By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 



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belonged : and was serving the small town parish of Calne when he 

 was suddenly called upon by the Pope to preach in the Midland 

 Counties the crusade against the Saracens. He was afterwards 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1234 ; died 1242; and was canonized 

 by Innocent II. as St. Edmund of Canterbury. 



Vicars. 



With the vicarage of Calne were formerly united the chapels of 

 Berwick Basset and Cherhill. 



The present vicarage house was formerly the Rectory. The vicar's 

 income is derived from the small tithes and about sixty acres of 

 land. 



Of the vicars I have not been able to obtain any complete list. 

 This is certainly a lamentable "hiatus," a gap in the history of a 

 parish. When I mention in this room the name of Guthrie I shall 

 be reminding you of the restoration of your Church, of the enlarge- 

 ment of schools, and other good works, liberally promoted during 

 one incumbency. Surely, during six or seven hundred years there 

 must have been others filling so chief a situation in the society of 

 the place, who did something or other worthy of being remembered : 

 and yet we do not know even so much as their names. The episcopal 

 registers at Salisbury do not contain them, simply because the 

 bishop's register only gives the names of those clergy wh© were 

 instituted by the bishop. Those institutions from the year 1297 to 

 the year 1810 have been published 1 : and it would be a very great 

 boon to diocesan and county history, if some means could be found 

 of continuing the publication down to the present time. Calne 

 having been what is called a Peculiar (an anomaly now happily 

 abolished, 2 ) the names of the vicars do not occur in that volume, 



1 Sir Thomas Phillipps's l< Wiltshire Institutions " In this only one or two 

 names of vicars occur : the occasional few who, owing to death or other vacancy 

 in the treasurership, were instituted by the bishop. 



2 The seal of the Peculiar of Calne was small and lozenge-shaped : late six- 

 teenth or early seventeenth century. A full-length figure, bearded, in a long; 

 gown; the hands joined in prayer. Legend, "bigillvm . offici . [sicj 

 pecvliaeis . JUKiSDicTiONis . de . calne." [Proceedings of Soe. of Antiq.„, 

 1872, Jan., p. 246.] 



