354 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
valuable information. The ‘‘ Notes on Great Somerford” are also con- 
tinued at some length, dealing with the history of the Alexander and 
Smith families in the 17th and 18th centuries. Further instalments of the 
Records available for the History of Bratton—Wiltshire Quaker Marriage 
Records—and a Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire—with a couple 
of pages of Notes on the Family of Dugdale of Seend—fill up the bulk of 
a good solid number. The Queries and Replies are of no special interest, 
except that it seems established on the authority of the Dictionary of 
National Biography that Ludovic Muggleton—the founder of the sect of 
Mugegletonians—was not a native of Chippenham, as has been said, but 
was born in London. 
Wilts Archzological Society’s Meeting at Amesbury. 
A very full account of the proceedings during the Meeting is given in 
the Devizes Gazette, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, and August 3rd, together 
with a good deal of interesting gossip on the History of Amesbury, and 
Mr. Talbot’s and Mr. Ruddle’s papers on the Church, with a report of 
Mr. Doran Webb’s statements in opposition to their contention that it 
was the Church of the Abbey (July 13th). 
The next issue (July 20th) deals with the excursion to Lake, Heale, 
Durnford, Durrington, and Stonehenge, and gives a short abstract of 
Mr. E. Story Maskelyne’s theories as to the latter structure. On July 
27th Mr. Hawley’s paper is printed, with a letter from Mr. Talbot on 
Amesbury Church, On August 3rd Mr. Brakspear’s notes on Bulford, 
Figheldean, Netheravon, Fittleton, and Enford Churches are printed, 
with some of Mr. Ruddle’s notes on the History of Milston. There is also 
an extract from MS. notes by the late Mr. Kemm, now in the possession 
of the Vicar of Amesbury, dated 1870, as to the position of remains of 
the ancient Abbey buildings formerly existing near the present house. 
The Salisbury Journal of July 8th also contained a short account of 
the first day’s proceedings, with an article making an un-called-for attack 
on the usefulness of the Society. 
Amesbury Church. The Rev. C. 8S. Ruddle contributes to the Devizes 
Gazette, August 24th, 1899, some interesting notes as to the Old Vicarage 
House which stood to the N.E. of the Church, and of the pre-restoration 
condition of the interior of the Church itself. 
On the Purpose, the Age, and the Builders of 
Stonehenge, by Edmund S. Maskelyne. Read at the Literary 
Institution, before the Members of the Bath Antiquarian Field Club, 
Dec. 8th, 1897. Pamphlet. 8vo. Bath. ([1898.] pp. 39, with folding 
plan. 
The author begins by stating that his theory is an absolutely novel one 
—that his investigations lead him to conclude that the smaller stones 
(the “blue stones’) were added about five hundred or six hundred years 
after the great sarsens and the earth circle were placed in position. He 
is also satisfied that all the barrows, the avenue, and the cursus, except 
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