during the Great Rebellion. 



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low rate great part of the underwood and trees growing upon the 

 same glebe land, which before his coming thither was much stored 

 and better replenished with wood than any parsonage in those parts; 

 he also mored and grubbed up about half of the coppice-ground 

 belonging to the said Rectory, and pulled down a handsome barn 

 and sold the materials. In August 51, he was summoned to meet 

 the Justices, George Ivy, and William Shute, at the White Hart, 

 Chippenham ; on their report to the Committee he was sent to gaol, 

 tried, and condemned to death ; but his life was spared. Justice 

 Stokes, as living on the spot, and cognizant of Webb's flagitious 

 life, took an active part in endeavouring to bring him under the 

 lash of the law ; against him Webb published a pamphlet called 

 a " Masse of Malice," and in defence, Stokes printed " The Wilt- 

 shire Rant." 



Walter Norborne, brother (?) of the ejected Rector of Langley 



Burrell was buried at Calne, in 1659 ; from the inscription on the 



memorial tablet in the church, it seems that some tumult occurred 



at his funeral : — 



" Pro Rege, Patriaque suis multa fecit tulitque totos annos septendecim — 

 tanta etiam post mortem martyria passus (satana suam rabiem in honores 

 funebres exerente) uti duplicem videatur reportasse victoriam, de Natura 

 alteram, alteram de fortuna." 



Lieut.- Col. Walter White, of Grittleton, was sometime governor 



of Bristol Castle for the Parliament : his son Walter died 1673. 



By will he directs : — 



" Six esquires and gentlemen shall carry me to my grave : a sermon shall be 

 preached by some Doctor of Divinity, a Nonconformist, for the Common Prayer 

 I always hated ; six escutcheons to be about my coffin, and nothing but cake 

 and wine to be at my funeral." 



The Corporation Chest at Chippenham contains some parchments 

 reciting the declaration of the Bailiff and Burgesses of the Borough 

 against the solemn League and Covenant. The first of these doc- 

 uments now existing is dated 1679 — and it is singular that this 

 declaration continued to be made, even after the Revolution, and 

 down to the 3rd year of Queen Anne. 



It runs thus : — " In conformity to the late act of Parliament, 

 made in the 13th year (1661,) of our Sovereign Lord Charles II., 



