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Calne. 



of call on their journey. Queen Anne is said to have stopped there 

 once on her way to or from Bath in 1703. Roger Fynamore, the 

 last male owner, buried in his aisle in 1575, left a daughter who 

 married Michael Ernie, 1 



Ernle. 



This family came originally from Sussex, and in course of years 

 various members of it became owners of other estates in the neigh- 

 bourhood, as at Bourton in Bishops Cannings, Etchilhampton, 

 Conock near Devizes, and Brimslade — a quaint old red brick house 

 near Savernake Station. The Ernies of Whetham ended in an 

 heiress, Constantia, daughter of John Kyrle Ernie. She married 

 Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin and eighth Earl of Kinnoul. He 

 died, 1787, without issue surviving when, under a settlement made 

 by his wife who had died in 1752, Whetham passed to the family of 

 Francis Money, who had married Lady KinnouFs first cousin, 

 Elizabeth Washbourne (see Appendix, No. VI.). 



In the Church at Calne is a tablet to Frances, by birth of the 

 Ernie family, wife of Sir Thomas Mildmay. 2 



Blake. 



The Blakes of Pinhill were there for four hundred years, till the 

 last century; some of them Members for Calne. Pinhill during 

 the Civil Wars was one of the many smaller gentry -houses which 

 first one party and then the other turned into garrisons, more as 

 places for temporary shelter in their movements about the country 

 than for permanent occupation. In 1643 Col. Massey, for the 

 Parliament, threw a breastwork round it, and was busy making it 



1 Upon a stone shield against the side of Whetham House, as also on a painted 

 board in the hall, are the arms of Ernie, quarterly with Malwyn, impaling Fyn- 

 amore : ermine, two chevrons gules (see Papworth's Brit. Armorials, p, 541 — 

 Fenmee). The front of the house was formerly twice as long as at present. 



2 In the collections of the Society of Antiquaries, at Burlington House, there 

 is a brass coffin-plate, said to have been dredged up in the Thames : — " Here 

 liethe Margaret late the wyffe of John Ernie, Knyght, Cbiffe Justice of the 

 Common Place, daughter of Edmund Dawtrey Esquier whiche dyed the xviij* h 

 daye of August the yere of our Lord God MV c xviij on whose soule Jhu have 

 mercy." 



