There is y^e Effiges of their 2 sonnes, Lord Beachom at their head and Lord Seymour at y^e feete in Armour on their Knees, and severall Daughters on their knees at y^e bottom and 12 pillars of Irish gray marble. The Armes is cutt finely in Escutcheons &c. and in figures with y^e supporters and severall sorts of beasts carved in a piramide fashion, and on y^e top the Duke’s Corronet—these 2 monum^{ts} are railed in with Iron grates, there is the Effigee in stone off a doctor that starved himself to death attempting to imitate our Saviour to fast 40 dayes—but at 31 dayes end he became sensible of his evil and would have retrieved his life by eateing againe, but then by y^e Just judgment of god could not swallow any thing down his throate;—there is a chaple or burying place of Judge poppums that had two very wild sonnes and by 2 pictures of his sonnes, pictured one with death y^e other with a skeleton and set in y^e room they were to come into by their father’s order, it pleased God to bless as a meanes to reclaim them. Ye pictures are still there; the windows of the Church but especially y^e Quire are very finely painted and large of y^e history of y^e bible—the tower ffor y^e bells are in y^e yard at some distance from the Church—there are 6 Churches in the town and subburbs and y^e County Goal at y^e end of the town called ffisherton, just by the great river that runnes to Christ-Church in Salsebury. They keep the quarter session once in y^e yeare the oth^r tymes are kept at Malbrough about 24 mile off and at y^e Devises about y^e same distance w^{ch} is a very neate little town with a very good market house and town hall sett on stone pillars; it is a bourrough and a very rich tradeing place ffor the Clothing trade, the fourth place y^e session is kept is Warminster about y^e same distance—its a pretty little town a good Market for corn and there is the Mindiffe Coale which is allmost as good as the sea Coale from New-Castle that is dugg out of the hills all about;—But y^e Assizes is allwayes kept at Salsebury and is a Major town though Wilton about 2 mile off is y^e County town and y^e Knights of y^e shire are chosen there, though its now but as a little village as it were, and only supported by the Earle of Pembrooke which lives there and has a very ffine house with large Courts one within another. At y^e Entrance there is a lofty Hall with good Pictures, 3 or 4 dineing roomes and drawing roomes of State with very good bed Chambers and well furnished velvet damaske and tissue, one Gallery and y^e dineing roome was all wanscoated with pictures of y^e family—there is a drawing roome and Anti roome, y^e wanscoate is painted with y^e whole History of the Acadia romance made by S^r Philip Sidney, brother to the then Countess of Pembrooke and Composed by him in y^e ffine woods above y^e house.