204 Calne. 
1541, “Sold the plate in the foot that the Relicate stood in.” 
(Was this some relic on a silver stand ?) 
1576, No Church Ale: but contributions by parishioners 58s 1d. 
In another year, £11 16s. 
1578. Communion plate made out of the old chalice. 
_ 1579. The curious ancient parish chest (mentioned at the be- 
ginning of this paper) is placed in a corner of the Church. It is 
substantially of elm, strongly braced by iron bands, and secured 
with three clasps and locks, and is set upon and partly sunk in a 
much larger block of oak, like the trunk of a tree. The wood is 
still quite sound. Within the lid is this inscription, roughly cut :— 
“Q.E.R. xxi. J. WERITHAL,” signifying the maker’s name 
and the twenty-first year of Queen Elizabeth’s Reign: 1579. 
1615, March 5. In the register isa copy of a licence, in Latin, 
to John Were, alids Browne, and Dorothy, his wife, to eat flesh in 
Lent ; granted by William Mortimer, vicar. 
1652. This item appears in an account: “Imprimis. Paid to 
the plumber for leading the New Iles.” As there is no record of 
any aisles having been newly built about this time, it is possible 
that the item may merely mean “ new leading the aisles”; some 
injury having been done to the older ones, either by the fall of the 
steeple in 1645, or by rough usage of Cromwell’s cavalry (wanting 
lead for bullets), once in barracks in the Church, as already men- 
tioned in a note on St, Edmund’s Chapel. 
1864. The Church underwent a general restoration. (See a full 
account in the “ Bath Hxpress County Herald, and North Wilts 
Guardian,” October 16th, 1875.) 
1883. The north transept under the tower was restored and the 
sereen to St. Edmund’s Chapel re-erected. Over the western door 
of the Church, are the coats of arms, in stone, of Hamilton, Bishop 
of Salisbury, and the Rev. John Guthrie, Vicar of Calne (same as 
Guthrie, of Forfar, see Burke’s Armoury). 
In the volume of Wiltshire Collections, Aubrey and Jackson, 
p. 81, are some notes relating to Calne: and in the Plates III. and 
IV. drawings of the arms of Norborne, Blake, and others, as seen 
in the Church windows by Aubrey; No, 42 in Plate LV. being 
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