By the Be v. E. H. Goddard. 



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"UNITY AND loyalty.' ' On one side is the inscription: — 

 a ifl Mayoralty of Francis Edwyn Dowdinp, Esq.,- Nov. 28tk, 

 1887 " ; and on the other : — " Presented to the Corporation of 

 Chippenham, by Henry Herbert Smith on his retirement from the 

 Council, November, 1887. 1 



Loving Cup No. 3 is a tall two-handled cnp elaborately orna- 

 mented with repousse flower work. It stands 13 Jin. high, has 

 the London hall-mark of 1862 and the maker's, R.H. It is of 

 silver-gilt and a handsome piece of its kind. Inside the rim of the 

 bowl is a projecting edge contracting the opening to quatrefoil shape. 

 On one side of the howl are the borough arms, the motto below 

 them, and above them the legend, " borough of CHIPPENHAM." 

 On the other side is inscribed " Presented by Sir Gabriel Goldney, 

 Baronet, M.P., to the Corporation : Alfred J. Keary, Esq., Mayor, 

 1882// 



The Common Seal. The matrix is of copper, circular, Ifin. 

 in diameter, the borough arms in the centre, with the legend 

 surrounding them : — 



"BVRGI DE CHIPPENHAM." 



An older seal is figured in the " Visitation of 1623," bearing the 

 same device with the legend : — 



" # SIGILLUM : COSV1VF4SS - : BVRGI : DE : CHIPPENHAM." 



DEVIZES. 



Devizes received its first charter from the Empress Matilda. 

 This was confirmed by John, Henry III., and Edward III. The 

 old corporation included a mayor, a recorder, thirty-four other 

 capital burgesses, and an indefinite number of free burgesses, with 

 two chamberlains, two sergeants-at-mace, and other officers. The 

 present corporation consists of mayor, recorder, six aldermen, and 

 eighteen councillors. The robes of the mayor are scarlet, the mace- 

 bearers wear black robes and cocked hats, the town crier is in scarlet. 



1 H. H. Smith, J. P., agent to the Marquis of Lansdowne, &o. 

 2 Sic in Marshall's Visitation. 



