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—but however, with the £100 ready money, it has prevailed with Smith to 
leave your Lordship.” 
Thomas Brudenell, nephew of the third Earl, succeeded as Baron Bruce 
of Tottenham in 1747, and was created fourth Earl of Ailesbury in 1780. 
He was a great deal about the Court of George III. and was much in the 
confidence of Queen Charlotte—a great many of whose letters to him are 
printed in this volume. The King and Queen visited Tottenham in 1784. 
The Earl’s diary, 1786—1789, fills 37 pages, and is occupied with the most 
particular and minute description of his life at Court, day by day. The 
Chartulary of Muchelney Abbey preserved at Tottenham is not given in 
this volume, as the Somerset Record Society proposes to publish it separately. 
Notice in Daily Chronicle, Oct. 22, 1898. 
Wilts Notes and Queries, No. 22, June, 1898. 
In addition to instalments of the very useful “Records of Wiltshire 
Parishes, dealing in this number with Bratton, and the Lists of Quaker 
Marriages in Wilts, this number contains notes by Mr. Edward Kite on the 
remarkable incised effigy of John Stone in Aldbourne Church, with a good 
illustration of it—and on the Bell Foundry at that place. Mr. Whatmore 
returns once more to the well-fought field of Ethandune and gives his vote 
to Edington, in Somerset— whilst another great Wiltshire Battle, that 
_ between the Langleyites and the Chippenham men in 1822, is also discoursed 
of. Mr. J. H, Lea, drawing attention to three errors in Mr. Elyard’s 
- “Wiltshire Homes,” shows-that the Sir Edward Hungerford who is said in 
the account of Sheldons, to have lived to the “ very advanced age of 115 
‘years,’ really died aged 79, having been born in 1632. The Sir Edward 
- who was born in 1596 was his uncle, and died s.p. in 1648. Again, it 
was the younger son of the Duke of Kingston’s sister, Charles Medows, 
‘and not his elder brother, Evelyn Philip Medows, who succeeded to the 
_ Duke's property. The carved stone coat of arms over the archway at Corsley 
_ Manor is shown to be that of Lygh, and not of Thynne—but does not Mr. 
’ Lea fall into an error himself when he attributes the carving to Robert Lygh, 
who was living in 1515? Surely the fashion of the carving, of which a photo- 
process plate is given, must be a good deal later than the reign of Henry VIII. 
_ Mr. Kite has an interesting note on the pedigree of Archbishop Stafford. 
Ditto, No. 23, Sept., 1898. 
__ This is an interesting and useful number. It opens with a dissertation 
_ by the Editor on Book-Plate collecting in general, and “Some Wiltshire 
_ Book-Plates” in particular, embellished by a plate of the large Book-Plate 
of W. Hunt, of West Lavington, and also another Hunt Book-Plate, both 
_ of which appeared in The Ex Libris Journal, and another of the Book- 
_ Plate of Morgan Keene, of Sarum. The Records available for the History 
_ of Bratton are continued, chiefly from the Edingdon Chartulary ; aud then 
_ follows a charming little paper by the Rev. A. P. Morres, on “'I'he Peregrine 
_ at Home” at Salisbury. Mr. Morres pleads strongly for the preservation 
of this noble bird. He thinks that if only landowners and those who rent 
_ or own shootings in South Wilts would give strict orders to their keepers 
