160 Reeent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
Old Sarum. “Lines occasioned by a Walk to Old Sarum with a Lady 
from London.” Beal & Anset’s Monthly, June, 1898. 
Sermon Preached in the College Chapel after the 
Funeral of the Rev. J.S. Thomas .. . Bursar 
of Marlborough College, by F. W. Farrar, D.D., F.RS., 
Dean of Canterbury. Marlborough. 1897. 8vo, pp. 12. 
Seend Church, Monumental Inscriptions. These are 
printed in the Wilts Advertiser, June 30th, 1898. 
Codford St. Peter Church. A note on works of repair executed 
here and of a shield of the arms of the late Duke of Albany, presented by 
the Duchess, and placed near the seat which the Duke, when resident at 
Boyton, often occupied. Salisbury Dioc. Gazette, Nov., 1898. 
Old Sarum, The Parliament Tree. A short notice of Old 
Sarum and its Parliamentary history, based on the text of the destruction 
of the “ Parliament Tree” by the gale in March, 1898, is given in Beal 
& Auset’s Monthly, April, 1898. (Salisbury.) 
An Afternoon on the Lower Kennett. An article in “ The 
Sportsman's Supplement to the Bazaar,’ July 11th, 1898. A Day’s 
Trout Fishing, with a process block of the Trout caught. 
Stonehenge. The Estates Gazette, quoted by Devizes Gazette, Sept. 
Sth, 1898, says a new light has been thrown on Stonehenge by Mr. H. M. 
Scott, in a paper read recently before the members of the Bath Selborne 
Society. Mr. Scott, starting from the assumption that no natives in Britain 
were capable of erecting, and that the Phcenicians did erect large stones 
elsewhere, concludes that this people built Stonehenge “as an observatory 
and as a place where they might deposit their tin, and that they also made 
it a temple of the sun and moon to give it sanctity and insure its safety.” 
Devizes. Messrs. William Cunnington & Sons, 
Wine and Spirit Merchants, Old Town Hall. Under the head of “‘ Important 
Wiltshire Industries,” the Wilts Advertiser of July 31st, 1898, has a long 
article dealing principally with the details of the business—but incidentally 
giving a good deal of information about the Old Town Hall, now occupied 
by Messrs. Cunnington—and the Cunnington family—who, coming 
from Upavon to Devizes in 1827, established a wool business at Southgate 
House, which continued, latterly under Mr. Henry Cunnington’s care, until 
1868. The Old Town Hall was purchased in 1836 by Mr. William 
Cunnington, formerly of Heytesbury, and the wine busivess was commenced 
in that year. This was carried on for a while by the three brothers, 
