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‘“‘Hodges”’ or ‘‘ yokels”” but living people; and the birds, too, especially 
the starlings, acknowledge her as an intimate friend. Indeed the book 
has much of the charm that Richard Jefferies’ writings possess— The 
charm that comes from the close observation of Nature, and the power 
of showing the results to others. The book itself is delightfully got up, 
many ofthe photographic illustrations, printed in asoft brown ink, having 
all the charm and softness of a mezzotint. There are thirteen in all, 
amongst them being: A View of Stockton House—The Almshouse 
Gateway at Stockton—A Tomb in Stockton Church— Wiltshire Shepherds 
—anda number of lovely bits of stream and winter trees, evidently, though 
they are not named, from the meadows of the valley of the Wylye. 
It has been well reviewed in The Morning Post; Daily Mail, June 
8th; Daily Telegraph, June 20th, 1900; Pall Mall Gazette, World, 
Speaker, Atheneum, Country Gentleman, and Spectator. 
Wiltshire Notes and Queries. No. 30. June, 1900. 
This number contains an admirable half-tone plate of the monument 
in the Mayor’s Chapel at Bristol, to Mary, second wife of Sir Edward 
Baynton, of Bromham, who died 1667, with a short note thereon. The 
Records of Bratton, Quaker Birth Records of the 17th Century—Feet of — 
Fines for Wiltshire—the History of the Dissolution of Amesbury ~ 
Monastery, with a list of and notes on all the known prioresses—are 
continued from the last number. A deed connected with Aldbourne and 
the acquisition of the manor by the Goddard family is given in full, with 
notes on the history of the place. Amongst the notes is a valuable one — 
clearly establishing the fact that ‘‘ Oram’s Grave,” the name given to the 
barrow at the spot where the Salisbury- Warminster and Maddington- 
Codford St. Mary down tracks intersect, in the parish of Chitterne, is so 
named from one Oram, of Chitterne, who committed suicide some time at — 
the end of the 18th century and was buried at the cross-roads in the barrow. 
Wiltshire Notes and Queries. No. 31. Sept., 1900. 
Mr. Kite, in his notes on Amesbury Monastery, reaches the dissolution _ 
period, and takes up the cudgels against the theory advocated by Messrs. — 
Talbot and Ruddle in this Magazine that the present Parish Church of © 
Amesbury is a distinct building from the Church of the Monastery. Mr. 
Kite puts the case for their identity very clearly and strongly. To begin 
with he recalls the indisputable fact that when a Church was partly 
parochial and partly conventual, the eastern half of the Church, including — 
the choir, and usually the space under the tower and the transepts, was — 
habitually spoken of as the ‘‘ Monastic Church”; whilst the western 
portion, or nave, was called the ‘‘ Parish Church”’—as though they were — 
two separate buildings altogether. He argues that it was the ‘‘ Monastic — 
Church” which was here condemned as superfluous, 7.e., the chancel and 
perhaps the transepts of the existing Church, of which the roofs were 
dismantled, whilst the ‘‘ Parish Church,” 7.e., the nave, belonging to the 
parishioners, was left undisturbed, that its services were continued, 
bequests were made to it, and parishioners buried within its walls es 
