170 Notes, ArchreologicaJ and Hidoricfil. 



" Here rests William Hiskland, 



A veteran if ever soldier was ; 



Who merited well a pension 



If long services be a merit : 

 Having served upwards of the days of man. 



Antient, but not superannuated, 



Engaged in a series of wars 



Civil as well as foreign ; 

 Yet not maimed or worn out by neither. 



His complexion was florid and fresh, 



His health hale and hearty, 



His memory exact and ready. 

 In stature he excelled the military size ; 

 In strength surpassed the prime of youth. 

 And what made his age still more patriarchal ; 



When above one hundred years old, 



He took unto him a wife. 



Bead — fellow soldiers, and reflect 



That there is a spiritual warfare 



As well as a warfare temporal. 

 BoBN 6 August, 1620 \ k^^a-,-,^" 

 Died 7 February. 1732 \ ^^^^ ''^- ,^ c^^KNi^aTON. 



Calne. Plagve Order. (1664 r*) 

 " Foi'asmuch as y'' Sicknesse of y^ Plague doth soe exceedingly encrease within 

 y' Citties of London Westm'. & Borough of Southwarke & y' pishes adjoyning, 

 as it hath occasioned the Kings Ma"^ to withdraw his Royall pson from his 

 Pallaces of Whitehall & Hampton Court & to Reside in our County, & whereas 

 y' Towne & pish of Calne (by reason of its lying much in the Road betweene 

 London & Bristoll) may be apt to take infection. These are in his Ma*''' name 

 to Authorize & Require you to appoynt 2 honest antient women of good carriage 

 inhabiting w*"'" the said pish of Calne to be Searchers & y' you present them to 

 some Justice of the Peace for this County to be sworne, y' if any sicknesse should 

 happen within your said Towne or pish (w*" God prevent) shall search & view y' 

 bodies of such dying, to discover the quality of y' Disease & thereof to make 

 certificate ; and for that Annoyances are chiefe Occasion of Infection, you are to 

 remoue or causa to be remoued out of your Towne, or w'"" ly neere the High 

 waies all Noysome things of that Nature, & particularly to cause forthwith to be 

 decently interred y' body of Henry Girdler lately deceased within y' pish of Calne 

 aforesaid, least the omission thereof (his carcase being very corpulent) turne 

 much to the prejudice of the Health of your Towne & pish. And heereof fayle 

 not at your prills. Given &c." 



[The original of the above order is written on a small 8vo sheet of paper, and 

 seems to be a contemporary draft or copy of an official document. It is not 

 signed or dated. It is communicated by Mr. F. Haverfield, of Christ Church, 

 Oxford, who received it from Mr. Willimot, of Bromham. Probably it originally 

 belonged to the Bayntuns. — Ed.] 



