348 The Story of Seven Children Born at a Birth. 
are several original deeds many court rolls, and the like, relating 
to Glastonbury Abbey. 
That there is, besides all the above-mentioned, an enormous 
quantity of deeds, letters &c., relating to Longleat itself and the 
‘successive owners of the estate scarcely requires to be mentioned. 
The whole of these documents have been put in order and a summary 
of them printed in the Reports of the Historical Commissioners. 
As these Reports present forty eight folio pages of double column, in 
small type, of the heads of the Marquis of Bath’s papers, it is out of 
the question to attempt going into particular details. I will simply 
say that next to the celebrated “ Hatfield Papers,” belonging to the 
Marquis of Salisbury, it is one of the most important private collec- 
tions to be met w:th. It is thus described in the words of the 
Commissioners :—% The collection of the Marquis of Bath is a 
wonderfully complete and vivid illustration of our civil, military, 
naval, and ecclesiastical history, and from the earliest times. Its 
value for historical purposes can scarcely be over-rated.” 
J. E. Jackson. 
The Story of Seben Children Born at a Hirth. 
Dear Sir, 
Having a faint recollection that; when I was a boy and visiting at 
Pewsey about 1820, I was taken to some church and saw there a sieve in which 
several children who had been born at a birth had been brought to the font and 
christened, I enquired about it of the Reverend the Rector of Pewsey, and by 
his kindness and that of the Rey. Edward Hill, the Rector of Wishford, I am 
able to communicate the enclosed, and trust that it may be worth a place in our 
journal. 
Yours faithfully, 
: R. C, A, Prior. 
To the Editor of the Wiltshire Magazine. 

