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ragged staff of the Earls of Warwick: and as I published Aubrey^s 

 drawings exactly as he left them, without being able at the time to 

 discover and correct all his errors, it so appears in the volume of 

 "Wiltshire Collections/' page 25, and Plate III., No. 42. Subsequent 

 enquiry leads me to think that it is the coat of arms of a Sir Roger 

 Tocotes, the second husband of Lady St. Amand, heiress of Bromham 

 and Spye Park. She was born in 1426 : married first William 

 Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand : and afterwards Sir Roger. She died 

 before him : his death being in 1492. As these two shields in the 

 porch may be fairly presumed to refer to its builders, it seems 

 likely that both the porch itself, and other additions or alterations 

 in the Church, of the same style and character, were made during 

 the married life of Lady St. Amand and Sir Roger; say, about 

 A.D. 1470. She was buried in a chantry chapel in Bromham 

 Church, where her brass, with some rare coloured enamel on it still 

 remains, but the date of her death is broken off. Her husband, Sir 

 Roger, was a person of much importance in this county in his day. 

 He was Constable of Devizes Castle, steward of Crown property at 

 Rowde, Marlborough, and other places, belonging to the Duchy of 

 Lancaster, in Co. Wilts. He was also acting executor of the will 

 of Margaret, Lady Hungerford, who built the chapel of that family 

 once outside Salisbury Cathedral and founded the hospital now at 

 Hevtesbury; and he appears to have been one of the Members of 

 Parliament for Calne in the year 1477. 1 He was one of those 

 concerned in Buckingham's rising against Richard III. 8 He was 

 buried at Bromham, 



The present tower, on the north side, is later than the body of 

 the Church. John Aubrey's account of its building is as follows : — 

 " A fine high steeple stood upon four pillars. One of the pillars 

 was faulty, and the churchwardens were dilatory, as is usual in such 



1 The Christian name is printed 4< Eobert " in the Parliamentary Return, 

 ? See Waylen's History of Devizes, pp. 93, 94. He was also of the household 

 of George, Duke of Clarence, and was tried for being concerned in the murder 

 of Isabel, Duchess of Clarence, and her infant son by administering to them 

 poisoned ale, of which they died. \Baga de Secretis, quoted in Kite's Wiltshire 

 Brasses, p 36,] 



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