418 fiecent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
Wolfhall and Tottenham, the Homes of the Sey- 
mour and the Bruce, by W. Maurice Adams (&c., as above). & 
N.D. Pp. 55. 5 
The Battle of Bedwyn, A.D. 675, by W. Maurice Adams 
(&e., as above). N.D. Pp. 15. + 
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The above three articles are bound up together in a pretty red cloth 
cover, lettered ‘‘Savernake, Wolfhall, Tottenham, and the Battle of 
Bedwyn.” 7 xX 43. 
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The whole seems to be largely compiled from Canon Jackson’s papers 
in this Magazine, as indeed is stated in the preface. The opening © 
chapters deal with the former extent of the forest and of the other forests 
of Wiltshire, with a simple statement of the nature of forests and of 
forest law, &c. 
The history of its grant to the Esturmys of Wolfhall as hereditary 
bailiffs and wardens of the forest and its passage from them to the 
Seymours and the Bruces is touched on. The celebrated silver-mounted 
ivory tenure horn is described somewhat fully, and illustrated with a 
couple of pages of sketches. 
The extended boundaries of the forest comprising many places from 
Shalbourne to Huish and Oare now far from its limits, in the time of 
King John are given, and the Perambulations of the Bailiwicks of East- 
wick or La Verne, of Bedwin or Westrigg, and of Hippingscombe, in 
1300 are printed at length. 
The connection of Henry VIII. with the neighbourhood is touched on, 
and the destruction of King Henry’s Summer House is noted. A good 
account is given of the ‘‘Duke’s Vaunt” Oak, from the Gentleman’s 
Magazine in 1802, with sketches of its condition in 1802 and 1893, and 
other notable trees are mentioned. The great avenue of beeches is said 
to have been planted by Charles, third Earl of Ailesbury, in 1723. The 
column and Savernake Lodge, or ‘‘ The Ruins,” have as much said about 
them as is necessary. 
Wansdyke, the Roman Road over Crofton Hill, and near Tottenham _ 
House, with the villa discovered within 100 yards of the latter, are 
touched on. 
In the Wolfhall section Canon Jackson is again laid largely under 
contribution. The derivation of the name, its owner at the time of 
Domesday, Richard de Esturmy, its subsequent descent to Sir John 
Seymour, and the marriage of his daughter Jane to Henry VIII., and 
the use of the great barn for the festivities on the occasion and on a 
subsequent visit of the King after the death of Jane Seymour, fill twenty- 
eight pages very pleasantly. 
A note follows on the proposed palace and park which the Protector, 
Duke of Somerset, proposed to build and lay out at Dodsdown, two or 
three miles from Wolfhall, a project prevented by his fall and execution. 
Tottenham House, in the time of Henry VIII. known as “‘ Tottenham 
Lodge,” between 1575 and 1582 was considerably enlarged, and again 

