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Taking the book as a whole, however, as has been said before, its real 
value lies in the part which is concerned with Calne itself. It is true 
that the earlier history of the place—we get as far as the 16th century 
in the first forty pages—is taken almost entirely from other books and 

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contains very little indeed that is new, but the municipal history from 
the 16th century onwards is treated very fully and satisfactorily. Indeed 
this is the best and strongest part of the book. The ‘‘ obnoxious” 
charter of James II., which was never acknowledged by the burgesses, 
is printed in full in the appendix, from a copy at the Record Office. A 
great part of the matter given in this connection comes from the ‘‘Burgus 
Book or Book of th’ accompte” begun by Philip Rich, town clerk and 
vicar in 1561, which contains 500 or 600 pages, and records the receipts 
and payments of the guild stewards, and is also occasionally used as the 
minute book of the corporation. 
All this portion of the book, as well as the appendices containing 
extracts from lay subsidies and other rolls, showing the names of the 
inhabitants of Calne in the reigns of Edward III., Henry VIII., Edward 
VI., Elizabeth, and Charles I.—indents of guild stewards and mayors 
from 1561 onwards—and the list of M.P.s from 1295 to 1885—contains 
a mass of information which is not to be found elsewhere. 
The chapter on the architecture of the Church, written by Mr. 
Brakspear, is again full and valuable. He is inclined to think that the 
jamb and springer of a window visible in the wall above the second, 
pier of the nave arcade on the north side may be the sole remains of 
the Saxon Church mentioned as existing here in Domesday. 
The ecclesiastical history of the prebend of Calne is also fairly fully 
dealt with. The chantries of St. Mary Magdalene and the B.V.M. 
founded in the Parish Church by John St. Lo; the benefaction of Sir 
