PRINTED AND SOLD FOR THE SOCIETY BY H. F. & E. BULL, SAINT JOHN STREET. LONDON: BELL & DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET; J. R. SMITH, 36, SоHо SQUARE. Price 4s. 6d.-Members, Gratis. Members who have not paid their Subscriptions to the Society for the current year, are requested to remit the same forthwith to the Financial Assistant Secretary, Mr. WILLIAM NOTT, 15, High Street, Devizes. Some of the early Numbers of the Wiltshire Magazine are out of print, but there is a supply of other Numbers which may be had by persons wishing to complete their volumes, by applying to Mr. NOTT. NOTICE TO MEMBERS. The Annual Subscriptions (10s. 6d. payable in advance, and now due for 1871), should be sent to Mr. WILLIAM NOTT, Savings Bank, Devizes. All other communications to be addressed to the Honorary Secretaries: the Rev. A. C. SMITH, Yatesbury Rectory, Calne; and Mr. CUNNINGTON, St. John's Court, Devizes. ... The Numbers of this Magazine will not be delivered, as issued, to Members who are in arrear of their Annual Subscription: and who on being applied to for payment of such arrears, have taken no notice of the application. Should however any Member, through inadvertence, not have received his copies of the Magazine, he is requested to apply to Mr. NOTT, who will immediately forward them. CHIPPENHAM, NOTES OF ITS HISTORY: By the Rev. Canon J. E. CHIPPENHAM AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD DURING THE GREAT ON HEDGES AND HEDGE ROWs: By John Spencer, Esq. INVENTORIES OF CHURCH GOODS AND CHANTRIES OF WILTS: Anno- BELL & DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET; J. R. SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. THE WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. << MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS,"-Ovid. Chippenham. Notes of its History. By the Rev. CANON J. E. JACKSON, F.S.A. (Read at the General Meeting of the Society there, September 7th, 1869.) HEN the Wiltshire Archæological Society met at Chippen WHEN ham in September, 1855, I read a Paper on the "Ancient History of the Town," which was afterwards printed in the Society's Magazine, vol. iii., p. 19. It contained, in a condensed form, (as the occasion required,) an outline of all the information I had been able to obtain upon the subject. To the material points I have little to add; but a few notices and memoranda of old localities and customs have been since met with from time to time, which may perhaps be interesting, especially to those who are more immediately connected or acquainted with Chippenham. To begin with the building in which we are now assembled, the New Town Hall. This (as is well known here) is modern. It was erected some years ago, at the private expense of the late Joseph Neeld, Esq., of Grittleton, M.P. for this Borough. His coat of arms, carved in stone, was subsequently placed, at the expense of the Corporation of Chippenham, at the top of the front, outside. But inside, over the entrance door of this, the principal room, are two other coats of arms, which are intended to perpetuate the gratitude of Chippenham towards former benefactors long since passed away. The armorial bearings on these two shields, though used conjointly, for some centuries, as the arms of the Borough of Chippenham, were originally those of two distinct families. On one VOL. XII.-NO. XXXVI. U |