352 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
from Our Lord’s hands; at the foot of the cross is the skull of 
Adam. Below is St. Mary Magdalene under a canopy, and the 
upper part of the canopy of a second figure. At the corners of the 
work are four other panels with figures of saints, but the upper two 
have lost their canopies. The upper left-hand figure is identified 
by his name, fes Thomas; it is uncertain whom the other figure 
represents. The two lower figures are: on the left, St. Philip 
holding three loaves and a book enclosed in a chemise or forel, and 
on the right St. James the Greater. The canopies of these figures 
differ in design from the canopies on the cross. The field is 
sprinkled with flowers of several species, fleurs-de-lis, and seraphim 
holding scrolls lettered Da Glortam Deo. 
There can be little doubt that the whole of the applied ornaments 
have once formed part of the decoration of a vestment or chasuble. 
The cross ornamented its back. The four corner panels may have 
formed the pillar-orphrey in front, and the flowers, etc., are the 
remains of a series with which the vestment was powdered. All 
are of a date circa 1490 —1500. 
It is not at all unlikely that the whole received its present form 
during the Caroline revival in the 17th century, when the ornaments 
of a worn out or discarded chasuble were rearranged on a piece of 
new silk to serve as a hanging behind or above the altar. 
Accent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
Humourous West Countrie Tales, by the Author of Wiltshire 
Rhymes [Edward Slow, of Wilton]. Cr. 8vo. Cloth. Salisbury. 1899. 
pp. 147. Price, cloth, 2s. 6d.; boards, 1s. 6d. 
The first two or three of these stories are old friends, which were — 
published separately, as ‘‘ Bob Beaker’s Visit ta Lunnen,” and ‘“ Ben 
Sloper at the Diamond Jubilee Zelebrayshun,” but they are quite worthy 
