The market-crosses of Salisbury, Malmesbury, and Trowbridge, are very noble:  standing on six pillars, and well vaulted over with freestone well carved.  On every one of these crosses above sayd the crest of Hungerford, the sickles, doth flourish like parietaria or wall-flower, as likewise on most publique buildings in these parts, which witnesse not onely their opulency but munificency.  I doe think there is such another crosse at Cricklade, with the coate and crests of Hungerford.  Quaere de hoc. [There is not any cross remaining in Trowbridge; and that at Cricklade, in the high street, is merely a single shaft, placed on a base of steps.  The one at Salisbury is a plain unadorned building; but that of Malmesbury is a fine ornamented edifice.  It is described and illustrated in my “Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages”. — J. B.]
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The Lord Stourton’s house at Stourton is very large and very old, but is little considerable as to the architecture.  The pavement of the chapell there is of bricks, annealed or painted yellow, with their coat and rebus; sc. a tower and a tunne.  These enamelled bricks have not been in use these last hundred yeares.  The old paving of Our Lady Church at Salisbury was of such; and the choire of Gloucester church is paved with admirable bricks of this fashion.  A little chapell at Merton, in the Earle of Shaftesbury’s house, is paved with such tiles, whereon are annealed or enamelled the coate and quarterings of Horsey.  It is pity that this fashion is not revived; they are handsome and far more wholesome than marble paving in our could climate, and much cheaper.  They have been disused ever since King Edward the Sixth’s time. [Aubrey would have rejoiced to witness the success which has attended the revived use of ornamental paving tiles within the last few years.  Messrs. Copeland and Garrett, and Mr. Minton, of Stoke-upon-Trent, as well as the Messrs. Chamberlain of Worcester, are engaged in making large numbers of these tiles, which are now extensively employed by church architects.  Those individuals have produced tiles equal in excellence and beauty to the ancient specimens.-J.  B.]
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Heretofore all gentlemen’s houses had fish ponds, and their houses had motes drawn about them, both for strength and for convenience of fish on fasting days.

The architecture of an old English gentleman’s house, especially in Wiltshire and thereabout, was a good high strong wall, a gate house, a great hall and parlour, and within the little green court where you come in, stood on one side the barne:  they then thought not the noise of the threshold ill musique.  This is yet to be seen at severall old houses and seates, e. g.  Bradfield, Alderton, Stanton St. Quintin, Yatton-Keynell, &c.