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Notes, ArchcBological and Historical. 



" Here rests William Hiseland, 

 A veteran if ever soldier was ; 

 Who merited well a pension 

 If long services be a merit : 

 Having served upwards of the days of man. 

 Antient, but not superannuated, 

 Engaged in a series of wars 

 Civil as well as foreign ; 

 Yet not maimed or worn out by neither. 

 His complexion was florid and fresh, 

 His health hale and hearty, 

 His memory exact and ready. 

 In stature he excelled the military size ; 

 In strength surpassed the prime of youth. 

 And what made his age still more patriarchal ; 

 When above one hundred years old, 

 He took unto him a wife. 

 Read — fellow soldiers, and reflect 

 That there is a spiritual warfare 

 As well as a warfare temporal. 

 Born 6 August, 1620 I Affed 112 •> 

 Died 7 February, 1732 ( A & eai1 ^ 



W. CUNNINGTON. 



Calne. Plague Order. (1664?) 



" Forasmuch as y e Sicknesse of y e Plague doth soe exceedingly encrease within 

 y e Citties of London Westm v . & Borough of Southwarke & y e pishes adjoyning, 

 as it hath occasioned the Kings Ma tie to withdraw his Royall pson from his 

 Pallaces of Whitehall & Hampton Court & to Reside in our County, & whereas 

 y e Towne & pish of Calne (by reason of its lying much in the Road betweene 

 London & Bristoll) may be apt to take infection. These are in his Ma ties name 

 to Authorize & Require you to appoynt 2 honest antient women of good carriage 

 inhabiting w hin the said pish of Calne to be Searchers & y* you present them to 

 some Justice of the Peace for this County to be sworne, y* if any sicknesse should 

 happen within your said Towne or pish (w h God prevent) shall search & view y e 

 bodies of such dying, to discover the quality of y e Disease & thereof to make 

 certificate ; and for that Annoyances are chiefe Occasion of Infection, you are to 

 remoue or cause to be remoued out of your Towne, or w ch ly neere the High 

 waies all Noysome things of that Nature, & particularly to cause forthwith to be 

 decently interred y e body of Henry Girdler lately deceased within y e pish of Calne 

 aforesaid, least the omission thereof (his carcase being very corpulent) turne 

 much to the prejudice of the Health of your Towne & pish, And heereof fayle 

 not at your prills. Given &c." 



[The original of the above order is written on a small 8vo sheet of paper, and 

 seems to be a contemporary draft or copy of an official document. It is not 

 signed or dated. It is communicated by Mr. F. Haverfield, of Christ Church, 

 Oxford, who received it from Mr. Willimot, of Bromham. Probably it originally 

 belonged to the Bayntuns. — Ed.] 



