182 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
here, and a new departure is made by printing lists of Lepidoptera and 
plants, collected respectively by Messrs. E. Cook and T. F. Dunston in 
the county outside the Marlborough district. 
Wilts Notes and Queries, No. 42, June, 1903. 
An excellent photo of Place House, Melksham, taken in 1864, just 
before its destruction, accompanies the beginning of a paper by Mr. Kite 
on Place House and its Owners. The manor and hundred of Melksham, 
given by Henry III. to the Priory of Amesbury, were five years after 
the dissolution conveyed by Giles Gore, Gent., and Elizabeth, his wife, 
to Henry Brouncker, Esq. Mr. Kite gives a number of notices of mem- 
bers of this family from Lawrence Brounker, who appears at Chippenham 
in 1878; Robert, who had property at Devizes, Bishops Cannings, 
Southbroom, Keevil, Seend, and Calne, in 1515—1534; his son, Henry, 
who owned property at Bupton and Thornhill, in Clyfle Pypard, 
1535, and later lands at Melksham, Whitley, Shaw, Benacre, Seend, 
Orcheston St. Mary, Tilshead, Potterne, Marston, Steeple Ashton, and 
Devizes, for which latter place he was.M.P. He also owned Earlstoke 
and was Sheriff of Wilts in 1558. His son, William Brouncker, sheriff 
in 1580, M.P. for Wilts, 1586, was knighted. His son, Henry Brounker, 
parted with the estate. Mr. Kite gives a pedigree showing the connection 
of Brouncker with Dauntsey, of West Lavington, and Jennings, of 
Co. Somerset. A branch of the Selfe family, of Benacre, became 
owners of Place House. The will of Isaac Selfe, Sen., who died 
in 1656, is here printed, and a plan of the surroundings of Place House 
in 1734 and a drawing of the coat of arms formerly over a doorway in 
the garden, are given here. Bratton Records, Quaker Birth Records, 
and a Calendar of Feet of Fines are continued. Notes on the Purton 
Enclosure Acts—A Shield of Arms in Westwood Church, a letter from 
Adam Gouldney, of Chippenham, to George Fox, the founder of 
Quakerism, and an interesting series of briefs from the Baverstock 
registers, are the most important remaining items in the number. 
On the Jurassic Strata cut through by the South 
Wales Direct Line between Filton and Wootton 
Bassett. By Prof. Sidney Hugh Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S., and 
Arthur Vaughan, Esq., B.A., B.Se., F.G.S. Pp. 719—752. Vol. lviii. 
of The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Nov., 29th, 1902. 
This is an important paper, but only the last half-dozen pages are 
concerned with that portion of the new line which lies within the County 
of Wilts. This cuts through the Forest Marble, and Cornbrash, and the 
Oxford Clay and Corallian formations. Sections of the Forest Marble, 
east and west of Alderton Tunnel are described. This formation extends 
as far west as Bradfield, in Hullavington, half-a-mile beyond which the 
Cornbrash first appears. A list of the fossils obtained from this latter 
formation is given. The Oxford Clay extends from Kingway Barn to 
Wootton Bassett, where the Corallian appears. A section of this latter 
is described, and a list of the fossils found in the Oxford Clay is given. 
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