Great Bedwin I take to be the _Leucomagus_ of Ravennas; for that and the present name signify the same thing, viz. the white town, the soil being chalk: he there places it just before Marlborough, _cunetzione_. We saw near it the continuation of Wansdike. This town is an old corporation: in it the famous Dr. Tho. Willis, the ornament of our faculty, was born. In the church lies the monument of a knight cross-legged; on his shield, barry of six argent and gules, an orle of martlets sable; over all three escallops of the first on a bend of the third. Upon a stone in brass in the choir, _Bellocampus eram graja genetrice semerus Tres habui natos, est quibus una soror._ Here lyeth the body of John Seymour, son and heyre of Sir John Seymour and of Margery oon of the doughters of Henry Wentworth knyght, which decesed the xv day of July the yer of our lord M. D. X. on whose soul Ihu have mercy, and of your charity say a _pater nostr_ and a _ave_. _Hic jacet dns Thomas Dageson quondam vicarius istius ecclesie qui obiit 7. die Decemb. Aᵒ dni._ M.D.I. _cujus anime propitietur deus amen_. on a brass in the middle aile. _Roger de Stocre chev. ici gycht deu de sa alme eyt merci._ in the south transept. The town arms are, a man standing in a castle, with a sword in his hand. Castle copse, south-east from the town about half a mile, as much from Wansdike, containing about fourteen acres, seems the old Roman castle. Howisdike I suppose a camp upon an eminence and in an angle made by the Wansdike. They showed us a brass town gallon, from the Winchester standard, given by my lord Nottingham. In the east window of this church some time since was the picture of a priest with two crutches, a cup in his hand, and a cann standing by him, with this inscription, which Mr. le Neve Norroy gave me: he transcribed it out of an old MS. now in the library of Holkham in Norfolk, formerly Sir Ed. Coke’s book; and for its antiquity I think it not unworthy of mentioning. [Illustration: 1 Rural Curiosity. _Marlborough Mount_ _Cascade at Wilton._ _Dedicated to the Right Honorable the Lady Hartford._] [Illustration: 3 _View of Lord_ Hartfords House _at_ Marlborough _29 Iun. 1723._ A. _the scite of the Roman Castrum_ B. _Sᵗ. Peters._ _Stukeley del_:] [Illustration: 64 _View of_ Great Bedwin & Wansdike _2 Iuly. 1723._ +Leucomagus.+ _Stukeley del._] *G SU PERIS APELE VIKERE DE SET EGLISE SU MA POTENTE SU APUE TOT EN TELE GYSE MON HANAP AY EN POYNE E BEVEREI SANS FEINTISE MON POT A MON DERER MISS E LA NOVELE GYISE DE MON POT E MON HANAP SEREY JUSTICE KE NUL NI BEYVE SANS NE Y AY M ATENTE MISE.* _G su Peris apele vikere de set eglise Su ma potente su apue tot en tele gyse Mon hanap ay en poyne e beverei sans feintise Mon pot a mon derer miss e la novele gyise De mon pot e mon hanap serey justice Ke nul ni beyve sans ne y ay m atente mise._ In modern French,