Recent Wiiltshire Books, Articles, §c. 283 
Devizes Gazette, Dec. 22nd and 29th, and in the Wiltshire Times, Dec. 
24th, 1898. The latter paper gave also three good cuts of the South Front, 
The Norman Porch, and View from the North. 
Lady Clive. At the end of “Lord Clive,” by Sir Alex. J. Arbuthnot, 
1899, is a full pedigree of Lady Clive (Margaret, daughter of Edmund 
Maskelyne and Eliz. Booth), traced from William Maskelyne, of Purton. 
An Old English Glass Linen Smoother from 
BRamsbury. Ano illustration of this object, with a note by Mrs. M. E. 
Cunnington, appears in the Religuary, April, 1899, p. 125. The writer 
speaks of it as the only specimen known to have occurred in Wiltshire. 
Several have, however, passed through the hands of Mr. Passmore, of 
Swindon, of late years, and a fine example from near Hungerford has lately 
been secured for the Society’s Museum. 
Allotments in Wilts. The Devizes Gazette, Dec. 1st, 1898, has a 
long quotation from the chapter on the ,allotment system on the Bowood 
Estate, in Mr. H. H.Smith’s “The Principles of Landed Estate Management.” 
On the Bowood Estate of 12,000 acres there are eight hundred allotments. 
Between 1812 and 1817 ten fields were laid out in allotments, in 1831 
thirteen more, and in the next three years thirteen more. 
Wilts, The Ancient Inhabitants of. A lecture by Mr. W. 
Heward Bell. Printed in Devizes Gazette, Feb. 2nd, 1899. 
Devizes, St. John’s and St. Mary’s Churches were 
visited and lectured on in the course of a series of lectures on “ English 
Kcclesiastical Architecture,” given at Devizes by the Rev. Walter Marshall, 
an Oxford Extension lecturer. See Devizes Gazette, Jan. 26th, Feb. 9th, 
March 2nd and 23rd, 1699. 
Bishop John Earle, of Salisbury, is the subject of an essay 
entitled “‘ A Minute Philosopher,” in a volume of “ Essays” by A. C. Benson. 
Heinemann. 1897. “From a Cornish Window,” by A. T. Quiller-Couch, 
in Pall Mall Mag., Sept., 1897, also contains several pages upon him. 
Mrs. Benett-Stanford’s exploits as a slayer of big game in Africa 
are described in Holiday and Travel, Dec., 1898, accompanied by illustrations 
of the lady in her hunting attire and of a rhinoceros which fell to her rifle. 
