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Calne. 



1541. "Sold the plate in the foot that the Relicate stood in." 

 (Was this some relic on a silver stand?) 



1576. No Church Ale : but contributions by parishioners 58* id* 

 In another year, £11 16*. 



1578. Communion plate made out of the old chalice. 



1579. The curious ancient parish chest (mentioned at the be- 

 ginning of this paper) is placed in a corner of the Church. It is 

 substantially of elm, strongly braced by iron bands, and secured 

 with three clasps and locks, and is set upon and partly sunk in a 

 much larger block of oak, like the trunk of a tree. The wood is 

 still quite sound. Within the lid is this inscription, roughly cut : — 

 " Q . E. R. xxi. J. WERITHAL," signifying the maker's name 

 and the twenty-first year of Queen Elizabeth's Reign : 1579. 



1615, March 5. In the register is a copy of a licence, in Latin, 

 to John Were, alias Browne, and Dorothy, his wife, to eat flesh in 

 Lent ; granted by William Mortimer, vicar. 



1652. This item appears in an account : "Imprimis. Paid to 

 the plumber for leading the New lies," As there is no record of 

 any aisles having been newly built about this time, it is possible 

 that the item may merely mean " new leading the aisles " ; some 

 injury having been done to the older ones, either by the fall of the 

 steeple in 1645, or by rough usage of Cromwell's cavalry (wanting 

 lead for bullets), once in barracks in the Church, as already men- 

 tioned in a note on St. Edmund's Chapel. 



1864. The Church underwent a general restoration. (See a full 

 account in the "Bath Express County Herald, and North Wilts 

 Guardian," October 16th, 1875.) - 



1883. The north transept under the tower was restored and the 

 screen to St. Edmund's Chapel re-erected. Over the western door 

 of the Church, are the coats of arms, in stone, of Hamilton, Bishop 

 of Salisbury, and the Rev. John Guthrie, Vicar of Calne (same as 

 Guthrie, of Forfar, see Burke's Armoury). 



In the volume of Wiltshire Collections, Aubrey and Jackson, 

 p. 31, are some notes relating to Calne : and in the Plates III. and 

 IV. drawings of the arms of Norborne, Blake, and others, as seen 

 in the Church windows by Aubrey ; No. 42 in Plate IV. being 



