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figure there isof Maud Heath herself in the full egg-and-butter 
uniform, or what is presumed to be such, of temp. Edw. IV.; upon 
her head a heavy coiffure, in her hand a staff, and by her side a basket. 
And there she sits, composedly surveying the well wooded and 
verdant lowlands before her, from the point where “her praise 
begins” even to that at which it ends; and a great deal more 
besides. The column is of freestone, about forty feet high, octan- 
gular, upon asquare pedestal: and an inscription underneath states 
that it was erected by Henry Marquis of Lansdowne, and William 
Lisle Bowles, Vicar of Bremhill, two of the Trustees. Then follow 
some lines by W. L. B. 
‘‘Thou who dost pause on this aerial height, 
Where Mavp Hearn’s Pathway winds, in shade or light, 
Christian wayfarer in a world of strife, 
Be still—and ponder on the path of life.” 
And here, having conducted the reader along her causey, to the 
base of Maud Heath’s Statua, we leave him, if he is weary of us, 
to do homage to that worthy benefactress, whilst we add a short 
notice of 
THE BENEFACTION. 
Of the original document by which Maud Heath in 1474 gave 
the estate, since belonging to the Trust, we have not seen any copy. 
But from recitals in subsequent deeds it appears that she enfeoffed 
certain parties, who as they became reduced in number, appointed 
others. Such continues to be the practice. The Trustees have 
been usually chosen from the gentry and clergy connected with 
the Four parishes, or their immediate neighbourhood. Of the 
Trustees first named by herself, three seem to have been surviving in 
1537, William Woodland, Edward Heath,' and Thomas J efferye. 
On 12th May in that year, these three appoint new Trustees: 
viz., Edmund Stokes (of Tytherton Kellaways), Leonard Woodland, 
1 No doubt a relative of the benefactress. The Woodlands here named 
were a Chippenham family, who lived in what the Muster Roll of 1538 calls 
“The Tything of Vogan in Chippenham,” by which is most probably meant the 
part of the town now called ‘‘ Foghamshire;” Lord Hungerford’s Rent Roll 
mentions Woodland as a Freeholder in ‘‘ Foggamsheare.” Jeffery was a name 
both at Bremhill and Langley Burrell. (Walter J. was Rector of Langley 
1505—1532). Norborne was also in both Parishes. 
