fuerit opportunum. Vota verò peregrinationis et abstinentiæ si quæ emisistis, qua commodè servare non potestis, ultra marina (beatorum Petri et Pauli, atque Jacobi, Apostolorum, votis duntaxat exceptis) commutet vobis idem Confessor in alia opera pietatis.

"Dat. Florentiæ, sub sigillo officii Primariæ, 3 Non. Aprilis, Pontificatus Domini Eugenii Papæ IV. anno Decimo." ("Nicholas, by divine mercy, &c. Priest Cardinal of St. Cross in Jerusalem, to the beloved in Christ the worshipful John Basket, Esq. and Alice his wife, of the Diocese of Salisbury, greeting in the Lord. The See Apostolic useth to grant the pious desires and honest requests of petitioners, chiefly where the health of souls requireth courteous favour to be bestowed upon them. Seeing therefore on your behalf you have supplicated humbly unto us, that for the comfort of your souls we would vouchsafe to grant you licence to choose for yourselves a Confessor: We favourably yielding to your request, by the authority of our Lord the Pope, the charge of whose Primary we bear, and from his special command in this case made unto us by the oracle of his mouth, do grant to your devotion, so far forth as it may be lawful for you, to choose a fit and discreet priest for your Confessor, who as touching the sins which ye shall confess unto him (except they be such for which the said See is to be consulted with) may by authority aforesaid provide for you concerning the benefit of due absolution, and wholesome penance, so long as ye live, so often as there shall be occasion. But if ye have made any foreign vows of pilgrimage and fasting, which ye cannot conveniently keep (vows to blessed Peter, Paul, and James, Apostles, only excepted) the same Confessor may commute them for you in other works of piety.

"Given at Florence, under the seal of the office of the Primary, 3 Non. of April, the 13th year of the Popedom of Pope Eugenius the Fourth.")

The tenth of Pope Eugenius falleth on the twentieth of king Henry the Sixth, anno Domini 1440. Why it should be higher and harder to dispense with vows made to Saint James than to Saint John, (his brother, and Christ's beloved disciple) some courtier of Rome must render the reason.

The posterity of this Master Basket, in the next generation, removed into Dorsetshire, where they continue at this day in a worshipful condition at Divenish.

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

11. THOMAS THIN, Mil.-The great and sudden wealth of this knight, being envied by a great earl and privy councillor neibouring on his estate, caused his summons before the counseltable, to answer how in so short a time he had gotten so large possessions. Some suggested as if he had met with treasure

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trove, or used some indirect means to enrich himself. knight calmly gave in the questionable particulars of the bottom he began on, the accruement by his marriage, and with what was advanced by his industry and frugality, so bringing all up within the view (though not the touch) of his present estate. "For the rest, my lords," said he, "you have a good mistress our gracious queen; and I had a good master the duke of Somerset." Which being freely spoken, and fairly taken, he was dismissed without further trouble. Nor were his means too big for his birth, if descended (as Camden saith) from the ancient family of the Bottevils.

41. WALTER VAUGHAN, Arm.-His arms (too large to be inserted in that short place) were, "Sable, a chevron betwixt three children's heads couped at the shoulders Argent, the peruques Or, enwrapped about their necks, with as many snakes proper;" whereof this (they say) the occasion, because one of the ancestors of this family was born with a snake about his neck.* Such a necklace as nature, I believe, never saw. But grant it. How came the peruques about the infants' heads? So that fancy, surely, was the sole mother and midwife of this device. The lands of this Walter Vaughan (afterwards knighted) descended to his son Sir George, a worthy gentleman, and after his issueless decease to a brother of his, who was born blind, bred in Oxford, brought up in orders, and prebendary of Sarum.

KING CHARLES.

1. FRANCIS SEYMOUR, Mil.-This wise and religious knight (grandchild to Edward earl of Hartford, and brother to William duke of Somerset) was by king Charles the First created Baron of Trowbridge in this county; since, for his loyalty, made privy councillor to king Charles the Second, and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster.

BATTLES.

LANSDOWN fight.

This was fought in the confines of this county and Somerset, the 13th of July 1643. It was disputed by parcels and piecemeals, as the place and narrow passages would give leave; and it seemed not so much one entire battle, as a heap of skirmishes huddled together. It may be said in some sort of both sides,

"Victus uterque fuit, victor uterque fuit."

For the Parliament forces five times (by the confession of the Royalists) beat them back with much disorder, Sir Bevil Greenfield being slain in the head of his pikes; Major Lowre in the * Guillim's Display of Heraldry, p. 174.

head of his party of horse. Yet the king's forces allege demonstration of conquest, that prince Maurice and Sir Ralph Hopton remained at the heads of their troops all night, and next morning found themselves possessed of the field and of the dead, as also of three hundred arms, and nine barrels of powder, the enemy had left behind them.

ROUNDWAY FIGHT.

Five days after, prince Maurice with the earl of Carnarvon returning, and the lord Wilmot coming from Oxford, with a gallant supply of select horse, charged the Parliament forces under the conduct of Sir William Waller. With him were the horse of Sir Arthur Haslerigg, so well armed that (if of proof as well within as without) each soldier seemed an impregnable fortification. But these were so smartly charged by the prince, that they fairly forsook the field, leaving their foot (which in English battles bear the heat of the day) to shift for themselves. In the mean time Sir Ralph Hopton, hurt lately (with the blowing up of powder), lay sick and sore in the town of the Devizes. His men wanted match, whom Sir Ralph directed" to beat and to boil their bed-cords," (necessity is the best mother of ingenuity), which so ordered did them good service; when, marching forth into the field, they effectually contributed to the total routing and ruining of the Parliament foot which remained.

THE FAREWELL.

This county, consisting so much of sheep, must honour the memory of king Edgar, who first freed the land from all wolves therein. For the future, I wish their flock secured, 1. From two-legged wolves, very destructive unto them: 2. From Spanish ewes, whereof one being brought over into England, anno.... brought with it the first general contagion of sheep: 3. From hunger-rot, the effect of an over-dry summer.

I desire also, that seeing these seem to be of the same breed with Laban's* and Jethro's sheep,† which had their solemn times and places of drinking (which in other shires I have not observed), that they may never have any want of wholesome

water.

WORTHIES OF WILTSHIRE WHO HAVE FLOURISHED SINCE
THE TIME OF FULLER.

Joseph ADDISON, statesman, essayist, and poet, "the great, the wise, and good;" born at Milston 1672; died 1719. Christopher ANSTEY, author of a humorous poem, enti

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tled "The New Bath Guide;" born at Harden Huish, 1724; died 1805.

John AUBREY, topographer and antiquary; born at Easton Piers about 1626; died 1700.

Dr. Thomas BENNET, divine, linguist, and controversialist, born at Salisbury 1673; died 1728.

Sir Richard BLACKMORE, physician and voluminous poet; born at Corsham; died 1729.

Mary CHANDLER, ingenious poetess; born at Malmsbury 1687; died in 1745.

Samuel CHANDLER, brother of Mary, dissenting divine and controversialist; born at Malmsbury 1693; died 1766.

Thomas CHUBB, deistical controversialist; born at East Harnham near Salisbury 1679; died 1747.

John COLLINSON, divine and historian of the county of Somerset; born at Bromham; died 1796.

Mary DELANY, inventor of the "paper mosaic" for imitating flowers by means of tinted papers; born at Coulston 1700; died 1788.

Humphrey DITTON, mathematician and theologian; born at Salisbury 1675; died 1715.

Charles DRYDEN, son to the poet, author of some Latin poems and translations; born at Charlton: died 1704.

Stephen DUCK, originally an agricultural labourer, poet, and divine; born at Charlton near Marlborough; died 1756. Bryan EDWARDS, merchant, and historian of the West Indies; born at Westbury 1743; died 1800.

John EEDES, divine and author; born at Salisbury 1609; murdered in his house 1667.

James EYRE, lord chief justice of Common Pleas ; born 1734. Sir Michael FOSTER, justice of the King's Bench, and author; born at Marlborough 1689; died 1763.

Sir Stephen Fox, statesman and loyalist, the first projector of Chelsea College; born at Farley 1627; died 1716.

William GOFFE, author of " Londinium Triumphans ;" born at Earl Stoke; died 1682.

Thomas GORE, antiquary, heraldic and political writer; born at Alderton in 1631, and died there 1684.

James HARRIS, author of " Hermes, or a philosophical inquiry concerning Universal Grammar;" born at Salisbury 1709; died 1780.

James HARRIS, earl of Malmsbury, son of the preceding, diplomatist; born at Salisbury 1746; died 1820.

Dr. William HARRIS, dissenting divine, biographer, and historian; born at Salisbury 1720; died 1770.

Walter HARTE, divine, historian, and poet; born at Marlborough about 1697; died 1774.

Richard HAYTER, theological writer; born at Salisbury 1611;

died 1684.

Sir R. C. HOARE, baronet, antiquary, and historian of Wiltshire; born at Stourhead 1758; died 1838.

Thomas HOBBES, political and moral philosopher, writer on theology and metaphysics; born at Westport in Malmsbury 1588; died 1679.

John HUGHES, moralist, and dramatic poet; born at Marlborough 1677; died 1720.

Edward HYDE, earl of Clarendon, lord chancellor of England, historian, born at Dinton 1608; died 1674.

George KEATE, poet and miscellaneous writer; born at Trowbridge about 1730; died 1797.

George LAVINGTON, bishop of Exeter, of great piety and learning; born at Mildenhall 1683; died 1762.

Edmund LUDLOw, colonel, independent republican, author of "Memoirs of his own Times;" born at Maiden Bradley 1620; died 1693.

Narcissus MARSH, archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, benefactor, author, and scholar; born at Hannington 1638; died 1713. Rev. Dr. J. MARSHMAN, oriental scholar; born at Westbury Leigh 1769; died at Serampore 1838.

Dr. Nevil MASKELYNE, astronomer; born at Purton 1732;

died 1811.

Thomas MERRIOTT, divine and author; born at Steeple Langford; died 1662.

George MONTAGU, naturalist and author; born at Lackham; died 1815.

John NORRIS, platonist, mystical divine, and poet; born at Collingbourne Kingston 1657; died 1711.

William PITT, the patriotic earl of Chatham; born at Stratford House, Old Sarum, 1708; died 1778.

Francis POTTER, divine, and excellent mechanic; born at Mere 1594; died 1678.

Henry SACHEVERELL, notorious political preacher; born at Marlborough 1672; died 1724.

Dr. John SCOTT, divine, author of "Christian Life," &c.; born at Chippenham 1638; died 1694.

Samuel SQUIRE, bishop of St. David's, Greek scholar; born at Warminster 1714; died 1766.

Nathaniel STEPHENS, learned divine; born at Stanton Barnard; died 1677.

Thomas TANNER, bishop of St. Asaph, learned antiquary, author of the "Notitia Monastica;" born at Market Lavington about 1673; died 1735.

John TOBIN, dramatic author; born at Salisbury 1770; died 1804. Dr. Edward WELLS, theologian and scholar; born at Corsham 1663; died 1727.

Thomas WILLIS, physician and author; born at Great Bedwin, about 1621; died 1675.

Philip WITHERS, divine and miscellaneous writer; born at Westbury; died 1790.