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The Gentleman's Magazine Library. English 

 Topography Part XIII. (Warwickshire, West- 

 moreland, and Wiltshire.) Edited by F.A.Milne. London: 

 Elliot Stock. 1901. 8vo., pp. xii., 388. Price Is. 6d. The Wiltshire 

 portion occupies pages 167 — 352. All manner of subjects are dealt with 

 in these pages, which contain a mass of " fine confused reading," a good 

 deal of which has, however, been absorbed into later works on Wiltshire 

 subjects. Amongst the Churches dealt with are The Deverills, Minety, 

 Hankerton, Crudwell, Charlton, Oaksey, Britford, Mere, Teffont Ewias, 

 Stourton, Stratford-sub-Castle, South Wraxall, and at Salisbury, St. 

 Martin's, St. Edmund's, and St. Thomas'. Mural paintings discovered at 

 Ditteridge, Great Bedwyn, and Wootton Bassett are noted. There are good 

 articles and notes on Bremhill Vicarage, and its garden seats, hermitage, 

 &c. — Littlecote and its Legend — Longleat — Chapel Plaster in 1835 — The 

 Tombstone of Ilbert de Chaz discovered at Monkton Farleigh in the floor 

 of the Priory Church — Maiden Bradley Nunnery — Edington — Fonthill 

 Abbey— Great Chalfield — South Wraxall — Stanley Abbey — Old Sarum, 

 subterranean passage, and the plan of the Cathedral — Malmosbury Abbey 

 — A Petition from "certaine freeholders of Malmesbury," &c., complaining 

 of the exactions and irregularities of the Parliamentarian garrison in 

 1643 — The ancient Corporation of Malmesbury — The Painted Glass in 

 Crudwell Church— A Brief for the Eestoration of Malmesbury Abbey, 

 1788 — Salisbury Cathedral, Wyatt's Alterations, Bp. Wyvil's Brass, &c. — 

 The story of the erection of a cross in Salisbury by Lawrence de St. 

 Martino — and the Chapter House Table and Seat before the " Restoration" 

 of the former. 



Other subjects touched on are the discovery of a gold and other coins 

 at Norton, and of a gold ring with the Burley arms at Potterne. 



Many things that have since disappeared are here described, such as 

 the old Manor House at West Dean, Screen in Bremhill Church, and 

 the Hall at Great Chalfield. 



The Plague at Urchfont — King .John's House at Tollard Royal— An 

 Old House at Whiteparish — The Plague at Urchfont — The Duke's Vaunt 

 Oak (in 1802) — Berwick St. Leonard House — Roman Pavement at Box 

 — Bradenstoke Abbey — Kings wood Abbey, and Glass in Church Windows 

 — Kington St. Michael Priory — Downton Old Court House— Charity at 

 Devizes. Information as to all these subjects is to be found in this 

 entevtSLiniag '^omnium ffafheriiDi" oi notes contributed to the Gentleman's 

 Magazine and buried in that voluminous publication until their disinter- 

 ment and publication for our benefit in this convenient form. 



[IStoriC Spots in Wiltshire. With engravings. West Wilts 

 Printing Co., Trowbridge. Price 3.s. &d. [1901.] Cloth, 8vo., pp. 146. 

 The illustrations consist of process plates of medium quality — some 

 better than others — of AVestbury White Horse — Farleigh Castle — 

 Malmesbury Abbey, Westbury Church — Edington Church — Lacock 

 Abbey (from a print) — Devizes Castle — Salisbury Cathedral — Corsham 



