28 Notes on the Corporation Plate and Insignia of Wiltshire. 



storming Abbotsbury, in Dorset, in October, 1644, he says Major 

 Baynton, at the head of the victors, stormed and took the Church. 

 Many on both sides fell in this affair by a magazine exploding. Sir 

 Anthony's own conduct was marked by much personal daring. 



In 1644 — December — Cooper says the enemy have deserted 

 Wellington, Wyrwail, and Cokam Houses, which two last they 

 burnt on quitting. They also burnt Mr. Crewe's house. Cokam is 

 Colcombe, in Devonshire, an old seat of the Courtenays, the other, 

 Worle, in Somersetshire. 



When Cooper left the King he compounded for all his penalties 

 as a Eoyalist by a fine of £500. It was never paid, and Cromwell 

 finally exonerated him in 1657. 



jtotes on \\t Corporation |)htc auo Insignia 

 of (tlUtsMtc. 



By the Rev. E. H. Goddaed * 



KjJJSpHE mace now so well known as the principal of the insignia 

 of municipal corporations, and therefore as peculiarly con- 

 nected with the centres of trade and the exercise of the arts of peace, 

 is really the direct modern descendant of the ancient weapon of war 



* A portion of this paper was read at the Warminster Meeting of the Society, 

 in 1893, and a short abstract of it was subsequently printed in the Illustrated 

 ArclicBologist for March, 1894, vol. i., pp. 219 — 224. The illustrations are all 

 of them reduced by photo-lithography from full-sized pen-and-irik drawings 

 taken by myself from the articles they represent. For the loan of four of the 

 blocks the Society is indebted to Mr. W. H. St. John Hope, in whose forthcoming 

 great work on the " Corporation Plate and Insignia of England and Wales " 

 they will appear. The original drawings here illustrated, and others representing 

 the more modern pieces of corporation plate, will be deposited in the Society's 

 Museum, at Devizes. 



