346 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
would have been a hundred years old. The next portrait to 
be noticed is called Lady Danvers; certainly not the mother of 
Lady Anne Lee; the style of dress, which, like the above, is that of 
Charles the Second’s Court, quite forbids this assumption ; but it 
may creditably pass for Sir John’s third wife, who we know long 
survived him. The third portrait is that of Lady Anne Lee 
herself, Sir John Danvers’s daughter and the mother of the first 
Countess of Abingdon, an innocent-looking young creature in 
Restoration costume, and painted, we may presume, not long after 
her marriage with Sir Henry Lee. This picture may be accepted 
without hesitation. The marble memorials of Henry and Anne in 
West Lavington Church complete our list of family portraits; for 
it cannot now be expected that any credible representation of the 
old knight himself in his later days, will ever crop up. 
The above is but a scanty yathering from a field which the late 
Rev. Edward Wilton, of Lavington, had crowded with abundance. 
Born in the neighbouring priory of Edington, his early rambles 
among the Churches of that district were not long in forming his 
archeological bias; and in after years, following on the lines of 
John Aubrey, he made it one of his favourite pursuits to exhaust 
the annals of the house of Danvers. To analyse the mass of 
materials thence resulting would involve indefinite expansion. The 
materials are still extant, but this is not the place to display them. 
The most instructive parts of Mr. Wilton’s utterances were his 
peripatetic comments on the family history, while traversing and 
deciphering its local vestiges in company with friends who aspired 
to share his enthusiasm. Possibly the traditions which he contrived 
to exhume may yet be formulated into a systematic narrative. 
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