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The Devizes Gazette, July 31st, and the London papers of August 1st 

 and 2nd, reported that the Et. Hon. G. J. Shaw Lefevre, as Chairman 

 of the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society, had addressed a 

 letter to the Wilts County Council, urging that the question of access 

 was one which ought to be submitted to the decision of a court of law— 

 which he thinks could be done for a sum of £600. He proposed that 

 this sum should be guaranteed by the Wilts County Council to his society, 

 which would then take up the case itself. 



The Eeport of the Eoads and Bridges Committee of the Wilts County 

 Council on the question of the alleged right of access to Stonehenge, 

 dated Aug. 5th, 1902, contains an important series of papers relating to 

 this question, including the Petition of the Amesbury Parish Council, 

 and extracts from minutes, correspondence, &c., accompanying it. 

 Transcript of shorthand notes of the proceedings at the inquiry held at 

 Salisbury on the26thMarch, 1902.— Eeports of the Hon. Percy Wyndham, 

 the Marquess of Bath, and Mr. J. M. F. Fuller, M.P.— Memorandum of 

 the Clerk of the County Council on the legal aspects of the case.— Letter 

 from the Et. Hon. G. Shaw Lefevre, Chairman of the Commons and 

 Footpaths Preservation Society, to the Chairman of the County Council, 

 and the Chairman's reply.— Three plans, (a) copy of map attached 

 to the petition of the Amesbury Parish Council ; {b) copy of County 

 Surveyor's survey of Stonehenge ; (c) tracing from Andrews and Dury's 

 Survey of Wiltshire. These plans show the position of the barbed wire 

 fence, and also of the tracks or supposed tracks which are in dispute. 



The Devizes Gazette, Aug. 7th, reports an announcement made at 

 the meeting of the County Council by the Chairman, Lord Edmond 

 Fitzmaurice, to the effect that he had received a letter from Sir Edmund 

 Antrobus, in answer to one he himself had written, which in his opinion 

 opened up a reasonable prospect of successful negociations for the 

 purchase of Stonehenge. Under the circumstances he hoped that no 

 discussion as to rights of way, &c., would take place at that meeting. 

 The council readily agreed to this course, and the matter was not further 

 discussed. 



The Wilts County Mirror, Aug. 8th, reprinted a letter to the Times 

 from Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, setting forth the facts, first of the very 

 wide divergence of opinion on the matter of the enclosure, which would 

 render it difficult for the County Council to act in the matter, and 

 secondly, that all expenses of litigation would eventually have to be 

 recovered from the Amesbury Eural Council district. He strongly 

 deprecates any idea of hasty litigation, until, at all events, all attempts 

 to settle the matter by the purchase of Stonehenge have definitely failed. 



The Wilts County Mirror, Aug. 15th, printed a letter from Mr. 

 Lawrence W. Chubb, of the Commons and Footpaths Preservation 

 Society, controverting Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice's statement as to 

 the price originally asked by Sir Edmund Antrobus. 



