104 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
not considered a matter worth mentioning, and Bishop Poore’s Undercroft 
at the Palace remains in its former condition as ‘‘cellarage.” It is of 
a piece with this that Tidworth should still be the property of Sir John 
Kelt (sic), and that the little matter of the purchase of Salisbury Plain 
by the Government and the considerable military doings thereon should 
find no place in a book published in 1899—when, too, Warminster Parish 
Church had apparently not been re-built. The very interesting Church 
of Enford, with its unique octagonal vestry, is dismissed with the 
statement that it was “entirely re-built’ some time early in the century. 
At Avebury the Saxon clerestory windows escape notice altogether, and 
the very remarkable tower of Netheravon hardly fares better. The 
Stourhead collection is said to be ‘‘ deposited’ by Sir Henry Hoare in 
the Museum at Devizes. The series of pre-Conquest grave slabs and 
cross-bases at Cricklade, Colerne, Littleton Drew, Minety, and Bradford- 
on-Avon are not mentioned—and of the many remarkable examples of 
Church plate to be found in the county only two or three are mentioned at 
all. Omissions and mis-statements such as these are annoying to the 
tourist, in a book of which one expects both fullness and accuracy. We 
get what we want in Mr. Murray's Foreign guide books ; why should we 
not also get it in those he provides for us at home. 
Reviewed, Devizes Gazette, Oct. 12th, 1899. 
Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 27, Sept., 1899. 
Mr. Kite leads off in this number with nine pages, ‘‘ Some Notes on the 
Monument of an Ecclesiastic in Edington Church,” with a nice drawing 
of the tomb and a valuable cut showing the effigy full face with all the 
details of the costume, interesting as being that of the Bonhommes, who 
only possessed two houses in England—Ashridge and Edington. Mr. 
Kite discusses the vexed question of the monogram and rebus on this 
tomb. Britton gave them as T.B., and surmised ‘‘ Thomas Bolton.” In 
the most conspicuous place in which it occurs—on the barrel—the 
monogram appears to be I.B., and has been so printed, but Mr. Kite 
asserts that in other places on the monument where it occurs the first 
letter is clearly a small black letter t, the monogram on the barrel at the 
foot of the figure having been tampered with and made to look like I. 
In support of his contention he gives cuts of the two perfect monograms, 
and believes that the rebus is “‘ Boc-in-tun,” ¢.e., Bukkington, Bulkington, 
as suggested by Canon Jackson. Now Leland mentions Thomas 
Bukyngton as one of the principal benefactors to the monastery, and he 
is mentioned in the Valor Keclesiasticus of 1534, in the list of obits 
maintained at that time. Mr. Kite, forty years ago, in scraping off the 
coats of whitewash from the niches at the head and feet of the effigy, 
found distinct traces of the smoke and also of the wax of the tapers burnt 
there. He concludes, therefore, that Thomas Bukyngton (or Bulkington), 
who was certainly a benefactor, was also a monk of Edington, and is the 
person here represented. Mr. Kite also begins ‘‘ Notes on Amesbur, 
Monastery, with an account of some Discoveries on the site in 1860.”" 
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