190 Calne. 
of call on their journey. Queen Anne is said to have stopped there 
once on her way to or from Bath in 1703. Roger Fynamore, the 
last male owner, buried in his aisle in 1575, left a daughter who 
married Michael Ernle,’ 
ERNLE. 
This family came originally from Sussex, and in course of years 
various members of it became owners of other estates in the neigh- 
bourhood, as at Bourton in Bishops Cannings, Etchilhampton, 
Conock near Devizes, and Brimslade—a quaint old red brick house 
near Savernake Station. The Ernles of Whetham ended in an 
heiress, Constantia, daughter of John Kyrle Ernle. She married 
Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin and eighth Earl of Kinnoul. He 
died, 1787, without issue surviving when, under a settlement made 
by his wife who had died in 1752, Whetham passed to the family of 
Francis Money, who had married Lady Kinnoul’s first cousin, 
Elizabeth Washbourne (see Appendix, No. VI.). 
In the Church at Calne is a tablet to Frances, by birth of the 
Ernle family, wife of Sir Thomas Mildmay.? 
Buake. 
The Blakes of Pinhill were there for four hundred years, till the 
last century; some of them Members for Calne. Pinhill during 
the Civil Wars was one of the many smaller gentry-houses which 
first one party and then the other turned into garrisons, more as 
places for temporary shelter in their movements about the country 
than for permanent occupation. In 1643 Col. Massey, for the 
Parliament, threw a breastwork round it, and was busy making it 
1 Upon a stone shield against the side of Whetham House, as also on a painted 
board in the hall, are the arms of Ernle, quarterly with Malwyn, impaling Fyn- 
amore: ermine, two chevrons gules (see Papworth’s Brit. Armorials, p, 541— 
Fenmer). The front of the house was formerly twice as long as at present. 
2In the collections of the Society of Antiquaries, at Burlington House, there 
is a brass coffin-plate, said to have been dredged up in the Thames :—“ Here 
licthe Margaret late the wyffe of John Ernle, Knyght, Chiffe Justice of the 
Common Place, daughter of Edmund Dawtrey Esquier whiche dyed the xviij™ 
daye of August the yere of our Lord God MV*xviij on whose soule Jhu have 
mercy.” 
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