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ragged staff of the Earls of Warwick; and as I published Aubrey’s 
drawings exactly as he left them, without being able at the time to 
discover and correct all his errors, it so appears in the volume of 
* Wiltshire Collections,” page 25, and Plate III., No. 42. Subsequent 
enquiry leads me to think that it is the coat of arms of a Sir Roger 
Tocotes, the second husband of Lady St. Amand, heiress of Bromham 
-and Spye Park. She was born in 1426: married first William 
Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand: and afterwards Sir Roger. She died 
before him: his death being in 1492. As these two shields in the 
porch may be fairly presumed to refer to its builders, it seems 
likely that both the porch itself, and other additions or alterations 
in the Church, of the same style and character, were made during 
the married life of Lady St. Amand and Sir Roger; say, about 
A.D. 1470. She was buried in a chantry chapel in Bromham 
Church, where her brass, with some rare coloured enamel on it still 
remains, but the date of her death is broken off. Her husband, Sir 
Roger, was a person of much importance in this county in his day. 
He was Constable of Devizes Castle, steward of Crown property at 
Rowde, Marlborough, and other places, belonging to the Duchy of 
Lancaster, in Co. Wilts. He was also acting executor of the will 
of Margaret, Lady Hungerford, who built the chapel of that family 
once outside Salisbury Cathedral and founded the hospital now at 
Heytesbury ; and he appears to have been one of the Members of 
Parliament for Calne in the year 1477.' He was one of those 
concerned in Buckingham’s rising against Richard III.2 He was 
buried at Bromham, 
The present tower, on the north side, is later than the body of 
the Church. John Aubrey’s account of its building is as follows ;—- 
* A fine high steeple stood upon four pillars. One of the pillars 
was faulty, and the churchwardens were dilatory, as is usual in such 
1 The Christian name is printed ‘‘ Robert” in the Parliamentary Return. 
2 See Waylen’s History of Devizes, pp. 93, 94. He was also of the household 
_ of George, Duke of Clarence, and was tried for being concerned in the murder 
of Isabel, Duchess of Clarence, and her infant son by administering to them 
poisoned ale, of which they died. [Baga de Secretis, quoted in Kite’s Wiltshire 
Brasses, p. 36, ] 
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