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I claim to have discovered the original form of the tunes. They were taken 
down from the mouths of old men, who in some cases had notysung them for 
years. I have in no case patched wp a melody. As with the words, so 
‘with the tunes, these songs are given here exactly as they were sung; 
while the accompaniments, for which I alone am responsible, are purposely 
simple and unobtrusive.’ There are a few short notes on the origin of 
the various songs at the end. The songs and carols are nine in number :— 
Long time I’ve travelled in the North Countrie—The Taking of Quebec 
—The Labouring Man—Ye Sons of Albion—Botany Bay—There was a 
Rich Merchant—Oh, where beest Gwying—Two Britford Carols. 
There seems little that is distinctively of Wiltshire about these songs, 
beyond the fact that they were sung in the county—but it is a good work 
to rescue both tunes and words from oblivion, especially if Mr. Hill 
purposes—as apparently he does—to give us more of. them in the future. 
Marlborough College Natural History Society. 
Report No. 46, for the year 1897. This report, as usual, 
contains the record of steady and accurate work in both Botany and 
Entomology, twenty-one species of Lepidoptera having been added to the 
local list during the year, and three new species of plants, including 
Scirpus paucifiorus and Carex distans, from Chilton, whilst Geraniwm 
rotundifolium and Tulipa sylvestris have been re-discovered. The most 
notable ornithological event recorded is the finding of a Fulmar in the 
forest after a gale. The usual lists of botanical, entomological, meteoro- 
logical, and anthropometrical observations are given. An excellent photo- 
print is given of an Elizabethan carving of Moses striking the rock, which 
coming originally from the “ White House,” pulled down to make way 
for the College Sick-Room, after lying by in a lnmber-room for years is 
now to find a home, probably in the Common-Room of the College. There 
are also two photographic views of “Treacle Bolly ’’ and “Sheep Washing, 
Marlborough.” The most interesting thiug dealt with in this report, however, 
is the finding of five very curious urns about 18in. below the surface of the 
ground, embedded in the gravel, during the digging of the foundations for 
the new wing of the Sanatorium. They stood in the ground mouth 
upwards within a space of a few square yards, without any covering. 
Both in shape and ornamentation they are quite unlike any vessels found 
in this neighbourhood of either British or Roman make. The only thing 
which helps to fix their date is the presence of an iron tang in a stag’s 
horn knife-handle found with them, This goes to prove them to be of 
later date than the Bronze Age, but proves nothing else. Mr. Meyrick 
thinks that they are funerary urns of Romano-British date, and that 
there are probably more in the unexcavated ground close by. An illus- 
tration is given of the most perfect of these pots. 
‘Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 20, Dec. 1897. 
This number opens with the first instalment of an account of the family 
of Estcourt of Swinley, by M. E. Light, illustrated by a nice sketch of 
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