256 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
Wilton, the 800th Anniversary of the granting of the first 
charter by Henry I. An account of the proceedings which marked this 
anniversary appears in the Wilts County Mirror, Sept. 21st, 1900. 
Westport and Charlton. Professor Alfred Church, in the 
Sunday Magazine for April, pp. 217—221, quoted at length in the 
Devizes Gazettte, April 5th, 1900, under the title of ‘‘Some Clerical 
Recollections,” gives his experiences in his first curacy. He mentions 
no names, but the Lord Suffolk of the time (1853—56) and Charlton 
House and Church are easily identified. 
Bradford-on-Avon and Great Chalfield. The visit of 
the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archzological Society, on the 18th of 
July is described in the Western Daily Press, July 19th, 1900. 
Steeple Ashton Church. A long article appeared in the Devizes 
Gazette, Sept. 20th, 1900, giving many interesting details as to the history 
of the Church and parish, and an account of the proceedings at the 400th 
anniversary of its consecration, which was kept on Sept. 19th, was 
printed in the Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, Oct., 1900. 
South Newton: Bull-Baiting. The Devizes Gazette, Sept 
20th, 1900, prints the following announcement from the Salisbury 
Journal for Sept. 17th, 1759 :—*‘ This is to give notice that a fine noted 
game bull will be baited at the sign of the Bell at South Newton, near 
Wilton, on Friday, the 21st of September. That dog which plays best 
and fairest shall be entitled to a large silver collar of a guinea value. 
N.B.—There will be a good encouragement given to dogs that play well. 
The said bull will be baited again on the Friday following.” 
Chippenham. An illustrated account of, in Bath and County 
Graphic, p. 108, vol. iv., No. 9. 1900. 
Salisbury. An extract from the Bath Chronicle of Dec. 22nd, 1800, 
describing the visit of Lord Nelson to Salisbury to receive the freedom — 
of the city, is reprinted in The Wilts County Mirror, Aug. 31st, 1900. 
Westbury. “A True Occurrence at Westbury” is the title of a story of 
a burglary by W. H. Slade in the Bath and County Graphic, Aug., 1900. 
I—y Lodge is the site, and Miss F—e the heroine. 
Some Results of the Battles of Deorham and 
Wanborough, by the Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bristol; pp. 
264—276 of vol. iv. of the Proceedings of the Clifton Antiquarian Club, — 
1899, with a sketch map. . 
The Battle of Wanborough here mentioned is the earlier one, fought — 
in 591 A.D., in which Ceawlin was defeated by Ceol and the Hwiccas in 
alliance with the Britons. The Bishop argues that the forest country 
