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person, violent not only in his language, but also, according to his own 
account, in his actions, against all who do not fall in with his suggestions 
or orders, thinking nothing of personally hauling off an opponent*to gaol 
when he is mayor, or violently beating a party of bearers who declined 
to go into a plague-stricken house to fetch out the inmates. His great 
achievement as mayor, however, seems to have been the suppressing of 
all the alehouses in the city—above four score in number—by the simple 
process of withholding their licenses. One alehouse, indeed, defied his 
authority, and would not close. In three days and a half the whole 
household had drunk themselves to death, a judgment on them for 
resisting the mayor’s edict! A marauding soldier who ‘swears high 
upon the Welsh tongue” has the choice whether he will put his head or his 
leg in the stocks, and though he “sprung! out his heels and paid the 
beadle”” when his hands were tied to the whipping post, yet the beadle 
“paid him” afterwards. Altogether Mr. Ivie seems to have been 
something like a mayor, and in temperance matters had a short way 
with brewers and publicans that seems to have been effective; but it is 
hardly, perhaps, so much to be wondered at as he seems to think that 
- with many people he was unpopular. 
he Wiltshire Regiment. A long and good account of the 
origin, history, and achievements of the old 62nd, raised in 1758, and the 
99th, raised in 1824, which together form now the Ist and 2nd Battalions 
of the “ Wiltshire Regiment,” appears in the Devizes Gazette, Dec. 7th, 
1899, in connection with the departure of the regiment as a part of the 
__ 6th division ordered to South Africa. 
Wiltshire and the War in South Africa. The doings of the 
. Wiltshire Regiment—the Wiltshire Contingent of the Imperial Yeomanry 
—and the Wiltshire Volunteers—with lists of Wiltshiremen serving at 
the front, and letters written by Wiltshiremen from South Africa have 
filled a large space in all the county papers during the progress of the 
war, the Devizes Gazette having given especially full and good accounts. 
Malmesbury Abbey is the subject of three papers by J. G. Holmes 
in the Bristol Diocesan Magazine for Oct. and Noy., 1899, and Jan., 
1900, with three process illustrations :—Exterior, S. Side—Interior, N. 
Side—and Exterior, East End. 
on Benger Embroidery. Mr. St. John Hope’s notes on this 
are reprinted in the Feb., 1899, number of the Bristol Diocesan Gazette, 
vol. i, pp. 32—34. 
Ww ltshire in 1899. A good review of the year’s events as far as 
_ they concerned the County of Wilts appeared in the Devizes Gazette, 
Jan. 4th, 1900. 
Ch ppenham in 1899. A similar article on matters concerning 
Chippenham, Devizes Gazette, Jan. 4th, 1900. 
