The Parish Church. 283 



1732, and of whom a brief notice will be found in an earlier number 

 of this Magazine.' 



Other monuments relate to the Grubbe family, and there is a small 

 brass in the north transept to the memory of Susanna Grubbe, 

 daughter of Thomas Grubbe, Esq., who died in 1684. 



Others relate to the families of Flower, Bailey, Speaeikg, Kent, 

 and Weay. The latter monument records the fact of the deprivation 

 of the Rev. Robert Byng, D.D. (an ancestor of the Wray family), 

 from the Rectory of All Cannings, for his loyalty to King Charles 

 II., and his decease and burial, before the Restoration, at St. John's 

 Church, Devizes. 



There are several stained glass windows in the church. The east 

 windows were placed in memory of the late Vicar, the Rev. Joseph 

 Medlicott. Others have been inserted as memorials of various 

 members of the families of Grubbe, Oldfield, and Olivier. The head 

 of the last-named family was the late Colonel Olivier, who became 

 connected with Potterne in 1830, and who for some thirty years was 

 the lessee under the Bishop, and so, for the time being. Lord of the 

 Manor of Potterne. It was he that, at the time of the machine- 

 burning riots, organized a troop of yeomanry cavalry known as the 

 " Potterne Troop,''' to act as mounted police — a troojJ that was dis- 

 banded in 1836. For a portion of the time that he resided at 

 Potterne he was churchwarden of the parish, and seconded the vicar^ 

 the Rev. G. Edmonstone, in his efforts for the providing educational 

 and other advantages for the people of his charge. He was also 

 for a short time the possessor of the Porch House, now in course of 

 restoration, and so indirectly the means of preserving it: for at 

 that time it was being utilised, and converted into simdry tene- 

 ments, and ruthlessly treated, to provide for the tenants' supposed^ 

 needs. Colonel Olivier was the first Treasurer moreover of the 

 Wilts ArchsEological Society, and so well deserves this passing men- 

 tion at our hands. On his decease in 1864, the property belonging 

 to him was sold, and the connexion of his family with the parish 

 terminated. 



1 Wilts Mag., xiii., 59. 



