Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 79 
Hospitals, Benefactors, Celebrities, &c.’’ Compiled by Edward Slow. 
Price, 2s. 6d. net. Wilton: Edward Slow. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards. 
Wilton: The Wilton Printing Works, North Street. Cr. 8vo, cloth 
[1903], pp. 150. 
The actual ‘‘ Chronology” of this little book occupies pages 10 to 43, 
of which 17 to 43 are concerned with events from 1800 down to the 
present time and the remaining seven suffice for all previous centuries. 
For the earlier history the author does not profess to have gone beyond 
Hoare, Britton, and the Wilts Archeological Magazine. Even in later 
years the list of events often includes only one or two items in each year, 
and many of these are events of general as well as local interest. The 
greater part of the information is contained in the lists and short accounts 
of various things connected with the town which fill the body of 
the book. These begin with a list of the ‘‘ Bishops of Wilton,” 
taken from Hoare, though, by persons who have not the good 
fortune to live at Wilton, the Bishops from Athelstan, in 909, to 
Hermann, 1045, are commonly known as Bishops of Ramsbury, and 
Mr. Slow forgets, apparently, that Berkshire, as well as Wilts, was still 
included in the diocese. 
A useful annotated list of Abbesses of Wilton, taken from Mr. 
Nightingale’s papers in this wis eh follows, with the list of nuns at 
‘the time of the dissolution. 
Next follow notices (taken from Hoare) of the ancient Churches of the 
place, and a list of the Rectors. A list of the charters, with that of 
Queen Victoria printed in full. An account of the Corporation Plate and 
Seals, taken from this Magazine. Wilton Trade Tokens. A valuable and 
fairly complete list of the Mayors from 1282 onwards, drawn up by the late 
H. J. F.Swayne. List of M.P.s. Charitable Benefactions (from Modern 
Wilts), and a short notice of the ancient hospitals. The ten pages devoted 
to the notices of thirty-three ‘‘ Worthies” are very useful, as well as the 
notices of members of the Pembroke family which follow. The account 
of the Wilton Carpet Factory is from this Magazine. The principal 
_ buildings and objects of interest are noticed, and the boundaries of the 
borough are given, this latter a very useful idea. The book ends with 
“Walks and Places of Interest in the Neighbourhood,” and the Sermon 
preached in Wilton Church by the Bishop of Salisbury on Sept. 19th, 1900, 
the 800th anniversary of the charter granted by Hen. I. This latter is 
printed at length. 
Altogether the work is an unassuming little book with a great deal of 
‘information within its neat binding, and Mr. Slow as a rule most com- 
-mendably gives the source from which he draws his matter, but why did 
he and his printer allow quite so many misprints to pass uncorrected ? 
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¢ isbury Theological College. By the Rev. Rocksborough 
RR. Smith, Vice Principal. An excellent article in The Treasury, May, 
19038, Vol. I., pp. 688—692. The foundation of the college by Bishop 
- Hamilton in 1861, largely through the anonymous gift of a layman who 
was supposed to be Mr. Henry Hoare, the completion of the buildings 
