360 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphiets, and Articles. 
Trowbridge High School. An oblong pamphlet giving an account 
of the school, with process illustrations of the Building (3)—End of New 
Schoolroom—Covered Gymnasium—End of Old Schoolroom—Corner of 
Boys’ Sitting-Room—The Gymnasium Stand—One End of the Large 
Field—The Dining Hall—The Long Dormitory—Ground Plan—Plan of 
Drainage. 
The Division of the Bishopricks of Wessex, by the Rt. 
Rev. W. R. Brownlow, D.D., Bishop of Clifton, is the subject of a paper 
of 9 pp. in the Proceedings of the Somerset Archeological and Natural 
History Society, vol. 44, 1898. It deals specially with the new light 
thrown on the subject by the publication in 1895, amongst the ‘‘ Early 
Charters” in the Crawford Collection in the Bodleian, of a letter of St. 
Dunstan, which has hitherto been entirely unknown, and which proves 
that the account of the division of the Wessex Bishopricks, as given by 
William of Malmesbury, was known in the time of St. Dunstan. 
The North Staffordshire Field Club spent from June 15th 
to 20th, 1899, in Wiltshire--four days at Marlborough, and two at 
Salisbury. Their excursions were to Avebury and Tan Hill, Ramsbury, 
and Aldbourne, Savernake and Great Bedwyn, Amesbury and Stonehenge. 
An account of the excursions appears in the Staffordshire Advertiser, 
June 24th, 1899. 
Avebury, Silbury, and Marlborough. The visit of the 
Newbury Field Club, on Sept. 13th, 1899, is described in the Newbury 
Weekly News, Sept. 21st, 1889. 
Wilts Horticultural Society. A letter by W. A. Wheeler in 
the Salisbury Journal, Aug. 26th, 1899, gives some account of the history 
of this society, which was founded in 1830 at Salisbury as ‘‘ The Wilts 
and General Arboricultural, Horticultural, and Botanical Society,” under 
the presidency of Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., of Boyton. 
Wilton House. A full and interesting account of the arguments on 
both sides in connection with Lord Pembroke’s appeal against the 
assessment committee of Wilton Union in the matter of the rating of 
Wilton House and Park is given the Wilts County Mirror, Oct. 20th, 1899. 
The Effigies at Figheldean Church. The Rev. C. S. Ruddle, 
writing in the Devizes Gazette, Aug. 31st, 1899, says :—‘‘ I doubt whether 
the tradition that the effigies came from between Brigmerston and 
Syrencot is correct. It is probable that they came from a Chantry 
Chapel at Alton, a manor in Figheldean south of the river. It was under 
Amesbury Abbey at the time of Pope Nicholas’ Taxation. In 1552 the 
incumbent had clear £8 13s.4d.; and the Vicar of Figheldean had 40s. 
that he should minister the sacraments to the inhabitants of Alton. But — 
in Queen Elizabeth’s time a long lawsuit ‘‘ concerning an old ruinous chapel 
