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Wesibury under the Plain. 



edify the youth of Westbury under the Plain with two lectures, 

 whereof the first lecture to be every day in the morning ordained 

 for the catechising of children, that they thereby may be perfectly 

 instructed to know what they profess in their baptism : in their 

 Pater-noster how to pray : in their Ave-Maria to know how our 

 Lord ought to be honoured, and in the ten commandments : and 

 that he who may be reader shall not only read unto them, but also 

 appose 1 them [i.e., question them] as they do in matters of gram- 

 mar. The second lecture to be within the same parish at after- 

 noon four times in the week ; i.e., on Monday, Wednesday, Friday 

 and Sunday, to them that come; wherein chiefly to be declared, 

 the duties of subjects to their king and magistrates, for maintenance 

 of good order and obeysance, not only for fear but for conscience, 

 with Scriptures divine, and profane 3 policies [meaning secular 

 teaching] consonant thereunto ; also increpation precondemnation] 

 of vice ; with their texts of Scripture ; and for the performance 

 thereof the Reader to have xx marks by the year. - " 



Brook Hall is said to have been bought from the Blounts by the 

 Hungerford family. 



Penleigh 



belonged anciently to the Fitzwarrens, of whom one was knight o£ 

 the shire in A. D. 1300. In one of the windows there are some of 

 the coats of arms of the Hungerfords. 



Beemkidge. 



This manor, with the advowson of the Heywood Chantry in 

 Westbury Church, belonged to the Marmions, afterwards to Sir 

 Philip Fitzwaryn and his wife, Constance, who granted it to 

 Edington Monastery in exchange for Highway Manor, near Calne. 



1 In Sir R. C. Hoare's History of Westbury, p. 27, this word is accidentally 

 misprinted " oppose." To appose is an old University term formerly used in 

 schools at Oxford, when two scholars tried to puzzle one another by questions. 

 This "Exercise" was called "Appositions." We still retain the word in a 

 mutilated form when we say such and such a person was posed. 



2 By " profane " he only meant " other than religious," i.e., secular instruction. 

 In Heb. xii., 16, Esau is called a profane person, not meaning blasphemous, but 

 non-religious. 



