By Mr. Edtcard Kite. 173 



1717. The recital of the ordinance No. XIII. prohibiting any per- 

 son not belonging to one or other of the Fraternities, from exposing 

 goods for sale within the Borough, unless in open Fairs, a.d. 1740, 

 bears the following signatures : — 



Stephen Street, Mayor. Robt. Lawrence. Wm. Salmon.^ 

 John Garth,^ Recorder. Saml. Phillips. John Clarke. 



Hen. Flower.2 John Crooke. John Flower. 



Wm. Adlam. John Massey. Willm. Adlam. 



Joseph Wells. Robt. Franklin. Edwd. Phillips.* 



Rich. Smith. Rich. Phillips. Jno. Williams. 



Robt. Sloper. Stephen Powell. 



Among the loose papers within the volume, the following may 

 be noticed : — a.d. 1769. An account taken by Thomas Burrough, 

 the then Master, from the representatives of Charles Eden, the 

 deceased Master. 



Thomas Bui-rough, silversmith, Master of the Company, George 

 Paradice, tallow chandler, and Willm. Lewis, baker. Wardens, 

 are bound to Matthew Figgins, baker, in the sum of £66 18s. Ojd. 

 (26th June.) 



An agreement by the Master, Wardens, &c., to surrender into 

 the hands of the Mayor and Burgesses, for the sum of £10, all their 

 right, title, and claim to the Weaver's Hall, provided the said M. 

 and B. do by an order of Council, agree, that the Fraternity shall 

 for the future meet in the Sessions Hall, to perform their usual and 

 necessary business. (17th Nov.) 



• Son of Thomas Garth, Esq., of Harold, County of Bedford, and nephew of Sir 

 Samuel Garth, Knt., author of " The Dispensai-y" and Physician in ordinary 

 to George I. He was chosen llecorder of Devizes, April 17th, 1732; M.P. for 

 the IJorough Feb. 26th, 1739, died Dec. 26th, 1764, cet. 63. Monument in St. 

 Mary's Church. A Pedigree of the family will be found in " Wilts Magazine" 

 vol. ii. p. 332. 



2 Henry Flower, Mayor 1719-22-27-34-38. George Flower of Devizes, a 

 later member of the family, was Sheriff of "Wilts, 1760. 



■' Maj'or of Devizes 1753-61-6.5. His son Willimri who died in 1826, aged 78, 

 was the owner of Southbroom, which property he purchased from .losiah Eylcs 

 Heatlicote, Esq., son of the lit. Hon. George Heathcote, by the heiress of Eyles. 



♦ Edward Phillips, clothier, buried at St. Mary's, 1767, in which Church are 

 several ILit stones with inscriptions to other members of the same family, two of 

 whom were benefactors to the Poor of that Parish. 



