20 Amesbury Church. Reasons for thinking that it 
22d.” : also, for two days work, putting the stables in order for the 
reception of the Harl’s great horses, 2s- 24.; and for carrying six 
loads of hay to the stables, 2s.” 
Mr. Thynne, the Earl’s secretary, is incidentally mentioned, 
afterwards, as Sir John Thynne, so well known as the builder of 
Longleat. | Probably these papers, relating to the Amesbury 
demolitions, remained in his custody, and that is how they come to 
be now at Longleat. 
Mr. Butterfield’s alterations of Amesbury Church, in 1852 and 
1853, have not only destroyed a great deal of its interest, but also 
deprived us of evidence that we particularly wanted by obliterating 
part of its architectural history. He removed the Perpendicular 
east window from the chancel, preserving only the terminals of its 
hood moulding, which now serve as supports to the credence table. 
These bear the initials D.K.D.! on shields, filled in with coloured 
material. I have not heard any suggested identification of the 
above cyphers. He placed a new roof on the chancel, which may 
perhaps have been necessary, but, as a consequence, we are unable 
to form an opinion as to what was the character of the former roof 
that Mr. Kemm describes.2 He altered the west end of the nave, 
1 These are two angels much weathered (showing that they were external 
corbels), carrying shields on which the letters and bands are incised and filled 
in with black and red composition. Mr. Kemm (page 14) gives the letters 
circumstantially but inaccurately as J. D. and K. D., and he says the corbels 
‘‘are figured in the 2nd volume of the ‘ Journal of the Archeological Institute,’ 
p. 194, in a communication from the late Rev. Wm. Grey.” It seems extra- 
ordinary that Mr. Kemm should have made such a mistake about these letters, 
but he appears to have repeated a statement made by Mr. Grey, without 
thinking it necessary to verify such statement, and Mr. Grey may have 
mistaken the letters, when in their original situation, if he read them from 
the ground. Canon Jackson also refers to the drawings in the Journal of the 
Institute, giving the letters on the shields as I. D. and K. D. (Wilts Arch. 
Mag., vol. x., p. 84.) The real cypher, D.K.D., might be that of a man and 
his wife, the initial of the surname being K. and that of the Christian name 
ofeach, D. The work need not really be earlier than the time of Henry VIII. 
* He says (page 12) :—‘‘Ths chancel roof too, which gave place to the 
present one when the Church was restored, was not at all equal to that which 
still covers the nave ; though it was of the same pitch, it was less ornamented, 
and its carving did not entirely match, thereby indicating that it was made 
up of old materials.” 
Sir Richard Hoare says :-—“‘ The ceilings, both of nave and choir, are of oak 
