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three columns, the two outermost containing Beauchamp above Nevill 
and Monthermer over Despencer respectively, while the middle column 
has Newburgh between Montagu and Clare. 
Salisbury Cathedral. ‘Notes on the Montagu Monument in 
Salisbury Cathedral”; by the Rev. E. E. Dorling. Three pages, two 
illustrations. The Ancestor, No. 6, July, 1903. 
A short article, illustrated by two phototype views of the altar-tomb of 
Sir John Montagu, second son of William, first Earl of Salisbury of the 
1387 creation, and father of John, the third Earl. The tomb, with its 
recumbent effigy of the knight and the series of Montagu coats which 
afford most important evidence of the armorial practice of the fourteenth 
century are minutely described. 
Maiden Bradley. “Historical Notes on Maiden Bradley and the 
Neighbourhood,” beginning in the Wilts County Mirror of Jan. 8th, 
1904, and continued on January 15th, 22nd, and 29th, February 5th, 
12th, and 26th, March 4th, 18th, and 25th, April 8th and 29th, and May 
13th. 
The geology and water supply of the neighbourhood is first treated at 
length, with the knowledge of an expert (a rare thing in articles in local 
papers). The writer then attacks the far more debatable subject of the 
derivation of the word ‘‘ Maiden.” He begins by saying that it is the 
only example of its use in the County of Wilts, and that it occurs for 
the first time in the hundred rolls in 1273, and then goes at great length 
into the various derivations that have been proposed: (a) the Celtic 
*“maen ”’—(b) the derivation from Margaret, d. of Manasser Biset, the 
founder of the hospital, and herself a benefactress to it in 1210—(c) the 
derivation from the B.V.M. the dedication of the chapel of the priory 
having been to SS. Mary and Lazarus—(d) the derivation lately advo- 
cated in the Antiquary from the “ Leprous Maidens” of the hospital. 
The author discusses the arguments in each case, and gives a great 
number of the earliest references to the place from the public records 
and Reports of the Historical MSS. Commission, maintaining that its 
earliest use was by the priory alone, and was applied only to the property 
of the priory. He then proceeds to elaborate his own derivation. The 
field names are dealt with at some length, and the ancient fairs on May 
6th and Oct. 2nd are described and what is known of their history is 
told. In this connection the game of ‘‘ Bumball Poopey,” as played at 
some of the inns, is described—a form of skittles in which the ball was 
suspended from the ceiling and swung round at the end of its rope. 
Imesbury Abbey was visited by the Bristol and Gloucestershire 
Archeological Society on May 25th, 1903, and the account of the ex- 
cursion is fully given in their Z'ransactions for 1903, vol. xxvi., 1—16, with 
‘process views of the North Side; North Doorway; South Porch; 
Easternmost Clerestory Window, South Side; Interior, South Side ; 
