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together with a smaller one, less ornate and devoid of shields, but of similar 
construction, which stood on the story above, and was connected with the same 
chimneystack. The frame of a window on the north side of the same story, the 
_ holes in which had been inserted the ends of the joists, and the above-mentioned 
fireplace, were the only indications of there having been an upper story. In the 
centre of the building was the barn floor, with the usual barn doors in the north 
_ wall. On the south side the width had been extended by the addition of a porch, 
Over this central space (probably the hall) was an elaborate oak roof of fifteenth 
century work. West of this were no signs of a second story ; but at the extreme 
end holes for receiving the supports’ of some erection remained in the wall 
_ (probably a minstrel’s gallery), extending throughout the whole width from north 
to south. In the north wall near the east end, looking into Castle Street, an un- 
usually long oak-framed eight-mullioned window, with tracery of the same date 
as the structure itself (which was coeval with the grand restoration of the Church, 
1460), remained in good preservation. ‘There is no tradition as to the time of 
its conversion from a dwelling-house to a barn. The whole of the block of land 
from Castle Street to Church Street, between Old Barton Lane and the house 
now called the Bungalow, was Church property till recent years, and the greater 
_ portion of it occupied by the farmhouse and homestead of the Parsonage Farm. 
The “Grant of Garden, &c., to the Dean and Chapter of Sarum,” on p. 334 of 
; vol. xxix. of this Magazine, mentions the residence of the Dean, but as the date 
_ of that document is about A.D.1280, this may not be the site there named ; the 
probability is that the mill stood at the edge of the pond in “ Dean’s Orchard,” 
: and that the water flowing thence was its motive power. There are still the re- 
- mains of some buildings near the dam, where the mill might have stood, and 
_ these suggest the idea that the Dean’s house at that date stood somewhere near ; 
that the croft adjacent was the field now called Knaplocks ; and that the garden 
was a portion of the present “ Dean’s Orchard,” which is still Church property. 
The three existing mills belong to the Duchy of Cornwall, so the grant could 
not apply to either of these, and every requisite for a mill being found here the 
probability is that the property there named was situated on this spot. 
REMARKABLE DREAM. 
August 10th, 1884, there died at Westbury, aged 72, Mary Anne, wife of 
Frederick Herridge, formerly a labouring man at Mere, who migrated to 
Westbury some years previously. She was the illegitimate daughter of Nancy 
Mills, of Mere, who before her birth was engaged to be married to one John 
‘Gray, he having another sweetheart at the same time. This must have been in 
‘1811 or 1812. pie was living at that time in the house in Salisbury Street, 
Mere, now owned by Mr. Rutter, a doctor named Hicks. One night he dreamed 
that he saw a man digging a grave in a certain field near the town. He awoke, 
went to sleep again, had the same dream, awoke again, and again going to sleep 
dreamed the same dream a third time, He then got up and walked to the field 
(“Mere Mead,” adjoining the old vicarage, to the south). On his way there he 
met with Nancy Mills in the road, and asked her where she was going at that 
