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Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
and South-East, showing Ruins of South Transept; as well as a Ground- 
plan by Mr. Brakspear. The Bishop of Bristol contributes a short— 
account of town and abbey, and Mr. H. Brakspear writes a good archi- 
tectural account of the building. Mr. F. Were gives an interesting note 
on the heraldry, maintaining that the royal arms on the screen (now 
the reredos) are the early supporters of Henry VIII. and not those of — 
Henry VII., as has been generally stated, the supporters being the 
hound as the dexter and the dragon as the sinister supporter. (In — 
Henry the Seventh’s case their positions were reversed.) Amongst the 
badges on the screen is the pomegranate of Katherine of Arragon. 
Sherston was also visited on the same occasion; and the account of it 
occupies pp. 16—26 in the Zransactions. There are process illustrations 
of the Church, South Side; the Rattlebone Figure; five Corbel Heads in’ 
the Church; and ‘‘ Rattlebones’ Chest.” The notes on the history of 
the place and of the Church are good, the architecture of the latter being 
fully and carefully described. No fresh light seems to have been thrown 
on the date of the Rattlebone figure, Mr. St. Clair Baddeley, however, 
expressed the opinion that it was not of Pre-Norman date, though 
perhaps of the eleventh century. 
Old Wiltshire Crimes. The Wiltshire Advertiser, January 28th, 
1904, gives an account of the hanging of four men for sheep stealing, 
two for horse stealing, and one for highway robbery at the Lent assizes 
of 1801. At the summer assizes of the same year three men were hanged - 
for sheep stealing and one for stealing a calf. Others were hanged for 
like offences in 1802 and 1808, and in the latter year Thomas Hilliker 
was hanged for leading an attack on Littleton cloth mill in Steeple 
Ashton and burning it at the time of the riots against the introduction of 
machinery in cloth making. (Wilts Advertiser, Feb. 4th, 1904.) Many 
other executions for horse and cattle stealing and highway robbery in 
1804, 1805, 1806, were mentioned in the issues of Feb. 18th and May 5th 
1904. That of April 7th contains the story of the execution at Warminster 
Common on the 15th March, 1813, of George Carpenter and George 
Ruddock for the murder of Mr. Webb and Mary Gibbons, his servant, | 
at Roddenbury, and of the extraordinary procession to the place of : 
execution, consisting of detachments of the yeomanry, two thousand 
peace officers and gentlemen on foot with white wands, the magistrates’ 
of the division, and one hundred gentlemen on horseback, the minister 
of Warminster, &c., &c., &e. 
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Bowood. “The Guitar Player Surprised,” by Watteau, from the Marquis _ 
of Lansdowne’s collection, was sold at Christie’s on March 26th, 1904, 
to Messrs. Lawrie & Co., for 2400 guineas. Times; Devizes Gaselte 
March 81st, 1904. oo 
Charity Enquiries. Chippenham, Devizes Gazette, March 31st, 1904. — 
Bishopstone (North Wilts), Little Hinton, Lyddington, Wanborough, — 
