*CALNE, (Wiltshire) 12 m. W. of Marlborough, 72 cm. and 88 mm. from London, is a little, populous, well-built T. on a stony hill near a small r. and was a palace of the West Saxon Ks. 'Twas made a Bor. by Richard, E. of Cornwall, consisting of 2 stewards chose yearly, and burgesses without limitation, and has sent members to Pt. ever since the 26th of Edw. I. Their chief mf. is cloth, the Mt. on Tu. and Fairs April 25, July 21. Here was anciently a mon. and now a ch. sc. In the year 977, a synod of the Lds. spiritual and temporal, and the priests, was held here, at which the K. was present, when the whole timber frame of the room fell down at once, by which many of the priests were woanded, and several killed. In Nov. 1725 there was such a hasty, heavy rain here, that the whole T. was laid under water. The manor, prebend and parsonage of Calne, are held by leases for several lives, from the D. and C. of Sarum. Roman coins have been often dug up here.