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Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
says: ‘Unless our historical experts shall find some other way of 
explaining Clarendon’s suggestion, or prove it to be wholly unfounded, 
we must own that Cromwell is left standing at the bar with a very ugly 
case against him. Clarendon’s direct assertion that Cromwell was privy 
to all that was going on throws freshlight . . . andlends additional 
force and new probability to the inferences which Sir Reginald draws 
from them.” 
The Dialect of Pewsey (Wiltshire), by John Kjederquist, 
Ph. D., Docent in the University of Lund. Printed for the Philological 
Society by Stephen Austin & Sons, Hertford. 1902. S8vo, wrappers, 
pp: 60. 
This is a highly important study of the dialect of Wiltshire. Dr. 
Kjederquist selecting Pewsey as the likeliest neighbourhood in which to 
study the central or typical phase of the Wiltshire tongue, came from 
Sweden and settled down there for some weeks with the object of 
mastering the pronunciation and sound-system of the dialect, and spent 
his whole time in conversing with the natives and scientifically noticing 
the exact means by which their pronunciation was produced. The 
headings of the chapters will give some idea of the contents of the paper : 
Pronunciation.—The Consonants.—The Middle and Old English Equiva- 
lents of the Pewsey Vowels in Accented Syllables.—The Vowels of 
Accented Syllables. Of his method of procedure the author says: ‘‘ To 
obtain a general view of the sound-system of the dialect, I took pains to 
examine the pronunciation of speakers of various ages, For that purpose 
I visited old people whom I knew to be natives of the place, and spent 
many hours with the old men in Pewsey Union. Then at the National 
Schools, especially those of Pewsey and Oare, but also those of Great 
Bedwyn, Woodborough, and Upavon, I had the worst speakers among 
the children—for my purpose, however, the best—put at my disposal.” 
‘* My chief helper was a middle-aged workman, John Cripps.”’ The result 
is seen in these 60 pages crammed with observations and the equivalents 
in ‘‘Glossic” of Wiltshire words and sounds. It is, however, right to 
say that the paper is not written for the vulgar, and that unless you are 
already an expert philologist and a master of ‘‘ Glossic,” you will derive 
exceedingly little information from its pages. 







Wiltshire Notes and Queries. No. 39, Sept., 1902. 
The editor begins an article on ‘‘ Paul Bush, the last Rector of Edington 
and first Bishop of Bristol,” with an excellent reproduction of 
the portrait now hanging in the Bishop’s Palace, at Bristol. It is, 
however, doubtful whether this really represents Bush at all, as the ~ 
person depicted wears the robes of the Garter, and there is no evidence 
that Bishop Bush ever had anything to do with the order. His surrender 
of Edington Monastery is printed in full with a cut of the seal, and his 
will is also given at length. Bratton Records include a number of 
wbstracts of Whitaker wills. Quaker Birth Records are continued, also A 
Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire, and Notes on the name ‘‘ Painter ” 
