186 Calne. 
1865. Rev. John Duncan, M.A., Canon of Salisbury. 
ALMSHOUSE. 
Inscription on the old almshouse at Calne, opposite the churchyard 
gate, south side of Church :— 
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND 
THE GOOD OF THE POOR 
WAS THIS HOUS ERECTED 
BY JOHN TOUNSON D: D. 
SON OF ROBERT LATE 
BISHOP OF SALISBURY 1682 
LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE 
BEFORE MEN THAT THEY 
MAY SEE YOUR g@ooD 
WoRKS AND GLOKIPY 
NOT YOU BUT YOUR FATHER 
WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. 
The Rey. John Townson, the founder, was Vicar of Bremhill. 
TRADESMEN’S TOKENS. 
A list of eleven varieties of these, struck at Calne, is printed in 
the Wiltshire Archeological Magazine, vol. vi., p. 80. 
Monicieat History. 
The Municipal Body of Calne appears to have originally consisted 
of two guild-stewards, a certain number of burgesses, and a town 
clerk, The manor having been, in the reign of Henry III., part of 
the great Honour of Wallingford, the burgesses used to be sworn in 
at the court of that Honour, held at Ogbourne St. George (see Ap- 
pendix, Nos. III. and IV.). The Guildhall, in ancient times, seems 
to have been the property of a private individual, not of the Body ; 
to the Marquis of Lansdowne, and was presented in 1835 by the Bishop of 
Salisbury to the Vicarage of Calne, which he held for thirty years, till his death, 
in his 74th year, 6th July, 1865. In 1858 he was appointed by the Lord 
Chancellor Cranworth to a canonry at Bristol. 
