162 Wilt.^ Miiiisfrrs (A.D. 1643—1662;. 



The omitted references are : — 



" Orcheston St. Mary : Vide Union. 

 Orcheston St. George : Vide Union. 

 Wroughton : It it referred to the returne of the Marlborough Division. 



Westwood) T^j^jT„;^„ 

 T-, J M lae Union. 

 & Forde j 



Chippenham : Vide Union. 

 Titherton Kelways : Vide Union." 



There are, I believe, in the MS. one hundred and seventy entries 

 for Wilts, relating to only twelve out of the thirty-two hundreds 

 and boroughs in the shire. At the present time we have two 

 hundred and seventy -eight Churches in the two "Wiltshire arch- 

 deaconries comprised in the diocese of Salisbury, apart from those 

 in the adjacent dioceses. The extracts which I have just cited 

 show that we must look in other returns of 1651 (or thereabouts) 

 for a record of ministers in the " Marlborough Division," and in 

 the " Wiltshire Union." Some idea of the extent of the "Wiltshire 

 Association may, perhaps, be gathered from the letter of Adonirani 

 Byfield to Scobell, printed in Peck's Desiderata (ii., 492 — 4), of 

 which I have made use. It evidently comprised at least the 

 ministers of Pewsey, Marlborough (St. Peter's and St. Mary's), 

 Salisbury (St. Edmund's, the Close, and St. Thomas's), Donhead 

 (St. Mary and St. Andrew), Newton Toney, Barford, Jk-oughton, 

 "Westbury, Chilton, Poulshot, and Aldbourne. 



A record of 1 649 which Dr. Shaw has printed, and which I 

 have used for my list, adds the names of Collingbourne Kingston, 

 " Archford, " Seend, Uphara, Burbidge, Maiden Bradley, Mere, 

 Devizes (St. John's and St. Mary's), "Warminster, Highworth 

 chapelries (Broad Blundesdon, Sevenliampton, and South Marston) 

 "Westbury, Avebury, Ogbourne (St. George and St. Andrew), Bishops 

 Cannings, Biddeston, and Heytesbury. lu 1658 we find also the 

 ministers of St.- Martin's, Sarum, and llamsbury considered worthy 

 of remuneration from the Dean and Chapter's plunder by the 

 powers that then were. 



Whether the augmentation books belonging to the Wilts 

 " "Union " or the " Marlborough Division " are still extant, in 



