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Recent Wiltshire Books, Articles, &c. 
in number, in the hands of various persons who provided thereout funds for 
yearly celebrations on certain days, masses and Dirige to be said for certain 
deceased persons, and lights to be burned before the images of Our Lady in 
the porch, Our Lady in St. Nicholas aisle, Our Lady in the South aisle, 
Our Lady of Pity, St. Christopher, St. Katherine, St. Nicholas, St. Sythe 
or Osyth, the lamp before we High Cross, and Our Lady’s light in the 
chancel. 
Ditto, No. 25, March, 1899. 
The most important item in this number is the first portion of the account 
of the Old House at Lackham, destroyed to make way for the existing 
residence. This is illustrated by two copies of early drawings—one from 
Dingley’s Sketch in 1684, and the other of the Porch and Oriel from a 
drawing by Grimm in 1790, which is now in the British Museum. The 
Records available for the History of Bratton—The Quaker Marriage Records 
—The Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire—and Notes on Great 
Somerford are continued, the latter illustrated with drawings of the arms of 
Barrett, and Andrews impaling Townsend. The English Ancestors of the 
Families of Batt and Byley, of Salisbury, Massachusets, is also continued. 
The Sale Catalogue of the Wiltshire Estates of 
Pitt: some Chapters of his Life and Times, by the Rt. 
Thomas Moore Anecdotes Jarrold & Sons. 1898. 
“This amusing little volume consists of extracts from Moore’s Diary, and 
Ernest Terah Hooley, Esq., which were sold on Nov. 10th, 
1898, is an elaborately-illustrated production, with a “Key Plan of the 
Estates” on the cover—three large folding coloured maps of the estates—and 
no less than twenty excellent half-tone views, viz., At All Cannings, The 
Church, The Manor Farm, Cliffe Farm, An old Farm-House, Three New 
Cottages—Maddington Manor Farm—Hill Farm, The Manor Farm, and 
The Church, at Winterbourne Stoke—The Church, Manor Farm, View of 
River Wylye, The Boot Inn, View in the Village, and Orchard at Manor 
House, in Berwick St. James—East Cliff House, The Manor Farm, and The 
Water Mill at Steeple Langford; and at Stapleford, a View in the Meat 
and The Pelican Inn. 
The Estates Gazette, Oct. 8th, 1898, |has an account of these estates, 
afterwards reprinted in separate form, with four half-tone illustrations :— 
View in Steeple Langford Village; Manor Farm, Water Stoke; The 
Berwick Stream ; sa Page’s Farm, All Cannings. 
Honble. Edward Gibson, Lord Ashbourne, with eleven portraits. 8vo. 
Longmans & Co. 1898. Price 21s. It contains a catalogue of one hundred 
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and sixty pictorial and plastic works of art, including twenty pictures of Pitt 
by Hoppner, Gainsborough, and Romney. Well reviewed, Spectator, Jan. — 
7th, 1899, Times, and Daily Chronicle. 
