166 Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Pamplilets, Articles, &c. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 55, September, 



1906- Stokes family; Erchfont Records; Quaker Burials ; a List 

 of Wiltshire Portraits at Oxford ; Eyre of Wilts, with a full-page plate of 

 the Eyre arms ; Wiltshire Wills ; and Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wilts 

 are continued. There is a note on the Brass in Burghill Church, near 

 Hereford, of John A.wbrey, who married Eachel, daughter of Richard 

 Danvers, of Totun' [Tokenham] , Wilts, and was the grandfather of John 

 Aubrey the Antiquary. Extracts from the complete baronetage, vols. II. 

 — v., complete this number, in which there is a plate of the devices 

 carved on the west window of the north aisle of Seend Church. 



Ditto, No. 56, December, 1906. The number opens with a 

 note by Mr. E. Kite, with an illustration copied from an original 

 drawing by Grimm, now in the British Museum {additional M.S. 

 number 15, 547), which bears this title : " Beads and Cross found in the 

 grave of the foundress and first abbess of Lacock Nunnery, now 

 fastened to a pilaster in the cloysters, at present the courtyard. August 

 1790." These objects have long since disappeared. Erchfont Records; 

 Stokes family ; Calendar of Feet of Fines ; Wiltshire Wills ; Quaker 

 Burials and Wilts extracts from the complete baronetage are continued. 

 There is also a useful list of references to Wiltshire matters in Aubrey's 

 Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, including West Ashton maze, 

 Newnton Garland custom, Mr. Mompesson of Tidworth, &c., &c. 

 There is also a list of Wilts marriages from the registers of Somerset 

 House Chapel, 1714—1775. 



Round about Wiltshire, by A. G. Bradley, with fourteen 



illustrations in colour by T. C. Gotch, and sixteen other illustrations. 

 Methuen & Co., 36, Essex Street, W.C. London, [1907.] 7|in. X 5in. 

 pp. X + 386. Price 6s. net. 



The introduction begins with these words : " No pretension is made 

 in these pages to an exhaustive exploitation of Wiltshire." It is not, 

 indeed, a guide book, the author goes where he pleases, and discourses 

 on what pleases him. Chippenham he " has not room " to write about ; 

 as for Trowbridge he doesn't like it, and that is enough. More than two- 

 thirds of the book are given to North Wilts, and something like one-third 

 to Marlborough and its neighbourhood, a circumstance easy of ex- 

 planation when we remember that the author is himself an enthusiastic 

 Marlburian and the son of his father, head master of Marlborough 

 College, and afterwards Dean of Westminster. A feature of the book 

 is the coloured reproductions — admirable reproductions — from water 

 colour sketches. The sketches themselves seem to vary much from 

 " Reminiscence" (an old man in a smock), Market Lavington, Enford, 

 and In the Kennet Valley, which are excellent, to others like The Sheep 

 Fold, which are but " middling." " A Bacon Factory " (at Calne) is a 

 subject boldly treated with plenty of "local colour " in the shape of 

 impressionist suggestions of sausages and "innards" and "lights"! 

 The half-tone blocks from photos are : — Marlborough from theW. ; Old 



