850 



General Meeting and Report for 1875. 



II Aubrey, after quoting the inscription, says (Nat. Hist. p. 71) : ' They lye 

 both buried under the groat marble-stone in the nave of this church, where is 

 the above said inscription, above which are their pourtraictures in brasse, and 

 an escutcheon now illegible. Beneath tbis inscription are the small ligures of 

 nine young children in brasse. This Mr. Bonham's wife had two children at one 

 birth, the first time ; and he being troubled at it travelled, and was absent 

 seven years. After his returne she was delivered of seven children at one birth. 

 In this parish is a confident tradition that these seven children ware all baptized 

 at the font in this church, and that they were brought thither in a kind of 

 chardger, which was dedicated to this church, and hung on two nailes, which 

 are to be seen there yet, near the bellfree on the south side. Some old men are 

 yet living that doe remember the chardger. This tradition is entered into the 

 register booke there, from whence I have taken this narrative (1659).' [See the 

 extract from the register, which is signed by u Roger Powell, curate there," in 

 Hoare's Modern Wilts, (Hundred of Branch and Dole) p. 49.— J. B.] 



III. Note of James Goulden, schoolmaster of Wishford, in 1828 : — 



'Three old persons of the parish of Wishford, viz., Mary Lewis, Giles 

 Munday, and Mary Woodlands, declared to J. Goulden that they had seen the 

 sieve hung up in the church.' 



There is reason to suppose that the two nails (the last relic of this dedicated 

 sieve,) were removed at the churchwarden's repairs of the church in 1829. 



Edw4RD Hill. 



May 31st, 1875." 



%t\\tm\ Iptethg n\ °§tpxi Ux 1875. 



|^|g|HE General Annual Meeting of the Society, for the purpose 

 j^fflif °f receiving the report, the election of officers, and other 

 necessary business, took place at the Society's Premises, in Devizes, 

 on Thursday, September 30th. 



The Rev. W. C. Plenderleath occupied the chair, and called on 

 the Rev. A. C. Smith to read the 



REPORT FOR 1875. 

 "The Committee of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society desires to put before the members of the Society 

 very briefly a report of last year's proceedings, and of its present 

 position. 



