254 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



Flinders Petrie to the Clerk of the County Council, upholding^ the rights 

 of access, is printed in Devizes Gazette, Nov. 14th, 1901. A formal appeal 

 addressed to the County Council, to enforce the removal of the enclosing 

 barbed wire, from the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society, the 

 National Trust, the Kyrle Society, and Professors Flinders Petrie, Percy 

 Gardiner, Martin Conway, and othei-s, appeared in the Times, Devizes 

 Gazette, Nov. 21st, and Wilts County Mirror, Nov. 22nd, 1901. The 

 Manchester Guardian, Dec. 27th, 1901, published a long article, reprinted 

 in Salisbury Journal, Jan. 4th, 1902, by Canon Rawnsley, entitled "The 

 Disenchantment of Stonehenge," strongly protesting against the enclosure. 

 The Parish Council of Amesbury moved in the matter, petitioning the 

 District Council to enforce the removal of the enclosure. The District 

 Council, however, expressing themselves satisfied with the removal of the 

 obstructions to the admitted rights of way through the vallum, and close 

 to (but not within) the stone circle, declined to take any further steps 

 {Devizes Gazette, Jan, 30th, 1902). The Parish Council then petitioned 

 the County Council, who appointed three of their members to enquire and 

 report. On March 26th, 1902, The Hon. Percy Wyndham, The Marquis of 

 Bath, and Mr. J. M. F. Fuller, M.P., conducted on behalf of the County 

 Council an enquiry at Salisbury, at which the petition of the Parish Council 

 was read, and the Rt. Honble. G. J. Shaw Lefevre appeared on behalf of 

 the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society, the National Trust, and 

 the Kyrle Society. Full reports of the proceedings at this enquiry appeared 

 in the Salisbury Journal, March 29th, and Wilts County Mirror, March 

 28th, 1902, and condensed reports in Devizes Gazette, and other papers. 

 The Times, April 15th, 1902, bad an article in reference to this enquiry, 

 urging that the question should be carried by the County Council to a court 

 of law and decided authoritatively. The three members of the commission 

 appointed by the County Council each drew up separate reports of the 

 enquiry, two of them expressing the opinion that there was no right of way 

 to the monument, which were printed in full in Devizes Gazette, April 24th, 

 followed by an article in the issue of May 1st, deprecating further action by 

 the County Council. 



The County Council, February 19th, 1902, passed a resolution recom- 

 mending the acquisition of Stonehenge as a National Monument by the 

 Treasury, {Devizes Gazette,, Feb. 13th : Wilts County Mirror, Feb. 

 21st, 1902. 



Sir J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., writing in Nature, reprinted in Devizes 

 Gazette, May 22nd, 1902, defends the enclosure of the monument, and 

 highly eulogises the persistent eiforts of the Wilts Archteological Society 

 for its preservation. 



Calendar of Enclosure Awards deposited at the County 



Record Room, at Devizes, compiled by the Clerk of the Peace. Price 1*. 

 Clerk of the Peace Office, Marlborough, Wilts. 1900. 4to, pp. 15. The 

 awards catalogued here jnumber some one hundred and eighty-seven. 

 The thanks of all interested in local history are due to the compiler for 

 this very useful list. 



