320 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
Robert Hungerford in 1836, giving to the Hospital and Priory of St. 
John the Baptist “juxta Eldebrook,” near the town of Calne, 40 acres 
in Stock, Stockley, Quemerford, and Tasworth, on condition that mass 
was said every day except Sundays and festivals at St. Edmund’s altar 






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in the Parish Church, for the soul of his mother; translations of the 
original terrier setting forth the visitation of Calne by the Dean of Sarum 
as ordinary in 1405, and of the deed of augmentation of the vicarage, 
executed in 1375, are among the most interesting points. 
The history of Nonconformity in the place is also gone into, and in 
this connection it is interesting to find that the Baptists still use the 
pewter plates and cups which were given for the communion service by 
Mr. Cue, of Compton Bassett, in 1710. It is worth while noting, too, 
that Mr. Taylor, Baptist minister in 1776, states in his journal that the 
Baptists, who under Charles II. were debarred from assembling at their 
usual place of meeting, met sometimes under a white thorn bush near 
Upper Whitley, which until 1803—when it disappeared—was known as 
‘*Gospel Bush.” } 
Some interesting extracts from the churchwardens’ accounts are given 
in the appendix. Amongst them a couple of notices of the Church plate: 
“one Challyce all Gylte w'" a cover” being mentioned in the inventory 
of V. Ed. VI., the said chalice being apparently mentioned again in 1576, 
thus: ‘‘ Received of W™ Goodwyne the Gouldsmythe when the Com- 
munion Cupp was made of the old Challyce as overplus in weighte xvij*.” 
This is the first documentary evidence that has come to light of the fact 

1 Does not this suggest that the ‘‘Gospel Oaks,” &c., which have been 
supposed by the Bishop of Bristol and others to point back to a remote period 
when Christianity was first being introduced into England, are in many 
cases more likely really to derive their name from the Nonconformists of 
the 17th century ?—E.H.G. 
