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By the Rev. Canon J. EH. Jackson, F.S.A, 177 
the King’s one-third was held by one Nigel, of Calne, the King’s 
physician. Most of the officers of the royal household in those 
days were paid in this way ; not by fees from time to time, but by 
easy leases of land to them and their descendants. Whilst the 
Cathedral was still at Old Sarum certain rectories—Alderbury, 
Pitton, and Figheldean—were given by one of the Talbot family to 
the Church for the maintenance of the treasurer. That dignitary 
had a great many burdens and expenses thrown upon him. He had 
to supply the Church with wax lights all the year, and as the con- 
sumption of tapers of all sorts of sizes, was, in the services of those 
days, enormous, the wax-chandler’s bill alone was a very heavy 
charge upon the income. Besides this, the treasurer had to find, at 
his own expense, everything connected with the services; to do all 
repairs, and pay the salaries of officers. His means not being 
sufficient, about the time of the removal to New Sarum, the 
Prebend of Calne was added. But with the new Cathedral came 
additional services and increased expenses. The treasurer applied 
for more means, but whether he got it or not I am not able to say. 
The part of the parish of Calne which belonged to the treasurer for 
many centuries was held under him by various succeeding families, 
who often sold their interests in it one to another.’ Some years 
ago it all fell into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 
from whom it was purchased, and now forms part of the Bowood 
property. The King’s one-third continued to be held on similar 
tenure by many successive families. I am not able to trace all the 
history, but one or two principal transactions may be mentioned. 
The first owner under the Crown, of whom there is record, was 
- Baron Cantilupe, one of King Henry the Third’s staunch supporters 
in that disturbed reign. He had for his reward lands at Calstone 
and Heddington as well as here. His heiress, Milicent Cantilupe, 
married another Baron, John de Montalt [de Monte Alto, or the 
High Hill.] ? 
17719, Joshua Sheppard (Bradenstoke) sold the manor of Calne and East- 
man street, being the Prebend of Calne, to Haskins Stiles, for £12,000. 
? He was not a Wiltshire but a Flintshire baron. I have been kindly informed 
by Mr. W. H. Gladstone that ‘‘ the original castle of the Montalts was at Mold 
[as it is now called, being an abbreviation of Mons Altus]. It is six miles from 
