By Sir Charles Hobhouse, Bart. 



105 



Hie situsest Huggitt qui nuinquarn praelia fugit. 

 Hunc agris natuin, perduxit in atria fatuni. 

 Linquens pastores inagnos acquirit honores. 

 Iinpavidus miles solitus conteinnere viles 

 Multa manu sorti dedit acer copia decrat 

 Quern miseris dando Salvatorernque precando 

 Ut careat avo vivebat purus in aevo 

 Dives, Honoratus, magna cum stirpe beatus 

 Humilis in pectus tandem est per sidera vectus. 



a The above leonine verses/' says the writer, " are written in old 

 English characters, and were made ont with some difficulty, owing 

 to the ravages of time. It is remarkable that it was not possible 

 by any trace that is left to form the slightest conjecture as to the 

 antiquity of the monument.'" 



Mr. Powell ascertained that the monument did not belong to the 

 other Wiltshire Farley, and old Mrs. Moore, of the " Dry Arch 

 Cottage," since dead, informed him (and old Thomas Sweetland 

 confirms this) that she remembered the monument, and thought 

 that it had either been destroyed or else placed in a vault under the 

 Church with other monuments at the re-building of the Church. 

 Mr. Powell adds, on the authority of the Edinburgh Review, April, 

 1861, p. 400, that about the year 1750 there was a Roger Huggit, 

 Chaplain or Conduct of the College at Eton, an antiquarian whose 

 collections, in nine vols., were in 1769 bequeathed to the British 

 Museum. 



The Blinman family must not be forgotten. Joseph, the first of 

 the name, is mentioned in the tablet in the chancel as " Gentleman 

 of this parish." He died in 1811, aged eighty-four. Joseph, the 

 younger, also " of this parish, gentleman/'' died 24th June, 1843, 

 aged seventy-two. He it was who, as recorded on the tablet over 

 the Church doorway, left two sums of £300 and £250 respectively 

 for the benefit of the poor. These sums are now invested in consols, 

 in the name of the Charity Commissioners, and the dividends are 

 paid every year to the parish churchwardens at the Capital and 

 Counties Bank, Bradford-on-Avon. They remain at interest in de- 

 posit until St. Thomas's Day, and then the dividend on £300 is 

 expended on coal for distribution amongst the deserving poor of the 



