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—Ditto, Carved Oak Fireplace—Mrs. Hyde, of Heale. There is also a 
pedigree showing the connection between the Norton, Trenchard, Long, and 
Penruddocke families. 
Beckhampton, Mr. Sam Darling at, by “Z..” is a paper in 
The Idler for March, 1899, pp. 245—252, describing the racing stables, 
with the following process illustrations :—Beckhampton House—Mr. Sam 
Darling—Mr. J. Gubbins, owner of Galtee More—Galtee More after winning 
the St. Leger, 1897—Kilecock—C. Wood and J. Watts—The Stables—The 
Paddock. 
Beckhampton Racing Stables. Ve Lilustrated Sporting and 
Dramatic News, May 6th, 1899, has a full-page illustration of ‘ Racing 
Stables—Mr. 8. Darling—Beckhampton, Marlborough, Wilts.” It contains : 
Beckhampton House—Mr. 8. Darling—Part of the Front Yard, General 
View—Coming Home from Exercise—The Lawn—The New Yard. 
Lacock Cloisters. Photo-process reproduction of photo taken by Mr. 
Talbot in 1842 in The Photogram, Feb., 1899. 
Portrait of Lady Betty Delme by Sir Joshua Reynolds. A 
paper on this picture, with notes on the Delme family, by the Rev. G. W. 
Minns, LL.B., F.S.A., is given in Hampshire Field Club Papers and 
Proceedings, vol. iii., p. 59. The Delmé family owned Erlestoke for awhile 
about 1740 to1780, and intermarried with the Awdrys of Seend and Radcliffes. 
Peter Delmé was M.P. for Ludgershall in 1734. The portrait of Lady Betty 
was little known or valued by the family, but it recently sold by auction in 
London for 11,000 guineas, whereas the house from which it came, together 
with the Manor of Cams Oysell, Hants, and 256 acres of park and agricultural 
land realised in 1895 only £10,250. 
‘On a Picture by Lorenzo Lotto at Wilton House,” 
by S. Arthur Strong. Art Journal, March, 1899, pp. 92—3, one illust., 
“The Temptation of St. Anthony, called a Correggio.” 
A View of Salisbury Cathedral by J. Constable 
was amongst the pictures of the late Sir John Kelk, of Tedworth, sold at 
Christie’s on March 11th, 1899. This picture brought 1300 guineas, the 
whole collection, sixty-six lots, fetching £17,128. Devizes Gazette, March 
16th, 1899. 
Sale of the Corsham Court Pictures. On May 13th Messrs. 
Christie sold a number of the remaining pictures at Corsham Court. Two 
pastels by J. Russell, R.A., “ Pig in a Poke,” and “ Incredulity,” realised 
the large sums of 750 and 480 guineas respectively. The Three Children of 
Henry VII., by Mabuse, brought 530 guineas. Of the Italian pictures 
_ Andrea del Sarto’s portrait of himself went for 890 guineas; ‘The Holy 
Family,” by Lorenzo di Credi, for 680; and the ‘ Coronation of the Virgin,” 
