360 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



the statement that the glass in the east window is " beyond description," 

 a fact which, unfortunatelj', their own eyes as a rule will tell them without 

 a reference to the guide. For after all, in certainly 50 per cent, of the 

 village Churches there is something or other which even the cyclist might 

 profitably stop and see. We expect and we get such information in 

 Baedeker and Murray abroad, why should we not have it in Murray and 

 Baddeley at home ? 



For instance, some of the earliest and most interesting Saxon work in 

 the county, that at Britford and Avebury Churches, is not so much as 



mentioned. At Wilton House Holbein's Porch is spoken of as though 



it was still part of the house. Warminster Church as it now exists was 



hardly "re-built early in the last century." Stonehenge is treated 



fairly fully, but the bosses which secure the lintels to the uprights are 



not upon the former. Nor can Silbury Hill be said to be "supposed 



to be of Roman origin." There are two curious bits of botanical in- 

 formation given, first that a fine specimen of " Pica Phisapa " {sic) is a 

 feature of Stourhead, and secondly that one of the most interesting things 

 at Wardour Castle is an Iron Wood Tree " a tree of species belonging to 

 several different genera" (sic). It is a pity that such blemishes should 

 occur in a guide likely to be so popular. We draw attention to them in 

 the hope that in a future edition they may be modified. By the way, at 

 Salisbury " the Bishop, the Dean, and other Dignitaries of the Cathedral " 

 will be rather astonished to hear that they all live together in the 

 episcopal palace. 



The Wiltshire maps and plans are : — A general map, showing the 

 whole district covered by the book ; — Bath, Bristol, Chippenham, Trow- 

 bridge; — Wells, Cheddar, Frome, Warminster; — Stourton, Fonthill, 

 Wardour Castle and Surroundings; the three last folding maps with 

 the heights given in different colours, all to the scale of a half-inch to 

 the mile ; — a plan of Salisbury, and another of the Cathedral. 



Reviewed Salisbury Journal, March ISth, 1902. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries. No. 37, March, 1902. 



The number begins with a slight paper by F. H. Fulford on Bradenstoke 

 Priory, with a good photo of the S. side, and a pen-and-ink sketch of the 

 north. The Records of Bratton — Quaker Birth Records — and a Calendar 

 of Feet of Fines are continued from previous numbers — and Mr. Talbot's 

 assault on Mr. Kite's position with regard to the knotty question of 

 Amesbury Church is also continued and concluded. Mr. Talbot goes 

 minutely into the various points at issue, arguing that the fact of the 

 monastery belonging to the Gilbertine order, in which monks and nuns 

 occupied the same establishment, accounts for the "great wall that was 

 partition of the mid choir," which he contends did not divide the monastic 

 choir from the Parish Church in the nave, but possibly divided the monks' 

 portion of the Church from that of the nuns. — A series of briefs from 

 Stapleford Church Books — Notes on the Francombe family of N. Wilts — 

 On the Chapel of St. Modwen at Corton, alias Cortington, in the parish 

 of Boyton — on the History of Wroughton — and other matters, complete 

 the number. 



