From The Warminster Official Guide And Souvenir 1928 (penned by Victor Strode Manley):
The Bath Arms [in the Market Place, Warminster’ has a free-stone front in keeping with the style of architecture shown by several buildings in the street for which the Marquisate [of Bath] must be thanked. As an hotel it would grace any town. Its display of the coat of arms of the Marquis of Bath adds a picturesque touch to a fine street. During the recent re-modelling of the interior much oak work was uncovered, and on the Smoke Room windows had been scratched:
“Ye Heavenly powers – in this unequal War
Metamorphos each Dragoon into a Tar,
Then Landlords could their heavy Taxes pay
By saving Small Beer, Vinegar and Hay,”
no doubt a lament of the 17th century, when the town suffered much from the depredations of Cavalier and Cromwellian alike.