Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 421 
Bishop Hallam’s tomb at Constance shows that it was in ordinary use 
in 1416, and on the seals of the Bishops of Salisbury it occurs as early 
as 1330. A.S.M.’s note on John Noyes, of Calne, gives further letters, 
one of them dealing with the precautions to be observed during the 
prevalence of the plague at Calne. A note on the Wrottesley family in 
Wiltshire, in a review of a paper in the Genealogist, and another on the 
Dukes of Somerset in the Complete Peerage end the number. 
Ditto, No. 26, June, 1904. Mr. Edward Kite concludes his 
paper on Place House, Melksham, and its owners, giving the will of 
Jacob Selfe, of Melksham, proved 1735, in full. Of other matters that 
have been running in previous numbers Erchfont Records, Quaker 
Birth Records, and Feet of Fines for Wiltshire, and John Noyes, of 
Calne, are continued. Canon Wordsworth describes and illustrates 
‘‘wigcurlers” found at Marlborough. The abstract of the will of Thomas 
Jacob, of Wootton Bassett, 1644, is accompanied by a pedigree of Jacob, 
of the Rocks, near Bath, of Norton near Malmesbury, and of Tockenham, 
compiled by the late Canon Jackson; the beginning of a list of 
funeral armour still remaining or known to have existed in Wiltshire 
Churches, by Mr. Kite, is the most important of the remaining notes. 
An illustration of the Brass of Anne Still in Hadleigh Church, Suffolk, 
is given. 
Nelson Relics and Relic Hunters. By Horatio, Third 
Earl Nelson. Article in Windsor Magazine, October, 1904, pp. 513— 
521. Lord Nelson begins by demolishing the claims of the plaster 
death mask of Nelson, exhibited at the Royal Naval exhibition at Chelsea 
in 1891, to authenticity, and then passes on to describe certain relics 
now at Trafalgar. He explains that by inheritance he came into pos- 
sesion of very few articles connected with the great admiral, as the 
family heirlooms were, contrary to expectation, left by William, Earl 
Nelson, to his daughter, Lady Bridport, and were eventually sold by 
auction by her son, when many-of them were bought for £3000 by Mr. 
T. A. Mullens, and presented to the nation. Lord Nelson describes in 
some detail the various articles now in his possession, and gives the 
history and pedigree of each one of them, and the means by which he 
became possessed of them. There are ten good process illustrations :— 
“ Silyer-mounted dirk given by Cardinal York to Captain Nelson, H.M.S. 
Agammemon.’—‘‘ Merton Abbey: Sir William Hamilton fishing in the 
canal, and Lady Hamilton with Charlotte Nelson (afterwards Lady 
Bridport) and the second Lord Nelson.’’—*‘ Portrait Sketch of Lady 
Hamilton, by Romney.”—Nelson explaining his plan of attack for the 
Battle of Trafalgar.’ —‘‘ The Hall at Trafalgar House.” —‘‘ The authentic 
account of Nelson’s Death, by Sir William Beatty "(title-page of book). 
—“The Copenhagen Seal, Hamilton Locket, and Nile Medal.’—‘‘ Cup 
presented by English Merchants trading in the Levant,” &e.—‘‘ A Corner 
in the Nelson Room, with Nelson’s Armchair, Couch, Telescope, Cane, 
Tray, and Presentation Cup.”—* Overmantel showing the Signal 
‘England expects every man to do his duty,’ and Miniature of Nelson 
used in his honour at Fonthill.” 

