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admirably drilled his regiment of militia in 1759—equipping them 
in scarlet coats with blue facings, white gaiters, hair powdered, 
and hats well-cocked up, ordering “the men not to let down the 
cocks of their hats on any account, and also to keep the skirts of 
their coats constantly hooked up’—how Gibbon, the historian, 
served in the militia of the neighbouring county, Hants, and was 
quartered occasionally in this part of Wilts—(we should like to 
have seen his rotund figure marching in the above-mentioned 
accoutrements)—how again in 1794, and the subsequent years, this 
part of Wiltshire was conspicuous for the ready and loyal zeal in 
which both militia and yeomanry forces volunteered to form 
themselves for the defence of the country. At the time of the 
invasion panic in 1798, Marlborough had its ‘“ armed association,” 
in addition to the other military preparations. In all these 
patriotic proceedings it is needless to say that the noble family of 
Bruce were then as now foremost in encouragement, example, and 
command. 
The changes effected in Marlborough by the Parliamentary and 
Municipal Reform Bills, by the transmutation of the venerable 
Castle Inn into an admirable Collegiate School, the proceedings in 
respect to the hitherto abortive scheme for connecting Marlborough 
with the line of the Great Western Railway, and the proposed 
change of destination of the County Gaol situated in the town, are 
all matters of too recent a date to require any notice in this brief 
abstract. But in Mr. Waylen’s narrative they find their appro- 
priate place, and fit record. We must not pass over in silence, 
however, among the objects of interest at Marlborough, its endowed 
Grammar School, founded by King Edward VI., which has the 
honour of counting among the scholars educated there, the names 
of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury, Mr. Glanville, Sir James Long, 
Henry Sacheverell, Sir Michael Foster, Lieutenant-General Picton, 
Walter Harte, and Dr. Mapleton, late Chancellor of the Diocese of 
Hereford. 
Mr. Waylen gives several details, both biographical and historical, 
respecting other characters or families of note connected with the 
