186 Cable, 



1865. Kev. John Duncan, M.A., Canon of Salisbury. 



Almshouse. 



Inscription on the old almshouse at Oalne, opposite the churchyard 

 gate, south side of Church : — 



TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND 

 THE GOOD OF THE POOR 

 WAS THIS HOUS ERECTED 

 BY JOHN TOUNSON D T - D. 

 SON OF ROBERT LATE 

 BISHOP OF SALISBURY 1682 

 LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE 

 BEFORE MEN THAT THEY 

 MAY SEE YOUR GOOD 

 WORKS AND GLORIFY 

 NOT TO U BUT YOUR FATHER 

 WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. 



The Rev. John Townson, the founder, was Vicar of Bremhill. 



Tradesmen's Tokens. 

 A list of eleven varieties of these, struck at Calne, is printed in 

 the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, vol. vi., p. 80. 



Municipal History. 



The Municipal Body of Calne appears to have originally consisted 

 of two guild-stewards, a certain number of burgesses, and a town 

 clerk. The manor having been, in the reign of Henry III., part of 

 the great Honour of Wallingford, the burgesses used to be sworn in 

 at the court of that Honour, held at Ogbourne St. George (see Ap- 

 pendix, Nos. III. and IV.). The Guildhall, in ancient times, seems 

 to have been the property of a private individual, not of the Body ; 



to the Marquis of Lansdowne, and was presented in 1835 bj the Bishop of 

 Salisbury to the Vicarage of Calne, which he held for thirty years, till his death, 

 in his 74th year, 6th July, 1865. In 1858 he was appointed by the Lord 

 Chancellor Cranworth to a canonry at Bristol. 



