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worth inspection. The chancel is supposed to be part of the nave 
of the old church, and portions of it partake of the Saxon character. 
Tradition still points out a site at Westbury Leigh as the residence 
of our Anglo Saxon Kings, and to this day it retains the name of 
the Palace Garden. In the south transept is a monument in the 
Corinthian style to James Ley, “that good” Earl of Marlborough, 
who was born at Teffont in South Wiltshire. Sir Richard Hoare hasa 
good engraving of it in his work on Modern Wilts. In this church 
was formerly a chantry chapel built in the time of Henry VI., and 
founded by. John de Westbury and his son William. The latter was 
an eminent lawyer, who was called to the rank of serjeant-at-law in 
1421, and justice of the Common Pleas in 1426. In 1861 the name 
of Westbury was selected for the title of his barony by the Right 
Hon. Sir Richard Bethel, Lord High Chancellor of England, who 
is a native of Bradford-on-Avon, in this county. Among the 
ejected ministers of Wiltshire is the name of Phillip Hunton, M.A., 
who was instituted to Westbury in 1657 and died in 1682. Westbury 
has of late become more known from its ironworks. A paper by 
my friend Mr. Cunnington, on this subject will be read to you. 
Aubrey, in his Natural History of Wiltshire, conjectures that the 
clothiers left Seend and settled at Trowbridge because the water 
being impregnated with iron was not proper for the fulling and 
washing of their cloth. Might this have been the case with the 
clothiers of Westbury? From Westbury we go to Bratton, with 
its pretty little church dedicated to St. James. Nestling at the 
foot of our Wiltshire Downs, near the summit of which is the white 
horse of Westbury, the quiet little village seems to rejoice in the 
protection of the earthwork above, called Bratton Castle, situate 
nearly 800 feet above the level of the sea. A description and 
history of the White Horses of Wiltshire will be given us by the 
Rev. W. C. Plenderleath, and I will refrain from riskmg too much 
of an opinion on their origin. I like to think of the old tradition, 
which makes the white horse the standard of the Saxons, but I find 
that the historian Henry of Huntingdon, speaks of the golden 
dragon as the standard of the West Saxons. However, the Bratton 
horse is evidently of a good breed, as Sir Richard Hoare tells us. 
