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[N.B. — This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive. The Editor 

 appeals to all authors and publishers of pamphlets, books, or views in any 

 way connected with the county to send him copies of their works, and to 

 editors of papers and members of the Society generally to send him 

 copies of articles, views, or portraits, appearing in the newspapers.] 



Charters and Records of Neales of Berkeley, Tate, 

 and Corsham,by John Alexander Neale. Printed 

 for private circulation. 1906. lo^in. x v^in. pp. 263, 



with 2 pp. of contents. 



The introduction to this excellently printed work tells us that its 

 contents are arranged under three heads, the first containing Neales 

 previous to their recorded settlement at Yate, covering a period from 

 1100 to 1500, for particulars of whom recourse has been chiefly had to 

 the muniments of Berkeley Castle ; the second containing Neales of 

 Yate from 1500 to the present time ; the third containing Neales of 

 Corsham and Shaw, Wilts, from 1700 to the present time. 



The earliest name in these lists is that of Nigellus filius Arthuri, who 

 married Aldena, daughter of Robert Fitzharding, first Lord of Berkeley 

 iem2}. Stephen. Of these early Neales the most distinguished was 

 Friar John Neale, Master of the House of St. Thomas of Aeon, 1428 — 

 1463. A list of other Neales mentioned in the Berkeley muniments is 

 given, but their relationships are problematical. 



Of the Wiltshire Neales, Eobert, born 1682, at Yate, who settled as a 

 clothier at Corsham, about 1700, was the first. His son, Eobert, b. 1706, 

 married Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Smith, builder of Shaw House, 

 Melksham, aud sat as M.P. for Wootton Bassett. Mrs. Neale, on the 

 death of her brother, John Smith, succeeded to the Shaw House estate, 

 which thus passed to the Neales. Their daughter, Grace Elizabeth, 

 married Sir Henry Burrard (Neale), of Walhampton, and both the 

 Corsham House and Shaw House were let as private schools. 



Pages 169 — 208 are taken up with extracts from the Diary of Thomas 

 Smith, of Shaw House, 1721 — 1723, recording his rides, visits, and 

 visitors, in which mention is made incidentally of a great number of the 

 Wiltshire residents of those days. 



Pedigrees of the descendants of William and Edith Neale, of Yate, cir. 

 1500, and of those of Robert Neale, of Yate, b. 1617, are given. 



