248 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamiylilets, and Articles. 



found. At the dissolution mention is made of the " Old Infirmai-y with 

 the Chapel, Cloister, and Lodgings adjoining," and this Mr. Kite believes 

 to have been the building of which these walls and rooms formed part. 

 Records connected with Bratton — a Calendar of Feet of Fines— Quaker 

 Birth Records— Some Notes on the Delamere family and their Chantry at 

 Market Lavington — ai-e continued. Notes on Field Names in Melksham — 

 The Boundaries of Ellendune — and Wiltshire Arms in 1716 complete the 

 number. 



Ditto, No. 35, Sept., 1901. 



This number opens with an important paper by Rainald W. K. Goddard 

 on " Goddard of Englesham — a New England Branch." William, citizen 

 and grocer of London, seventh son of Edward and Prisciila Goddard, of 

 Englesham [Inglesham], Wilts, emigrated to America in 1665, and there 

 founded the branch of the family- whose wills and epitajihs and genealogy 

 are here set forth with the concise fulness of a practised genealogist. A 

 good portrait of Benjamin Goddard, died 1861, is given as a frontispiece. 

 Bratton Records and Quaker Records are continued, and Mr. Kite begins 

 on " Judge Nicholas, his Parentage and Birthplace," showing that Judge 

 Robert Nicholas was the eldest son of John and Mary Nicholas, of Devizes, 

 and was baptised in 1595 — whereas his distant cousin and namesake, who 

 has been sometimes mistaken for him, Robert, son of Edward and Katherine 

 Nicholas, of Allcannings, was baptised in 1597. 



Ditto, No. 36, Dec, 1901. 



"Goddard of Sedgehill, Co. Wilts," is a paper dealing with a branch of 

 the family which has not before been worked out. Several wills are given, 

 and a pedigree extending from John Goddard, of Sedgehill, died 1555, to 

 his namesake and descendant, buried at Gillingham in 1695. Bratton 

 Records and Quaker Records run on. Mr. Kite gives us an account of the 

 life of Judge Nicholas himself. A " Census of Wilts in 1676 " gives the 

 returns of Conformists, Roman Catholics, and Nonconformists made by 

 request of Henry Compton, Bishop of London in that year from the majority 

 of parishes in Wilts, extracted from the MS. in the Salt Library at Stafford, 

 a valuable basis for calculating the population of the county at that 

 period. A Calendar of Feet of Fines is continued ; and Mr. Talbot 

 commences a reply to Mr. Kite's contention that the existing Church at 

 Amesburj' is that of the monastery — dwelling on the fact of the peculiarity 

 of monasteries of the order of Fontevraud, to which Amesbury belonged, 

 the mixed monastery of men and women demanding more extensive 

 buildings— perhaps two sets of conventual buildings side by side, as at 

 Watton, in Yorkshire. 



Marlborough College Natural History Society, 

 Report for the Tear ending Christmas, 1900. 



No. 49, pp. 129. 



The preface calls attention to the fact that, outside the range of this 



