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Aecent Wiltshire Mooks, Pamphlets, and 
Articles. 
[N.B.—This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive, The Editor 
appeals to all authors and publishers of pamphlets, books or views in any 
way connected with the county to send him copies of their works, and to 
editors of papers and members of the Society generally to send him 
copies of articles, views, or portraits, appearing in the newspapers. | 
The Fifteenth Century Cartulary of St. Nicholas’ 
Hospital, Salisbury ,with other Records,edited by 
Chr. Wordsworth, M.A., Master of the Hospital, 
with twenty-two illustrations. Salisbury: published by Brown & Co., 
The Canal. Printed by Bennett Brothers. 1902. Cloth. 8vo. Wilts 
Record Society Series. Pp. Ixxxviii., 386. [Date on the cover, 1903.] 
Price, £1 1s. (to members of the Wilts Record Society, 15s.). 
The introductory note tells us that ‘‘ This book contains the whole of 
the fifteenth century cartulary, or old register belonging to the antient 
Hospital of St. Nicholas, in or near new Sarum, with such additions as 
were made in that book until about the year 1639. Interspersed among 
these and in part added, as a supplement to them, towards the close of 
the book are such other records as relate to the hospital, and are preserved 
in diocesan or national archives. Some also have been included which 
concern the Chapel of St. John Baptist on the Isle, the Scotist College of 
St. ‘‘ Nicholas de Vaux” (or ‘‘de Valle Scholarium ”’) and the collegiate 
Church of St. Edmund, Salisbury, which it is hardly too much to call 
daughter institutions or offshoots of St. Nicholas Hospital on Harnham 
Bridge. A brief account or kalendar (in part by no means exhaustive) 
of records belonging to the hospital has been added.” 
Pages xxi. to xxxviii. are taken up with the editor’s preface, of which 
a chronological list of events relating to the hospital from 1214 to the 
present day is an important item 
** At the close of the 12th century . . . there was no considerable 
edifice standing on the site of the city now known as Salisbury excepting 
*,* It may be worth while to note that on pages 175 and 178 in Charters of 
Robert Maskerel dealing with lands at Gerardeston (Gurston, in Broadchalke), 
the expression ‘“‘ dimidia acra in Smokfurlang, & una acra in eadem cultura, 
que vocatur la Smokacre” occurs. ‘‘ Smokeacre” also occurs in a terrier of 
the common lands of Clyffe Pypard, but no explanation has yet been forth- 
coming as to the meaning of the term.—E.H.G. 
