Report No. 5

CONTENT

1 Portraits at Lydiard Tregoze, Richard Ormond, Assistant Keeper NPG

11 My early days in the villages of Lydiard Tregoz and Millicent – also at

Purton, Wiltshire, Nathanial Hiscock

22 Henry St. John the elder and the Estcourt Murder, Frank T. Smallwood

60 Lydiard Tregoz, by the late Christopher Hussey.

63Monumental Inscriptions – 3. Sir John St.John, 1st Baronet, d. 1648, and

his two wives Anne (Leighton) and Margaret (Whitmore) translation Rev.

J. T. Wharton, with additional biographical notes.

79 Shorter notes:

               The death of the first Walter St. John by drowning on 18th August 1597

               Bolingbroke Castle – a correction.

               Queen Elizabeth I and her Privy Council.

              Lydiard Park.

               St. Mary’s Church.

              Nathaniel Hiscock.

84 The Society: Membership and Accounts.

88 Postscript Brian G. Carne