DRAYCOT-CERNE, a parish in the hundred of
MALMESBURY, county of WILTS, 4 miles (N. by E.)
from Chippenham, containing 169 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and
diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at
£ 6. 7. 11., and in the patronage of the Hon. W. T. L. P.
Wellesley. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Dr.
Buckeridge, successively Bishop of Rochester and Ely,
was born here, about 1562; he died in 1631.