DffiECTORY.J . BROKE~BOROCGH. 43 : is a parish, on the road from his Garter and Crest, richly painted on black satin, Wootton Bassett to Marlborough, surrounded for many framed and glazed, who died lord of the manor: there m1les by open downs, 4 miles south-east from Wootton are some excellent modern stained windows: there are Bassett station on the and Bath section of the sittings for 270 persons. The register dates from the Great Western railway, and 7! south-west from Swin- year 1604. The living iS' a vicarage, tithe commuted at don, in the Eastern division of the county, Marlborough £382, average £285, net income 1,122, with 26 acres of petty sessional division, union and county court dis- glebe, and residence, in the gift of the master of St. trict, rural deanery of Avebury (Avebury portion), arch- Nicholas Hospital, Salisbury, and held since 1894 by the deaconry of Wilts and diocese Df Salisbury (partly in Rev. Robert Campbell Crokat M.A. of Keble College, the hundred of Silkley and partly in Kingsbridge). Oxford. In this parish are several charities: one, called The church of St. Peter-ad-Vincula is an old stone Smith's charity, amounting to about £18 yearly, arising building of Early English architecture, with nave (partly from land at Stoughton, Leicestershire, left in 1626, dis­ built on previously existing foundations), chancel, organ tributed in coal, clothing and bedding; also an appren­ chamber, added in r88o, vestry built in 1843, and south tice fund, amounting to about £12 yearly, arising from porch of 14th century date, having a square embattled farm rents, left in 1741 by Mrs. Elizabeth Benet. Sir western tower of Perpendicular style with pinnacles and Henry Bruce Meux hart. of Dauntsey, is lord of the containing 6 bells and chiming apparatus: the roof of manor and principal landowner. There is a reading the nave is a fine oak specimen of combined hammer room with parish library, instituted by the vicar and and tie-beam construction, erected in 1634; the edifice supported by honorary and other members. The soil is itself was completely restored in r88o, at a cost of black mould; subsoil, white stone. The chief crops are £2,300, when some interesting relics were discovered, wheat, oats and turnips. The area is 3,009 acres; rate­ all old monuments retained, the rood-loft staircase able value, £2,386; the popU'la.tion in 1891 was 372. opened out, and the tower, previously unsafe, made By an Order, dated March 25, 1884> a portion of this secure: the pulpit and seats were added at a partial parish was taken to form the parish of Broad Town. restoration in 1843, when a western gallery was re- Deputy Parish Clerk, George Turner. moved: in 1882 the churchyard was en:arged: a hand- some lych-gate was erected in 1884: there is also a Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- life-size alabaster figure of Colonel Francis Glanvil, dated Mrs. Kate Witt, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive by 1645: also a curious monument to Sir Thomas and foot post from Swindon at 7.40 a.m.; dispatched at Lady Wroughton and their eight children kneeling, 6.40 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at ·wroughton much mutilated, each having lost the hands, excepting School, with residence for master, built in 1846, en- Lady lVroughton, dated 1597: there is also a fine mural larged in 1882, for 70 children; average attendance, tablet to Sir John Glanvil, Speaker of the Short Parlia- 63; it is endowed with £2o yearly by the late lord of ment, who was buried in the chancel, date 1661: also a the manor, Thomas Benet esq.; Christopher F. Mann, memorial of the great Duke of Wellington, consisting o~ master Brown Mrs. Washbourne Dulllford Stephen, farmer Hunt Henry, Crown P.H Crokat Rev. Robe1·t Campbell M.A. Eatweil Thomas, ca.rpenter Hussey John, farmer, Norborne farm Vicarage Hacker Isaac & Son, grocers & bakers Reading Room (Geo. Penny, ooretakr) Hacker William,. farmer St.aplef