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house left for it to grow upon. The name of these Hungcrfords is 

 preserved at Calne in connection with a charity, and their property 

 in Calne descended to Lord Crewe (see Appendix, No. VIII.). 



Chivers. 



Chivers, of Quemerford, was a name of weight at Calne in the 

 sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They were successful clothiers : 

 i.e., as the word then implied, manufacturers of cloth : and represented 

 the borough several times : but I am not aware of any post mortem 

 benefaction for which the parish might have reason for cherishing 

 their memory. A coat of their arms in stone used to adorn an old 

 house in one of the streets, but that has disappeared. They pur- 

 chased lands, and among others a large part of the parish of Leigh 

 Delamere, in which I reside. In that Church there is a tablet to 

 one of the children of the last Mr. Chivers, which informs us that 

 the young lady buried was the f< Miracle of her age for Reason, 

 Language, and Religion/'' It generally requires the pains and study 

 of years for ordinary intellects to attain a moderate sufficiency in 

 any one of these accomplishments, but this prodigy became a pro- 

 ficient in all three at the usually unripe age of two years and nine 

 months. The Chivers property became divisible by her death be- 

 tween her two sisters, who married into the families of Vince and 

 Methuen. 



Duckett. 



This name, so long influential at Calne, first appears about the 

 year 1550, in the person of a John Duckett, who came, it seems, 

 from Lavington. A memoir of the family forms a quarto volume, 

 compiled by the present Sir George Duckett. Stephen, the son of 

 the first of the family, was of Calstone, and then of Pinhill, where 

 he died in 1584, The house at Calstone is said to have been des- 

 troyed in the Civil Wars, after which they removed to Hartham, in 

 the parish of Corsham. 1 In 1763 Thomas Duckett sold the larger 



1 The " Hartham " which belonged to the Ducketts was not the house and 

 land called " Hartham Park," bought by the late Mr. Thomas Poynder from 

 Lord Methuen, but another that stood veiy near it, called " Hartham House" 

 now destroyed. 



