By the Rev. Canon J. EF, Jackson, F.S.A. 183 
belonged : and was serving the small town parish of Calne when he 
was suddenly called upon by the Pope to preach in the Midland 
Counties the crusade against the Saracens. He was afterwards 
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1234; died 1242; and was canonized 
by Innocent II. as S¢. Edmund of Canterbury. 
_ Vicars. 
With the vicarage of Calne were formerly united the chapels of 
Berwick Basset and Cherhill. 
The present vicarage house was formerly the Rectory. The vicar’s 
income is derived from the small tithes and about sixty acres of 
land. 
Of the vicars I have not been able to obtain any complete list. 
This is certainly a lamentable ‘ Aiatus,” a gap in the history of a 
parish. When [ mention in this room the name of Guthrie I shall 
be reminding you of the restoration of your Church, of the enlarge- 
ment of schools, and other good works, liberally promoted during 
one incumbency. Surely, during six or seven hundred years there 
must have been others filling so chief a situation in the society of 
the place, who did something or other worthy of being remembered : 
and yet we do not know even so much as their names. The episcopal 
registers at Salisbury do not contain them, simply because. the 
bishop’s register only gives the names of those clergy whe were 
instituted by the bishop. Those institutions from the year 1297 to 
the year 1810 have been published’: and it would be a very great 
boon to diocesan and county history, if some means could be found 
of continuing the publication down to the present time. Calne 
having been what is called a Peculiar (an anomaly now happily 
abolished,?) the names of the vicars do not occur in that volume, 
1 Sir Thomas Phillipps’s *‘ Wiltshire Institutions ’’ In this only one or two 
names of vicars occur: the occasional few who, owing to death or other vacancy 
in the treasurership, were instituted by the bishop. 
2 The seal of the Peculiar of Calne was small and lozenge-shaped : late six- 
teenth or early seventeenth century. A full-length figure, bearded, in a long 
gown; the hands joined in prayer. Legend, ‘‘sigiLLym . oFFicI . [sic] 
PECVLIARIS . JURISDICTIONIS . DE. CALNE.” [Proceedings of Soe. of Antiq., 
1872, Jan., p. 246.] 
