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which Braden Forest is the remnant was still held by the Britons, and 
that they, and not the Welsh Britons, were the allies of the Hwiccas—that 
Malmesbury was in Augustine’s time a great centre of British power and 
British Christianity—and that it was near Cricklade, perhaps at Oak 
Farm, in Down Ampney, that Augustine met the Britons in conference. 
The paper is a valuable one, and should be read. 
“The Wiltshire Whirlwind of October ist, 1899,’’ 
was the subject of a paper read before the Meteorological Society by the 
late Mr. G. J. Symons, on May 16th,1900. ‘‘ This whirlwind occurred 
between 2 and 3, p.m.,commencing near Middle Winterslow,and travelling 
in a north-north-easterly direction. The length of the damage was nearly 
twenty miles, but the average breadth was only about one hundred yards ; 
in this narrow track, however, buildings were blown down, trees were 
uprooted, and objects were lifted and carried by the wind a considerable 
distance before they were deposited on the ground. Fortunately the 
greater part of the district over which the whirlwind passed was open 
down, otherwise the damage, and perhaps loss of life, would have been 
considerable. At Old Lodge, Salisbury, the lifting power of the whir]- 
wind was strikingly shown by several wooden buildings being lifted 
up and dropped down several feet north-west of their original position. 
At a place eighteen miles from its origin the whirlwind came upon a rick 
of oats, a considerable portion of which it carried right over the village 
of Ham, and deposited in a field more than a mile and a half away.” 
Atheneum, 19th May, 1900, p. 630. Devizes Gazette, May 24th; 
Salisbury Journal, May 5th, 1900. 
Lacock Abbey, by A. H. Diplock, in The Gentleman's Magazine, Nov., 
1900, pp. 484—443, is an article which contains as much detailed 
information as can reasonably be expected in the space of 10 pages. The 
story of the foundation and the dissolution of the abbey is told; and the 
life of Sir William Sharington—the architectural features of the buildings, 
the discovery of photography, and the career of John Man, a native of 
Lacock, who became warden of Merton Coll., Dean of Gloucester, and 
Ambassador to Madrid under Elizabeth, are touched upon. The in- 
formation, moreover, appears to be carefully and correctly given—the 
author having gone first to Mr. Talbot and the pages of this Magazine. 
Gacock Abbey. The Bath and County Graphic, Aug., 1900, pp. 
41—43, has an article by ‘‘ Glenavon,” giving some account of the buildings 
and history of the abbey, illustrated by five pen-and-ink drawings: [The 
Bell. Cot], Early English Piscina, Cauldron, Early English Window, and 
Early English Capital. Also a View of the abbey in the September 
number. There are some mistakes in the letterpress of this article. Sir 
William Sharington was not “the last male heir of his family.” He was 
succeeded at Lacock by his brother, Sir Henry Sharington, and he had 
also a younger brother, John, of Medbourne, Wilts. He left no daughter. 
Olive (not Olivia) was third daughter of Sir Henry Sharingion. The 
