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Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets; and Articles. 
1st, protesting against the absurd extravagance of the price, £125,000, 
asked for the property. 
The Spectator, Oct. 7th, 1899, contains a long letter, signed R. Hunter, 
urging the necessity of the possession by the Government of compulsory 
powers to prevent the alienation, or destruction, of national monuments 
in private ownership—as well as the advisability of a larger sum than 
the miserable pittance of £40,000 at present available, being provided by 
Government towards the enrichment of the national collections and the 
possible purchase of monuments of national interest. 
The Daily News, reprinted in the Wiltshire Chronicle, Sept. 9th, 
reports an interview of a special correspondent with the Vicar of Amesbury 
and the Rector of Durrington, and gives their opinions on the proposed 
purchase. 
The Wilts County Mirror, Sept. 1st, reports a meeting of Wilton Town 
Council, at which a resolution to petition the Government to purchase 
Stonehenge was agreed to. 
‘‘Stonehenge—and what it may become,”’ with an 
illustration, ‘‘ How Stonehenge might be Popularised if the Government 
bought it,” appeared in Punch, August 30th, 1899. The illustration is a 
delightful sketch of the outer circle transformed into a ‘“ Druidical 
Switchback,” while the trilithons, &c., are neatly adapted to refreshment 
bars, tea-tables, penny-in-the-slot machines, and tea-and-shrimp arbours, 
much patronised and appreciated by the tripper of the future. 
Tess at Stonehenge. The well-known scene from Hardy’s “ Tess 
of the D'Urbervilles” is reproduced in the Daily Chronicle, Aug. 25th, 
also a set of verses in Cockney dialect on the proposed sale of the monu- 
ment, in the issue of the 26th. 
Wiltshire Parochial Terriers. Mr. C. W. Holgate, the Diocesan 
Registrar, has done a good deed by printing in the Salisbury Diocesan 
Gazette, Aug., 1899, a complete list of the parishes for which terriers 
exist in the Diocesan Registry at Salisbury, deposited there under the 
provisions of Canon 87 of 1604, and ranging in date from 1608 to 1808; 
most of the parishes having more than one terrier, and some as many as 
four. The whole of the county of Wilts is included, though there are not 
terriers of every parish. Dorset is not included, as it formed no part of 
the Diocese of Salisbury between the years 1542 and 1836—but, on the 
other hand, Berkshire is—though Mr. Holgate only prints in his list the 
Wiltshire parishes. Anyone wishing for copies of terriers should apply 
to Mr. A. R. Malden, Deputy Registrar, The Close, Salisbury. It is 
much to be hoped that Mr. Holgate may be able to continue to throw 
light on the secrets of the contents of the Diocesan Registry. 
‘‘'The Manor House, Colerne.”’ A paper by the Rev. Wynter 
E. Blathwayt appears in the Proceedings of the Bath Natural History 
and Antiquarian Field Club, vol. ix., pp. 150—158, with four good 
