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gallery are fully described. A mausoleum was built on to the chapel 

 by John Chute, which contains a work of art by Banks, the sculptor, 

 a marble figure of Chaloner Chute, the Speaker, in repose, with 

 inscriptions and coats of arras. A room can be seen looking into 

 the chapel from above, which was probably the end of the series of 

 state rooms where were lodged Henry VIII., who more than once 

 visited Lord Sandes here, and Queen Elizabeth, who came here in 

 her progress, in the eleventh year of her reign, and who sent the 

 French Ambassador, the Duke de Biron, here in 1601, with a retinue 

 of thirty knights and three hundred attendants.' 



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[Communicated by the Kev. Canon Goddaed, Vicar of Hilmarton.] 



" Wilts to Wit. 

 " We whose names are under-wi-itten, Justices of the Peace for the said County 

 of Wilts, do (by virtue of the Statute in such case made) nominate and appoint 

 you Benjamin Downy and Wm Chivers, of the parish of Hilmarton in the said 

 County (together with the Church- Wardens thereof), to be Overseers of the Poor 

 for the said Parish, for the year ensuing : And you are to take notice, that the 

 Law requires you to meet (at least) once in every month of the said ensuing year, 

 in the Church, upon some Sundaj/ in the Afternoon, to consider of some course 

 to be taken for Believing the Poor ; and that you enter in a Book to be kept for 

 that Purpose, the Names of all Persons receiving Relief, and the Occasion that 

 brought them under that Necessity : and that you take care that every person 

 receiving Eelief, and the Wife and Children of every such Person, cohabiting in 

 the same House, do, upon the shoulder of the right sleeve of the uppermost Gar- 

 ment, legally wear, in an open and visible manner, a Badge or Marie, with a 

 large Roman P., together with the first Letter of the Name of your Parish, cut, 

 in Red or Blue Cloth ; for that no Person not wearing such Badge, as aforesaid, 

 and in Manner as aforesaid, are by Law to have Relief ; but are for their Neglect 



' The illustration of the Vyne is from a photograph kindly lent by the author of 

 the above paper, and owner of the fine old mansion, Mr. Chaloner William Chute. 



' The above document will not only interest but surprize many people, bearing, 

 as it does, so late a date as 1755. [Ed.] 



