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photo-process illustrations :—‘‘ West View,” “ Staircase,” ‘‘ Panelled 
Room upstairs,” and “‘ Old Fireplace in South Room,” as well asa rough 
pen-and-ink sketch of the N. E. view. The paper begins with a short 
history of the manor, chiefly derived, apparently, from Scrope’s History 
of Castle Combe. The description of the house itself lacks architectural 
definition—the chief information being that some of the windows are of 
Elizabethan date, and others of about 1610. 
Eyre Family. Some notes on the Eyre family in Wilts accompany 
an obituary notice in the Salisbury Journal, reprinted in Devizes Gazette, 
Sept. 28th, 1899, of the Rev. Charles James Phipps Eyre, who, though 
not a native of Wiltshire himself, was one of the family. He was Rector 
of Marylebone for twenty-five years. 
Erchfont Church. A long and interesting account of the work of 
restoration now in progress under Mr. Ponting’s direction in this Church, 
is given in the Devizes Gazette, Nov. 9th, 1899. 
The Sale of the Netheravon Estate to the Government, and 
the price paid for it (£93,411), was the subject of a good deal of corres- 
pondence and discussion in’ the papers. Mr. T. G. Bowles, M.P., wrote 
in The Times of Aug. 5th a letter, reprinted in Devizes Gazette, Aug. 10th, 
asking how the arbitrators arrived at the price. The Estates Gazette, 
quoted in Devizes Gazette, Aug. 17th, defends the price paid. Further 
letters from Messrs. T. G. Bowles, A. Whitehead, L. G. R., and W. J. 
Hamnett appeared in The Times and Estates Gazette, and are reprinted 
in the Devizes Gazette, Aug. 24th, Sept. 7th, and Sept. 14th, 1899, 
together with an interview with Messrs. Rawlence and Squarey on the 
subject, reported in the Daily News. 
Cyclone in Hants and S. Wilts. The Salisbury Journal, 
reprinted in the Devizes Gazette, Oct. 12th, 1899, gives a remarkable 
account of the extraordinary violence of the storm on Oct. 1st, in the 
neighbourhood of Andover at Kimpton and Shoddesdon Farm—and to a 
less extent at Old Lodge, in Wilts. 
Clyffe Pypard. “Where Time stands still.” A short article, by 
Maude Prower, in The Gentleman’s Mag., July, 1899, pp. 81—86, though 
it mentions no names, is really a pleasant little bit of gossip about Clyffe 
Pypard, the manor, the vicarage, the squire, and the manners and 
customs thereof. 
Salisbury and South Wilts and Blackmore Museum. 
The report of the committee, read at the annual meeting of the supporters 
of the Museum, shows that nine thousand three hundred and twenty-one 
persons visited the Museum last year, and that the extensive library of 
Wiltshire books, prints, &c., bequeathed to the Museum by the late Mr. 
Job Edwards, of Amesbury, is now being arranged in cases and made 
accessible to readers. Wilts County Mirror, June 16th, 1899. 
