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us ; so, those who will come 300 years after us, will find the same 

 pleasure in knowing what we did, and what our ways were ; and 

 if any one, (as may happen,) should say, After all, these old matters 

 are of no real importance ! Well, in themselves perhaps they may 

 not be : but if they interest or amuse, they are at any rate innocent 

 and not irrational. But I would take upon me to say a little more 

 for them. These inquiries into the old recollections and associations 

 belonging to the place in which we live, be it where it may, 

 increase our liking for our place. They supply us with a perpetual 

 resource for time and thought : and they often lead to further and 

 wider research into the history, ways and customs, of this dear old 

 country in which we all live. They make us love, more and more, 

 day by day, old-fashioned John Bull and his old-fashioned house 

 and home. 



J. E. J. 



By John J. Daniell, Yicar of Langley Fitzurse. 1 



IR EDWARD BAYNTON, of Bromham House, near 

 Devizes, and Sir Edward Hungerford, of Rowden House, 

 near Chippenham, were Members for the Borough of Chippenham 

 in the Long Parliament : both at this time very hostile to the 

 Crown. Of gentlemen in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 Chippenham, who rallied round the royal banner, were Sir 

 C. Seymour, then residing at Allington (parts of whose mansion 

 still stand on Mr. Baker's farm), the Talbots of Lacock, the 



1 The following narrative is very largely indebted for many of its most inter- 

 esting incidents to Mr. Waylen's valuable " History of Devizes." Other 

 authorities quoted are Lord Clarendon's "History of the Great Rebellion," 

 " Aubrey and Jackson's Wiltshire Collections," the Chippenham Church and 

 Borough Records, Britton's works, and some MSS. 



