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Some Wrought-Iron Work in and about Salisbury. 
A short paper by Gideon Fidler, in the Art Jowrnal, Oct., 1898, pp. 298—- 
302, with twelve illustrations from drawings by himself—the letterpress is 
not remarkable either for style or grammar, and contains very little in- 
formation except the history of the Longford Chair, and the statement that 
some of the figures once belonging to it are now in another private collection. 
The illustrations, however—process reproductions of drawings—are on the 
whole nice. They are:—English Keys dug up at Salisbury—Coffer at 
Wishford Church—Railings at St, Thomas’ Church (Salisbury)—Tomb at 
Wylye Church—Vane at East Knoyle Church—The Hungerford Chapel at 
_ the Cathedral—Crane at Compton Park—The Steel Chair at Longford— 
Back of ditto—Italian Keys at the Museum—Chained Book at Great 
_ Durnford—Coffer at Compton Park. 
Facts, not Fancies, by one of the Race. Auliffe— 
 O’Neill—Ayliffe. Preliminary Pamphlet (1898). . Royal 8vo., 
pp. 38. Price 2/6. Frontispiece, a very poor pencil drawing of Brinkworth 
Church. 
This pamphlet, intended as the preface to a series, setting forth the true 
* greatness and the unmerited misfortunes of the real line of the family of 
“Auliffe O'Neill, Ayliffe,” whom we in Wiltshire know as the Ayliffes of 
_ Grittenham, Brinkworth, &c., deals almost wholly with genealogical and 
_ historical details, the whole of which go to prove, in the writer’s (Mrs. 
Cecilia Hamilton Wyndham Hill’s) opinion, that the Ayliffes are descended 
from Ayliffe, King of Northumbria, and the O’Neills, Kings in Ireland— 
whereof one of the first married Scoti the daughter of Pharaoh (date not 
_ given) and settled on the Nile—whence he took his terrestrial title, 
_ O'Neill,” z.e., “O’ th’ Nile,” and that they have shared to no small extent 
in the general injustice meted out in England to all things and persons 
Irish. It is indeed hinted not obscurely that if right were might the — 
_ properties held by a good many noble families of the present day, who are 
by no means spared by the writer, would revert to their rightful owners, 
_ the direct representatives of the Ayliffe Race. In matters such as the 
a family connections of the Irish Kings with the line of the Pharaohs, and 
- the coat armour of Saxon princesses, a mere Wiltshireman can hardly be 
expected to pronounce an opinion—but when we read that of “the noble 
dead who sleep around us here [7%.¢., in Brinkworth Churchyard] few know 
_ their history ; and we may add, more particularly those who have taken 
‘upon them the office of enlightenment to others, notably Canon Jackson, 
afterwards Bishop of London, whose bishopric was possibly a reward of his 
mendacity or ignorance. Masterpieces of both, his efforts as [? are] displayed 
ina pamphlet published by the Archeological Society of North Wilts 
“entitled ‘ The Ayliffes of Grittenham,’” we begin to feel sure that there is 
‘a mistake somewhere.’ This is certain, in any case, that in the Latin epitaph 
from the tomb of Sir Joseph Ayloff, in Hendon pantie oS quoted here— 
there are eight misprints. 
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