150 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
illustrations—half-tone blocks from photos displacing for the most part the 
lithographic plates of the previous volumes. A new feature, too, is the — 
number of excellent photos of the various excavations in different stages of 
progress. 
The Manuscripts of the Duke of Somerset, The 
Marquis of Ailesbury, and The Rev. Sir T. H. G. 
Puleston, Bart. Fifteenth Report of Historical MSS. Commission- 
Appendix, Part VII. 1898. Eyre & Spottiswoode, Price 1/9. Large 8vo. 
The Introduction, by W. Page, occupies xvii. pages; the MSS. of The 
Duke of Somerset at Maiden Bradley, 152 pp.; those of The Marquis of 
Ailesbury, pp. 152—306; the remainder of the volume, including index, 
pp. 307—410. The papers at Maiden Bradley and Tottenham thus fill 
306 pages. 
Those at Maiden Bradley begin in 1553, and up to about 1700 are 
concerned almost entirely with Devonshire matters—for the history of 
which county they are very valuable. They deal very largely with the 
preparations for the defence of the coast of Devon against the Spanish 
invasions, threatened from 1595 to 1600, such as orders to Edward Seymour 
of Berry Pomeroy, and reports as to the raising of the trained bands, the 
watching of the beacons, &c., &c., passing between the Government and 
the Harl of Bath, then Lord Lieutenant of the county, and the Deputy 
Lieutenants and others in authority. 
Tn the Civil War period, too, there are a large number of letters, reports, 
&e., from and to Sir Edward Seymour, the Royalist, who raised twelve 
hundred men for the King in 1642, and again received a commission to raise 
a regiment of fifteen hundred in 1643, when he was made Governor of 
Dartmouth. In 1645 he took part in the defence of Exeter, and was after- 
wards imprisoned. He was re-appointed Governor of Dartmouth in 1677, 
and of Exeter in 1688, just before he died. His eldest son, Sir Edward, 
was Speaker of the House of Commons. 
A considerable number of important papers exist dealing with the 
departure of the expedition, under Sir George Rooke, which captured 
Gibraltar; Charles, Sixth Duke of Somerset, having had the superintendence 
of its fitting out at Portsmouth. 
The deeds relating to lands in Wilts of which abstracts are given are as 
follows :— 
11 Hen. III. Protection to Nuns and Leprous Women of Bradeleg, and 
to Prior and Brothers there, and grant of common of pasture in” 
Merston. 4 
43 Hen. III. Lease by Adam Alayn to Ralph de Aungiens of land 
called Aldefeld in Bradelegh. 
(Hen. III.?) Grant of acre of land called Stertaker and 3 acre in 
Worthy by Godfrey Russel to Ralph de Aungiens. } 
(Hen. III.?) Grant of pasture in Selwood by Hugh le Bigood of 
Merston (?) to Ralph Aungiens. 
(Hen. I[I.?) Grant by Robert Baet to Ralph de Aungiens of land 
