Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 177 
The illustrations comprise :—Portraits of Bishop Shute Barrington and 
of Will. Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, from prints, the former an 
admirable reproduction of a mezzotint; three sketches of the present 
buildings by J. A. Reeve; Effigy of Will. Longespee, from a print (poor) ; 
io seals of Ela, Countess of Salisbury (poor) ; coloured reproduction of 
encaustic tiles ; Plan in 1245; Rough plan by E. Hickman; Plan from the 
Ordnance Survey ; Views of the Chapels of St. John the Baptist, of the 
Hospital, and of the College de Vaux (from an etching by R. Benson 
1826); View from the garden ; Group of brethren and sisters; Fac simile 
of Royal charter; Seals of the hospital; a Canon regular de Valle 
Scholarium in Champagne; and apparently inserted as an afterthought 
a most admirable collotype of the original profession of canonical 
obedience made by Ela, Countess of Salisbury to Bishop Bingham, 
in 1240. 
Altogether a very valuable addition to the books of Wiltshire. 
A long review in Salisbury Journal, Aug. 22nd, and one in Salisbury 
Diocesan Gazette, November, 1903, by C. H. M. 
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St. Aldhelm, his Life and Times. Lectures de- 
livered in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, Lent, 
1902, by the Right Rev. G. F. Browne, D.D., 
D.L.C.L., F.S.A., Bishop of Bristol. 5S.P.C.K.: London. 
1903. 7 x 43. Cloth, pp. 366. Price 5s. 
The illustrations, twenty-two in number, mostly from photographs, 
include the following connected with the County of Wilts :—Malmesbury 
Abbey in 1903 (showing the restored S.W. bay)—Ditto in 1900, North 
and South Views and interior—The Saxon Church at Bradford—Aldhelm, 
Hildelyth and the nuns of Barking—and the Pre-Norman Stones at 
Ramsbury, Bradford (2), Colerne, and Littleton Drew. 
Beginning with the connection of the See of Bristol with St. Aldhelm 
and the history of the see itself, the author discusses the authorities for 
Aldhelm’s life, and takes William of Malmesbury’s ‘‘ Gesta Pontificum,” 
in the manuscript of which in the Library of Magdalen College, Oxford, 
is included the Life of Aldhelm, as the authority whom he follows in 
detail throughout the book. He then passes on to the early history of 
Malmesbury, and sets forth the view which he has supported in this 
Magazine that Malmesbury continued the easternmost stronghold of the 
Dumnonian Britons right up into Saxon times after the Battle of Deorham 
in 577 A.D., and that the Britons who with the Hwiccas fought the 
Battle of Wanborough against the Saxons of Wessex were the Britons 
of the Malmesbury district, and that it was they, and not the Britons 
of Wales, who met Augustine at their first meeting. He suggests that 
the Irish teacher Maildulbh, who settled at Malmesbury, may have been 
one of Carthach’s followers, who were turned out of the great monastic 
school founded by him at Rahan, in Meath. 
He discusses at some length the derivation of the name Malmesbury. 
“In its earliest forms,” he says, ‘‘ the name is clearly derived from the 


