
public, to
meet with specimens whose
localities are
unknown, merely from a want of system when In such instances the value of such specimens,
classifying them.
especially if they
What is required are chiefly are rare species, is greatly diminished. lists of specimens which are known to belong to the county. And now one word on the subject of obtaining a complete catalogue of Wiltshire specimens. It may be asked of what possible use can it be? Its chief utility will consist in its supplying the
very kind of information that the Naturalist requires.

facts to aid
He
life.
wants
him
in elucidating the distribution of insect
The
following very excellent remarks, by John Gray, Esq., upon this subject, appeared in "the Naturalist," (Vol. ii. p. 261-2.) "The first
and indeed the great use of investigating
local fauna, consists in
96
Wiltshire Entomology.
of the range of species, and giving the student of nature a knowledge
what we may know of
their positions of locality.
fundamental
error with the majority of local faunists, consists in their limiting their observations within the capricious boundaries of counties or
nations.
This would be so far well,
if it
were intended merely
as a
how how rarely do we find their interest in the Let the unprejudiced subject extended to Nature's own boundaries.
step towards the elucidation of the entire natural range; but
is
seldom
this the case
naturalist take a glance at those entomological cabinets devoted ex-
clusively to British species,
and he
in
will quickly discover
what a
In
precious jumble
is
there
made
geographical distribution.
such collections he will find two, if not three, distinct ranges of distribution, illustrated by species taken within the British Isles, form-
ing an arrangement to the entire exclusion of such as occur in the
remaining portions of the same sphere of natural habitats. The only interest to the naturalist, in such collections, would consist in
their elucidation of geographical character
whilst as a systematic
apparent;
this they do not possess the defects are still more arrangement, thus leaving an impression on the mind, that such
:
arrangements could only have been dictated by the most capricious absurdity. If such entomologists must have an arrangement of local
fauna, let
them study Nature's geography and
act accordingly.
Another use in the investigation of
local fauna, consists in the
oft-times facility thus afforded, of noticing the peculiarities, and which species exhibit in the selection of their habitats. anomalies,
This can only be attained by a patient tracing of the habits of the Thus it will be seen that species, as shown in various localities.
local notes in the natural history of
animal
life,
have their distinct
sphere of usefulness, when viewed as a link or step towards a proper understanding of the economy of nature but when looked upon as
;
a topic of exclusive interest, far better would never been perused.
it
have been had they

county go to work
With
this
view
let local investigators in this
contributing duplicates to the Society's
Museum,
as well as fur-
nishing catalogues of their Wiltshire specimens.
W.
C. LUKIS.
COMMEMORATIVE LATIN INSCRIPTION.

THE FOLLOWING INSCRIPTION
XV
COMMEMORATIVE OF THE FORMATION OF THE SOCIETY IS FROM THE PEN OF

THE REV.
F.
KILVERT, OF BATH.
F
.
FELIX
FAVSTVMQVE
.
.
ESTO
WILTONIENSIBVS SEEO LICET QVI

STVDIIS
.
AKTIQVAE
ID
.
MATEIS
.
NVMMISQVE EXQVIRENDAE
.
ERGO
COLLATIS
VT QYIBVS
DATVSI SVNT SEDVLO AEVI MONVMENTA AC PRETIOSISSIMIS PLVEIMIS GLOEIATVE WILTONIA ET MALEFICOEVM IGNOEANTIVM ET TEMPOBIS IPSIVS QVIN
OPERAE
.
SVPEEIORIS
ItfJVBUS
CVBA PICTVEAE
DEBITA
EEEPTA CONSEBVENTVB
.
AD
PBAESENTIA
.
CVM
.
MOEES INTEE
OPE SCBIPTVBAE YEBVM DESCBIBANTVB AVXILIO QVABVM TEMPOEIBVS PEAETEEITIS ET VTBORVMQVE VITAE HABITVS VSVSQVE
. . . .
.AC
CONJVNGI
COMPAEAEI QVEANT VNDE SVBEAT

.
SE
GEATVS
DEYM OPT EEGA VEEAE EELIGIONIS QVI ET SCIENTIAE OMNIGENAE

. .
. . . .
MAX
. .
ANIMVS
LVCEM
VTILITATEM
HODIEEIfO
SAECVLO AFFVDEEIT.
.
TRANSLATION.
May
success
who, though
late,
and prosperity attend the inhabitants of the County of Wilts, having contributed their efforts and their means towards the
are about diligently to exert themselves
investigation of their ancient Mother,

for the rescue of the
numerous and valuable relics of antiquity with which Wiltshire abounds, from the injuries of the ignorant and mischievous, and especially of Time, the great destroyer, and for their preservation to future ages by literary and pictorial description by the aid of which the Present may be connected with the Past, and the manners, habits and usages of both compared together whence may result gratitude to that All-good and Almighty Being, who has shed the light of true Religion, and the advantages of various science, upon the present age.
;
;
THE
WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE.
'MULTORTJM MANTBTJS GBAKDE LEVATTJB,
ONTTS.
"
OVID.
Cflltotofl
fnt
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cover, viz.,
10414 10423
Rental of the Manor of Calne, Wilts, I. H. 8., (1509) 8vo. Orders and Regulations of Corsham Almshouses, founded
by Margaret (Halliday) Lady Hungerford.

of Sir R. Hoare.
Autograph
10459
10473 10475
Papers relating to the Election for Calne, Wilts. Valuation taken at Box; (from the library of G. Jackson). North Wilts Clergy Institutions, in Alphabetical Order
of Parishes.
Collectanea Wiltoniensia
begins "Pipe Rolls, Dorset and Wilts," 5 Steph., (1139).

;
10476 10477 10479 10484 10486 10487

10489
Wilts Collections; begins "Aldbourne Vicarage." begins "John Herring Martha, d. of." Ditto begins "Inter Recorda," &c. of Ancient Wilts Gentry before the Visitations. Pedigrees Wilts Barons. Wilts Visitations, 1565 and 1623 continued and modern
Ditto
;
Families since 1623.
Aubrey's Natural History of Wilts; 2 vols. Fol. from the original in the Royal Society.
Copied
10490 10491 10492 10493 10494
Aubrey's Antiquities of Wilts. Fines in Co. Wilts; 4, Jas. L, (printedfor Sir T. Phillipps). Wilts "Pedes Finium," 1 to 9, James I. Ditto Institutions, (by R. Careless).
Ditto Pipe Rolls; 31. H.
28.
1., 2.
H.
2.,
11.
H.
2.,
20.
H.
3.
2.,
H.
2.,
30.
3.,
H.
2.,
1.
R.
3.,
1.,
1.
John,
3.,
3.
John,
40.
8. J.,
9. J.,
2.
H.
10.
H.
20.
H.
30
&
H.
102
NO.
10495 10496 10497

10498 10499 10500
Clyve Pypard Register, 1597 to 1679.
Wanborough Court Bolls; 2 vols. Arms in Churches in Malmesbury Hundred,

H., (Wm. Harvey?) Forest Charters for Co. Wilts.
tricked
by
W.
WiUs
Wilts Collections; and Charters of Compton Basset. of PhiUipps of Wilts.

.
(Rev. John Offer's Collection, given by Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart)
10501 10502 10503
Vol.
Pedigrees of South Wilts. 2. References to Wilts in Originalia ; and

1.
Memoranda.
3.
Pedigrees for South Wilts ; Collections for Branch and Dole
Hundred, &c.
10504 10505 10506

10507
4. 5.
6.
Extracts from Public Documents, Chartularies, &c.
Lands belonging
Collections for Heytesbury; 4to. to Churches, Religious Houses, Co. Wilts; 4to. Hospitals, &c.,
7.
Extracts from the Registers of the Diocese of

viz., "St. Osmund/' "Wm. de Wanda," "Simon de Grandavo," "Mortival," &c. Extracts from Dean Chaundler's Register; begin-
Sarum,
10508
10509 10510 10511 10512 10513
8.
10514
10537 10538 10542
ning A.D. 1404. Inq. p. M. for South Wilts, 1. R. 2. 10. Notes from Longleat Evidences. 11. Wilts Notes from Hutchins's Dorset. 12. Ditto from Public Records, Chronicles, &c. 13. Ditto from Public Records, for Heytesbury, Branch and Dole, Warminster and Westbury; vol 3. The other 2 were not sent to me by Sir R. C. H. (See below, No. 11662,). 14. Offer's Church Notes in South Wilts, for Kingston Deverell, with plans of churches. Wilts Collections; begins with a Pedigree of "Brynd." Ditto begins "Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery." Wilts Rotuli Chartarum.
9.
Ditto Inq. ad. q. Damnum. Ditto Abbrev. Placit.
10543
Ditto Abbreviatio. Placit.
Ditto Matriculations at Oxford.
10544 10548 10549
Ditto Barons' Pedigrees. Salisbury Cathedral Register Extracts.

Inq. p.
M.
for Co. Wilts,
H.
3.,
E.
1.,
E.
2.

NO.
103
10551 10555 10556
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10560 10564 10565 10574 10639
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Epitaphs in Swindon, Co. Wilts; 2 thin vols. Wilts Inq. p. M., temp. Eliz. Ditto Visitation, autograph of T. P. Miscellaneous Wilts Pedigrees given by Charles Bowles,
; ; ;
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10644 10646
10710
10821
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Wilts Visitations, 1565; begins with two printed sheets of "Wiltshire Articles, in Harl. MSS." Britton's Beauties of Wilts; 2 vols., interleaved, with some MS. notes of his own. Knights made by K. James L, at Salisbury and Wilton,
10997
10998 10999 11182
22nd Sept., 1603. Autograph Letters of Bp. Tanner and John Aubrey,
others)
.
(with
CoUectanea, by Sir Thos. Phillipps. Ditto by Sir R. C. Hoare and others.
11183
Wilts Visitation, 1565, with some additions to 1650. Formerly belonging to Sylvan Morgan, with his monogram on the back. Wilts ditto, 1565, copied by Longmate.
Le Neve's Notes
for Crudwell, Wilts.
11184 11431 11433

11437 11438 11441 11455 11456 11461 11462 11499 11513
of Nicholas Daniel, of Sutton Benger, 1714. Wilts Visitation, 1565, part only. Ditto Fines, temp. Phil, and Mary.
}
WiU
References to Parish Registers for Wilts Gentry; vols. 1
& 2.
4)
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1.
E.
3.,
ex libro "Grafton."
The History and Praises
of Milicent Scrope. Extracts from the Chancellor's Pipe Rolls for Wilts.
Extracts from Deeds relating to Savernake. Pedigrees from Wills at Sarum.

Miscellanea; containing "Benet of Sarum." Dates of Parish Registers in Wilts.
Bounds of the Forest of Selwood.
104
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11652 11653 11654
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Marriages in ditto, 15801644. Baptisms and Burials at Steeple Ashton, 1559 Ditto at Great Chaldfield, 15491685.
80.
11655 11656 11657
15591664. 15791623. Ditto ditto 16231681. Semington Baptisms, 15861705. Ditto Burials, 15881729.
Ditto
at Keevil,
Ditto
at Bradford,
(Rev. J. Offer's
MSS.,
all in his
Autograph).'
11662
11663 11664
11665
Eev. J. Offer's Records for Heytesbury, &c. These are the 2 vols. which are by mistake said to be missing 10513. Ditto Notes from Visitations, Pole's Devon, &c.
Ditto Pedigrees of Wilts Barons;
ending with Church Notes in Great Wishford. Ditto Extracts from the Deeds of Master Darell of Littlecote. Ditto from Visitations Chartulary of Bradenstoke Abbey
; ;
Dods(Oxon) MSS.; Hussey Pedigree worth; Vincent's Inq. p. M.; Wards and Marriages; Pedes Finium, &c.; vol. 1, with the motto, "Sieves
Queen's
Coll.
;
non vobis."
11666
Ditto Extracts from
MSS.
in British
(see
Museum.
vol. 2.,
Ditto from
MSS.
Phillipps,
No. 95),
dated
11667
London, Aug. 1822. Ditto from the Chapter House, Westminster; Cole's Escheats;
Augmentation
Office;
Visitation
of Wilts;
&c.; vo!3.
11668 1 1 669
11769
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12mo.
Star
Chamber Proceedings against Henry Sherfield for breaking the window in St. Edmund's Salisbury, 1632.
11820 11842 11958
Charters, &c. of Castlecombe.
Wilts Visitations, 1623.

Ditto Collections; viz., Memoranda, Originalia, Pleadings in Duchy of Lane.; Lans.MSS.; Quo warranto; Patent
Rolls; Inq. p.
M.
J. E. J.
On
the
105
(Drmtljfllngt}
nf Wiit%.
No.
2.
ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF
BIRDS.
in a former paper briefly introduced the subject of the Ornithology of Wilts, I propose in a series of papers, to lay before
Having
the readers of this Magazine, a succinct account of the various species of birds which occur amongst us but before I proceed to do
:
so,
it
will be necessary, for the better understanding of those

little
who
have devoted
ance of those
who
attention to the subject, and also for the assistare beginning to investigate it, and would know
to
something more of the habits of the feathered race around them,
devote a few papers to the general subject of the classification, the structure, and the faculties of birds, without which previous knowledge I fear it would be impossible to convey to any one more than a confused idea of the admirable, and indeed perfect organization,
of this most interesting class of creatures. With this view, and to start from the very beginning, or, as in speaking of birds I may say, "ab ovo," I devote this paper to the somewhat dry but important subject of classification, giving a general outline of the rules by which birds are classed, and the divisions and subdivisions now
usually accepted. The student in Ornithology desirous to attain to a comprehensive knowledge of birds, must not expect to gain even a superficial
acquaintance with them, or to grasp in his mind any definite and precise idea of the positions they severally occupy, without a certain
amount of labour. The school boy in his research after knowledge must toil through many a weary and irksome task; the linguist in acquiring a new language, must pause over dry rules of grammar
;
the eminent statesman, the victorious general, the brilliant orator, gained not their proud positions, without industry and diligence:
106
On
so to
the
with, great, before we proceed to the several properties, peculiarities, and habits of indiinvestigate vidual birds, it will be necessary first to understand thoroughly the
and
compare smaller things
relative positions
they occupy:
and in order
will be
to
do this we must
devote a
little attention,
which
In Ornithology,
before
as in other sciences,
amply repaid by the result. we must not attempt to run,
we can walk: we must not rush headlong "in medias res:" step by step we must be contented to advance: but our way will not be weary, if we give attention to surmount the little obstacles
which
at first sight
irksome, if
we pause
seem to oppose us: our journey will not be to smooth away the little inequalities of the
path; and the more we advance, the easier becomes the way, the smoother the road, till at length we find ourselves unincumbered
by hinderances, and surrounded by

this
all
the sweets and pleasures of
most fascinating study. Now one of the very first requirements in every branch of Natural History, is method; one of the most indispensible is order:
it
and Ornithology, like is easily unwound, silk, deprived of method, soon becomes a tangled mass of knots, which
without this
will be impossible to progress,
a skein of
which
if
handled with due order
lesson
defy the skill of the extricator to unravel them. then that we must learn, and one which
The very first we must never

is
forget, if
we would know anything
of Ornithology,
little
insight
whereby what before seemed hopeless confusion, becomes by the touch of this magic wand, the very There seems at first sight to be a wide differperfection of order.
into the classification of birds,
ence between the gigantic ostrich and the diminutive creeper,
between the glorious eagle and the insignificant sparrow, between the noble bustard and the tiny wren; but by methodical arrange-
we see how, link succeeding link, and species being connected the strongest affinity with species, these are all integral parts of by the same great chain; united by many intermediate bands, but
ment,
still
component parts of the same great whole

classification,
fish,
nay, not only
so,
but by the help of

bird,
quadruped,
insect,
we can not only assign to each or reptile their own appropriate
%
place, but
the Rev.
A.
C. Smith.
107
we can
beginning with the noblest of God's creatures, with man, pass gradually through all the animal kingdom, stopping to
admire with what excellent method, and by what almost insensible

degrees, the race of quadrupeds merges into that of birds
;
how
the
race of birds
intimately connected with fishes fishes with repinsects with animals of inferior order, tiles ; reptiles with insects and these again with the vegetable, and (as some affirm) even the
is
; ;
mineral kingdom.
ceeding interest
indeed, and
to
:
These are surely wondrous
facts
and of ex-
to follow
up and pursue
this chain requires time

:
skill,
gain an insight into

all,
and opportunities, such as few can command but this beautiful order and arrangement is
within the reach of
and the more we investigate

it is
it,
the more
we
is
shall learn
how
true
of the
Almighty
Creator, that
"God
not the author of confusion, but of peace." Before I proceed to examine in detail the modern method of
classifying birds, as generally adopted at the present day, it will be well briefly to observe the several stages by which it has arrived at its present excellence. Among ancient writers on Natural
History, there are but two, viz. Aristotle and Pliny, who have professed to give any general description of birds and interesting,
;
many respects certainly are, they are mixed up with such a mass of absurdity and fable as very much to mar their intrinsic value. In that early stage
of Ornithological knowledge, of course anything approximating to But to come systematic arrangement was not to be expected.
and in some
cases instructive, as their treatises in
down
to
more modern
times, the first approach to order

naturalists,
is
traced to
Belon and the French
who
in the middle of the six-
teenth century began to classify after a certain system. As the ground work of their scheme was however derived from the habitat
and food of birds, it was necessarily in many respects very incorrect. In the next century, Gesner at Zurich, and Aldrovandus at Bologna,
struck out a plan in the right direction, by dividing the whole class into land and water birds but then, as if satisfied with this
;
good beginning, they deduced their subordinate divisions from the nature of the aliment. It was reserved for our own countryman,
P2
108
On
Willoughby, at the
latter
end of the seventeenth century,

;
to lay
the foundation of a more accurate arrangement
for,
accepting the
aquatic,
grand
divisions already laid

his subdivisions
down, of terrestrial
and
he
made
and
structure,
and
from enquiries into the general form and especially from the distinctive characters of the beak
he seems to have been unable to shake
off completely
feet: still
the prejudices of his time, for he allows varieties in size, the different kinds of food, and such trivial things to bias him in his arrangement.
Ray and Pennant
followed up the course so well begun by Willoughby, and the close of the last century saw this systematic arrangement from the anatomical structure of birds, very generally
established.
Since that time
all
the numerous systems of

;
classifi-
same principle of structure various indeed have they been, adopted by Ornithologists of this and other countries; some fanciful, as the "Quinary System," or "series of
cation have proceeded from the
circles," established
by Vigors:
:
others complicated and puzzling

others positively erroneous, as from
:
from their needless minuteness
a farther acquaintance with birds is shown but the method which I here set forth, adopted by modern Ornithologists, and more particularly
by those
that have preceeded

is
of this country, has this great advantage over all it, in addition to its superior accuracy, that it
simple and plain, as well as comprehensive; neither from over minuteness burdening the memory unnecessarily, nor from an
opposite extreme of indefiniteness leaving any deficiency or doubt. This moreover is the system adopted by Yarrell, Hewitson, and the
principal British Ornithologists of the present day.*
To proceed then with the

what I touched on in
classification of birds, I
must repeat
my
former paper, that birds are commonly
placed in two grand divisions, viz: "LAND BIRDS," or those whose habitat is the land: and "WATER BIRDS," or those which principally
* I should add that though I now confine my observations to birds of this country, yet the same arrangement applies equally to birds generally throughout
the globe.
By
court the water, as their
the &ev.
A.
0. Smith.
109
names respectively imply. These are two great classes, separating our British birds into two nearly equal parts; the number of land birds amounting to about 171, the water
birds to about 166 species.
The
first
great division of these two classes
is,
into the five
"ORDERS;" the members of which are of somewhat similar habits and formation, and partake of the same general characteristics.
Of
habit
these five, the
first
is
the " Raptorial" order, composed of

*
those birds usually

is
known as birds of prey;' and, as their natural the destruction of the feebler tribes and the smaller
Enimals, they have been most mercilessly persecuted by man in all countries this continual persecution will easily account for their
:
their habitual shyness, seldom venturing near the habitation of man, and always taking flight at the distant approach of their great enemy still sometimes in our great woods or thick
:
rarity and
enclosures,
and often on our open downs, the most unobservant
must have seen the hawk hovering with expanded wings high in
air, or dashing in pursuit after a luckless bird, or pouncing with unerring aim on some unfortunate mouse the most careless must have occasionally heard the wild hooting or the unearthly shriekings of the owl, as it has hurried past in search of prey in
:
the
the shades of evening. The principal characteristics of this order are the long and curved claws, the hooked and powerful bill, the
muscular limbs, the great strength, the predatory habits, the love of animal food these are traits so marked and peculiar, that it
:
will require but little discrimination to distinguish birds belonging to this order from all the others.
birds which are so and contains a much larger number of species than either of the other four orders. These are the Insessores' or perching birds,' which fill our woods and gardens, abound in our
familiar to all of us
;
The second embraces those innumerable small
and may be met with at every turn in our daily walks they possess far more intelligence than birds of any other class, are
fields,
:
endowed
remarkable for the vocal powers with which some of but especially derive their name from the
:
them
are
perfect form
110
of the foot, which
is
On
so
the Ornithology
af Wilts.
admirably adapted for perching or grasping,

toe
is always present. When we come to of this order, We shall find that the
and in which the hind

'
examine the subdivisions

Insessores
'
comprise birds varying greatly from one another in

;
habits
and general appearance
yet, all
belonging to this division
partake of the grand distinguishing features, which I have to be characteristic of it.
shewn
The third order contains the

all
'
Rasores' or
'
ground birds/ com-
such as being land birds, and yet not being birds of prehending and not having feet perfectly adapted to perching, obtain the prey,
principal part of their food
general are short,

as belongs to
this
upon the ground; their wings in and they are not capable of such extended flight members of the two preceding orders but in lieu of
;
they are provided with very strong limbs and powerful muscles, and with short toes, enabling them to run with great This division does not contain any great number of swiftness.
species,
perhaps, no class of birds, the habits and general nature of which are so generally known as this. When I mention that the * rasores' include not
;
and others
and yet as many of them are sought there still more by the sportsman
for
is,
by the
epicure,
the gallinaceous birds, as our barn-door fowls, but also partridges, pheasants, and grous, the truth of this statement will
only
all
the members of this order are extremely good for food, a beneficent Providence has caused them to be very productive, and the number of eggs to a nest is usually very
be at once seen.
As
all
considerable.
The
birds,'
fourth order begins the other great division, viz., the 'Water and comprises those numerous aquatic birds, which, not
having webbed feet, and so not being perfectly framed for swimming and diving, nevertheless, are formed for living partly in the water, and generally procure their food from wet and marshy places, if
not from rivers, lakes, and the sea shore.
or
'
These are the Grallatores'
'
wader8,
habits, as
and are distinguished from the land birds by their well as by the length of leg and neck so fitted for their
aquatic ways, also
by the formation of
their feet, so admirably
By
the Rev.
A.
C. Smith.
Ill
adapted for wading on soft mud, for running lightly over water to move easily in their accustomed plants, and enabling them
haunts.
this class.
The
fifth
is
herons, snipes, and plovers
may
serve as examples of
The
domain
and
last order contains
the true water birds, whose

:
essentially the sea, or the inland lake and large river these are bona fide inhabitants of the water, passing nearly all
their time there, retiring far
away from land
as
day approaches,
feeding in the sea, sleeping on the sea, and only occasionally These are the 'Natatores' or 'swimmers' whose visiting the shore.
boat-shaped bodies and webbed feet attest their remarkable powers of swimming and diving, and render it impossible to mistake them
as belonging to
any other
order.
From
the position and extent of
the British islands, the birds which comprise this division are very numerous on our coasts, as any one will at once acknowledge who
has seen the clouds of ducks, gulls, &c., darkening the sea shore in the autumn.
Now, such being a sketch of the five great orders of birds, and such the characteristics of each, the lines of demarcation between
them seem
so broad,
and well-defined, that one might almost be

: :
inclined to doubt the possibility of confusing them yet, (as I before remarked) in nature there seem to be no sudden transitions
no rapid jumps from one kind to another no gaps between them all is done gradually and with becoming method we are led almost insensibly from one order to another, so much does the last species
:
of one assimilate to the
first species first
of the next.
when
to the
passing from the
to the second,
Thus, for instance, from the birds of prey
perchers, see the connecting link between the two, so ably sustained by the shrikes or butcher-birds perchers indeed they
:
are,
with
feet as perfect for
grasping as
any in the
class; at the
same time, how cruel method of

prey.
prey in their habits, in their seizing, impaling on a thorn and devouring their in passing from the perchers to the ground birds, Again,
like to the birds of
mark the pigeons, what a connecting link between the two orders do they form; some partaking of the character of true 'Insessores,*
112
On
the
others approximating in every respect to the 'rasores ;' or again, in passing from the third to the fourth, from the ground birds to the
how slight is the boundary, how gentle the transition from the bustards to the plovers compare the smaller bustard, the last of one order, and the great plover, the first of the next, and how
waders,
:
much do they mark the two

shape,
resemble each other,

divisions,
how
little
the difference to
how
similar in their appearance, their
the locality they affect. And once more, the webbed feet of the last order may seem at first sight so though plain and distinguishing a characteristic, as to leave little room for
their habits,
is
gradual transition here, between the waders and swimmers, yet it not so observe the well-known coot and the phalaropes, mark their peculiar feet, furnished with membranes, though not wholly
:
and diving, and by
webbed, their decidedly aquatic habits, their powers of swimming their intervention see how easily we pass from
the true waders to the true swimmers.
Thus we are led on from
order to order, not suddenly or unconnectedly, but gradually and almost insensibly, proving to us the perfect harmony of all the
works of nature, while at the same time we can trace sufficient marks of distinction to prevent any real confusion. Having detailed somewhat at length the method pursued in this first great subdivision of the land and water birds, I now proceed
show more concisely in what the other subdivisions consist. At present we may be able to define the order to which any given
to
bird
may
belong, but
we
are
still
very far from placing

entitled to hold.
is
it
in that
particular position
which alone
it is
The next great

by
four,
subdivision of birds
;
into
'
TRIBES/ which
will not occupy us long
for of the five orders, it is usual to pass
as not needing this subdivision,
and
to apply it only to
These birds being so that very large one, 'Insessores' or perchers. numerous and withal so similar in some of their habits, have
nevertheless certain
glance the
'
tribe' to
marked characteristics, distinguishing at one which they belong, and thus very much sim-
The perchers then are divided into plifying their classification. ' first of which is the Dentirostres' or ' toothfour tribes ; the
By
1
the Ret).
A.
C. Smith.
113
billed,
so called
bill,
of the
seize
:
from the distinct tooth or notch near the extremity enabling the bird to hold securely whatever it may
it
is
chiefly
is
9
the redbreast
'
ône-billed,
composed of insect-eating birds, and of these an example. The second is the Conirostres' or so called from the conical form, as well as immense
*
;
strength of the beak

grain, as
an instance of which we
these birds are principally consumers of may name the common house'
sparrow.
The
third comprises the
^cansores'
or
'
climbers,' the
members
to this
stiff
of which are remarkable for their power of climbing, and end they are furnished with toes arranged in pairs, with bristling tail to serve as a support, with tongues capable of
great elongation and extension, whereby they insects they find in the trees they are ascending
'
may
;
transfix the
of this the wood-
The fourth arid last tribe is composed of peckers are examples. the Fissirostres' or 'wide-billed,' so called from their enormous
width of gape
:
these have usiially very small feet,

:
and take
their
food principally on the wing every one will readily perceive well the swallows answer to this description.
how
Having now reached the point at which the four tribes of perchers are on an equality with the remaining four entire orders, we come to subdivide these several classes into FAMILIES/ The word
'
itself at once these, it will clearly be perare groups of birds belonging to the same order and tribe, ceived, and having still nearer affinities one to another, not shared by
:
" families" describes
members of another family, though belonging to the same order and tribe. Thus, for example, the tribe tooth-billed' is composed of a number of families, the thrushes, the warblers, the titmice,
'
&c., all resembling one
and other
characteristics of the tribe
another in the formation of their beak, but each family containing

:
distinctive marks, separating
them from the remaining
families,
and uniting them in a closer alliance to one another. When we have mastered the classification of birds up to this point, we have attained no slight knowledge of their arrangement
but again we must pursue our enquiries a little farther, and subdivide these families into GENERA. Of these each family contains
114
On
the
less,
a certain number, some more, some
the
members of each genus
having still farther points of resemblance between them, than with those of other genera, though of the same family. Thus, to take ' for example, the warblers, sylviadae ': in this family there is the
* curruca/ containing the whitethroats, the genus regulus/ containing the golden-crested wrens, the genus saxicola/ containing the chats. Thus again of the family of grous, there is the genus '
genus
'
'tetrao/ containing the real grous, the genus 'lagopus/ containing
the ptarmigans, the genus perdix,' containing the partridges. And so again in like manner, to come to the last subdivision,
'
which concludes the arrangement of birds according

;
to scientific
classification every genus contains certain SPECIES, differing from one another in some respects, the points of difference being
sometimes marked and

perceptible.
clear, at others
Thus, as the family of grous contains
times slight, and hardily among others
the genus partridge, so the genus partridge in its turn comprises these several species, the common partridge, the red-legged partridge,
and the Barbary partridge.
Again, as the family of
among others the genus chat, so the genus chat contains the whinchat, the stonechat, and the wheatear.
warblers contains
needless to pursue this explanation any farther, be useful to subjoin the accompanying table,* recapithough may tulating the above method of classification, and enumerating the members of the three large subdivisions, some individuals of
It
it
will be
almost
of which are very generally known. Such, then, is a general outline of modern classification as comall
monly adopted
in this country.
am
:
quite aware that the above
description of it is far from perfect, and some of the subdivisions may to the experienced seem defective to enter into farther detail
would have occupied too much time, and have produced obscurity and confusion and, perhaps, for practical purposes, what I have
:
said will be
amply
sufncient.
Volumes and
treatises
without
num-
ber have been written on the subject, and our best Ornithologists have employed a vast deal of time and learning to bring it to perfection
:
the above
is
but a short epitome of the result of their
By
labours.
the Rev.
A.
C. Smith.
115
To
those
who
care not for the pursuit of Ornithology,

;
but to those
is
I fear the repetition of so many hard names may seem irksome who would learn something of birds, I am certain it
no
loss of
time to gain an insight into their classification
for
an acquaintance with this will pave the way to their future studies, simplifying what would otherwise be abstruse, laying bare what
would otherwise be hidden, and unravelling what must otherwise

be complicated
:
for (as I observed at the beginning,
now I
repeat
in conclusion) order and

:
method are the very foundation
stones of
natural history we can never arrive at any advanced knowledge of birds without them we may be able, indeed, to detect some
:
we may species on the ground, on the wing, or by their notes have some acquaintance with their respective habits and peculiari;
ties,
but
till
we can
place
them
in their
own
positions, classify
them
with something of order, arrange them in reference to their congeners with something of method, our knowledge and observations will be of small avail in teaching us the secrets of Ornithology
;
and we
shall fall short in

;
by nature and tribe
understanding the beautiful balance held the general connection between birds of the same order the more intimate connection between those of the
; ;
same family the close union between those of the same genus and the almost insensible degrees by which they pass from one to another, all of which are subjects of exceeding interest to the
observer; and our Ornithological knowledge instead of being comprehensive, will be desultory instead of being valuable, instead of being useful, will be productive of will be defective
careful
; ;
neither instruction nor pleasure.
ALFRED CHARLES SMITH.

Yatesbury Rectory, March, 1854.
116
Revieiv of Waylen's History of Marlborough.
nf
Jlra
HISTORY OF MAKLBOROUGH*
All wlio take an interest in the history of our county will readily acknowledge their obligations to Mr. Waylen for the valuable contribution to that subject with
which he has presented us in
this
very handsome volume.
We hail it as one indication
among many
of the spirit of research having been at length awakened into our ancient annals, and of the zeal with which independent writers, unaided by our Association, are already setting to work to fill up
those great gaps in our county history that are at once a discredit and a disappointment to us. The work offers, moreover, a striking
example of the abundant matter which such researches will be found to disclose in reference to those many towns and extensive
districts of Wiltshire, which as yet are unexamined, or, at all events, undescribed by any local historian. Few persons, probably, would suppose, a priori, that the history of the comparatively petty coun-
try town of Marlborough, could afford materials for a thick octavo volume of a most readable and agreeable character. Yet, we can truly say, that having once taken up Mr. Waylen's work, we found
it
very
difficult to
lay
it
down again
until
we reached the
last page.
* A HISTORY, MILITAEY AND MUNICIPAL, or THE TOWN OF MARLBOROUGH, AND MORE GENERALLY OF THE ENTIRE HUNDRED OF SELKLEY. BY JAMES WAYLEN. SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.
ew of Waykn'z History of Marlbmough*
117
And
it
to those who, reside in the
town itself, or the hundred of Selkby>

to
must be doubly welcome and valuable. The amount of general historical interest
which we
here- fiad
the town of Marlborough fairly entitled, (in spite of the fact that at no period has it been very extensive, wealthy, or populous), arises from its geographical position. It occupies the very centre
of that area of Wiltshire which
is
most thickly studded with the
remains of the primitive inhabitants of the island, almost within

sight of all the three great
monuments of unknown
antiquity
Stonehenge, Avebury, and Silbury Hill at the intersection of several first-class Roman roads and on the chief line of com-
munication between London and the metropolis of the west, till of late the second city of the kingdom, Bristol. So placed, it
could not
fail to play a part in in the history of Britain.
many
of the most important events
The evidence of the occupation of the actual site of the town of Marlborough by the aboriginal Britons is confined to the Castle Mound, which, though inferior in size to its colossal neighbour,
Silbury,
is
so similar to it in character,, as to leave little
doubt of
an identity in origin.
Mildenhall, a suburb of the town, and the
adjoining hill called Folly Farm, unquestionably formed the Roman military station of Cunetio, which derived, its name from the river
Cunnet or Kennet by which

'
it is
intersected.
'
This latter sound,
is
so closely allied to that of the
Kynetes' of Herodotus, and the

is
Kynt' of the British bard Aneurin, that Mr. Waylen perhaps
justified in supposing we of some of the earliest
may
trace in this spot the establishment
migratory inhabitants of the west of
Europe. Sir Richard Hoare divides the station Cunetio. into two, the must refer to his great work on Ancient upper and the lower.
We
Wiltshire, from which Mr. Waylen, judiciously quotes the principal passages, for an account of the numerous vestiges of Roman works,
still,
or lately, existing here,
and the
objects of antiquity that
have
" the
been at various times dug up, on
its site.
Among
the last
is
118
Review of Waylen's History of Marlborough.
Maryborough Bucket" preserved in the British Museum, and the Rudge Cup, engraved in Gough's Camden, and represented below in the size of original. (Query, where is this preserved at present ?)
The name
of Marlborough, written in the most ancient charters
Merlberg, or Mierleberg, is supposed to be derived from Merlin Ambrosius the Briton, a seer and writer, who flourished towards
the close of the fifth century, and is said by Bale to have been buried here, having in his life-time erected Stonehenge. All this Not so the well authenticated is, of course, somewhat apocryphal. fact that at the time of the conquest a castle existed here in which the Conqueror imprisoned several of the Saxon ecclesiastics (among
others Êgelricus, Bishop of Southsax) who had exhibited impatience of his usurpation. It is remarkable that Domesday Book contains
no survey of the town or manor, although one of the wealthiest landholders in the county bore the name of Alured de Merlebergh, and was therefore most probably its lord. The Conqueror is
mint here, several coins of his epoch That the existing with the name of the town impressed on them. castle continued in the hands of the Sovereign seems proved by
said to have established a
Henry I. having held
a court here during Easter in the year 1110.
119
In the succeeding reign, Wiltshire, it is well known, formed the central battle-field of the prolonged contest for the Crown, which was carried on between Stephen, of Blois, and the partisans of the
Empress Matilda, Henry's daughter, and possessing

extraordinary number
feudal fortresses,
it
at that time
an
of nourishing towns, religious houses,
and
was proportionably exposed
to the alternate
Marlborough was held ravages of both parties. during the greater part of this period for the Empress by her halfbrother Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and his castellain John Fitzcastle of
The
seems by a want of due respect for monastic property to have incurred the special wrath of the monkish historians of the day, one of whom, William of Malmesbury, speaks
Gilbert.
latter
The
of
him
in the following terms
"
:
A very firebrand of
wickedness
was
for
this
John of Marlborough, who appeared
to rule in that castle
no other purpose than to scourge the realm with his ceaseless By means of outlying fortalices skilfully contrived to injuries.
communicate with himself, he brought within his power the lands and possessions not of civilians only, but of religious houses of what order soever and though often excommunicated, this only added
;
to his fury
for,
compelling the heads of the monasteries to assemble
at his castle
on stated days, he practised the unparalleled effrontery
of assuming in his own person the episcopal function of levying contributions either in the form of ready money or compulsory
The extreme indignation here shewn at the assumption a lay baron of episcopal privileges of taxation, is amusing at a by period when so many bishops were in that very neighbourhood in
services."
arms, and playing the part of baronial warriors the Bishop of Salisbury holding Malmesbury and Devizes, the latter built by
himself,
and considered the strongest
fortress in the
realm
the
Bishop of Ely acting as his lieutenant while the Bishop of Lincoln fortified and manfully defended Castle Howard, and the Bishop of Winchester the chief fortress of his see. Mr. Waylen
recounts several of the events of which Wiltshire was the theatre
during this intestine struggle, and we cannot but express a hope that either he or some other equally competent writer will before
120
Review of Waylen'x History of Marlborougli.
long favour us with a special and detailed history of the important part which our county played in the history of the baronial wars
of the 12th and 13th century. Henry II., soon after his accession, granted the castle of Marlborough to his son John, Earl of Mortagne, afterwards
King John, whose marriage with
the heiress of
the Earl of Gloucester was celebrated here in the year 1189. John appears to have been throughout his life attached to the spot, as a
place of occasional
treasure.
residence
and a repository
charters also
for
much
of his
He
conferred
many
upon the burgesses
of the adjoining town. Numerous contemporary documents attest these facts, of which Mr. Waylen gives several interesting extracts^
In the great contest of

castle of
this
unhappy monarch with
his barons, the
by its had been called in by the disaflPected barons to head their forces, and laid claim to the Crown. By him it was made over to William
Mareschal, the younger, son of the great Earl of Pembroke, of the same name. The former, however, shortly after withdrew his
support from Louis, and Marlborough Castle re-opened its gates to the friends of Prince Henry who had been proclaimed King under the title of Henry III. by the elder Mareschal, and crowned at
Gloucester in presence of the Pope's legate and the loyal barons.
Marlborough slipped from his grasp, being delivered up warden, Hugh de Neville, to Prince Louis of France, who
Henry was
often at Marlborough.
And
it
was during his
illness
there in the year 1126 that the gallant William Longespee, who had visited the King, his uncle, to remonstrate against the
his birthright
attempts of the favourite Hubert de Burgh to obtain possession of by marriage with his mother, the Countess EJa of
sickness
Sarum, was struck (through poison as some suppose) by a sudden which proved speedily mortal. Marlborough continued to be a favourite residence of Henry III., probably owing to the
opportunities for sport afforded of Savernake and Albourn Chase.
by the neighbouring royal forests The Liberate Rolls contain many

improvement and
directions to the constable of the castle for its

repairs,
in
it
with interesting particulars of the accommodation provided for both the King and the Queen, of which Mr. Waylen

gives copious examples.
121
On the death, of Henry III. Marlborough became part of the dowry of his widow Queen Eleanor, who resided in the neighbouring nunnery of Amesbury, and on her death was conferred by Edward I. on his own Queen. On the
Castle accession of
it,
II., he deprived his mother of it, and bestowed with other vast estates, on the all-powerful favourite together
Edward
Despencer, in the year 1308. On the fall of the Despencers, Queen Isabel obtained it, and, in the reign of Edward III., it was held likewise for the Queen Joanna (of Scotland, Edward's
Hugh
le
by a succession of wardens. Richard II. granted it to his William Scrope, K.GK, created at the same time Earl of Wiltshire, on whose execution in 1399, it reverted
sister),
faithful follower Sir
again to the Crown.
In the time of Henry V. Sir Walter Hun-
gerford, of Farleigh Castle, received the profits of the town and castle, which in the subsequent reign were held by Humphrey,
Duke
of Gloucester,
known
castle
as the
good Duke.
By
this time it
seems probable that the
had been dismantled, being no longer
mentioned
as a fortress, although still used as a principal residence the Seymours, into whose hands it ultimately passed by grant by from the Crown to the Duke of Somerset, temp. Edw. VI. In that
descended by inheritance, together with the Barony of of Trowbridge, until, in the year 1779, it was purchased by Seymour its present noble owner the Marquis of Ailesbury, who was already possessed of the rangership of the adjoining forest of Savernak, and
family
it
the estates of Tottenham, Wolfhall,
&c.,
by inheritance from
as a self-governed
Elizabeth sister and heir of the third Duke.
The Borough of Marlborough
existed,
no doubt,
municipality from the Saxon, or indeed, probably, the Roman But its earliest written charter was granted by John. It period.
possessed the usual Court Leet, Mayor's Court, and other municipal privileges, with a special court, called Morrow Speech Court, held
four times in the year, at which the mayors and burgesses were chosen. The first charter of incorporation was granted by Queen
Elizabeth.
It seems to
have returned two members to Parliament

;
from the
earliest period
at all events
from the time of Henry III.
122
Review of Waylen's History of Maryborough.
who held
there in 1267 the Parliament at which the celebrated " Statutes of Marlborough" were enacted. Like many other
boroughs, if not all, its Constitution was at first, and for a long period, of a liberal character, the entire body of the inhabitants,
paying
scot and lot, having the rights and privileges of burgesses. But by degrees the governing body became, as in so many other
narrowed to a small exclusive self-elected body, till " reduced at last to some half-dozen individuals, they invited by their insignificance the hand of reform." The history of these
instances,
various changes is
Waylen, but we The Seymour family, who possessed the castle of Marlborough, with the lordship called the " Barton," and the forests of Savernak
and Alboum Chase, as also many large adjoining estates, mostly inherited from the Esturmys of Wolfhall, who had held lands in
neighbourhood from the time of the Conqueror, naturally exercised great influence over the borough. The.Earl of Hertford, inhabited the mansion of Amesbury, and son of the Protector,
this
given in an interesting narrative by Mr. have not space, of course, to follow him through it.
occasionally resided at
Tottenham. It was his grandson, Sir Francis Seymour, younger brother of the then Earl, who built for his residence the large house on the site of the old castle, long known to many yet living as the Castle Inn, and now the nucleus
of the Marlborough College. He was returned to the long Parliament as one of the members for Marlborough, his colleague being John Franklyn, and both at first opponents of the extravagant
Sir Francis, however, when the pretensions of the prerogative. approached, sided with the King, who raised him to the
crisis
peerage under the
title
of Baron Trowbridge, while his colleague,
Franklyn, and his successor, Philip Smith, remained firm to the popular cause, and the former played a very prominent part in the
ensuing incidents of the great rebellion. Wiltshire was full of non-conformists, and the inhabitants of were in Clarendon's estimation "
Marlborough especially notoriously This was shewn in 1642 by their liberal contributions to the parliamentary loans, and their voluntary enrolment in large
disaffected."
123
numbers in the
militia then
in defence of the parliamentary cause,
forming under the Earl of Pembroke and in opposition to the
commission of array of which among others the Marquis of Hertford and his brother, the Lord Seymour, were charged with the Nor was it long before the town of Marlborough execution.
defended only by this hastily raised militia was; exposed to actual assault from, the royalist forces detached for the purpose from
Oxford, under Lord Digby, in November, 1642. The first attack seems to have been easily foiled. But in the beginning of the next month, a body of 6,000 infantry with several troops of horse,
under Lords Grandison and Wentworth, in conjunction with Lord Digby, attacked the town on several sides with great energy, and
having forced
safety to the
its
defenders under Sir Neville Poole to retreat for
and, to
Lord Seymour's house, and the Castle Mound, sacked, a great extent, burnt and ruined the unfortunate town. A
in- Chief of the
few days later succour arrived from Lord Essex, the Commanderparliamentary forces, and the royalists retreated on
;
Oxford
but the mischief had been done, and
it
took some time for
the unlucky inhabitants of Marlborough to recover their losses. Moreover, John Franklyn, the popular member, and some hundred
of the inhabitants were taken prisoners, carried to Oxford, and confined there for a long period under circumstances of great hardship and cruelty.
In the
series of contests that
subsequently took
place between the royalist and parliamentarian forces, in the county of Wilts, and the adjoining counties of Berks,, Oxford, and Hampshire, the town of Marlborough bore a prominent part, as lying on
the great high road from
London
to the
West
of England.
But
we must
refer to
Mr. Waylen's book
for the interesting details of
these events, especially recommending to our readers the amusing narrative of the gallant but somewhat marauding exploits of Major Dowett, commander of the Devizes troopers, who seems to have
considered Marlborough a never failing subject for attack and In the end, however, the cause of the Parliament depredation.
triumphing, Marlborough rose again from its ruins, and recovered a fair amount of prosperity. The Lord Seymour compounded with
R2
124

"
delinquencies ;" settled quietly in his so rapidly were all traces of the recent
the Parliament for his

residence at the castle
;
and
struggles obliterated, that in 1648, our old gossip
and
friend,
John
Aubrey, spent the Christmas there, happily hare hunting on the
downs with Mr. Charles Seymour's beagles and Sir W. Button's greyhounds, and investigating the interesting relics of Avebury which he seems to have been the first to discover, at least to make
known The
to the world.
disorders incident to a state of
war were now
at
an end,
and the only military spectacle of which the town was at this period the scene, was in July 1649, six months after the King's death, on occasion of Cromwell's passing through it on his way to
Bristol, at
the head of a large force destined for the conquest of
The general was himself with his officers entertained at a grand feast given by the Earl of Pembroke at his manor-house of Ramsbury, the army being quartered principally in Marlborough. A few years later, in 1653, the town was in great part
Ireland.
destroyed by a terrible conflagration arising from accident and this calamity being contemporaneous with the accession of the
;
Lord Protector
to
loyalist scribes of the
supreme power, was spoken of by some of the day as "an ominous commencement of this
incendiary's usurpation, whose red burden of many a cavalier's song."

hall,
and
fiery nose has
been the
By
this calamity the
town
market-house, the church of St. Mary, the principal inns, and between two and three hundred houses were burnt to the
ground. The loss was estimated in the petition for aid sent up on the occasion to the council of state from the mayor and other " three score and ten thousand inhabitants, at pounds at the least."
committee was thereupon appointed by the council to
sit
at
Sadler's Hall,
London, for managing and ordering collections
to
be
made through
special letters of the council, addressed to all parts
of the kingdom.
The amount raised by
this collection is not stated

its
but that the town rose rapidly again from
ashes
is
clear
from a
passage in Evelyn's memoirs, recording his visit to the conflagration.
it
the year after

" 9th June, 1654.
relations in Wiltshire.
lately fired,
125
Set out in a coach and six to visit
my
wife's
Dined
at
was now new-built. Lord Seymour's house, but nothing observable except the mount, to which we ascended by windings for near half a mile. It seems
to
Marlborough, which having been At one end of the town we saw
The
have been cast up by hand." trade of the town seems at this time to have flourished
The Marlborough cheese market in particular was celeand supplied the metropolis with a thin kind of cheese in brated, Cloths and serges were likewise great favour with consumers.
greatly.
manufactured there, and cutlery and tanning were among the staple
The population engaged in the clothing trade must have been considerable, as a petition of the date of 1697 to the Commons House states that " many thousands of poor people had been employed for several years past in the clothing trade
trades of the place.
hereabouts, besides 700
yearly
in
the
workhouse"
title at
Workhouses
were evidently more deserving of their

they are at present.
that period, than
Cromwell granted a new charter to the borough, in which his But the royalist party had many suppartisans were numerous.
porters there likewise,
and even Lord Hertford and his brother

readiness
to
Lord Seymour were suspected of movement for the restoration of the
join
in
Sovereign. rash and unfortunate rising of Mr. Penruddock was intended to have broken out by seizure of this town, and taking unawares the
legitimate
any The
The cavalry, however, troop of Cromwell's horse stationed in it. were too well on their guard. The outbreak exploded at Salisbury And the Seymours remaining quiet were rewarded by instead.
Cromwell with a considerable exemption from the threatened assessment on them of the commissioners.
gives some amusing passages extracted from of the day, relative to the intrigues and contests of the pamphlets rival partisans in the borough at this period, especially the story " William of the sufferings of Houlbrook, the Marlborough black( Cornet Joyce, an old smith," a royalist, and the treacheries of
Mr. Waylen
126
soldier
Review of Waykn's History of Marlborough.

'
and agent of the Rump/ the same person who conducted the late King from Holmby. Houlbrook was suspected of being an agent of Prynne's who had turned royalist at this time, and had been certainly in communication with the loyal blacksmith
while passing through Marlborough. This was about the time of Sir Q-. Booth's rising in Cheshire in 1659, when a few royalists did
appear in arma near Malmesbury, but were speedily crushed. The shrewd smith seems by his own account to have been too
CTimaing for his examiners, when, upon being arrested and taken to London, he was questioned before the council consisting of Brad-
shawy Disbrowe, and Sir Henry Vane. At all events he was dismissed unpunished, and a few months later the monarchy being
restored,
he became the hero of his
locality,
and ends
his exulting
and triumphant narrative by the boast that u Now he lives in Marlborough town, And is a man of some renown."
In 1663 King Charles II. was sumptuously entertained at Marlborough by Lord Seymour, while on a western progress, accompanied
by
his
Queen and
this visit that
Duke of York. It was during Aubrey was summoned to the presence of royalty,
his brother, the
and had the honour and
gratification of playing cicerone to the the local antiquities of Avebury and Stonehenge. Sovereign among The King according to Aubrey's relation, walked up to the top of
Silbury Hill with the Duke of York, Dr. Charlton and Aubrey himself acting as their guides. Mr. Waylen takes the occasion of his narrative, having reached
several of the ejected Divines
the period of the restoration, to give biographical sketches of among the Wiltshire clergy, who,
by the Act of Uniformity, were deprived of their preferment. The Wiltshire Commissioners for enforcing the execution of the act sat chiefly at Marlboraugh, and one of them was the famous Adoniram Byfield for some time Rector of Collingbourn Ducis. This portion of the work will offer matter of great interest to many readers. But we have not space here to dwell upon it further than
by mentioning, as one among
this
'
army
of martyrs/
the well-
Review of Waylen's History of Maryborough.
127
known Dr. Daniel Burgess, and also that Sacheverell, the leader at a later day of
faction,
the noted Dr.
Henry
the dominant ehurch
Sacheverell, minister of St. Peter's
was a native of Marlborough, the son of the Rev. Joshua Church in that town, and
received his early education at the borough school. The third Lord Seymour, of Trowbridge, succeeded to the Dukedom of Somerset in 1675, on the failure of issue by his cousin
John, the fourth Duke.

castle of
He was
then a minor, and living at the
Maryborough with his mother. He died at the age of twenty-one, being killed in an unlucky squabble while travelling in
Italy. And the title descended to his brother Charles then eighteen years of age, the sixth Duke of Somerset, who relinquished Marlborough Castle as a residence to his eldest son Algernon. Inthe year
1676 the bulk of the Wiltshire
estates of the
Duke
of Somerset had
been conveyed to the second Earl of Ailesbury by his marriage with But the castle of Elizabeth, sister and heir of the third Duke.
Marlborough remained for some generations the property of the Dukes of Somerset, and became famous at a subsequent period as
the residence of the talented Countess of Hertford, then wife of Algernon, who was afterwards the seventh and last Duke.
the epoch of the revolution of 1688, the borough of Marlborough recovered its charter, which had been seized and suspended
At
by James, with
that of so many other boroughs. The town was garrisoned at this time by a battalion of Dragoons, under Sir John Fenwick. And as the neighbouring town of Hungerford was the scene of the conference between William of Orange and the Com-
missioners of James deputed to treat with him on the retreat of the King, Marlborough was, no doubt, also filled with Dutch
troops.
of
At the ensuing election there occurred a double return members for the borough, giving rise to the case well-known
in the books of Election-Law called the Marlborough case of 1689. In the early part of the eighteenth century, as has been already noticed, Marlborough acquired some celebrity as the residence of
the Countess of Hertford, whose interesting correspondence with her intimate friend Lady Pomfret. is chiefly dated from the castle.
128

poetic
The
Mrs.
Howe
'
in the
and friendships of this lady are well known. traditionally said to have composed some of her lines And Thomson, the author of grotto under the mound/
tastes
is
PLAN OP THE CASTLE GBDFNDS, MABLBOBOUGH.
1723.

the Seasons, was
129
among her invited guests. Her energetic interference at court in behalf of Richard Savage, when convicted of murder, is well known through the medium of Johnson's Lives of
the Poets.
Dr. Watts was one of her constant correspondents, and Alexander Pope, her Apollo. The gardens of the castle were
her,
much improved by
and she makes frequent mention of
their
beauties in her correspondence.
her decease in 1754, however, the mansion was converted into an inn, which continued to be its
On
destination
up
to a
very recent date.
It is singular that
Lady
Lady Pomfret, died in 1761 at this inn, where perhaps the memory of her beloved friend had led her to take up her residence in her last illness.
Hertford's bosom friend,
this age,
Among the eminent natives and inhabitants of Marlborough in may be honourably mentioned Sir Michael Foster, one of
the King's Bench, noted for his integrity and independence. The latter character he had an opportunity of conspicuously exhibiting when presiding at the celebrated trial at the the judges of
Surrey Assizes, in 1758, the result of which secured a right of way Mr. Waylen quotes the for the public through Richmond Park.
well
known
letter written
Thurlow on
Foster, in
is
this occasion to
by Mr., afterwards Lord Chancellor, Mr. Ewen, nephew of Mr. Justice
which the behaviour of the presiding judge at the trial " It related with its due meed of approval. gave me," concludes
"
find that
the writer,
who am a stranger to him, great pleasure to we have one English judge whom nothing can tempt or
frighten,
ready and able to uphold the laws of his country as a great shield In these days it would be difficult of the rights of the people."
to
imagine any judge acting otherwise, but it was not so in the middle of the last century, when the claims of the prerogative
were occasionally put forward (as on this occasion) in a manner which made resistance to them almost as perilous as it would be
at the present time in
many
left
We
have no space
still
narrative of
more
of the other states of Europe. Mr. Waylen in his amusing recent events connected with Marlto follow
borough and
its
neighbourhood
how Lord Bruce formed and
130
Review of Waykn's History of Marlborough.
admirably drilled his regiment of militia in 1759 equipping them in scarlet coats with blue facings, white gaiters, hair powdered, and hats well-cocked up, ordering " the men not to let down the
cocks of their hats on any account, and also to keep the skirts of their coats constantly hooked up" how Gibbon, the historian,
served in the militia of the neighbouring county, Hants, and was (we should like to quartered occasionally in this part of Wilts
have seen his rotund figure marching in the above-mentioned how again in 1794, and the subsequent years, this accoutrements)
part of Wiltshire was conspicuous for the ready and loyal zeal in which both militia and yeomanry forces volunteered to form
themselves for the defence of the country. At the time of the invasion panic in 1798, Marlborough had its " armed association/' In all these in addition to the other military preparations. patriotic proceedings it is needless to say that the noble family of
Bruce were then as now foremost in encouragement, example, and command.
The changes effected in Marlborough by the Parliamentary and Municipal Reform Bills, by the transmutation of the venerable Castle Inn into an admirable Collegiate School, the proceedings in
respect to the hitherto abortive
scheme
for connecting
Marlborough
with the line of the Great Western Railway, and the proposed change of destination of the County Gaol situated in the town, are all matters of too recent a date to require any notice in this brief
abstract.
priate
But in Mr. Waylen's narrative they find their approWe must not pass over in silence, place, and fit record.
however,
among the objects of interest at Marlborough, its endowed Grammar School, founded by King Edward VI., which has the
honour of counting among the scholars educated there, the names of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury, Mr. Glanville, Sir James Long, Henry Sacheverell, Sir Michael Foster, Lieutenant- General Picton,
Walter Harte, and Dr. Mapleton,

Hereford.
late Chancellor of the Diocese of
details, both biographical and historical, other characters or families of note connected with the respecting
Mr. Waylen gives several
Etymology of Garston.
131
And we
hundred of Selkley, for which we must refer to the work itself. will end as we began by thanking the author for the
agreeable contribution which he has afforded in it to the history of our county. If we have anything to regret in its perusal, it is a want of sufficient references to the sources of the writer's information,
structure of the volume.
and perhaps something of imperfect arrangement in the On the whole, however, it is a most
entertaining work,
much more
so
than the ordinary
class of topo-
graphies, and cannot fail whose hands it may come.
to interest every Wiltshire reader into
P. S.
GAESTON.
[P. 67].
The word (as rightly explained by two correspondents, E. W. and F. A. C.) means "grass enclosure:" "gaers" being Saxon for
grass,
and " tun" enclosure.
It is
common
in Surrey
and Sussex,
as well as in the
West
of England; generally, for an enclosed
Pewsey Yale), but and Malmsbury), which have been grass but are now broken up. The provincial pronunciation of the word in Wilts is, perhaps most frequently, " Garesen," or "Gaasen," and as the way in which the name of the
sometimes also for arable
fields
grass field near a village (as at Charlton, in the
(as at Bratton
parish of Garsden, near Malmsbury, is pronounced, is also with the " a lengthened, Garesden it is most likely that from the gaersdenes" or grass valleys, by which that place is surrounded, its name
:
has been derived.
It is
much
to be
wished that some Anglo-Saxon
scholar would favour us, at once with the true etymology of our Wiltshire names at least, of such as are of Anglo-Saxon origin.
:
CALNE.
The proper
spelling
and derivation of
this
name?
E.
J.
132
Le land's Journey through
Wiltshire.
Sntmmj
tjirntigji
A. D. 1540-42.
WITH NOTES BY THE
REV.
J.
E.
JACKSON.
;
JOHN LEYLAND (commonly spelled Leland) was born in London the parish and year unknown but about the beginning of the
;
16th century. He was educated under "W. Lilly, the grammarian, then went to Cambridge, and was afterwards of All Souls College, Thence he proceeded to study at Paris and on his return Oxford.
:
took holy orders, and became King Henry YIIL, who him a benefice in the Marches of Calais. He seems to have been gave
chaplain to
an accomplished man was acquainted, it is said, with eight languages, and wrote Latin with facility and elegance. On being appointed
;
library keeper to the King, h left his rectory abroad, and received in 1533 a royal commission under the great seal to travel over
England in search of
It
antiquities,
with power to inspect the libraries

depositories of historical records.
of cathedrals, abbies,
and other
were visited, previously to Fuller 1 enumerates this royal comimpending " commendable deeds" done by the mission to Leland amongst the " He would have the King, upon the fall of the religious houses.
was in
this year that the monasteries

dissolution.
their
buildings destroyed, but the memorables therein recorded, the builders preserved, and their memories transmitted to posterity.
This task Leland performed with great pains, to his great praise on the King's purse, who exhibited most bountifully unto him."
Leland
viz.,
is
the Prebend of North

to
_
Pewsey)
.
,
connected with Wiltshire by one of these "exhibitions :" Newnton (or Newton, 4 miles west of
which was annexed Knoyle Odierne,

Church Hist. B.
(Little or
West
___
vi. sect. iv. 8. 9.
Leland' s Journey through Wiltshire.
133
he was presented in 1534, the last Abbess of Wilton, in nominally, by Cicely Bodenham, In whose patronage it lay, but, no doubt, really by the Crown. 1 " John PreJthe Yalor Ecclesiasticus 2 taken that year, Laylond, bendary of Newnton," returns the annual value of the prebend at
Knoyle), near Hindon.
this
To
5s. net.
Though Leland had
received his commission in 1533, before the
actual dissolution of the religious houses, (which took place A.D.
1535), he does not appear to have begun his "perambulation" until two or three years after that eVent viz., about A.D. 1538. He then retired to the Rectory It occupied him for several years.
;
of St. Michael's in le Querne in London, with the intention of
producing from the notes and collections which he had made upon But this he was his travels, a grand work on English antiquities.
not permitted to accomplish. His reason became affected, though from what particular cause is not exactly known. Fuller's account " This is Leland, after the death of his bountiful patron King
:
Henry VIII.,
:
[January,
1548],
fell
distracted
and
so
died:
uncertain, whether his brain
want of wages the latter K. Henry, his endeavours met not with proportionable encouragement." There seems to be but little foundation for this. It is more probable that the real cause was the one assigned by other
writers, viz., over excitement of the intellect
was broken with weight of work, or more likely, because after the death of
under the prospect of
the herculean task before him.
Upon his derangement being made
3 were issued in VI., letters patent 1550, " John the custody of his person, as Leyland, junior" granting " John to his brother Leyland, senior ;" and confirming to him for
known
to
King Edward
his maintenance all his ecclesiastical
preferment, as well as an
annuity of
26
13s. 4d.,
which was, perhaps, the salary that had

2
Wilts Institutions,
p. 204.
V. E. for Wilts,
p. 131.
In the lengthy and precise Latin document issued upon this occasion, of which there is a copy in the introduction to Leland' s Collectanea, vol. i. p. XLVTII., the unfortunate antiquary is described with an extravagant variety of legal " demens, insanus, lunaticus, furiosus, phreneticus." epithets, as
3
134
Leland's Journey through Wiltshire.
been allowed hi
by the
:
late
King.
He was
at this time still

;
and of (Poperingues near Ypres) in Co. Oxon so that with the "Wiltshire prebend, there Haseley " lack of does not seem altogether to have been any wages." TTia death took place in April 1552 upon which event Edward
rector of the benefice abroad
:
VI. ordered his manuscripts to be brought into the care of Sir

" Here" (says Fuller) " " our great antiquary" (Camden) got a sight, and made a good use thereof; it being most true, Si Lelandus non laborasset, Camdenus
John Cheke, the royal
tutor
and
secretary.
non triumphdsset."
Sir
John Cheke's
son,
Henry,
after his father's
death, gave four volumes in folio, of Leland's "Collectanea," (being miscellaneous extracts from the monastic libraries), to Humphrey Purefoy, of Leicestershire, by whom they were given
Mr. Burton, the historian of that county. Burton afterwards obtained eight other volumes called the "Itinerary," written like
to
the former ones in Leland's
own hand
and deposited the whole in

original manuscript of the
the Bodleian Library, at Oxford.
The
Itinerary had been previously much damaged by damp and neglect, but Burton had made a copy of it in 1621. Bishop Tanner had a
design of publishing it, but was prevented and the task fell into the hands of Thomas Hearne, the antiquary. second edition
:
appeared in 1745 a third, and the last, in 1770. The work is now scarce and expensive, and a new edition, which should be
:
accompanied by notes to explain obscurities and correct

desirable.
errors, is
will bear in mind then, that Leland's Itinerary conof the original brief, and, often probably hasty, notes only taken by himself upon a tour. They are not the " secundce curce"
The reader
sists
the revised production, of his literary leisure but such observations as he made "inter equitandum" during the stages of his journey gathered from the conversation of his hosts, the squires
:
and the
clergy, or culled
from such documents and authorities as

so taken, would, of course,
they laid before him.

i
Memoranda
" If Leland had not worked, Camden would not have triumphed."
Leland*s Journey through Wiltshire.
135
:
contain
much
that required further correction and confirmation
much
also that
would have been omitted in the process of expanStill,

it
sion into careful history.
book, and though
includes
the Itinerary is a very curious many things that are trivial, it has
preserved to us a great deal of local information, which it would now be impossible to obtain from any other source. Towards a
new
edition of the work, great assistance might be rendered by the various Archaeological Societies of England, if they would publish in their respective Proceedings such portions of it as relate to their
own
counties, with notes
by those
of their
members who may have
turned their attention to local history.
LELAND'S JOURNEY THROUGH WILTSHIRE.!

[He entered
it
the
first
time at the N. E. corner of the county,
coming from Lechlade in Gloucestershire].
FROM Lechelade to Eiton Castle in Whikshire, where great ruines of a building in Wyleshir, as in ulteriori ripa (on the farther bank) remayne yet, a 2 miles upper on the Isis.
From
Eiton
Eiton Castelle to Nunne-Eiton, a mile.

%
To Grekelade or
rather Crikelade? a 2 miles.
Mount-penson (Mompesson), of married one of the Lord Zouche's daughters, that is now. Wileshire,
(vi. 14).
the Lord Zouche's castle.
Nunne-Eaton belonged
ii.
to Godstow.
Crekelade
is
on the
Itinerary, vol.
' <
p. 48.
' <
Or rather Cricklade." The fable of Greek philosophers having flourished" at this place, and of its having been an university before the foundation of
2
life
learning at Oxford, is evidently too ridiculous for Leland, who, however, in his of Alfred, as well as in other passages of his works, alludes to it without any apparent disbelief. There were, probably, never more Greek philosophers
at Cricklade than there are at present, whatever that number may be. of the place is derived from two Saxon words, signifying "brook"
The
and
name
abundantly sustained by the number of small streams that in this neighbourhood fall into the Isis." 3 " Eiton :" now Castle Eaton. The older name was Eaton Meysey from a
is
:
"to empty:" a derivation which
family to
whom
it
belonged temp. Henry III.
136
Leland' s Journey throuyh Wiltshire.
farther ripe * of Isis,
and stondeth in
Wileshire.
Loke here where
Braden water comming out of Wileshire doeth go into Isis. I noted a little beyond Pulton** village Pulton priorie, wher
was a prior and 2 or 3 blake canons with hym. I saw yn the walles where the presbyterie was, 3 or 4 arches, wher ther were tumbes of gentilmen. I think that ther was byried
sum
it,
of the Sainct-Maurs.
there. 3
And of
surety one St. Maur, founder of
was buried
As I passed out of Pulton
village, I
went over the bek 4 of Pulton
Pulton bek, about a mile beneth Pulton, rising not far above. mill a little above Dounamney into Amney streame. goith at a
From
and
Pulton toward
Amney
villag I passed over

it
Amney
water,
Amney village, leving on the right hand. Amney brook risith a little above Amney toune by north out of a rok and goith a 3 miles of, or more, to Doune-amney, wher
so to
;
Syr Antony Hungreford hath a

bank.
fair
house of stone, on the farther
%
/
goith into Isis a mile beneth Dounamney, againe NunneEiton in Wilshire.
Amney
From
Pulton to
Cirencestre a
4 miles.
Serlo, first abbate of
Cirencestre,
made
his brother prior of Bradene-stoke.

is
Tetbyri
is vii
miles from Malmesbyri, and
a praty market town.

Fosse,
5
Tetbyri lyeth
a 2 miles on the
i
left
hand of from
as
men
ryde to Sodbyri.
" Farther ripe

2" Pulton
:"
:" (bank).
This would be the case to a person coming from

lies
Lechlade.
commonly called Poulton,

Sir
within Gloucestershire, but belongs

,
to Wilts.
3" Founder."
A. D.
Thomas
St.
Maur founded Poulton
Priory, 24
Edw.
III.
His brother's [Tanner's Monast.] He died without issue. descendant in the 4th generation, Alice St. Maur, a sole heiress, married Wm. Lord Zouche. Hence the Zouehes at Castle Eaton just mentioned. *' Bek." Brook.
1360.
5
:
" Fosse." Five Roman roads went out of Cirencester, one of which was but Leland seems here to have mistaken the course of it. That which is now called " The Fosse" does not go over any "manifest great crest" by Sodbury to Bristol, but by Easton Grey and North Wraxhall to Bath. Leland himself afterwards left Cirencester by the latter road for a short distance then turned off to Crudwell, and entered Malmesbury over Holloway Bridge on the Charlton Road.
the Fosse
:
Lcland's Journey through Wiltshire.
137
The head
Tetbyri.
of Isis in Coteswalde risith about a mile a this side
goith oute at Cirencestre, and so streatchith by a manifesto great creste to Sodbyri market, and so to Bristow. [Isis riseth a iij myles from Cirencestre not far from a village
The
Fosse
way
called
cestre
Kemble within half a myle of the Fosse way, betwixt Cirenand Bath. Thens it runneth to Latinelad, (Lattori), and so
myle lower, soon after receyving the very head of Isis is in a great somer [when~\ drought, apperith very little or no water; yet is the stream servid with many ofsprings resorting to one bottom, v. 63].
to Grekelad (Cricklade) about a
Churn.
Wheras
From
Cirencestre to
First I roode about a mile
Malmsbyri viii miles. on Fosse. Then I turnid on the
lifte
hand, and cam al by champayne grounde, fruteful of corne and grasse, but very litle wood.
I passid over a stone bridg, wher Newton water as I take it, and so enterid the rennith in the very botom by the toune toune by th' este gate.
:
The toune
slaty rok,
MALMSBTJRY. [ll. 51.] of Malmesbyri stondith on the very toppe of a greate

:
and ys wonderfully defendid by nature cummith a 2 miles from north to the toun
for
Newton water and
and Avon water

of,
cummith by weste
of the toun from Lokington a 4 miles

at south est parte of the toun,
meete about a bridge
and
so goith
Avon by south a The conducte

Newton.
while,
and then turneth
flat
west toward Bristow.

fette
that
cam
to Malmesbyri
abbey was
from
Newton water and Avon ren
so nere togither in the botorn of the
west suburbe at Malmesbyri, that there within a burbolt 1 shot the toun is peninsulatid. In the toun be 4 gates by the names of Est,
West, North, and South, ruinus

1
al. 2
" Burbolt."
Between the Avon on the south

north, the
side of the town,
and the
Newnton stream on the
interval at the narrowest place through Westport, would require for Leland's birdbolt a flight of about 700 yards. 2 " Ruinus al." The name of the "Westgate still All now quite destroyed.
survives in the suburb of "
Westport"
138

walles in
;
many places stond ful up but now very feble. diked the toun strongely. Nature hath It was sum tyme a castelle of greate fame, wher yn the toun hath syns ben buildid for in the beginning of the Saxons reign,
The
;
as far as I
can lerne, Malmesbyri was no toun.
This castle was namid of the Britons, Cair-Bladun.
The Saxons
And
there
first caullid it Ingelburne. of one Maildulphus a Scotte that taught good letters after,
and
after
:
procurid an abbay ther to be

i,
made,
it
was
Maidul/phesbyri
e.,
Maildulphi curia.
The King
of the West- Saxons and a Bishop of Winchestre were
founders of this abbay. Aldelmus was then after Maildulph abbate there, and after Bishop
of Shirburn.
is patrone of this place. a great privileg of a fair about the fest of Sainct The toune hath Aldelme ; at the which tyme the toune kepith a band of harnesid
This 8. Aldelme
men
to se peace kept
and
this
one of the bragges of the toun,
and therby they be furnishid with harneys. Ther were in th abbay chirch yard 3 chirches. 1 Th abbay chirch a right magnificent thing, wher were 2 steples, one that had a
mightie high pyramis, and and sins was not re-edified.
felle
daungerusly in hominum memoria,
It stode in the midle of the transeptum of the chirch,
and was a
He cannot mean that there were 3 churches besides the abbey church, but inclusive of it ? There are now only the remains of one, of which he afterwards says that the body had been taken down at St. Paul's the time of his visit, the east end was in use as a Town Hall, and the tower at the west end as a dwelling-house. Of this, which was the old parish church of Malmsbury, the tower, surmounted by a spire, still remains, at the S.W. corner of the abbey yard, and continues to be used for the induction of the vicars of " Town Hall" about 1623 Malmsbury. The east end ceased to be used as a and having been since that time in a state of desecration was finally taken down in June, 1852, and the site added to the church yard. It did not appear to be quite in a straight line with the tower but stood rather south of that line. In it were some remains of window mullions and perpendicular tracery, a niche, &c. Of the 3rd church which probably was a chapel attached to the south transept of the abbey, there is no trace.
1
: : ;
" 3 Churches."
139
marke
to al the countrie about.
The other yet
standith, a greate
square toure, at the west ende of the chirch. The tounes men a late bought this chirch of the King, and hath
made it their paroche chirch. The body of the olde paroch

the chirch yarde
is
chirch, standing in the west
end of
clene taken down.

Hall).
The
est
end
is
converted in
aulam civicam
(a
Town
The
house.
fair
square tour in the west ende
is
kept for a dwelling-
Ther was a litle chirch joining to the south side of the transeptum of th abbay chirch, wher sum say Joannes Scottus, 1 the great clerk, was slayne, about the tyme of Alfredo, King of West- Saxons, of
his
own
disciples thrusting
2
and strikking
litle
hym
with their table

stondeth and
pointelles.
Wevers hath now lomes

is
in this
chirch, but
it
a very old pece of work.
Ther was an image John

Scotte.
is
set
up yn th abbay chirch yn honour
of this
This
Latine.
John
Scotte that translatid Dionysius out of Cfreke into
Malmesbyri hath a good quik market kept every Saturday. There is a right fair and costely peace of worke in the Marketplace made al of stone, and curiously voultid for poore market folkes to stande dry when rayne cummith.
and the work is 8 pillers and 8 open arches one great piller in the midle berith up the voulte. The square men of the toune made this peace of work in hominum memoria.
Ther be 8 great
:
The hole logginges of th abbay be now longging to one Stumpe, an exceeding riche clothiar that boute them of the King.
* " John There were 3 learned ecclesiastics of this name; two of Scot." them contemporary. John, a Saxon monk, surnamed Scotus, made abbot of Athelney A.D. 887 and John Scot Erigena. The former of these two was tht The third John Scot, commonly translator of Dionysius, " the Areopagite." called Duns Scotus, died at Cologne, long after the reign of Alfred; viz., in
:
A.D. 1308.
2
3
" Pointelle " 8 Square
:"
steel
pen or pencil
for writing.
:" octagonal.
T2
140
This
Leland's Journey throuyh Wiltshire.
Stumpe's
1
sunne hath
married
Sir
Edward Baynton's
daughter. This Stumpe was the chef causer and contributer to have th abbay chirch made a paroch chirch.
At
and
this present
tyme every corner

fulle of
of
the vaste
offices
that
,
belonged to th abbay be
this
lumbes (looms) to weve clooth yn
Stumpe entendith to make a stret or 2 for clothiers in the bak vacant ground of the abbay that is withyn the toune walles.
There be made now every yere in the toune a 3,000
[From the
state in
clothes.
which Leland found Malmsbury Abbey, Mr. Stumpe's looms being in full play in the small church annexed to the south transept, and in the abbey offices, it is clear that his visit must have been after Dec. 15, 1539, the day on which Abbot Frampton, alias Selwin, signed the deed of surrender. The monks were probably dispersed, and their library plundered. This may account for the very scanty collection of manuscripts which Leland found, unless we may suppose that he noted down the names only of those which were most rare or valuable. The following is his list, from which the reader may form an idea of the general 2 character and composition of abbey libraries ]
:
MANUSCRIPTS FOUND BY LELAND IN MALMSBURY ABBEY. 3

\_A Spanish Christian Poet A.D. 330, who translated the 4 His works are printed,,~] Gospels into Latin verse. Works of Fortunatus, written in verse.
Juvencus.
Wm.
Life of Patenms, in prose, by Fortunatus. of Malmesbury (the Librarian of the Abbey}. 15 books. in different kinds of verse
The Four Evangelists

" Thou hast often
Do. on the Lamentations of Jeremiah, beginning admonished," &c. Do. the Life of Aldhelin,
" i Baynton." Two shields in stone bearing severally the arms of Stumpe and Baynton, the latter a bend lozengy between two demilions, an unusual addition to the Baynton shield, are still to be seen over the garden door at the abbey church.. 2 " A curious account is given by Aubrey Nat. Hist, of Wilts, p. 79 of the way in which numbers of the finely illuminated manuscripts belonging to the abbey libraries, were wantonly destroyed by the tasteless owners into whose hands they fell. Those of Malmsbury were used, he says, for covering boy's copy-books, for stopping the bung holes of barrels of ale, scouring guns, and the like. Bale " knew a merchant-man who bought the contents of two noble libraries for XL shillings a piece, a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of gray paper by the space of more than these x years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. A prodigious example is In another place he this, and to be abhorred of all men which love their nation as they should do." says that the choicest manuscripts were often torn to pieces in the houses of the persons who bought the monasteries of the King, or were sold by them to grocers and soapdealers to wrap up their goods. Others were sent over sea to be used by the bookbinders, "not in small number, but at times whole A church book belonging to the parish of Chipships full, to the wondering of the foreign nations."
j
penham, dated
1620, is
still
in existence, covered in this
way with a fine fragment of monastic parchmept
illuminated in red, black, and gold.

3 "Collects, in.
J
57,
Iceland's
Journey through Wiltshire.

Faritius,
141
birth,
The Life
:
of Aldhelm,
by
Abbot of Abingdon, a Tuscan by

2,
according to Wm. of Malms. (See Collect. Bede on the song of Habakkuk.

:
p. 253).
Do. Allegorical Exposition of Leviticus and Tobit. Claudius 3 books on S. Matthew.
The Sentences of Xystus, translated by Rufinus, who maintains that Xystus was the Pope of that name.
Questions of Albinus upon Genesis
:
this
a little book. Dionysius (the Areopagite), translated by John Scot. Cassiodorus on the Soul.
:
Hexameron
of Basil.
:
Gregory Nicenus on the Condition of Man. Robert of Cricklade (R. Canutus), Prior of St. Frideswide (Oxori), 4 books called " The Mirror of Faith, beginning " Hear, Israel." Albinus, on Ecclesiastes. Grossolanus, Archb. of Milan: on the Procession of the Holy Spirit,
addressed to the Emperor Alexius.
Junilius to Pope Primasius.
Apuleius
a book on Interpretation. of Eutyches. Tertullian.
Grammar
Letters of Albinus.
Chronicle of Malms. Abbey. \_Leland gives extracts. Collect. 1. 301). Another chronicle called " The Praise of History," written at the request of the Abbot of Malmsbury, A.D. 1361, by a monk of the abbey, name unknown. [Extracts from this, with a long account of Maidulph and Aldhelm are given in the Collectanea, i. 302 & II. 395].
" [From a book of the Antiquities of Malmsbury," he extracted several particulars, which have been used by most of those who have written the history of the town and abbey. For these, see Collectanea. 1.65,241,301. n. 319, 325, 401].
hold opinion that ther was sum tyme a nunnery wher the hermitage now stondith in the dike of the toune at the west ende
1
Sum
of the old paroche chirch. Sum say that ther was another nunnery toward the park a litle without the toune longging to th abbate in the way to Chippenham. 2
1 " Hermitage." He probably means an old building called "the chapel house" long used as a dwelling for paupers, and formerly a chapel, in the part of the town called " Burnevale"; (the valley in which the "bourne" or brook of the Avon runs, on the south side of Malmsbury). It was destroyed some years
ago.
Burton Hill Chapel, mentioned again in the third following paragraph. It is now destroyed. There is no account of any endowed nunnery either here or at Burnevale just spoken of.
2
" Another Nunnery."
142
I have redde that there was another nunnery wher now is a poore hospitale, 1 about the south bridge without the toun the way
to Chippenham.
And
Going out of Malmesbyri by the south gate I turnid on the lifte hond, and so passid over Avon by a fair bridg of stone having 3
arches.
then conscending an hillet, even ther by left, a chapelle 2 or paroch chirch hard on the lift hand and then leaving the park
;
And
and the
village
maner place 3 on the lift hond, I came to a about a mile of, caullid Fosse,* wher was a bridge and a
late abbates
good streame renning undre it. Thens to Chippenham. a vi. miles.
PROM MALMSBURY, BY CORSHAM, HASELBURY, AND

TO BRADFORD.
[ll.
SOTJTH
WRAXHALL,
54.]
Riding between Malmesbyri and Chippenham al the ground on that side of the ryver was chaumpain, fruteful of corne and grasse,
but
litle
wood.
Thus rydyng, I lefte Avon streme aboute a 2 miles on the lifte hand. I markid 2 places betwene Malmesbyri and Chippenham notable. Draicote, wher Sir Henrye Long hath a fair manor place
and a park, about a mile from Avon streame.
Draicot
is
a 5 miles
from Malmesbyri, and a 2 miles from Chippenham. 5
"
Hospital."
Of
:
St.
John of Jerusalem, near the south bridge, on the

formerly
up,
still
way
to
Chippenham
now used as an almshouse. An early pointed arch

remains.
the doorway, but
now blocked
Burton Hill chapel alluded to above. Chapelle." " Park and Maner-place." Then called Cowfold Park. It was part of the abbot's own demesne, and the name is spelled in this way in the oldest docu3
"
ments.
It
and
*
finally into Cole-park
was afterwards corrupted into Cufold Park, then into Cold-park, by which it is now known as the property of Audley
;
Lovell, Esq.
The name of the village is Corston. " 2 Miles." The reader will often observe a considerable difference between Leland's measurement and the actual distances. As he appears to have used figures and not words, it is possible that the injured state of the manuscript, already alluded to, may have misled the copyist in many instances
Leland's ear deceived him.
143
On
the other side of the
Avon
river I
saw Bradenestoke priory
ruines on the toppe of an hille, a mile and an half from Avon founders of [Gualter, Erie of Sarum, and Sibylle, his wyfe, ryver.
Bradenestoke, a priory of black chanons. vni. 107.] Bradenestoke is about a 4 miles from Malmesbyri.
Al the
quarters of the foreste of Braden be welle wooddid, even
along from Malmesbyri to Chippenham ward. a litle from Chippenham, but in Mr. Pye dwelleth at
Chippenham paroche.
was no notable bridge on Avon between Malmesbyri and Chippenham. I passid over two bekkes betwixt Malmesbyri and Chippenham.
One
told
me
that ther
[in. 135.
There
is
a place in Wyleshir caullid

:
Combe
Castelle^
a 4 miles towards est from Chippenham

diverse knightes services and libertees.
and
to this place longe

this lordship
And
now
longgith to one Scrope.J

St. Mary. White monks, vn. 65]. \Stanlege abbey. I left Chippenham a mile on the lifte hand, and so
1
went
to
Alington village about a mile of, and thens 3 miles to Cosham, a good uplandish toun, wher be ruines of an old maner place and
:
therby a park wont to be yn dowage to the Quenes of Englande^ Mr. Baynton, yn Quene Anne's 2 dayes, pullid down by licens
a peace of this house
sumwhat
to help his buildinges at
Bromeham^
Old Mr. Bonhome told me that Coseham apperteinid to the erldom of Cornwalle, and that Cosham was a mansion place longging to it
wher sumtyme they Al the menne of
lay.
this tounlet
were bond
so that
one of the Erles of Comewalle hering them secretely to
apon a tyme lament their
" 1 Allington." Leland had thus far kept the high road from Malmshury to Chippenham. He now turns off at the foot of Hardenhuish Hill on the north side, and follows an old lane that leads from Langley Burrell to Allington,, and crosses the high road at that point.
2 "Queen Anne." As the Bayntons, of Fallersdon (in Bishopstone, hundred of Dounton), did not succeed to the Bromham estate until A.D. 1508. Leland must mean Anne Boleyn, who was executed A.D. 1536 about 4 years
:
before his visit.
144
state
manumittid them for mony, and gave them the lordship of Cosham in copiehold to paie a chiefe rente. From Coseham to Haselbyri about a 2 miles.
I left on the lift
litle as
withyn a
hand on the toppe of a litle I turnid doun to Hasilbyri.
hille
an heremitage 1
place of Haselbyry stondith in a litle vale, and was a of a simple building afore that old Mr. Bonehom father did thing build there. The JBonehomes 2 afore that tyme dwellid by Lacok
The manor
upon Avon.
[Plumber's lands (a manor in Lidlinch, hund. of Sherborn, Dorset^ ) be com unto the Bonhomes of Hasilbyri. vi. 50].
co.
[Of the Bluets and their successors the Baynards, of Lackham

near Lacock, Leland says
Sikhester lordship
(in
:
vol. vi., p. 53].
Hants) after the conquest came to one Blueth, and then one of the Blueths leavyng no sons, the land not
Generate
entaylid to the heire ma[/e]

Cusance, Knight, and
after to
came by mariage to one Peter de one Edmunde Baynard, cumming out

' <
' <
Heremitage ."
The building
called
Chapel Plaster
"
:
by tradition, a way-
side chapel for pilgrims travelling calls it "the Chapel of Playsters."
from Malmsbury to Glastonbury. Aubrey The meaning of the name is uncertain;

;
:
but
it
may may
"
either
has nothing to do with the material of plaster being built of stone. It have been built by some one of the name of Plaister or playster
the chapel built on the play place or village green: as the "Plestor Oak" in White's
:
be an old word for pilgrim
or it
may mean
Plegstow,"
Selborne.
2 Bonhome." Bonham. The principal Wiltshire family of this name lived at Great Wishford, hund. of Branch and Dole, A.D. 1315-1637. Haselbury is in the parish of Box. It is now a farm-house with very spacious
"
It had a church, of which premises, the remains of its former importance. there is no trace but there is still a payment by the lord of the manor of 10
:
a-year to a rector. Out of the freestone quarries of Haselbury, which belonged to the Prior of Bradenstoke, Malmsbury Abbey is said to have been built. The
vicarage of Box had belonged to the priory of Monkton Farley John Bonham, The Haselbury estate of Haselbury, Leland's host, was patron in 1541. belonged about 1660 to a branch of the family of Speke (Bart., extinct 1682), of Whitelackington, co. Som. and the house, which the Bonhams appear to have The coat of arms of Speke is still built, was probably enlarged by the Spekes.
: :
to be seen
on the
pillars at the
garden entrance.
It
now
belongs to the Northey
family.
3
See Hutchins' Dorset, n. 357.

of the house of the Baynards, of Essex, whose
145
is
name
now
ther
obscured.
The lands of the Blueths entaylid
to heyre
male of that
Leccham (Lackham) longgid yet remayning in Devonshere. 1 arde as his principale how to Blueth Ther is a feld by Lacok wher men find much Eomaine mony it " is called
:
name
Silverfeeld."*
Haselbyri to Monkton- Farley a mile dim. where by the there was a priore stonding on a litle hille, sumtyme having village blak monkes, a prior, and a convent of 12.
From
Monketon-Farley among other thynges was a late gyven to th Erie of Hertford*
From Haselbyri to Monkton

and
so forth lyke to Bradeford about a
the countre beginnith to wax woddy 2 miles from Munketon;
Farley; and also to part into hilles and valeys. Sir Henry Long hath a litle maner about a mile from Monketon-
Farley at Wrexley.^
up of the house of the Longes cam, as I lernid of Mr. Bonehom, by this means One Long Thomas, a stoute felow, was sette up by one of the olde And after by cause this Thomas was Lordes Hungrefordes.
original setting
:
The
The
defective words probably were that
Lackham was used by Baynarde
as
his principal house.

2
Lacock.
3
The Roman Road from Bath to Marlborough ran about a mile south of Near it is a place called Wick, at which traces of a Roman Villa have
"Hertford."
been found.
The Protector Somerset.
The Manor was afterwards trans-
Between 1647 and 1651, in the days of ferred to the Bishopric of Salisbury. and Nath. Brooke, and F. Bridges, for 2,499 confiscation, it was sold to It has since been held under the See of Salisbury by (amongst others) 11s. 6d.
Wm.
the families of
Webb, Long, and now, Wade Browne. The editors of the new Monasticon mention that no seal of the priory had been met with. In 1841 a circular silver seal, of about the size of a sovereign, was found by the late Mr. Wade Browne in clearing part of the site of the priory. On it is the head of with the Legend " H CAPUT MAKIE St. Mary Magdalene, exceedingly well cut MAGDALENE." At the same time was discovered an effigy of a Dunstanville of
;
Castle Combe.
4"Wrexley." South Wraxhall: which at this time had not been severed from the Draycote property, but belonged to one and the same owner, Sir Henry Long, above-mentioned. Of this interesting old manor-house, now the property In of Walter Long, Esq., M.P. of Rood-Ashton, the greater part is still left. Aubrey's MS. Collections for North Wilts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, drawings are preserved of the numerous armorial shields in stained glass, which
146
caullid
Long Thomas, Long

1
after
was usurpid
for the
name
of the
family.
were once in the windows, but have now entirely perished. Its history and antiquities have been described in a volume upon the subject by Mr. Thos. Larkins Walker; with views of the exterior, and of the principal apartment upstairs, containing a very fine
chimney piece and ornamented

original builder
ceiling,
together with details of the architecture, and
of various devices sculptured in stone.

is
The
oldest parts are the Hall
and Porch.
Sir
The
not particularly known, but some additions were
made by
Robert
There is a carefully-written Memoir both of the House and Long, about 1566. Church in the GENT. MAG., June 1835. 1 " Long." There certainly is a tradition appurtenant to the ancient family of Long of Wraxhall, that, at some remote period which their Pedigree does not fully elucidate,
name was PREUX. To this some countenance is given by a resemblance in the arms of Long to those of Preux, and by the use of the motto " Preux quoique pieux." But Mr. Bonham's story of the first introduction of the name of Long by a Lord
the
name of Long The connexion

earlier
Hungerford, does not appear very consistent either with fact or probability; for the occurs in the lists of Wiltshire landowners, before that of Hungerford. of the Hungerfords with Wiltshire, as a recognized family, does not date
than 1350
:
and the
first
of
The
public records of the county, on the other
them who became a Baron, lived A.D. 1440 1449. hand (See the Inquisitions P.M. and Wilts
:
Fines),
show Longs as landowners in several places at a much earlier period as at Alton, and Ablington, near Figheldean, in 1258; at Coulston near Lavington, in 1267; at Bratton and Westbury, in 1279. Being then an already appropriated name, it is not likely that a stranger would adopt it, unless he had some substantial right to do so,
either
by a marriage or other
intelligible process.
The next part

say
of the story (viz ; as to the advancement of
some
earlier
it is
family by one of the Hungerfords) perhaps contains more, though
member of this now difficult to

owner of
how much,
first is
of truth. in the authenticated account of the family as
The
Long who appears

Robert, A.D. 1400
His son John Long married Margaret Wayte, and by that marriage obtained the Draycote estate. Wraxhall therefore, of the two, came first into the Long family but in what way Robert had obtained it, whether by
Wraxhall,
1440.
:
marriage, purchase, or inheritance, is unknown. in the pedigrees with some variety, as Bradley,
alliances
The names
Popham,
of his wives have been given
or Hering, but
none of these
not
throws any light upon the acquisition of South Wraxhall.

it
It is, in fact,
was immediately before the Longs. In the Beauties of Wilts (in. 226.) the Hungerfords are named: but no authority for this is given, nor do
exactly
known whose property
the evidences of that family (very ample at this period) allude to the
manor
as theirs.
There
is
some reason
for believing that it
Maurs, who had property near Bradford ; from Berkeley, by marriage, either to the father of Robert Long, or, perhaps to Robert Long himself and that this alliance may have been in some way promoted by the first Lord
:
may have been part of the estate of the St. that from St. Maur it passed to Berkeley, and
Hungerford, who had himself married, for a second wife, a Berkeley of Beverstone. In the church of South Wraxhall there is a monument which from the peculiarity of its
character and situation seems to favour this suggeBti.oD.
At any
rate
it
testifies tp,
an
Iceland's
147
This Long
Thomas master had sum lande by Hungreforde's
procuration. Then succedid
hym
Robert and Henry.

of a younger brother,
soiines to this
Then cam one Thomas Long descending

and could
Thomas.
skille of
the law, and had the inheritances of the afore-
said Longes.
Syr Henry and Sir Richard Long were
important marriage, the exact particulars of which have, however, never been fully
explained.
is the effigy of a lady only : and on the side of it is the shield of borne by them) impaling, of course as the lady's shield, what appears to be the coat of Berkeley quarterly with Seymour. There is in the pedigree of Long no authenticated proof of any match with a Berkeley at this period yet,
Upon
it
the Longs (as
still
here, in the Longs'
chapel at South Wraxhall,
is
still
in existence the undeniable
testimony of this
*'
monument that such a marriage did take place. Camden says [in his Remains"], though without producing any authority, that the first of the Longs was "preferred to a good marriage by Lord Hungerford." Possibly this may have been
the marriage of which the Wraxhall
tomb
is
evidence
and
if so,
then the Longs were,
indeed, so far under obligation to him, as to be indebted for an introduction to

well
some
endowed
bride.
But
after all, this rests only
upon Master Camden's hearsay.
There certainly was an intimacy of friendship between Robert Long, of Wraxhall,

1430, and Lord Hungerford: and as the latter was one of the most important persons
of
the great office of Lord High Treasurer of England, such not have been in any way to Robert's disadvantage. His name constantly occurs in Lord Hungerford's Title Deeds, as one of the feoffees, or trustees,
the
day,
filling
acquaintance
may
to purchases of land
made by
that
nobleman
but as
it is
always in connexion with the
names
of the principal gentlemen of this part of Wiltshire, and as moreover Robert

for the
Long was himself M.P.

trace with certainty, he
probable than otherwise, that though he
county in A.D. 1433, it becomes upon the whole more may be the first from whom the Longs can
was neither the first substantial person in the family, nor was he " set up" by Lord Hungerford. With respect to that part of "old Mr. Bonhome's" story, which states that "they had some land by Lord Hungerford's procuration ;" the only circumstance bearing upon
this point,
that the writer of this note has ever
met
with, after a
is,
somewhat minute
inspection into the history of the property of the Hungerfords,
that Robert
Long
in
A.D. 1421, held for 3 years a lease under Lord Hungerford, of the
in the parish of
manor
of Highchurch,
Remington, co. Somerset. With this trifling exception, there is no evidence from Hungerford documents, that the Longs were in any way indebted to them
for
any part of
their
estates
and as
to the
name
of the family, that,
as
we have
already seen,
may
be pronounced to be a joke of neighbour Bonham's.
u2
148
BRADFORD.
The toune self of Bradeford stondith on the clining of a slaty 1 The toune rokke, and hath a meetely good market ons a weeke. is made al of stone and standith, as I cam to it, on the hither ripe
of Avon.
Ther is a chapelle 2 on the highest place of the toune as I enterid. The fair larg paroche chirch standith bynethe the bridge on Avon The vicarage is at the west ende of the chirch. ripe. The personage is L. poundes by the yere, and was impropriate
to Shaftesbyri abbay.
Haulle dwellith in a pratie stone house 3 at the este ende of the toune on the right bank of Avon.
Haule
There
alias
is
De
la Sale,
man
of
100, landes
by the
yere.
a very fair house of the building of one Horton,^ a riche
clothier, at the
north est part by the chirch.
This Norton's wife
This Horton buildid a goodly large chirch house 5 ex yet lyvith. lapide quadrato at the est end of the chirch yard, without it.
" 1 He means, not what is commonly called slate: but a kind Slaty rock." of thin grey stone-tile, one of the subordinate beds of " forest marble," overlying the great oolite of which the high grounds about Bradford principally
consist.
Leland enters Bradford from Wraxhall. There is no known Chapelle." vestige or tradition of any chapel, at or near the entrance of the town by any road upon which it is entered now upon that side. The roads have probably
2
"
been altered
and he may have approached the town by Bearfield, down some
part of the steep hill called Tory. Here, upon nearly the highest part of it, was once a small chapel, of which a fragment called Tory chapel was a few years ago rescued from total destruction by Capt. S. Palairet, of Woolley Grange.
It
was
built over
the town.
s
The name
been ingeniously interpreted
an abundant spring that flows out of the rock and supplies of Tory, by which that part of Bradford is called, has to be a of the word "
corruption
oratory."
called
" Tne Duke's" or " Kingston House." It was built by the Halls, whose arms on stone are still in one of the apartments and has lately been restored by the present owner Mr. Moulton.
"House."
Now
< " Horton." Edward Horton, of Westwood manor house, near Bradford, married Alice May, of Broughton Giffard, and died without issue. His eldest For his descendants, see Wilts Visit., 1565. brother, William, lived at Iford. " Church House." Notices of a " The Church House" are building called often met with in old parochial papers. It was the house at which, before the days of rating, meetings were held for raising funds to maintain clmreh repairs,
149
This Horton
toun.
made
divers fair houses of stone in Through-bridge
One
Lucas,
a clothier,
now
dwellith in
Norton's house
in
Bradeford.
Horton
left
no children.
of Bradeford stondith
Al the toun
by clooth making. hath 9 fair arches of stone. Bradeford Bridge These be the names of the notable stone bridges apon Avon
:
betwixt Malmesbyri and Bradeford
Malmesbyri Bridge.
Christine Maleford
Bridge about a 5 miles lower.
Caisway (Kelloway's) Bridge aboute a 2 miles lower. Chippenham, a right fair bridge, about a mile lower.
Chippenham toun is on the farther ripe towards London, and cumming from London men cum to it not passing over the bridge.
Hhe Bridge (at Lacock) about a mile and an half About a 4 miles lower is
Staverton Bridge,
lower.
wher
is
the confluence of
Thrugh-bridge
water with Avon.

Bradeford Bridge a 2 miles lower. Bath Bridge of Y. fair arches, a Y. miles lower.
Bristow Bridge a 10 miles lower. 2 miles above Bristow was a commune Trajectus by Bote, wher was a chapelle of S. Anne on the same side of Avon that Bath
stondith on, and heere was great pilgrimage to S. Anne. 1
These parish gatherings, for the provocation of a livelier charity, were conducted with certain festivities. The parish kept at this house a regular cookery establishment, stores of malt, and other appropriate materials. The malt was brewed, and the liquor consumed " pro bono publico." The greater
the poor, &c.
This continued for days the consumption, the more profit to the public purse. " or weeks diversions," such as bull-baiting, fighting, accompanied by
;
dancing, &c.
i
"
St.
Anne."
Near Brislington
founded by one of the Lords Delawarr.
chapel, long since a ruin, is in a nook of the county Somerset, opposite Crew's Hole in the parish of St. George's in Gloucestershire, from which it is divided by the Avon. It is on the left bank of the river. Bath,
site of this
The
in Leland's time,
was on the
other.
150
that
is a litle streate over Bradford Bridge, and at the ende of an hospitale 1 of the Kinges of Englandes fundation. As I turnid up at this streat end toward Through-bridg, ther
There
is
was a quarre 2 of
fair stone
on the right hand in a

[Itin.
ii.
felde.
TROWBRIDGE.
57].
From
Bradeforde to Thorough-bridge about a 2 miles by good
corne, pasture,
and wood.
I enterid into the toune
The toune
stone,
standith on a rokky
by a stone bridge of a 3 arches. hill, and is very welle buildid of
and
later
flourishith
by drapery.
tymes one James Terumber, a very rich clothier, buildid a notable fair house in this toune, and gave it at his deth with other
landes to the finding of 2 Chirch.
cantuarie prestes
Of
yn Through-bridg
This Terumber made also a

3
litle
Chirch, and yn it be a 6 poore the week toward their finding.

1
folkes
almose house by Through-bridge having a 3 pence a peace by
two roads, where Leland turned off to but this was founded by will of John The hospital which he describes as near this point, Hall, Esq., who died 1708. was one which used to be called the " Old Poor House." It stood on the right hand side of the road going out of Bradford, just beyond where the Great Western Railway now crosses that road. The company purchased the ground, and destroyed the buildings. There is another almshouse still farther on near the bridge over the canal, called " The Women's Poor House," still standing but the one which Leland meant was that which stood " at the end of the street where he turned off to Trowbridge." 2 " Quarre." This " is still and is one of those in which are
Hospital."
of the
"
At the point
is
still
Trowbridge, there
a hospital
quarre"
open,
found specimens (but not the

hill)
of one of the rarest
excellence the
3
" Bradford encrinite." " The Old Terumbers," or Almshouse," had six small rooms below and In 1483 six above, and adjoined the north east side of the church yard.
"
HI) the founder conveyed to feoffees certain lands in Trowbridge, Broughton-Giffard, and Bradford, in Wilts, and Beckington, in The annual payment Somerset, for its maintenance, and for other purposes. having been lost since 1777, the house being in ruins was taken down by public
(1
which come from Bearfield, on the top of the and most beautiful of our English fossils, called par
best,
Rich.
Studley,
consent of the parishioners,
21st April,
1811.
[See report 28, of Charity
Commissioners
page 354].
151
Horton, a clothiar, of Bradeforde, builded of late dayes dyvers fair houses in this toun. 1
Old BaylUe* buildid

clothiar.
Bailie's
out of
now
yn this toun, he was a rich drapeth yn the toun, and also a 2 miles 3 it at a the way to Farley-Castel, one Alexandre is place yn great clothier yn the toun.
also of late
son
now
The church of Through-bridge is lightsum and fair. One Molines is parson ther, a man well lernid. 4 The castelle stoode on the south side of the toune. It is now Ther was in it a 7 gret toures, whereof peaces of 2 clene down.
yet stande.
The
river rennith hard
by the
castelle. 5
This brooke risith about a mile and an half from Warminster
by south-east
and so cummith to Through-bridge toune, and thens about a mile to 8(t)awrton an hemlet belonging to Through-bridg, and there metith with Avon river and at this confluence there is
;
:
a stone bridge over Avon. S(t)averton stondith on the same side of
the
brooke
that
Through-bridg dothe.
John Horton was Rector of Trowbridge, 1441. The arms of this family (3 horses heads) are over the door of the principal house in Hilperton, close to Trowbridge. The same coat was also, a few years ago, on the ceiling of Philip's Norton Church, about 6 miles off. The Bayleys intermarried with the Hortons above mentioned. See Wilts
1
A
"
Bayllie."
Visit., 1565.
3 Stowford where till within these 4 or 5 years, men conMill, in Winkfield tinued to " drape." It has lately been turned into a flour mill. Some Bayleys are buried in Winkfield Church.
;
Thomas Molyns, appointed Rector

"Castelle."
of Trowbridge in 1528, seems to
have
resigned in 1541.
s
The
site of
the Castle, called
been covered with with Leland's description, was It has been engraved as Trowbridge Castle, in of the late Mr. Samuel Salter. a book called " The Church Restored," by the Rev. J. D. Hastings, Rector of Trowbridge, published 1848. Some part of the towers appear to have remained till 1670. The principal street of Trowbridge forms a curve, which it is said to have taken from following the line of the wall round the ancient castle.
factories.
An
" Courthill," has long since old painting on panel, sufficiently corresponding found some years ago within a wall in the house
152
Leland' s Journey through Wiltshire.
There is a fair standing place 1 for market men to stond yn, in the hart of the toune, and this is made yiij square, and a piller in
is one made in Malmesbyri far fairer than this. The Erles of Sarum were Lordes of Through-bridg : then the Duke of Lancaster ; now th Erie of Hertford. *
the midle, as there
FARLEY CASTLE.
[Itin.
II.
58].
Through-bridge to Castette-Farley about a 3 miles by good come, pasture, and nere Farley self plenty of wood. Or I cam to the castelle I passid over Frome water, passing by there yn a rokky
valey and botom, where the water brekith into armelettes and makith Islettes, but soon meting agayn with the principale streame,
From
wherby there be in the causey

there driveth a mylle.
divers smaul bridges.

castelle,
hill. 3
This water rennith hard under the botom of this
and
The
castelle is set
on a rokky
1 " Standing place" a Market Cross, resembling that of Salisbury. opposite the George Inn, and was taken down about 1784.
It
was
The lordship
commonly
of Trowbridge belonged, A.D. 1100, to Edward D'eureux, called " Edward of Sarisburie." [His daughter, Matilda, married
Humphrey
de Bohun, whose family had some interest in
it].
By
marriage of
Ela, heiress of D'eureux, it passed to Longespee, Earl of Sarum. By Margaret, heiress of Longespee, to Lacy, Earl of Lincoln (Edw. I). By Alice de Lacy
(1311) to Thos. Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, who presented to Trowbridge Rectory, 1313, and was beheaded at Pontefract, 1321. On his death it was granted, for their lives, to John de Warren (Plantagenet) last Earl of Surrey, and Joan de Bars his wife, (who presented 1317-1348); with reversion to William de Montacute, Earl of Sarum (who was patron 1362). Afterwards and by King Henry VIII. the manor came to John of Gaunt (patron 1378) was granted to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, his brother-in-law (afterwards the Protector Duke of Somerset), who is named as patron in 1561.
;
Frome, at the
Farleigh Castle itself is in Somersetshire, and when Leland crossed the river little mill shown in the annexed woodcut, he entered that county.
is
But a
view)
large part of the parish of Farleigh (including all the foreground in the in Wilts : and its owners, the Hungerfords, were much more connected
with Wilts, than they were even with Somerset. The castle consisted of 2 courts the inner one, or dwelling house, was a quadrangle, formed by the four towers the outer court, which L. calls the " utter ward," lay between the gatehouse and the 2 towers nearest it. The gable of the chapel is just visible in the The " new chapel annexed print over the priest's (now the castle farm) house. to it" of which Leland speaks, is a smaller chantry or mausoleum on the north
: :
side.
153
There be diverse praty towres in the utter warde of the castelle. And in this utter warde ys an auncient chapelle, and a new
chapelle annexid unto it. Under the arch of this chapelle lyith, but
sumwhat more
to the
old chapelle warde, one of the Hungerfordes 1 with his wife, having these epitaphies upon 2 schochins of plate of brasse
:
" Hie jacet THOMAS HUNGERFORD, Chevallier, Dnus de Farley, Welew and Heitesbyri qui obiit 3 die Decembris A D. 1398.
:
Cujus animae propitietur Deus.
"Hie
FORD,
Amen." Domina JOANNA Uxor ejusdem THOMJE HUNGERjacet filia D Edmundi HVSEE Militis quae obiit primo die Mensis
1
Martii A D. 1412."
These thinges that here folow were written in a table (on a tablet) 2 in the chapelle
:
1.
THOMAS HUNGREFORD, Knight.
[I];
2.
3.
Dame
JOANNA, his Wife.
(Hussey).
SIR GUALTER HUNGERFORD, LORD HUNGERFORD, Knight of the Garter, and High Treasurer of England son and
;
heir to THOS.
4.
5. 6.
and JOHAN. and wife

:
CATARINE
heire to PEVEREL,
to
Syr GUALTER.
SYR EGBERT, LORD HUNGREFORD MARGARET, heire to BOTREAUX.
son and heire to WALTER.
7.
8.
ROBERT, ERLE HUNGERFORD, son to Robert. ELEANOR MOLYNES heire to MOLINES, and wife
;
to Erie
Robert. I heard say that this Erie Robert and Eleanor were buried in the Chirch of Sarum. 3
1
The Purchaser
See also Itin.
:
2
3
of Farleigh. vol. in. 116.
gerford
This Robert was 3rd Baron Hunand in right of his wife, Baron Molyns. He was beheaded at She re-married, and was Newcastle, but is said to have been buried at Sarum.
There was never any Earl Hungerford.

;
buried at Stoke Poges, Bucks. He left 2 sons 1, Sir Thomas, executed at Sarum, 1469, who left a daughter Mary, the great heiress and 2, Sir Walter, who succeeded on the execution of his brother Sir Thomas and stands the first
: :
in Leland's Table II.
154
The
1.
line of the late
Lord Hungerford. 1
2.
GUALTER HUNGREFORD, Kt. JOANNA (Buktrode), wife to WALTER.
3.
4.
EDWARD, son to WALTER. JANE (Zouch), his wife.

SYR GUALTER, Lord HUNGERFORD.
SUSAN, doughter to DANVERS,
of")
5.
6.
7.
Dauntesey, by Bradenstoke, in Wilts. o i Lord 8ANDES s the ALICE,

.
Wives to GUALTER, fT , ^r Lord HVNGERFORD.
_.
late
doughter.
8.
ELIZABETH, the Lord HUSEE'S

doughter.
9.
GUALTER,
his sons.
10.
EDWARD,
J
;
Ther longgid 2 chauntre prestes to this chapelle a praty mansion at the very est end of it.
and they had
The gate-house of the inner court of the castelle is fair, and ther be the armes of the Hungrefordes richely made yn stone. The haule and 3 chambers withyn the second court be stately.
There
is
commune saying
that one of the Hungrefordes buildid
this part of the castelle
by the prey of the
Duke of
Orleaunce
whom
he had taken prisoner.

Farley standith yn Somersetshire. Frame ryver ther partith (and so doun to the mouth) Wileshir from Somersetshir. The mouth of
it
wher
it
goith ynto
Avon
is
about a mile and a half lower 2 than

is
Farley, and by estimation Bradeford
a 2 good miles upper on
Avon.
"Late Lord Hungerford." This shows the date of Leland's visit to Farley. Walter (Table n. No. 5.) created a Baron, was afterwards beheaded by King Henry VIII., 28th July, 1540.
1
Sir
At Freshford.
155
above
Ther
is
a parke
by Farley
Castelle.
Ther
is
also a litle
the castelle a village. From a book of antiquities in Tewkesbury Monastery "Isabella Neville" (one of the daughters and coheiresses of Richard Neville Earl of Warwick) " married George Duke of Clarence, son of Richard Duke of York, and brother of Edward
:
IV. King of England

(Countess of Salisbury
A.D.
1
by whom she gave

at the
birth
to
Margaret
Castle of Ferley, 14th
August
1473."
[Itin. vi.
87].
FARLEY CASTLE TO BATH.
[ll.
60].
Farley I ridde a mile off by wooddy ground to a graunge and well builded that longid to JTe^cw-Priorie of Chartugreate sians. This priory standith not far off from this graunge on the
From
brow of an
hille
about a quarter of a mile from the farther ripe of
Frome, and not far from this place Frome goith ynto Avon. I rodde by the space of a mile or more by woods and mountain
ground
to a place,
where I saw a rude stone waulle hard on the

it
right hand by a great length as since told me that Henton Priory

is
had been a park waulle.

stode there.
One
so,
it
first
If
it
be
the lordship of Hethorpe that was gyven to them for their first habitation. And about a mile farther I cam to a village, and passid
over a ston bridge wher ranne a litle broke there they caullid Mitford- water. This brooke risith in the rootes of Mendip-hills a 7 miles or more by west-south-west from this bridge, and goith
about a mile lower into Avon.
From
this bridge to
litle
and quarre, and
Bath 2 good miles wood in syte. 2
al
by mountayne ground
1 The Mother of Cardinal Pole beheaded on a charge of treason, in A.D. 1541.

:
at the
Tower in a barbarous way,
2 At Farley Castle, Leland crossed from Wilts on the eastern bank of the river Frome to Somerset on the western. Hinton Abbey, which he next mentions is also on the western side but, as he seems to describe its situation on the brow of a hill, as if he had seen it from the Wiltshire side, it has been stated in a note to
,
the History of Lacock (p. 174), that on leaving Farley he took the lower road to Freshford. If so, then he must have gone over into Wilts again at Iford,
x2
156
[Leland then continued his tour through Somerset, Devonshire, Of the Scilly islands he says ] " One Davers, a gentilman of Wilshir, whose chief house is at Dauntsey, and Whittington, a gentilman of Gflocestershire, be owners
and Cornwall.
of Scyttey,^ but they have scant 40 markes by yere of rentes and commodities of it." [in. 19]. " The Lord Botreaux Botreaux, or JBoscastle, near Launceston.
was lord of this toun, a man of an old Cornish lineage and had a maner place, a thing, as far as I could heare, of small reputation as it is now, far unworthe the name of a castle. The people ther 2 married with one caulle it The Courte. One of the Hungrefordes of the heires general of Botreaux : and so Boscastle came to HunThen came Boscastle by an heir general of the Hungergerford. fords unto the Lord Hastings. Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon,
and so along the Wilts bank to Freshford Bridge.. But this can hardly have been his course for he distinctly says that "from Farley he rid to Henton Grange," and thence to Midford Bridge. Henton Grange (now Hinton House, the residence of the Hon. Mis. Jones), as well as all the road from Farley to
:
in the county Somerset. of as about a mile beyond Hinton and on his right hand, could be no other than the south-west boundary of Hinton Abbey grounds. It is clear that he was not very well acquainted with the history of
Midford,
is
The park wall which he speaks
enclosure of the
the Carthusian House here, as he conjectures the said wall to have been the manor of Hatherop, the place originally given to them by
William Longespee Earl of Salisbury, and afterwards, by his widow Ela, exchanged for Hinton but Hatherop is near Fairford in Gloucestershire. At Midford Bridge he would once more touch the county Wilts for a few yards, and then immediately enter Somerset again.
;
"
Scilly."
In the 15th century the
Scilly islands
were held under the
Crown by the family of Coleshill, of Dulo, Cornwall, at the rent of 50 puffins, or 6s. 8d. per annum. In 1484 the islands were returned as worth, in peaceable times, 40 shillings in war, nothing. The heiress of the Coleshills, temp. H. vn., married Sir Renfrew Arundell, of Lambourn, "Knight at which time Scilly was considered to be at its lowest value. The heiress of the Arundells married, first, Whittington, and, secondly, Sir Edward Stradling,
;
:
owner of Dauntsey, in North Wilts. Their granddaughter, Anne Dauntsey estate, with Scilly and the puffins, to Sir John Danvers by marriage and their grandson Silvester Danvers, who died 1552, was probably the " Davers" mentioned by Leland.
then
Stradling, brought the
:
Robert, second Lord Hungerford, died A.D. 1459.
157
and the
late
Lord Hungerford 1 had

[n. in].
this lordship, called
"the
Park" in
"
partition."
Kenton-paraonage (county Devon) impropriate to Saresbyri Chirch." [m. 63].
[Leland returned through Dorsetshire]. " Sherburn. There is a chapelle in St. Marye chirch yard. One a chanon of Saresbyri is lord of the toun of Shirebourne. Logget,
Roger
castle
:
le Poore,
Bishop of Saresbyri in Henry I. time, builded this and cast a great dike without it and made a false mure
;
without the dike.
[He entered
[n. 78]. Wiltshire, the second time, from the South,
by
CRANBOTJRN TO SALISBURY.
" Darneron.
(Damerham
2
)
mene maner
place a vii myles
W.S.W. from
[in. 87].
Saresbyri. [m. 121]. Thens a 6 miles by champayn ground to Honington (Homington below Salisbury) a good village. In the botom of this toun goith a great water, and ther I passid
over a bridg of a 3 arches, and so to Saresbyri al champayn ground a 2 miles.
This water or river

Shaflesbyri in the
is
called Chalkbourn.%
It riseth a 6 miles
from
way betwixt Saresbyri and it, (i. e., Shaftsbury) a mile from the highway in a botom on the left hond (riding from
Saresbyri to Shaflesbyri) ,
and thens
to Honington
cummith
this
ryver, that is about a xii. miles from the hed of Chalkbourn water, about a and a 2 miles dim (J) byneth Honington it goith into
Awn
mile byneth Harnham
Bridge.
Walter Lord Hungerford of Heytesbmy, executed
A.D. 1540.
2 " Dameron." South Damerham, part of the estates Glastonbury. There was a manor house and demesne here. the See of Sarum.
3
of
It
tlie
abbey of
belongs to
now
" Ebele's " Ebbesbourne." " Chalk Bourn; now Bourn," since called
158

hath, a place
And, as I remembre, Mr. Sayntan 1 where his father was wont to dwelle.
SALISBURY.
[ill.
on
this water,
88].
The toun
and
vi.
of New-Saresbyri with the suburbes of
Harnham Bridge
Fisschertoun, is 2
good miles in cumpace.
great arches in Harnham Bridge on the principale arme of Avon. iiij. litle arches in the bridge at Harnham over the lesser
arme.
[in. 135].
fair streates in the Cite Saresbyri,
Ther be many
the
as a
and especially
streates, in a
High Streate, way to the castelle
and the Castel
Streate, so caullid because it lyith
of Old Saresbyry.
Al the
maner, of New Saresbyri hath litle streamelettes and armes derivyd out of Avon that rennith thorough them.
of the very toun of Saresbyri and much ground therabout is playne and low, and as a pan or receyver of most parte of the water of Wyleshire.%
The
site
The Market-place
in Saresbyri is fair and large, and welle waterid

;
with a renning stremelet in a corner of it is domus civica, no very curious pece of work, but strongly builded of stone. 3
The market
of fisch
;
of Saresbyri
is
well servid of flesch
but far better
for a great part of the principal fisch that is taken
from
Tamar
to
Hampton (Southampton)
resortith to this toun.
1 " Baynton." Fallardestone, vulgo Falstone, now a farm house, formerly a noble old-fashioned house with moat, drawbridge, and high embattled walls, built of layers of stone and flint. It belonged in Edw. II. to Le Tablier then, by
;
an
stated in a former note, the Bayntons left it for Bromham near Devizes, which had fallen to them as representatives of Roche, upon the death of Richard Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand.
heiress, to
2
Thomas de Benton.
As
The Salisbury " Pan"
receives water enough, without being reservoir to
quite so large a district as Leland represents it. The drainage of the lower half of the county, certainly not more, comes to a point here. Bishop Douglas used
to say, " Salisbury is the sink of the Plain : the Close the sink of Salisbury the Palace the sink of the Close." Measures are in progress to correct this.
:
" Domus Civica" must be the old 3 Leland' s Guildhall, of which there is a view in Hall's Picturesque Mem. of Salisbury, woodcut 26. The old " Council Chamber" (plate xxvin. in that work) was built chiefly of timber, and of the date of 1573, 30 years after his visit.
159
Ther be but two paroche chirches in the Cyte of Saresbyri, whereof the one ys by the Market-place as in the hart of the toun, and is dedicate to St. Thomas.
The other
foundation of
college of St.
is
of S. Edmunde, 1 and
la
De
a Collegiate Chirch of the Wyle, Bishop of Saresbyry. He erected the

is
Edmund.
Nicolaus de St. Quintino was
first
Provost
of S. Edmunde' s, andlyith buried there, St. Edmunde' s [iv. 30]. at the north west ende of the toun hard by the toun dich. Church
A charter of
Hen.
III. for a fair at St.
Edmunde' s.
as such
[iv.
177].
This diche was made of the tounes
men
tyme
as Simon, 2
Bishop of Saresbyri, gave licence to the burgeses to strengthen the toun with an embattled waulle.
This diche was thoroughly caste for the defence of the toun, so was not sufficiently defendid by the mayn streame of
far as it
Awn.
But the waulle was never begon

toun. 3
yet, as I
remembre, I
saw one stone gate or 2 in the Harnham Bridge 4 was a village long afore the erection of Saresbyri and there was a church of S. Martine longging to
;
New
it.
There standith now of the remain of the old chirch of

Martin, a
S.
barne 5
in a very low
medow on
the north side of S.
"
St.
down June
Edmund's." Of Bishop Wyle's Church not a stone The seal of 1653, and was then entirely rebuilt.
;
is left.
It fell
St.
Edmund's
On it are 2 shields 1, Three College is engraved in Leland's Collect. YI. 283. suns \_Sunning. Query any reference to the place in Berks so called?] and 2, a chevron between 3 towers. ( Wyle). The site of the college was purchased in 1660 by the Wyndhams, to whom it now belongs.
2
3
Simon of Ghent, died 1315.
Nov. 1853, has just been described by Mr. J. Y. Akerman, in the " Archaeologia." 5 "Barn." The desecrated barn pointed out to Leland as the remains of old Hall St. Martin's Church has caused some perplexity to the local antiquaries. (Pict. Memor. of Sal., plate m., and notes at end of vol.] is of opinion that the residence of the master of St. Nicholas's Hospital (1834) was the barn in question but Leland appears to have been misinformed in his account of the
:
4 a paragraph farther on, he mentions this again, The burial ground of an Angloas the " hamlet or village of Harnham." Saxon community, prior to their conversion to Christianity, discovered in " The Low Field" (the field of tumuli] at Harnham Hill, not far from this place,
Two gates in the Close. " Harnham Bridge." In
Church.
160
LelancTs Journey through Wiltshire.
The cause of the relinquishing of it was the Nicolas Hospital. moysteness of the ground often overflowen. For this chirch was ther a new, dedicate to S. Martine, in a nother place that yet
standith.
Licens was get of the
King by a Bishop of
Saresbyri,
Saresbyri to turn the
Kingges Highway
to
New
Avon
and
to
make a mayn bridge
of right passage over
at
Harnham.
[A
roads,
grant by Henry III. for building bridges and changing

iv.
177].
this
The chaunging of
Old- Saresbyri and
way was
For
the totale cause 1 of the ruine of

afore this,
Wilt&un.
Wiltoun had a 12
Wileshir.
paroch
chirches 2
or more,
and was the hedde tounof

Bishop of Sarum,
1257-1262], as builded the fair stone bridge called Harnham at Saresbyri, say, and so was the Highway westward made that way, and Wilton way lefte, to the ruine of that town. iv. 29].
\_Egidius [Giles of Bridport,
sum
Ther was a village at Fisherton, over Avon, or ever [in. 89]. New- Saresbyri was builded, and had a paroche chirche there, as it
hath
yet.
In
this Fisherton,
now
a suburb to
New- Saresbyri, was,
since the
far
erection of the
new
toun, an house of Blake-Freres builded not
from Fisherton Bridge. 3 Ther was also an house of Gray-Freres withyn the toun of
Saresbyri of the fundation of
Bishop of Saresbyri.
:
[King
Henry
1
III. gave
them a
site 4
but one Richard Sude, a citizen,

market at
There were other causes
as the establishment of a
New
Sarum,
and the growing influence of that town.

2
See Hall's Pic. Mem. of S., plate xi. The Dominican House of Black Friars stood on the spot afterwards occupied by the Sun Inn ("West In the library of this house, Leland appears to have found only 3 Street).
Branch and Dole, s " Fisherton."
This statement has often been disputed, but is vindicated in the history of One or two may not have been parish churches. p. 74.
books worth noticing " The duodlibets of Nicholas Trivet: Pope Leo, on the conflict of Virtues and Vices
:
History of Britain, in indifferent verse." [Collect, rv. 67]. * The ground could hardly have been granted by the Crown, as it belonged to the Church. [Hatcher].
LelancCs Journey through Wiltshire.

built the church.
161
citizens
They were afterwards brought by the

are.
T
into the toun
where they now
OLD SARUM.
[in. 89.]
The
the
New
Cite of Old- Saresbyri standing on an hille is distant from a mile by north- weste, and is in cumpace half a mile and
:
This thing hath bene auhcient and exceeding strong but syns the building of New- Saresbyri it went totally to ruine. Sum think that lak of water caussid the inhabitantes to relinmore.
yet were ther many Welles of swete water. that after that in tyme of civil warres that castles and say, waullid towns were kept, that the castellanes of Old- Saresbyri and
quish the place
Sum
the chanons could not agree, insomuch that the castellanes upon a time prohibited them coming home from Procession and Rogation
to re-entre the toun.
Whereupon
the bishop and they consulting

;
together, at the last
began a chirch on his oun proper soyle and then the people resorted strait to New-Saresbyri and buildid ther and then in continuance were a great number of the houses of
:
Old- Saresbyri pulled
down and
set
up
at New-Saresbyri.
Osmund Erie
of the
his Cathedrale 2 Chirch ther
of Dorchestre and after Bishop of Saresbyri erectid in Old- Saresbyri} in the west part (i. e.,
also his palace,
town
and
whereof now no token
is
but
only a chapel of our Lady yet standing and mainteynid.
At Saresbyri the roof of the tower of the cathe[A. D. 1092. dral was entirely thrown down by lightning the day after it had been dedicated by Osmund Bishop of Sarum, and Remigius Bishop
of Lincoln.
Itin. vin. 49].
ciscan.
Lei. Collectanea, n. 342, upon the authority of Thomas Eccleston, a FranThe name of the citizen was first written in Leland's manuscript
Pude : but was

Sarum. 2 " Cathedral."
corrected to Sude, with a
Stevens and St. Clare) calls
him Pende.
mark under the u. Tanner (from The original site was perhaps at Old
In a dry summer the outlines of the foundation of this be perceived. Mr. Hatcher in 1834 made a sketch of it, It is engraved in according to which, if correct, it was about 240 feet long. and in Hatcher and Benson's Salisbury, Nichols and Bowles's Lacock, p. 363
church
may
still
p. 49.
162

:
(Osmund founded canons in it and endowed them largely. His [4 W. I.] grant was dated A.D. 1091. He ordained in the Church of Sarum 4 principal persons the Dean, Praecentor, Chancellor and Treasurer and 32 Prsebends.
:
:
He
all
deputed 4 Archdeacons, a Subdean, and a Subchanter to of whom he gave possessions out of the demesne which he had
also
:
when he was Earl

bind,
of Dorsetshire.
He
did not disdain to write,
and illuminate books.
Itin. iv. 176).
Ther was a paroch 1 of the Holy Rode beside in Old-Saresbyri: and an other over the est gate whereof yet some tokens remayne. I do not perceyve that ther wer any mo gates in Old-Saresbyri
than 2
:
one by
est,
and an other by west.
Withoute eche of
And in the est suburbe was a these gates was a fair suburbe. chirch 2 of S. John : and ther yet is a chapelle standinge. paroch The ryver is a good quarter of a myle from Old-Saresbyri and
more, where
south from
it.
it
is
nerest onto
it,
and that
is at
Stratford village
There hath bene houses in tyme of mind inhabited in the
est
suburbe of Old-Saresbyri: but now ther is not one house neither within Old-Saresbyri, nor without it, inhabited.
Ther was a right
fair
and strong
castelle within Old-Saresbyri
longging to the Erles of Saresbyri, especially the Longespees.^ I read that one Gualterus^ was the first Erie after the conquest,
of
it.
Much
notable
minus building of
this castelle yet there
remayneth.
The diche that environed the
old toun was a very
deepe and strong thynge.
Quaere Porch f
" Paroch Chirch." The presentations in the Salisbury registers are to " St. Sarum." The last Rector was William Colville presented A.D. 1412. There was one presentation by the Crown in 1381 to the Free Chapel in the castle of Sarum.
2
Peter's, Old
Especially the Longespees." The titleof Earl of Sarumhad been borne before Leland's time by several different families: 2. Longespee. viz., 1. D'Eureux. 3. Montacute. 4. Nevill. 5. Plantagenet.
4 Gualterus." Walter D'Eureux, son of Edward founder of Bradenstoke Priory near Chippenham.
"
"
" the Sheriff," and
163
THE COURSE OF AVON RIVER.
[ill.
91].
Avon
Uphaven.
river risith
by north
est not far
from Wolphe-Haufl yn
it
Wyleshir.
The
first
notable bridg that
cummith
a bridge.
to
is
at
Thens a 4 miles
to Ambrosbyri,
and there
is
Thens
ripe,
to
and Newton'2
Woddeford village a 4 miles, standing on the right village on the lift ripe.
'
The Bishopes
ruine.
of Saresbyri
3 Bishop Shakeston pullid
it
had a proper maner place at "Wodford. down bycause it was sumwhat yn

vi.
Thens
stone.
to Fisherton
Bridge of
stone arches, a 3 miles.

vi.
Thens a very
little
lower to Crane Bridge 4 of a
arches of
Thens a forowghe lengthe 5 lower to Harneham Bridge of gret arches of stone, a mayne and stately thing.
vi.
ende of this bridge (only a litle islet distante betwixt) another bridg of 4 praty arches, and under this rennith a good streme as I take it of Avon water as an arme breaking out
is
Here
at the west
little above and soon rejoyning ther his entery into Avon.
or els that Wilton water hath
From Harnham Bridge

stone, a
to
Dunton (Downton) a
4 miles.
fair
bridge of
4 miles.
to Fordingbridge of stone a to
Thens
Thens
And
the
se.
Ringwodde Bridge a 5 miles. so a 5 miles to Christes-Chirch Twinham, and strait to
Christe-Chirch xviij miles from Saresbyri.
THE COURSE OF WYLE RIVER.

Wyle
risith a
[ill.
91.]
3 miles or more above Wermistre (Warminster),
" Wolf-Hall." The 1 Salisbury Avon has, not one, but several sources, two of which are near this place, under the high ground of Savernake Forest.
2
3
" Newton."
4
s
In the parish of Great Durnford. " Shakeston." Nicholas Shaxton Bishop of Salisbury resigned 1539. " Crane." At the end of a street so called in
Salisbury.
"
Forowghe lengthe
length of a furrow
(unde furlong
?)
Y2
164
Iceland's
Journey through Wiltshire,
cummith a x miles doun to Hanging Langforde standing, as the descent is, on the right hand of it. (Hanging Langforde was and came in partition to Fostar). [Itin. vf. 38]. Popham's,
and
so
Thens a 3 miles
to Stapleford village
on the same hand.
Here cummith
into Wyle from N. W. Winterborne water, Thens cummith Wyle a 2 miles, and rennith thorough the toun
of Wilton divided into armes.
And
here cummith into
Wyle a river
called
gadder,
alias
Fovington water, bycause it risith about Fovington (Fovant) village 5 miles by west from Wilton.
Wilton to Saresbyri 2 miles. Here about Harnham Bridge is the confluence of
From
Wyle and
Avon.
LADY CHAPEL.
SAL. CATH.
[ill.
92].
*
From
"
9,
tablet in the chapel of St.

the soul of
Mary
Pray for
RICHARD POURE, formerly BISHOP OF SARUM,

to be
u'ho caused this
Church
now
stands anciently called

'
commenced, in a certain ground where it " MIRYFIELD," in honour of the B. V.
Mary, 29
in the
2 April,' being the feast of S. Vitalis, the Martyr, A.D. 1219,
Reign of King Ricfyard

it
I.
And
this
viz.,
building, during the reigns of
3 Kings,
V.
Church was 40 years in Richard I., John, and
Henry IV., and

within this chapel,
was finished 25 March A.D. 1260.
The said
Bishop founded a Mass of the B.
Mary
to be solemnized daily
Mass
the maintenance of the said was afterwards translated to the Bishoprick of Durham; and founded a Monastery at Terraunfi in the Rectory of Laverstoke.
and appropriated for
He
This and some of the following inscriptions, here printed in italics, are given by Leland in the original Latin. The reader will bear in mind that the arrangement of the monuments and gravestones in Salisbury Cathedral underwent great alterations about the year 1790.
1
" 3 Cal. Maii" in the original
which would be
May
29.
But the
feast of
S. Vitalis
was May
28.
3 Terraunt." A house of Cistercian or White Nuns, called originally " The Charnel," at Tarent Crayford, county Dorset. (See Hutchins n. 43, and
Lei. Collect, in. 345).

county Dorset, where he was born.
but his
165
And
there his heart is interred,
body at
Durham.
And
he died 15 April A,D. MCCXXXVII."
21 H. m."
" [Then follow the contents of a book called The Philobibloni of Richard of Durham"
(Richard de Bury, alias Aungemlle, Bishop of Durham) of which, though it bore that Bishop's name, Leland says that the real author was one Robert Holcot of the friars
preachers
(?
of Sarum).
See
Itin. iv. 176].
HVNGERFORD CHAPEL.
Robert Lord Hungerford dyed xviij of May A.D. 1459. Robert buried on the N. side of the altare of our Lady Chapelle in a
is
2 chapelle of his own foundation. Margaret wife to Robert and doughter to William
is
Lord Botreaux
buried in the middle of the same chapelle in an high tumbe,
LADY CHAPEL.
of marble, incised on the surface, is interred the body of the Reverend Father NICOLAS LONGESPE, formerly Bishop of
this slab
" Under
Sarum, who greatly enriched
this
Church, and died 18 May A.D. 129 1. 3

:
On
the south side of
it lieth
ROBERT WiCHAMTON 4
on the north side
HENRY BRANDEssuRN." 5
Ther lyith under an arche on the N.
side of our lady,
2 noble-
men
1
of the Longespee.
aiittor
See Chalmers's Biog. Diet. " Aungervyle :" where the name of the real is not alluded to. The full title of the book was " Philobiblon seu de
:
Amore Librorum
et Institutione Bibliothecse."
(The Soak Amateur, on

4to.
the
formation of a Library} printed at Oxon 1599.

2 This chapel was entirely destroyed in 1790. Sepulch. Monuments. 3 He was consecrated 1291, died 1297.
4
See views of
it
in Gough's
Bishop Robert Wykehampton died A.D.
1284.
The monument
so often
called his, cannot possibly refer to him. The architecture is of perpendicular style, and the arms and devices clearly indicate another person, viz., William
Wilton, Chancellor of Sarum, 1506-1523. On the cornice are 3 shields 1. The device of Henry VIII. and Catherine of Arragon, a rose and pomegranate. 2. The arms of Bishop Edmund Audley (W. Wilton's patron) who died 1524. 3. Abingdon Abbey perhaps the place of his education. On other shields is the rebus, WIL on a label, and a barrel for TUN. There is an engraving of this
:
tomb in Gough's
Sep.
Mon.
vol.
u.
It is inconceivable
how
it
could have been

St.
assigned to a Bishop who died A.D. 1284. Hospital in 1510. [Wilts Inst.]
s
Wilton was Gustos of
Nicholas's
Bishop Henry de Braunds&w died 1288.
166
BEATJCHAMP CHAPEL.
Ther lyith in
a chapelle 1 on the soutli side of
our Ladies
Chapelle altare, Richard Beauchamp Bishop of Sarum, in the midle of the chapel in a playn marble tumbe.
Bishop Beauchamp' s father and mother ly

tumbes.
also there in
marble
Syr John Cheney,

chapel.
late
Knight of the Garter,

LADY CHAPEL.
lyith also in this
Bishop Beauchamp had made afore a riche tumbe and a chapel over it at the west end of our Lady Chapelle, but one John Blith
Bishop of Sarum was after buried under

1499;.
It is said that
likid this tumbe.
S.
it.
(He dyed 23 August,
Beauchampe axid ons a
sister of
how
she
Osmunde's
first
tumbe, on the south side of our lady whil the
shrine was a
makyng.
IN THE PRESBYTERY, 2 N. SIDE.
EDMUND AUDELEY, Bishop of Sarum. [He died A.D. 1524]. ROGER MORTYVALLE, Bishop of Sarum, who largely endowed this church. Died 14 March A.D. 1302.3
DO.
SOUTH
SIDE.
SIMON DE GANDAVO
1297, 2 April.*
(of
Ghent),
Bishop Sarum: died
A.D.
DO. IN CENTRE.
ROBERT WYVILLE, Bishop Sarum. 5

1
The " Beauchamp Chapel," destroyed 1790. See Gough. " Presbytery." An intermediate space between the Lady Chapel and the
:
choir
3
or,
where that
is
wanting, the choir
itself.
consecrated 1315, died 1330. * Leland is strangely incorrect in these dates. 1297, died 1315.
He was
Simon de Ghent was consecrated
* Died A.D. 1375. He had a long dispute with the then Earl of Salisbury, about the castle of Sherborne, which the Bishop recovered. On his brass which
is large and curious, is an etching of a castle with a Bishop in pontificals at the entrance. This is published in Carter's " Specimens of Ancient Sculpture and
Painting."

DO.
167
SOUTH AISLE.
GILES BE BRIDPORT, Bishop Sarum. 1 RICHARD DE MEDFORD, Bishop Sarum. 2

DO.
NORTH
AISLE.
WYTTE.
Walter de
3
la
Wyle) Bishop Sarum, with an effigy
of bronze
gilt.
IN THE NAVE OF THE CHURCH.
JOHN CHAUNDELAR, Bishop Sarum, first, Treasurer and then Dean of this Church died A.D. 1426.
Another Bishop buried here.
IN THE
NORTH
AISLE OF
THE NAVE.
Old Sarum.
Graves of two Bishops, of
(as is believed)
INSCRIPTION UPON ANOTHER GRAVE.
" Adfer opem, devenies in idem." thou too wilt come to this."] 4
[Help
(with thy prayers)
"GUALTERUS HUNGERFORD MlLES."

"
Qui
fuit captus a Gallis et

Kt.,
a suis redemptus."
in
[WALTER HUNGERFORD,
ransomed by
who was made prisoner
France and
his family ."]5
Ther
Bishop.
is
also a sepulchre
with an image of 4 fote in length, of a

i
There be auncient tumbes on the south
side,
wherof one hath a
image of marble of a
man
of warre.
Died A.D. 1262.

Died
A. D. 1407.
2 3
Died A.D. 1270.

(d. 1139),
* Supposed to belong to the monument of Bishop Roger been brought from Old Sarum Church.
and
to
have
5 Walter H., eldest son of Walter Lord H., the High Treasurer, temp. H. and brother of Robert 2nd Lord H. mentioned above. He died before
vi.,
A.D.
1438
6
it is said,
in Provence.
The " Boy
or Chorister Bishop" like the
"Barne Bishop"
of
Yorke and
Beverley.
168
There
is
a Bishop buried by the side of the waulle of the south isle again the high altare without as in a cemitery, wherein the vergers ly and in one of the mayne butteres of the chirch ther is
;
hard by an inscription ......

THINGS EXCERPTED
Jan.
5.
Latin sumwhat defaced.
OtJT OF
THE
atttOOe
flO
AT SARESBYRI.
at Est
Obit of Walter Walrond
who gave land
Deona
of
to the Corporation of this church. 2
30*
Serlo,
Bean
of
Sarum and afterwards Abbot
Cirencester*
Walter, first, Dean of Sarum \Scammel? Bishop 1284.] Arestaldus the Priest, uncle of S. Osmund.
:
Helias of Derham, Canon of Saruin, Superintendent (" Rector"}* of the new church of Sarum for 25
years from its first foundation. Henry of Winterborne gave to the Corporation of the church of Sarum the tithes of his demesne of
Winterburne.
April 28.
May
9.
Robert Wykehampton, Bishop of Sarum. Hubert de Burgh, Justiciary of England.

Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Sarum. 4 Godfrey "Dispensator," a nobleman.
18.
Ernulph the Falconer, gave two praebends to the church of Sarum.
Hubert Bishop of Sarum, afterwards Archbishop of

Canterbury.
5 Harding, the First Treasurer of the Church of Sarum.
The Calendar
of obits, or days on
which
special
commemoration was made of
founders and benefactors.

2
Land
"
at East
Dean and Lokerley
on the borders of Hants.
3
4
Rector," the Director of the Building.

:
Le Despencer The
first
or the Steward of the
Royal Household.
(p.
Treasurer in Dodsworth's list
236)
is
Jordan.
Thomas
Harding was Treasurer in 1555-59.
LelancFs Journey through Wiltshire.
169
May
18.
Berbertus de Percy gave the prebend of Cerdestoke 1 to the church of Sarum.

2 Henry Cessun, Canon of Sarum, obtained the removal of
the church of Sarum.
Robert "Cementarius," 3 Superintendent (" 25 years.

Alice Bruer 4 gave
years.
all
rexit"} for
the marble 5 to this church for 12
Sept. 20.
Walter Scammel,
Treasurer,
Dean,
and
afterwards
Bishop of Sarum (d. 1286;. Walter de la Wyle, Bishop of Sarum, who founded the Collegiate Church of S. Edmund, and was buried in
by the Altar. [1271]. The new Church of Sarum was dedicated

it
A.D.
1258 by
Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of the King and Queen, in the time of Bishop Giles.
Oct.
11.
Robert Wyville Bishop of
S. (d.
1375;.
Chardstoke, county Dorset, which continues to be a prebend of Sarum.
In
Itin. vol. iv. 177, Leland calls this benefactor Gilbert de Percy, and so does the charter of Hen. II. (Mon. No. Y.) : Hutchins (Dors. n. 259) calls him " Berbertus,
meant by Berbertus Lovaine, surnamed
In the great Percy pedigree there is no Gilbert. The person most probably Godfrey Duke of Brabant and Count of His son Jocelyn de Lovaine JSarbatus, who died 1140. married Agnes de Percy the great heiress, and adopted the family name which may in this instance have been given "ex post facto" to the father.
Berberus, or Gilbert."
is
:
2
3
"
"
Cessun," caUed Henry de Teissun in Wanda's list. u Mortar-man." Cementarius;" literally, the Perhaps
;
it
means the head
contractor for the works
(" c&menta demittit redemptor"
Hor.)
4 " Bruer." Briwere ("at the Heath"} or Brewer, was the name of a very important baronial family in Devon, Wilts, and Somerset in the reigns of John, and Rich, i., and H. in. William Brewer was governor of Devizes Castle had land at Norrington and elsewhere in Wilts. He died 1232, without issue male, leaving 4 coheiresses, one of whom, Alice, married Sir Reginald de
:
Mohun.
" Marmor;" probably means stone of every kind though if it meant literally marble only, it would have been no inconsiderable gift, Purbeck marble being the material of the greater part of the pillars and shafts.
s
;
170

3.
Nov.
Eob de Bingham Bp.
of S. died A.D. 1246.
And
18.
that unconquered commander, tacute 1 Earl of Sarum.

d.
Thomas de Mon1184].
Jocelyn Bp. of Sarum [de Bailol,

Giles Bp. of Sarum.
Dec.
13.
[GUes of Bridport: d. 1262]. Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans
a garden
to the
Church.
Henry III. 2 gave much land and many benefices and liberties to Sarum Church. Agnes wife of Hubert de Rid, or Rea, and Henry her son gave
[iv.
176].
the
manor
of
Crocus, the
Huntsman,
Horton^ in the time of Richard Poore, Bp. of S. at the same time gave some lands which
Alward and Fitzadulphus held in the borough of

Wilton.
Sarum and
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL.
[ill.
96].
isle of the body of Saresbyri chirch in marble. exceeding richely wrought There be in eche side of the first transeptum by north and south of the west ende of the quier 3 archis.
Ther be 10 archis in eche
The west
upright
arches.
side of the first transeptum
hath no archis but a
strait
flatte
waul.
isle
Ther be in eche
on the quier taking the presbyteri with
it
Ther be in eche part of the second transeptum that standeth as a lighte and division betwixt the quier and the presbyteri, 2 arches.
1 "Thomas de Montacute," the last Earl of Salisbury, of that house: his He was concerned in so many daughter and heiress married Richard Neville. military exploits that to give an account of them all would be to write a history
' '
of the reign of Hen. Y."
(Banks).
He was
mortally wounded at Orleans A.D.
1428.
2 Henry I. gave the lands to Old Sarum Church. [Dodsworth's Sal. Cath. 102.] Henry II. confirmed the gift. Henry III. ratified the translation of the church to
Sarum. Dodsworth [Sal. Cath. p. 133] calls her " the wife of Ralph de Bello Fago" Horton Manor (co. Gloucester) is returned in the Yal. Ecc. as a (Beaufoe). prebend worth 64 13s. 9d. [Y. E. Wilts, p. 74].
3
New
171
Ther be in the great and
fair chapelle of
our Lady at the est
ende of the high altare 3 pillers of marble on eche side. The vestibulum on the north side of the body of the chirch.
The
tourre of stone,
and the high pyramis of stone on
it, is
noble and- a memorable peace of work. The chapitre house large and fair, and ys piller in the middle.
made 8
square,
and a
The
cloistre
on the south
side of the chirch is one of the largest
and most magnificentist of England. A notable and strong square tower

on
it
for great belles
and a pyramis
on the north
side of the cathedrale chirch in the cemiterie. 1
The
bishop's palace
on the south
east side of the cemiterie.
Bishop Beauchamp made the

of the palace.
great haulle, parler, and chaumbre
The great and

gates to entre
it,
large embatelid waulle of the palace having 3 thus namyd. The close gate, as principale, by
north into the toun.

gate,
by
south,
by est and Harnham toward Harnham Bridge. The close waulle was
Sainct Ann's gate,
:
I redde that finishid, as in one place evidently apperith. in Bishop Roger's dayes, as I remembre, a convention was betwixt hym and the canons of Saresbyri concerning the wall of the close.
never ful
The
vicars of Saresbyri hath a praty college
and house
for their
logginges.
Egidius (Giles) Bishop of Saresbyri, caullid Britport,
because he was borne at Britport in Dorsetshir. This Egidius kyverid the new cathedrale chirch of Saresbyri thoroughout with leade. [And was a great helper to performing
of the church,
iv.
29].
This Egidius made the college de Vaulx for scholers, betwixt the Part of these scolers remaine palace wall, and Harnam Bridge.
in the college at Saresbyri,
and have 2 chapeleyns to serve the The residew study at chirch ther beynge dedicate to S. Nicolas. The scholars of Vaulx be bounde to celebrate the anniOxford.
old campanile in the cathedral yard, taken down A.D. 1790. There is Also in Hatcher and it in Gent. Mag. 1819, part n. p. 305. Benson's History of Salisbury.
1
The
an engraving of
172
versarie of
Le land's Journey through

Giles their founder at the
Wiltshire.
paroch chirch of Britport
wher he was born. 1

Richard Poure, Bp. of Sarisbyri and first erector of the cathedral chirch of New-Saresbyri, founded the hospitale of S. Nicolas* hard
by Harnham Bridge, instituting a master, viij pore wimen, and 4 On the south side pore men in it, endowing the house with lands. of this hospitale is a chapelle of S standing in an isle.
3
[And on
in tymes past
the north side of this hospitale is an oldbarne, was a paroch chirch of S. Martine.
wher
The cause
and
cold,
of the translation was

at rages
by cause
into
it.
it
stood exceeding low
and the river

S.
cam
This church of
Martine and the hammelet or village of
Harnham stood or ever any part of New Saresbyri was builded.] The Duke of Buckingham was beheaded at Saresbyri.^ [vn. 10].
In 1238 upon an interdict to the university of Oxford by Otho the Pope's some of the scholars withdrew thence and settled here. In 1260 Bishop Bridport established a perpetual foundation for one custos, 2 chaplains, and 20 11 poor respectable studious scholars." Some of them continued to have pensions so late as A.D. 1555. There is a view of the building in Hall's Pict. Mem. of In Aubrey's time there was very little of it left. Salisbury, plate xvn. Without the Close of Salisbury as one comes to the toun from Harnham Bridge, opposite the hospital is a hop yard with a fair high stone wall about it and the ruins of an- old pidgeon-house. I doe remember 1642 (and since) more ruines there. This was Collegium de Valle Scholarum (College de Vaux). It took its name from Yaux a family. Here was likewise a Magister Scholarum and it was in the nature of an university. It was never an endowed college. {From Seth Ward Bp. of Sarum]." [N. Hist, of Wilts, 95]. This statement The house had considerable estates, as to a wow-endowment must be incorrect. which are enumerated in the Yalor Eccles. Wilts, p. 89. Neither was the name, " Yallis Vaux, derived from a family; but is only an English corruption of ScholsB." The building is now entirely destroyed. Jacobus de Valle Scholarium" is mentioned as an author in Harl. MSS. 3930. 2 See small woodcut, No. 23. HaU. 3 The substance of the three folio wing sentences has been already given: see p. 159. " The first to raise Richard 4 Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham. (III) to the throne, the last to feel his tyranny ;" was executed in 1483 on a Sunday morning, in the court yard of the Blue Boar Inn which stood in the MarketThere is a place {see Hall], and was buried at the Grey Friars in Salisbury. monument to him in the neighbouring church of Britford. The celebrated line " Off with his head so much for Buckingham," pronounced with such effect by our stage Richards, is not in Shakspeare, and is believed to have been one of
1
legate,
' '
* '
Colley Gibber's innovations.
173
FISHERTON DELAMERE.
Peter Delamar, a
died without
[Itin. VI. 36].
man
issue male in
doughters maryed to Amande; and William de

of Delamare.
marks of land by the yere, Edwarde 3 dayes but he had 3 these gentilmen 8. John St. (Pawlet)
of about 1,200
; ; ;
la
Roche; the which 3 divided the landes
The
castelle of
and the lordship of Fisherton St. Amande had partition.
Nunney Delamar in Somersetshire, in Wyleshire cam to St. John, in

William de
la
Roche had
But Mr. Bainton

William
told
me
that there were but 2 that divided
Delamar'*s landes, and that St.
Amand had by
heire generale of
Roche such lands as the said Roche had by Delamare : and that land is now cum to Mr. Bainton. Syr Edward Baynton's
la
De
father
had
to wife the last

is,
Lord
St.
Amande's
sister,
and heire;
because he (that
Lord
St.
Amande) had no legitime
child. 1
[Leland also mentions, in. 98].

Clarington park and
Saresbyri.
The parke
is
maner place about a mile by S. Est from a very large thyng and hath many kepers
in
it.
Ther was
Popham
lordship or
Ivy Chirch. 3 miles from Clarendon and 3 miles from MotDene,
at Clarington a priory called
tisham, as in the middle
way
betwene, was sometyme the chief

[vi. 38].
2 Bridge of 2 stone arches, a bridge rennith a praty broke
maner
place of the Pophams.
From
Saresbyri to
Thomas
JBeket's
mile al by champayn.
Under
this
1 There is so much difficulty in adjusting the pedigree of Delamere, Roche, Beauchamp, and Baynton, that Leland's conflicting statements as to the number of the coheiresses of Delamere must be for the present passed over. The attempt to reconcile them would require genealogical details too minute to be The case appears to be that Beauchamp and interesting to the general reader. Baynton married the coheiresses of one branch of Delamere, which two properand that Pawlet married the ties ultimately merged in the Baynton family heiress of another line, by which Fisherton Delamere and Nunney came to the
:
family of the
2
Duke
of Bolton.
"
St.
Thomas
Bishop's
Down
Becket's Bridge." Two miles on the old generally called St. Thomas's Bridge.
London
road,
beyond
174

it
rising a 3 miles above
by north
est.
This broke goith into Avon

[in. 98].
[iv.
about a mile beneth
Harnham
Bridge,
Wm.
Talebot
Lord of the 100 of Alwarbyri.
177]
Slope; a praebend in the paroch of Netherbyri. (do). Stratford : a praebend on the bank of Avon, not far from the
Dean
old city of Sarum. (do). of Sarum Rector of Sunninge.
(do).
Heitredesbury, a Collegiate Church impropriate to the deanery of Sarum, has the gift of 4 praebends. 1 (do.)
Longalatcfi (Longleat) priory,
to S. Radegund.
place,
(do.)
where the church

first
is
dedicated
John Vernon, Kt.,
founder of this
[The relics of S. Melorus, son of Melian Duke of Cornwall, were deposited at Amesbury. vn. 54]. \_Isabelle, the 4th daughter of Henry Duke of Lancaster and Maude
daughter to the Duke of York, was prioress of Ambresbyri (1202).
vi.
42].3
Heytesbury Church was made collegiate about A.D. 1165, chiefly through the agency of Roger Archdeacon of Wilts, or Ramsbury. The four prebends are 1. Tytherington, given by the Empress Maud: 2. Horningsham, by
1
3. Hill-Deverill, by Elias Margaret, his mother and 4. Swallowcliffe, by Gerard Giffard of the Fonthill branch. The Archdeacon was at first head of this Collegiate Church, but it was afterwards annexed to the deanery of Sarum. The Dean now acts as Ordinary within it, and has the patronage of the four prebends.
:
Humphrey de Bohun, and

Giffard of Brymsfield
:
Longalata." This derivation is adopted by Sir R. C. Hoare [Heyts. p. 69], as applicable to the long and broad valley, at the end of which (coming from Horningsham) stood the priory, and now stands the mansion of Longleat. But the name is also anciently written Longa/eta, and L&nglete : and the true derivation would rather seem to be from " Leat," an aqueduct or watercourse.
"
There were formerly
mills,
on or near the
site before
the priory was built, sup-
plied by a long conduit. The Leat at Plymouth, a celebrated piece of engineering in its day, was constructed to supply that town with water, by Sir Francis
Drake.
3
There
is also
the Leate at Truro conveying water to the town.
Henry Earl of Lancaster, second son of Edmund Crouchback, and grandson of H. III., married Maud, daughter, not of the Duke of York, but of Sir
Patrick Chaworth.
175
[From
the Latin].
"Hubert (Walter, Dean, afterwards Bp. of Sarisburi (Rich. I.) and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury) attracted universal admiration at Acre, even from King Richard, by his noble military
appearance.
gifted,
He was
tall,
of great foresight in counsel, and highly
though not with eloquence. Together with Ranulph de who acted under his advice, he, in a manner, was King of England. He was a violent opponent of Girald Bishop of St.
Glanville
David's, in the efforts
which that prelate was making
at
Rome
to
have the archiepiscopal pall restored to his see."
[Itin. vin. 84].
STONEHENGE.
though so close to Stonehenge (which, no he saw) Leland has left no description either of that place doubt, So that we may make of him the same complaint or of Avebury.
[It is remarkable that
which he makes of a
"
still
older writer of ancient English history.]
And
Stoneheng, so notable a thing erect
nothing
spoken of
by the Britons, is and a great many things beside." by Bede,
[Collect. I. 511].
[From Geoffrey
relating to the
gives the following extract of Stonehenge, if not to the place neighbourhood
of
Monmouth he
itself:]
Hengist, upon hearing of Vortimer's death, took with him a large army and returned into Britain. (Having invited the Britons
to
"
a friendly conference he concerted an attack upon them). When the proper moment for his treachery arrived, Hengist gave the word " Out with your swords," and thereupon he seized
Vortigern and held him back by his robe.

the signal drew
their swords,
The Saxons on hearing
utterly unprepared for
upon the assembled chiefs slew about 460 barons and officers, to whose bodies the blessed Eldad gave Christian burial not
falling
and
any such
assault,
far
from Caer-caradoc, now called
Salesbiri, in a
cemetery near
Amesbury Monastery.
this atrocity
The Pagans, however, did not commit with impunity for many of them were slain, whilst compassing the death of others. For the Britons caught up from
:
176
the ground stones and clubs, and attacked their assailants, &c. i [CoUect. n. 29.]
2 [Another ancient chronicle directly asserts that Stonehenge was built by Yortigern as a lasting memorial of this massacre and that Merlin recommended fetching certain great stones from
:
which the King replied that " he thought he had as hard stones in England as they had in Ireland." Upon this story
Ireland
:
to
fetching of them from Ireland, it is all fabulous. For every person even of common information must know that these stones, so large as not even to be moved by any mechanism
in our unscientific days, were brought by Merlin with marvellous skill and the help of ingenious machinery from some neighbouring
Leland observes " About the
quarry to the
travellers.
place where
they are
It would, indeed, have puzzled

for there is
now the admiration of him to bring them by

it." 4
sea to
Amesbury,
no sea coast within 20 miles of

[VII.
RAMSBTJRY, BEDWYN,
AND MARLBOROUGH.
83].
From Lamburne
miles, firste
(co.
Berks) on to Ramsbury toune about a 5
fruteful
by champayne grounde fruteful of corne, then by hills of wood and corne. Kenet toucheth the toun with his left
low botom.
There
is
ripe suopinge in a
a fayre and large olde
The Bishope of Saresbyri hath a faire olde place halfe a mile upper upon the left ripe of Kenet, that a litle above the place in the medow maketh out an arme, and a litle benethe the place resorting to the hed streme maketh the medows
chirche in the toune.
on the south
faire
side of the place a
Mediamnis or
isle.
There
is
a right
and large parke hangynge upon the clyffe of an high hille well wooded over Kenet, hard on the south side of the place.
Litlecote the
DareWs
chief house
is
a mile from Ramesbyri.
From Ramesbyri
1
to Saresbyri
good 20 miles.
2
3
See Antiquarian Repertory, in. 262. Quoted in Hoare's Hist, of Amesbury, p. 199. See the Latin in Collectanea, u. 31.
The
brought them
old fable was, that Merlin conjured them by magic out of Ireland, and " aloft in the skies. What, in Charles's Wain ?" asks Fuller.
LelancCs Journey through Wiltshire.
177
From Ramesbyri on
The tonne
is
to
Great Bedwine a 3 miles, moste parte
throwghe the forest of Sauernake.

is prevelyged with a Burges at the Parliament yet but a poore thinge to sight. There lieth in the churche, in the south isle one Adam Stoke a famose man, and another of that
;
it
line
by him under a flatte stone. The Stokes were lords of Stoke Haule 1 ther by. The lands of whom descendyd on to the Lords
Hungarfords ; but whereas I harde ons that there was a castelle or forteres at Greate Bedwine ; [the ruines and plot whereof is yet
I could there heere nothinge of it. [Thens a 2 miles by wooddy ground to Little Bedwine, wherby I passed over Great Bedwine brooke. vi. 71].
seene, vi. 71.]
Little
Bedwine a mile lower
whither cummith the streame that

it
passinge by
Great Bedwine levith
on the right
is
ripe.
This
water goeth toward Kenet.

Greate Bedwine.
And
Hungerford
a 3 miles from
a good mile to Chauburne village. 2 [Going out of Chalburne I passed over a litle stream called Chauburn water,
From Bedwine
vi. 71.]
The trew name wherof
as I gesse should be Chaulkeburne
for
it
risithe
so going about a 2 the village, miles lower resortith either into Bedwine water, or els by itself
3 goeth into Kenet river. The house of the Choks was
and rennith in chalky ground. It and levith it on the right ripe, and
riseth a litle above
firste
greatly advaunsyd
by Choke,
of 600
Chief Judge of England, that attayned lands to the
sum
Sir
Now Stock Farm in the parish of Great Bedwyn. Gena or Geva, widow of Adam de Stoke of Rushall, married Sir Robert de Hungerford, and died
A.D. 1335.
In 1431, Thomas Stokke conveyed to Sir Walter Hungerford (the High Treasurer, great nephew of Sir Robert) the manor of Stoke and lands elsewhere in Wilts. It was afterwards for many years a residence of the \_Close Rolls~\. Hungerfords, some of whom were Members of Parliament for Great Bedwyn.
The second monument mentioned by Leland is believed to have been that Roger Stoke, son of Sir Adam. Both are still preserved.
2
of Sir
"
good" two miles to (now called) Shalborne.
3 It
resorteth into
Bedwyn
water.
2 A
178

yere,
marks by the
and kept
to
his chefe house at
Longe Ashton by
4)
1 Bristow, having great furniture of silver.
From Chauburn
Hungerford a 3 miles.
Thens a 2 (read
(read 6)
miles to Ramesbiri by meetly woodded ground. From Ramesbyri onto Marlebyri a 3 miles
by
hilly
grounde, fruteful of corn and wood. About half a mile or I cam into Marlebyri, I passid ovar a broke that cam down north west
from the
hills,
and so ran by south-east into the streme of Kenet
about half a mile bynethe Marlebyri. The toune of Marlebyri standith in lengthe from the toppe of an
hill flat east to
a valley lyinge flat weste. 2 The chiefe paroch church of the toune standythe at the very weste end of it, beynge dedicate onto Seint Peter. By it there is
castelle,
a ruine of a great
harde at the west end of the toun,
whereof the doungeon towre partly (half) yet stondith. There at a Parliament tyme. 3 There is a lay Kynge Edward the
Martyne^ (at the entre) at the est ende of the toune. a paroche churche of our ladie (St. Marie's) in the mydle of the toune ; (by the Market-place). The body of this churche is an auncient peace of worke. Sum fable (without authority)
St.
chappel of
is
There
that S. Marie's was a nunerye. ehanons caullyd 8. Margarets5 a
There was a priorye of white

little (half
a quarter of a mile)
1 Sir Richard Choke, of Stanton Drew, co. Somerset, a Judge in 1474, (14 E. IV.) purchased Long Ashton, then called Ashton Lyons, in 1454. His grandson sold it in 1506. [Collins on Som. n. 291, 434]. One of the Judge's sons settled at Avington in Berkshire, not far from the neighbourhood which
Leland
2 3
is
describing.
At a
later period
(James
I.)
a Sir Alexander was M.P.
for Ludgershall,
and Chief Justice in Ireland.
See also Itin. vi. 71.
He
probably alludes to King
Henry
III.
who
held here his last Parliament,
at
which was passed the code of laws called "The Statutes of Marlborough." 4 North of the road leading to Mildenhall between Blow Horn Street and Cold
[Waylen's Marl.
p. 494.]
s
Harbour.
site
Sempringham Priory, as old as King John, and of royal foundation. The was granted to Stringer at the dissolution but must have soon
:
changed
hands, as a branch of the Daniells, of Daresbury, Cheshire, settled here in H. VIII.
Leland
179
now
by southe out of the toune, over Kenet (on the right hand), where dwellythe one Mastar Daniell. There was a house of friers in
the south syde of the toune. 1
[A market house new made.
vi. 71.]
Kenet ryver cummethe doun by the weste end of the toune from the northe, and so by the botom of the toune and vale lyinge
sowthe, leving
it
on the
left ripe,
and
so reneth thens
by
flatte est.
SILBURY HILL AND AVEBURY.
[vil.
85],
north north-west at Selbiri hille botom, 2 wherby hath ben camps and sepultures of men of warre, as at Aibyrfi a myle of, and in dyvers places of the playne. This Selbyri hille is
Kenet
risithe
about a 5 myles from Marlebyri.
LUDGERSHALL.
[vil.
II].
Luggershautt sumtyme a castle in Wileshire 10 miles from MarleboroWj and a 4 miles from Andover almoste in the waye
betwixt.
is
The
castell stoode in a parke,
now
clene doune.
There
it,
of late times a pratie lodge
made by the
ruines of
and
longgithe to the King.
MARLBOROUGH TO
DEVIZES.
[vil. 85].
From
forest,
and a 4 myles or more
Marlebyri over Kenet, and so into Sauernake (the swete oke) to Peusey a good village, and there
1 Tanner White" as against (p. 610) quotes Leland in this passage for another author's " Grey" friars in Marlborough. Leland has just said that 11 St. Margaret's" was a house of White Canons, but he does not mention any
"
The Friary was founded by John Goodwin and particular colour for these friars. William Remesbesch, merchants, A.D. 1316, and was granted, 34 H. YIIL, to John Pye and Robert Brown. 2 There is near a source called " Swallow Head
but Kennet
Ufeote.
3 Such is Leland' s solitary notice of this once remarkable place. what his opinion of Avebury was (and probably also of Stonehenge is
certainly fed by "
Silbury
Spring:"
The Bourn" which
riseth near
Winterboume Basset and

It is clear
from the
story of the massacre given above), viz., that they were not temples, but cemeteries of " men of warre."
2A
180
I passed over Avon river, and so by a village caullid Manifordes, 1 by the which Avon rennythe and so to Newton village a 2 myles
21
and more from Peusey, where also Awn rennythe leeving it on his lefte rype and thens 2 myles of, passyd by Uphaven, a good
;
There comythe a little broke into Avon village 2 myles lower. from northe west at the est ende of Newton churche. The course
of
it is
latly
lowe,
and
From
myle.
changed to the great comoditie of the village lyinge afore sore troubled with water in wynter. Newton to Hikote an hamlet of the same paroche halfe a
or I came nere
Thence a 7 miles to The Vyes* by champayne ground. I passyd, The Vyes,\yy a broke the whiche goythe in to Avon
ryver by Uphavon village.

DEVIZES,
[vii.
85].
The toune of
Vies standithe
clothiars.
on a ground sumwhat clyvinge,

streete.
and most occupied by
The beauty of it is all in one The market is very celebrate.

There
is
a castell on the southe west syde of the toune stately
4 partly with dykes, the yere wherof is cast greate height to defence of the waulle.
avauncyd upon an highe ground, defendyd partly by nature, and up a slope, and that of a
There are 3 hamlets
close together,
Manningford Abbot's, Manningford Braose

(as
(now called Bruce), and Manningford Bohun. 2 North Newnton or Newton the prebend which
;
mentioned above
in the
preface to Leland's journey) he held at this time.
Towards determining the town, the following testimony, drawn from other " Thence he counties, may be useful. (Sir Thomas Fairfax) passed to Thome " (in Yorkshire), and then across the devises of Hatfield to Crowle." This," says Mr. Hunter, " is the single instance in which I have found the word devises applied
real origin of the
The Vies."
A well known corruption of" Devizes."

name of
this
It means no more than border lands,, and is, in fact, the Latin word " Divisas" with an English form given to it." [South Yorkshire, I. 174.] In the book of the priory of Bath [Line. Inn Library, No. XLIV., Art. 4] is
to these lands.
mention of lands between the " divisas de Corston" (near Bath) " and Wansdyke." 4 "Yere." The Wiltshire way of pronouncing eare, or earth. To ear, to
''
plough."
There
shall be neither earing
nor harvest."
[Gen. 45, 6.]
181
1 dayes by one Roger Byshope of Salisbyrye, Chauncelar and Treasurer to the Kynge. Such a pece of castle worke so costly and strongly was never afore nor sence set up by any Byshope of England. The kepe or dungeon
This castle was
made
in
Henry the
first
of
it
set
upon an
incredible coste.
porte colacis,
hille cast by hand, is a peace of worke of an There appere in the gate 2 of it, 6 or 7 places for and muche goodly buyldying was in it. It is now in
mine, and parte of the front of the towres of the gate of the kepe and the chapell in it were caried, full unprofitably, onto the
buyldynge of Master
of. 3
Bainton's place
at
Bromeham
scant
myles There remayne dyvers goodly towres yet in the utter walle of the castle, but all goynge to ruine.
The
principall gate that ledithe in to the toune is yet of a great
strengthe,
and hathe places

a fayre parke
for
7 or 8 porte
castle.
colices.
Ther
is
by the
The
forest of Blake-more lyethe in a
botom toward northe
west,
not far from the toune.
1 Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, one of the most powerful opponents, in the West He built, wholly or in part, of England, of the claim of Stephen to the Crown. castles at Sherbourn (Dorset), Malmsbury, Devizes, and Sarum.
" Gate." the " that

2
by
cullises, is
Mr. Waylen, in his description of Devizes Castle, is of opinion gate," leading into the town, and having places for several portmeant not merely the portal, but a long protected passage leading from
is
the castle keep to the main entrance of what Hist, of Dev. p. 121, and plan at p. 129).
now
the Bear Inn yard.
(See
3 Andrew Baynton had already carried off part of an old manor-house at Corsham. (See above p. 143) and, according to Aubrey, he also appropriated to Bromham House stood on or near the same object part of Bradenstoke Priory. the site of the present Bromham farm-house between Rowdeford and Wanshouse (on the right hand going from Devizes to Chippenham) and near the Old London Road to Bath. It was a garrison for the Royalists in the civil wars, and was burned down in 1645. Sir Edward Baynton, the owner at that time, would
: :
not rebuild
it,
but chose a
new
site at
Spye Park.
Some
of the materials having

still
escaped the conflagration were again turned to account, and there is dition that one of the lodges of Spye Park came from Devizes Castle.
tra-
182
I
Iceland's
saw as I went out of the tonne, Bromeham Haul lyenge in a botom about a 3 myles of.
STEEPLE ASHTON.
[vil. 86.]
Vies to Stepk Assheton a 6 myles, by champaine but It is a frutefull grounde, and good wood plenty in some places.
From The
little
praty
market toune, and hath praty buyldinge.
It standith
muche by
it
clothiars.
There
is
in
a very fayre churche, buylded in the
mynd of men
now
it is
lyvinge.
spired steplel of stone is very fayre and highe, and of that eawllyd Stepk Assheton. Eobart Longe, clothyar, buyldyd the northe isle, Walter Lucas, clothiar, buildyd the sowth isle, of
The
theyr proper costes. The abbey of Ramesey in Hamptonshire had bothe personage impropriate and the hole lordshipe. with the Syr Thomas Semar^ hathe it now of the Kyng almoste
hole hundred of Horwelle alias Wharwettdown, with
muche
fayre
woods.
BROOKE HALL, NEAR WESTBURY.
[VH. 86].
From Stepk
ground.
Assheton to Brooke Haule about a 2 myle by woody Ther was of very auncient tyme an olde maner place
is
wher Brooke Hall
now, and parte of

is
new buyldynge that is there Steward unto King Henry the
it yet appearithe. But the of the erectinge of the Lorde The windowes be full of rudvij.
This spire, 93 feet high above the tower, having been seriously injured by lightning in July, 1670, the parishioners proceeded to repair it, but when it was almost finished, in October the same year, a second storm threw it down, with
'
part of the tower and the body of the church.
The spire has never been
restored.
The church was built 1480-1000.

Thomas Seymour, the Protector's brother, Lord Sudeley and Lord High The manor of Steeple Ashton (besides Imber, Edingand ton, and other estates) was granted to him at the dissolution of monasteries on his death reverted to the Crown. The author of the Hist, of Mere (p. 122) overlooked this when he said that Sir Thomas had " no connexion with our county."
2
Sir
Admiral, executed 1649.

ders.
183
Peradventure
is
it
was his badge or token of the Admiraltye.
Ther
nombar
a fayre parke, but no great large thynge. In it be a great of very fayre and fine-greynyd okes apt to sele houses. 1
" Brooke Halle."
This house stood on or near the
site
of Brook
House
Farm
little
(not Brook Farm, which is another ancient house, still in existence at a distance from it) between Hawkeridge and Coteridge about 3 miles N.W. of
Crown. From Henrj III. to was the residence and property of the family of Paveley, lords of the hundred of Westbury. Between the two coheiresses of Paveley The younger sister married Sir Ralph Cheney. there was a division of lands.
Westbury.
The
estate originally belonged to the

it
Edw.
III. A.D.
1361,
Her grandson,
Stafford,
Sir
Edmund
Cheney, married Alice, daughter of Sir
Humphrey
and died A.D. 1430 leaving two daughters coheiresses, of whom Anne was the wife of Sir John Willoughby. Sir John's son, Robert, was created in A.D. 1492 Lord Willoughby de Broke, taking his title from this place. He was Steward of the Household to King Henry VII. His two granddaughters were married 1. Elizabeth, to John Paulet (son of Lord St. John of Basing), 2nd Marquis of Winchester and 2. Anne, to Charles Blount 5th Baron MountBrooke came by the latter match to Lord Mountjoy, joy, who died A.D. 1544. and was sold by his grandson the 8th Baron, about A.D. 1599, to Sir Edward
;
Hungerford of Farley
till
Castle,
who
died A.D.
1607.
It remained in that family
A.D. 1684,
when
Sir
Stephen Fox.
was sold by the extravagant Sir Edward Hungerford to For its subsequent history, see Sir R. C. Hoare's Westbury,
it
p. 30.
"a Aubrey describes it, about A.D. 1650 as being still very great and stately :" and he has preserved in his collections for North Wilts, a minute The device of a ship's rudder which he description of the emblazoned windows. " peradventure" had says was "everywhere," he considers, [as Leland, with a done before him], to have been the badge of office of the first Lord Willoughby de " Mr. Wadman," says Aubrey, " would Broke, as Admiral to Henry VII. But persuade me that this rudder belonged to Paveley who was lord of this place," " Mr. Wadman" was perhaps right as it is not quite certain to whom it did
house
:
but one point (suggested by the Rev. E. Wilton, of Lavington) does seem certain ; viz., that it did not belong to the Willoughby s. For it is found in the neighbouring church of Edington upon the tomb of Sir Ralph Cheney, who married the coheiress of Paveley, a hundred years before the first Willoughby had
belong
;
acquired Brooke Hall by marriage with the coheiress of Cheney. It is also found on the west porch of Westbury church in juxtaposition with Stafford, also before Willoughby's time. As representative of Cheney and Paveley, Lord
Willoughby
used the rudder for an ornament to his windows in reference to one or other of those two families, but not as any device relating to his own office in the
may have
admiralty.
is
As his representatives, the Paulet family, still use it. The rudder is also found on the parapet of Seend Church, north
aisle
where
it
probably only the memorial of a pecuniary contribution towards the building of that part of the church, by some Willoughby who used the badge at that time
as an hereditary device.
184

renithe
The broke that
by Brooke
1
riseth at a place called Bis-mouth
properly caulyd Bisse, and a 2 myles above Brooke village

is
onto Brooke village

levinge
it
an hamlet longynge to Westbury paroche. Thens it cummithe and so a myle lower on to Brooke Hauk,
;
hard on the right

2
ripe,
and about a 2 miles lower
it
goith to
[Humfrey
Stafford of Hoke, with the Silver
Hand, 3 that maried
Kobert Willoughby (afterwards 1st Lord Broke) with many other Wiltshire Thomas Delamere, Sir Roger Tocotes, Sir Richard Beauchamp, Walter Hungerford, John Cheney, &c., joined the Duke of Buckingham in his Their lands were seized, and the manors of resistance to King Richard III. Brooke and Southwick were bestowed by Richard upon his favourite Edward 15 Dee. 1 R. III. [See Harl. MS. No. 433, art. 1621.] Ratcliffe.
Sir
gentlemen, Sir
1 "Bisse." The stream rises near Upton. Scudamore under a hill called in the maps " Beersmeer Hill," which looks like a corruption of Bissemouth Hill. But the mouth of a stream is generally the name of the place where it issues
into some other water, not of that

2
where
it first rises.
North Bradley and Trowbridge. means Brook farm and mill.
By Brook
village,
Leland probably
3 "Silver Hand." The meaning of this singular distinction is not known with certainty. That the person to whom it was given should have literally replaced the loss of a natural hand by a metallic substitute, wholly or in part, is possible, but not very likely. The epithet was more probably applied to
The eloquent Chrysostom was word signifies) " 6ro/e?ew-mouthed" and we have had in our own " Iron Duke." There were two days, the more familiar instance of an
as a figurative compliment to his liberality.
:
him
(as
the
" Silver Hand" has been ascribed; Sir Humphrey, sen., and Sir Humphrey, But if Leland is to be trusted, the point is settled as he jun., father and son. that " the Silver Hand" married the heiress of
:
individuals of the noble family of the Staffords to
whom
this periphrasis of the
Maltravers, by which match he obtained the property at Hooke, county Dorset. This was undoubtedly Sir Humphrey, the son. [Hutchins, in his note upon the subject
distinctly says
The
and maybe thus rectified. " This Alice (Stafford, daughter of the " Silver Hand"} was married first to (Sir Edmund) Cheney (as mentioned in a former note}, and had two daughters, Anne and Elizabeth. Elizabeth (not Anne) was married to Coleshill and had no issue. Anne was married to (Sir John) Willoughby (not Lord W. de Broke), and had issue. Alice (Lady Cheney)
(Dorset, 1, 292, first edit.) seems to have misinterpreted Leland's statement]. rest of the paragraph in the text is partly imperfect, and partly incorrect :
185
the daughter and heire of Matravers, a Knight, had 3 or 4 sons. He had also a doughter called Alice by his wife, Matravers* heire.
This Alice was maried
first to
Cheyni, a Knight, and
Anne and
had
Broke
Elizabeth, by him.
issue.
Anne was maried

married
had 2 doughters, to Coleshill and
no
Elisabeth
had
issue Alice ....
a doughter by him, whom Hum/re Stafforde's landes to Willoughby and Strangwaies. [vi. 13.] Much of the Lord Zouche's lands was gyven by Henry VII. to
to Willoughby Lord .... oys .... Eleanor Strangwais .... maried, and so cam
was
was
ma
Willoughby Lord Broke.* [vi. 14]. Wermister, a principall market for come,
haull; a
is
4 miles from Brooke[vn. 86.]
myle
to Westbyry,
and
so 3
myles
forthe.
EDINGTON.
[iV. 25.]
least 5)
[Hedington village andpriorie aboute a 2 (at Brooke Haul. vii. 87].
myles from
Hedington of auncient tyme was a prebende longging to Rumsey an abbay of nunnes in Hampshire [to whom it was given by King
was remarried, to Walter Talboys and had Eleanor a daughter by him, whom Thomas Strangways married, and so &c." " of the Silver Sir Humphrey Stafford, jun., Hand," was elder brother of John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who died A.D. 1452. Their mother Emma, second wife of Sir Humphrey Stafford, sen., was buried in the neighbouring church of North Bradley, within a
beautiful little Mortuary Chapel appurtenant to Southwick in that parish, a
manor house which formerly belonged to the Staffords, and from them (probably by the marriage of Alice Stafford above mentioned) came to Cheney and thence to Willoughby. The inscription on the tomb of the Archbishop's mother still remains, and it removes a difficulty in the Stafford pedigree which has been
hitherto unsolved.
See
it
stated in a note
by
Sir Harris Nicolas,
Testamenta
Yetusta, p. 166.
1
Brooke Hall) married
Ela, coheiress of the Paveleys, and sister of Joan Lady Cheney (see note on St. Loe. Their daughter married Sir Richard St. Maur.
Their granddaughter, Alice St. Maur, married Lord Zouche. Lord Zouche's grandson being attainted A.D. 1485, his portion of the Westbury property was granted to Lord Willoughby de Broke who already possessed the share which had descended to him through the Cheney family from Joan the other coheiress
of Paveley.
186
John.
Collectanea 1, 68]. Hedington prebend was an hunderith markes by the yere and more. Hedington Bp. of Winchester 1 was born at this Hedington, being cheef rular of England, while King
Edw. 3 and Edward the .... (Black Prince

buildid a fair
?)
did war in France.
He
chirch at Hedington, and there made a college Coll 1, 66.] with a Deane and xii Ministers, [for canons regular. wherof parte were prebendaries. He caussid the prebende of
new
Hedington to be removed from the

impropriated to this college.
landes
title
of Rumsey,
and
to be
by yere to this college. that King Edward wan Calays.

Bones-Homes beyond
these.
He procured besides And this was done
a 200 marks of
about the time
Prince Edward, caullid the Blah Prince, had a great favor to the
Wherapon cumming home he
hartely
besought Bishop Hedington to chaunge the Ministers of his college Collect. 1, 66]. into Bones- Homes. Hedington at [Boni Homines.
account that
Leland's notes upon Edington are valuable, and form the staple of the brief is given of this house both by Tanner and in the New Monasticon.
interesting
is
One
writer
circumstance connected with the Founder
(for
which the
indebted to the Rev.
Edward Wilton)
appears to have escaped the

:
notice of all
Code of Statutes appointed Reverend Father derived his origin from that village (" de qua villa idem pater traxit originem"): but his family name has never been particularly identified. He appears to have been a Cheney no doubt connected with the Cheneys of Brooke Hall, mentioned above.
to the
" Foundation Deed," being merely the Preamble
who have touched upon the subject. He is generally called William of Edington, and is commonly said to have been born in the parish which is very probable, as in a deed printed in the New Monasticon (miscalled the
to be observed in the House), it is stated that the
The authority
Oxon.
for this statement is the Cartulary of

it,
extracts alleged to be taken from

or u Walterus de
[Ashm. M. Dugd. 39, 142.] Quercu" (" of the Oak ;" in French, " Chene.") In another also given at length in the same extracts, and dated 35 Edw. III. deed, " Guardian of the heiresses of Sir John (A.D. 1361), the Bishop is described as This throws some light upon the marriage mentioned in a former Pavely." note, of Sir Ralph Cheney to one of the heiresses, Joan Pavely, by which the estate of Brooke passed to the family of Cheney. The last of the Paveleys probably assisted Bp. (Cheney) of Edington to a as the tower windows seem to large extent, in building Edington Church contain a singular architectural allusion to that family. The tracery is arranged in the form of a cross the Paveley arms being a cross flory.
:
Edington according to and preserved in the Ashmol. Museum, His father's name was Walter de Cheney,
;

his desire entreatid his collegians to take that ordre.
187
And
The
so they
did
all,
saving the Deane.
Hedington sent for

caullid
ij
of the Bones-Homes
elder of
of Asscherugge 1 to rule the other xij of his college.
the
ij
that
cam from Asscherugge was
John
Ailesbyri,
and he
was the
first Rector (i. e., Prior of the House) at Hedington. Hedington gave greate substance of mony and plate onto his
college.
One
Blubyri, a prebendary of Saresbyri
and executor of the

Blubyri ^
wille of Hedington,
Sceaflesbyri
caussid a great benefice of the patronage of

to Hedington.
as I hard,
Monastery to be impropriate was buried at Hedington.
Sir Richard Penley, a Knight, gave the lordship of Ildesle ( West

Ilsley) in Barkshire, a 2 miles from Wantage, a market toune. This Penley* lay long at Hedington and ther died and was biried.
Rouse, a Knight, gave to Hedington his fair lordship of Bainton, aboute half a mile from Hedington. Rouse^ is buried at Hedington.
[BENEFACTORS.]
[Penley and Rowse

1,
Knights.
Jerberd and Bultington. 5
Collec.
66].
" Bons Hommes" House in 1 Ashridge, the only other England, is in the parish of Pitstone, co. Bucks. It was afterwards the Earl of Bridgwater's.
2 John Bleobury, clerk, was one of the feoffees of Sir Thomas Hungerford in the purchase of Farley Castle from the Burghersh family in A.D. 1369. An
obit
was kept
"
for
him
at Edington.
is
s Penley." There near Westbury.
an estate and residence
still
called Penleigh
,
House
4 Sir John Rous, of Imber, in 1414 (I Hen. V.) settled the manor and " John patronage of the chapel of Baynton (near Earlstoke) on his son Rous, of Beynton, jun." William Rous (son of the latter) in 1437 sold part of Imber to Lord Hungerford the other part he gave in 1444 to Edington Priory, Thomas Elme being then Rector. His brother John Rous, a great supporter of the
:
Lollards and a troublesome disturber of Churchmen of the day, is supposed to have made his peace with them by granting his manor of Baynton to the
Convent, in 1443.
s
[See Hoare's Heytesbury, p. 162.]
ington.
This is, without the slightest doubt, a mistake for Bulka village so called (a ty thing of Keevil a few miles from Edington), which gave its name to some family of importance in those days.
Bultington."
"
There
is
2B
188
John Wittoughby that cam out of Lincolnshire and maried an heire generale of the Lord Broke, 1 and after was Lord Brooke hymself,
lyith buried at Hedington,
and was a benefactor
to that house.
As
I remember, the son of this
Lord Broke was Steward of King
Peter de Bulkington and Michael de Bulkington are
named
in the Wiltshire
Fines, 38 H. III. The manor afterwards belonged to the religious house atEdington, of the gift probably of Thomas Bulkington, the benefactor mentioned by Leland.
Obits at Edington to Penley, Rons, Gereberd, and Thomas Bukyngton are mentioned in the Valor Eccles. [Wilts, p. 142.] Edington Church still retains a memorial of Thomas Bulkington for to him there can be little doubt that a monument really refers, which has often been attributed to an unauthorized and unknown Thomas Baynton. This monument which is highly finished, and clearly refers to some person of consequence connected with the convent, is at the end of the south transept, and bears the effigy of an Augustine Canon his On one shield are the letters T.B. and on another the feet resting on a tun. device of a tun with a tree growing out of it. The not dissimilar device of a bay tree growing out of a tun, appropriate to (and perhaps sometimes used by)
:
the Wiltshire family of Baynton, has, for want of any better conjecture, caused this monument to be constantly assigned to some one of that name. But the monument is of a date long prior to any connexion which the Bayntons may
have had with Edington. The name Bulkington is still commonly pronounced As the word "Boc" signifies a beech treee, Bukington, or Bookington.
Boc-in-tun,
supported by the fact of a known ecclesiastical benefactor Thomas Bulkington, seems to establish his claim to the monument, in preference to that of an imaginary Thomas Baynton.
the
Perhaps Leland means that John Willoughby married an heir general of Lord of the Manor of Broke. Otherwise his statement is full of confusion. Sir John Willoughby "that came out of Lincolnshire" did not marry any heir general of any person who had borne the title of Lord Broke (for it was his own son to whom that title was first granted) but a coheiress of Sir Edmund Cheney, of Brooke Hall. Neither was Sir John himself, as Leland says, afterwards Lord Broke himself; nor was his grandson the 3rd Lord Broke. Sir John's son (as just stated), Robert, was the first Lord Willoughby de Broke, created A.D. 1492. Robert's son, also Robert, was the second Lord Broke A.D. 1503. And there was no third Lord, at that time, of that title. For Edward Willoughby, son of Robert 2nd Lord by his first wife Elizabeth
1
:
Beauchamp, died in
his father's life time, leaving two daughters, of whom one, Elizabeth, married Sir Fulke Greville, and the other, Blanche, married Sir Francis Dawtrey. Robert, the second Lord Broke, had by another wife
Dorothy Grey, two sons who died childless, and two daughters, Elizabeth, married to John Paulet Marquis of Winchester, and Anne, married to Charles Mount Lord Mountjoy,
189
.
.
.
Henry VII. house

N.
and
his son
was the 3rd Lord Brooke of that.

....
name. And he had a son by his first wife, and that son had 2 daughters married to Daltery and Gramlle. He had by another wife sons and daughters. The sons towards young
the sweating sickness. The Lord Mountjoye now married one of the Pollette daughters living (Pawlet) son and heire to the Lord St. John maried the other.
died of
:
men
alias Aschgogh, Bishop of Saresbyri in Henry 6 tyme, was beheddid in a rage of the Commons for asking a tax of money, as sum say, on an hill hard by Hedington ; wher at this
One Aschue 1
and a hermitage. The body of him was buried in the house of Bonhoms at Hedington. This Aschue was a Master
tyme
is
a chapelle
of Arts.
[Itin. m. 98]. From a certain Latin book of Edindon Monastery
[Itin. vi.,
p. 48].
" 3 July A.D. 1352 of Edindon.
was
laid the first stone of the
Monastery
i William Ayscough Bishop of Salisbury, Clerk of the Privy Council, had been accused by the Commons of having been instrumental, together with the Duke of Suffolk and Lord Say, in delivering up the provinces of Maine and Anjou.
The other two had already fallen victims to popular excitement. The Bishop's enemies, taking advantage of the disturbed state of the country, attacked him in
his palace at Salisbury.
He
fled for
refuge to Edington Convent, was robbed on
way of 10,000 marks, and the next day was dragged by the mob, headed by a Salisbury brewer, from the High Altar at Edington Church whilst saying Mass,
the
to the top of a neighbouring
hill,
where he was murdered, on the
feast of St.
Peter
and
St. Paul,
29th June, 1450.
The beautiful tomb at Salisbury, which Gough calls Bp. Ayscough's, and on which he supposes the action of the Bishop's murder to be represented in relief, is of a There is an style of architecture 200 years older than Ayscough's time. engraving of it, with a different account of the figures in relief, in Britton's where it is properly described as Bp. Bridport's, but Salisbury Cathedral, p. 95
:
accompanying plate,- by a misprint, is called Bp. Singh-am? s. Of the chapel and hermitage mentioned by Leland as having been erected on the spot where Ayscough was murdered, nothing seems to be now known. Of
the priory of Edington there
is
in the
an engraving in Gent. Mag. 1846,
p. 257.
190

Sept. 16 A.D.
A.D. 1361.
1358
was the
first
tonsure of the brethren. 1

of E. was dedicated
St.
The Conventual Church
Robert Weyvile, B. of Sarum, to the honour of the Apostle, S. Katharine, and All Saints. 2
Oct. 8 A.D. 1366.
by James
of Edyndone, Bp. of Winchester, Founder of the Monastery aforesaid, died."
Wm.
WESTBTJRY TO TROWBKTDGE AND BATH.
[VII.
87].
Brooke Haulle unto Wesbyri by low ground having wood, and corne, a myle and a halfe. It is the hedd toune of the pasture hundrede to whome it giveth name. In it is kepte ons a week a
smale market.
From
Ther
is
a large churche.
The toune
stondithe
moste by
as
clothiers.
Ther risythe 2 springs by Westbyri, one by sowthe, and another by southe west, and sone meetinge together go abowte Bradeley village a mile and a half lower into Bisse broke that rennithe by
Brook Haule and so to Trougbridge, and then into Avon. Bradeford, the praty clothinge toun on Avon, is a 2 miles
of.
Trowghbridge onto Bathe by very hilly ground a 7 miles, 3 levinge the woods and Farley parke and castle on the lyfte hand.
From
Bishop Wm. (Cheney) of Edington had found at this place a college of secular priests ; i. e., parochially officiating ministers with cure of souls. He converted it into an establishment of Monks Regular, to live " secundum regulam" without cure of souls. Their new monastery was six years in building ; and on
1
its
completion, the brethren

habit.
commenced
as Kegulars, adopting the shaven
crown
and monkish
2
The common seal of the Brethren of the monastic house of Edington (which may perhaps have had a different patronage from that of the church) bears the
figures of St. Peter
3
and
St. Paul.
:
There were two roads by which he may have gone either by Stowford, and from that place to Iford, by a now nearly disused lane, which immediately skirted the wall of the then park of Farley Castle and so from Iford, along the valley to Freshford Bridge Or, by Westwood village, and along the high ground at the back of Iford, to the same point. From Freshford he evidently followed an old road above Limpley Stoke, down by Waterhouses, where, " at the very pitch at the bottom of a very steep hill," he would cross the Midford Brook ascend either Monkton Combe Hill by the large quarries, or Brass Knocker Hill, and
;
:
over Claverton
Down,
into Bath.
191
And by
the
way
I rode over Fresheford
arches of stone,
and
this
Bridge of 2 or 3 faire new was a 3 miles from Throughbridge; and a
2 myles beyonde that in the very piche of the botom of a very Thens a stepe hill I passyd a wylde brocket rennynge on stones.
a notable quarrey, and thens a playne, and then by a stepe botom onto Bathe about a myle.
mile of in the
way was
MARSHFIELD TO TROWBRIDGE AND FROME.
[vil.
:
98].
[Leland went on to Bristol nd Gloucestershire and returned by playne ground unto Maschefeld, a lordship that belonged unto the Canons of Cainesham." 1
"
Thens a 4 miles farther I passyd by hilly ground, and went over a stone bridge, under the whiche ran a broke that a litle
lower went in sight into Avon ryver by the right ripe of it. 2 Thens by hilly, stony, and wooddy ground a 3 miles unto
Bradeford on the right ripe of Avon. Thens on to Throughbridge. Thens on to Broke by wooddy ground.
From Broke onto Frome Celwood in Somersetshire a 4 miles, muche by woody ground and pasture on tyll I cam within a myle of it, wher it is champaine. Thence to Nunney Delamere, and back to Frome. Thens onto Philippe's Northetoune, where is a meane
market kepte in a small toune, most mayntayned by clothyng).
From
Thens
Northeton to Farley Castle a 2 miles. to Bradeford 2 miles.
BRADFORD.
[vil.
100].
The lordshipe was gyven with the personage by Kyng 2Ethelred onto the nunry of Shaftesbyri for a recompence of the murderinge
The Abbey of Black Canons

founded A.D. 1170, by
Bristol,
mately, of King Marshfield.

2
Henry
I.)
(co. Som.) between Bath and 2nd Earl of Gloucester (grandson, illegitiwho endowed it with (inter alia) the Manor Farm of
at
Keynsham
Wm.
He
at its junction with the
passed from Marshfield to Bathfbrd, where he crossed the Avon and so on to Bradford.
:
Box brook just
192
of S.
Edward
his brother. 1
One De
la Sale, alias
I.
Hawk, a auncient
gentilman syns the end of Bradeford.
tyme
of
Edwarde the
dwellith at the
From
[He
Bradeford to Bathe. continued his ride through Gloucestershire

;
Berkeley, and back to Somersetshire
Thornbury, and crossed by Mells to]

;
to
SELWOOD FOREST.
[vil.
106.]
The
foreste of Selwood 2 is in one parte a 3 miles
from
Melles.
In this forest is a chapelle, and theryn be buried the bones of S. Algar* of late tymes superstitiously sought of the folische commune
people.
The
foreste of Selwood, as it is
andstreatchith one
way
now, is a 30 miles in compace, almoste onto Werminstre, and another way
onto the quarters of Shaftesbyri by estimation a 10 miles.
the Martyr was murdered in A.D. 978, being 16 years of age, at Corfe by order of his stepmother Elfrida. The Benedictine Nunnery of Shaftesbury had been founded, according to most of our historians, by Alfred, and was at first dedicated to St. Mary. It lost that name on the translation His brother and successor thither of the body of St. Edward the Martyr. jEthelred "the Unready," by charter dated A.D. 1001, gave to the Church of St. Edward the Monastery and Yill of Bradford, to be always subject to it, that the nuns might have a safe refuge against the insults of the Danes, and, on the restoring of peace, return to their ancient place, but still some of them to remain at Bradford, if it should be thought fit by the prioress. King John confirmed to the abbess of Shaftesbury the whole hundred of the manor of Bradford for ever A.D. 1205. They had also the Rectory impropriate. [See Monast. and Hutchins.]
1
Edward
Castle,
2 Selwood Forest." Partly in Somerset, partly in Wilts. By a survey of the bounds of this large forest, taken in Edw. I., it appears that its true northern boundary was considered to be a line drawn (speaking in general terms) from Penselwood beyond Stourton, to South Brewham thence by the river Frome to Hodden near Frome and that a large tract to the north of that line, then also forest and including part of Wanstrow, Cloford, Trudoxhill, Marston-Bigot, Cayford, &c., had been converted into forest by King Henry II., and ought to be
:
disafforested.
p.
copy of this survey

to the
is
66
but,
owing
change of names,
printed in Collinson's Somerset, vol. in., it is difficult to follow the limits
described.
3 " St. on the road from Frome to Maiden-Bradley Algar's," in co. Somerset about 3 miles from the latter ; and now part of West Woodlands.
:
193
hilly
From Melks
to
Nunney Delamere, a 2 miles partely by

by like
is
and
enclosed ground. Thens aboute a mile
where the paroch chirche

Selwood.
a longe village, unto Nunney Delamere. Then half a mile farther, and so into the mayne foreste of
soyle unto Tut ....
And
so passing half a mile farther I lefte
on the righte
but
hand Witham the
late priorie of Cartusians, not in the forest

it.
joining hard on the edge of
MAIDEN BRADLEY.
[iV.
part 2, p. 105].
[Kidderminster town in tymes past longid to the Bisetts, ancient gentlemen. After, it came to the 3 heires general! of Bisett,
wherof one beinge a Lazar
(leper) builded
Bradley in Wilts, to a priory of chanons.
an hospitall at Maiden She gave her part here
in pios mus, and the Personage of Kidderminster was impropriate to Maiden- Bradley]
.
from Witham Friary) partly by partly by champayne a 4 miles unto

Thence
(i. e.,
forest
ground and
STOURTON.
[vn. 107.]
The
village of Stourton stondith in the
bottom of an
hille
on the
left ripe of Stur.
The Lord
Stourton''s 2 place stondith
on a meane
hille,
the soyle
The name which I/eland vainly attempted to remember, or Hearne to copy, was " Truttokeshull," now called Tmddoxhill, a hamlet between Nunney and Witham Friary, in the parish of Nunney, county The church or chapel alluded to has long been destroyed. Somerset.
1
" Tnt
.... ."
his Editor
2 " Stourton." There cannot be a stronger instance of the long neglect of Wiltshire topography than the confession of the author of the History of the Hundred of Mere [p, 42] that of this mansion, which for many centuries had
belonged to one of the most ancient families formerly in this county, there was no published account whatever, except these passing notes by Leland. After the publication of the volume which contains Mere, some further description of Old Stourton House, with a very rude pen and ink drawing of it, taken about
2 c
194
This maner place hath 2 courtes. The fronte therof being stony. of the inner courte is magnificent, and high embatelid, castle
lyke.
in Stourton
[The goodly gate howse and fronte of the Lorde Stourton's howse was buyldyd ex spoliis Gattorum : (ivith French prize
money),
vm.
100. J 1
Ther is a parke among hills joining on the maner place. The ryver of Stoure risith ther, of 6 fountaines or springes,
wherof 3 be on the north side of the parke hard within the
pale.
A.D. 1650, was discovered in Aubrey's MSS. at Oxford. Sir R. C. Hoare has since now present for the given this in the appendix to History of Frustfield [p. 7.]
We
time a more developed view of it, founded upon Aubrey's rough sketch. Old Stourton House stood upon a site immediately in front of the present mansion of Stourhead, between that house and the public road leading to
first
Maiden Bradley. The site is still to be recognized by an inequality of ground, relic of the a few old Spanish chestnut trees, and some subterranean vaults. the is, or lately was, preserved in a house at Shaftesbury formerly building
" King's Arms;" a carved chimney piece, bearing the shield of Stourton between those of Chidiock and Berkeley. [See a plate, in Gent. Mag. 1826, The house covered a great deal of ground, and retained all the p. 497.] There was a large open-roofed internal arrangement of old baronial days. In the buttery was hall, and an open-roofed kitchen of extraordinary size. kept a huge bone, attributed by tradition to one of the Anakim of the house of Stourton, but which was no doubt a geological relic of some different species of animal of much greater antiquity. There was a chapel, paved with tiles " W.S.," a tower and a tun. In bearing the Stourton shield, and the rebus, In Sept. 1644 Ludlow the civil wars the house was garrisoned for the King. marched thither one night, and summoned it to surrender. His summons not being attended to, his men piled faggots against one of the gates and set it on fire. The inmates escaped by a back way into the park upon which the General entered, and having rendered it untenable passed on to Witham. The Stourton family was of great eminence and antiquity in Wiltshire. It is said that at a house of their's here, William the Conqueror received the submission of the English in the West. When the estate was purchased by Henry Hoare, Esq., of London, in 1720 [or 1727, for Sir R. C. H. has both dates, Mere, p. 56 and 63], the house of which we give the view was taken down.
; i The builder of this part was Sir John Stourton who, for his services to the Henries in their French wars, was created the First Baron in A.D. 1448. He had the Duke of Orleans in his custody at Stourton House for 10 months, for
which he was allowed
13s. 4d. a day.
LJ
O o
Iceland's

also,
195
The other 3 be north
but without the parke. 1
The Lorde
Stourton giveth these 6 fountaynes in his Armes. The name of the Stourtons be very aunciente in those parties. Ther be 4 campes that servid menne of warre about Stourton
one towarde the north weste part within the park, double dichid. I conjecte that here stode a maner place or castelle. My Lord
Stourton sayith nay. Ther is another campe a mile dim. of Stoureton, doble dichid, in
the toppe of an high

Hill.
hill.
This
is
called
communely
Whiteshete
The other 2 campes be abrode

There
is
in the lordshipe.
without Stourton a grove, and in it is called Bonhomes? builded of late by my Lorde a very praty place Bonhome of Wileshire, of the auncienter house of the Stourton.
on an
hill
litle
Bonehomes there,
is
lorde of
it.
MERE.
[VIII.
100.]
The diches and the
plotte
where the
castle of
Mere% stood, appere
not far from the chirche of Mere the market toune.
" The Six is still called Wells," hut they are not all now ahove some of those without the old park wall having been stopped up. Three ground, were in Wilts, and three in Somerset. The park paling or wall that divided them was pulled down by Sir R. C. Hoare. A rough delineation of the six
1
This spot
fountains,
also
by Aubrey's pen,
represents
them exactly
as
described
by
Leland.
2 This place is still known as the tything of Bonham, south of Stourton. By Leland' s account a house had been built here by Lord Stourton before 1540, but Sir R. C. Hoare quotes an indenture according to which the property was
by Walter Bonham, of Great Wishford (between Deptford and Salisbury) in the year 1665. [Mere 90.] A younger branch of the Bonhams has already been mentioned as of Haselbury near Corsham. [See p. 144].
sold to the Stourtons
3
Mere Castle was

III.
built A.D. 1253,
by Richard Earl
of Cornwall, brother to
King Henry
2c
196
Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
at
Harnham.
Ingln-lniira
Cimrtertj
at
ISantljam,
NEAR SALISBURY.
It is well understood that
much
of
what
is
called the History of
the Anglo-Saxon Settlement in Britain is only traditional, and built upon the fictions of poetry and romance. Some of the chief
movements are no doubt accurately reported to us whilst others are disguised, and many are false the oldest of our chroniclers having
;
:
lived very long after the events
which they
describe.
On
matters
of detail, particularly the real habits and civilization of that people, those writers are still less to be depended on for to such points they only allude incidentally. But we may, to a certain extent,
:
judge of the Saxon, as the Romans did of Hercules by measuring his

;
footmarks.
Of the
by
those
antiquities
who have given much

is
of the early Anglo-Saxon period, we are assured attention to the subject, that our
information
derived entirely from one source; their graves. 1
We recommend those of
our readers
who
take, or think that they are likely
an interest in English antiquities, to provide themselves with the very useful and inexpensive little book from which we borrow this remark, called " The It is Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon," by Thos. Wright, Esq., F.S.A. exactly the sort of Manual upon these subjects that has been long wanted being clear, systematic, and illustrated by a great many woodcuts. With such
to take,
:
a guide as this to refer
to, the discoveries that are now constantly made of sepulchral relics become much more intelligible and interesting than they otherwise would be. There will be no longer that vague guessing of character and age, which leaves rational curiosity unsatisfied, and is also the cause of the
relics
themselves being often unduly depreciated. Such articles

little intrinsic
very
accurately known, which they belong, they are of great use in leading to general conclusions, and in elucidating ancient history more For those who wish to place on accurately. the Anglo-Saxon shelf of their library a volume of more stately bulk and " appearance, there is Douglas's Nenia," a valuable work published 1793. Mr.
may indeed possess value, but when their proper place in English antiquities is and they are compared with others of the class and period to
Anglo- Saxon Cemetery at Harnham.
197
Fortunately for that study it happens that the contents of AngloSaxon graves are particularly abundant and interesting, and that we are enabled from the various articles found in them, to form a
tolerable estimate of the civilization of our ancestors.
Anglo-Saxon graves occur generally in extensive groups and on high ground. They are found thickly scattered over the downs of
also
Kent, Sussex, and the Isle of Wight. Extensive cemeteries have been found in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, as well as in
Leicester,
the counties of
Derby, Nottingham, Northampton,

Collections of
Lincoln, Cambridge, York, Suffolk and Norfolk.
Anglo-Saxon antiquities, taken from Kentish barrows, have been formed by Lord Londesborough, Dr. Faussett, and Dr. Rolfe.
one of those counties which have contributed largely to our stock of knowledge derived from subterranean depositories.
Wiltshire
is
The
late Sir
is
R. C. Hoare and Mr. Cunnington carried on for
many
years, as
well known, a very vigorous attack upon the barrows and tumuli with which the surface of a large part of the county is
covered.
The
collection
formed out of their contents, and
now
deposited at Stourhead House, is a considerable
Museum
1
j
of
itself.
But the
greater part of
it
relates to ante-Saxon times.
Anglo-
Saxon interments have been occasionally
laid
open
but
we
are
" Fairford Wylie's book on the Cemeteries in Gloucestershire, called " " Collectanea," and the Graves," Mr. Roach Smith's Archseologia," also
W. M.
contain extensive materials for the illustration of this period. For the general reader, however, who may not have the opportunity of purchasing or consulting
expensive publications, the little book above referred a sufficient compendium of information.
to, will
be found to contain
1 In a tumulus on Roundway Down, near Devizes, lady of the VI. or VII. century was brought to light, perty of Mr. Colston. The corpse lay north and south, with iron. Near the neck were several ornaments
a curious interment of a
about 1843, on the proin a
wooden chest bound
composing a necklace; garnets set in gold, in the fashion of the Roman bulla, seemed to have been arranged alternately with barrel shaped beads of gold wire. There were, also, two gold pins, set with garnets, united by a chain, in the centre of which was
a circular ornament bearing a cruciform device engraved upon the setting. At It fell to pieces on the feet lay the remains of a bronze bound box or cabinet. the admission of the air, and the remains consisted of carved plates of thin
198
at
Harnham.
not aware that of a Cemetery of that period we have had any instance in Wiltshire before that which Mr. J. Y. Akerman, the
Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, has lately brought to light
at
Harnham, near
Salisbury.
close to Salisbury that it is almost a suburb of the city. There is a tradition (mentioned in 1540 by Leland) that a village stood there long before Salisbury itself but we have
is so
:
Harnham
not been able to meet with any mention of the name in any record On of those early days to which such tradition would carry us.
the south side of
Harnham
is
rises a
is
high chalk
a field
hill,
and
at the foot
of this hill near the village " The Low Field." It

situation,
known by
the
name
of
its
so called not
from the lowness of
but from having been once covered with small conical sepulchral mounds that have now long disappeared under the " Low" is a " hloew" plough. The word corruption of the Saxon " or helow," a tumulus an etymology which it may be useful to
:
word often occurs in the composition of English names of places, particularly of elevated sites by which apparent This contradiction, some perplexity is caused to the uninitiated.
recollect, as the
;
frequently the case in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and elsewhere as Caldon Low, a high hill near Cheadle, &c. Wherever the word
is
;
is
found, there
is
reason to suspect the vicinity of some ancient
burial place. 1
bronze which had formed the hoops, and about 20 triangular plates, which appeared to have been attached by rivets over one of the hoops, forming a
Tandyked" ornament. These thin plates were ornamented with rows of dots, hammered up in the metal. Some minor objects of bronze were also noticed,
apparently parts of a fastening or padlock ; and remains of two earthen cups. The box had probably been the receptacle of the lady's ornaments. [See Archseol. Journal, July 1851, p. 176].
1 It may be observed in passing, that the derivation of the name Ellows in Staffordshire is explained by Mr. GK W. Collen in his Britannia Saxonica, p. 12, " Leu" a to be from place of meeting for the men of contiguous hundreds for
"
purposes of appeal and settlement of causes. Whether such derivation applies to the present instance or not, it is at all events a curious coincidence, that the ancient village of Harnham would be conveniently situated in that respect, being nearly at the very point of contact of three, if not of four, Wiltshire
hundreds.
Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Harnham.
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To thi& "Low Field" at Harnham, Mr. Akennan's attention was called last year by Robert Wallan, whom we must introduce to our readers (to those at least who are agriculturally ignorant of such
" an officer), as the " Browner, or manager of the water-meadows, on a farm occupied by Mr. Fawcett, under Yiscount Folkestone. He
had observed the head of a spear protruding from the ground, and upon further search discovered the iron boss of a shield, with portions of a skeleton.
Some other indications having been also noticed, Mr. Akerman was induced to commence operations on a larger
less
scale,
no
which he carried on until he had succeeded in laying open than sixty-two graves containing the remains of men,
children, of various ages.
;
women, and
Upon
this extensive dis-
interment he gave a lecture at Salisbury and he has also published in the Archaeologia a minute and interesting description of it,
with some beautiful
illustrations.
:
From
this
we
extract some of
the most remarkable particulars
Skeleton No.
4.
female;
head.
comb on the
right
side of
the
5.
7.
The
legs crossed.
9.
A knife under the left arm. A male child. A knife on the A A bronze
10.
right side and a small spear on the right of the head. plain metal ring on the finger of the left hand.
:
11.
circular fibula (a kind of ornamental
buckle for fastening a cloak or robe) on each shoulder knife by the side.
:
12.
Apparently an aged woman the thigh bone measuring 18 \ inches. On the wrist of the
:
left
arm, which lay in the
lap, eight
blue
glass beads.
side,
The
right
arm extended by the
and on the wrist eleven similar beads.
Iron buckle and bronze tweezers at the waist.
A
to
cup -shaped bronze fibula on each shoulder,
which had imparted a beautiful blue tinge

the collar bones.
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Anglo-Sawn Cemetery
at
Harnham.
left
Skeleton No. 13.
A woman
under the
arm a
knife.
Between
the knees a very small child with a pair of small fibulae bronze gilt (see Fig. 1) on its
shoulders.
14.
A spear on the right side of the head (Fig. 2)

blade being
the
made in a peculiar way to cause the

round in
its flight
weapon
21.
to whirl
(Fig. 3).
An infant. A
fibula of late
its
Roman
side:
form.
23. Skeleton lying on
right
the knees
doubled, and hands near the

of the wrists a bronze armlet.
24.
face.
On
one
On the right Legs crossed at the ankles. shoulder a diamond- shaped plate of bronze, which appeared to have been fastened by
nails to the staff of the spear,
the iron of
which was on the right of the head. 25. An infant near the left arm two beads, one of
:
red paste, the other, a double one, of blue

28.
Female:
back.
5 foot long.
thick.
Teeth very perfect:
skull unusually
Body lying on
its
A spiral ring on finger of right hand.

a
belt
At
the waist
ornament of bronze
left
gilt (Fig. 4).
Near the
and amber beads.
arm, blue glass Near the left hand the
knuckle bone of a sheep, a small brass Roman coin, a small flat square of bone or ivory with
marks
like those
on dice (Fig.
5).
On
the
left breast
a small bronze ring,
on which
are strung two toothpicks and an ear-scoop. 29. Some fastenings of bronze near the left side of
the head*
36.
Grave four
feet deep.
Silver
spiral ring
on
middle finger of right hand (Fig. 6). Long On the strip of bronze near right hip. shoulders two bronze fibulae, beads of various
Relics found atHarnham.
i
n
EdtutfCile Devizes del?
colours,
at
Harnham.
lap.
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and others of amber, on the

at the neck.
single
amber bead
Skeleton No. 40.
An
adult.
At
the feet a bone spindle socket
which had evidently been turned in a lathe. On the breast two small cup-shaped bronze
but of better workmanship two figured in the Winchester Vol. of than,
fibulae (Fig. 7) (like,
the Brit.
Archaeol.
Assoc.,
pi.
3,
fig.
2).
Amongst the bones of the fingers of the left hand a silver ring of solid form another of
:
spiral
lap,
form, and a plain gold
ring.
In the
form,
a bronze fibula of later
Roman
knife.
(Fig. 8) beads, a comb,
and iron
42.
On
each shoulder a bronze
gilt fibula,
:
with blue
glass beads in the centre
a bronze pin on
right side.
48.
young
person, 5 feet 7 inches.
Under the
right shoulder, a knife of the usual form, a fork (Fig. 9) with handle of deer's horn, a pin of deer's horn, pair of bronze tweezers,
and a
52.
steel for striking a light.
Legs crossed
the waist.
at the ankles.
latten clasp at
53.
Old person, lying on the right side, knees Knife under fore arm. A nearly doubled.
circular fibula
at waist.
on the
first rib.
Bronze buckle
hand, which
Bronze ring on
left
lay in the lap.
Amber
beads on the breast.
Another
54.
fibula
on the shoulder.
An
7 inches long. Skull of very form. bronze ring (Fig. 10) and peculiar a broad iron buckle, at the waist. Fibula at
adult, 5 feet
the collar bones, with other
relics.
Two
things appear to
Hill.
Mr. Akerman
1st.
to be peculiar to the inter-
ments at Harnham
The very obvious

laid.
regularity and order
in which the bodies
had been
With few
exceptions (and
2D
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at
Harnham.
some of these appeared to be accidental) the skeletons lay due East and West (the heads to the west). One body was found doubled
up lying north and south but this may have been owing to some unintentional dislocation after burial. 2ndly. It seems to have
;
been the practice at this cemetery to excavate the alluvial soil down This mode to the chalk bed on which the body was then laid.
differs
from that which
is
usual in the Anglo-Saxon graves of

(or grave)
is
Kent
and Sussex, where a
cist
formed
in the chalk
below
the base of the tumulus.
No trace of a coffin was discovered. The greater part of the bodies were protected by large flint stones, placed in coffin-like frames, and among the earth in more immediate contact with the
Some remains, were found fragments of pottery of an earlier age. of these fragments were clearly of Roman or of Romano-British
They were not the broken remains of earthenware vessels had been deposited entire in the graves, but merely fragments thrown over it to fill up. In illustration of this custom, as one
fabric.
that
derived from times antecedent to Christian burial, the passage in Shakespeare's play of Hamlet is referred to, in which the Priest, in spite of " Crowner's quest law," expresses his own belief that
Ophelia had committed "felo de se" buried like a Pagan.
and ought
:
to
have been
" Her death was doubtful
And, but that great command o'ersways the order, She should in ground unsanctined have lodg'd, Till the last trumpet. For charitable prayers, Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her."
Act. Y., Sc.
1.
It
may have been
the case in England that such a
mark
of
reproach accompanied the burial of those who, in the gravedigger's " words, had wilfully sought their own salvation;" but the passage
applies in
the
first
instance
to
Denmark, where Ophelia was
buried.
In some of the skeletons the jaws were found perfectly closed. In many this office appeared to have been neglected. Mr. Akerman also observes that several of the skeletons were
unaccompanied by the common Anglo-Saxon
characteristic, the
knife
;
at
Harnham.
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and in
fact
by any
relic
whatsoever.
Neither was there a
in Anglo-Saxon single example of the sword, so generally met with interments, nor, excepting the beads, any glass. gold ring a modern wedding ring, found on No. 40, is exactly resembling
stated to be unique in a burial of this period.

(Fig. 9) placed with the knife under the arm of skeleton The only other instance of the of very rare occurrence. of one that from its size may be supposed to have been discovery used for eating with, was in the year 1837, at the small hamlet of
The fork
is
No. 48
Sevington in the parish of Leigh-Delamere, in North Wilts (Fig. 11). An account, with an engraving of it, was published in the Archseologia.
Some
labourers
making a drain
at the
at
the back of Mr.
Gough's farm house discovered
depth of two or three feet
the decayed remains of a box, in which had been deposited seventy Saxon pennies of A.D. 806-890, with various relics all of Saxon
manufacture, and amongst them a silver two-pronged fork and spoon, both of one style of workmanship; the spoon having traces
of B/unic
work upon
it,
which were not seen in the

silver fork
fork.
The
genuineness of an Anglo-Saxon
period, there
fork.
was naturally
at first
disputed, but all the other objects being unquestionably of that
We
:
tions
is no reason for denying the same antiquity to the have now another specimen in the Harnham excavabut this is of iron with a buckhorn handle, much less
elegant in
its
1 shape than the Sevington curiosity.
its
an been the
How the world contrived until comparatively a late period to get through dinners, especially its hot ones, without the help of so useful, and to us essential, instrument as a fork, is a matter of astonishment. But such appears to have
If an expression used by Horace is to be understood as of case. general application, we must infer that in the Augustan age, and even at the " manibus very Augustan dinner table itself, he achieved his repasts unctis," with greasy fingers. Still, specimens of ancient Roman forks have occasionally
Italy,
been met with in from that country.

first
and the modern use seems to have been adopted by us

Coryate, the odd traveller of A.D. 1600, was one of the He says that ' he observed a custom in all those Italian
l
Tom
it.
who
introduced
cities
and towns through which he passed, that was not used in any other country that he saw in his travels, neither did he think that any other nation of
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at
Harnham.
The finding of buckles, rings, beads, &c., upon the several parts of the skeleton to which, when it was clothed with flesh, they had
Christendom used it, but only Italy. "The Italian" (he says) u and also most strangers that are commorant in Italy, doe alwaies at their meales use a little forke when they cut the meate for while with their knife, which they hold with one hand, they cut the meat out of the dish, they fasten the fork which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that
:
sitteth in the company of others at meate, if he should unadvisedly touch the dish of meate with his fingers, from which all at the table do cut, he will give occasion of offence unto the company, as having transgressed the laws of good manners.
This forme of feeding, I understand, is generally used in all places of Italy, their forks being for the most part made of iron or steel, and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen. The reason of this their curiosity is,
because the Italian cannot by any means endure to have his dish touched by
fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike clean. Hereupon I good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of
myself thought meat, not only
when
I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home being once quipped for that frequent using of my fork, by a certain
:
learned gentleman, a familiar friend of mine, one Mr. Laurence Whitaker, who in his merry humour doubted not to call me Furcifer, only for using a fork at feeding, but for no other cause." (The word was equivocal, and signified also a ROGUE.) It is therefore clear that in Coryate's time, forks were not used in
England.
forks
Indeed Heylin (Cosmography, JBk. 111.} speaks in 1652 of silver
"having been taken up of late by some of our spruce gallants from But King Edward I. had been the happy owner of one, of which special Italy." mention is made in the inventory of his plate chest. Piers Gaveston, the
told,
favourite of the next reign, could boast of four which, we are particularly were for " eating of pears." John Duke of Brittany also had one, of silver, "to pick up sops from his pottage mayhap." Before the days of
:
forks a round-ended knife assisted the proverbial fingers of the eater. The carver of a smoking joint seems to have had nothing for it but to manage
as he could, with his left hand. Our cooks still send up their haunch of mutton or their ham, with an inviting handle of ornamented paper round
the bone, as if they still expected us to lay hold of it " more majorum." In an ancient " Book of Carving," the operator is directed so to do, but with a certain delicacy. Never set on fish, flesh, beast, nor fowl more than two fingers
' '
and a thumb !" A joint was sometimes brought to table still on the spit. Harnhain and Sevington therefore bear witness to the occasional use of the fork at a much earlier period than is commonly supposed. For the interment of such rare property, we can really suggest only one reason. As it was a custom amongst Anglo-Saxons to deposit in the grave articles to the use of which the owner had been partial during his lifetime, it is a fair inference that the individual at the former place who took his knife and fork away with him was one who had found a special gratification in the use of those instruments when above ground. He would also seem to have been
Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Harnham.

been attached,
is
205
of course easily explained
by the circumstance
that the Anglo-Saxons were buried not in grave-clothes, but " in their habit as they lived :" the man with his arms and accoutre-
ments, especially the long sword and shield the woman with her finery (not her best we would hope), and the articles of her toilette.
;
The
first
girdle
It
novelty.
ornament (Fig. 4), found with skeleton No. 28, is a appeared to have been stamped from a die and when
:
it was brought Another kind of fastening for a belt was similar to one recently adopted in France for parasols and umbrellas.
to light, the gilding
was
as bright as
when
new.
The
steel for striking a light

:
and Germany and is
has been found in graves in Lapland accounted for by a superstitious belief, that the
presence of fire would keep
away
evil spirits.
The
sheep's knuckle-
bone had probably been an equally efficient preservative against the convulsions to which the unhappy proprietor of the bones
No. 28 had been
1
subject.
With
respect to the date of these interments,
Mr. Akerman is of
opinion that it is to be fixed at some point between the latter part of the fifth century (the first settlement of the Saxons in this and the middle of the seventh (when they were condistrict)
:
verted to Christianity).
prematurely interrupted in his favourite exercise: for upon the anatomical examination of the skeleton by whose side the knife and fork were found, the molar teeth appeared to be " rather less worn" than those of many of his companions.
i In Anglo-Saxon interments, a single bucket-shaped wooden vessel has been occasionally discovered of which we find no instance hitherto at Harnham. At first it was supposed to be the remains of a headpiece or crown : but further
examinations have rather shown
it
to be a substitute for the
Roman
urn.
In
the neighbourhood of Marlborough one of these was found, as recorded by Sir R. C. Hoare. [" Ancient Wilts," vol. n., p. 34, pi. vi.] It was made of substantial oak, plated with thin brass, ribbed with iron hoops, had two iron handles, one at each side, and a hollow bar of iron placed across the mouth, and affixed to two pieces projecting above the upper rim of the vessel. The
surface was curiously ornamented with grotesque human heads, animals, &c., embossed in the metal plating. The dimensions were, height 21 inches, diameter 24 inches. It contained a deposit of burned human bones. [See Arch.
Journal, 1851, p. 176].
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In order
at
Harnham.
to elucidate the matter a little, it
may
be useful to
memory by a slight sketch of the earliest introduction of the Saxons, particularly into this part of Britain. During the later years of the Roman occupation of the country,
refresh the reader's
a number of Angles and Saxons had gradually found their way over to the Eastern and South-eastern coasts, and probably into
other
more
central parts.
Upon
the
Romans
finally
abandoning
the island, these settlers were followed by organized bodies of their fellow-countrymen from the banks of the Rhine and the Elbe.
About the year 450 the Jutes had formed the kingdom of Kent in 473 the Angles had similarly established themselves in the middle and northern district and between the years 493 and 519, the Saxons, led by Cerdic and Cynric, had founded the kingdoms Of Wessex, Winchester was of Essex, Middlesex, and Wessex.
:
:
the capital. Cynric by degrees extended his dominion westward: defeating the Britons in A.D. 552 at Old Sarum, then called Searobyrig,
and by another victory at Dyrham near Bath, his son Ceawlin obtained possession of the three great Roman towns Glevum (Gloucester), Corinium (Cirencester), and Aquae Solis
(Bath).
The
fallen into a state of degradation,
Christianity of the ancient British Church, long since had been almost annihilated by
the Heathenism of the Anglo-Saxon invaders. In A.D. 590 it was restored by the arrival of Augustine, and in course of time the
whole country was once more converted. In A.D. 635 the West Saxons, under Cynegils, accepted the revived faith. He died A.D.
643.
On
:
his death his son
kingdom
Cenwealh apostatized, and lost his but was restored both to the church and his throne
therefore," as
in A.D. 646, and died A.D. 672.
" There
is,
Mr. Akerman observes, " every reason
sometime in the reign of Cynegils, the Pagan mode of interment amongst his subjects ceased." And though it is probable that Pagan customs would still linger amongst them,
to suppose that
graves exhibit too many Heathen usage, to allow the supposition that the persons buried there could have been converted to the true faith.
still
he
is
of opinion that the
Harnham
traces of
This view of the matter is confirmed by the further circumstance, that a very large grant of land chiefly to the south of Salisbury, and
including Harnham, was
at
Harnham.
207
made
to the
church of Winchester by
Cenwealh, probably as
district
an atonement for his apostacy. When this had thus been placed under the immediate influence of the
church,
Pagan usages would
of course be less and less tolerated,
they were not thenceforth wholly forbidden. The inference therefore seems to be that with so many traces of Paganism in the
even
if
mode
of the interments as
Harnham
exhibits, it
must have been
a burial place of Anglo-Saxons of

to Christianity.
Wessex
prior to their conversion
Mr. Akerman's authority upon these subjects

most willingly adopt his view of the subject
;
is
so high, that
we
making only the that the total absence of any signs of the passing observation, Pagan custom of burning the body, as well as the almost uniform
position of these skeletons facing the East, are a very close approximation to Christian custom. The situation also of the cemetery,
no longer upon the elevated ground which the early Anglo-Saxon

loved, as well as the generally peaceable character of the interments,
wholly without sword, and with spear rarely, seem to point to the
days of Saxon Paganism perhaps to the transition period between Paganism and Christianity, during which the ancient prejudices would be allowed a harmless indulgence, until
very
latest
they finally disappeared. There is at all events a mixture of Pagan and Christian customs in this cemetery, which it does not seem easy
otherwise to account
for.
is
Mr. Akennan's memoir

neighbourhood, showing
illustrated
by an
excellent
map
of the
will
as far as the identification of
names
allow, the limits of the grant of land
by Cenwealh
to the
church of
Winchester.
He
also supplies the derivation
of
some of our
modern South Wiltshire
local
names. 1
i do not quite concur with the remark, that the authors of Sir E. C. Hoare's history were wrong in their explanation of the name of Stoke- Yerdon. They say it is so called from the Lords Verdon. Mr. Akerman is for the correct-
We
ness of the popular pronunciation Stoke- Farthing, which he identifies with FyrdyngJs Lea" of the Saxon Charter. This is very likely the case. But, if the authorities given in Sir R. C. Hoare's book are faithful, which is not
"
disputed, that place, at a later period, certainly belonged to the Lords Verdon. So that both derivations are right.
208
Wiltshire Titles' Registration.

this interesting excavation is to be continued
:
"We understand that
done,
and, in concluding the present notice of what has been already we cannot offer to our readers a more satisfactory apology for
meddling with dead men's bones, than that which has been made " Let it not be said that a spirit of idle by Mr. Akerman himself.
curiosity has
urged us to disturb the ground where the primitive
inhabitants of a forgotten lineage have slept undisturbed for twelve Their weapons, their decorations are valueless to the centuries.
idle observer,
afford to
him a
but to the archaeologist they are of great price. They retrospect of an age that has long since passed away
: :
they furnish fragmental evidence of what we once were tribute notes for a yet unwritten chapter of our history.
and con-
Citlta' lUpfarttnti, 1709.

the subject of the public registration of bargains and sales, now felt to be a question of national importance, the County of "Wilts, viewed as a community, took the initiative nearly a century
On
and a half ago.
It is true that Sir
Matthew Hale had previously
delivered his views on the point, in a pamphlet of 26 pages, published in 1694, eighteen years after his death, but there appears
(so far as
we
are aware)
no trace of the county movement de-
veloped in the following document having been preceded similar expression in other parts of the kingdom.
by any
the 8th of December, in the 8th year of Queen Anne a petition of the High Sheriff of Wilts, Her Majesty's Justices of
;
On
the Peace, and gentlemen of the Grand Jury, assembled at the quarter sessions of the peace, held at Marlborough, 4th October,
1709, and of several of the Justices of the Peace, and other gentlemen and freeholders of the same county, was presented to the House and read forth " That the lands in the said
;
setting
county
Wiltshire Titles' Registration.
209
and may be and sometimes are so secretly conveyed by ill-disposed persons, that several who have purchased lands or lent money thereon, have been undone by prior and secret
are generally freehold,
And praying that leave may be conveyances and incumbrances to bring in a bill for the public registering of all deeds, given wills, conveyances, and other incumbrances, that shall be made of
:
any honours, manors,

and
lands, tenements, or hereditaments, within
the said county of Wilts, and also for the enrolment of all bargains " Ordered That leave be sales thereof." given to bring in a bill in accordance, &c. And that Sir Richard Howe, Sir Charles
:
:
Hedges, Mr. Montague, and Mr. Diston, do prepare and bring

in a bill."
The only other references to the affair are, a second reading on the 19th of December; the gentlemen serving for Dorsetshire added to the committee in January those for Surrey and Huntand finally, instructions conveyed to ingdon added in February fionnTm'tt.ee on the the following day, "That no attorney at law
; ;
should be Registrar"; after which the Commons' Journal.
it
disappears from the pages of
This petition clearly enough exhibits the opinion entertained by men of property at the early part of the 18th century respecting
but the chief the conveyances then in use for landed property to them appears to be that they were not safe as against objection The Act proposed was never "prior and secret conveyances."
:
passed, but the decision of the Courts of Equity have since that period formed a good protection against the fraudulent and secret
The care which during the last and complained of. present century has been bestowed on the documentary proof of titles has greatly contributed to discourage and frustrate secret
practices
conveyances.
Indeed the commission of such a fraud

;
is
now
very unusual circumstance the grievance felt at the present day being one of a different kind, consisting in fact of the element of
expensiveness,
as the result of that elaborate investigation,
requisite for the
and
cumbrous verbosity which are deemed

land.
It is chiefly for
due pro-
tection of a purchaser or party accepting a security in freehold
remedying
this,
that a Commission has been
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210
appointed by
Malmesbury Abbey.
Her present Majesty's Government, who are now a Report which will shortly be laid before Parliament. preparing It is somewhat remarkable that amongst the country gentlemen
who appear
should be
to
have interested themselves in
this matter (those of
Dorsetshire, Huntingdon,
and Surrey
for instance)
no mention
of the gentlemen of Gloucestershire or the members for that county and yet it is well known that Sir Matthew Hale, whose treatise " On the Inr oiling and Registering of Conveyances"
;
made
has been already referred to, lived in Gloucestershire and would probably have made communications on the subject to the members
of his
own
district.
Almost the whole case

this
is
discussed in that
work, and the opinion announced by
decidedly in favour of a general register. not bear his name, being merely attributed to "a person of great learning and judgment," but is well known to have been his
eminent lawyer was The book it is true does
In our own day the counties of York and Middlesex production. have obtained Acts for local registers, but as before observed,
the gentry of Wiltshire were the
first
in the
field.
The following
petition has, I believe, been unnoticed

It
is
local topographer.
by any an application made in the 10th year of
" " appointment to a vacant Corrody (in mediaeval Latin, "Corrodium") or Allowance charged upon a Monastery for maintaining a servant to the King, and providing him with meat,
Henry VI.
for the
drink, and other necessaries.
"
Au Roy
nostre souveraign Sieur.

liege serviteur
vostre
humble
Thomas
;
Supplie tres humblement Hill varlet du celier de
Regne Que de vostre benigne grace, vous plais lui granter et ottroyer une corrodie estant en 1'Abbaye de Malmesbury, a present vacante en vostre main par la mort et
nostre souveraigne
il
Dame
la
Malmesbury Abbey.
decease de
211
celle
1'
un nomine Robert Lake, pour y

le
avoir et tenir le
dit suppliant, avec les droits, peruffiz, et

et
y appurtentes, durant
terme de sa
emolumens quelconques vie. Et il priera Dieu

bonne vie
et longue.
pour vous, que par sa sainte grace vous doient
13 September, 1431."
[endorsed']
"R. H.
We have
granted this
bill."
The French of the

lation.
above, being antiquated,
may need
traris-
" To our Your humble liege servant sovereign lord the King Thomas Hill, valet of the cellar to our sovereign lady the Queen,
:
humbly prays you, of your benign grace, to give and grant to him a corrody in the Abbey of Malmesbury, now vacant, in your hands, by the death of a person named Robert Lake, to hold the same
*
unto your said suppliant, with all rights, profits, and emoluments whatsoever thereunto appertaining, during the term of his life.
And
he will pray that, by the Heavenly grace, you may be endowed with a long and prosperous life." The Corrody or alimony above alluded to, "within the Monastery
of Malmesbury," was granted by K. Richard III. to John Morice It is, no doubt, the same otherwise Turke [Harl. MS. 433]. which, amongst the liabilities recited in the valuation of this
Abbey, made in the time of Henry VIII., reappears as a perquisite claimed by the Longs of Draycote under the following form: " To Sir Henry Long, Knight, and his heirs for ever, a corrody of seven
white loaves and seven conventual flagons of beer, to be allowed out of the Abbey of Malmesbury every week estimated at the
;
annual value of 60 shillings." \_Val. Eccl. Wilt. p. 122]. There were other "Sustentations" of similar kind, in the
the Crown, at Glastonbury, Eynsham, Spalding, &c.
J.
gift of
WAYLEN.
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212
Wilts Notes and Queries.
Wiltx
WILTS. MAG. No.
1.
Jto
PAGE
89.
mtft
terns,
In
illustration
DOG WHIPPERS.
of Mr. Carrington's remarks on this ancient office, the following occurs in an old play, " The return from Parnassus," acted by the
students of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1606. Sir Eaderick in the character of patron, the qualifications of Signior examining
Immerito, says,
"These shall suffice for the parts of his learning: now it remains to try whether you be a man of good utterance, that is, whether you can ask for the strayed heifer with the white face, as also chide the boys in the belfry, and bid the sexton whip out the dogs. Let me hear your voice."
STONEHENGE, A PASTORAL.
John Speed the historian, constructed
a pastoral entitled Stonehenge, which, according to Anthony a "Wood, was performed before the president and fellows of St John's College, Oxford, 1635. "Was it ever printed ? or, in what collection
is it
preserved?
THE REV. WALTER HARTE.

linquished the vicarage of St.
This nonjuring divine,
who
re-
Mary Magdalen
III.
is
at Taunton, rather
than take the oaths
to
William
stated to have retired to
Kintbury in Berkshire: but does not the fact that his son, of the same name (the historian of Gustavus Adolphus), was born and
educated at Marlborough, afford presumptive evidence that
it
was
at this latter place that he spent the evening of his very protracted days? He died at the age of 95.
QUEEN ANNE AT WHETHAM. In the autumn of 1703, Queen Anne visited the family residence of John Kyrle Ernie, atWhetham,
and remained there one or more nights. Was it accident brought Whetham on this occasion? And if not, then what the inducement thus to was signalize the family of Ernie ?
the Queen to
213
In 1767 was published a work " Plain Narrative of Facts, relating the following title, bearing to the Person who lately passed under the assumed name of the
THE PRINCESS WILBRAHAMA.
Princess Wilbrahama, lately detected at The Devizes containing her whole history, from her first elopement from the Hon. Mrs. Sc t's till her discovery and commitment to Devizes Bridewell:
;
together with the extraordinary circumstances attending that discovery, and the Report of a Jury of Matrons summoned on that In a subsequent notice " Wilbrahama " is spelt " Wiloccasion." " whether by mistake or as a correction, is uncertain. helmina
;
Salis.
and Winch. Journal.
Can any
of the readers of this
zine throw
any light on
this affair ?
MagaThe work has long been

J.
unsuccessfully sought.
all parts of
W.
[She was a clever swindler who, between 1765 and 1768, travelled through the kingdom, styling herself Princess of Mecklenburgh, Countess of Normandy, Lady Viscountess Wilbrahamon, &c. and under one or other of such names, by promising to use her influence in providing for people, persuaded them to trust their money with her, giving notes in return. Sometimes
she imposed even upon persons of distinction, passing herself off as of high foreign connexion, but in misfortune and varying her story to suit circumstances. At Hadleigh in Hampshire, by her genteel manners and insinuating
:
address, she induced a wealthy farmer named Boxall, to marry his son to her, and to advance a large sum of money upon the occasion. She then took up her
residence in London, living in great style till it was all gone, when she left the She was committed under the Vagrant Act disconsolate husband in the lurch.
when she confessed that her In January 1768, she was convicted at Westminster of the following fraud. Two years before she had gone into a shop kept by a Mrs. Davenport in the Haymarket, and told a piteous tale of having been bred a gentlewoman, forced by her relatives to marry a foreign Count against her consent, and of her being abandoned by him, with a single hundred pounds, She wished to present it at for which she shewed a check upon Child's bank. the bank, but her present appearance was so much beneath her birth and Mrs. Davenport's dignity, that she was ashamed to appear before Mr. Child. niece compassionately took her into the house, equipped her decently, and went with her in a coach to the bank. Being told that Mr. Child was at his house She then made some excuse in Lincoln's Inn Fields, they proceeded thither. for asking to see one of the servants, and pretending that she wanted to call in The young person Clare Market, slipped out at a back entrance, and escaped. in the coach, after waiting nearly an hour, ventured at last to enquire after " the Countess " and so the trick was discovered. Being a notorious impostor she was sentenced to be transported. Alderman Hewitt, of Coventry, in 1778 " Memoirs " of her Ladyship: but does not notice the pamphlet published
at Devizes,
as Sarah Boxall, in October 1767
maiden name was Sarah Wilson.
enquired for above; so that
it is
doubtful
if it
was ever
issued.]
(See Notes
and
Queries, vol. iv. p. 8.)
214
Geological Notices.
THE PENATES FOUND AT

name
at
DEVIZES, IN 1714.
A gardener by the
of
Cadby
discovered in a field near Devizes (supposed to be
Southbroom) a Roman urn, containing some coins, and nineteen bronze images or Penates, varying in height from two to six and a half inches, some of them of very good design. As Roman
antiquities
were not so well known in
this country at that
time as
they have been since, they were esteemed great curiosities and as such they were exhibited in various parts of the county. Eight only of them can now be found, and these are in the British
Can any readers of the Wilts Magazine inform the Those in the where the remainder of them now are? society are Jupiter, Pallas, two of Bacchus, two of British Museum
Museum.
Mercury, Hercules and Neptune.
W.
C.
FOSSIL
JAW OF
ICTHYOSAURTJS CAMPYLODON.
fine specimen of the right ramus of the lower jaw of this animal has just been discovered in the Upper Green Sand of the neighbourhood of Warminster, and is now in the collection of Mr.
Cunnington, of Devizes.
belonged to
It is three feet in length,

feet long.
and probably
an individual some 25
this
The only remains of

in the Chalk of
Green Sand are detached teeth
animal hitherto found in the Upper but a few bones have occurred
;
Kent and Cambridgeshire. The species Campylodon is the last survivor of the genus The occurrence of this specimen is interesting, as Icthyosaurus. exhibiting a good example of the extraordinary pre- Adamite
inhabitants of Wiltshire.
For a
full
description of
this
reptile
see
Professor
Owen's
Monograph
of the reptiles of the
Chalk, in the
volume of the
Palseontographical Society for 1851.
Entomological Notices.
215
THE OCCURRENCE OF TESTACELLUS MAUGEI

IN WILTSHIRE.
This animal, which
is
a native of Teneriffe, and has not hitherto
been found naturalized in this country, occurs in considerable numbers in a market garden near Devizes, where it is frequently
dug up among the potatoes and carrots. The
Testacellus
is
a species
of slug about 3J inches in length, but differing from the common Its colour is slugs of our fields and gardens in being carnivorous.
grey, marbled with darker veins, and the under side is of a bright orange hue. It may easily be distinguished by having on its tail
a small ear-shaped shell about half an inch long. This shell is doubtless an excellent protection to the creature
when engaged
in its predatory excursions

its
among
the earthworms,
which constitute
principal food.
RARE
Among
ophiopsis,
INSECTS.
which have
the donations to the Society, are two very rare insects, One is the Raphidia lately been found in the county.
small but very remarkable looking or Snake Fly. It might be popuinsect, with a long neck and viper like head. It was found at described as a compound of snake and fly. larly
Great
Bedwyn by Miss Sheppard, and by her

is
presented to the
Society.
The other
ground
galls
on the roots of the oak
the Chalcis aptera, an insect which forms underbeing one of the multitude
;
of insects with which the oak above every other tree of the forest It is an example of the Apterous Hymenor garden is infested.
optera, closely resembling the Ant, but
having a much larger and
almost globular abdomen. Specimens have been presented to the Society, and to the British Museum, where it has not hitherto been
known.
"W. C.
216
The Museum.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.

The committee feel great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of the following articles which have lately been presented to the
Society
:
BY
REV.
W.
C. LTTKIS, Great Bedwyn.
Relics found in a
Roman
villa, at
Great Bedwyn.
Fine stuffed specimen of Mergus Serrator
(bay breasted Merganser), shot at Great Bedwyn. BY F. A. S. LOCKE, ESQ., Eowde Ford. large
number
of
Roman and other Coins. BY MRS. SHEPPARD, Great Bedwyn.

in a garden at Alton Barnes.
Ancient Brass Seal, found
SHEPPARD, Great Bedwyn. Specimen of Raphidia ophiopsis (Snake fly), caught at Great Bedwyn. BY JOHN BRITTON, ESQ., Burton Street, London. Five Bronze
J.
BY
Miss
Celts from Ireland.
BY DR. THURNAM, Wilts County Asylum. Copy of a paper on "Sepulchral Remains at Fairford," by Mr. C. Roach Smith. By REV. A. FANE, Warminster. Two specimens of Iron Pyrites, found at Boyton. Bronze Fibula, found in a pond at Boyton.
Several fragments of Flowered Quarries, from the east
window of
Family
Boyton Church.
BY MR. W.
P.
HAYWARD,
Wilsford,
Playfair's "British
Antiquity/' 9 vols. BY REV. E. B.
WARREN, Marlborough. Roman and other found in the neighbourhood of Marlborough. Coins, BY REV. E. MEYRICK. Basket-hilted Rapier. BY F. C. LTJKIS, ESQ., M.D., F.S.A. " Remarks on the Celtic
of land to the Abbess
Monuments of the Channel Islands. BY MR. JOHN GODWIN, Oxford. A Grant

and Convent of Lacock, dated
12. R. 1.
H. BULL,
Printer, Saint
John
Street, Devizea.
THE
WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE.
1
MTTLTORUM MANIBT7S GEANDE LEVATTJE ONUS.
OVID.
IWnrfr
CONSISTING OF LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS PASSING BETWEEN THE EARL OF HERTFORD, HIS DEPUTY-LIEUTENANTS, AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED PERSONS, ON VARIOUS MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE COUNTY OF WILTS TEMP. JAMES L, WITH PRELIMINARY
;
REMARKS.
Few
persons are aware
how
Government in London
has, in
completely the centralising power of modern days, absorbed the cabalistic
exclusiveness, or, to use a milder term, the individuality of interest, which characterised the various provinces of England during the
middle ages a process unavoidable no doubt, and symptomatic of the present times, which, while it has in great part vitiated the integrity of that imperium in imperio which each county presented before " the age of great cities" began, has led the gentry by slow degrees to look upon the public service of the State as offering a
:
fairer
and wider
field for
renown than could possibly be
realised
by
the defences of their paternal acres, at the head of a stationary force of Militia.
late long
This change was not completely brought about till during the war the jealousy felt by the local gentry, whenever the
;
Government seemed disposed to encroach on
their old Militia land-
marks, being apparent down to a comparatively recent period. Recruiting parties from regiments of the line were long looked upon in much the same light as press-gangs while the annoyance they
;
not unfrequently gave to the rural Magistracy was sympathised in by the municipal functionaries of the boroughs, who affected to VOL. i. NO. in. 2 F
218
The Hertford Correspondence.
resent as an affront the presence of

ritorial
men
not amenable to their ter-
sway.
It is
no
illiberality to conjecture that the spirited
opposition to the establishment of James IPs standing army which attached so much parliamentary celebrity to the name of John Wyndham the member for Salisbury (himself a Militia Colonel)
was mainly prompted by the same sentiment
and a further
illus-
tration of the absence of a good understanding between the two services is to be found in the unfortunate duel which only a few
weeks previously had occurred between Sherrington Talbot and an

artillery officer, arising out of a dispute as to the respective merits
of their
men during
the
Duke
of
Monmouth's
rebellion,
and which
proved fatal to the heir of Lacock. But as the object of the above remarks has been rather to exhibit the more recent manifestation of
this feeling, let us refer to a
few memoranda belonging to the mid-
dle
and
close of the last century.
And
first,
as to the system of
inducing
tice,
men
yet
to quit the Militia for the regular army.
This practhe recently
when
clandestinely carried on, has of course lost none of its

it is
illegality,
now one
of constant occurrence
issued
Government
circulars to the Militia Captains to facilitate
such transfers being only an expression of the altered views of society on the subject. Seventy years ago it was looked at in a
The following advertisement betrays an aniof which the like expression would, at the present day be regarded, to say the least, as ungraceful.
very different light.
mus
" DEVIZES, 21 Sept., 1787. " Whereas a on the recruiting service has this day been convicted Sergeant before two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Wilts in the penalty of 20 for having enlisted a man enrolled to serve in the Militia of
the said County the Colonel and Officers of the said regiment of Militia, in consideration of the said Sergeant's submission, and assurance that he had been led into the said offence by an opinion that men enrolled for three years only might be enlisted, have remitted the said penalty ; but they hereby caution all
:
recruiting Sergeants and others against taking any man enrolled to serve in the Militia before his full time of service shall be expired; as they are determined
to prosecute all persons offending
with the utmost rigour of the law." N. HONE, Adjutant, Wilts Militia."
At a somewhat earlier date, viz. in 1770, great displeasure was expressed on one occasion by certain parties in Devizes at the offen-

sive
219
manner in which it was supposed Some of the regulars stationed town sought to signify their contempt of the County Justices. Sir Edward Baynton while, in The affair was reported as follows
in the
:
company with his brother Magistrates, conducting the business of the Quarter Sessions in the Town Hall, was greatly disturbed by
parties of the 5th, 38th, 50th, and 56th foot, who persisted in patrolling the streets with drums and fifes, and in defiance of a custom which had hitherto exempted the period of the Sessions
from
this sort of exhibition, continued their exercise
immediately
to
in front of the Court.
Sir
Edward Baynton having submitted
the nuisance for a considerable time, sent out his Constables to
This appeal was unheeded, and the writer request their withdrawal. of the account closes with the remark that "in his humble opinion,
if
all
the Court had offered to punish them for disobeying the order of the Magistrates, we might have had another Boston affair in the
of the Devizes."
It is true that this charge of insubordina-
Town
tion
was indignantly repelled by subsequent writers in the public Journals both of Salisbury and London, but the whole tenour of the correspondence, even if it mitigate in some measure the impression that an affront was designed, by no means disturbs the fact,
that annoyance was felt. On the other hand, the local Militia did not always set an signal instance of the defiant example of decorous citizenship.
which they would occasionally venture to assume, in order to show their independence of the Government, is the fact that in 1771 nearly all the officers of the Wilts regiment resigned their comfront
missions, for
late
no other purpose than
to express their
"
disgust at a
What the promotion was, is not stated. It may have been that of the Earl of Suffolk, of Charlton, who possibly
promotion."
during that year, succeeded Lord Halifax as keeper of the privy

seal.
It is
worth mentioning in
this
place, that
even Wolfe the
conqueror of Quebec,
when
recruiting his regiment in Devizes,
during his early career, is traditionally reported to have found no better quarters than could be furnished by an obscure Inn at the back of the Town Hall, known by the sign of the " The Scribbling
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220
Horse" (an engine used in the manufacture of cloth). Meanwhile, the fashionable posting house of The Black Bear, where the Wiltshire Militia Captains
were feasting, would have scorned to harbour
the representative of the royal forces, while engaged, as in truth he was, in fishing for the dregs of society. The reason of all this Local troops had existed long before a standing is plain enough. army rose into ascendency and as these mediaeval levies were
;
always equipped and supported by the district which produced them, it took a long time to dispossess the minds of the leaders, whether
in
Towns
was supposed they could claim in the
or Counties, of the idea of a proprietary right which it services of their pet battalions
:
hence their preference. This feeling has now gone by. While the County forces have lost none of their importance, the army has
risen in respectability.
The modern
Militia, in place of
being
its
rival, During the late war with France Wilts regiment alone recruited the line with more than 2,000 the men, and many who fought with credit at Waterloo had received no
has come to be
its feeder.
other training. One of the greatest blows levelled
by the Government against the institution of the Militia (viewed as a weapon in the hands of a subject) was the expulsion in 1780 of the Earl of Pembroke from the Lord- Lieutenancy of this County, a post which his family had held for nearly 200 years simultaneously with which, the Marquis
:
of Carmarthen was discharged from the like office in the East This mode of procedure led, as is well Riding of Yorkshire.
known,
on the 28th of March, of the gentry, clergy, and freeholders of Wilts, when the Hon. Charles James Fox recommended the adoption of those " corresto the resolute gathering at Devizes
ponding associations" throughout the realm, which afterwards proved so troublesome to the ruling powers. The meeting was in fact one of those declarations which at the period in question were
common
in all the principal Counties, avowedly directed against the whose encroachments, real or supposed, were becoming an Crown, But the object of daily increasing alarm to the landed aristocracy. circumstance which principally gave eclat to the proceedings was
the Earl of Shelburne's recent quarrel with Mr. Fullarton, arising
221
out of the very question we are discussing, his Lordship having applied to that gentleman the appellation of "clerk," though recently elevated by the Government to the Colonelship of a regi-
ment
of the line, a position for which Mr. Fullarton's previous
habits
by no means
qualified him,
and which was designed
(or
supposed at
least) to place
him
in invidious rivalry with certain
gentlemen of fortune in the country. Lord Shelburne, though unable to attend the aforesaid meeting at Devizes, owing to a wound
received in the duel, addressed a long letter to the chairman, in which the following reference to the Militia occurs
:
" Though no one," observes his Lordship, feels with more concern the abuses which have taken place in the Militia, and particularly the departure from the
"
ancient, true, fundamental, and till of late years, invariable, Militia-principles of keeping them within their Counties, except in case of actual invasion, (their
present distant and unnecessary removals serving only to assimilate them to the standing army, in principle and in habit, not in discipline,) I still have that confidence in our army as well as Militia, as at present constituted, that I hope
neither are yet so estranged from a love of the constitution as to give any just apprehension of danger."
An
at first sight to
it treats.
expression occurring in one of the following letters may seem impute a national character to the service of which
Mr. Duckett in Letter
IX
is
urged by Lord Hertford
to the
to the
prompt acceptance of his office on the ground of obedience King and the public good of his country : but it is well
those conversant with the phraseology of the 17th cenwhen thus employed had reference
known by
tury, that the term country
simply to a man's particular

Parliament, for instance,
his country," that
is,
member of of as " repairing to frequently spoken to his country-seat or constituency. Lord

district or province.
is
Hertford's expostulation with Mr. Duckett, therefore, in behalf of

his
country,
is
just nothing
more than an appeal
to his local
prejudices.
Of
course
it
would be absurd
to represent that
any
thing like a rivalry existed, at the time Hertford wrote, between the
County
Civil
forces
and those of the

I.
wars of Charles
in England.
army
State, for before the period of the there was no such thing as a standing All that is designed to shew is that the safety of
the realm was formerly based on the practice of the self-government of boroughs and provinces, in contradistinction to the modern
222
principle of confiding it to one vast the central authority.
homogeneous engine wielded by
now remains to take a brief sonage whose name appears at

It
notice of the distinguished perthe head of this article. (The
subordinate characters will be noticed in the sequel). Sir Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, Lord Lieutenant of Wilts
and Somerset during the reign of James I, was the eldest son of the Protector Somerset, by the second wife Anne Stanhope, and the grandfather of the loyal Marquis of Hertford, who won the
Roundway. In early life he had got into trouble with Queen Elizabeth, by presuming to marry without royal licence the sister of Lady Jane Grey. For this he languished in the Tower for
battle of
15,000, still further atoneight or nine years, and paid a fine of ing for the rash act of his youth by a long life of devoted allegiance
At the date of the followpractised at a distance from the Court. letters he was in his 70th year, Jiving at Amesbury, and ing occasionally at Netley, having married his third wife, the widow
of a
London
vintner,
and the
heiress of
though herself of gentle blood, (a Howard) an immense estate. This was the lady for whose
sake Sir George Rodney, having sighed in vain, repaired to Amesbury after her marriage with the Earl, and writing his last message to her in his own blood, destroyed himself at the public Inn. The Earl died 1621, and was buried under a gorgeous monu-
ment
in Salisbury Cathedral, at the east end of the south aisle.
Among the facts illustrated by the ensuing correspondence may be mentioned, the distinctiveness of the muster in large towns from that in the counties, the liabilities of the clergy to be separately
assessed for the support of arms, the royal system of tax gathering under the name of loans, and an approximation to the value of the
freeholders'
proved by their respective contributions. The documents, it should be added, are only a selection from the original packet in the British Museum Library, with one or two others added from a different source.
estates as
J.
WAYLEN.
223
LETTER
the Colonelship on the
I.
Sir Thomas Thynne of Longleate to the Earl of Hertfordy declining
ground of his appointment
to the Shrievalty.
RIGHT HONOURABLE,
Understanding that there is a muster appointed shortly by your lordship, whereat the charge of Colonelship given me by your honour requires my personal
attendance, which
by reason of
my now
office
of Sheriffwick,
and some other
important occasions, I cannot so conveniently perform as is fitting, or as willingly I desire, had not this office happened unto me and therefore I humbly beseech
;
your lordship, as it pleased you out of your love and favour to bestdw the place on me, so now in respect of my other office, the service whereof I must of
necessity attend, that
some
other.
you will be likewise pleased to give the same charge unto For which, as for other former favours, I shall rest in all dutiful
service.
office at
your lordships
THOMAS THYNNE.
Brought to Amesbury by a man of Sir James Mervin's, 1st Aug., 1608.
LETTER
Lord Hertford
to the
II.
1
Bishop of Sarum finding of arms.
concerning the Clergy's
MY VERY
G-OOD LORD,
I have received letters from my lords of his Majesty's Privy Council concerning a special view to be taken, as may appear to your lordship by the copy herewith sent, wherein, amongst other things, their lordships have
Whereas
either horse or foot, to appear at the musters,

;
given directions for taking in such of the clergy as are fit to be charged with and to be trained with the trainedI do suppose that the sufficiency [peculiar ability] of bands of the country such clergymen are best known unto your lordship I do therefore entreat your
:
lordship that, as conveniently as

as
you may, you acquaint me with all such persons have heretofore served in the like service, and what persons are now of ability
more than heretofore have served, for the better executing of His I thank your lordship Majesty's service, which is very shortly to be observed. sermon you heartily for your good pains here at Amesbury, and the good very
to serve
preached at the church. So not doubting your lordship's assistance in the premises, with my loving commendations, I commit you to the heavenly protection. From my house at Amesbury the 6th of August, 1608. Tour lordship's loving
friend.
HERTFORD.
Sent by John Harlot, the 12th of August.
1
Henry Cotton.
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LETTER
The Bishop of Salisbury
in
III.
to
answer
Lord Hertford concerning
the viewing of the Clergy.
MY VEBY GOOD
ment of me
lest
LOED,
for
With humble thanks

at
my late being
your lordship's honourable and kind entertainwith you, I received your lordship's letters touching
the shewing of the clergy armour at the next general muster within Wilts.
And
my
answer might be mistaken (which I gave to your lordship's servant) by
lordship's letters I will send abroad to
thought good in writing to deliver the same, that according to your my clergy to be ready against those days And when I have fully settled the manner of their that shall be appointed.
report, I
armour, and number, I will send your lordship a certificate of the same There shall be nothing done to your lordship's mislike, but with readiness and willingAnd whereas I made mention of my Lord of Canterbury ness, as appertaineth.
to your said servant,
it
was in no other
respect than this, that
my lord
that last
was, in
musters of the clergy that were in my time in her Majesty's reign, [Elizabeth's] did always concur with his letter monitory to the Bishops of his
all
province, to provide
would do the
like in short time
and be ready accordingly, which I thought also his Grace which whether he do or no, according to your
;
lordship's directions I will give
them admonition to be provided at the days even so I do heartily commend your lordship with my special Your lordSarum, this llth of August, 1608. good lady to Almighty God. assured loving Mend to be commanded in the Lord. ship's
appointed.
And
HENRY SARUM.
Brought to Amesbury by Mr. Thomas Sadler, the 12th of the same.
LETTER
Sir Walter
IY.
Long
Lordship, excusing his not meeting the rest of the Deputy Lieutenants at Amesbury.
to his
RIGHT HONOURABLE,
According to your lordship's commandments I did purpose to have attended you at Amesbury, at your lordship's house, on Thursday next, and to that end I went unto Sir William Eyre 1 on Monday last, and being there late in
the evening, I received a message from
lordship's house at Charlton the
my
lord Chamberlain to
come unto his
business
was
to confer
with
1
me
Of
next day, being almost twenty miles off. The about some land that his lordship is to purchase
Chalfield House, near Bradford.
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And for that
me
in that place, to the value of about three thousand pounds.

is
suddenly to depart out of the country, I cannot possibly be with your lordship at the time appointed, but I shall endanger my estate by reason of a purchase which I have lately entered into, and know no means to satisfy it but
my lord
the sale of this land.

offended with
My humble
know
suit unto
your lordship
is
that you will not be
me
at not coming, in regard this business doth so
much
concern
me.
Your
when
that I have been ever ready at all commands, others have beon absent, as well for the King's service as your own private
lordship doth
;
business
and when your lordship has determined what shall be done concerning
this serviea, I will not fail to be at the execution of the same.
Even so desiring
to be
your lordship's pardon herein once more
and
rest ever,
by your honour
commanded.
WALTEB
Draycott, this 24th of August, 1608.
Brought to Amesbury by his
LONG.
man George
Bullard, the 25th of the same.
THE AGREEMENT
That was made amongst
the
Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of
the
Peace, for the appointing of the Musters.

on at the Devizes the Tenth day of August, A.D. 1608, by Sir Sir James Mervin, Sir Walter Long, and Sir William Eyre, Knights, and other Justices of the Peace, whose names are subscribed, upon receipt pf letters from the Lord Lieutenant of this County, together with copies
It is agreed
Thomas Gorges,
of letters written unto his

able
lordship from the lords of his Majesty's most honour:
Privy Council as followeth, viz
It is first agreed that Sir
Thomas Gorges and
Sir
James Mervin
shall take a
view at Hindon, the 23rd and 24th of September, of all the trained men with their armour and furniture, within Sir James Mervin' s division, except the
hundred of Horwelsdown.
Item, The said Sir
Thomas Gorges and
Sir
James Mervin
shall take a
view at
Sarum
and
the 26th and 27th of September, of all the trained
men with their armour
furniture, within the Earl of Pembroke's division, except the tything of
Bushton and the tything of Westwood, within the hundred of Elstub and
Everley.
Item, that the said Sir

at
Thomas Gorges and
Sir
James Mervin
shall take a
view
Marlborough the 6th and 7th of October, of all the trained men within the late Lord Chief Justice's division ; together with the trained men and furniture in the hundred of Kinwardstone, being part of the Lord-Lieutenant's division.
Item,
it is
at the Devizes the 23rd
agreed that Sir Walter Long and Sir William Eyre shall take a view and 24th of September, of all the trained men with their
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armour and furniture, within the Lord Lieutenant's division, except the hundred
of Kinwardstone.
Item, that Sir Walter Long and Sir William Eyre shall take a view at Chippenham the 26th and 27th of September, of all the trained men with their
armour and furniture within

at Trowbridge the 10th
Sir
Item, that the said Sir Walter
Walter Long's division. Long and Sir William Eyre
shall take a
view
and llth day of October, of all the trained men with their armour and furniture within Sir William Eyre's division together with
;
the trained men, armour, and furniture, within the hundred of Horwelsdown,
being part of Sir James Mervin's division, and the tything of Westwood within the hundred of Elstub and Everley, part of the Earl of Pembroke's division.
Item, it is further agreed that the Justices of Peace shall be present with their muster books, when the said trained men shall be viewed as aforesaid within
their several divisions.
Item,
it is
shall be likewise present
agreed that the Colonels and Captains, or one of them at the least, with their muster rolls, when the trained men under
their several charge shall be viewed
and mustered as
aforesaid.
Item,
it is
agreed that the Justices of Peace shall consider and examine
store of match and powder be kept serviceable and in perfect readiness town and place within the several divisions, according to an order set down and agreed on the 13th of February 1601 and to certify the defaults
whether the
in every
thereof at our next meeting.
Item,
it is
horse, shall call before

horse, with
further agreed that Sir John Ernley, Knight, Captain of 50 light him at the Devizes the 24th of September, all the light
before the said Captain
men, armour, and furniture, under his charge, there to be viewed and Sir Walter Long and Sir William Eyre, Knights,
Peace of that division.
and the
Item,
rest of the Justices of

it is
agreed that Sir Walter Yaughan, Knight, Captain of 50 light horse, shall call before him at Sarum the 27th of September, all the light horse, with men, armour, and furniture, under his charge, there to be viewed in the presence
Thomas Gorges, and Sir James Mervin, Knights, and the rest of the Justices of Peace of that division.
of the said Captain, Sir
Item, that Sir
Thomas
Snell,
Knight, Captain of the Lancers, shall
call before
him
at Marlborough, the 7th of October, all the lances,
men, armour, and fur-
niture,
under his charge, there to be viewed before the said Captain in the presence of Sir Thomas Gorges and Sir James Mervin, Knights, and the
Justices of Peace of that division.
Item, it is agreed that presently after the rolls or muster-books sent touching the clergy, that precepts be made for them to be viewed in every division and in the same manner as the other forces are appointed to be viewed.
THOMAS GORGES,
JAMES MERVIN, WILLIAM EYRE, HENRY BAYNTON,
EDWARD PENRUDDOCK, WALTER YAUGHAN,

JOHN ERNLEY, GEORGE IYIE.
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LETTER
Y.
to
Sir Thomas Gorges (of Longford Castle) to his lordship beseeching have the muster books.
MY
HONOURABLE GOOD LORD,

The
desire that I
do this service imposed upon me (by and in your and orderly means, [yet] being altogether heretofore unacquainted with the like, makes me the more inquisitive and bold to attain the courses thereof, which I hope shall be shewn in the perfectness of the
have
to
lordship's love) with good effect
business.
humbly
to let
desire your lordship, as
you
at
my
last
being with you
the copy of your lordship's muster books, whereby I may thoroughly instruct myself before the view, and the better satisfy your And thus craving pardon for my desire in our certificates unto your lordship.
seemed willing,
me have
boldness, ready to do your lordship

lordship's ever to be commanded.
any
service, I
humbly take
my leave Your
:
THOMAS GORGES.
Lanford, this 29th of August, 1608.
Postscript.
parts of Wilts that Sir
unable to
lord, I understand by some gentlemen of the North John Ernley one of the Captains of the light horse is serve in the place, because he is broken, and that he will be a suitor
My
good
unto your lordship to be released which, if it happen, (and I have enquired) that no man is thereabouts more fit in my poor opinion than Sir George Ivie ; but the choice I will refer unto your lordship.
;
Received at Amesbury, the 2Qth of August, by Roger Thursby.
LETTER
Lord Hertford
to
VI.
the
Ms
very loving friends
Deputy Lieutenants,
prompting
After
their vigilance.
my hearty commendations;
for the
albeit I nothing
doubt of your wisdoms, care,
accomplishment of his Majesty's will and pleasure lately signified unto me by letters from the lords of his Majesty's Highness' Privy Council, whereof I sent you the copy touching a general view and muster to be
and forwardness,
had and taken

of Wilts,
of all the trained bands, both horse
and
foot,
within this County
lately that I fear to be both necessity of the service, in regard of the manifold defects in men and arms ; adding also thereto the backwardness to the vulgar, for the
and whereof we
had
conference, yet considering with myself the
most
part, in
such services as out of their want of judgment they hold chargeable
228
[oppressive] unto them, I cannot but, in regard of
my place
and
service to his
Majesty and
my
country, again
recommend the
special care thereof unto
wisdoms and diligence.

require and charge
as
And
therefore pray you,
your and in his Majesty's name by
virtue of his Highness' commission of Lieutenancy for this County, earnestly
you and every of you that with as much convenient speed you may you give forth directions unto all the Colonels both of horse and foot within this County, Captains and Officers of private companies of horse, as well
such as continue their places as those also which are lately nominated and chosen, and all other whose service and attendance may further the business, to be present
and ready at the days, times, and places, prefixed and agreed upon for taking the aforesaid musters, with the muster-books, rolls, and all other supplements concerning the same^ to do and 'execute all such offices and services as to their places And that also precepts be made and directed to all respectively shall appertain. Mayors, Constables of hundreds and liberties, and all other Officers and Ministers
to
whom
all
it shall appertain that they have ready at the days, times, and places, the trained bands and companies both horse and foot, men and arms, well
and sufficiently furnished, completely repaired and supplied in the defects thereof, as they and every of them do tender his Majesty's displeasure, and will
aild
answer to the contrary at their peril remembering withal the supply of powder match in such sort as in their lordships' letters is touched, that a true rela;
tion of all the premises being
made unto me by you,, I may certify his Majesty and recommend unto Mfc Highness your care and diligence for the thereof, advancement of his Majesty's service and the public safety and tranquillity of
your country.
August, 1608.
And even
so resting assured of your care
and readiness
therein,
I bid you right heartily farewell.
From my house
at
Amesbury
this last of
Your loving
friend.
HERTFORD.
Sent by Thomas Harron, his lordship's gentleman of his horse, to Sir ThOmas Gorges, 2nd of September, 1608.
LKTTE& TIL
The Earl of Hertford
to
the Bishop of Salisbury concerning a

'the
Captain over
Clergy.
MY
GOOD LORD,
Uipon my late conference here at Amesbury on Thursday last with the Deputy Lieutenants and Justices concerning the muster of horse and foot within this County, I was pleased in love towards your lordship and your clergy, to
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229
grant that yourself should nominate a Captain and commander of the horsetroop of the clergy of this country, so as he were a man fit for the service ; and
the same to be signified
by
Sir
Edward Penruddock,
Since which time I have,
neither from you nor him, received your lordship's mind therein. And for that the time appointed for the muster draweth on, and that both the Oaptain and horse, with the arms thereto pertaining, might be answerable to his Majesty's
expectation, I desire your lordship's speedy resolution, that, thereupon I
may
determine accordingly. And even so with my very hearty commendations I commit you to the heavenly protection. From my house at Amesbury, the last
of August, 1608.
Your Lordship's very loving
friend,
HERTFORD.
Sent by Thomas Harron his lordship's servant, the 2adof September, 1608,
[By
the above,
the Bishop's letter next following, dated on the same day as it will be seen that he had not been remiss, having already
fulfilled his required task of drawing out a schedule of the names of such of his clergy as he deemed chargeable with military
contribution.^]
LETTEE
The Bishop
to the
VIII.
of the Clergy as do find arms.
Earl, concerning
swh
MY VEUT HONOUBABLE
bearer,
GOOD LORD,
According to your lordship's desire and my promise I have sent by this my Register '[Registrar ?], a true note and abstract of such of my clergy
fit
within this County of Witts as, either heretofore -or now, have been or are thought to be charged with any warlike furniture both of horse and foot. Your lord-
ship
may
find herein
some alteration from the former, but the Teason thereof
is
by means of the change of the Ministers themselves by death and otherwise. Howbeit the number both of horse and foot, especially those of the horse, is
in the due ordering
to acquaint
rather increased than diminished. I have taken some extraordinary pains myself and disposing of this business ; -and having .had sufficient means
myself thoroughly with their state and ability within
my own
diocese,
I have upon good consideration and advice, dealt herein without partiality, as becometh me. request unto your lordship on their behalf at this present is,
My
that they
may
be with
all
kindness and favour at their iiands to
whom
the
managing
condition.
of these occurrences under your lordship shall be committed,
as well
in respect of their function
and
calling as also in regard of their poor estate

for
and
all
And even
so
with
many thanks
my
good entertainment, in
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true affection, I

commend your honourable good lordship both now and ever to From my palace at Sarum, this 31st of August, 1608.
commandment.
the heavenly protection.
Your
lordship's very assured friend at
HENRY SARUM.
Sent with a note of the clergy's names,
[missing]
at
and brought to his lordship Amesbury, by Thomas Sadler.
LETTER
The Earl of Hertford
to
IX.
the
Mr. John Duckett, shewing
form of
his
lordship's warrant unto the new chosen Captains.

of your quality, fitness, and sufficiency, I let you understand that by virtue of the King's Majesty's commission of Lieuhereby tenancy within this County of Wilts to me directed, I have appointed and chosen
Having been informed
you
foot,
to be Captain
and commander of the company and arms of one hundred
whereof Richard Burnley, gent, deceased, was late Captain and commander, under the regiment of Sir Henry Baynton, Knight, Colonel of 600 foot within
the aforesaid County
direct according to
giving you warrant and authority by these to command and your good discretion, both officers, men, and arms, of the same
;
company, in as large and ample a manner as any Captain and commander of the said company have heretofore used to do, and as to the office and place of a Captain
foot appertaineth. And therefore I require you that, all excuses set apart, you be ready in person at the day and place appointed for taking the muster of the said regiment, to receive the muster-roll of your said
and commander of
company, and
to
undertake the charge thereof, and also to do and execute
all
other offices and services that to the place of a Captain and
commander
of foot
appertaineth for the honour and service of his Majesty and the public good of your country. "Whereof fail you not as you tender his Highness' service, and will answer to the contrary at your peril. And even so not doubting of your readiness and diligence herein, I bid you heartily farewell. From my house at
Amesbury, the
last of
August, 1608.
Your loving
friend.
HERTFORD.
Memorandum
:
That
this
form of his lordship's
letters
were sent unto such

:
gentlemen as his lordship made Captains, as followeth, viz
In Sir Edward Penruddock's regiment.

Giles
Mompesson
in Sir
Thomas Penruddock's
place.
Philip Poore in Mr. Stockman's place. Tobias Horton in Mr. Francis Harding's place. Alexander Thistlethwayte in Sir Robert Penruddock's place.
Thomas
Sadler, over the Clergy.

Sir
231
Henry Bayntorfs
regiment.
place.
John Duckett in Richard Burley's
Sir William Button's regiment.
Thomas Hynton
Sir
in Richard Young's place.

[
Richard Hunton in
blank
Thomas Thynne*s regiment. John Price in Mr. Thomas South's place. John Lamb in Edmund Lambert's place.
LETTER
The Mayor and
his brethren
X.
to
of Salisbury
Lord Hertford,
the muster of their
own private company of 100 foot.
RIGHT HONOURABLE,
this City,
"We lately received a warrant directed to the Mayor and chief Officers of from Sir Thomas Gorges and Sir James Mervin, Knights, two of your
lordship's
all
this County of Wilts, for the summoning of within this City, to appear before them with their armour and furniture the 26th day of this instant month of September and that if any of
Deputy Lieutenants of
the trained
men
the trained
men be dead or removed since the last musters, that then two of the sufficientest men both of person and ability within this City should be warned to appear before them, and that we should present unto them the names of the
present to attend that service
ship's letter. places,
:
ablest in the City to supply the
all
armour wanting, and that the Mayor should be which they required by virtue of your lord-
Upon
receipt thereof,
we have
as heretofore,
we and
others in our
by special letters from your lordship and other your lordship's predecessors
office
in the
men and armour

finding that
of Lieutenancy of this County, entered into consideration of the that were used at the last muster and to supply the defect, but
as heretofore hath been used, before
we have not that authority from your lordship by your special letters we further proceed therein, we thought it our
and what hath been used heretofore both
duties to inform your lordship hereof,
by your lordship and your lordship's predecessors, that is, that you have been pleased to employ and commit the trust of this service unto the Mayor and Justices of this City, both for the supply of men and armour, and not to leave
it to
the direction of any other, otherwise than upon shew thereof either to the
;
Lord-Lieutenant or to any other by his lordship's special appointment and if any defaults should be found, then the same to be reformed, either upon notice
given by them appointed, or by your Lordship-Lieutenant's
letter.
This having
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tinue the same
been our ancient use heretofore, we do hope your lordship will be pleased to conwhereunto we the rather are induced for that, having experience
;
of your lordship's love towards this City many ways besides, we were heretofore relieved upon our suit to your lordship for continuance of our ancient custom touching the using of the colours of this City and not the Captain's, at muster-
ing
at
which time your lordship was pleased by your lordship's
letters,
and
otherwise, so far to favour this City as that thereby

will not suffer
we
are assured your lordship

to the City to
any breach of our ancient customs or any disgrace
Hereof we are bold to inform your lordship, humbly leaving the And even so with the same to your lordship's wisdom and good consideration.
be
offered.
remembrance of our duties

Sarum,
to
this 8th of September, 1608.
your lordship in all humbleness take our leaves. Your Honour's to be commanded.
THOMAS HYDE.
G. F.
TOOKER,
RODES,
Newman.
RICHARD PAINE, MAYOR, WILLIAM WILKINSON, RALPH PICKANER, WILLIAM BLACKER, RICHARD GAUNTLETT,
RICHARD GODFREY.
Brought
to Easton the 9th of the
same, by James
[Lord Hertford immediately granted their request, and having

written a reply to the Mayor, dispatched the following to Sir
Thomas
Gorges].
LETTER
GOOD SIB THOMAS GORGES,
XI.
I received lately a letter from the Mayor of Salisbury, the copy whereof I have sent you. Their desire is, that according to the old custom, the band of one hundred foot within that City may be mustered apart from the forces of the
County, because it hath been their custom, as well in my predecessor's time the Earl of Pembroke, as mine, and always allowed by me, and that the City is a corporation of good regard, they ever carrying themselves respectively [respectfully]
in the service of his Majesty and tractably and lovingly to me, I have granted their desire, and have thought good to give you knowledge thereof, that you may
be satisfied of the reason wherefore
it is altered.
Thus with
rest
commendations
to yourself
and your good lady, I
my very loving your loving friend.

HERTFORD.
Sent from Easton the 13tb of the same, with the Mayor's letter, by Robert Atkins.
(To
be concluded in the next.}
Boy ton Church.
233
9&ntjtnn
Ctmrclj,
in
tfn>
f uk
nf
(Six Miles from Warminster, Sixteen from Salisbury).
One primary
object of the Wilts Archaeological Society
was
declared at their inaugural meeting, to be, the notice of Parochial Churches, the history or architecture of which, might illustrate either
our national or local history, or provide subjects for the researches of the student or amateur of Ecclesiastical Architecture. The Parish
Church of Boyton seems

;
to afford considerable data for both these
laudable purposes and the following memoir, partly gleaned from the labours of others, and partly the fruit of personal knowledge and observation, is submitted to the Society, with the hope that
it
may
be followed by papers of deeper research, and more engross-
ing
interest.
In a quiet and retired corner of the Yale of Wylye stands the ancient Church of St. Mary, Boyton. It shows in the clearest characters the riches and nobility of the
former owners of the
soil
and Patrons of the Church,
as well as the
miserable neglect and
wretched taste of the later days of the
English Church. The dimensions of the Church are as follows

Chancel .... 38 feet 6 inches by 19 22 Nave ...... 49
feet.
North Chapel 13 South Chapel 26 Tower ...... 10
18
18
11
The general plan

the arms.
is
a Latin Cross, the two side Chapels forming
which
is somewhat singular, being through the Tower on the North side, with an ancient Yestry forming placed a lean-to on the West side of the Tower.
The entrance
is
The materials
of which the
Church
is
generally built, consists of
stone and flints in rough courses, and no better testimony can be given to the stability of such construction, than the fact that the
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Boyton Church.
Tower facing due North, and of considerable height, has remained from the reign of Henry III. to the present time as perfect as on
the
first
day of
its
dedication.
is
The entrance under the Tower

Early English doorway. without any drip-stone.
orders.
It has a sharp pointed
through a remarkably fine Segmental Arch,

itself is
The archway
composed of three
The The
first consists
of a plain chamfered continuous Impost.
architrave is of the second order, and has a hollow between

;
two rounds, with dog-tooth moulding in the hollow is banded with a plain chamfer below.
the Impost
The Arch of the third order has the architrave square. The inner walls of the Tower are of extremely perfect
flint
masonry, without a sympton of crack or decay, and demonstrate the admirable settings, which to this day retain such small masses as the flints without any crumblings of the wall.
A very ancient ladder of the rudest materials leads

which
is
to the Belfry,
is
situated in the upper part of the Tower,
and
of con-
siderably later date than the lower stages of the Tower. On the right hand an ancient Vestry or Priest's chamber
situated against the
is
probably for relics, small lancet windows seem also to mark this singular chamber as
;
wall, and contains a small aumbrye, and a fire-place of Early English stamp two
West
of Early English construction. Passing into the Nave our attention
of the
of
work of past generations, more recent times. Thus we observe the massive effigy of a Crusader, and the once richly adorned chantry erected by his
;
by the richness and the neglect or want of taste

is
arrested
descendants, for the benefit of the souls of the departed whilst the eye is painfully impressed with a flat plaster ceiling, unseemly for a meeting house much more for the Parish Church of the lordly
a hideous gallery shuts out the West window, or rather the remains of what once was a handsome perpendicular window,
GifFards
:
but
now gapes without mullion or tracery in naked ugliness. The Nave once was of ample proportion both in height and width. The West end contained (as we have observed) a handsome perpen-
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235
dicular window, under which a square-headed doorway still existing, by its Lioncels, attests the dignity of the Baronial Family
to
At
which the Parish and the patronage of the Church belonged. the West end of the Church the ancient Norman Pilaster
Buttresses
original
may
be observed, which, doubtless belonged to the

times.
Church which was restored in Early English
upon the head of the visitant, and with its broad plain of whitewash, and hideous uniformity to tell of the days which Bishop Butler witnessed when he
to press
The
roof of the
Nave seems
wrote as follows:
"Unless the good
spirit of building, repairing,
and adorning Churches prevails a great deal more amongst us, and be more encouraged, an hundred years will bring a huge number
of these sacred fabrics to the ground." The Chancel Arch is cut off by this roof, and the whole proportions of the Nave are utterly disfigured. The Pews of decayed
materials
of various heights and shapes, all tell the same tale of
bad
taste, and penury towards God, which we trust ere long will be remedied, and that under these better days for the Church, this
ancient Temple of
purpose.
God
will be
made somewhat worthy

are
of
its
holy
Projecting from the
Nave North and South
two Chapels.
replete with objects of interest to the hisTwo small Early English Arches open torian and the architect.
is
That to the South
into this Chantry,
which from its foundation has belonged to the Lords of the Manor of Boyton. The Archways consist of two orders of pointed Segmental Arches. The Arch of the first order has on the Chantry side a
;
plain chamfered edge that of the second order consists of a hollow round and a quarter round, with a square edged soflit. These Arches spring from a simple pier and two responds. The capitals are well
shaped and very bold in character, exactly similar to several specimens in Salisbury Cathedral the responds are finished with two
;
engaged half columns, answering in size and proportion to the the Bases consist of two rolls, and a roll clear columns of the Pier
;
faced with a
fillet
on a circular plinth.
In the wall and passage
is
to be observed the remains of the roodloft staircase
the staples for the hinges yet remaining in the wall.
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236
Boyton Church.
into
The Chapel
which we have now entered
is
by
far the
most
The features of the interesting part of this ancient Church. building remarkably illustrate the transition from Early English
and the monumental remains exactly to Decorated Architecture confirm by the probable history of the dead, the dates to which the building is to be attributed. The distinguishing points of the build;
ing into which

of two
sedilia
we have now entered may be described as consisting windows of very striking and original construction, three and two tombs, one containing an effigy in very good
tomb
of small size but of
preservation, the other being a coffin
great richness.
We will describe first the windows.

to the East consists of a three-light window, in which we marks of Early English Architecture departing, and Decorated entering into the architect's mind; the head of the window is composed of circles in compartments, which partake far more of
That
see the
the Decorated style, whilst the mullions and arches of the windows
are of Early English formation. The centre light is higher than the side openings ; the width of the centre is 2ft., that of the side
light 1ft. 8in. each.
is
The
foliage of the capitals is very rich,

;
and
of completely Segmental English character
so is the profile of
the Bases which have the vertical hollow distinctive of that style. At the further, or West end of this Chapel the corresponding win-
dow
is
of singular construction, size,
and beauty.
It
is
completely
round, and the same struggle between the two English, and Decorated, is to be observed here.
styles of
Early
The window is 12ft. in diameter. The mouldings and mullions make up three Segmental triangles, .with three intermediate comEach of these triangles contains a circle, and the partments.
foliation of this circle appears to
which break into each
be formed by piercing circles four circular apertures surround a centre, which cuts into them, all forming a complete quatrefoil.
other.
The
The only two
instances recorded of an exactly similar construction
are in Lausanne and
Modena
Cathedrals.
The compartments between

;
the triangles also contain circles in threes a plain outer band containing the three rings as it were within a larger ring. This window
Boyton Church.
237
contains a few broken remains of Early English quarried glass, and seems to invite restoration by its noble proportions and massive yet
symmetrical arrangement. Beneath the Easternmost of the Arches dividing the Chapel from the Nave is an altar tomb, the one side being composed of slightly
pointed Arches, the other of a series of triangles upon the tomb the effigy of a Knight clad in chain armour, the legs crossed, reposes
;
and the
feet resting
upon an animal, which, may be

his left
either a wild
cat or a lion.
Upon
arm
is
the triangular shield of the
13th century; his right arm extending across his breast grasps the
long straight sword, which doubtless in its reality had cloven many an infidel's crest. The figure is of a man in full vigour, of ordinary
size,
and good proportion.

point,
His shield
carries the
arms of
Grffard,
gules, three-lions passant or; in chief, a label of five points azure;
This beyond all doubt is the effigy of Alexander Giffard, the Crusader mentioned in Matthew Paris, as we shall hereafter show.
upon each
two Fleur-de-lis of the second.
In the centre of the Chapel there stands a small altar tomb of It appears later and richer work than any portion of the Chapel.
to have contained the body of a female, or child of high rank the tomb is hollowed to form a coffin, 4ft. llin. in length. The tomb would appear to be of the date of Edward III. and
very probably have contained the body of the last of the lordly GifFards, the Lady Margaret, whose death would coincide
may
The sides of this tomb are adorned with the style of this tomb. with canopied niches, from which the figures, probably of alabaster,
have been removed.
In the Chapel remain three sedilia and a piscina, still presenting the same mixture of Early English and Decorated Architecture, which pervades this part of the Church.
Returning into the body of the Church we have to mention a North Chapel of Decorated structure, the North window is of three
with purely Decorated tracery above there is a small niche in the Eastern side of the Arch which separates the Chapel from the Nave. very magnificent slab of Purbeck Marble formed part
lights,
;
of the floor of this Chapel, and contained the matrix of a very
238
Boyton Church.
superb brass, which seems to have been of a warrior, and from the canopy work the probable date would be of the reign of Edward II.,
or a
for
little later.
On removing
this stone in the
summer
of 1853,
repairs, a stone coffin was found, formed not of single but of several stones, and a skeleton nearly perfect, with the skull placed
some
on one
side of the body, as
It is hardly a rash conjecture that this Chapel
though the body had been decapitated. was erected for the
joining in the rebellion of Thomas Earl of Lancaster, in the reign of Edward II. was beheaded at Gloucester, and that the decapitated skeleton was that of the
interment of the last male Giffard,
who
unfortunate Baron himself.
We now finish our survey with the Chancel.

its
This part of the Church partakes of the Early English style in older portions, and of Perpendicular in the later features.
the side windows are three small
Three sections of the South side of the Altar are of Early English
work, and in good preservation
;
and very simple lancet windows on the North, and two on the
South side.
In the window nearest the Altar are the arms of
Giffard, in very
ancient glass, and very perfect. The East window is of Perpendicular construction, presenting no very remarkable features, but yet of good shape, and with graceful
antiquary, to
by an ingenious indebted for information, whom largely the Rev. G. Southwell, Yicar of Yetminster. The Southern orifice formed an aumbrye, the other probably the
the writer
is
tracery in the upper part. Two orifices in the Eastern wall were discovered
Credence Table.
Such
is
a general outline of a
beautiful iu its arrangements
and general outline
Church once singularly rich and but which from

;
many combined causes has been allowed either to fall into decay, or when repaired, has been handled in a manner that makes the
bystanders almost regret the reparation, but which we trust ere long will be restored to its former completeness and beauty.
ARTHUR FANE.
On
the
239
dtoi
tjrt
(Drttttjjfllflgtj
nf Wills.
No.
3.
ON THE STRUCTURE AND FACULTIES OF BIRDS.

this
In beginning
paper on the structure of birds,
it
will be well
to premise that I
am not going to enter into any learned disqilisition

;
or start any new theory regarding their I propose merely to give a plain statement of their formation, whereby such persons as are either commencing this delightful study, or are not very proficient in it,
on their internal economy

shape or their functions.
may
gain some insight into the subject.

to
But
before
we examine
their general structure, let us for one
moment
consider the position
which birds were formed

element they were
fitted to
hold in animated nature, and the

:
people
then,
sider their formation,
we
shall notice
when we proceed to conhow admirably it is adapted
to that end, how exactly suited to that purpose. are told in the history of their creation, that they were formed out of the " to water, and that they were made fly above the earth in the open
We
firmament of heaven."
the domain allotted to
That then
is
their
own proper
sphere, that
them
to occupy.
It is true that
we find some
first
;
continually remaining in the element from which they
derived
others
their origin, passing almost all their time in the water
again there are which seldom leave the surface of the earth, and are neither formed for swimming nor for flight but the
;
great majority of species are essentially denizens of the air; soaring high above our heads, skimming here and there, floating
with expanded wings, "cleaving with rapid pinions the vast aerial expanse." Now it is clear that to enable them to do this, the
general formation of their bodies must be extremely different from that of the Mammalia, though to a certain extent there are strong
resemblances and analogies between them and their respective orders as there are carnivorous quadrupeds, so there are rapacious birds,
240
On
the
and both are equally
fierce, sullen,
unsociable and solitary in their
habits, possessed of great strength, and often of considerable courage : as there are herbivorous quadrupeds, so there are granivorous birds, and both of these are gentle and gregarious in their habits, a
mild and tractable
race,
and
easily domesticated.
There
are also birds as well as beasts of an amphibious nature, having organs suited to their habits, and these live chiefly in the water, and
feed on
and there are many similar reaquatic productions Like the quadrupeds too, they are warm-blooded and semblances.
:
vertebrate
far, are usually clothed
but unlike them, they are oviparous and instead of almost entirely with feathers while instead
; ;
:
of fore-feet, they are furnished with wings and we shall presently see that there are many other striking points of difference in strucUnlike the heavy bodies of the Mammalia, ture between them.
which are formed
to live
on the surface of the
earth, the bodies of
the birds are light and buoyant. They each possess externally head, neck, body, tail, legs and feet but instead of the large head, the
;
heavy neck, the deep chest, the wide shoulder, and the sinewy legs of the quadrupeds, the observant Bewick bids us note "the pointed
beak, the long and pliant neck, the gently swelling shoulder, the expansive wings, the tapering tail, the light and bony feet of birds :"
every one of these seem formed to combine, as far as possible, the least weight with the greatest strength: there is no superfluous
bulk in the structure of a bird

the width of
its
compared with
its
dimensions, and
expanded wings, trifling insignificant a proportion does the body seem to occupy how every part seems to conduce towards lightness and buoyancy. The plumage too with
:
how
and
which they are clothed is soft and delicate, and yet so close and thick as to form an admirable protection against the intense cold of
wing their way, and to which movements must necessarily expose them the feathers which compose it are attached to the skin, somewhat after the manner of hair, and are periodically moulted or changed, and
the atmosphere through which they
their swift
:
nothing can exceed the beauty, and often brilliancy of their colouring, as nothing can be conceived more adapted to combine the two objects
of extreme
warmth and
excessive lightness.
With
such an airy
Eij the Rev.
A.
C. Smith.
241
framework, and clothed with a plumage in

exceeding the air
itself,
we
specific gravity but little are at no loss to understand the ease

;
with which birds mount from the earth and soar among the clouds but to enable them to pass quickly through the air, to progress
rapidly and without fatigue, no instruments could be desired more excellent than the wings with which they are provided so light and yet so vigorous furnished with such strong muscles so spacious
; ; ;
in flight, and yet so compact when closed in rest. the help of these oars or sails they can strike the air so forcibly, By and with such a succession of rapid and powerful strokes, as to impel forward their bodies with wonderful velocity: the greater
when extended
the extent of the wings, in proportion to the size of the bird, the greater is the facility with which it can sustain itself in the air, and the greater the rapidity of its flight: as an example of this, compare the stretch of wing and the proportionate speed of the
common
swift
and the common sparrow.
Almost
all
species can
fly with exceeding swiftness, but the progress of some is so very rapid, as rather to rival the velocity of the arrow from the bow, than
the movements of any other creature yet, with such amazing power, what can be lighter than the materials of which the wings are
:
formed? the bones hollow and
and unincumbered by
flesh
the muscles strong the feathers large like sails, and of

filled
air,
with
in like manner, what can be more exceeding buoyancy. than their tails ? these too are only composed of feathers, but perfect they serve as rudders, enabling them to steer their course through the
Then again
air at pleasure
Thus when we look

but admire
of
its its
with the greatest ease and with the greatest accuracy. at the external formation of a bird, we can
symmetry and
elegance, the
buoyancy and lightness

:
nor
less calculated to excite
frame, so admirably adapted for flight our admiration in
but not
less perfect
its
internal structure.
Is a bird furnished with bones to its aerial evolutions?
and muscles
so absolutely necessary
bones,
how
thin and light are the delicate the muscles, those only excepted which are
but mark
how
adapted for moving the wings. Then again observe the lungs: small indeed they are, but so placed, and the air so introduced into
them from the windpipe,
that in passing
it is
conveyed into certain 2 i
242
cells or
On
membranous

:
body and among the muscles, and between the muscles and the skin; and in some birds are continued down to the wings, and extend even to the pinions, thigh bones,
these sacs are situated in the chest,
sacs disposed for this purpose over the
and other parts of the body

especially the
for the
same purpose the feathers and
wing
Now
all
these cavities
feathers also contain a large quantity of air. and others not enumerated, such as the
filled
hollows of the bones, can be
and distended with
air at the will
of the bird: by this means the strength and bulk of the bird is increased, without adding to its weight and such a general diffusion
:
of air throughout the body must be of infinite service in enabling it to fly, to poise itself in the air, and to skim far above the surface
Nor is that the only use of this wonderful provision I again quote Bewick, who says "it is likewise eminently useful in preventing its respiration from being stopped or interrupted
of the earth.
of nature
by the rapidity of
it
its
motion through a resisting medium
were
possible for
man
to
move with the

is
swiftness of the swallow, the
not provided with internal reservoirs similar to those of birds, would soon suffocate him." Another very remarkable peculiarity in the internal economy of
birds, is their
actual resistance of the air, as he
mode
of digestion
the
bill, is
scarcely if ever, used

:
for mastication, but solely as an instrument of prehension it is the gizzard whose amazing strength and powers can scarcely be overrated, that grinds
for digestion.
grain and other food, and renders it fit Experiments have been made, by which it has been
down the
incontrovertibly proved, that glass, nails, and the hardest substances have in a few hours been filed down by the action of the gizzard,
without any injury accruing to it thereby as a help to this digestive power small stones are often swallowed by birds, which are eminently
:
useful in assisting this grinding process, thus rendering the food
more amenable
to the gastric juices.
Now
we
after this rapid glance at the general structure of birds,
can
conceive anything more adapted for buoyancy and for rapid motion through the air, than their external and internal formation? We cannot but be struck with their wonderful adaptation to the
position
which they were created
to
fill.
Let us now push our
By
enquiries a
little
the Rev.
A.
C. Smith.
243
farther
and
still
bearing in mind that they are
denizens of the
all
air,
and roam
at vast distances above our heads,

faculties
and
around
us,
examine into the senses and
with which
they are endowed.

first place we shall find them furnished with unusual of sight, hearing, and smell, and to this end powers they are supplied with three double organs of sense, viz: eyes, ears, and
In the
nasal cavities.
The
sight of some,
and particularly of the rapacious
birds, is so
acute and piercing, as to enable them to see their prey from an enormous height in the air, whence they dash down with astonishing swiftness and unerring aim. The vulture sailing in circles at an
on the ground, without the aid of any other faculty than his eyes, as has been clearly proved by experiment the lordly eagle soaring amid the clouds seems to prefer that elevated station, whence to seek some victim on the
:
immense
altitude can distinguish his prey
earth,
and
his wonderful
power of vision seldom

:
fails to
discover
the desired object far below the kestrel hawk, with which all are familiar, balances himself in the air at a considerable height, while
his piercing eyes search the
ground below
for the
mice which
constitute his food

especially noted
these are all diurnal birds of prey, and are for the keenness of their vision: but not less
:
extraordinary is the eye of the owl, which seeks its prey by twilight, and cannot endure the full glare of day: should any accident expose him to the light of the sun, he either closes his eyes entirely,
or defends
them with
a curtain or blind, which
is
an internal
eyelid,
and which he can
close in
an
instant.
but a grotesque and foolish appearance, from his hollow tree, or the ivy clad ruin in the deepening twilight watch him as he regularly beats the field, and quarters it like a
:
At such times he presents but see him as he emerges
the unfortunate mouse that was hurrying through the grass, and judge what acuteness of vision must be there. In the nocturnal species the eyes are usually directed
pointer; see
him suddenly drop upon
forwards, and are brighter, larger, and clearer than those of the diurnal birds, and thus from their size, position, and construction
are admirably calculated for concentrating the
dim rays of twilight.
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244
On
the
Ornithokgy of Wilts.
In the other Orders we do not expect to find such wonderful powers of sight, for their habits do not require it yet here too we shall
;
often find considerable quickness
and extent of
vision.
The
fly-
perched on a twig, and suddenly dart upon an insect passing often at a considerable distance, which we are wholly unable to perceive. The bold and sagacious raven and the
catcher will
sit
have been famed for their far seeing propensities: the rook too has the same property, for which cause
destructive carrion crow
we may
to their society,
constantly see the dull-eyed starlings attaching themselves and relying on these excellent sentinels, feeding in
greater security.
The
swift careering through the air on rapid
wing
and dashing past

catches in
its
like a meteor, not only
can see to steer his
way
it
clear of all obstacles, but can discern the passing insect,
which
mouth
as
it
rushes by.
into the air, can perceive the grain
The pigeons mounting high which they are seeking from an

by
almost incredible distance.

rising on seeing the
especially
flash
The
redstart will avoid the shot,
the divers,
from the cap; and many of the ducks and disappear under water the moment the
trigger
is
pulled, seeing the flash
and diving almost instantaneously,

These are a few
and
so escaping the death intended for them.
instances of the extraordinary powers of vision belonging to the feathered race. An eminent French naturalist has calculated it to
be about nine times more extensive than that of man; and anatomists, after dissecting the eye of the golden eagle, or one of
that family, whose sight is considered the keenest of all, declare that nothing can be conceived more perfect than the structure.
by night: both will differ from that of the which has to procure its food under water but all are exactly swan,
feeds
:
The eye of the the owl which
falcon
which feeds by day,
will differ
from that of
adapted to their
own
peculiar spheres of action, all are capable of
very astonishing sight.
Again, the hearing of some is so subtle that they can detect their prey when hidden from view by this sense alone, and by the same
power are ever on the alert eagle is the most renowned
for the approach of for
an enemy.
powers of vision, so
As the we may without
hesitation pronounce the owls to possess a
more acute sense of hearing
By
the Rev.
A. C. Smith.
245
than any other family: it seems that this faculty is given them in common with other nocturnal and crepuscular animals; as, for
example the bats, to enable them to guide themselves in their flight on the darkest nights, and to direct them to their prey the organs
:
with which they are furnished to secure this end are of a very remarkable construction, and developed to an extraordinary extent
:
the auditory opening, or ear-couch, is sometimes extremely large, and is then furnished with an operculum or cover, which they can
where the aperture is not provided. Another peculiarity in the nocturnal birds of prey is that the two ears are not alike the
close at will: but in those species
open and
smaller, such
an addition
is
one being so formed as to hear sounds from below, the other from above this though an old discovery, is not very generally known
:
though
it is
doubtless an admirable help to catch the faintest sound
proceeding from every direction; and with such organs the owls are enabled to detect in an instant the slightest rustling of their
prey.
is
Next
to the owl, perhaps the night-jar (or goat-sucker, as it

called) possesses the
commonly though erroneously

moths
till
most acute
sense of hearing:
for
this bird is also crepuscular,

;
and seldom hunts

its
the shades of evening
and, as in the owl,
ears
But there are are of very large size. acute powers of hearing remarkably
on the lawn on a
one
side,
many other birds gifted with see the song- thrush descend
damp morning; watch how he inclines his ear on then hops forwards, and again listens, till at length he draws
forth the
worm which his
fine ear
had
told
him was there, and which

:
alarmed at his hops and peckings had hurried to the surface, supposing they were occasioned by his dreaded enemy, the mole or
heronry, and try to penetrate near their chosen without your presence being detected these nocturnal birds nursery are not particularly keen of sight during the day, but long ere you
visit
some
fine old
can approach them, however cautiously, their keen sense of hearing has told them you are near. Another bird remarkable for possessing
this faculty in
an eminent degree,
difficult of
is
the curlew
of all the shore

:
birds there
is
not one so
approach as this
his organs of
hearing are so sensitive, that it is almost impossible to come near him: and again, the Swedish ornithologist, Professor Nilsson,
246
On
speaks of the black cock as being most acute both in hearing and Such are some of the instances one might collect of in sight.
another sense being possessed by the feathered tribes in extraordinary perfection that some birds hear more quickly than others
:
is
it,
an undisputed fact
but
we
shall always find, if
we examine into
is
that to those the most subtle sense of hearing
given, whose
habits cause
them
to require it
it, it is
most
while from those which would
not be benefited by
in birds, I
in a measure witheld.
I have spoken of the powers of sight and hearing so conspicuous come now to the other sense with which they are pro-
vided, that of smell.
This too
we
shall find to be peculiarly delicate
in
some families, though perhaps generally it is but little required, and therefore but little developed and we shall for the most part find that those birds whose nostrils are the most conspicuous and
:
open, will possess this sense in the highest degree, while those whose nostrils are concealed and almost impervious will share in it
but
little.
The bird which
is
certainly most remarkable for this
faculty, though of late years it has been gainsayed by certain American naturalists, is the vulture: blessed as I have already remarked, with a keen sense of sight, the vulture soaring through
the
air,
and above the dark
forests, is also directed to his
prey by
the extraordinary perfection of his organs of smell: his food is always putrid, and the effluvium arising therefrom is necessarily most rank: but yet when we read in the accounts of ornithologists, who
have seen them in their own tropical countries, the wonderful manner in which these birds will congregate at a putrid carcase,
be in a pit or a thick forest, and how first appearing as a speck in the distant heavens, then gradually
hidden though
it
may
increasing in size as they
come nearer, they arrive singly from all whereas till then not a single individual was to be seen, quarters, we can form some idea of the great powers of smell which these
must
possess.
birds
Mr. Waterton who has seen them in Guiana,

;
Demerara, and other parts of Southern America and Mr. Gosse, who more recently has seen them in the West Indian islands, have
published in their respective most interesting little volumes such strong and conclusive evidence of the amazing extent of this sense
By
the Rev.
A.
C. Smith
247
The family in the vulture, as to silence all dispute on the subject. of the crows also claims our attention as possessing very great powers of scent it is this which so often directs them to their food
:
from great distances in such a mysterious manner, as to cause the wonder and incredulity of man: some observers who have seen troops of ravens hurrying along, to the banquet of some fallen
animal, where not a bird
till
their discovery of the feast,
then could be seen, have attributed not to the true cause, their keen sense
of seeing and smelling, but to some unknown faculty, thinking it impossible that scent could be carried so far, and having little
conception of the superior acuteness of some of the senses of birds again the rook discovers the grubs hidden in the earth by the same wonderful sense the carrion crow scents the tempting morsel from
: :
a distance
the magpie is not behind hand in the same perception. Some of the water birds too seem to have this faculty very highly the curlew will take wing when you are at a great developed
: :
you approach them down the wind: the hungry woodcock will discover by the smell, where it will be profitable to probe the mud with his beak most of the ducks are so sensitive, that the
distance,
if
:
man who works

success,
unless
a decoy, knows full well that he has no chance of he keeps to leeward of the flock; and, as an
additional precaution burns a piece of turf and holds it smoking in Thus we see the faculty his hand, to prevent their scenting him.
of scent no less conspicuous in birds than in other animals: the well known properties of the pointer and the foxhound will not surpass the exquisite sense of smell of some of the birds, and even the notorious bloodhound will scarcely outdo the vulture in the
same
faculty.
besides these three powers of seeing, hearing, and smelling, with which we have seen them to be remarkably endowed, we find
But
the feathered tribe gifted with the power of feeling or handling (if I may apply such a term, to the beak) not usually allotted to the Their beaks serve them inferior races of the animal kingdom.
for hands, as well as for lips
to
and teeth, and wonderfully are they a variety of purposes; but as in addition to their adapted exceeding interest and variety of form and use, the beaks are
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On
principal characteristics whereby to distinguish the position birds are entitled to hold, and their habits, I propose to consider this subject
it by. are furnished with tongues, which are not only Again they organs of taste, but partly also of prehension: these too differ
separately, in a future paper, so for the present pass
exceedingly in form, according to their requirements, being sometimes short, rounded, and thick; sometimes long, thin, and pointed;
and some
tribes
their prey, as
make considerable use we shall hereafter see.

their continual,
of these
members
in securing
Their organs of voice too are very various
some most melodious,

:
charming man by
and often exquisite song others harsh and unmusical: notes they have of alarm, whereby they
signify to one another that danger
is
at
hand; notes of
;
distress,
whereby they proclaim the pain or terror they feel notes of love, whereby they show their affection notes of communication, whereby
;
they signify their intentions to each other, and act in concert, and so continue their migrations on the darkest night without danger
The notes of the different species too are as of parting company. various as are their forms some are able to imitate those of others,
;
but seldom do they step beyond their own limits for each is content to communicate with his congeners in the language peculiar to its
:
own
species.
is
Such then
an outline of the structure of

faculties
birds,
and such are
some of their
and
to
characteristics.
The
subject is one
which might be pursued
an unlimited extent, until such a of the anatomy of birds was gained, that like Buffon knowledge and Cuvier of late time, and the present Dean of Westminster and
Owen of the College of Surgeons of our day, from seeing one single bone we might be able to describe accurately the whole bird to which it belonged, and its habits though of a species never
Professor
;
hitherto seen.
structure
of
To such an intimate acquaintance however with the birds we shall not probably aspire. The present
communication possesses only a general consideration of their formation and faculties, but we have seen enough to prove to us how
admirably birds are formed for the position they hold in the scale Their bodies light and buoyant, furnished with wings of Zoology.
License to convert
Malmsbury Abbey
into a
Parish Church.
;
249
enabling them to pass rapidly through the air

cells, as an additional assistance to
them
provided with airendowed with astonishing
powers of
sight, hearing,
and smell: possessed of organs of voice
as varied as they are remarkable; and with many other faculties not inferior to these, the feathered tribes claim a high position in
the scale of created beings. see in their formation the hand of a bountiful Creator in their endowments the wisdom and goodness
;
We
of Providence displayed. knowledge of their structure, and an into the wonderful organs with which they are supplied, insight cannot but raise them in our eyes, as worthy of deeper investigation
and
closer attention than they usually receive;
and
raise us, at the
same time,
as should be the case after all our researches into the
page of nature, 'from nature's works up to nature's God/ " Thus the men
works can charm, with God himself grow familiar day by day With His conceptions; act upon His plan,
Whom nature's
Hold converse
to
:
And form
His the
relish of their souls."
ALFRED CHARLES SMITH.

Yatesbury Rectory, July, 1854.
ARCHBISHOP CRANMER'S LICENSE TO CONVERT THE NAVE OF MALMSBURY ABBEY CHURCH INTO A PARISH CHURCH. *
Thomas, by Divine Mercy Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, being hereunto lawfully authorised
by the Parliament of England:

parish church of
St.
To
all
the parishioners of the
Paul of the town of Malmsbury, in the diocese of Sarum, health, grace, and benediction. We willingly regard and assist' with opportune marks of our favour, those things which
respect the increase of divine worship,
faithful.
and the convenience of the Whereas you have represented to us that the worthy
Copied from the original document by the late William Hughes, Esq., of [A translation, we presume, from the original document which would of course be in Latin].
1
Devizes.
250
License to convert
Malmsbury Abbey
into a
Parish Church.
and grant of the King's Majesty, and of full right possesses all the site, circuit, and precinct, of the late Monastery of the town of Malmsbury aforesaid, and
gift
Master William Stumpe, Esq., 1 who by
also all
the
Nave
of the Conventual Church, late of the
same
Monastery, in respect that the aforesaid parish church of St. Paul of Malmsbury is fallen even unto the ground, and is not fit to receive the people for divine service, Hath granted all the said Nave
of the late Conventual
Church
to be perpetually converted to the
favourably granting your petition in this the authority of the aforesaid Parliament of England, respect, by which in this behalf we enjoy, by tenor of these presents indulge
use of divine services
;
We
freely and lawfully may hear divine offices, and partiin sacraments, and all and singular sacramental rites, within cipate the aforesaid Nave, so that the consent of those who have interest
you that ye
in the premises be thereunto had,
and the right of
all
others be
saved, any ordination to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. Dated in our Manor of Lambeth, under our seal for Faculties on the
20th day of the month of August, in the year of our Lord 1541, and in the 9th year of our consecration.
HUGHES, Doctor of Laws. STEPHEN VAUGHAN, Clerk of

the
Faculties
of the King's
iJo. Majesty.
E.
1
W.
For some account of Master William Stumpe who turned Malmsbury Abbey its offices into a Cloth Factory, see page 140. He was also the purHe chaser, from the Crown, of Charlton and other Estates of the Monastery. died 1563: and his grand-daughter Elizabeth, being an only child and heiress,
and
carried
2
them by marriage
this Nicholas
into the family of Knyvett.
Wotton, Izaak Walton thus makes honourable mention in his Life of Sir Henry Wotton. "He was Doctor of Law, and sometime Dean both of York and Canterbury a man whom God did not only bless with a long life, but with great abilities of mind, and an inclination to employ them in the
;
Of
service of his country: as is testified by his several employments, having been sent nine times ambassador unto foreign princes, and by his being a Privy
Counsellor to King Henry VIII., to Edward VI., to Queen Mary, and Q-ueen Elizabeth. He was also by the Will of King Henry VIII. made one of his
Executors, and chief Secretary of State to his son Edward VI. Concerning which Nicholas Wotton I shall say but this little more that he refused (bein g
:
by Queen Elizabeth) to be Archbishop of Canterbury, and that he died not rich, though he lived in that time of dissolution of Abbeys."
offered it
Maud
Heath's Causey.
251
Catwij.
To have a walk
that shall be dry and available in all weathers,
a real walk, not the mere distance for a turn or two on a garden terrace, but a good constitutional stretch, away into the country, nine miles there and back to have this always firm and free from
;
mud
Still
homini contingit does not fall to every man's share. more rare is it to find such a privilege free from the cost of
cuivis
non
maintenance to those who do enjoy it. But these united comforts have fallen to the lot of four contiguous and favoured parishes
in North Wilts
Chippenham, Langley Burrell, Tytherton-Kellaand Bremhill: for which they may thank the foresight and ways,
:
public spirit of "that worthy benefactress MAUD HEATH." Thomas Fuller the witty does not indeed mention her amongst the " Worthies of Wilts" ; but well did she, and well did any one
in days when roads were "founderous," and footpaths were none at all, did so much pro bono publico as to make a bridge, a road, or a causey. 1 These are in more senses than one essentially amongst the first steps
deserve that name,

rivers
who
had
to be forded,
towards the civilization of a country. Without them, there is no comfortable communication, no encouragement to the interchange
of society, of capital, or of traffic. curious illustration of the great importance anciently attached to the duty of providing safe and easy public thoroughfares, is
supplied to us in the history of names. Amongst other titles borne by the Pope, is that of "Pontifex Maximus" which in its original
sense
means
literally neither
more nor
less
than the Head Bridge-
Builder.
this title
in which, according to received authorities, In the earliest days of has descended to the Pope is this.
And the way
heathen
Rome
the duty of controlling the arrangement for public
* Thus the word is always spelled in old writers: and perhaps correctly: being nearer than " cause-way" to the French "chaussee," (a pitched road), from
which
it is
derived.
2x2
252
passages,
priests,
Maud
more
Heath's Carney.
especially that of constructing bridges, fell
upon the
being at that time the persons of most varied education,
and probably best qualified by engineering talent to undertake it. There was one bridge more particularly, the celebrated wooden one
called the "Sublician," connecting,
that did connect, the opposite sides of the Tiber.
and being then the only one This means of
communication, so precious both as a passage and a defence, was placed under the special care of the Priests who took, as it is said,
from this charge their name of Pontifices. When Christianity succeeded Heathenism, it was thought politic to retain in many
and so it has come to pass that the Chief instances existing names Bishop of Christian Ilome, still continuing after 24 centuries to
:
use the Title of PONTIFF, represents in fact the Trustees of the very The Title surbridge of our old school friend Horatius Codes
!
For after long assault and vives, but the Trust has expired. frequent reparation, yellow Tiber washed the bridge bodily away a
1000 years ago, and it has never been rebuilt. How, and under what authority, in our own country, road and bridge making was conducted in early times, would be a curious
subject of inquiry.
Acts of Parliament, turnpike
trusts,
highway
rates, like, are of course, comparatively modern inventions. Royal commissions in times past may have controlled the king's highways but the original making, even of many of them, certainly
:
and the
many of the passages and causeys which are found upon them, was no doubt owing in great measure to the efforts of individuals.
of
Now and then a great person would be drowned or nearly so, and then there would be improvement. In 1252, a Queen of England who had suffered a cold bath in crossing the Warwickshire Avon at Stratford,
as soon as ever she
had escaped from the water, hastened
to assign
meadow
for the perpetual sustentation of a bridge.
This was
Clopton,
perhaps the same that was afterwards improved by
Hugh
Mayor
of London,
there.
"who made
(says Leland) a sumptious bridge
and causey no causey

refused to
There had been but a poor one of timber and come to it; whereby many poor folks and others, come to Stratford when Avon was up, or coming thither
to
stood in jeopardy of life."
Maud
Heath's Carney.
253
The great causey and arched bridges that divide Barnstaple from Plympton, in Devon, owe their origin to a similar accident. "A merchant of London called Stawford chanced to be at Barnstaple to buy cloth, and saw a woman riding to come over by the low salte marsh from Plympton towards Berstaple, and the tide came
so sore in, that she could not pass:
durst
come
to her;
and crying for help, no man and so she was drown'd. Then Stawford took
the prior of Berstaple a certain sum of money to begin this causey, and the bridges, and after paid for the performing it." 1
There
is,
Hospital at
or used to be, hanging up in the hall of St. Helen's Abingdon, a long ditty in praise of the builder of Culham
Bridge, near that town: one verse in modern phrase ran thus:
King Harry the fifth in his fow-erth year Hath found for his folk a bridge in Berk-shire; For carriage and cart to come and go clear,
And some from
That, winters before, were soused in the mire. their saddles flopped down to the ground, Or into the water, wist no man where.
Private convenience again, would set some to work. Across the moors of Glastonbury is a causeway a mile long, called Graylake's Foss, made by the abbots, chiefly for communicating with their
own
estates.
It
was no doubt through
clerical influence
under other
circumstances, that amongst deeds of charity to which the dying were often urged, we find bequests of money by will, for making or
repairing highways or causeys.
No bad
use to put
it
to either:
remembered how many centuries it takes before any is really provided with decent roads and how difficult it is country to keep them in tolerable order when they are made. Amongst
when
it
is
right thinking persons of this kind, was Joan Lady Bergavenny, who in 1434 devised "to the making and mending of feeble bridges
and
Brudenell Esq.,
Still greater was the zeal of Edmund in 1457 ordered by his will, even his gold cup, silver basins, a great piece of gilt plate with the cover, and three silver candlesticks, to be sent to the Tower of London to be
foul ways,
,100." 2
who
melted down
to
mend
the highway across the heavy clay between
Leland Itin:
II. 105.
* Test.
Vetusta. p. 226.
254
Maud
Heath's Causey.
Praiseworthy too was the act of Aylesbury and Wendover. Walter Lord Hungerford who a little earlier, "for the health of the
soul of the
Lady Katherine
his wife," first
made a safe footing over
Nor Standerwick Marsh between Beckington and Warminster. 10 by let Sir Ralph Verney, Knight, be forgotten, who gave will, to amend "noyous and ruinous ways," in that same rich but
dirty vale of Aylesbury aforesaid. Instances of perpetual endowments for the repair of roads
or
footpaths are by no means Cricklade has its or two.
common.
In Wilts there are only one

Estates," given in the reign highways about that town, and
"Wayland
of
Queen
Elizabeth, for the repair of
no other purpose. These are of considerable value; consisting of about 30 houses, and 50 acres of land, worth together, in 1833,
for
95 a year. And at Devizes, so late as A.D. 1641, as appears a memorandum in a council book, John Pierce, gentleman, a by 50 into the borough purse, the use thereof to chief burgess, paid be bestowed yearly at the discretion of the Mayor and Recorder,
about
on the maintenance of the causeways. The benefaction of Maud Heath was

the tradition about her
is true, its
earlier
than these, and
if
She is history is a curious one. said by common report to have been a market woman, who having long felt by sad experience the inconvenience of a swampy walk,
especially in the conveyance of such perishable
ware as butter and
eggs, devoted the savings of her life to the laudable purpose of providing a good footing for her successors in all time to come.
She made no
will
(at least
we have not been
able to hear of one
either in the registers at Salisbury or in London) but during her life time, about the year 1474, in the reign of K. Edw. IV., she gave to
some houses and land in and near Chippenham to carry out her intentions, How much, if any, of the causey was finished before her death, or whether it was begun at all, we have no account.
certain trustees,
commences about 4J miles from Chippenham, on the eastern side of the town, at the top of Bremhill Wick Hill. The hill itself is a high and pleasant with dry iron sand, but imridge capped
It
mediately at the foot of it, upon the northern
side, lies
a low and
flat
Maud
tract of
Heath's Causey.
255
heavy clay land, made heavier by occasional inundation of the North Wilts Avon which runs through it. There can
be no doubt that to ensure safe passage for the old wives and their baskets across this plashy level, was a main point with the
considerate
Maud
Heath.
had a
battle with the
Here no doubt she had often herself mud: had lost many a fine fresh egg,
and disappointed many a Chippenham breakfast table, during the wars of the Eoses. Over this her battle ground she was resolved
The stone-pitched path triumph, and she has triumphed. that has so long borne and will yet probably so much longer bear her name, continues down Wick Hill, (where indeed it does not
to
seem
much wanted) through the pretty village of Tytherton, from a former owner) Kellaways, then across the perilous (surnamed flats just mentioned, over a canal and then over the Avon by bridges,
to be
and
so through the parish of Langley Burrell, till it lands the Bremhill adventurer safe at the town of Chippenham. Between
Langley
Common and Chippenham, on

;
account of insufficient
breadth of road, or for some other reason, there was until lately a considerable distance without any causey but it is now completed
the whole way.
Maud Heath
being thus represented by so useful and enduring a
work, might very well say, as Sir Christopher Wren is made to say within St. Pauls, "If you want to see my monument look around
you:" and perhaps from the peculiar circumstances of this case and the tradition belonging to it, it was not very likely that her name
at all events
would be forgotten, however obscure the
rest of
her
Still, as the public memory is sometimes history might become. treacherous even towards those who have deserved more nobly of
their country than
on the part of
Maud Heath, it was not an unwise precaution, those who took it, to set up at intervals by the waymementos of the good deed and the worthy doer. upon these memorials are not indeed amongst
side substantial
The
verses inscribed
the highest efforts of the muse; but they have the merit of being adapted to the purpose of being easily remembered by the common
people.
The path
is
always described in the old documents relating to
it,
256
as starting
Maud
from Wick
Heath's Causey.
Hill, not
from Chippenham.
And
it,
so in
On a large stone at the commencement of the poetry. Brcmhill, are these lines.
"From this WICK HILL begins the praise Of MAUD HEATH'S gift to these highways."
near
At
of the two turnpike roads from stone with this couplet:
the other end, next to Chippenham, just at the point of junction Malmsbury and Draycote, is a second
"Hither extendeth MAUD HEATH'S gift; For where I stand is Chippenham clift."
Midway,
at the bridge over the

:
Avon, there
is
a third
commem-
orative stone
a pillar about 12 feet high, erected by the feoffees
in 1698, which enters more into particulars.

the year of grace, 1474, for the good of travellers, did in charity bestow in land and houses about eight pounds a year, for ever, to be laid out on the
"To who in
the
Memory
of the
worthy MATTD
HEATH
of Langley Burrell, Spinster:
highway and causey, leading from Wick Hill
to
Chippenham
Clift."
CHIPPENHAM
CLIFT.
Injure
me
not.
WICK
HILL.
On
the several faces of the pillar are short Latin sentences,
intended to be applicable both to the journey to Chippenham, and to the longer one of human life. To these, however intelligible to the
pontifices of
Langley or Bremhill, and the other learned guardians of this modern " Sublician," the late vicar of Bremhill, the Rev.
W.
L. Bowles, obtained leave to attach for the use of less accom-
plished travellers, an interpetration in the vulgar tongue.
truth;
flat.
presumed that this stone, being a public authority, speaks the and therefore when it says "this is Chippenham Cliff" as Chippenham Cliff we must regard it. But the word is scarcely applicable to a locality almost
1
It is to be
There
which a cannon
anything
all the way to the railway arch, a gentle slope down ball might, or might not, roll but there is not upon the spot, approaching to the abruptness of a cliff. The stone is just upon the
is
indeed
limit of the parish of Langley Burrell, and probably has always been where it is; but had the causey been carried on to the left (still keeping within the same
parish), so as to follow the old road towards the town, it arrived at something much more like a cliff the steep
overhangs the
river,
near the entrance to
would presently have rugged bank which Mr. Esmeade's grounds at Monkton.
And
there
it
would have been a more
intelligible stone.
Maud
There are three
sun,
Dials.
is
Heath's Causey.
257
On
the side facing MORNING, or the rising
" VOIAT
TEMPUS,"
thus paraphrased:
PLIES."
"Oh early passenger look up, be wise: And think how, night and day, time TIME onward
On
advice
the side opposite to NOON or mid-day sun,
is
the scriptural
"Whilst we have
time, to do good."
"QVUM TEMPUS HABEMUS, OPEREMUB, BONUM."

"Life steals away
this hour, oh man, is lent thee Patient to work the work of him that sent thee."
The words, on the side towards EVENING, or the setting sun, though appropriate when rightly applied, seem to fit less happily the case
of the ordinary passer to and
fro.
"REDIBO. TU NUNQUAM."
"Haste
traveller!
The sun
is
sinking low,
He
shall return again
but NEVER THOU."
life, though we which assigns to her a rank not more exalted than that of a market woman, it is only fair to observe, that we are not aware that there is the slightest evidence
With
respect to
Maud
Heath's real station in
have so
far let the current story pass,
or real foundation for
it.
Mr. Bowles repeats the
tale as it
was
told to him; but neither he nor any one else appears to have made enquiry either for confirmation or disproof of it. Aubrey made a "Mem." to investigate the matter; but he never did so: at least
he has not
us any result of his researches. In the inscription on the pillar set up at Kellaway's Bridge in 1698, and in the recital of old deeds relating to the Gift, she is described as "of Langley
left
Burrell:" and there
is
no reason whatever
for doubting that such
case, so far as to its being her place of residence, probably But there is considerable reason for also that of her death.
was the
doubting the traditional story told by the parish clerk of Langley, as to a certain gravestone there, which he shows as the memorial
of
Maud Heath and

The
1670.
her
sister.
is
alleged memorial
thus
described
by
Aubrey, about
A.D.
"In the churchyard on the south
side of the church,
them not long
There was a canopy over lye two sisters in a freestone monument. These two sisters were benefactors since taken away.
2 L
258
to the repairing the
is still
Maud
Heath's Causey.
causeway towards Keilway's Bridge."
Such
The overlying slab, which is all that is left of the monument, is now reared up against the west wall of the tower close by the entrance at the south porch. It is a massive piece of In the upper part of it are cut freestone, about 7J feet in height. two small trefoiled and pointed niches, within each of which is a On the surface of head, now much defaced by time and weather.
the belief. the slab below each head there have been at one time floriated
crosses.
Part of one only

1
is
now
of
to
be seen.
There
is
no trace of
joint bene:
inscription.
As
to its being a
monument
Maud, and her
sister,
factors to the causey, this is quite contrary to all evidence
for
none
of the deeds or recitals of deeds

sister
make the
slightest allusion to
any
being partner in the gift, but they invariably speak of Maud, and Maud only. In the next place we are rather inclined to think
that the heads are those not of two females, but of a
wife,
man and
his
the case, puts an end to all claim of Maud to this memorial; as "the worthy benefactress" was a spinster. The
which,
if it is
heads,
it is
true, are
much
defaced
but a very close inspection will
face on the sinister (i.e. the right as look at it), or wife's side, the distinct remnant of female dress, you of which there is no trace in the other. Finally, the gravestone is of a style generally considered to be at least 100 years older than
show under the chin of the
the time of
Maud
for
Heath.
whether
is
it
can possibly refer to her.
For these three reasons But be that as
it is
it
doubtful
may, there
doubting that she lived and probably died in the parish of Langley Burrell. Mr. Bowles admits this, but he afterwards says that "her own
no reason
parish was Bremhill."
His authority
for this statement
he does
may
Single incised slabs of this kind, having a head introduced over the Cross, be seen in the Churchyard of Limpley Stoke, between Freshford and Bath.
Also at Monkton Farley. These particular examples are drawn in the Rev. E. Cutts's pretty and very cheap book, called "Manual of Sepulchral Slabs and Crosses of the Middle Ages." In that Volume, at Plate LXX. , there is a tombstone
at
of the double pattern (which Langley Burrell.
is
much more
rare),
very nearly resembling that
Maud
not give
:
Heath's Causey.
259
which, if he had any, is to be regretted, because it might have assisted in clearing up the darkness of her history, or perhaps might have led to something else that would have done so. But
that Bremhill was her
to believe,
own proper
parish
we
are certainly inclined

interest
and
for these reasons.
She must have had some

it
in or connexion with that parish, (probably
was
at Bremhill
Wick), or why be at the pains to begin her causey so far within the bounds of it? In the next place, we have record of the name
of
Heath
at
Bremhill a few years after her death.
Edward Heath
was a Trustee of the causey in 1537; 1 and in the Wilts Musters of

the second person in the Bremhill list of "able men" is William Heath. This perhaps does not imply that William was of
1538,
higher worldly rank than that respectable, yet
mon one, of independent yeoman freeholder.
now not so very comStill, supposing Maud to

raise her"
belief.
have been related to these persons, this would the mere market-woman rank of the common
venture with
above
But we
modesty and however loath to disturb
all
to aspire yet a little higher
on her behalf;
story,
plausible
and popular
presume
(for
to take the liberty of expressing a very strong suspicion
a reason to be given) that perhaps the worthy benefactress belonged after all to the class of gentlefolk. The reason is this.
a casual note amongst Aubrey's (sometimes very useful) memoranda, which seems to have escaped observation hitherto. It is in his description of the interior of Bremhill Church as it
is
There
was
to be seen in his
own
time, 1650-70.
Mr. Bowles does not
appear to
have known of Aubrey's notes. At least he makes no allusion whatever to them. The windows of the aisles, says
Aubrey, had once been filled with good old stained glass. Part of this was still remaining. In the north aisle the five works of mercy, as Burial of the Dead, &c., &c.; with coats of arms, amongst which those of a Robertus Russell. In the south aisle, all the
windows of which had been very good, there were

:
still
left
"12
lights, containing the 12 apostles, each with his symbol of the and at the top of the eastern window of creed, and cognizance
See p. 261.
Note.
2 L 2
260
this aisle,
Maud
Heath's Carney.
the figure of a man drawn in green, kneeling, like Judge Littleton, and a woman drawn by him; with the words coat of arms was scattered "Orate pro animd Johannis HETH."
about these windows, "Or, a lion rampant, double tailed, sable": and in the margin of his manuscript Aubrey writes the name
Hethe as
if it referred to this coat

it
hitherto to identify
as
though we have not been able the shield of any family of that name. 1
;
There can be no doubt that this south
aisle
had been thus
liberally
embellished by the Johannes Heath, whose figure, drawn in green, And it is occupied so prominent a place at the eastern end of it.
only a fair inference that he must have been a gentleman landowner of the Parish of Bremhill. Therefore with this fact before
family being settled there of the higher class of life, it is at any rate quite as likely that the benefactress to the causey belong'ed to that class, as that she was only in the more humble
us, of a
position,
which, in the absence of any bona fide evidence, 2 popular gossip has consigned her. But this our suggestion to the contrary notwithstanding, the
to
story of her being an old goody market-woman, or at the highest, a farm-housekeeper, is the favourite one, and is now likely to be
perpetuated.
most substantially
For within these few years the tradition has been personified, in a bodily form and of a material
that are likely to endure, as long as the causey itself shall last. few minutes after leaving the Chippenham Station in the
Train towards London, the passenger
may observe on the right the top of a high ridge, (above-mentioned as Bremhill hand, upon Wick Hill), a column standing clear against the horizon. The
is
distance
too great to distinguish a figure at the
summit
but a
Aubrey's Collections for N. Wilts. Part 11,

If
p, 4,
Sir T. Phillipps' edition.
Maud had
left
a Will, which
told us
history. All that in such a case can be
more of her
we The name
would have perhaps does not occur very often at that period.
fear she did not, it
as do occur.
pected way. and a Richard Heath, Yicar of Chiseldon (about 15 miles from Bremhill) who died in 1474, the very year of Maud's gift. But there is at present nothing to
identify either of
done is to collect and compare such meagre notices One thing often leads to the solution of another in a very unexThere was a John Heath, Prebendary of Sarum, who died 1464,
them
as relatives of hers.
Maud
figure there is of uniform, or what
Heath's Causey.
261
herself in the full egg-and-butter is presumed to be such, of temp. Edw. IV.; upon her head a heavy coiffure, in her hand a staff, and by her side a basket. And there she sits, composedly surveying the well wooded and
Maud Heath
verdant lowlands before her, from the point where " her praise begins" even to that at which it ends; and a great deal more besides. The column is of freestone, about forty feet high, octangular,
that
Lisle
it
upon a square pedestal and an inscription underneath states was erected by Henry Marquis of Lansdowne, and William Bowles, Vicar of Bremhill, two of the Trustees. Then follow
:
some. lines by
W.
L. B.
" Thou who dost pause on this aerial height,
Where MAUD HEATH'S Pathway winds, in shade or light, Christian wayfarer in a world of strife, Be still and ponder on the path of life."
And
base of
to do
here,
Maud
having conducted the reader along her causey, to the Heath's Statua, we leave him, if he is wearv of us,
to that
homage
worthy benefactress, whilst we add a short
notice of
THE BENEFACTION.
original document by which Maud Heath in 1474 gave the estate, since belonging to the Trust, we have not seen any copy. But from recitals in subsequent deeds it appears that she enfeoffed
Of the
certain parties,
others.
who
as they
Such continues
to be the practice.
became reduced in number, appointed The Trustees have
been usually chosen from the gentry and clergy connected with the Four parishes, or their immediate neighbourhood. Of the
Trustees first
named by herself, three seem to have been surviving in William Woodland, Edward Heath^ and Thomas Jefierye. 1537,
viz.,
On 12th May in Edmund Stokes
that year, these three appoint

(of
new
Trustees
Tytherton Kellaways), Leonard Woodland,
i No doubt a relative of the benefactress. The Woodlands here named were a Chippenham family, who lived in what the Muster Roll of 1538 calls " The Tything of Yogan in Chippenham," by which is most probably meant the " " Lord Hungerford's Rent Roll part of the town now called Foghamshire mentions Woodland as a Freeholder in " Foggamsheare." Jeffery was a name both at Bremhill and Langley Burrell. (Walter J. was Rector of Langley 1505 1532). Norborne was also in both Parishes.
;
262
Maud
Heath's Causey.
Edward and John
Wastfield, John Bond, Benedict Long (he was younger brother to Sir Robert Long of Draycote and South Wraxhall), John Gale (of LangleyBurrell), John Knapp, Richard
Wastfield (of Christian Malford), Richard Godwin, Sen., John

Harris,
On 24th July, 1573, Edmund Stokes and the

Barrett,
William Harris, and Matthew King. the seven last mentioned being dead, rest appoint Walter Long, Esq. (eldest
son and heir of Sir Robert, and nephew of Benedict Long),
Hugh
gentleman, (of Tytherton Lucas), William Norborne, Christopher Stokes, John Beryman, Jun., Henry Stafford, John Wastfield (of Langley), Walter Gale, Andrew Norborne, Henry
Henry Newman, John Newman, William Watts alias (of Bremhill), John Olif, Sen., William Harris, Humphrey Olif, Anthony Wastfield, and John Wastfield, Jun. In 1611 the number had fallen to eight, among whom were Hugh Barrett, and William Watts alias Heath.
Fernwell,
Heath
In 1711 the Estate had become vested in Sir George Hungerford, of Cadenham, and three others then only survivors. By a deed
dated 9th October in that year, Sir James Long, of Draycote, and
fifteen others
were named.
at that time is described as consisting of
The property
1.
A Rent-charge
A yearly
in
of 14s. for ever, arising out of two closes, called Horsecroft, situate near "Wood-lane in the Parish of Ghippenham.
2.
Rent-charge of
Rowden Down Lane

3.
9s. 4d., issuing out of a close adjoining in the same Parish.
A burgage house,
dated 1644.
tenement, malthouse, garden and orchard, Cook Street in Chippenham, subject to a subsisting
situate
lease,
4.
burgage house, tenement, and garden, situate in Cook Street, subject to a lease for 99 years, dated 14th April, 1662.
tenement, and garden in Chippenham, near the
bridge, subject to a lease dated 1667.
5.
A burgage house,
A burgage house,
Charles II.
6.
tenement, and garden, in Mary's Street, in Chippenham, subject to a lease for 70 years, dated 15th April, 33 tenement, and garden, in St. Mary's Street in Chippenham, subject to a lease for 40 years, from 1706.
7.
A burgage house,
the deed of 1711, the Trustees, or the survivors of them, being not less than three, are empowered to convey the premises to
By
new
Trustees.
Maud
At the time
Heath's Causey.
263
of the Charity Commissioners' inquiry, about 1834, the surviving Trustees (under the latest previous conveyance,
dated 5th August 1825) were, Henry, Marquis of Lansdowne; Samuel Viveash, of Calne Dr. Starkie, of Spy Park The Eev. "William Lisle Bowles, Yicar of Bremhill The Eev. Eobert Ashe,
; ;
;
of Langley Burrell
ham John
;
of Calne
Eobert Humphries, of Ivy House, ChippenMerewether, of Blackland, near Calne Oriel Yiveash, Thomas Clutterbuck, of Hardenhuish Walter Coleman,
;
of Langley Fitzurse
and John Edward Andrews

real
Starkie, of
Spy
Park.
The annual value of the

to the charity
1.
and personal property belonging

: .
was then
as follows
s.
d.
Rent-charge on Horse docks," belonging to
Croft,'
now
called
"The Pad14
W.
H. Awdry, Esq., of Chip-
penham
2.
Rent-charge on a close in Rowden
Down Lane;
9
3.
Representatives of John Singer Burgage house, in Emhry,2 John Provis under lease for 21 years, from 6th April, 1832. Dwelling-house, two cottages, carpenter's shop, timber yard, and two
;
4.
5.
messuages Burgage house, in Cook Street Two burgage cottages, in Mary's

Cecil, yearly tenants]
55 18
Street, [Clifford
and
15 18
6.
Burgage houses, near the bridge
107
1 and 2 dates from 1611. In that year a dispute had and John Scott. The Feoffees claimed a moiety of each of the three parcels of ground, as having been given by Maud Heath. Scott maintained that they had been part of the inheritance of one Barnes, from whom they had passed to Tyndall, by whom they were sold to John Gale. Forty years before (viz. 1571) Gale Scott married one of them and died, leaving two daughters who divided his estate. had these lands for his share. Further he shewed that the Crown having claimed them as assart lands of Chippenham Forest, he had compounded for them and taken a mesne To settle the dispute a commission issued from the conveyance from his Majesty. Court of Chancery. Sir Henry Baynton, Sir Henry Poole and others met at Malmsbury, and finding that the claim of the Feoffees was doubtful, an order was made that upon a release being given to Scott, he and his heirs, &c., should pay out of the closes in question
1
This rent-charge on Nos.
arisen between the Feoffees
a rent-charge of 23s. 4d. per

2
annum
to the said charitable use for ever.

is
small street in Chippenham. The name is pronouneed "Amary," and doubt a corruption of Ave-Mary : as in London Ave Maria Lane.
no
264
Maud
also
Heath's Causey.
The Trustees
had
72
five
Exchequer
8d.,
Bills of
3s.
balance in the hands of the Treasurer of
<130
100 each, a 9d., and there
were arrears of rent
5s.
making a
total of
702
9s.
5d.
The property was the same
as that described in 1711, except
that one of the houses described in 1711 as in
Cook
Street
is
in
the conveyance of 1825 described as in Embry.

closely adjoins
Embry (Ave-Mary)
Cook
in the
Street.
The money
hands of the Trustees had arisen from savings,
the excellent state of the causey requiring little to keep them in repair. About 1811 the Trustees, finding that they had sufiicient
funds for the purpose, raised a footway, on a chain of about 60 arches over the river Avon and meadows adjoining, to allow persons
during the highest winter or summer floods, conceiving this to be strictly within both the letter and An earlier set spirit of the charity at the time it was established.
on
foot
and horseback
to pass
of Trustees had widened Kellaways Bridge, and lowered and im5 a year was allowed proved the road at Wick Hill. salary of to a Surveyor for taking care of the causey.
The property
of the Trust
is
likely to increase in value.
In the
years 1852 and 1853, the Trustees completed that part of the causey which had never been made, at Pew Hill, and also built
new
side,
stone bridge with iron balustrades, and a footpath on one over the Avon. This bridge was opened December 9th, 1853.
Mr. Henry Law, the Civil Engineer; Messrs. Bigby, Contractors. The present Trustees are The Marquis of Lansdowne; The Earl of Shelburn; Viscount Wellesley; Rev. Robert Ashe, of Langley
Burrell; Rev. Robert MartynAshe, ditto: Rev. Charles
Grey Cotes,
Stanton
St.
Quintin;
;
Christian Malford
Rev. Robert Yanbrugh Law, Rector of Rev. George Thomas Marsh, Vicar of Sutton
l
Benger; Rev. "Walter Long, Rector of Tytherton Kellaways; Rev. Henry Drury, Vicar of Bremhill; Rev. Robert Kilvert, Rector of
Hardenhuish; Edmund Lewis Clutterbuck, Esq., of Hardenhuish; and Walter Coleman, Esq., of Kington Langley.
J E.
July, 1854.
J.
Kingston House, Bradford.
265
Bmgstnti
itat, JBrofoM.
Every student of Wiltshire Archaeology is supposed to be acquainted with the "Halle of John Halle," on the New Canal in
Such is the name which the late Rev. Edward Duke in his book called "Prolusiones Historic," (published in 1837), has conferred upon a fine old room now restored and used
the city of Salisbury.
as a china-shop, but formerly the refectory of a wealthy citizen
and
It is less generally known woolstapler of the reign of Edward IY. that North Wilts is also able to boast of another Hall, we believe
we may add
of a second
John Hall.
For
if
houses (amongst other
things) were always called
by
their right names, this in all pro-
bability should be the proper title of the beautiful old
mansion at
:
Bradford, of which a view

for reasons
is
given in the plate annexed

it is
although
as
which will appear,
more commonly known

built,
"The
Duke's" or "Kingston House." Of the time at which it was
employed scarcely leaves a doubt. Longleat but still more strikingly resembles a portion of Kirby, the seat of Lord Winchilsea, in Northamptonshire. The date of
;
the style of architecture It partakes of the character of
Longleat House
is
well known.
It
was
built
between the years
1567 and 1579, and according to a received tradition, by John of Padua, the "Devizor of public Buildings" patronized by Henry VIII.,
Edward
VI.,
and the Protector Somerset: an
architect,
who
is
supposed by some to have been John Thorpe, an Englishman, under the disguise of an Italian name. Kirby House was built between
the years 1572 and 1638.
There
is
therefore little difficulty in
assigning Kingston House to the commencement of the 17th century. There was at an earlier period and no doubt upon the same site, a house belonging to the Halls of Bradford, which Leland saw when
he travelled that way in 1540.

1
He
says
"Halle
alias
De
la Sale
See above, pages 148 and 192.
266
dwellith in a pretty stone house at the east end of the town on 100 lands by the year: an the right bank of Avon: a man of
The peculiar ancient gentleman since the time of Edward I." notice of a "pretty stone house" exactly in the same situation,
would almost
for a moment suggest the question, could the present house by any probability be the one that Leland saw ? But this is not at all likely, as 1540 is certainly too early for the style of Kingston House.
is to be trusted (which as he sometimes wrote from not always the case) the house, as it now appears, is memory only the central portion of the original building. For according
If
Aubrey
is
to his description of it in
1670 it had, when complete, two wings. "Eehos" 1 he says "After the Echos I would upon have the draught of the house of John Hall of Bradford, Esq.,
In
his chapter
which
It
is the best built
house for the quality of a gentleman in
Wilts.
was of the best architecture that was commonly used in King James the First's reigne. It is built all of freestone, full of windowes, hath
baristers.
wings : the top of the house adorned with railes and There are two if not three elevations or ascents to it: the
tivo
uppermost
is
adorned with
terrasses,
on which are
railes
lies
and
barisit,
ters of freestone.
It faceth the river

:
Avon, which
south of
about two furlongs distant 2 on the north side is a high hill. Now, a priori, I doe conclude, that if one were on the south side of the
river opposite to this elegant house, there
;
must of necessity be a
good echo returned from the house and probably if one stand east or west from the house at a due distance, the wings will afford
a double echo."
Whether wings would have been any improvement

is
:
to the house
a question of taste but whether there really ever were any is a matter of considerable doubt. Aubrey's description is evidently
had been made on the spot he could not have expressed himself, as he does, with uncertainty as to the
from recollection
;
for if it
number
of terraces.
Neither does the echo experiment appear to
'
Natural History of Wilts,
p. 19.
The actual distance
is
about 200 yards.
Kingston
Home
Bradford.
tried,
267
have been one that he had actually
but merely one that
recent probably would have produced a particular effect, if tried. examination of the masonry and general structure leads us to the
There is not the slightest appearance against the sides of the house of its ever having had any appendages of the kind. The facade on the western
side (as seen in the print) is perfectly regular, is built of ashlar,
conclusion that
Aubrey must have been mistaken.
and has a large doorway in the centre. On the eastern side indeed the masonry is rough and the elevation irregular; but still there is no trace of any projection. The mistake may perhaps be accounted for in this way. There was formerly a range of offices and stables behind and longer than the house. This seen from a
distance
may have
"The
with
principal front to the south
presented the appearance of wings. was divided into two stories
attics in the gables,
and was occupied by large windows with
stone mullions.
These were formed by three projections, the central one coming forward square, and the two side ones with
In the centre was a large sculptured doorway to a porch, and the summit of the window bays was adorned with
semicircular bows.
open parapets." The "Duke's House"
is
noticed in a
work
called "Observations
on
the Architecture of England, during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I.," by Mr. C. J. Richardson, who has introduced
four illustrations of
it.
1.
The external view.

3.
2.
mantelpiece in the entrance hall.

upstairs floor ;
A mantelpiece of
Afireplace and stone oak on the
and 4. The same plates, with two others ceiling. of details, appear also in a volume of " Illustrations of Claverton and the Duke's House," published by George Vivian, Esq., of the
it is described as being of the transition style between the old Tudor or perpendictdar, and the new or Palladian. Many of the enrichments peculiar to it are of German invention;
former place. In these works
artists of that nation
having been then much in vogue.
The
excess
so
of
window
light,
characteristic of houses of that
style,
and
Britton's Lecture on Domestic Architecture.
2M2
268

us,
remarkable in the instance before
gave occasion to Lord Bacon's
observation, that "such houses are sometimes so full of glass that one cannot tell where to become, to be out of the way of the sun
or the cold."
One
of the terraces with open balustrades of stone, the orchard
and the garden, are all that remain out of doors. The offices, gatehouses and every other appendage that it may have had of suitable character, as fountains and bowling green, &c., have disappeared.
upstairs, (being the of the plates above referred to) are still to be seen two shields third carved in oak, each bearing the following quarterings.
Over the chimney piece of a panelled room
1.
HALL.
Sable.
3 poleaxes argent.
(This coat with the crest of Hall,

proper,
"an arm embowed
in armour,
garnished
or,
holding a
Kingston Home, Bradford.
269
poleaxe argent," is upon a shield in stone over Hall's almhouse in the town of Bradford).
2.
ATFOKD.
Three cylindrical open-barred spindles or
winding yarn.
The device
is
reels, apparently for (Or are they eel-traps, called in heraldry, weels ?) very rare and uncertain: but it is evidently some
kind of mill apparatus. At-ford was the name of an heiress who married one of the early Halls of Bradford: and in an old Herald's
note book in the Harleian collection of
MSS.
(4199. p. 91.) the
word Atford
just perceptibly, written against this quartering in a rough sketch of the arms of Gore of Alderton.
is,
the Glastonbury
Giles Gore, Esq., of that place (the purchaser, from the Crown, of Abbey estate at Grittleton in 1561) married Edith,
daughter and heiress of a Julian Hall of Bradford (a younger branch Edith was buried in Alderton church, where a gravestone, in the south aisle, still preserves her initials "E. G.
of this family).
1560" without further inscription. Thomas Gore, the writer on heraldry, used the quarterings 1 and 2 (Hall and Atford) in his
book-plates: and the same arms were also to be seen in Aubrey's time on stained glass in the windows of old Alderton house now
3.
bend between 3 leopards or
lions heads erased.
[The Wilts
Visitation of 1565, gives in the drawing of Hall's coat, 3 etoiles on
the bend].
An eagle sable, preying on a fish azure. [This was also found on a seal attached to one of the old deeds lately discovered in Kingston
House].
Argent, 3 torteauxes, two and one.
5.
6.
BESILL.
HALL.
As No.
1.
As
is
this shield contains

it
none of the
later quarterings of Hall, it
not unlikely that

this site.
may have come from the older house formerly
upon Over the mantelpiece of the entrance hall (the second of the of arms, of sixteen quara plates alluded to above) was painted coat a stone shield sunk within a carved oval frame, that terings, upon
again being contained within a carved square frame. Mr.Richardson's
270
drawing of
this coat is so minute that some of the quarterings cannot be distinguished, and the painting itself is now destroyed. Besides those which are represented in the woodcut above, it included Tropnell, Bower, (a cross patte*e), and Seymour, (a pair of
wings conjoined), and other intermediate quarterings brought in by heiresses, probably Besill and Rogers. At the corners were the
crests of Hall,
Seymour, (a pho3nix), and another, a lion rampant. Over the larger shield upon the edge of the frame, was a smaller one of THYNNE viz, Quarterly, 1 and 4, barry of ten or and sable There can be no doubt (Boteville); 2 and 3, argent a lion rampant.
:
that this painted shield referred to the last owner John Hall, who died 1711: whose mother was a Seymour and whose wife was a
Thynne,
as will
be seen in the pedigree below.

built
He
probably embelto consider
lished or finished the house,
which we are inclined
must have been
by
his grandfather, of the
same name.
FAMILY OF HALL OF BRADFORD.
It is not likely that there

families of this
name
at Salisbury
was any connection between the two and Bradford. The arms used
by the former, "Argent, on a chevron between three columbines azure, a mullet of six points," being wholly different from those of
Hall of Bradford, "Sable, 3 poleaxes argent."
Hall of Bradford
was of considerable antiquity. The name is often met with in very early deeds, as "De Aula" or "De la Sale" (salle being French for
hall).
William de Aula de Bradford
is
often mentioned amongst
other Wiltshire gentlemen, as a witness to documents of the reign The family certainly belonged to the of Edward I. (12731307).
list
wealthy gentry, though the name does not occur in the of Sheriffs of the county, until in the person of the last of the race, in 1670. They married into families of wealth and quality, as
class of
will be seen
by the following
extract from their pedigree, which
271
only refers to the elder branch, successively owners of the Bradford house, and is taken principally from the Visitation Book of 1565.
THOMAS HALL or De la Sale, of Bradford, Wilts.
= ALICE,
I
d. and h. of Thomas Atford; and h. of Nicholas Langridge, of Bradford.
REGINALD
HALL
=
I
NICHOLAS HALL, living 39 H. VI.

I
= MARGARET,
|
d. and coh. of Besyll, of Bradford.
William
THOMAS HALL.
I
= ALICE,
d. of
William Bower, of Wilton.
WILLIAM HALL.
I
i
= ELIZABETH, d. of Christopher Tropnell,

ofChalfield.
|
IT!
THOMAS HALL,
living 1558.
of Bradford,
= ELIZABETH, d. of John Mervyn, of

I
Fonthill,
by Elizabeth Greene.
SIR JOHN HALL, Kt.,

of Bradford.
= DOROTHY, d. and h. of Anthony Rogers,

I
of Bradford.
JOHN HALL,
Esq.
= ELIZABETH, d.
I
of Henry Brune, of Athelhampton, Co. Dorset.
HOMAS HALL, Kt., of Bradford. Died 1663, aged 62.
= KATHARINE, d. of Sir Edward Seymour,

|
of Berry Pomeroy, gt. grandson of the Protector.
JOHN HALL, Esq., of Bradford. Sheriff of Wilts, 1670. Died 1711.
= Elizabeth Thynne.
1 The late Mr. Beckford in his gorgeous, and rather ostentatious, display of heraldry upon the frieze of St. Michael's galkry at Fonthill, in illustration of his own descent from Mervyn and Seymour, introduced several of the alliances made by Hall of Bradford, See Gent. Mag., 1822, part 2, p. 203318.
That of Thomas Hall and Elizabeth Mervyn

3.
his wife was, Hall: impaling 1
and
4.
Mervyn.
2.
Greene.
Latimer.
See Nichols's Fonthill, p. 35.
2 His shield was also at Fonthill. Hall : and, on an escocheon of pretence Rogers, argent, a chevron between 3 bucks trippant sable, attired or, quartering Bcsill. (See woodcut page 268;.
3 Also at Fonthill.
Hall, impaling Brune, Azure, a cross cercelee or, quartering Rokele, lozengy
ermine and gules.

4 Also at Fonthill.
de-lis azure,
-HaZZimpaling Seymour;
viz.,
1.
on a
pile gules the 3 lions of
England.
2.
The Royal Augmentation, or, semee of fleursGules two wings conjoined in lure or.
272

it
This pedigree includes,
will be observed,
two or three heiresses

first,
by
whom accessions of
in
property were made. The
Alice Atford,
the lands of two families, Atford and Langridge. brought Besill (a coheiress) contributed a moiety of lands, temp. Margaret Henry VI. The next heiress was that of the ancient family of
at
Rogers of Bradford, the founder of which, Anthony Rogers, serjeant law in 1478, had married the other coheiress of Besill. The Rogers
family lived in the house called in later times Methuen House, at the top of Peput Street; in which Aubrey saw "many old
escutcheons." 1
Dorothy the
heiress of
to the Halls not only her
own patrimony,
Rogers accordingly brought (part of which lay at

Rogers of
Holt), but the other moiety also of the Besill estate. Cannington was a junior branch of this family.
standing at the west side of Bradford, well known Early English roof, framed from the ground so as to be independent of the walls. Aubrey's passing observation,
is
still
There
a fine old barn

for its
it had upon the point of one of the gables a hand a battleaxe, (the crest of Hall), warrants the supposition holding that it was built by one of this family. Sir Thomas Hall, last but one in the pedigree given above,
that in 1670
married Katharine 2 daughter of Sir Edward Seymour,

elder house),
(of the
who
died 1659,
by Dorothy Killigrew.
I.
:
Sir
Thomas
660.
was a royaKst, temp. Charles
one of the Wiltshire gentlemen
who were obliged to compound for their estates.

John Hall
estate near
He was fined
of Bradford (the last male of the family) added to his
father's large estates, the Storridge Pastures, part of the
Brooke House
Westbury, which he purchased in 1665 of Sir Edward Hungerford of Farley Castle. He was also probably the purchaser
of Great Chalfield manor, as he presented to the rectory in 1678. His wife was Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Thomas Thynne, (who
1 The arms of Rogers (argent, a chevron between 3 bucks sable) are still to be seen in the top of the east window of Bradford church. The piece of glass is very small and has been turned upside down by the glazier.
In the History of Mere
(p.
of Dr. Stourton.
Edmondson and
134) Lady Hall is called Anne Seymour, others contradict this.
widow

died
1670),
273
and sister of Thomas Thynne, Esq., (Tom of Ten who was murdered by Count Koningsmark in the streets Thousand) The monument to Mr. Thynne in of London, in February 1682.
"Westminster
Abbey was
erected
by Mr. John Hall

left
his brother-in-
law and executor.
John Hall
at his death in
1711
one daughter Elizabeth, 1
who
became the wife of Thomas Baynton Esq. of Chalfield, second son of Sir Edward Baynton of Bromham. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Baynton was Rachel Baynton, who appears to have been unmarried at the time of her grandfather John Hall's death. By his will dated 10th September, 1708, he devised all his lands in
Wilts, Somerset, and elsewhere, to Denzill Onslow, Esq., Edward Lisle, Esq., Francis Goddard, Esq., and Robert Eyre, Esq., trustees
;
upon
trust
after
the marriage of Rachel daughter of
Thomas
Baynton, then of Bradford, Wilts, (the testator's granddaughter), for the said Rachel Baynton during her life after her death to her
:
heirs male successively: remainder to Edward Seymour, son of Sir Edward Seymour, Bart., for his life: remainder to his heirs
male
said
Mrs. Coward.
remainder to William Pearce grandson of the testator's sister, By a codicil dated February 1710, he preferred the
his heirs male, before
William Pearce and

his heirs male.
also
Edward Seymour
and
Mr. Hall
by
his will charged his
farm called Paxcroft farm
in Steeple Ashton, lately purchased from Matthew Burges, (now the 40 per property of Walter Long, Esq.), with a clear sum of for the maintenance of four poor men in the almshouse he annum,
had
lately erected in Bradford.

to the south side of the
Attached
small chapel
is
nave of Bradford church
is
known by
the
name
of
"The Kingston
Aisle," which
kept in repair by the owner of Kingston House. What may be concealed under the seats or boarded floor of this chapel the writer cannot say, but he has not been able to discover in any visible part of Bradford church the slightest trace of monument, device, inscription, or other
memorial whatsoever
to the
Hall family.
On
wooden screen which parted this chapel from the South Aisle there was a few years ago, the Coat of Hall.
i
See the following Pedigree, page 275.
2 N
274
THE DUKES
or KINGSTON.
Rachel Baynton, granddaughter and by the death of her only brother Henry Baynton, sole heiress, of John Hall, married the
Wm. Pierrepoint, only son and heir of Evelyn Pierrepoint then Marquis of Dorchester, afterwards first Duke of Kingston. Mr. Wm. Pierrepoint died in 1713 at the age of 21, during his
Hon.
father's lifetime.
Rachel his wife died in 1722.
The
first
Duke
of Kingston (her father-in-law) died in 1726, and was succeeded by his grandson Evelyn, (only son of "Wm. Pierrepoint and Rachel
Baynton,) the second and last Duke of Kingston, who died 1773. This nobleman, as representative of the Halls, had large estates in Bradford and the neighbouring parishes: viz., Great Chalfield
manor and advowson, the constableship of Trowbridge, the manor of Trowbridge, Monkton near Broughton Giffard, Storridge Pastures
in Brooke, the
Little Trowle,
manors and lordships of Bradford, Great Trowle, Leigh and Woolley, Paxcroft farm in the parish of
with lands, &e., in Atford, Hilperton, Trowbridge,
Steeple Ashton;
Studley, Staverton, Westbury, Melksham, Holt, Steeple Ashton,
North Bradley, and Winkfield. The name of Evelyn was adopted
as a Christian
name
in the
Duke of Kingston's family from the Evelyns of West Deane, in the Hundred of Alderbury in South Wilts. Robert Pierrepoint (who
died about 1670), Father of the second Earl of Kingston, had married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Evelyn of that
place,
and obtained the estate. The second and last Duke of Kingston, in making his selection of a partner for life, either had never read or had forgotten, or at all events took no manner of heed to, that celebrated sentence on
female character, which the great historian of Greece enunciates by the mouth of Pericles: viz., that her reputation is the best, with which fewest tongues are busy amongst the other sex, either for
praise or blame.
For he
fixed his choice
on one with
whom during
;
a great part of the last century all tongues were busy not all indeed for blame, but certainly not all for praise. The lady rejoiced
in a plurality of names, being
known
first
as Elizabeth Chudleigh,
276
alias
the Honble. Miss Chudleigh; alias Mrs. Harvey, alias Countess of Bristol, alias finally Duchess of Kingston. Her father was Col. Chudleigh, of Chelsea, a younger brother of Sir George
Chudleigh,
Bart.,
of Ashton, in Devonshire.
She was born in
of Bath, was appointed at an early age Maid of Princess of "Wales, mother of King George III.
1720, and through the influence of Mr. Pulteney, afterwards Earl Honour to the
Upon
a very
slight acquaintance and under a mistaken pique against another person, she privately married at Lainstone, in Hampshire, on 4th
August, 1744, the
lieutenant in the Royal Navy,
Honble. Augustus John Hervey, a young who in the following year succeeded
his brother as Earl of Bristol.
From
still
separated, and after 25 years, court, and her husband being
her husband she very soon maintaining her situation at

she married the
still alive,
Duke
of
Kingston publicly at St. George's, Hanover Square, March 8th, This union was dissolved by the death of the Duke at Bath, 1769.
23rd September, 1773.
great estates for her
life,
He
bequeathed to her every acre of his

his personal property
and every guinea of
Under this disappointment, his heirs sought for and absolutely. succeeded in obtaining proof of her first marriage, and the consequence was, that for the offence of bigamy she was impeached
before the house of Lords.
The
trial lasted five days,
commencing
April 15th, 1776. This event excited, as is well known, the utmost sensation in the fashionable world, and the scene was converted by
the caprice of public taste into a complete holiday spectacle. Ladies attended in full court dress, and soldiers were placed at the doors
The the entrance of the crowds that pressed in. of the Duchess herself is thus described by an eyeappearance "Garrick would have me take his witness Mrs. Hannah More.
to
regulate
ticket to
go to the trial, a sight which for beauty and magnificence exceeded anything that those who were never present at a coronation or a trial by peers can imagine. Mr. Garrick and I were in full-
dress
by
seven.
hall.
You will imagine the bustle of 5000 people getting

Yet in
all the hurry we walked in tranquilly. were all seated, and the King at Arms had commanded they silence on pain of imprisonment, (which however was very ill
into one
When

observed), the
277
Usher of the Black Rod was commanded
in his prisoner.
to bring Elizabeth calling herself Duchess Dowager of
Kingston walked in led by Black Rod and Mr. La Roche, curtseying profoundly to her Judges. The Peers made her a slight bow. The
prisoner was dressed in deep mourning, a black hood on her head, her hair modestly dressed and powdered, a black silk sacque with
crape trimmings, black gauze deep ruffles, and black gloves. The Counsel spoke about an hour and a quarter each. Dunning's
insufferably bad, coughing and spitting at every three words, but his sense and expression pointed to the last degree. He made her Grace shed bitter tears. The fair victim had four Virgins
manner was
in white behind the Bar.
She imitated her great predecessor Mrs.

;
Rudd, and affected to write very often though I plainly perceived that she only wrote as they do their love epistles on the stage, without forming a letter. The Duchess has but small remains of
that beauty of which Kings and Princes were once so enamoured.
She
is
large and
it
and had
ill- shaped. There was nothing white but her face; not been for that she would have looked like a bale of
bombazeen."
Lord Chancellor Apsley presided
as
High Steward.
The charge
was fully proved, and the marriage with the Duke declared illegal. The Lady read her own defence, and by her tears, cleverness, impudence, and eccentricity, so wrought upon the Honourable House,
that they avoided the enactment of any penalties, amongst which would have been, as the law seems then to have stood, the very
unpleasant one of being branded in the hand. The prosecutors however failed in their great object, the restitution of the property.
The Duke had
so
worded
his bequest that it
was inalienably
her's
under any one of her many titles. The Duchess's whole life had been one of adventure, display, and She had great means at command, and upon indelicate publicity.
her trial incidentally alluded to a balance of 70,000, in her banker's hands. She built Ennismore House, at Kensington. At one of
fetes, Horace Walpole says, that on all the sideboards and even on the chairs were pyramids and troughs of strawberries and cherries. "You would have thought her the protegee of Vertumnus
her
himself."
278
After her trial she went to Russia, "en princesse," in a ship of
her own; was received graciously by the Empress, purchased for 12,000 an estate near St. Petersburgh, and proposed to erect works on it for the distillation of brandy. Soon afterwards she
returned to France, where also she had an estate
:
and died rather
suddenly at Paris,
26th August, 1788, aged 68. She resided occasionally at Kingston House, and no doubt by her
fantastic performances infused a little vivacity into the orderly ideas of the townsfolk of Bradford. Old people there still tell traditional
tales of
her ladyship's peculiarities. Upon her decease, in consequence of the Duke having died without issue, the landed estates
which she enjoyed for her life, passed to his sister's son Charles Meadows, who assumed by sign manual the surname and arms of A very large Pierrepoint, and was created Earl Manvers in 1806.
part of the property still belongs to his family, but Kingston House with about nine acres of ground, was sold in 1802, to Mr. Thomas
Divett,
fell
erected a woollen mill upon the premises. The house the occupation of inferior tenants and was rapidly sinking into
who
to decay,
it was fortunately again sold by Mr. Divett's rein 1848, to the present owner Mr. Stephen Moulton. presentatives
when
Mr. Moulton's
all
first act
one for which he deserves the thanks of
admirers of architectural elegance, was to put into complete restoration all that remained of the North "Wiltshire Hall of John
Hall.
reason for believing that the Duke of Monmouth lodged here, during one of his progresses amongst the gentlemen of the west of England; but no specific notice of this circumstance has yet been met with. Upon taking up the^floor of
There
is
some
slight
beautiful court sword of Spanish steel,
one of the apartments in 1851, a curious discovery was made of a which Mr. Moulton gave to
the late Captain Palairet, of Woolley Grange, near Bradford. Along with it were found some fragments of horse equipage, and a quantity of ancient deeds and papers, chiefly holsters, &c.
;
relating to the Hall family and their property, in and near Bradford. As a sequel to the history of Kingston House, we introduce the
substance of
them
in the two following schedules.
Number 17
in
Documents found at Kingston House.
279
Schedule 2, will be found contain evidence that the property in Bath, now belonging to Earl Manvers, was derived to his family from the same source as Kingston House, the HALLS of Bradford.
I.
ABSTRACT or LATIN AND ENGLISH DEEDS RELATING CHIEFLY TO LANDS OF HALL AND ROGERS, FOUND UNDER A GARRET FLOOR, IN
REPAIRING KINGSTON HOUSE, 1851.
1.
Charter of Agnes de Bunewoode granting to William de Forde son of John de Forde, Clerk, (sic) all her right in Schortcrofte
,
her land in the town of Forde, near the land of John and Nicholas de Forde, for the annual payment
all
near Forde, and
Twopence and a Jib of pepper. Witnesses, Reginald de Buteler, John de Bosco, Richard de Ba, William France, John his son, Robert de Linton, Roger de Bunewode, and others.
of
2.
Seal destroy ed~\. [JV0 date, but probably Hen. III. Charter of Margaret de Bunewode granting to John Clerk as a marriage portion with her Daughter Juliana half of her lands
Forde with messuage, &c., and a croft on the south side of Horncroft, at the annual rent of a pair of gloves, and one Witn. r farthing, and to the Lord of the Fee a Ib. of pepper.
in
Walter 1 of Chaldefeld, Martin then Parson of Chaldfelde, Walter then Parson of the other Chaldefeld, Robert 2 de Chaldfeld, Clerk, Henry de Mochesam, William de Mugeworth, (?)
Sir
Wm.
de
William de Porta, and others. \_No date or seal; Endorsed "Deed of Margaret but probably Hen. III. or Ed. I.
his son,
BOWOOD"].
"Walter of Chalfield
is
mentioned as Patron of the Rectory 1308-9
(2.
Edw.
II.)
(Wilts Institutions).
2
Robert of Broughton was Rector of Gt. Chalfield in 1308. (Wilts. Inst.)
280
3.
Documents found
at Kingston House.
Charter of "William Clerk of Walton, (Co. Somerset) confirming to Henry Peche and Margaret his wife, a half acre of meadow
and appurts; in Porteshevede (Portishead) lately bought of John de Vele and Isabel his wife. [Temp. Edw. II. but no
date or
4.
seal'].
Charter of Thomas Devedaunz confirming to William "de Aula" (Hall) and Katharine his wife and Thomas their son an
acre of arable land in the South Field of Bradford, for the
rent of one farthing. Witn., Adam Yicar of Bradford, John l Wm. Pyle. Basset, Nicholas the Dyer, Gilbert the Smith, date or seal But temp. Edw. //.] \_JVo
5.
Indented charter of John Carpenter of Bradewey confirming to Thos. Gramary of Marleberge all his land without Marlborough, which he had of Edward son of Richard Clerk, Rd. Walkeby on N. and Thos. opposite the King's garden.
Clerk of Clatford on
S.
and
6d. annually at
To pay Jib. of cummin at Michaelmas, the Mass of the B. Y. M. in the Church

Wit., Stephen Fromund, then Constable
of St. Peter of
M.
of the Castle of Marlborough, Nicholas de Hamper, Sampson de Berewyke, Peter the Parchment-maker, and other
Parishioners.
[Temp. Edw.
I.
Seal gone].
1 The two following Deeds (part of tlie Westley Collection lately given to the Society) relating to Bradford, evidently belong to this period.
1.
2.
Omnibus, &c., Robert de Wylmydon, Clerk, grants to Agnes daughter of Beatrix daughter of William Sullene a Messuage &c., at the head of Bradford Bridge, with a curtilage adjacent, and extending from the said Bridge to the wall of my new Chamber, of the Burgage which formerly belonged to Robert of Wylmyndon my Father, &c. Witnesses, Sir John de Holte. William de la Sale, John Basset, Gilbert le Smith, Nicholas the Dyer, and others. \_No date, but Probably Edw. II. Seal torn off"\. Know all men that I John de Holte Kt. have given &c. to Robert de Wylmyndon for 100s. a messuage &c. in Bradeford lying between the tenement of James Carpenter and that which Reginald D'ozilot holds of the Abbess of Shaftesbury. Also a tenement between that of Reginald, and that of Hugh Potel. Witnesses, John de Comerwell Kt., John de Bradeford, John de Hainault, William de Aula (Hall), Walter de Chaudefeld (Chalfield), Stephen de la Slade, John Basset, John de Murtlegh, John de Wolvelegh ( Woolley), and others. \_No date but pro-
On a Shield, seemee offleurs Seal in black wax perfect. bably Edw. II. de lys 3 lions rampant. On the legend " JOHANNES DE HOLTE"].
Documents found at Kingston House*

6.
281
Indented Charter of Walter Fayrchild of Wroxhall, (South Wraxhatt), granting to Alice la Lochc for 40s., a house in "W.
grange and a curtilage called Wytherhey, and a croft which he had of John de Comerwelle (Cumberwell
his
;
which was
near Bradford).
Also Clifcroft, and Bradecroft, and a
croffc
above Hanecleye between the land of Roger de Berleye and Rogere le Gredere. paying 13d. per ann. to the Lord Prior
and Convent of Farleye, viz., at Hockeday 12d. and at Michaelmas Id. To John de Forde 1 Jd. and to said Walter Id.
Witn., Sir John de Comerwelle, Kt., Rogere de Berleye, John de Bedel, Roger Alwyne and others. Seal \_Temp. Edw. I.
gone}.
7.
Charter of Robert Gerneys of Buddebury, confirming to Win. de Aiila (Hall) of Bradford, and Katharine his wife, for 20s.,
a piece of land in Berefeld, called Garston, bet. the land of
8.
John de Asselegh and John de Bradford, and nigh Buddebury Wood. Wit., Sir John de Holte, Sir John de Comerwelle, Kt., Walter de Chaldfeld, John Basset, &c. [ The date and seal gone : but temp. Edw. 1~\. (1315). Quitclaim of Robert le Knyzt and Matilda his wife to
Wm.
de Bradford and Katharine his wife, of land held of
W.
de B. in Portisheued, with Fisheries. Dated Bristol. "Tuesday after Feast of St. Augustine First Bishop of England." [8 and
9 Ed. II.
9.
Endorsed "The Fischynge at Bristol"].
(1316).
Judgment of Recovery at Sarum to Thos. son of Warin Mauduit and Robert Seal in the sum of 20s. from John Waspail,
10.
Edw.
II.
10.
(1324). Charter of Reginald de la Sale of Bradford, confirming to Roger le Wolmanger and Matilda his wife a messuage, &c.,
near "le Provendere" (the market?) 3 acres in Woolflege field ( Woolley) , 1 in Kingsfield bet. the land of the Rector of Bradford,
le
and Mowat's,
1 acre
on west
side of the
rose.
Vignur's land.
For the rent of a
Moor, nearWm. Reversion to Sir
Thomas
Witn., John de Brother, Rector of Porteshead. John Basset, John de Mugworthley and others. Dated Bradley, Bradford, 18. Edw. II. [Impression of seal of ivhite wax gone}.
my
2 o
282
11.

(1325).
John Waspail of Smalebrook confirms
to
Adam
le
Threscher of Bishopstrow an acre in le Mersche, for his service Dated Bishopstrow, Rent, 12 silver pence. during life. 19 Edw. II. Robert Swaynge, Osbert Gostelyn, Ad. Wit.,
Goscelin, Atte Mulle,
Wm.
Wyneband, &c.
[Seal of white
wax, but impression gone}.

12,
(1274). Quitclaim from Isabella
widow of Roger Kentisse, dau.
of Tral (Trowk), to Peter de Tral son of Rich. Walwayn her brother, of her right in a messuage, &c., wh. Walter the Miller held in Tral. For rent of 12d. and
of
20s. paid.
Wm. Walwayn
This quitclaim was made in the Church of Trow:
bridge, before all the Parishioners
Sunday
aft.
Ascension, 3.
Edw.
I.
Witn., Thomas de Tuderigge, Walter the Miller,
Wm.
13.
of the
Well "(At-well)" of Monkton Farley, &c.

and heir of
[Seal
(1328). Indented Charter of Reginald, son
Wm.
Way
de Bradeford, confirming to Margaret
who was
wife of Thos.
Frankeleyn of Batwell,
held in Porteshead.
the messuage wh. Walter le de Capenore, Peter Tilly, Wit.,

all
Wm,
Bryan
Frye, Philip of Bradford, John de Capella, &e. Dated Portishead, 1. Edw. III. "The sd. Margaret not to
le
if
marry without consent:

feited."
she does the premises to be for-
14.
(1329). Indented Charter of Reginald de la Sale of Bradford : granting to Thomas his Brother, a messuage &c., late Elizabeth
la Bret's in Porteshead.
60s. Rent.
Also 24s. Rent yearly
in Bradford, 2. E. III.
15. (1329).
to
Richard Caphaw
Indented Charter of Reginald de Bradford confirming (or Caphode) and Joan his wife and Isabella
their dau., a tenement, &c., in Frogmerestreet, late held of
him
by Henry de Baa.
is
Dated
at Bradford, 2. E. III.
[The house
described as lying between that of

the
Thomas Mey, and the

St.
way which leads from

Mill:
Church of
Olave towards the
the land called
Witn., John Basset,
"Reveland" and in "Kingfield"]. John Gibbes, Richard Poyntz, Wm. Pylke,

[Seal
gone'].
Nicholas the Dyer, &c.

16.
283
(1330). Indented
Charter of John
and Elena
his wife granting to
Semple of Marleberge Margaret late wife of John de

le
Stanborne of M. a tenement in M,, with a curtilage "as far as the Ditch," Dated at M., 4 E. III. Witn., Wm. de Ramnaeshalle,
then Constable of the Castle of Marlb., Richard de
Brai, then Mayor,

fects of the
Walter Gives, Henry
le
Denere, then Pre-
Town,
Wm,
Atweld, &e.
17.
(1333).
The same
parties grant to Matilda, formerly wife of
Roger Hogeby of Marlborough a Tent, in M. "opposite the steps of the Cemetery of St. Peter's Ch." Witn., as above, and Robert Kathecate, Edmund le Man, wardens of the said town. Dated at M,, 7 Edw. III.
18. (1335). Indented quitclaim of Laurence de Montfort, son and heir of Alexander de M., to James de Trowbrigge, for his
life,
50s. of ann. rent,
wh. James holds in Okebourn Meysi.
John de Montfort, John Delamere, Robert de Nony, Henry son of John de M., Robert Admotes, &c. Dated at Nony (JNunney) on Feast of St. George the
Wit., Thos. Delamere,
(April 23). [On a seal of white wax a Bendy Ermine']. 19. (1336). Joan dau. of John de Buddebury quitclaims to John
la Slade
Martyr, 9 Edw. Ill,
de la Slade a Tenement wh. Peter Fouke held of Stephen de and Joan his dau. in Bradford. Wit., John de Bradley,
George de Percy, John Basset, John Gylbys, Rich. Poyntz, &c, Dated Bradford, Friday before St. Aldelm, 10 Edw. III.
[Seal gone]. 20. (1320). James
Walwayn
all his right to
of Trol quitclaims to Richard his son lands in Trol and Holte, and in the Bailiwick
of the Bedelry of the Court of Farleigh. 1 Wit., Bradleghe, Nicholas de Wyke, &e. Dated at Trol, 14
John of Edw. II.
[A
small seal of red wax, on which a device;
a cross and
flower].
"Et
in Balliva Bedelrie Curie de Farleigh."
2 o 2
284
21.

(1341).
obligation by which John Corp, of Turlinge near Bradford) and Isolda his wife are bound to John (Turley, Basset of Bradford in 5 sterling, to be paid in the Church of the
\_Sealgone}.
Deed of
22. (1342). Quitclaim
Holy Trinity at Bradford. DatedatB.,15 Edw.III. from Win. Iwen of Thanestone

near Warminster ?) to John
Wyther
of
La Penne
(Thoulston, of a croft of
land near Golden grove at Chaldecotte. Witn., Eichard Danesy, Nicholas Fitzwarren, Wm. de Grimsted, Walter de Sherenton, John le GoL Dated at La Penne, 16 E. III.
23. (1351).
Warrant of Attorney from James Norris: appointing Thos. Harald of Stodeleigh (near Trowbridge) and Wm. Daunteseye of Trowbridge his Atts. to place Wm. Stodeleigh his
at
kinsman in possn. of tenements Trowbridge, 25 E. III.

24. (1351).
Okebourne Meysi.
Dated
Warrant of Attorney from Margaret Abbess of Shaftesand the Convent there, to Rob. Dychford to place Thos. bury Skathloke and Edith dau. of Roger le Porter in possn. of a messuage in Lygh (Bradford- Leigh) and Wroxhale within
:
their
Manor
of Bradford.
\_Seal of the Benedictine
Dedicated first
to the
Dated Shaftsbury, 25 E. III. Nunnery of Shaftesbury, Co. Dorset. B. V. Mary, and afterwards to St. Edmund,
the legend
is left.
King and Martyr. TU NOBIS AUX

25.
Part of
CTI
".
LEA MARIS
(1350).
EDWARDI REGIS ET MARTYRIS"]. Indenture between Philip Pilk and Agnes his wife,
le
and Nicholas
latter are
Webbe and
Christina his wife, whereby to the
granted a messuage and appurts. in Bradford. Wit., Thos. Atte Halle, Nicholas Gibbes, Thos. Pilk, Thos. Ledbeter,
&c.
Dated Bradford, Xtmas Eve, 30 E. III.

confirming to
[Seal gone}.
26. (1356). Indented Charter of Nicholas Atte Slade

his wife,
and Joan
his wife
Wm.
Perham and Katharine
an
acre, &c. in Bradford, lying in Kingsfield.
4d. Rent.
Wit.,
Thos. Atte Halle, John Besyles, Geo. Vincent, Nich. Gibbes, John de Ashlegh. Dated Bradford, 30 E. III. \_Seal gone}.
27.
(1360).
Same
Parties confirm to Thos. Middleton and Matilda

Id. Rent.
his wife another piece in Kingsfield.

B., 34 E. III.
Dated
at
[Same
witnesses}.

28. (1363). Conrt Eoll of
285
Wm.
Waspayl, held at Smalebrooke,

wife, to
37 E. III.
[ The
left side
of the original eaten by rats}.
29. (1366). Release
from John Folevyle and Margery his
Thos. Harald of Stodleye (near Trowbridge) relating to a Tenement late Wm. Atte Fenne's formerly husband to Mar-
gery in Fontel Episcopi, Co. Wilts. Witn., Robert Delamere, John de Edyndone, Philip Fitzwaryn, Kts., John Mareys,
Wm.
the
40 E. III.
Atte Clyve, Thos. Gore, &c. Dated Edyndon, 10 April, [Fragments of 2 seals on a single tie appended: on
fess,
upper one, (probably the arms of Folevyle) per

cross}
.
ermine
and or : a
30. (1371). Charter of
confirming to
Sir
John Solne, son and heir of Stephen Solne, John Gyle, Yicar of Bradford, 1 and Sir
John de Mydylton, Chaplain, an acre of arable land in Bradford, bet. the land of John Walwayne and Ralph Atte Watte.
Wit., Sir Philip Fitzwaryn, Kt., Thomas Hungerford, Thos. Gore, John Waschley, and Thos. Atte Forde. Dated Brad31. Indented Charter of
St. Margaret the Virgin, 45 Edw. III. John de Freshforde, Lord of Freshforde, granting to Philip de Frye and Alice his wife lands, late held by Elyas de Noreys, 2 acres being next the Park wall of 2 Henton, 1 upon Riggeley, and J an acre in Putlonde, \ an acre
ford,
Sunday, Feast of
against land of the Rectory of Freshford, 1 bet. Rector's land
Alice,
and Robert Parsone's, also against Brockholes and Chysemeade. Margaret, and Philip, children of P. Frye. Wit., Richard Atte Bridge, John Peyt. [Probably Rich. II. : but
the
Deed much
mutilated}.
32. (1380).
Deed of Attorney, Alice de Wilde appoints Walter de Forde, and John Godman of Farleigh her Attornies to put Walter Moloyter (?) and Margaret his wife in possn. of land Dated at Farley (Monkton F.) 4 R. II. [Seal in Wroxale.
}
gone}.
Jolin GUI,
V. of Bradford, 1349.
(Wilts Inst.)
Henton Charterhouse Abbey.
286
33. (1381). Indented Charter of John,
Lord of Freshforde, son and h. of Reginald de F. granting to Thos. Burgeis and Agatha his wife and John their son a messuage called Wodeplace in F., and a road in Templewood, leading to his house,
for driving his cattle to field, lately held
by Hugh Mason.
Rent
5s.
and 2 capons
at
Michmas.
Excepting Regal Service
at his Court at Freshford.
Halle,
John Rengoe,
of
Witn., John Crompe, John Atte John Bateman, Rich. Atte Brigge.
II.
Dated Freshforde, 29 June, 5 R.

34. (1381). Charter
[Seal gone].
Thomas Atte Forde, granting to John Aldeburgh, Rector of Combe Hawey, and John Yideln a Mess, and 26 acres, late John le Eyr and Alice his wife, in la Forde, in the Tithing of la Lye. Wit., John Ashley, John
Percy, Rob. de Barton, Nicholas Atte Slade. Dated Bradford, 5 Rich. II. [Seal of St. Nicholas performing the miracle on
the children in the Tub~].
35. (1381). Charter of Nicholas Slade conceding to
Adam
Atte
Welle, John Midilton, Chaplains, Nicholas Boteler, and Richard Myson, a Cottage, &c. late Gregory Yele's, in Slade. Witn., Thos. Atte Halle, John Ashlegh, &c. Dated at Bradford,
5 R. II.
36. (1389). Quitclaim from Cicely Barbure, to Adam Smyth and Alice his wife of a Tenement at Marlborough, between the
Gildehall and Baker's.
Sealed with the
common seal
of Marl.
Witn., Win. Hasthrope, Kt., then Constable of the Castle of M. Robert Warner, Mayor Rd. Pottone, Peter Baldry,
;
;
John Norewyn, and Henry Broysebois, Overseers ("prapositis") of the said Town, 20 April, 12 R. II. [Portion of the seal a castle and "-IGILL. c."] the Town of Marlborough left of
.
37. (1390). Quitclaim from
John Yideln
to Thos.
:
Atte Forde: of
24
acres in
La Lyghe
late
in Parish of Bradford
which
J.
Y. and
John Aldeburgh
gift
'
Parson of Combe
of Thos.
Wit.,
Hawey had of the Thos. Atte HaUe, John Percy, &c.

St. Nicholas,
Dated Bradford, Friday before Feast of
14 R.
II.
[On
a seal*!*'].
Documents found
38. (1408). Indented charter:
at
Kingston House.
287
to Eobert
John Freshford grants
Haseldene and Agnes his wife a messuage at Freshford for 6 Wit., John Atte Brigge, Wm. Keys, &c. Bat. Freshyears.
ford,
10 H. IY.
[Seal gone].
39.
(1410). Quitclaim of Thos. Stokes, Rector of St. Andrew's,
Winefeld 1 (Winkfield) to Thos. Donne, of Dated at Lewes, 12 H. IV. [No seal left}.
40.
all
actions,
&c.
(1414).
Wm.
to
Botyler and John Mascall,
Clerk,
and John
Waache
Richard Slade of Legh nr. Bradford, Co. Wilts, and Edith his wife, an annual Rent of 6s. 8d. from lands of
John and Margaret Shepherd in Farleyghswyke. Witn., Walter Hungerford, Wm. Chayny, Kts., Wm. Besile, Reginald Dated Leyghe, 15 January, 1 H. V. Halle, &c.
41. (1418). Indenture at Marlborough, 6
Reginald Halle of Bradforde and Robert Longe on one part, and Agnes Walwey late wife of John W. respecting a cottage and 2 acres
bet.
H. V.
in the Fields of
Okebourne Moysy.
seal,
Reversion to heir of
R. and R.
[Part of a
with
"
T."~\
42. (1424). Charter of (Lominus) Sir
Wm. Mery and
John Waker
of Aldryngton, granting to Walter
wife of Aldyngton, all the lands, of gift of W. Lycham. Wit., John Hert,
Lycham and &c. which they
Emma
his
lately held
Wm.
Bovetone,
43.
Dat. Aldryngody, John Proche. F. of St. Edmond K. and M., Nov. 22, 3 Henry YI. tone, (1425). Indented charter of Wm. Besyle son and heir of
John Tanner, Nicholas
W. B. of Bradford granting to Roger Trewbody, lands, late Rich. Walwayn's in Troll, or elsewhere, in Hundred of Melksham and Bradford. Dat. TroU, 20 June, 3 H. YI. [On seal,
:
a rose above a hearf\.

44. (1433). Charter of
wife,
relating to
Beauchamp, Kt. and Elizabeth his Dent and her heirs, a meadow called Alice
Wm.
Le Parrok,
in the
common meadow
H. YI.
of Bastledene, between
seals
:
Sener's and Craas's, 12
[Two
on the
first
Thomas Stokes appointed
to Rectory of
W.
1403.
(Wilts Inst.)
288
Fess
bet.

6 martlets.
tJie
Supporters 2 Swans.
Crest, a
Swan's head
couped at
neck issuing out of a ducal coronet
BEAUCHAMP.
On
the second
3 dice
dotted'].
45. (1437). Indented charter of his wife, granting to Thos.
Wm.
Seyntgeorge Esq. and Joan

wife,
Hulberd and Edith his
Bynehayes in Trol, between a close of the Abbess of ShaftesWit., Thos. Hall, Wm. Besile, bury and John Wilshote's. Nicholas Hall, &c. Dated Feast of St. Richard, (Ap. 3)
15 H.
6.
46. (1439). Indenture at Southbrome, Co. Wilts,
18 H. VI.
bet.
John Fyton Esq. and Thos. Norton of S., about lease of lands at Sherborne, Co. Dorset, and at Lavington, Mershetone,
47. (1453). Receipt of
Poterne, Vysewyke, Sterte, Eston, Canynges Episcopi. One Penny from John Gtawen at a Court at
Bradford, 32 H. VI. in 13th year of the Lady Edith Bonham, Abbess in the time of Wm. Carente, Steward, for a garden.
48. (1454). Indenture bet.
[Tenement of Henry Longge mentioned']. John Gale of Westbury, Wilts, and Wm. Smyth of Bradford and Edith his wife and John their
son,
2 Tenements in B., 1 in Sleny Street, between the Ten.
49.
The other in same St. bet. the Ten. of Rob. Lord Hungerford, and Thos. Halls's Esq. Witn., Wm. Touker, N. Halle, 33 H. VI. (1460). Power of Atty. by John Stringer to John Baskett to
of
Henry Longe Esq. and
Wm.
Pylks.
put Nich. Hall and Thos. Roger in possn. of a tenement called Dauntesey, in the parish of Twynyho and Wellowe, 39 H. VI.
Bradley in Wellow~\. 50. (1462). Bond of John Lynne of Wilton, nr.
\_A.
Iso
New
to
Sarum,
lynnewever, to Thos.
Eliz.
Norton in
100s.,
2 E. IV.
51. (1472). Indented Charter.
Nich. Halle Esq.
Wm.
and
Coscombe of Marlborough his granary in M. Witnesses, John Mermyn, Mayor Rd. Austin and JohnSpicer, Constables
;
John Ferna and Thos. Awent,
Ady John Sylvester, Under-Bailifis; Rob. Somerfyld, &c., 12 Edw. IV. \_0n seal "/. H. S." with a crown over it].
Bailiffs; Rich.

52. (1485).
289
Power of Atty. by Wm. Rogers, Esq. of Bradford, to Henry Whitington and John Jordane to enter on lands in B. and Troll and deliver possn. to John Horton and Wm. Kente.
1 March, 2 R. III.
53. (Hen. VII).
Bond
of
of the Goods of
100.
53. a (1502).
John Fripp and Robert Sturmy, keepers of Bradford, and Walter Frydy, in
[Very
illegible'].
Royal Pardon and Revocation of Outlawry, for Thomas Hall in the Fleet Prison, 18. H. VII. (tram, from Latin) Know that since John "Henry, &c. To all Bailiffs, &c.
:
Turberville, Kt., in our court before Thos.
Wode,
Kt.,
and
other Justices of the Bench, by our writ impleaded Thomas Hall, lately of Bradford, Co. Wilts, gentleman, of a debt of <100 And the said Thomas in that he came not to answer
:
&c., was placed in our court of Outlawry in and was then fully outlawed as fully appeareth by the London, tenor of a Record and Process of Outlawry which we caused
the demand,
to
come before us in our Chancelry:
And now
the said
Thomas has surrendered himself
at our Prison the Fleet before
our present Justices aforesaid, and remains in the said Prison, as our beloved Thos. Frowyk our Chief Justice in the same
Bench has
certified to us at
our
Command
in our aforesaid
Chancelry: pity have Pardoned to the sd. Thomas the Outlawry aforesd. and grant our peace to him for the same. So that nevertheless he may appear in our Court,
if the aforesaid
We
moved by
John
shall desire to speak
the debt above mentioned.

these our Letters to be
with him touching In Testimony, &c., we have caused

patent.
minster, 15 October.
Teste meipso at West\_A fine impression of the Great Seal of

.
made
England
54. (1513).
in white wax, but legend gone~\
Warrant from John West, one of the
Justices of Peace
Wilts to Constables, &c., for apprehension of John Nores of Bradford John James, weaver, and Margaret his wife, having exhibited Articles of the peace against him and to be
of Co.
; ;
taken to Fisherton Anger gaol, "danger permitting," 5 H. VIII. [Seal gone, and no signature^.
2 P
290
55. (1514).
Bond
of
John Hoone of Lacock, "bowchere,"

20, 6
to
Wm.
Kyngton, of Atford, husbandman, in

56.
H, VIII.
(1523). Indenture (English)
Wm.
of Bradford, leases to
Wm. (Dunwyn
a house called the oo house.
Ley in Par. or) GKmwyn of Wynsley Witn., Wm. Rogers, John
Bayley of the
57.
Steynwode, &c. 10 Sep., 15 H. VIII. (1528). Mem. John Halse appeared at a Court, 20 H. VIII.,
and
58.
reed, late Foxe's
Tenement,
(1544).
Memd.
at Court of
his wife, held at Holte,
36 H. VIII.
Anthony Rogers, Esq. and Anne Rd. Chapman reed, land
in Holt.
59.
(1545). Indenture (English) Anthony Rogers, Esq. of Bradford leases to Rd. Drewis of Holte, the Park, Lowsley, Holes, in
Holt, and a Tent, in Little Holt.
To
sue at Roger's court at
Holte, 37 H. VIII.
60.
On
seal I *
].
Court of Anthony Rogers, Esq. held at (1545). 37 H. VIII. Edw. Kyng, reed, tenement in Tollene Bradford,
at
St. for life.
Memd.
61. (1546). Indenture
(English)
between Anthony Rogers
of
Bradford, and Robert 23 Oct., 38 H. VIII.

62.
Grraunt, Yeoman, granting a close in B.,
(1551). Indenture (English) Anthony Rogers of B. Esq., lets to Walter Graunt his land in Comberwell. 10s. Rent. 5 Edw. VI.
63.
(1553). Indented
Deed witnessing that Bryan Lyle son of
Lancelot Lyle late of

is
Kympton
(near Ludgershall) Co. South-
bound apprentice to Wm. Blanke, Citizen and amp. Esq., Haberdasher of London for the learning of his art for 9 years,
I
64.
Mary.
\_0n seal a merchants mark'].
(1555).
Anthony Rogers of B. Radiche of West Lockeridge,

Phil,
Esq.,
bound in
10
to
Nicholas
Co. Berks,
24 April, 1 and 2
and Mary.
65. (1555-6).
At Court
and 3
Holt.
(2
of A. Rogers and Anne, of Brad, and Webbe Phil, and M). Nicholas, son of
Wm.
of B. appeared, to retain 2 tenements.

66. (1556). Indenture
22 July, 2 and 3 Phil, and Mary: Anth. and John Druce of Ashley, in the Hund. of Rogers, Esq.,
Bradford, abt. a close.
Signed "by
me Anthony
Rogers/'
Documents found
67.
at
Kingston House.
291
Mem.
68. (1558). Thos.
of Court of A. Rogers and Anne, abt. a Tenement. Hall of Bradford, bound in 100 to John
Daunteseyof West Lavington, 12 Sept., 5 and 6 Phil, and M. John Dauntesey, Esq. held by demise from Wm. Hall, Esq.,
in
:
"Folleys," "Chancellors," "Deacons," and "Stanford," closes West Lavington). Signed "by me Thos. Halle."
69. (1 562).
Bond
of Thos. Hall, in
1000, to
Anthony Rogers,
to
Esq., 17 June, 4 Eliz.

70. (1563).
of
71.
Anthony Rogers, Esq., bound in Frome Selwoftd, 17 April, 5 Eliz.
20
Wm. Chapman
Duplicate.
72. (1562). Indenture (English)
John Basset of Apse

Isle of
is
Wytham
in
Parish of JSTewchurch
in which
Wytham,
Anthony Rogers,
Esq.,
Wight, about a 100 bound to him, 10 Dec.,

to
5 Eliz.
73. (1564).
[Seal gone}.
Anthony Rogers, of B. bound West wood Co. Wilts, gent., in 40, 6
John Horton of
[These
being can-
Oct. 6 Eliz.
deeds are cut through in several places, as a

celled.
mark of
And
and
74. (1568).
gent.,
to the repayment endorsed, there are 10 witnesses'}. Indenture between Walter Bush of Bradley, Wilts,
Wm. Horton
of Iforde, gent., on 1st part;
Anthony
26 March,
of
Rogers, Esq., of 2nd; about a debt of
80
13s. 4d.,
11 Eliz.
75. (1572).
John Hall of B. bound
in
200
to
Thomas Yerbury
B. clothier, 21 Nov., 15 Eliz.
(100
to be paid to
Antony
Piccaring of Troll). 76. (1579). Do. to Thos. Walleys of Frome, Som: Clothier, in 10, 21 April, 21 Eliz., "to be aid in the South Porch of the
77.
Parish Church of Trowbridge." (1592). Indenture bet. Andrew Colthurst of Stony Littleton, Co. Som. Esq., and Thos. Abyam of Bath, Innholder, lease of
78.
Broadmead in Witcombe, 21 Dec., 35 Eliz. Bond of (1618). John Hall of Bradford.
200
to
Rob.
1
Fry
of Bath, 19 Oct., 16 Jas.
Wit., by Michael Stokes.
Michel Stokes, Rector of Farleigh-Hungerford, 1599-1641.
2 P 2
292
79. (1614).
Edw. Wainford of Trowbridge,
tipler,
Martin
Wimpye
of do., taylor, and Anthony Rundell, of do. weaver; bound in 100 to the King; noj.to dress or suffer to be dressed any Flesh in E. Ws. house during the time of Lent, 9 March, 11
Jas. I.
80. (1617). Indenture (English)

to
John
Hall, Esq. of Bradford, lets
in
John Charnbury of Southstoke: Odwood Down, 50 acres, Witcombe; also Beechlawn as it hath been accustomed to
be enjoyed in the winter for the Hogge Flocke of Lyncombe. (Elizabeth, wife of John Hall), 10 March, 14 Jas. I.
Amongst some
loose seals also found,
were a goat's head erased
holding a thistle in his mouth, and an eagle displayed preying upon a fish, legend illegible.
INDEX OF PLACES REFERRED TO IN THE DEEDS ABOVE GIVEN.
Aldryngton,
....
.
No. of Deed.
No. of Deed.
Berfield in Bradford, Bradford, Co. Wilts,
42 7
10,
Lygh,
24,
37
Marlborough, 16, 17, 36, 41, 51
4,
Melksham,
Mershton,
23, 41
15, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30,
.... ....
.
43 46
18,
37, 43, 47, 48, 52, 53, 60,

65, 66,
Ogbourn Moysy, or Meysy,

Portishead,
67
.
Canynges Episcopi,
Comberwell, Wilts,
Dauntesey, in
ington,
46 62
West Lav-
49 40 20 Farleigh, Bedelry of, Freshford, 33, 38 Fontel Episcopi, 29 Ford, 1, 2, 34 7 "Garston," 22 Goldengrove, Holte, 20, 61, 65, 67 Holte Parva, 59 46 Lavington,
Farleigh Wick,
...
....
,
...
. . . .
14 9 35 Slade, 46 Sherborne, Dorset, 28 Smallbrook, 46 Southbroom, Wilts, 46 SterteEston, 77 Stony Littleton, 33 Templewood, or Tral, 12, 20, 43, 45, 52 Trol, 46 Vysewyke, Co. Som., 80, 77 Widcombe, Wroxhall (South) 6, 24, 32
Sarum, New,
....
.
3, 8,
13,
....
.
... ... ...
....
293
INDEX OF NAMES OF PERSONS, MENTIONED IN THE DEEDS

ABOVE GIVEN.
No. of Deed. No. of Deed.
Abyam, Bath, Adam, Bishopstrow,

Aldeburgh,
...
.
77 11
Carpenter, John,
Chalfield,
...
of,
.
. .
Walter
Rector
of
34,
Combhay,
Atte Fenne,
....
. . . . . . .
...
37 29
AtteForde,
AtteSlade, Atte Well, (Chapn.) Aula, "Wm. de, Barbure,

.
34,37 26,27
.
4,
Bascat, of Apse Wytham,
Baskette, Basset, of Bradford, Bayly, of Legh,
...
Kt.,
. .
35 7 36 72 49 21 56
2 71 Chapman, Frome, 61, 70, 80 Charnbury, 5 Clerk, Edw., 2 John, 3 Wm., of Walton, 77 Colthurst, Andrew, of Turling, 21 Corp, 51 Coscombe, Eliz,, 51 Wm., 67 Cuttler,
Martin, Parson of ditto
.... .... ....

.
Beauchamp, Wm.,
Besyle,
Wm.,
.
....
.
Blanke,
44 43 63
47 35 40 47 47 15, 13
8 14 19
1
Dauntesey, of W.Lavington, 68 John,

. .
Wm.ofTrowb., 23
Delamere, Witness, Dent, Alice,
.
Bonham,
Boteler,
Lady
Edith,
.
Abbess of Shaston,
Botyler,
....
.
.....
.
Devedaunt, Thos., Donne, Thos.,
18 44 4
39 59 66
Bourton,
Bradford, Katharine,
Drewys, Rd.,
Druce, John,
Reginald
de,
.
Eyr, Alice,
.... ....
of,
.
... ...
...
.
Wm.
Bret,
de,
Johnle,
Farleigh, Prior
34 34
6
Budbury, Bunewood, Agnes,

Maria,
6 Fayrchild, ofWroxhall, Freshford, John, Lord of, 31,33
Burges, Agatha, John,
Thos., saBushe, of Bradley,
... ...
.
.
Caphaw, Joan,
Isabella,
...
. . .
.
Richard,
2 33 33 33 74 15 15 15
Reginald
Folevyle, John,
...
.
.
de,
Margery,
Ford,
33 29 29
1
Wm. de,
Walt.,
Fouke, Peter, Foxe, John,
....
.
.
... ...
Foxle, John de,
32 19 57 9
294

No. of Deed. No. of Deed.
Frankelyn, Marg.,
Freshford, John
de,
Jordane, John,
Fry, of Bath, Frydy, Walt.,

Frye, Alice,
Philip,
....
.
... ...
.
...
... ...
.
Fyton, John, Esq., Gawen> John,
Gayle, John, John, of Westbury,
Godman, of Farleigh,
Gorneys, Budbury,
38 78 53 31 31 46 47 47 48 32 7
5
Kendall, John,
Rente,
Wm.,
....
. . .
. . .
Kentisse, Isabella,
Knyght, Matilda, Robert,
Kyng, Edw.,
Kyngton, Wm., Atford, Langge, Henry,

.
52 52 52 12 8 8 60 55 47
6
Loche, Alice
le,
Longe, Robert,
41
Lycham, Emma,
42 42 63 53 40
9
Gramary, of Marlborottgh,
Graunt, R., Bradford, Walter,
. .
.
Walter, of Aldrington, Lyle, Brian, of Kymptdn, Lyme, John, of Wilton,

.
Gunwyn, Winsley,
Gyle, John, Vicar of Brad., Hall, of Bradford, 75,76,78,80

Nicholas, do.,
.
61 62 56 30
MaxaU, John,
Warin,
Clerk,
Mauduit, Thos,
son of
41 Reginald, 53*, 68, 69 Thomas, 57 Halse, John, 23, 29 Harald, Studley, 38 Hasildene, Agnes, 38 Robert,
.
...
.
49, 51
Midelton, John., Chapl.,
....
. .
Mery, Sir Wm.,

Thos.,
....
.
...
. . .
Middelton, Matilda,
Thos.,
35 42 27 27 27
Midyltone, John, Ohapln.

of Brad.,
Hasthorpe, Wm., Constable 36 of Marlborough Castle, 17 of Marlb., Hogely,

.
Moloyter,
.... ?,....
.
58 73 52 John, 74 Wm., of Iford, 45 Hulberd, Edith, 45 Thos., 30, 48 Hungerford,

Hoone, John, Lacock Horton, Edw., Westwood,
.
...
.
Margaret, Walter, Montfort, Laurence,
... ... ...

. .
Myson, Rd., Kony, James,

Nores, John,
.... ....
...
.
Ivel, Rob.,
....
Noreys, Eliz., Norton, Thos.,

Olleye, John,
30 32 32 32 18 35 23 54 31 46, 50
.
.
6T
3
3
Iwen, Wm., of Thanestone,

James, Margaret, John,
....
22 54 54
Peche, Hen.,
Margar., Perham, Kath.,
... ... ...
28
Index
to.
Names
of Persons.
No. of Deed.
No. of Deed.
Perliam,
Wm.,
.
Pilk, Philip,
Agnes,
Porter, Edith,
Radiche, Nich.,
Roger, Thos.,
Wm.,
Rogers, of Brad.,
26 25 35 24 64 49 52
Stokes, Mich., Rector of
Farley,
Tral, Peter de,
....
. .
Stranger, John,
78 49
12
...
.
.
67 61, 59, 60 Anthony, 62, 64, 67, 69, 70 72, 74 79 Rundell, Anthony, Sale, Reginald de, 10, 14 14 Thos., 19 Sclade, John, 19 Steph., 45 Seyntgeorge, Wm., 45 Joan, 24, 45 Shaftsbury, Abbess, 40 Shepperd, Agnes, 40 John, 16, 17 Semple, Elena, John, 16, 17 24 Skatheloke, Thos 40 Slade, Edith, 35 Mch., 40 Rich., 36 Smyth, Adam, 36 Alice,
Anne,
58, 65,
....
... ...
.
.
43 Trewbody, Roger, Jas. de 18 Troubrigge, Sir John 53 a Turbervyle, 35 Yele, Gregory, Videlon, John, 34, 37 40 Wacche, John, 79 Wainford, Edw;, 42 Waker, of Aldrington, 20 Walewayn, James, Rich., 12, 20
. .
...
.
.
...
. .
Wm.,
Wallewayne,
12
...
.
WaUys, Thos., Frome, Warner, of Marlb.,

Waspail,
....
40 76 36
9,
11
Wm.,
Webb,
Christina,
...
.
28
25
--.
Nicholas,
Richd.,
25 65 72 45 54 52 32 79
10 10 10 41
Wm., New Sarum

Mayor
Wilshote, John,
of,
. . .
... ...
.
West, John,
Wilde,
(?)
J. P.,
Edith,
John,
Wm.,
Solne, John,
... ... ... ... ... ...

. . .
Whityngton, H.,
Alice
le,
Wimpye,
....
. . .
v:
Stanbourne, Marg.,
Stodelegh, Stokes, Thos., Rector of
Wm.,
48 48 48 30 16 23
39
Wolmangre, Matilda,
Ric.,
Roger, Walwey, Agnes, Wychford, Rob. de,
24
22
75
Wyther, John,
Yerbury,
Thos.,
...
...
of Bradford,
Winkfield,
296
ftcfitfcntle II.
Besides the deeds above given there were also found several loose
and mutilated papers from which the following are

1.
extracts.
(About 1456).
Indenture between Cicely widow of
John
Barnard, Henry Bradley and Joan his wife (one of the daus. and heirs of John and Cicely) and Wm. Gore jun., and Cicely
his wife, (another of the daus.
and
heirs), relating to lands in
2.
belonging the said John and Barnard. Cicely [No date~]. Latin Deed relating to the Monastery of St. Saviour (1465).
Lavington and Fiddington
late
and
Bridget at Sion in the parish of Isleworth, Co. Midd., dated 5 and 6 Edw. IV., and witnessed by George Nevill,
St.
Bishop of Exeter and Chancellor of England

chier,
Thomas Bour-
Archbishop of Canterbury ; George, Duke of Clarence ; Richard, Duke of Gloucester Sir Walter Blount, Treasurer,
;
and others
3.
Elizabeth being Abbess.
(1517).
A release to James Horton, Clerk,
and
others,
Eyre
late
4.
of Hullavington, of lands &c., in Bremhill
by John and Foxham

8.
belonging to John Goldney, 7 July, 9 Henry
(1537). Receipt signed
by Christopher Willoughby of
4 10s.
received
by the hands of
Osmond
Hall, "forling of
dew
to
5.
my wyffe on Phelippys day and Jakobbe last past." (1559). An Agreement about the Tithes of the Parsonage
Alice
Holt, between John Eyre
(1572).
of
6.
(Chalfield) and Thomas Hall, Esq. receipt of 6 shillings Chief Rent paid by Mr. Hall
of Bradford to the Liberty of the

7.
Duchy
of Lancaster.
as four years
Another of 8
shillings,
paid by Mr. Thomas Hall
8.
Longe, Deputy signed by and John Lydiard, General Treasurer. (1574). A Letter from Robert Davis of High Holborn, London, to his Brother in Law John Hall, Esq.
Receiver of the Duchy
;
rent for lands in Trowle:
Wm.
Documents found at Kingston House,

9.
297
(Elizabeth).
fragment containing notes of sales of land the Colthursts (who had been great purchasers of chiefly by Bath Abbey Estates at the Dissolution), viz.
:
7. Eliz.
Edmund
Colthurst to
to
Edw. Wynter, lands
at Claverton
near Bath.
8. Eliz.
Thomas Ludlow
combe.
John Clement, tenements at Lyn-
8.
Eliz.
15. Eliz.
Vicary to Jenings, the manor of "Widcombe. Edmund Colthurst, tenements in Bath, to the Mayor
and
19. Eliz.
Citizens.
27. Eliz.
Do. to Franklyn, in do. Edmund Colthurst, tenements at Charterhouse Hinton, to Walter Hungerford. Do., tenements at Combe and Widcombe, to Richard lies.
Do., to Langford. Edmund Colthurst to
30. Eliz.
Edward Hungerford, lands
at
Claverton near Bath.

31. Eliz.
Do., Walcot Barton to Alex. Staples.
10.
(1607).
A Letter,
dated Dublin, 23 Sept., to John Hall, Esq.,
from James Ley, (afterwards Earl of Marllorough) then Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, to John Hall of
Bradford, Esq. warning him and his brother magistrates to enforce the law against drunkards, especially in the town
:
of Westbury, (for which he was sometime
M.P.)
Westbury hath need of you, to see to the corruption that useth to grow in such places. I pray you take some care of our drinkers and since the King hath made some good laws against that vice, I hope that you that be magistrates will not suffer it to encrease more than when there were no laws against it." [He then rallies him about some ne"Because men break their promises ordinarily at glected commission]. home, it is no marvel if faith be broken abroad, and with those that are divided both by sea and land."
of
;
"Our town
11.
(1615).
A letter from
John Yewe
to his
"Right worshipful and
very good Landlord Mr. John Hall, Esq., in Bradford." 12. (1617). letter to Sir James Ley of Westbury, from Mrs.
Melior Bampfield, widow of John Bampfield of Hardington, Co. Som. Esq., commenced against her by Mr. Hall of Bradford,
for
the recovery of
100,
husband.
[Mr. Hall had called
by him to her late her a "most unconscionable

lent
woman"].
2 Q
298
13.
Documents found
at Kingston
Home.
(1621-1641). Letters of administration before Marmaduke Lymne in the court of John, Bishop of Salisbury, taken out
14.
by Elizabeth, (Brune) widow of John Hall, Esq. (1627). A warrant addressed to Henry Longe and others, signed by James Ley, William Poulett, and John Hall; to
meet them
at
Trowbridge
to hear the contents of certain letters
received from the Lords of the Council.

15. (1668).
Dated 27 August.
small pamphlet in black letter printed by Clarke,
Smithfield, called,
" The Bloody Apprentice executed, being an account of a murder committed by Thomas Savage, a vintner's apprentice in Ratcliffe, upon a fellow maid servant and how having been hanged and cut down, he revived and and was hanged the second time, Oct. 28, 1668."
:
16.
From some
bourhood of Bradford, we
old Rate papers relating to Parishes in the neighmay collect the names of the
principal landowners in those places at that time.
1605.
WESTBURY
Thomas Bennet,
Sir
gent., (and in 1608,
Mrs. Margaret Bennet). James Ley, Kt.
Jeffery Whitaker, (chief paymaster in 1806).
John Lambe, Esq. Nicholas Phipps. Jeremy Horton, Gent.
BROOKE
Wm. Jones, Esq.,

and
(Sir
Edward Hun-
gerford, 1608, Sir Jasper More, Kt.,
W.
Jones).
PENLEY
DILTON CHAPSMANSLADE BRATTON
1607.
Mrs. Bridget Earnley.

Sir
Anthony Selfe. James Ley.

1608).
SherstonBromwich, (Ann Bromwich,
BROUGHTON AND
Edward Long.
Mr. Bold. Mr. Horton.
Nicholas Gfore.
Sir
MONKTON
SOUTH WRAXHALL
Walter Long, Kt.
Edward Graves.
ATWORTH
John Yerbury.
299
BORO' OF BRADFORD John Hall, Esq. John Yewe, Gent. Thos. Reed, Vicar. Richard Home.
Thomas Yerbury. John Houlton. John Druce, the tithes.

Nicholas Snell.
IFORD
& WESTWOOD
Tobias Horton.
George Compton.
WINSLEY
STOKE
John Raynold.
Drew
Druce.
John Shute.
TROWLE Christopher Morris and John Powell. LEIGH & WOOLLEY Robert Browne, the tithes. John Roger, ditto. HOLT John Grant, Thos. Chapman, and John Erie. WHADDON Edward Long, Gent.
William Buckle, Clerk.
POULSHOT
Edward Long. Ambrose Earnley.

IN BATH.
THE MANVERS PROPERTY

17.
The next
extracts
throw some light upon a point in the

It
is
topography of the City of Bath.
well
known
that
upon
the ground south of the Abbey Church once stood the Priory of St. Peter and St. Paul, whose property included all the space between the Church and the River, round to Southgate Street
;
extending beyond the River to Prior Park, Lyncomb, and " Widcombe. The Priory was " voluntarily surrendered by
Wm. HoUwey
the last Prior,
on 27 January, 1539.
All that principal purchaser was one Matthew Colthurst. Collinson then says of it, (Som.1.58.) is that Colthurst "sold to Morley, from whom it descended to the Duke of Kingston/*
This of course refers to the well
extensive property in Bath now belonging to Earl Manvers, the present representative of the Duke.
known
2 Q 2
300
Documents found
at Kingston House.
of old law papers rescued, amongst from the mice of Kingston House, it is clear that part others, at least, and probably the whole, of the Manvers property at
But from some remnants
Bath, had belonged
to the
from the Halls
to the
Manvers, exactly in
Halls of Bradford; and that it passed Dukes of Kingston and thence to Lord the same way as Kingston House and the
other large property at Bradford. In the following letter (written somewhat sentimentally for a matter of bargain and sale), one Patrick Sanders, M.D.,
applies to John Hall, Esq. of Bradford, for part of the
Abbey
House and Orchard, then
in his possession.
"9, October, 1619.
"The life of man which wanders through the body of earth until she hath finished her peregrinations, doth at last retire to the heart, that u "primum vivens" and ultimum moriens" (that Uveth soonest and dieth And so I toward the end of my days do desire to retire toward latest). the same place where first I drew my breath. Having heard that some things there are in your possession which might happily fit me, I was the
rather
moved
as well
by reason
of the situation as also in regard to that
worth which I have heard often to be in yourself, from whom I am confident to receive all worthy and good conditions. Briefly, I have heard that fheAbbey and the Abbey Orchard is to be sold, and some other things near the City in your power to grant. Because of my profession I desire to be in the house or part thereof, while Dr. Sherwood lives."
To
this touching appeal
but in proceeding to coveted domicile near Dr. Sherwood, he found himself suddenly entangled in the intricacies of the law. For the next fragment
(dated the following year) reveals a dispute about a certain way leading into the Abbey Orchard of St. Peter and St. Paul
at Bath.
Mr. Hall appears to have consented, gratify the medical gentleman with the
The
result of the dispute does not appear,
and
it is
immaterial: enough remaining to show that Mr. Hall was But as the papers possessor of part of the Abbey property. contain some notices of the site of the Abbey, which may be
interesting to those who know Bath, it is worth the while to preserve their substance. (1620). The dispute in the first instance lay between the Mayor
and Corporation,
Plaintiffs ;
and John Biggs, Defendant.
The
Documents found at Kingston Home.
301
claim on the part of the City was, that by Letters Patent dated 12 July, 6 Edw. VI. 1552, they had, upon petition, obtained for the purpose of founding a Grammar School, a grant from
the
Crown
belonging to the Priory, including the contested

Orchard.
of all the lands in the City and Suburbs, lately way into the
The case of the other party was, that long before the grant made to the Mayor and Corporation, Henry VIII., by Letters Patent dated 16 March 1543, had granted to Humfrey Coles for the sum of 962 17s. 9d., the site of the said Priory, with
every thing within the circuit of the said Priory. That Humfrey Coles on 18 March in the same year, 1543, sold the
Orchard
to
to
Matthew Colthurst and his heirs

Colthurst,
that
it
descended
Edmund
it
who 41
enjoyed
as part of the Priory House.
years afterwards, 1584, quietly Edmund Colthurst
Sherston for 330, and John Hall, JEsq., mortgaged it to redeemed it and had a conveyance. In 1611 Edmund Colthurst and Henry his son sold it to John Hall and his heirs. That
the Prior had no other Orchard, and that this
way was always accounted part of his house, the windows of which opened This part of the house was pulled down by Colthurst, into it.
and the ground thrown into the Orchard. The foundations were still to be seen within it. "The prior did use to sit there and view
into
it,
all
the Orchard."
and the way
stone,
40 foot long.
side
door opened from the Priory in was by a terrace made with arches of That the Orchard was bounded on the
North
by the ancient wall of the Priory, 20 foot high and 160 paces long, reaching to the Avon: on the South, by a great ditch betwixt the meadows called "The Ham," and the Orchard, and on the East by the River. That the Prior and
the Patterches (the Monks) and ever since their time the Colthursts, have enjoyed the fishing and cut down the trees
these 80 years.
That the Priory
is
situate within the Coris
poration of St. Peter and St. Paul, and

itself,
when
a privileged place of not within the Corporation of the City of Bath: and the Mayor of Bath came into the Priory, the Maces were
302

put down and not carried before him. An exception was taken were Almsmen maintained
City.
to the plaintiff's witnesses that they
by the Alms of the
Part of the Priory lay within the adjoining Parish of "St. James and Stall," which Colthurst had mortgaged in 1589 to
Alexander Staples of Yate, Co. Gloucester. Then follows another document showing how John Hatty of Bradford, was involved in a suit at law with the family of Staples.
These extracts, we conceive, indicate very plainly, that the present property of Lord Manvers round the Abbey Church
of Bath, must have been derived from the same source and
through the same channels, as Kingston House,

Halls of Bradford.
viz.,
the
J. E. J.
LINES,
Suggested by the opening made in Silbury Hill, by the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, August 3rd, 1849.
Bones of our wild forefathers, forgive; If now we pierce the chambers of your rest, And open your dark pillows to the eye
-
Of the irreverent day Hark, as we move, Runs no stern whisper down the narrow vault?
!
Flickers no shape across our torch-light pale,
With backward beckoning arm?

that
it
No,
all is still.
that sound or sign, Vision or legend, or the eagle glance Of science, could call back thy history lost,
were not!
O that the winds,
Green pyramid of the plains, from far-ebbed time which kiss thy flowery sward Could say how once they fanned Could tell of thee The jealous savage, as he paused awhile, Drew deep his chest, pushed back his raven hair, And scanned the growing hill with reverent eye.
! !
Or haply, how they gave their fitful pipe To join the chaunt prolonged o'er warriors cold Or how the Druids mystic robe they swelled Or from thy blackened brow on wailing wing The solemn sacrificial ashes bore, To strew them where now smiles the yellow corn, Or where the peasant treads the churchward path.
;
EMMELINE FISHER.
Tumulus
at Winterbourne-Monkton.
303
Itattnj
nf en
ftmntt Ctmraltts,
AT WINTERBOURNE-MONKTON.
and possibly important discovery, exhibiting one of the ancient modes of sepulture in this country, has recently been
A curious,
made
at Winterbourne-Monkton, about three hundred yards west of " Mill-barrow," and a mile and-a-half north of Avebury.
For many years a large flat Sarsen stone (partially seen above the surface of the ground) had been the cause of many ungentle maledictions from the various clod-hoppers, who, from time to time, have
followed the plough's-tail in this particular locality. Forbearance being worn out, Mr. Eyles, the present occupier of the land, by
whose kindness and assistance we have been allowed

the spot, sent several
fact to
it.
to investigate
side of
it,
men
to dig a large hole
on one
in
bury they found the soil beneath the stone to be of a different quality from the natural subsoil which is here chalk marl. They consequently excavated part of the earth and
this
;
In doing
found several
tions.
human
bones,
when night put an end

:
to their opera-
This discovery led to a more minute investigation, the
results of
which are
is
as follows
is of considerable size, lying flat, measuring nine feet four or five inches, each way, and varying from two feet six inches, to nearly four feet in thickness. By removing the soil
The
stone
and
beneath the stone we discovered a chamber dug in the natural chalk

about seven or eight feet in diameter, somewhat circular in shape, and four feet in depth measuring from the under surface of the
This chamber was paved at the bottom with small irregularly shaped Sarsen stones, placed so closely that a 'pick' could with On this pavement were four difficulty be inserted between them.
stone.
or five
human
skeletons, in a
most confused
state,
covered with
Sarsen stones, weighing from ten pounds to a half a cwt. each, and about twenty or thirty in number over these again was a layer of
mould up to the top stone which covered all. The skeletons did not seem to have been deposited in any particular direction. The skulls, thigh-bones, &c., were in such close proximity that one
304
Tumulus
at Winterbourne-Monkton.
would suppose they were originally placed in a sitting posture, when the weight of stones and earth would naturally force them
into the apparently confused state in
which we found them.
The
jaw bones were in excellent preservation, as were also the teeth. One jaw evidently belonged to a child, as the second teeth are not
cut,
but remain
The
in the jaw. skulls are at present in the possession of Dr.

still
Thurnam, of
Devizes,
who
has taken considerable pains to join the different
portions together, and whose researches may at some future day throw light on the date of these " old world's children." It is re-
markable that there around the stone

is
is
of the
no trace of any barrow on the spot. The soil same depth as in other parts of the field.
The stone was placed upon the bodies, earth, &c. This is plainly shown by its resting upon the soil itself with which the cavity was
filled
and not on the regular stratum of chalk around

filled in,
it,
as
would
to con-
have been the case had the excavation been originally made under
the stone and afterwards
and what further tends
firm this opinion is the fact that the hole was originally dug slightly too large for the stone to cover it in one particular place, on the
north-east side, which was filled
up with Sarsen
stones to the level of
the surface of the ground. In the soil above the bodies, were solid masses of a black unctuous kind of earth, very soft when first
brought
but becoming almost as hard as brick when exposed to the air for a day or two, and containing small pieces of flint and
out,
it
charcoal, but with these exceptions
which
it
also
very much resembled
yielded to the knife like soap, to the touch.
The only conjecture that can be formed of the age of these remains, is derived from the much worn surfaces of the teeth, indicating that the food of the individuals must have consisted mainly of grain and roots. This implies a very early though probably not
a primeval antiquity.
No
pottery, burnt or otherwise, nor
any implements of war have
been found to stamp the precise date of this extraordinary sepulchre, and it therefore remains, together with other numerous relics of the
strange customs of our ancestors in this perplexing neighbourhood, to baffle the researches of the ablest archaeologists.
WILLIAM HILLIER.
Murder of Henry Long, Esq.
305
fttorkr nf Inrnj IQrag,

A. D. 1594.
It has
been the fate of one or two "Wiltshire gentlemen to be

posterity,
handed down to the notice of
by the very unfortunate

:
distinction of being concerned, actively or passively, in assassination. story of the former kind belongs to the house of Stourton one
of the latter td that of Thynne.
The
particulars of the
murder
of Mr. Hartgill,
by Charles Lord Stourton, 1555; and those of Mr. Thomas Thynn.e by Count Koningsmark in the streets of London, in 1582, are well known and are to be found in Sir R. C.
Hoare's History of Modern Wilts. 1 But of the violent proceeding to which the present memoir refers, scarcely the whisper of a
The family of is left in the county where it took place. the chief perpetrators, DANVERS of Dauntesey, disappeared many years ago from the list of provincial gentry whilst in that of the
tradition
;
Longs which still holds an honoured place amongst us, nothing whatever is known upon the subject. One slight allusion to it, and one only, does indeed remain amongst
the odd gatherings of our industrious acquaintance John Aubrey. The incarceration for two centuries of that worthy's miscellaneous Wiltshire notes, within a deal cupboard in the lower regions of
Ashmole's Library at Oxford, has perhaps been the reason why this and similar hints for research have so long escaped attention.
other events of local interest are in the like cursory way glanced at in that collection, which are now, it is to be feared,
Many
irrecoverably
lost.
scanty notes of the parish of Great Somerford near Malmsbury, Aubrey says, "The assassination of Harry Long was
In
his
Lord
Stern-ton's:
Mere,
p. 153.
Mr. Thynne's: Heytesbury,
p. 65.
2 R
306

Mr. Atwood was
contrived in the parlour of the parsonage here.
then parson.
He was drowned coming
home." 1
reading of this sentence, which is the whole of what Aubrey says upon the subject, it is not quite clear which of the two was drowned Harry Long or Mr. Atwood. But, by the
the
first
On
discovery of some documents which will be subjoined, the point

quite
set
is
at rest.
The watery grave was Mr. Atwood' s

:
Harry
Long's fate was of a very different kind. This is quite certain from the evidence to be produced but though the papers referred
to give us full particulars of time, place,
and other circumstances of
the murder, they throw no light whatever on the actual motive which led to it. This still remains, and is likely to remain, a
mystery.
chief Dramatis Personae were two Wiltshire gentlemen of good connexion and rank in the county, who afterwards became,
in different ways,
still
The
more memorable.
These were Sir Charles
and Sir Henry Danvers of Dauntesey, a parish which adjoins that of Great Somerford, the residence of their alleged accomplice
before the fact, Mr. Atwood.
few notes of Dauntesey history
are necessary to introduce these gentlemen properly to the reader. The Manor of Dauntesey had belonged as early as Henry II., to
Joan Dauntesey, an heiress, who died a family of the same name. 1455, brought it in marriage to Sir John Stradling. According to a strange story, also preserved by Aubrey, the whole family of
Stradling were murdered at their house at Dauntesey, with the exception of one daughter, Anne, who happened to be in London
Sir John Danvers of Culworth (near Banbury), married her and obtained the property. They were both buried in Dauntesey Church; he in 1514, she in 1539. Their grandson, Sir John Danvers, made a great alliance marrying Elizabeth 4th
at the time.
:
daughter and coheiress of Nevill Lord Latimer by Lady Lucy Somerset. This Sir John died at Dauntesey, 19th Dec., 1593
;
Richard Atwood was Rector of Great Somerford from 1578 to 1605. ( Wilts The Parish Registers, which might by chance have contained some memorandum relating to this transaction, in consideration of one of its rectors having been concerned in it (if such really was the case) are not forthcoming. They perished in a fire some years ago.
1
Instit.)

his
307
children, of
Lady survived
till
1630.
They had ten

;
whom
;
three were sons, Sir Charles, the eldest Sir Henry, the second and Sir John, (afterwards the Regicide), the youngest. Sir Charles
and Sir Henry (the murderers of Mr. Long) were never married. Sir John was thrice married his first wife being Magdalen, widow
:
of Richard Herbert and mother of the celebrated George Herbert of Bemerton.
the death of his father (Dec. 1593), Sir Charles succeeded Those which his as head of the family, to the patrimonial estates.
Upon
mother
as coheiress of
appear to murder took place about one year after the father's death; at which time Sir Charles was about 23 years of age. Sir Henry the principal actor was then in his 22nd year, having
Lord Latimer had brought in marriage, have continued in her own possession for life. The
been born 28th June, 1573. He had entered active life at a very early period, and was probably present at one of the interesting scenes
of English History, the death of Sir Philip Sidney. Sir Philip, as will be remembered, was brother of Mary, Countess of Pembroke
(3rd wife of
at
Henry
the 2nd Earl)
and whilst
visiting his sister
Wilton and Ivychurch had written his Pastorals, and all that he did write of the Arcadia. Henry Danvers became his page, and
in that capacity attended
him
into the
Low
Countries upon the
by Queen Elizabeth to the assistance of the Dutch Protestants against Philip II. of Spain.
expedition sent
Sir Philip Sidney being killed at Zutphen in Sept. 1586, Henry Danvers must have been then in his 14th year. He continued to serve
in the
Low
Countries in defence of the Reformed religion, under
Maurice Prince of Nassau, afterwards Prince of Orange. In 1590 he joined one of the expeditions (probably that commanded by the
Earl of Essex) sent by the Queen to the succour of Henry IV. of France, soon after his accession to the throne. Public affairs in
that country becoming more pacific upon Henry's abjuration of Protestantism and his coronation in 1594, it is most likely that
Sir
Henry Danvers took

it
that opportunity of returning to England.

this
For
was in the October of that year that he appears in

2 R 2
"Wiltshire tragedy.
308

the
first
From
of the documents following
it
will be seen that a
few days before the murder of Mr. Long, Sir Henry Danvers was at Tichfield House, 1 below Southampton, then the seat of Henry
Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton and that after the event he and his brother fled thither for refuge. Their reason for so
;
doing is partly explained by the fact that Lord Southampton was an intimate friend of Sir Charles's: being afterwards one of his
Of the accomplices in the Essex Plot against Queen Elizabeth. design against Long he could therefore scarcely be ignorant, but
there
is
no information
to
show that he was in any way involved
in the quarrel.
Henry Long, the
victim,
Walter Long, the last hall and Dray cote- Cerne.
was one of the younger brothers of Sir owner of the united estates of South Wrax-
He appears to have been unmarried. But of the nature of the provocation which he had given, whether public or private, a personal insult or family feud, jealousy or revenge, as
indeed of every circumstance connected with the cause of the
outrage, nothing whatever
is
known.
at
The murder was committed
Corsham; in the house of one
Chamberlayne, about 12 o'clock in the day, at dinner time. The company present, were his brother Sir Walter, Mr. Anthony
Mildmay, Thos. Snell (afterwards Sir Thomas Snell of Kington

1
St.
Tichfield House, near the town of that name, between Southampton and Portsmouth, was about three miles from the shore of Southampton water. It stood upon the site of a Premonstratensian Abbey, which had been granted at the Dissolution to Thomas Wriothesley, Secretary to Henry VIII., afterwards
Here he built says the celebrated Earl of Southampton, and Lord Chancellor. Leland, "a right stately house embattled, having a goodly gate, and a conduit
' '
' '
castelled in the midst of the court of it."
On the extinction of the male descendants of the Lords Southampton in 1667, it came by a daughter to the Earl of Gainsborough by his daughter to the Duke of Beaufort, by whom it was sold to the ancestor of the present owner Mr. Delme. The only remnant is the central gateway with its octagonal turrets, six ornamental brick chimneys, some fine old casements, &c. Part of what was the base court serves for a modern
:
residence.
side,
Adjoining the house (now called "Place House"), on the western To this is left. pile of stabling, of which very little house Charles I. repaired on his flight from Hampton Court in November 1647, and hence he was conducted by Colonel Hammond to the Isle of Wight. At the
was a noble
time of Mr. Long's murder, it was the property of the Chancellor's grandson, the 3rd Earl of Southampton, the friend and liberal patron of Shakespeare.

Michael,
309
sister)
who married Ann Long, Henry's only

1
and Henry
Smyth, Esq., with several other gentlemen. Who Chamberlayne was or in what house he lived, has not been ascertained. There is
no mention of
ladies
being present.
From which
circumstance, as
well as from the earliness of the hour and the apparent liberty of entrance, it is most likely to have been a meeting of gentlemen of
the neighbourhood for business at some tavern. Sir Henry Danvers, followed by his brother and a number of their tenants and retainers,
2
burst into the

spot.
dead upon the
Tichfield House, as
room and without more ado shot Mr. Long The brothers then fled on horseback to already stated, and succeeded after some days
on the opposite side of Southampton water. was held, upon which they were outlawed.
to
concealment in making their escape out of the country in a boat from
Cawshot
Castle, a fort
coroner's inquisition
But no indictment seems
have been preferred either by the government or the family of the deceased. From the document No. 3
1
That
this
Henry Smyth,
at
Esq.,
was
is
at that time the
owner of the principal
house and estate at Corsham there
The original Corsham was pulled down (according to Leland) before 1536. " the [See ahove, p. 143, Note 2.] And Aubrey (born 1625) distinctly says that Great House at Corsham" (of his day) " had been built by Customer Smyth." This must have been the older portion of the present house, the south front of which bears the date of 1582. Thomas Smyth (an ancestor of Lord Strangford) was a wealthy contractor for the Customs (from which vocation he obtained the name of " Customer") in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth. On marrying the heiress of Judd, Lord Mayor of London, he acquired the estate of Osterhanger
the following evidence.
Manor House
his second son
His eldest son succeeded him in the latter estate but Henry Smyth had Corsham for his portion. There can be very little doubt that he was the person mentioned above as being present at Mr. Long's murder in 1594. Others of the family are mentioned as of Corsham so late as 1623. (See A. Wood's MSS., Ashm. Mus. Oxon., and Wilts Visit. 1623).
in Kent.
He
died 1591.
it
2 The circumstance of Sir Henry being attended by so many followers, makes not improbable that the quarrel between Danvers and Long, was one of those
Montague and Capulet family hostilities, of which we have frequent notice, especially about this very period. Strype the historian particularly mentions that in Queen Elizabeth's reign, licenses from the Crown were often granted to Lords and gentlemen to have twenty or more retainers. They were " servants," not menial, but only wearing their Lord's livery, and occasionally waiting upon him. These licenses were given for the purpose of maintaining quarrels: and
by means of them many murders were committed and feuds kept up. Strype Memor. III. II. 61).
(See
310
subjoined,
it

would appear that a few years afterwards, by some
quibbling objection raised to the inquisition, they contrived to obtain a reversal of the outlawry, which indeed had been of so little inconvenience that Sir Henry was actually made a Peer
whilst the outlawry was in force against him. There must therefore have been either high influence at work to hush up the crime, or some extenuating circumstances, as violent provocation, which
caused the murder of Mr.
Long
to be passed over without entailing
on the perpetrators the usual penalties of a violent outrage. Neither Sir Henry nor Sir Charles appears to have suffered any damage
whatever from
it.
But Pharoah's butler and baker did not come

different ends
to
more widely
than did these two brothers.
Sir Charles took a
leading part in the insurrection of the Earl of Essex against Elizabeth: for which he was attainted and beheaded in 1600- 1. 1 On
the authority of Viscountess Purbeck (Elizabeth Danvers, niece of " Sir Sir Charles) Aubrey says, that Charles Danvers advised the
Earl of Essex to make his escape through the gate of Essex house, and hasten away to Highgate, and so to Northumberland, (the
Earl of Northumberland had married his

to the
sister)
and from thence
and there they might make their peace. King If not, the Queen was old and might not live long. But Essex and so they both lost their heads on followed not his advice
of Scots
:
:
Tower
Hill." 2
The Lord Southampton above mentioned was tried, but his life was spared, and he was restored to his title by King James I. Sir Henry Danvers does not appear to have been concerned with
his brother in the Essex plot ;
and
his subsequent career
was one
of success and distinction.
brother's death he had beDauntesey, 27th July, 1603. come heir to the father's estates, but being unable to trace his
title to
He was By his
created
Baron Danvers of
them through
trial,
his elder brother without a reversal of Sir
His
under the name of Sir Charles Davers, (a variety of spelling which

is
the family sometimes used),

2
His examination and confession,
in the State Trials, Vol. ditto, p. 1345.

II. p. 344.
I.
(8vo. Edit.) p. 1410.
Aubrey's Lives, Vol.

Charles's attainder, he obtained a private
311
for
Act of Parliament
In 1626 he was created by that purpose in 1605, (3 James I.) King Charles I. Earl of Danby. In 1630, upon the death of his
mother who had remarried Sir
estates.
Edmund Gary, he succeeded to her Besides this he was Lord President of Munster, Governor
"Full of honour, and a Knight of the Garter. wounds, and days" (so says the inscription on the large monument under which he lies in the north aisle of Dauntesey church), he died at Cornbury, Co. Oxford, in 1643, aet. 71, leaving an estate of
of Guernsey,
his
11,000 a year to his favourite sister Lady Gargrave, and Henry nephew, son of Sir John (the Regicide) his younger brother whom
he passed over. Lord Danby was the founder of the Botanic Garden at Oxford, and built the entrance facing High Street, called the
Danby Gateway.
There
is
a portrait of
him at Dauntesey Rectory.
No.
I.
ACCOUNT OF THE ESCAPE PF SIR CHARLES AND SIR HENRY DANVERS. (Lansd. MSS., No. 827).
lamentable discourse taken out of sundry examinations concerning the wilful escape of Sir Charles and Sir Henry Danvers,
"A
Knights, and their followers, after the murder committed in Wilteshire,
upon Henry Longe, Gentleman, as followeth. The said wilful murder executed upon Henry Longe, Gentleman,
sitting at his dinner in the
his
company of Sir "Walter Longe, Knight, brother; Anthony Mildmay, Thomas Snell, Henry Smyth,
;
Esquires, Justices of her Majesty's Peace for the said County of Wilts and divers other Gents., at one Chamberlayne's house in
Corsham, within the same County, by Sir Charles and Sir Henry Danvers, Knights, and their followers to the number of seventeen
or
most foul
eighteen persons, in most riotous manner appointed for that fact, on Friday 4th October, 1594.
After which wilful murder committed, the parties flying, Sir Charles and Sir Henry Danvers, with one John their servant or
312
follower,
came unto Whitley Lodge, 1 near Tichfield, in one of the Earl of Southampton's Parks, where Thomas Dymmocke, Gent., is
keeper, on Saturday, 5th October
last,
about eight or nine o'clock
in the morning, and there continued all that day and night, until
was Tuesday morning following; during which time of their abode at the said lodge, one John, a cook of the Earl of Southit
ampton's dressed their meat and that on Monday, the 7th October, at night, the said Earl with some seven or eight followers came
;
unto the said lodge, and stopped with the said Knights, and tarried there all that night and on the Tuesday morning, the 8th October,
;
about two hours before day the said Earl departed from thence with the said Knights and company to the number of six or seven
horse, whereof
Thomas Dymmocke was
one, unto Burselden Ferry,
where the boat of Henry and William Eeedes, of Burselden aforesaid, was prepared in a readiness, being sent unto for that purpose
the night before, by one Robert Gee, servant to the said
Dymmocke,
and by
his
commandment.
immediately upon their coming to the said Ferry, the said Earl requested the two Reedes to take into their boat the said
And
company, and presently passed, the same Tuesday morning, into Cawshot Castle, but the pompany would not then go on shore
;
but there they found Mr. Hunnings, the Earl of Southampton's Steward, with others to the number of four or five persons, which
and had talked with the deputy touching the landing of the said Knights and company there, whom the said Reedes took into their boat all but the said Hunride between Cawshot nings, and so put off from shore and did
said
Hunnings had been on
shore,
Andrew's Castle the Tuesday all day until it was Wedoff nesday in the evening, and that immediately after they had put
and
St.
Whitley (pronounced Whiteley] Lodge
lies
about three miles
N.W.
of
Tichfield or Place House, on a hill surrounded by deep clay land and woods. There It is now a farm-house, with a space round it cleared for agriculture. It formerly are remains of a moat, and some indications of a house of quality.
with which lay within the Park belonging to the Great House, " My Lady's Walk." In by a path through the woods called
it
it
was connected
original state
its
must have been a very secluded
spot.
Murder of Henry Long Esq.

y
313
from Cawshot
to
castle the said Tuesday,
Thomas Dymmocke passed

ash,
Hampton
in one Mossell's boat of
Ware's
and there talked
with Captain Perkinson and desired of him that the two Danverses, Sir Charles and Sir Henry, might come unto Cawshot Castle
to rest
to
them there two
or three days, and that their intent was
go from thence into Brittany for service, which the said Perkinson said they should do so, and sent word presently to his deputy by Eoger Fynche, his servant and then the said Dymmocke
;
returned back that evening unto the said Reede's boat, then riding at an anchor and the said Wednesday, 9th October, in the evening,
;
they all put on shore at Cawshot castle. Afore whose arrival there, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the said Wednesday, one John
Dalamor the water-serjeant of Hamble, had been at the said castle with hue and cry to apprehend the suspected persons for the murder,
that were in the boat then in sight, and wished the master-gunner to bend their ordnance upon them if they should offer to be gone,
whereupon so soon as the said Knights and company were landed, who came in voluntary of themselves that evening, William Kitche
the master-gunner disarmed them, and put them into the deputy's chamber as prisoners, and caused the castle to be guarded and kept with such soldiers as were then in the castle, being in number but
four persons besides help of the country, as Hancocke, Locke, and and certain fishermen which the said Kitche had commanded
others,
in for this service, as
Thomas Moorley, John Wilkins, and others. Until Nicholas Caplyn the deputy of the said castle came to his charge that night, who immediately understanding by the said Kitche what had been done, and likewise by the said Hancocke,
Locke, and the
rest,
who
told the said deputy that u they thought
them
to be the persons suspected for the
murder, for
whom
the
hue and cry came unto them," then the said deputy partly confessed that " they were the men, but the captain's friends," and desired them
to depart, giving his
word and promise
to the said Hancocke, Locke,
and the
said
rest, that they should be forthcoming and safe.

last,
Also the
Wednesday being the 9th October
Mr. Francis Robinson,
gentleman of the Earl of Southampton's horses, willed Thomas Dredge an attendant in the said Earl's stables at Tichfield, to go unto one
2
s
314
Austine, Mr.
Thomas ArundelTs cook, (who then with his ladie were with the Earl of Southampton in Tichfield House), for a basket of victuals, which the said Dredge with one Humphrey a
"Welsh boy of the same house, did fetch from Tichfield kitchen and carried the same unto Ware's ashe, and delivered the said
basket of victuals unto Mr.
Dymmocke and one
Gilbert, a Scot,
and servant unto the said knights, which was carried unto the said knights and their company, then at anchor in Reede's boat, by the
said Gilbert in one MosselTs boat.
The said knights with their company, and the said Dymmocke, continued in Cawshot Castle from the said Wednesday in the evening until it was Friday following late in the evening, being the
llth of the same October, during which time there were many messages and some letters that passed between the said knights and
the said Perkinson, and great meanes
made
to get passage into
France
if it
had been
possible.
But
in the end, on the
same Friday
in the evening, the said Gilbert, who was hastened and sent by Payne, one of the Earl of Southampton's servants, upon the said
Perkinson's private message, sent unto him to one Day's house, an ordinary in Hampton, by one Heywood his servant, that if the said
Payne did wish well unto the

did regard their safety,
Danvers and their company, and he should in all haste use some speedy
said
means
to give
Castle, for that the said Perkinson
them warning presently to depart from Cawshot had received letters from Sir
Thomas West, Knight, the same Friday about 10 of the clock in the aforenoon for the apprehending of them and again farther, by
;
a second message from the said Perkinson, that the said Payne was wished to ride presently home towards Tichfield to see if he could
find
them word presently to depart, who immeto Hamble the same diately travailed in the said business, and came him unto Friday in the afternoon with one Gilbert, a Scot, and sent the said knights and company in one Johnson's boate of Hamble with the said message besides one Roger Fynche, the captain's
any means
to send
;
servant, that
also.
was then sent with the
like
message from his master
Whereupon,
so soon as the said Gilbert
had delivered
his
message unto the knights and
company
at
Cawshot Castle about

4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the
said knights
315
and
company
to the
number
of thirteen or fourteen persons, whereof
into the said Johnson's boat, all but the said Gilbert,
to pass
Mr. Thos. Dymmocke was one, came hastily shouldering one another who was fain
away overland by reason the
said boat
;
being not above the burden of one ton did set the said knights and their company ashore at a place called Bald Head, over against Cawshot Castle, and within one mile and a
half of Tichfield.
was almost overladen, and so the said Johnson
Then one
of the said
company asked the
said
Dymmocke if he did know the way to Tichfield, who answered "he did know the way if it were at midnight ;" and the said Johnson
had
for his pains
two shillings and sixpence.
Farther, on the same
Friday llth Oct.
late at night, certain strange
men
to the
number
Whitley Lodge, and there supped with such cold meat as was then in the house, and immediately after they had supped Thos. Dymmocke com-
of seven or eight persons,
came
into the kitchen at
manded his
his boy, to
servants Joan Lawrence, Dorothy Bell, and one Richard, go into Fatting Leaze in the Park with them to help
take up their horses, which being done, they presently rode away that night, but some others that then came to Whitley Lodge went to the chamber and staid there all night, and had for their supper
a mess of milk boiled, and the next morning early they went away on foot, and Thos. Dymmocke with them, and as it was supposed
on Saturday, 12th of said October, Wm. Heywood returning from Cawshot Castle, who carried letters the night before from his master, Capt. Perkinson, to the deputy for
to Tichfield House.
And
the apprehending of the said knights and their company, he found in his master's chamber three or four of the Earl of Southampton's
gentlemen talking with his master, Perkinson, whereof one as he thinketh was Mr. Bruen, and heard his said master say unto them
that " he thought he should lose his oflice for the knights being in the " it was great castle," whereunto the said Earl's gentlemen replied,
pity
it
should be so."
Then the
said
Heywood
told his master they
were
that
all
gone before he came, whereupon the said Perkinson said
"he was very glad thereof, whatsoever it cost him." After which wilful escape of the said knights and their company 2 s 2
316
from Cawshot

Castle, as before set
down, on Monday 14th Oct. about 8 o'clock at night, one Mr. Robinson, gentleman of the Earl of Southampton's horses, came unto Thomas Dredge at the said Earl's
stables at Tichfield,
and commanded him and others
to saddle seven
horses that were then in the said stable ; which being done, and
leaving the said horses so saddled when he went to bed in his house at Tichfield, the said horses were carried away that night about 12 o'clock by one Mr. Brumfield, one of the said Earl's servants, as
was reported by one Robert a groom of the said Earl's stable which said Brumfield brought back four of the said seven horses unto Tichfield stable again on Thursday morning the 17th Oct. Mr. Robinson following, about the break of day, which horses the said
it
;
them as many oats as they would eat, then presently towards London with the for that they were to go said Earl of Southampton his master.
commanded Dredge
to give
Other special notes upon sundry examinations concerning the said

cause :
Saturday or Sunday the 5th or 6th Oct., 1594, the Hue and Cry came unto Tichfield for the murder done in Wiltes. The same Saturday 5th Oct., 1594, in the afternoon, it was reported
On
by Richard Nash, the Earl of Southampton's Baylie, and others

in Tichfield House, that there were ten or eleven strange horses put into a certain enclosed ground in the great Park of Tichfield,
called Fatting Leaze,
at
and there staid till the Monday night following,

the
which time the same maidenhair-coloured velvet saddle that Sir
Henry Danvers rode on at Tichfield four or five days before murder committed, was then also seen at Tichfield all bloody which saddle Dymmocke and Robinson did strive.
;
for
On Sunday
the 6th Oct., 1594, the said knights, the Danverses,
being then in Whitley Lodge, one John, their servant, brought 2 shirts to be washed unto Joan Lawrence, then servant unto Thomas
Dymmocke, whereof one
On Wednesday,
sheriff of the
affairs,
of them was bloody. the 9th of October, 1594, Lawrence Grose, the
at
town of Southampton, being
Hamble about
his
own
understanding by one Fry, the constable there, and others,
317
that the company suspected of the murder done in Wiltshire were in one Reed's boats, then riding at an anchor at the mouth of the
same
river,
was by them required
to give notice thereof unto the
Mayor
of Southampton, for the apprehending of them,

:
did effect the same
who speedily the said Grose, passing over Itching whereupon
Ferry with his wife the Saturday following, one Floria, an Italian, and one Humphrey Drewell, the said Earl of Southampton's servant,
being in the said passage-boat, threatened to cast him, the said " Grose, overboard and said they would teach him to meddle with his fellows," with many other threatening words.
;
On Thursday, the 17th of October, 1594, two hours after Arthur Brumfield brought back the four horses to Tichfield stable, the Earl of Southampton's barber came unto Thomas Dredge and
demanded
of
him "who
told
him
that Sir
Henry Danvers was
at
Whitley Lodge?" whereunto the said Dredge answered that "Mr. Dymmoeke's man that brought Mr. Drewell's horse from Whitley
Lodge
"
to Tichfield stable, the
mitted, told
him
Saturday after the murder comthereof;" whereupon the said barber sware deeply
" by God's wounds," and charged him, upon pain of his life, not to speake any more of it, for that it was his Lord's will and
pleasure that the said Sir
Henry Danvers should be
there at
Whitley Lodge." And farther, the said Gilbert the Scot remained at Tichfield House nine or ten days after the murder was committed (the Earl of Southampton being then there), during which time the said Gilbert rode twice to London and came back again,
and carried
letters
secretly within the linings of his hat;
and
whilst he staid at Tichfield (which he had often so done before when he hath been examined), he never dined or supped openly in
much
else, secretly as it was supposed, and was conversant with Mr. Hunnings and Robinson. Also, two letters of Perkinson's own hand writing, sent unto Nicholas Caplyn
the hall, but some where
his deputy, after the said knight
and their followers were escaped
and gone from Cawshot
Castle, yet extant.
the
The names of principal men servants, followers, and attendants upon Earl of Southampton not yet examined, but very necessary they
318
should
be,
:

being discovered by the confessions of the parties already
examined
1.
Hunning,
his steward,
for the
and the
man
that was at Cawshot to
prepare the
2.
way knight coming Payne, keeper of his wardrobe, that sent Gilbert to Cawshot
warn them
to fly.
thither.
Castle to
3.
Francis Robinson, gentleman of his horse, for sending victuals and preparing of horses to carry them away.
4. Arthur Brumfield, one of his gentleman, that carried away the seven horses prepared by Robinson at twelve of the clock at night, and brought four of them back again. (Sent into the country.)
attendant upon the Earl, that commanded Dredge, and threatening words, not to speak of the knight being with oaths in Whitley Lodge. (Dwelling in Southwark, near the Hawk's Cage.)
5. 6.
A barber,
Humphrey
Drewell, one of his followers, that threatened
Grose, the Sheriff of Southampton (who gave notice unto the
Mayor
of the same town for the apprehending of them), to cast him, the
said Grose, overboard at Itching Ferry.
Signer Floria, an Italian, that did the like. 8. Richard Nash, the Earl's baylie at Tichfield, that found many strange horses put into a ground called Fatting Lease, immediately after the murder.
7. 9.
John
Fielder, a log carrier to the
chambers
at Tichfield,
who
that
is likely to
know much concerning

groom of the
their being in Tichfield House.
10. Robert, a
Earl's stables,
who
did
know
Brumfield carried away the twelve horses at twelve of the clock in

the night. (Gone to Royston.) 1 1. Brewen, one of the Earl's gentlemen, whom Heywood confessed to be in his master Perkinson's company when he returned from
Cawshot, to advertise him that the two knights and their company
were gone.
12.
(No such.) Ralph Tucke Dymmocke, under keeper

confess of their being in
in
;
Whitley Parke,
Whitley Lodge also, John, the Earl's cook, that dressed the said knight's meat at Whitley Lodge.
that
may

No.
II.
319
WRIT
TO THE SHERIFF OF WILTS;
[Concerning the Reversal of the Outlawry of Sir Henry, then Lord 13th Feb. 1604. 1 Danvers.~]
"
James, &c.
to the Sheriff of Wilts, greeting.
Because in the
Record and Process, and

against
also in the Proclamation of
Outlawry
now Lord
Knight, Danvers, for a certain supposed felony and murder, on 4th October, 36 Eliz., whereof judgement is in your county, and
Henry Danvers,
late of Cirencester, in co. Glouc.,
before us returned, manifest error occurreth, to the grievous damage of the said Sir Henry, as by the inspection of the Record and
Process aforesaid to us evidently appears, we, willing that the error, if any, in due manner may be corrected, and to the said Henry full
and speedy
justice
may
be done in this behalf,
command you
that
you omit not by reason of any liberty in your Bailiwick, to summon as well the tenants of the lands and tenements which were the said
Henry's, on the said 4th Oct. or at any time afterwards, as the Lords of whom the said lands and tenements mediately or immediately are held, to be before us within 15 days after Easter,
wherever we shall be in England, to hear the Record and Process aforesaid if they will And further do and receive what our Court
;
shall consider in this behalf
them
and have those by whom you so caused summoned, and this Writ. At Westminster, 13 Feb., 1 Jac. I." Witness, J. POPHAM.
:
to be
RETURN BY THE SHERIFF.

Jasper Moore, Sheriff, To our Lord the King at the day and place within I certify that there are no tenants which were of the within named contained.
of
"
Lord Danvers on the 4th Oct., 36 Eliz., or at anytime afterwards, nor any Lords whom the said lands were held, &c., whom I am able to summon as within to me is commanded."
of the Court of King's
Translated from the Latin Record in the Carlton Ride Controlment Boll Bench : Easter Term, 2 Jac. I. m, 38.
:
320

No. III.
LONG'S CASE.
[Coke's Reports.]
to this affair is Sir
The only other document that has hitherto been met with relating Edward Coke's Report of the Exceptions taken
wording of the presentment under the Coroner's InquisiBeing partly written in old French, and containing a
is
to the
tion.
number of obsolete legal phrases, it in the old edition of Coke from
not very easy to be understood

this is extracted.
which
it.
We
therefore present only the substance of
Justice Sir
The argument upon the Writ of Error was heard before Chief John Popham, and Justices Gaudy, Yelverton, and
"Michaelmas Term, 2 James (1604).
Williams.
21ft tit C
An Inquisition held at
(1594), before
Cossam 5th Oct. 36
Eliz.
SneUing, Coroner of our Lady the Queen, within the liberty of her town of Cossam, on view of the body of Henry Long, Esq., there lying dead, on the oath of 12 men presented, that a certain H. D., late of C. [Henry Danvers, late
j
StaWtefttntt.
Wm.
of
Cirenceste-r],
in
co.
E. [Quaere, Gr?
Gloucester],
Kt., C. D.
county of E., Kt., GK L., late of 2 Colkidge, in co. W., yeoman, and R. P., late of L., in said co. W., yeoman, not having the fear of Grod before their eyes, did on 4th
[Charles Danvers] late of C. in said
Oct.,
36
Eliz.,
between the hours of eleven and twelve of the same
day, at Cossam, with force and arms, viz., swords, &c. ("pugionibus armacudiis et tormentis"), assault the aforesaid H. Long; and the
aforesaid
H. D.
voluntarily, feloniously,
and of malice prepense, did
discharge in and upon the saidH. Long a certain engine called a dagge* worth 6s. 8d., charged with powder and bullet of lead, which H. D.
inflict a mortal wound upon the upper " subter sinistram mamillam," (under the part of the body of H. L.,
had in
his right
hand
and
Sir
Edw. Coke's Reports.
Folio, 1671.
Part V.
p. 121.
We
much
cannot identify G. L. and R. P. But " Colkidge, co. Wilts," is without doubt Cowage, alias Bremelham, near Malmsbury, then the property of
the Danvers family.

3 A dagge was a kind of pistol. In 1579, a proclamation had been issued by Queen Elizabeth " against carrying pocket pistols, called dags, handguns," &c.
(Strype,
Mem.
II. pt. 2, p. 295.)

left
321
breast,)
of which
wound he
instantly died.
And
that
imme-
diately after the felony they all fled."
On which
a Writ
the said H. Danvers having been outlawed, he sued out of Error, assigning various exceptions, viz.
1. "That whereas the inquest was described as having been held within the Liberty of our Lady the Queen, of her town of Cossam, it had not been alleged how far the Liberty extends, or whether any and what part of the town was in
the Liberty so that it did not appear whether the Coroner had jurisdiction in the place where the murder was committed and the inquest holden. As, therefore, it was not stated whether the town of Cossam was in the Liberty of Cossam,
;
the indictment was uncertain."
John Popham, C. J., overruled this exception, on the ground " of too great It was to be understood, he said, that the Liberty of Cossam must nicety." include the town of Cossam. Perhaps the Liberty might contain more than the town but that the town itself should be supposed to be out of the Liberty of the town, was a strained interpretation which the law does allow ( il que le ley ne allow" ) " Mamilla" was no Latin at all 2. "That the Latin word for
Sir
;
breast, spelled
was Mammilla [with a double m] and that bad Latin quashed indictments." A case was cited where burglariter had been spelled burgalriter, and the exception had been admitted.
for that the proper
word
for breast
The Court: "Bad Latin is not to quash indictments" ("Faux Latin ne " If quashera inditement"}. by the mis-spelling a different meaning had been but where the sense remained the same, introduced, that was another case
;
every body knew what was meant. good Latin as mammilla with two." 1 " That vulnus was a 3.
And
besides,
mamilla with one
m was as
commonly used
4.
in indictments."
wrong word for a wound that plaga was the word The whole Court said that plaga and vulnus
:
are synonymous.
"That
the dimensions of the
wound were
not stated."
Also overruled.
"Dimensions of a wound are only alleged in order to prove it to be mortal. Here it had gone through the whole body, and was sufficiently proved mortal.
5.
" That
it
indictment, but the bullet"

6.
was not the wound which penetrated the body, as stated in the The Court thought the sense plain enough.
!
" The word "percussit" (he struck) was omitted." There were, says Coke, precedents of cases where the wound had been inflicted by a bullet from a many gun, in all of which, nevertheless, the word had been used.
After
fatal.
much
splitting of hairs, the last exception
was held
to be
;
The
coroner's indictment
;
outlawry was reversed

discharged.
1
was accordingly found bad the and Sir Henry (then Lord) Danvers was
J. E. J.
Not only
"
as good but better.
So at least thought Juvenal.

keva, in parte mamillae," &c.
(vii.
Scilicet arguitur
quod
159.)
2T
322
The Ancient Styles and Designations of Persons.
lndrat $tgl*0
unit
Imgtmttntts nf
These vary a good deal from such as are used at present. I shall therefore give a few examples, for the most part derived from
Wiltshire, with an explanation where the ancient style or designation has so far passed into desuetude as to require it.
SIRE.
This style was used to their late Majesties Kings George the 3rd, George the 4th, and William the 4th, when either of these sovereigns was addressed in writing
" Sir." styled
Kings Edw. 2,
;
when addressed orally each was " Sire" was style anciently not restricted to as in the Roll of Arms of the Knights Bannerets, temp.
;
The
edited
by
Sir Harris Nicolas, there are
33 Bannerets men-
tioned as of Wilts and Hants, every one of whom has "Sire" " Sire Alesandre " Sire Adam prefixed to his name as Cheveroyl," " Le de la Forde," &c. whilst the King is designated Roy de and each Earl has " Le Counte" prefixed to his title, Engleterre,"
;
:
as
"Le Count
Bishop only occurs, Evesque Antoyn de Dureem and no other title but those above-mentioned occurs.
PRINCE.
de Gloucestre," and the " Le
like.
In
this Holl e
one
;"
Patark
A Latin
letter addressed
by the Vice- President and Fellows of

:
Magdalene College, Oxford, to Cardinal Wolsey, on the subject of 1 his digging stone from their quarries, is addressed
Thomse Dei Optimi Max: benignitate Magnificentissimo Principi D Archiepiscopo Eboracensi, Sacro-sanctse Romanse Eeclesise Presbytero, Cardinal! Apostolicse Sedis et a latere Legato, Anglise Primato & Cancellario summo
dentiir hae Litera;."
"
Which may
"To
be thus translated
the Most Magnificent Prince, Thomas, by the mercy of God Best and Greatest, Lord Archbishop of York, Priest of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal
of the Apostolic See, Legate a latere, Primate of England, cellor, these letters be given."
i
and most High Chan-
Sir
H.
Ellis's Letters relating to
English History, vol. v.
p. 13.
323
i
In the Cathedral
" M.
S.
at Salisbury is a
monumental
inscription
Hertfordiae Comiti Baroni de Belcampo illustrissimiPrmops Edwardi Duels Somersetencis, &c." (enumerating the titles of the Protector " Filio et Hseredi." Somerset),
Edwardo
This inscription
is
Cathedral, printed in 1723
given at length in the History of Salisbury and may be translated

;
:
" Sacred to the Memory of Edward, Earl of Hertford, Baron Beauchamp, son and heir of the most illustrious Prince Edward, Duke of Somerset," &c.
At
this
day
at the funeral of a
Duke,
Heralds, &c., Garter King of Arms,

vault the titles of the deceased,
if present,
whom
high and puissant Prince, John, Duke
attended by the pronounces over the he designates as " The most of," &c.
if it is
DEI GRATIA.
This style is now used in this country by the Sovereign only. It was used by Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died in
the year 1160, and who was the immediate predecessor of Thomas a Becket in that See. In Madox's Formulare Anglicanum (at p. 40, title " Confirmation"),
is
of a mill
made by the Bishop
a deed of Archbishop Theobald, confirming a feoflment of Coventry, which commences " T.

"
Reginaldus Dei gratia Episcopus Bathoniensis," c. A.D. 1174. [Dugd Mon Glaston Charters No. xv. ] " Robertus Dei gracia Bathon et Wellens
; :
:
Dei Gratia Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus," &c. It was frequently used by Bishops and Abbots.
"Adam Dei gracia Episcopus, &c;" A.D. 1283. [Do. No. civ.] Abbas Glaston &c." [Do. cv.] " Walterus Dei gracia Abbas de " Aldrington."] Kingswood, &c. ;" A.D. 1402. [Aubrey's N. Wilts.
:
NOBLE IMPE.
The
style
Imp was
Elizabeth to applied in the reign of Queen
young noblemen as a term of respect. I have given two instances, one relating to the only son of the celebrated Earl of Leicester,
whose monument
is
in the great church at
being a dedication to the son of Treasurer during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Warwick the other Lord Buckhurst, who was Lord

;
2x2
324

inscription on the Earl of Leicester's son begins as follows
:
The
" Heere resteth the bodie of the noble impe, Robert of Duddeley, Baron of Denbigh, sonne of Robert Earl of Leicester, nephew and heire vnto Ambrose
Earle of Warwick," &c.
The other
instance
is
taken from a translation of " The Thirteene

first
Bookes of Aeneidos," the
to the tenth
Phaer, Esq.," the residue finished by Phisicke," printed in 1607, which has a dedication addressed
"
book by " Thomas Thomas Twyne, Doctor in

:
" To the right worshipful Maister Robert Sackvill, Esquire, most worthy sonne and heire apparant to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Sackvill, Knight, Lord Buckhurst."
After alluding to the house of Sackville, the writer then adds
" So that in honouring them I must needs love you, and loving them so honour you as the rare hope and onely expected Imp of so noble a roote, and heire of
so auncient a familie."
This dedication
" At
is
dated
first
my
house in Lewis, this
day of January, 1584
:"
and concludes
" Your worship's most bounden and willing,
NOTE.
This translation, with the Dedication,
is
THOMAS TWYNE."
in the Library of the British
Museum.
MOST NOBLE AND MOST HONORABLE.

These styles are applied to Marquesses. In all my earlier time, " The Most Noble as far as I know, Marquesses were addressed as ;"
and I do not
recollect to
till
Most Honourable"
" The have seen a Marquis addressed as within the last twenty or thirty years but
;
I was lately informed by Mr. Courthope, Somerset Herald at the " Herald's College, that Marquesses have been long since styled The Most Honorable." Two of the most recent instances of the style, " The Most Noble," being applied to Marquesses are in the advertisements in the Salisbury Journal of June 24, 1854, where a list of
subscribers
is headed, "The Most Noble the Marquis of Lansdowne," " The Most Noble the Marquis of Bath ;" while the traveller by
the Great Western Railway will frequently see hampers from " The Most Tottenham House, with printed directions on them,
Honorable the Marquis of Ailesbury."
In the Magazine of our own
The Ancient Styks and Designations of Persons.

Society,
325
and in the paper announcing its first annual meeting, our noble President has " The Most Honorable" prefixed to his title
;
and yet in Gwillim's Heraldry (Honor

the Ed. of 1724) there
is
Civil, chap. 5,
"
the effigies
page 102 of of the Most Noble Charles
Marquess of Winchester."
The uncertainty
in this respect no doubt arises from these being
Styles of Courtesy as contradistinguished
Even
from
Titles of Dignity. in the cases of our Sovereigns their styles have been changed time to time. In the reigns of the Sovereigns of the House
from
of Tudor, they were styled " The King's Grace ;" after that, " His Highness ;" and finally the style of Majesty was assumed.
In Gwillim's Heraldry (Honor

said that " a
is
Civil, before cited,
page 2)
it is
styled
Duke hath the title of Grace," and being written unto "Most High, Potent, and Noble Prince ;" and Dukes of
the royal blood are styled " Most High, Most Mighty, and IllusAnd of a Marquis he says, " He hath the title of trious Princes."
Most Noble and Puissant Prince."

"
And
he further
states that
Earl had formerly the title of Prince, but now is ' Most Noble and Puissant Lord ;' as also, The Right Honourable and truly
'
An
Noble'."
And
of a Viscount he says, "
He
hath the
title
of
'
The
Most Noble, Potent, and Honorable'." But it is worthy of observation that the Sovereign,
in letters
patent, commissions, charters, or grants, never addresses a Peer as
addresses a
"His Grace," "Most Honorable," "Eight Honorable," &c. Duke as

" Our right trusty and right entirely beloved
cousin,
1
but
John Duke of
;"
a Marquis as " Our right trusty and
1 entirely beloved cousin, Charles Marquis of
;"
an Earl
as
;"
" Our 1 right trusty and right well beloved cousin, Henry Earl of
a Viscount or Baron as
" Our 2 right trusty and well beloved, James Viscount [or Baron]
."
" and councillor" If the person addressed be a Privy Councillor, the words "
are here inserted.

2
And
councillor," if the person addressed be a
member of the Privy Council.
326

style of
The
"
cousin," as applied
title,
by the Sovereign
to Earls
and
was introduced by King Henry the 7th, Queen related to a large of the then Earls, which induced him to apply this portion style to the whole of them, and this has been continued ever since.
to Peers of a higher
who was
either himself or through his
evident that even at this day the precise style proper Marquis is not exactly settled, and that neither of these can be considered as inappropriate or wrong.
it is
So that
for a
JUSTICE,
AND MR.
JUSTICE.
In the books of the Privy Council, under the date of 28th June, 1570, is an entry of
"A
Letter to Justice Southcote, to cause one
Thomas Andrewes,
presently
prysoner in the Marshalsey to be brought to the Tower, and offered the torture of the racke and to be examined by such as shall be appointed thereunto by
;
Justice Weston. 1
John Southcote was one of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, and Richard Weston was one of the Judges of the Court of
Common
is
Pleas, at this date.
In Shakespere's play of " The Merry Wives of Windsor," Shallow " Justice Shallow," he being a Justice of the Peace. This styled
:
belonging properly country to the Judges of On a trial before Mr. Justice Allan Park, at Stafford, England only. Mr, (the present Lord) Campbell, referring to the decision of a " such was the decision of Mr. Justice magistrate, named Smith, said
would now be considered quite incorrect the " Mr. Justice" in this
style "Justice"
and
Smith."
man
Upon this, the learned Judge (Park) observed, "this gentlehas no right to be called Mr. Justice Smith the style of ' Mr. ' Justice in this counry belongs only to the Judges of England."
;
statute 1st and 2nd of William the 4th, " the Court of chap. 56, Bankruptcy" was established and by it " a chief the King was to appoint Judge" and three other persons " to be of this Court were The of the said Court."
In the year 1831, by the
Judges
Judges
In Mr. Jardine's " Reading on the use of Torture in England."
App. No.
13, p. 77.

styled,
327
Rose
;"
"Sir John Cross," "Sir Albert Pell," and Sir George and not Mr. Justice Cross, Mr. Justice Pell, and Mr. Justice
Rose: but when the Chief Judge of the Bankruptcy Court, the Hon. Thomas Erskine, in addition to that dignity, was appointed a of the Court of Common Pleas, he was Judge styled "Mr Justice
Erskine."
VERY REVEREND.
This style
is it
now I
believe applied to
ing instance
cited.
occurs on the
Monument of
Deans only. In the followa Canon residentiary of
Salisbury, as given in the History of Salisbury Cathedral before
The
inscription
is
est sacrum depositum Reverendi admodum Magistri Hill in Collegio Christi inter 1 Athenas Oxonienses Studentis, de Knoyle in comitatu Wilts Rectoris, et deinde hujus Ecclesiae Canoniei Residential, &c. 20 Martii, A.D.
" Hoc
1694-5, obiit
&
expiravit."
which
is
" To the Memory of the very Reverend Master Richard Hill," &c.
RIGHT WORSHIPFUL AND REVEREND LORD.
A letter to James Lord Berkeley (who died 22nd Oct. 3 Edw. IV.),
sent to
him by
his wife, is addressed

lord
" To
my right worshipful and reverend
and husband be these delivered
;"
and her ladyship commences her

"
letter
;"
Right worshipful and reverend Lord and husband
and concludes
" Written at London the Wednesday next afore Whitsunday.
Your wife the Lady
of Berkeley."
is printed by the Rev. T. D. Fosbroke in his edition of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeley Family, p. 153.
This letter
WORSHIPFUL AND WORSHIP.

The Rev.
(p.
T. D. Fosbroke, in his edition of the Berkeley
MSS.
153), says that the "title of

1
Worship and Worshipful" was
Sic orig.
328

;
and he cites Pat. 23 applied to the Archbishop of Canterbury Hen. VI., part 2, m. 16 and in Bishop Burnet's History of the Reformation (vol. 6, Appendix of Records, No. 16), is a letter addressed by Dr. Buckmaster on the subject of King Henry the
;
8th's divorce,
"
To the
right worshipful master doctor
Edmonds,
Vicar of Alborne, Witshire."

So, a letter of Steven
Vaughan
is
to
Thomas, afterwards Lord
1 Cromwell, dated June 19, 1537,
addressed
" To his right worshipful Mr. Maister Thomas Crumwell, besides the Fryers Augustyne in London;"
and another
letter
from the same
to the same, 2 is addressed

to the
" To his right worshipfull Master Crumwell, Secy,
Kyng's Highness."
From
The
the letters
"
it
would seem that Vaughan was Cromwell's
Antwerp. Worshipful" and "Worship" seems to have been very variously applied. Mayors and Magistrates are even at this day,
style of
confidential correspondent at
by the common
" people, often called
Your Worship."
In the
bidding prayer before the Assize Sermon, at Stafford, at the last " The venerable and learned the Assizes, we were told to pray for
Judges of Assize and the right icorshipful the High Sheriff, the worshipful the Mayor and the Aldermen of this Borough," and at Hereford Cathedral, for the " Worshipful the Mayor." Dispatches
to the Court of Directors of the East India
Company from
their
" officers both civil and military, commence Worshipful Sirs ;" and if a member of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn wishes to take his
name
books of that Society, to become a member of another Inn of Court, he addresses a petition " To the Worshipful the Masters
off the
of the Bench," and "prays your Worships" to remove the name.
In the paper announcing our

of Salisbury
is
first
annual meeting, the Mayor
styled
"The
Worshipful."
FLORENTISSIMUS.
The Rev. H.
says, [Tit.
1
Todd, in his edition of Johnson's Dictionary, "Bachelor,"] "They" [the Bachelors of Arts] are often
J.
:
Sir
H.
Ellis
Letters relating to Eng. Hist.

2 Id. p.
2nd
series,
vol
2, p.
208.
216.
329
addressed at Oxford as " Florentissimi," literally " most flowering," but probably meaning " most nourishing."
SIR.
This
title
was anciently prefixed
to the
names of Baronets,
Knights, and Clergymen. Of the latter I shall give two instances, one in the reign of Richard the Third, the other in the reign of
James the
First.
1
The former
Richard the Third,
a note in the handwriting of of which I was favoured with a sight by Mr.

is
Duffus Hardy, the Keeper of the Records in the Tower. verbatim et literatim as follows
:
It is
"
My lorde
Chanceler
our Gret seale to
herry
we pray you in All Wode prest 2 &c.
hast to sende to us
;
A p. don 3
r
under
and
yis shal be
warante " RICABDTJS REX."
yo
Under
this the
Lord Chancellor [John

P.
Russell, Bishop of Lin-
coln] has written

" Mr. Skipton spede this forthwith.
me
Jo
LINCOLN."
The second
instance
is
a tablet in the parish church of Broadit
Hinton, Wilts, which has on

1614.
Sir John Sheston, some time Minister of this Parish, gave "A.D. certain goods to the intent that the churchwardens should pay 5s. in bread to the Poor upon Mid-lent Sunday for ever."
In the works of Shakespere four instances occur of clergymen " having the word Sir" prefixed to their names, viz. " The " a Welsh Sir Hugh Evans, Merry Wives of parson," in
Windsor."
" a Sir Oliver Martext, vicar," in "As you like it." " Love's Labour's Lost." " a Sir Nathaniel, curate," in
And
Sir Topas, " the curate," mentioned in the 4th
Act and 2nd
scene of " Twelfth Night." Mr. Charles Knight, in his admirable edition of Shakespere, in
note 1 to the play of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," after four priests are each styled adverting to the fact that in Shakespere
"
Sir," cites the following authorities.

1
Roy Autog
:
in the
Tower
of London.
Priest."
This
is
Sir Harry Wode evidently 3 This means " a pardon."
"
2u
330
11
conarms, place versation is always before any Esquire as being a KniyMs fellow by his Holy orders, and the third of the three Sirs, which only were in request of old (no Baron, Viscount, Earl, nor Marquis being then in use), to wit, Sir King, Sir Knight, and Sir Priest the word Dominus, in Latin, being a noun substantive
In a curious treatise quoted by Todd, entitled A Decacordon of Ten Quodconcerning Religion and State, &c.,' newly imprinted 1602, we have the following magniloquent explanation of the matter " the laws armorial civil and of a Priest in his in civil
libetical questions
:
By
them all Dominus meus Rex, Dominus meus Joab, Dominus Sacerdos, and afterwards when honours began to take their subordination, one under another, and titles of princely dignity to be hereditary to succeeding posterity, which happened upon the fall of the Roman empire, then Dominus was in Latin applied to all noble and generous hearts, even from the King to the meanest Priest or temporal person of gentle blood, coat-armour perfect, and ancestry but Sir in England was restrained to these four, Sir Knight, Sir so as always since Priest, Sir Graduate, and in common speech Sir Esquire distinction of titles were, Sir Priest was ever the second.
to
:
common
Fuller in his Church History gives us a more homely version of the title. After saying that anciently there were in England more Sirs than Knights, he adds, Such Priests as bore the additional Sir before their Christian name, were men not
' '
graduated in the university, but being in orders though not in degrees, whilst others entitled Masters had commenced in the Arts.'
In a note in Smith's Antiquities of Westminster, Mr. John Sidney gives us the following explanation of the passage in Fuller
:
Hawkins
" It was probably only a translation of the Latin Dominus, which in strictness means, when applied to persons under the degree of Knighthood, nothing more than master, or as it is now written, Mr. In the university persons would rank according to their academical degrees only, and there was consequently no danger of confusion between baronets and knights and those of the clergy but to preserve the distinction which Fuller points out, it seems to have been thought
;
necessary to translate Dominus in this case by the appellative Sir for had Magister been used instead of Dominus, or had Dominus been rendered Master,
;
non-graduates to whom it had been applied would have been mistaken for magistri artium, masters of arts."
In the year 1841, I was told by the Rev. William Cooke, the
Rector of Bromyard, that " Sir" prefixed to the name of a clergyman denoted that he was a Bachelor of Arts. He stated that in
the act books of the College of Yicars at Hereford Cathedral, a corporate body distinct from the Dean and Chapter, incorporated Richard the Second in the year 1396, every Yicar who was a
by
Master of Arts was styled "Mr," and every Yicar who was a Bachelor of Arts had " Sir" prefixed to his Christian and surname
;
and that when either of those who had been styled "Sir" afterwards obtained his degree of Master of Arts, his style was altered
to
" Mr."
331
Mr. Cooke further remarked that

;
Masters of Arts are styled " Mr." Bachelors of Arts, " Dominus," and under- graduates the name only, without any prefix and I was
;
at all the colleges at Oxford,
informed by Mr. Henry Simonds, one of the Fellows of King's College, Cambridge, that down to the present time at Cambridge,
Masters of Arts are styled " Mr." for Magister, and Bachelors of Arts " Ds." for Dominus and in the register of the books borrowed
;
College, Oxford, to read at their rooms, which now lies on the table, there I found books borrowed " " by Mr. Baker" and Ds. Price," the former being a Master, the latter a Bachelor of Arts.
strict correctness, " Sir," or the " Latin Dominus," would denote that the person was a Bachelor of " " " Arts, and that Mr.," Master," or Magister," would denote a Master of Arts ; but I was informed by Mr. Duffus Hardy that from
by members
of Christ
Church
It
would therefore seem that in
the time of
Edward the Fourth

to the
to the time of
James the
First,
names of clergymen without any strict regard to their university degrees, and with this accord the observations of Fuller before cited, and he must have been a good
authority, as
"Sir" was prefixed
he was a Doctor in Divinity at Cambridge, and It should however be observed chaplain to Charles the Second. that the author of the "Decacordon" is incorrect in saying that " by the laws armorial civil and of Arms, a Priest is always before any Esquire, as being a Knight's Fellow by his Holy Orders," as
in the Commission of the Peace for the county of Wilts and every
county in England, so far from the Priests being placed with the Knights, the persons placed in the commissions next to the Knights
are the Doctors in Divinity, Physic, and Law; then come the " Clerks ;" Esquires, and last of all the Clergy, who are there styled
but Mr. Hardy's observation
is
further confirmed
by the
fact that
nearly or quite all the Incumbents of Chantries in the ^county of Gloucester, whose names are in the Commissioner's certificate,
have " Sir" prefixed to their names, although it is very improbable that they should all have been Bachelors of Arts.
2 Edw.
6,
Before concluding this part of my subject, I may mention that I " Sir" Hermit. Henry find an instance of prefixed to the name of a
2u2
332
Algernon, sixth Earl of Northumberland, granted the Hermitage

of
Warkworth, in Northumberland,
to the last Hermit, in the reign
of
Henry the The grant

:
8th.
is
given at length in the appendix to Dr. Percy's

of
Ballad,
"The Hermit
Warkworth."
The following
is
an
extract
"
I
have geven and graunted and by these presentes do gyve and graunt unto the said Sir George Lancastre myn armitage belded in a rocke of stone within my parke of Warkworthe in the county of Northumberland in the honour of the blessed Trynete with a yerly stipende of twenty merks by yer from the feest of Seint
rall lyve of the said Sir graunted to the said Sir
Michell th'archangell last past affore the date hereof yerly during the natuGeorge and also I the said Erie have geven and
:
George Lancastre the occupation of one
little
gras
ground of myn nygh adjoining the said armytage onely to his owne use and profit wynter and somer durynge the said terme, the garden and orteyarde belonging to the said armytage, the gate and pasture of twelf kyne and a bull with their calves suking, and two horses going and beying within my said parke wynter and somer, one draught of fysshe every Sondaie in the yere to be drawn fornenst the said armytage, and twenty lods of fyrewode to be taken of my wodds
called Shilbottel
wode duryng the
said term."
DOMINUS.
This means either
"Lord"
or "Sir," whether the latter denotes
a Baronet, a Knight, or a Clergyman.
Where
it
usually
it
the word means "
"Dominus"
occurs after the Christian name,

it
Lord," but where
occurs before the Christian
name
denotes " Sir."

:
Thus, in Salisbury Cathedral,
we
find
this inscription " Edwardus Dominus
Gorges Baro de Dundalk pientissimus nlius hoc Dormitorium corporibus charissimorum Parentum erexit Anno Domini 1635."
["Edward Lord Gorges, Baron of Dundalk, a most pious sou, erected this Dormitory for the bodies of his most dear Parents. A.D. 1635."]
On
a brass in the Church of Aldbourne, Wilts,

:
is
the following
inscription " Orate
die
men
1 pro aia dni Henrici Frekylton quoda Capellani istius cantarie q obiit br A dni mill Aia propitietur Deus. Amen." cccccviij Cuj Septe
:
:
[" Pray for the soul of Sir Henry Frekylton, formerly chaplain of this Chantry, who died on the 10th of the month of September, A.D. 1508, on whose soul may God have mercy. Amen."] I find an instance of "Dominus" being used for "Lord" and " Sir " in one and the same document. In 36 Eliz., Sir Henry

Danvers, Knight, was outlawed for not surrendering to take his on a coroner's inquisition for the murder of Mr. Henry Long.
333
trial
In
the beginning of the reign of James the First he was created Lord Danvers, and after that sued out a writ of error to reverse the out-
The case will be found in Lord Coke's Reports, vol. 5, fol. 120 but on the Controlment Roll of Easter Term, 2 Jac. I. m. 38, is an entry of a writ to the Sheriff of Wilts to summon those in possession
lawry.
;
of Sir
Henry Danvers's
estates to appear
on the writ of he
is
error.
In
this writ (which is dated Feb. 13, 1 Jac.)
styled
"Henry
Danvers mil. modo dom
Danvers [Henry Danvers, Knight, now
Lord Danvers]. 1
MAISTRE.
This in the reign of King Henry the Sixth was the style of the of the Court of Common Pleas (with the exception of the Judges
Lord Chief
Justice)
and of the Chancellor of the University of

plac. 6, is a case of
Oxford, although he was a Doctor in Divinity. In the Year Book for Hilary Term, 8 Henry 6, p. 18,
an
action of trespass brought in the Court of Common Pleas against Maistre Thomas Chase of Oxenford, and others, for taking goods. The others, by Serjeant Rolf their counsel, pleaded a custom for every one who lived in the High Street at
Oxford
repair,
pave the pavement before his house to the channel when it was out of if he did not do it the Chancellor should warn him, and if it was not then done, the Chancellor should do it at his own cost, and distrain on
to
and that
him who ought

instance.
to
have done
it,
and that
this
had been done in the present
Newton
Chase, Chancellor d' Oxenford," pleaded no plea, but by Serjeant his counsel, claimed the right of trying his own cause, by reason of his being Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The case was very elaborately " At one time argued, and Serjeant Rolf referred to a precedent, as follows
:
"Thomas
was a Pope, and he had done a great offence, and the Cardinals came to him and said to him, Peccasti' [thou hast sinned] and he said, Judica me' [Judge me] and they said, Non possumus quia caput es Ecclesise judica teipsum' [we cannot, because thou art head of the Church; judge thyself ]; and the Apostolic said, Judico me cremari' [I judge myself to be burnt], and he was burnt. In this case he was his own judge, and afterwards was a saint."
there
'
'
" Maistre Thomas of Common Pleas decided against the claim of but in addressing and Chancellor d' Oxenford," to try his own cause Chase, Justice speaking of the different Judges, Sergeant Rolf styles the Lord Chief " Mon maistre " and the other Judges Cottesmore," Monseigneur" Babington " and " Mon maistre Martin," and he addresses the latter as Sir."
The Court
See above,
p. 319.
334
MASTER DOCTOR OR MR. DOCTOR. In Mr. Jardine's " Reading on the use of Torture in England/ are instances of this style. In the Books of the Privy Council,
under the date of
a letter to (among others) " Mr. Doctor Marten," to torture French, a prisoner in the Tower. 1 And
May 13,
1558,
is
under the date of July 30, 1581,
is
Hammond,
styled
to torture
Campion, a
Jesuit.
a letter to (among others) Dr. In the postscript he is

in the next letter from the
" Mr. Doctor
Hammond," and
" Privy Council to the Dr. and the others, thanking them for their " Mr. D. Hammond." 2 paines" as to Campion, he is styled In a dinner bill in the Ashmolean Library at Oxford [Wood MS.,
No. 8489.
3], for the dinner of the
Earl of Leicester,
when Chan-
cellor of that "University, which is headed " The charges of my Lord of Leicester his dinner the vth day of September
1570"
is this
item
for fagotes
" To Mr. Doctor Kennalde 3 for of coles and iij q. in the kychen and in the pastrie iiij s viijd
which were spent
MR. AND ESQUIRE.

These two applied
now
same person at the same time would be considered very improper and only the result of extreme
to the
;
ignorance
it
was formerly otherwise.
from Sir John Popham to William Darell, Esq., dated March 3rd, 1582, relating to the cutting down of timber and trees
at Axford (near Marlborough), a copy of which is still extant in r the Tower of London, is addressed on the outside " To the my
A letter
Wo
very loving ffrend
Mr. Will Darrell
esqer
geve
thys at lytlecot."
the extracts given from the Books of the Privy Council in the Appendix, will be found a 4 letter, dated Oct. 27, 1591, to "Mr. Attorney" [General] and " Mr. Solycitor" [General] as to the torturing of Thomas Clinton,
cited, in
i
In Mr. Jardine's work before
P. 76.
Id. pp. 87, 88.
This gentleman was John Kennall, LL.D., Canon of Christ Church, Canon of Exeter, Chancellor of Rochester, and Archdeacon of Oxford.
3 4
P. 93.
335
in which they are directed to send for " Mr. Topcliff and Mr. Yonge, " 1 Esquiers ;" and there is also the entry of a letter to Her Majesties
Sollicitor
General and Mr. William Wade, Esquier" authorizing
the torture of Gabriel Colford.
MASTER.
One
case
of the earliest instances of this designation occurs in the of Regina v. Lady Tutton, 2 where a writ of Seal,
Privy
20 Edw.
3,
was produced from the Tower.

;
It ran, "
Edward by
the grace of God, &c. To our dear clerk Master John of Offard, Dean of Lincoln, our Chancellor, greeting." It related to the
Bridge of Kelm, near Newark.

the date of 1346 (19 Edw.
constitutus
3), is
And
in the Chronica Series in
Dugdale's Origines Judiciales, in the list of

Cancellarius
cui
Lord Chancellors under an entry, " Magister Joh. de Offard

Sigillum 26th Oct.
Magnum
inde
liberatum fuit." 3
[" Master John de Offard constituted Chancellor, to
whom
the
Great Seal was delivered 26th Oct. 1346."]
On
a handsome alabaster
tomb
in the chancel of
Aldbourne
Church, Wilts, surrounding an incised figure of a Priest in

Eucharistic robes, " Hie
Johannes
ppicietur
is
the following inscription
arie qui quidem jacet Magister Johannes Stone quondam obiit die mensis Anno dui Mil mo ccccc primo
....
....
Deus
Amen."
off
The corner of the stone, which has had on it the word " Hie," has been broken and restored in wood by the town carpenter. The words denoted by dots are obliterated, but the day and month of his death have never been inserted, and " Here lies Mr. John Stone all that appears is to the formerly following effect A.D. 1501 day of month chantry which said John died may God have mercy Amen."
:
One
"
Sir
of the latest instances of a person (not a child) being styled

is
Master,"
in the Mercurius Politicus of July 10, 1656, cited

4
by
Henry
Ellis,
relating to the capture
and
release of Lucy Walters,
P. 96.
8, p. 520.
Adolphus and
Ellis's
3
Reports in the Q. Bench, vol. Pat. 19 Edw. 3, p. 2, m. 7.
Letters
2nd
ser. vol. 3, p.
352.
336
mother of the Duke of Monmouth, where it is stated that when " apprehended she had one Master Howard in her company." In Shakespere's play of the "Merry Wives of Windsor," Shallow, who is a magistrate, is called Master Shallow, and his nephew
and in Leland's Itinerary in the the 8th, the ancestor of Jeffrey Daniel (who was Henry M.P. for Marlborough in the reign of Charles the 2nd) is styled " Mastar Daniell." 1
Slender
is
called Master Slender
reign of
Holinshed, in his Chronicles, vol. 1, p. 273 of the 4to ed. says " Moreover as the King dooth dubbe Knights and createth Barons and higher degrees so gentlemen whose ancestors are not knowen to come in with William
Duke
of
Normandie
accompt much
after this
(for of the Saxon races yet remaining we now make none lesse of the British issue) doo take their beginning in England
maner in our times
who
soever studieth the lawes of the realme or
professeth physicke and the liberall sciences or beside his service in the roome of a captaine in the warres or good counsel! given at home whereby his common-
wealth
is
benefited can live without
manueU
labour and thereto
is
able
and will
beare the port charge and countenance of a gentleman he shall for monie have a cote and armes bestowed upon him by heralds (who in the charter of the same
do of custome pretend antiquitie and service and manie gaie things) and therevnto being made so good cheape be called master which is the title that men give to esquiers and gentlemen and reputed for a gentleman ever after."
Holinshed
history.
is
considered to be an important authority in English
He
In a MS.
died in the year 1580. in the handwriting of King
Edward
the 6th, bound in
the same volume with his Autograph Journal in the British
Museum,
his Majesty says
" The grasier, the fermour, the merchaunt become landed self gentlemen though they be churles."
men and
call
them-
[NOTE. The style Master prefixed to a person's name was usual at the latter part of the reign of King Charles the 1st, as in the order addressed to Commissary General Ireton and 19 others, to consider the case of the army in 1647, six of them have the style Master " prefixed to their names [Rush. Coll. vol. 7, p. 849] ;
' '
and in the impeachment against Bishop Wren in 1641, no
less
than ten " godly
In 1626, painful preaching Ministers" are similarly styled [Id. vol. 4, p. 353]. the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge was styled " Master Vice- Chancellor" by the
Duke
and Mr. Rushworth, who was Secretary to the Lord of Buckingham General Fairfax, designates the speech of the Speaker Finch as "Master Speaker's Id. vol. 1, pp. 373 & 540.] speech."
;
See above, page 179.
Cotton MS. Nero C. x.
p.
107-110.
The Ancient Styles and Designations of Persons*

MISTER.
337
the third Bell at Broad- Hinton, Wilts, is inscribed " Mister Richard Midwinter, Mister Robert Alcocke, William Purdue, 1 " and on the fifth
On
1664
;"
Bell,
William Purdue 1 1664.

Sara his wife."
Mister
Come when I call to Thomas Alcocke
serve
God
all.
Minister and
In the nave of Broad-Hinton church is a gravestone
with the following inscription: "Here lyeth the body of Mr. Thomas Alcock Minister of this Parish from 1629 who departed this life the 23 of November 1664."
THE REV. MR.

This was the style used to clergymen till within the last thirty Before that time our Secretaries, if then in Holy orders, years. would have been addressed as " The Rev. Mr. Jackson" and " The
Rev. Mr. Lukis," instead of as now, " The Rev. J. E. Jackson," and "The Rev. W. C. Lukis."
MR.
This
Henry
a contraction for Magister, Master, and Mister. Ellis' s Letters Illustrative of English History,
is
In
Sir
"Mr."
occurs as early as the reign of Henry the 8th, probably a contrac" tion of Master," and this is the more probable as in a letter of Elizabeth to Sir William Cecil he is styled " Mr. of our Queen
Court of Wards and Liveries."

It is also
is
worthy of remark that even
at the present
day
" Mr."
in some instances prefixed to a
name
of office although the
person addressed may be a knight. Thus the Right Honorable Sir Charles Manners Sutton, K. G. C. B., while Speaker of the House of Commons, was addressed as " Mr. Speaker," although he was a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath and the present Attorney and " Mr. Solicitor General are styled Attorney General" and "Mr. the one is Sir Alexander Cockburn Solicitor General," although
;
and the other Sir Richard Bethel.
On
name.
the tombs of clergymen
" Mr."
is
sometimes put before the
William Purdue was a bell-founder
at Salisbury.
2x
338
" It is so in the instance of
Mr. Thomas Alcock" before
cited
and in the chancel
at Cobberly, near Cheltenham, there is

:
on a
gravestone the following inscription " Mr. Lewis Jones Rector Buried July 20 1651
Aged 105 Years."
MACE.
This
to
is
a style
still
used by the lower classes in North "Wiltshire
tradesmen and sons of farmers.
Thus
at
Ogbourne
St.
George,
a brickmaker, whose name is Davis, is called " Mace Davis," and sons of farmers are called "Mace John" or " Mace Thomas," the
surname being sometimes added and sometimes

BACHELOR.
not.
This appears in ancient times to have been a term of very wide Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins in his Law Dictionary signification. (Tit: Bachelor), says that "Those were called Bachelors of the
Companies in London
pany, the
whom we
should call Freemen of the Com-
Company
consisting of the Master, Wardens, Assistants,
Liverymen, and Bachelors ; which in some companies are called the
Yeomanry of the Company." The name of Bachelor (he

of Esquire ten of
his creation
;
says)
was
also applied to that species
whom
were retained by each Knight Banneret on

is
and (he adds) that there
a petition in the
Tower of
London which commences, " A nostre Seigneur le Roy monstrent votre simple bachelor Johan de Bures," &c. [To our Lord the King and that the showeth your simple bachelor John de Bures, &c.]
;
term Bachelor was anciently applied to the High Admiral of England if he were under the degree of a Baron.
Those who have the honour of Knighthood Jbut are not Knights
of any Order, are called Knights Bachelors. At our Universities there are Bachelors of Arts, which
first
still is
the
degree taken there, and Bachelors of Arts are considered as

in a state of pupilage, although they have taken this degree
;
and by the 305th section of the Act of Parliament for making a railway from the Great "Western Railway to the City of Oxford
(6
&
7 Viet., chap. 10),

if
it is
enacted
That
the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, the Proctors, Proproctors, Heads of
The Ancient
Styles
and Designations of Persons.
339
Houses, or University Marshal, shall notify to the proper officer of the Railway " Company that any person about to travel by the Railway is a member of the
University, not having taken the degree of Master of Arts or Bachelor in Civil
Law," and require such officer to decline to take such member of the University as a passenger by the Railway, the officer of the Company shall refuse to convey such member on the Railway, notwithstanding he may have paid his fare, and
the fare
is to
be returned.
With
respect to Bachelors of Divinity, Medicine, Civil
Law, and
Music, I can give no particular information. The Bachelors at Oxford were often addressed as "Florentissimi"
as has
been already stated. The term Bachelor as applied to

;
men who have
never married,
is
familiar to us all
and in the year 1808, an Act of Parliament
passed (48 Geo. 3, chap. 55, sched. C. No. 1) compelling these bachelors to pay certain taxes on servants at a higher rate than was paid by married men and widowers, and they also had to write
the letter
after their
names in
their tax returns.
not generally known, as stated by the Rev. H. J. Todd " Bachelor" in his edition of Johnson's Dictionary, that the term
But
it is
is
applied
by Ben Jonson
trust
to
an unmarried woman, and he
cites
your uncle he would keep you a bachelor still by keeping of your portion, and keep you not alone without a husband but in sickness. Magnetick Lady"
"
We do not
GOODMAN AND YEOMAN.

In the old Churchwarden's account book of Ogbourne St. George (which commenced in the year 1617 and has been recently mislaid),
under the date of 1674,
"
is
the following entry
They received
of
froodman Ayres
&
Mr. Buckerfield, chosen
churchwardens
for ye year 1674, ye
sum
of
18
5"
and in the same book in a

great
fire at
list
0. Os. 3d.,"
Northampton, there and " Goodman Cox,
of subscribers for the sufferers by a " Goodman N are entries

orris,
0. Os.
6d."
From
a letter dated
the archives of the Corporation of the Corporation Marlborough, which was addressed to this body by it appears that the fire occurred in 1675. of
January
10, 1675,
now among
Northampton,
2x2
340

bill of
In the dinner
the Earl of Leicester in 1570, before cited,

:
are the following items " To doz of waferne bread

iiij
Kicksone
For iij Pewetes [Pewits] to Goodman Cortyse of Staddome x8 8 For v Q.uayles which Goodman Welles gatte of one besides Fostell ij For xviij Ib and a ~ of Sugere to Goodmande Howe at xiij d the pounde xixs For Goodman Richardsone's paynes of St. Thomas Parrish to go to
.
. .
........
for the bottoms of the
marche
to
Goodman
xvj
d
Garvarde to Goodman Aldrege for partreges and such lyke xij^ For James Stevenes paynes of St. Peters of the Baylye to go to Staddome
.
to
Goodman
Curtyss for phesantes or the lyke
xij
d "
In
St.
Matthew
xxiv, 43
"If the good man of the house had
known in what hour the thief would come," &c., the word good-man is now commonly printed in two words, as if the first was an adjective
and the second a substantive. But in the Greek there is but one word signifying the " master of the house." And in Proverbs vii. 19,
" The goodman is not at home, he is gone," &c., the original but a single word, signifying " my husband."
is
Holinshed in his Chronicle (vol

"
1. p.
276, 4to ed.) says
The third and last sort is named the yeomanrie of whom and their sequele the labourers and artificers, I have said somewhat even now. Whereto I ad that they be not called Masters and Gentlemen but Goodmen, as Goodman
these
Goodman Coot, Goodman Cornell, Goodman Mascall, & in matters of law and the like are called thus, Giles lewd, yeoman, Edward Mountford, yeoman, lames Cocke, yeoman, Henry Butcher, yeoman, &c."
Smith,
Lord Coke 1
*
"
says,
Yeoman
or
Yemen.
This
is
a Saxon
is
word
gemen,' the Gr being turned in
common
speech, as
usual in like
cases, into a
In legal understanding a yeoman is a freeholder that may dispend 40s., anciently 5 nobles, per annum, and he is called probus et legalis homo" [good and lawful man].
Y.
But the question what
legally constituted a
yeoman was
consi-
dered by the Judges of Ireland in the year 1795.

In the case of James Weldon, who was tried in Dublin for High Treason under a Special Commission, on the 21st and 22nd of December, 1795, before Baron George, Mr. Justice Chamberlain, and Mr. Justice Finucane, 2 the " James Weldon of the Yeoman" he city of Dublin, prisoner was described as " that in abatement (a mode of objecting to the form of the indictment) pleaded
i
2 Institutes, p. 668.
State Trials, vol 26, p. 225.

he
is
341
not a yeoman but a soldier in his Majesty's seventh regiment of Dragoons." The Attorney-General Wolfe (afterwards Lord Kilwarden) put in a replication that the prisoner " is a yeoman," and to try this question a Jury was empanelled. Evidence was given by Mr. Gregg, the Governor of Newgate (in Dublin), that in a conversation with Weldon, " he said he was a breeches maker from the county of Meath, but that he had been a soldier for two that he was a
years
;
Black Horse, and was taken in Cork." Mr. Curran, his counsel, contended that he was not a yeoman, and relied on "a a passage in Mr. Justice Blackstone's Commentaries, 1 who says yeoman is he that hath free land of forty shillings a year." " Baron George said, Shakespere seems to have considered a soldier synoymous " It with yeoman, and Dr. Johnson, in his second definition of the word, says, seems to have been anciently a kind of ceremonious title given to soldiers, whence we still have yeomen of the guard. " Tall yeomen seem'd they and of great might, And were enranged ready still for fight." SPENCER. " You good yeomen Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture." SHAKESPERE, Hen. 5. Mr. Justice Chamberlain, in charging the Jury, said, " The issue you are to decide upon is whether the prisoner is a yeoman according to the strict legal definition of the word. Upon the authority of Judge Blackstone, who is certainly a very high authority in the law, the prisoner does not appear to be a
soldier in the
yeoman ; but according to the best writers in the English language he is a yeoman. It seems to have been anciently a ceremonious title given to soldiers, and we have still yeomen of the guard. All society is divided into peers, At baronets, knights, esquires, gentlemen, yeomen, tradesmen, and artificers. the time of finding this indictment the prisoner was not an artificer he had been a breeches maker, but two years before he had given up that and become a soldier, so that at the time of finding the bill he could not be entitled a tradesman or artificer, nor a gentleman, nor an esquire, therefore, under the common and I am strongly acceptation of the word, I think him sufficiently described fortified by this circumstance that no precedent is produced where a man is
; ;
described as a soldier" in an indictment. Upon the best English authorities yeoman is a title of courtesy. If we are wrong in this opinion, we shall be set right by the Judges who will be summoned this evening." The Jury retired, and after some deliberation brought in a verdict that the
"
prisoner is a yeoman. " are to On the next day (Dec. 22, 1795), Mr. Justice Chamberlain said, inform the prisoner and his counsel that nine of the Judges [of Ireland] met at Lord Clonmell's, and they were unanimously of opinion that the direction given to the Jury was right."
We
The prisoner then pleaded not guilty, was found guilty, condemned, and executed. 2
i
Vol.
1. p.
106.
State Trials, vol. 26, p. 292.
342
GAFFER.
Dr. Bosworth, in his Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, gives the word
" a Gefera" as meaning companion," and Todd, in his edition of Johnson's Dictionary, Tit. " Gaffer," says that Dr. Johnson, from " " others consider Junius, gives this as the derivation, and adds
contraction of good father, the sense of which
it
word came
to be
extended to every
man of some
age."
Todd
refers to Elstob, in the
Saxon Homily of St. Gregory (p. 20), and he explains the term Gaffer as " a word of respect now obsolete, or applied only to a mean
person," and gives the following quotation " A few honest gaffers with their elect pastor"
:
Bp. Gauden Ecc. Angl.
Susp. (1659), p. 585
and,
" For Gaffer Treadwell told us by the bye Excessive sorrow is exceeding dry." GAT'S PASTOKALS.
am informed by a
lady
of-
who has
passed a
life
of between 70
and
80 years in the county
Wilts, that about 65 or 70 years ago the
cottagers about Liddiard Tregoz and Liddiard Millicent were many of them called Gaffer and Gammer, as " Gaffer Jones," " Gammer
Smith," &c.
GRANDFER AND GRANDFATHER.

This
old
is
a style
still
used to old
men
in
North Wilts.
man
at
place, who Doling ;" that her mother often talked of is between 80 and 90 years old, an eccentric old farmer there whose real name was Creech, but who
Ogbourne St. George, named Doling, is and I am told by Mrs. Charlotte Mills of that
very " called Granfer
was always
called
"
Grandfather Screech."
She
also told
me
that
in the year 1745, Grandfather Screech" and three others passed the night in Barbury Camp to be on the look-out for the army of
"
Prince Charles Edward, and that in the course of the night one of " Grandfather Screech." the party took away and hid the shoes of
It
would seem that Grandfather Screech was
so called
merely from
being an old man, as he never had any children.
DAME.
In the chancel at Broad-Hinton, Wilts, is this inscription " Here lyethe Syr William Wroughton Knight whoe dyed in the 50 yere of his age in Anno Domini 1559 and lefte yssve of his bodie by dame Elinor his
:

wiffe doughter of
343
Edwarde Leuknor Esqvier, fovre sonnes and thre doughters and bylded the novse at Brodhinton Ao Di 1540."
the proper style of the wife of a Baronet or Knight but it was within the last thirty years often applied in North Wilts " to the old women in the cottages, as " Dame Dame Cox," &c. And the village schools for little children Eagle," kept by such old women were called Dame Schools, and are so called in the
is
;
Dame
Parliamentary Reports on Education.

time, elderly ladies at
for
And down
to the present
Eton who keep boarding and lodging houses the Etonians are called " Dames."
MADAM.
This style was applied to Ladies, frequently to the wives of the gentry and clergy, from the time of Charles the Second till nearly
the present time. Under the engraving of Miss (or as she was called Mrs.) Davis, an actress who was a mistress of Charles the Second, is engraved, "Madam Davis."
The
late
Rev. "W. Slatter, Vicar of Cumnor, told me, in the year
1848, that the father of the parish clerk of that place, a very old
man, related to him the village tradition of the tragic conclusion of Sir Walter Scott's novel of Kenilworth, in the following words,
long before the publication of that novel
"
:
A many years
laid her,
ago
Madam
Dudley [for the
title
of Leicester
and the name
of Robsart were wholly unknown at Cumnor] was murdered at the Hall, and her ghost walked in the Park for a long time, till nine parsons came from Oxford
and
and they
laid her in a
pond which
is
now
called
Madam
Dudley's
pond."i
In the old Ogbourne
St.
George Churchwarden's account book
a list of subscriptions in 1680, " towards (before referred to), in the Redemption of the Poor Christian Slaves which were lately " taken by the Turkish pyrates," there is an entry Madam Hart, The sister of the two Baronets, Sir Michael and Sir 0. 2s. 6d."
Edward
Ernie,
who was known
as the beautiful Miss Ernie,
and
i The Park is now a field adjoining Cumnor Churchyard. Madam Dudley's filled up, but a spring that was in it still pond, which was in the Park, is now denotes the spot.
344
afterwards called Mrs. Ernie, was styled by all the neighbouring " She died about the year 1793. Her cottager^ Madam Ernie." and their residence was Brimslade House, near Marlborough Forest.
Mrs. Jenner of Burbage, Wilts, who was the widow of the Rev. Henry Jenner, Vicar of Great Bedwyn, Rector of Rockhampton
Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Ailesbury, was Jenner by the old people of Burbage down to the time of her death in the year 1826. And in the Gloucester
and
Domestic
always called
Madam
Journal of July 26, 1845, in an account of tKe meeting of the " Longhope Friendly Society, it is said that after Divine service the Society paraded through the village calling at the residence of
Madam
trial at
Probyn," as that lady was no doubt still called by the She was the widow of the Dean of Landaff. And at a villagers.
Gloucester before Baron Alderson, on the 20th of July, 1854,
of the case of
v. Potter,
Lyner
an action
for a nuisance, the plaintiff,
an old farmer who lived
at "Walmisley, near Bristol, stated that his
" landlady was Madam Toghill," the grandmother of Mr. Peterson, his attorney, who had brought the action for him.
GENEROSA.
"Generosus and Generosa [Gentleman and says, Gentlewoman] are good additions, and if a gentlewoman be named
Lord Coke
any originall writ, &c., appeale or inditement, she may abate and quash the same for she hath as good right to that addition as Baronesse, Yiscountesse, Marchionesse, or Dutchesse have
spinster in
;
to theirs."
MISTRESS.
This was anciently written "Maistresse," as Doctour's Tale, 2
we
find in Chaucer's
" This maid of which I tell my tale expresse, She kept herself, her needed no maistresse."
" Todd, in his edition of Johnson's Dictionary [Tit. Miss"], says, " Mistress was at the beginning of the last century the style of
2nd
Institute, p. 665.
Vol
1,
p. 92, in Chalmers's English Poets.
345
grown up unmarried
ladies,
though the mother was

its
living,
and
for
a considerable part of the century maintained the infantine term of " Miss."
ground against
At
any
the
Sun Fire
Office,
which was established in the year 1710,

Mrs." without
all ladies
were in their
" policies of insurance styled
regard to their being married or single, but within the last
three years the single ladies are in their policies styled " Miss," as
" hundred years ago they they do not like to be called Mrs." would have been offended at being called Miss, as that was then a term of contempt if not of reproach.
In a work
(p.
in
called "The Lover," edited by Sir Richard Steele under the date of Feb. 27, 1714, is the following note 18), the edition printed in 1789 by Mr. J. Nichols, "That
'
young women were at this time usually styled Mrs,' has been It may be new to observe that repeatedly shown by the Tatler. it appears from the Register Book of St. Bride's, London, that
early in the last century children were so denominated
when
their
names were recorded in baptism."

Miss.
Dr. Johnson, in his Dictionary, [Tit. " Miss,"] defines this to be " the term of honour to a young girl ;" and Todd, in his edition of the Dictionary, adds, " Miss, at the beginning of the last century, was appropriated to the daughters of gentlemen under the age of
ten, or
for the giddiness or irregularity of their conduct :"
given opprobriously to young gentlewomen reproachable and he cites

:
Corres :, vol. 1, p. 92. Todd also cites the " When there are little masters following passage from Dean Swift and misses in a house, they are great impediments to the diversions of the servants ;" which shows that a little girl in his time was
the notes to Steele's Epist
styled
" Miss."
"
In Gait's Lives of the Players, 1 it is said that the epithet Miss Miss Cross, who is in the 17th century was a term of reproach. " Love and to Farquhar's particularly noticed in Hayne's Epilogue a Bottle," about 1702, was the first actress announced as Miss"
i
Vol.
1, p. 13.
2 Y
346
MA'AM.
This style was
to old
till
very recently, and probably
is still,
applied
women who keep
schools for little children in
North Wilts
similar to those called Dame Schools. These schools are called " Ma'am and the persons who keep them have " Ma'am" Schools,"
prefixed to their names. shire for when I was a

;
This
little
is,
I believe, not peculiar to Wilt-
boy, I
remember a school of
this
sort at
Berkeley in Gloucestershire,
called
which was kept by Mrs. Parslow,
who was always
"
Ma'am
Parsley."
GOODWOMAN AND GOODWIFE.

In the Ogbourne Churchwardens' Book, before
the subscription
list
cited, there is in
Potter
0. Os.
" Goodwoman the Northampton Fire, " the 4d.," and in a subscription list for Redemption
for
of all English Slaves which were

pyratts,"
lately
taken
we
0.
find " Goodwife Coleman

Os.
0. Os.
by y Turkish 6d." and " Goodw.
Sheepreve
6d."
however, infer that a person thus designated was really good, or even supposed to be so, for in the books of the
We must not,
an entry of 2s. paid the porters for ducking of Goodwife Campion, who was probably not thought good for much. Mr. Aubrey, in his " Collections for Wilts" (part 2, p. 12), under
is
1 Corporation of Gravesend
Tit.
" Yatton Keynell," says
[.
" Note. A tenant of my father's here, one Goodwife Miller did dentire e. had young teeth] in the eighty fifth yeare of her age or more."
And
in the dinner bill of the Earl of Leicester in 1570, before
cited, are
many
instances of the same kind, as
" For x Ib of butter at d ob. the Ib. to Goodwife Segwekes iij For iiij Ib. of butter to Goodwife Howe at iij d the pounde For iij Ib of butter to Goodwife Essexe at iijd Ob the Ib.
.
ij
xj<*
xij xd
ob
"
WIDOW.
This appellation was often applied in the 17th and 18th centuries This is to the widows of persons in the middle and lower classes.
i
See above, p. 71.
347
shown by the
lists
trifling
:
before cited
as
"
sums given in the Ogbourne subscription Widow Potter" 6d., in 1680, and " Widow
" Wid.
Goddard"
3d., in 1685,
Hal"
6d., &c.
GAMMER.
Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, Tit. " Gammer," says, " of uncertain etymology, perhaps from grandmere, and therefore commonly used
to old
"
women ;" but Todd, in his edition of the Dictionary, adds, From good-mother [Ray]. From god-mother, perhaps from the
;
Saxon 'Gemather,' like the contraction .of Gaffer from Godfather, or from the Gothic ' Gumma,' a woman and he explains the word Gammer to mean " the compellation of a woman, corresponding to ' Gaffer, as Gammer Gurton's Needle/ the name of an old play." " I have already mentioned that the style " Gammer was used at Liddiard Tregoz and Liddiard Millicent between 65 and 70 years
ago.
GRAMMER. At Burbage, Wilts, there was a very old cottager who died about 20 years ago, who was always called " Grammer Barnet."
GODMER.
At Burbage, about 25 years ago, a woman died at She offered some mushrooms to a lady as a age.
a very advanced
present,
and on
" Lord
the lady asking her name, she exclaimed in astonishment, a massy upon me, why don't you know old Godmer Davis."
GONMER.
At Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, about 45 years ago, a very old woman, whose husband was the owner of a sloop which carried coals
on the Severn, was always called " Gonmer Cook." " It would seem that "Granmer was a contraction of grandmother, and "Godmer" and "Gonmer" contractions of godmother, the more uncertain as to whether it might not latter,
perhaps, being
its
have had
origin from grandmother.

GOSSIP.
one meaning Todd, in his edition of Johnson's Dictionary, gives " answers for a child in baptism, of the word Gossip," to be one who 2 Y2
348

is
and adds, "It Chaucer uses it

:
now commonly
understood of the godmother.
for godfather ;"
and he gives the following quota-
tions " Our Christian ancestors understanding a spiritual affinity to grow between the parents and such as undertooke for the child at baptisme called each other
is as much as to say that they were sib together, of kin together through God, and the child in like manner called such his godfathers and godmothers." Verstegan Rest : of Dec : Intell : " At the christening of George Duke of Clarence, who was born in the Castle of Dublin, he made both the Earl of Kildare and the Earl of Ormond his Gossips" Dames on Ireland.
by the name of Godsib, which

is,
that
joint letter of Prince Charles, afterwards Charles the First,

Yilliers,
and George
1
ingham, to France and Spain in disguise, in 1623, still remains in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 2 It is directed on the back, " from
his heighnes " Dere
written from Madrid,
then Marquis and afterwards Duke of Buckwhen they were on their tour
and
my
lo
marques
to his matie
ffrome madred the 21 mar. 1623."
Dad and Gossope

is to
This
is
Rome with
taken,
a direction to send the nearest

allso
aduertise your Majesty that Mihill Androse is now dispached to way to you so sone as anie resolution
he caries with him
a letter from the Conde de Olivares to the
Pope's nephew which wee hope if there be neede will much hasten the business Sir hetherto wee have not receaued a letter from you but to oure greate
my Lord of Andeuer 3 who will be here to morow hath some for us We haue receaued so much comfort at the verie news of it, that wee must giue you thankes before the receate of them Wee haue no more to trouble you with at this time onelie wee beseech you in the absence of your tow boys to make much of oure best dade without whose helth and blessings wee
comfort wee here that
desier not to live.
Your Majestys Humble and obedient
sone
&
servant
CHARLES.
Your Majestys humble

Madrill the 21 of Mar. 1623.
slaue
and doge
STEEEIE. 4
Be cheerfull goodman of Balangith for wee warrant you wee less repent our jurnei euerie day than other."
1
all shall
goe well for
He was
of
Duke
2 3
created Marquess of Buckingham on the Buckingham on the 18th of May, 1623.
1st of January, 1618,
and
Orig. Tan. Ixxiii.
of
'
Thomas the
Theophilus Viscount Andover, 1st Earl in 1626.

'
who became 2nd Earl of
Suffolk on the death
'
4 King James the First used to call his son Charles and this Royal favorite " Baby Charles and Steenie." (See Hume's Hist, of Engl. under date of 1623.)
The Ancient
Styles
and Designations of Persons.
349
The following letter from King James the

while
still
First to Prince Charles,

:
on his
1 tour, is also in the Bodleian Library " For the Trends.
My
sweete Babie
Since the ending of my last letris unto you, I haue ressauid a lettre of youres from the Lorde Keeper 2 quhiche tells me the first newis of a parliament (and that in a strainge forme) euer I hearde of since youre pairting from me. By suche intelligence both ye and my sweete Steenie Gossepp maye juge of thaire worth that make thaim unto you and ye maye reste assured that I neuer meant to undertake anie suche bussienesse in youre absence if ithadde bene propowndit unto me as in goode faith I neuer hearde of ii^-And so with God's to
that after a happie conclusion thaire ye maye both a comfortable and happie returne in the armes of youre deare dade.
I praye
you both
God
blessing
make
Greenwiche, the 11 of Maye.
JAMES R."
in the handwriting of with the exception of the words
is
The whole
the
of the
first
of these letters
Duke
of
Buckingham,
" Your Majesty's Humble
&
obedient sone and servant CHAJRLES."
which are in the handwriting of Prince Charles.
The second
the First. 3
letter is entirely in the
handwriting of King James
The word " Gossip"

begins thus
also occurs in
an old Wiltshire song, which
" Good morrow, Gossip Joan, Where have you been a walking I wanted you to see,
I've a budget full of talking,
Gossip Joan."
This song must have been well known in the reign of George the First, as the music of it was introduced into the Beggar's Opera in
1727.
It
was sung in Wiltshire

parties at the
at Harvest
Homes, Christenings,
and Christmas
to are taken
middle of the
last century.
In the foregoing paper thirty-five of the instances I have referred from the county of Wilts.
I hope that some of our Wiltshire friends will furnish others, and favour us with further illustrations of the subject. F. A. CARRINGTON.
i
Orig. Hoi. Tan. Ixxiii.
fol.
326.
am
copies of them, I indebted to the kindness of the Rev. Dr. Bandinel, the principal Librarian of the Bodleian Library. The former of the two letters has been lithographed
John Williams, Bishop of Loncoln. For the perusal of these letters and for permission to take
2
by Mr.
NetherclifF in his " Autographs of Royal and Illustrious Personages."
350
Bnto
SALMON FISHING IN WILTS.
:
nnfr
toras.
" Aubrey, in his chapter on Fishes," " Salmons are sometimes makes the following statement taken in the upper Avon, rarely, at Harnham bridge juxta Sarum." (Nat.
To this Britton appends, by way of a note, a quotation from Hatcher " On the authority of this passage, Dr. Maton includes the salmon among the Wiltshire fish but he adds,
Hist, of Wilts, p. 63.)
:
know no person now living who has ascertained its having ascended the Avon so far as Salisbury." (Hatcher's Hist, of Salis.
I
p. 689.)
In explanation of
that
so recently as
this apparent contradiction, it
may
be stated
least, the pages of the Commons' furnish evidence that the salmon of this county was Journals
1715 at
In the 4th and 5th of considered worth legislative protection. Queen Anne, an Act had been obtained "for the increase and
better preservation of the salmon
and other
:
fish in
the rivers in the
Southamptou and Wilts" and in the 1st George I., a was inserted in the said Bill enlarging the time of salmonfishing in the said counties from the last day of June to the first of
counties of
clause
August following.
(Commons' Journals,
vol. xviii. p. 177.)
REBECCA RIOTS.
The midnight demolition
of turnpikes, com-
monly in Wales and other western counties, indicated but the revival of an old prejudice which had from time to time found expression in
similar acts a
designated as the acts of Rebecca,
which recently occurred
hundred years ago.
The dwellers
in the
Chippenham
themselves in the year 1728, by their unrelenting opposition to an act which was then endeavoured to be put in operation for a road from Studley through Chippenham to
district especially signalised
were compelled to apply to Parliament for protection and advice. The rioters on this occasion appear to have attempted no disguise, assembling by day as well as night.
Toghill
;
till
at last the trustees
In our own days, the turnpike nuisance in another part of Wilts having exceeded all endurable limits, was crushed by the moral
351
agency of a single individual. This gentleman was the late Amram Saunders of Lavington, to whom the farmers and gentry of the in 1827, an elaborate service of neighbourhood presented, plate, for having accomplished the removal of eleven gates within a distance
of three or four miles.
This exploit, accomplished by means of a was performed in the year 1735 from the top of Bromham rope, church steeple. It had long been a favourite exhibition in London, where it usually took place from the summit of Old St. Paul's Church. In 1731, a seaman descended from Hackney steeple with a streamer in
STEEPLE-FLYING.
each hand.
The following
records
extract from an old letter relative to this trick,
HOW THE MEN

"
OF
BROMHAM PULLED THEIR OWN CHURCH
SPIRE DOWN.
Mankind, not satisfied with travelling on the elements of earth and water, have attempted to invade the air, from the days of Doodalus downwards. Pennis non homini datis,' (' with wings not
'
given to man,') they have hitherto essayed, unsuccessfully, the Art of Flying notwithstanding Bishop Wilkins's prediction that the
:
time would come when a
man
setting out on a journey would ring
for his wings, as heretofore for his boots.
About 100 years

country,
flight
ago, an adventurer of this kind travelled the
making
for
money
at different places the exhibition of a
from towers and
steeples.
His method was
to
fixed to the top of the place
from which he was
to descend,
have a rope and
strained to a convenient place where he was to alight.
A board,
with a groove to receive the cord, was fixed to the breast of the aeronaut,' and by this he was to descend headforemost to the point
1
other places he visited Bromham, and having solicited permission to 'fly' from the steeple, some idle people of the place, without consulting the clergyman, who was
of alighting.
Amongst
indisposed, gave
him
leave to perform.
A time was appointed, the

The
flyer ascended the
apparatus was fixed, and a

steeple,
mob
assembled.
made
his plunge,
and was half way down the
rope,
when
some persons employed to strain it pulled it too hard. The top of the spire gave way, and came down. The aeronaut, luckily for himself, fell into a tree in the churchyard, and received but little
352
hurt.
pieces.
Donations
to the
Museum and
Library.
to
Had
lie
fallen to the
ground he would have been dashed

;
This event probably put an end to but as steeple-flying the inhabitants of a country are often ridiculed for the foolish acts
of their neighbours, the story of pulling down their own steeple was for a long time a standing joke against the people of Bromham. It was repaired but some years afterwards was struck by lightning, and shivered near the same point where it had been broken before."
;
A PEEP AT THE WILTSHIRE ASSIZES. A poem in several cantos. Who was the author ? A copy is in the library at Devizes.
J.
W.
DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.

By
2
the Most Noble the MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, Bowood.
Divers works of Early Masters in Christian Decoration.

vols. folio.
Weale.
By EARL
at Great
BRUCE, Tottenham.
Gold ring found in a
Roman
villa
Bedwyn.
Sir R. C.
Yen. ARCHDEACON MACDONALD, Bishops Cannings. Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire. Part 1.
By
F. C. LUKIS, ESQ., F.S.A., Guernsey. Eight Hand Bricks and Plaster Cast of a Guernsey Stone Celt. Type, Anglo-Norman.
By
By JOHN BROWN WHITE,
ESQ., Little Bedwyn.
Nine Roman
Coins found in the parish of Little Bedwyn. By T. E. BLACKWELL, ESQ., Clifton. Ordnance
Map
of North
and South Wilts (with Roman Stations, &c. coloured). By REV. A. FANE, Warminster. Seven Roman Coins (copper and silver).
By
REV. A.
EWEN,
Dumfries.
Impression of Chapter Seal of
Melrose Abbey.
By
J.
Y. AKERMAN, ESQ.
A.D. 1312.]
A Fine between Robert de Hakeney,

:
Parson of Aldyngton, and Robert Atte Hull
of land at
Ramsbury.
[About
END OF YOL
H. BULL,
Printer, Saint
I.
John
Street, Devizes.
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Museum and Library

The Rudge Cup Plan of Castle Grounds

Anglo-Saxon Relics at Harnham Boyton Church Windows in Lambert Chapel

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History Society, an opportunity

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It will be seen in the Rules, that a

held once in every year, at some time and place to be fixed by

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These, with the Proceedings of each

Meeting, will of course appear in print.

has been thought advisable not to confine the Society's

In the hope of sustaining a more

lively interest in the objects for

has been established,

of which the present

the First, relating to the

general History and Antiquities of the County of Wilts.

more remote parts of

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to place it within the reach of readers of every class, it

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the correspondents, or others,

the liberality to contribute

hoped may not unfrequently be the

Such a form of publication presents the advantage of being open

series of Historical Papers, or

of the Geology, and Botany, &c., of the County at large

and elaborate character

for example, extracts from, or

Books already published upon Wiltshire; casual notices and descriptions,

accounts of local customs, etymologies of names, or other

upon any of the various