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Elizabeth Roche, to Sir Walter Beauchamp, second son o»f John 

 Lord Beauchamp, of Powyk. They were the parents of Sir Wm, 

 Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand, and of Richard Beauchamp who was 

 Bishop of Salisbury from A.D. 1450 to 1481. The Bishop has 

 been called the Wykeham of his age. To him was entrusted the 

 superintendence of the new building of the Collegiate Chapel at 

 Windsor Castle : and he also erected, on the South side of Salisbury 

 Cathedral, a beautiful family chapel, which no longer exists. There 

 can be little doubt that the Chapel at Bromham, as well as that on 

 the South side of St. John's Church, Devizes, were also his work. 



In the centre of the Bromham Chapel is the tomb of Sir Roger 

 Tocotes second husband of the Lady Elizabeth widow of William 

 Lord St. Amand. 



The company then proceeded to the site of a Raman Villa near 

 St. Edith's Marsh, but were disappointed on finding that every 

 vestige of it had been removed. They then passed by Nonsuch 

 House, and Sloperton Cottage, the residence of Thomas Moore, and 

 now of his widow, to Spy Park. Thence they travelled to Hed- 

 dington Church. The weather forbidding an entertainment on 

 the open Downs, it was prepared in the village school-room, after 

 which, the afternoon becoming fine, they continued their ride to 

 Oliver's camp, and Morgan's Hill, and thence to Bishops Can- 

 nings Church. 



An account of the Church and Parish by the late Archdeacon 

 Macdonald (printed in a former volume 1 of this Magazine) was 

 referred to for information, and the neglected state of the Ernley 

 Chapel provoked severe strictures from some of the visitors. They 

 thence proceeded to Devizes. 



In the evening the Assembly-Room at the Hall was again well 

 filled. After a few brief remarks, the President (Earl Nelson) 

 introduced the Rev. W. H. Jones, Yicar of Bradford on Avon, 

 who was announced in the programme to read a paper on "The 

 Names of Places in the neighbourhood of Devizes. His lecture, — (we 

 may so call it, for it was not read) — was rendered more intelligible 

 by the help of a black board, upon which the Reverend gentleman 

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