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vnconquer'd Mayden Towne, and found it strongly seated on a Hill, and invironed 

 w th diverse small but sweet Riuoletts. 



" From thence the next day, I set forth for Burford, leauing many fayre 

 Houses and Parkes on both handes w th iu ken. ffirst w th in a Mile of Malmesbery, 

 a fayre House, and a goodly & large wall'd Parke of the Earle of Berkshires 

 [Charlton Park], and further on the Seats of diuerse worthy Knights [Oxey, i.e., 

 Oaksey Park, S r . Neuill Pooles, and Ashley, S r Theobald Gorges], as I troop'd 

 along neere the princely Bridegroomes Spring-head of all Riuers [Isis], in this 

 our Island ; And at Old Ciceter where I bayted, I saw two stately fayre Buildings 

 of freestone ; the one sometimes the noble Earle of Danby's ; the other the neat 

 Abbey [S r , William Masters's]. 



" Here I view'd a stately old built Church, with an entrance of fifteen paces, a 

 fayre long Porch, and in her very neat and hansome seats, for those two head 

 Houses of that Towne : and another for S r Anthony Hungerford." 



Hill Deyerill. 



In taking notes for the drawing of the old building at Hill Deverill which 

 appeared in Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxvii., p, 271, I carefully examined the 

 arms in the niche over the entrance. Although very much mutilated they are 

 clearly intended for Ludlow impaling Bulstrode, thus giving us the date of the 

 building within thirty years, as John Ludlow, who married Fhilippa, daughter 

 and heiress of William Bulstrode, of London, succeeded his father, John, about 

 1488, and died before 1519. (Ludlow Pedigree, Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxvi.,p. 1.) 



H. Beakspeab. 



William Hiseland. 



{From a note left by the late James Waylen.) 



Among the combatants on the Parliament's side at Edgehill was a Wiltshire- 

 man who afterwards attained celebrity by extraordinary longevity. This was 

 William Hiseland (Hazeland ?), born in the year 1620. during James the First's 

 reign, and dying in 1732, in the reign of George II. He commenced his military 

 career at the early age of 13, probably in the Earl of Pembroke's militia ; he 

 fought his way all through the Civil Wars, and was with William of Orange's 

 army in Ireland, and closed his foreign services in the Flanders campaign under 

 the renowned Duke of Marlborough. Either in active duty or as an invalid he 

 bore arms for the extraordinary period of eighty years. The Duke of Richmond 

 and Sir Robert Walpole, in consideration of his long services, each allowed him 

 a crown a week for some time before his death. The old man helped himself in 

 another way, having had three wives in the course of his life ; his last marriage 

 was contracted the year before his death, viz., 9th August, 1731. A picture of 

 him taken at the age of 110 is said to be still extant. His epitaph, given below, 

 is on his tombstone in the burial-ground of Chelsea Hospital. See Faulkner's 

 account of Chelsea. 



