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Salisbury Old Volunteers' Colours. These old colours now 



hanging in the banqueting room are described in Salisbury/ Journal, 

 December 1st, 1906. Two were presented to the Sarum Armed Association 

 by Miss Hussey, daughter of Alderman William Hussey, M.P., in 1799. 

 This force consisted of 430 men, and was disbanded after 1815. The 

 other two, worked by Mrs. Brodie, wife of Lieut.-Col. Brodie, were 

 presented in 1831 to four companies raised by him in 1831 and disbanded 

 in 1840. 



Marlborough and Savernake. a pleasant article by a. g. 



Bradley in the Gornhill Magazine, March, 1907, pp. 392—406. He 

 dwells amongst other things on this characteristic of the district. " In 

 a social and economic sense this bit of Wiltshire is surely without a 

 parallel in any ordinary English county. For within an area of about 

 250 square miles of which Marlborough is nearly the centre, there is not 

 a single country squire, well, one of small estate might just come within 

 the boundary I have drawn. I know no bit of civilised England at all 

 like this one nor any country town even in the wilder and remoter parts 

 of the kingdom so absolutely devoid of what in this sense is meant by a 

 " neighbourhood." 



Henry the VIII., by the way, was not actually married at Wolf Hall, 

 as so many writers have said, and Mr. Bradley once more repeats. 



The Manton Barrow. A notice of the opening of this Barrow 

 appeared in the Wiltshire Advertiser Oct. 11th, 1906. An extraordinary 

 rigmarole also appeared in the Daily Express, Nov. 1906, headed " Pre- 

 historic Sacrifice, Scene reconstructed by a Bayswater Seer, Rites 

 of the Druids, Story of the Skeleton found at Avebury," in which the 

 seer describes what he " saw " when he pressed an object from the 

 barrow on his forehead, and the uncanny manifestations which he says 

 occurred in the houses to which the objects were taken. 



Devizes SSuseum, enlargement and re-arrangement. Articles in 

 Devizes Gazette and Wiltshire Advertiser, Feb. 21st, 1907. 



The Southampton and Salisbury Canal. The history of 



this canal, which was begun under two acts of George III., 

 and was intended to run through Romsey, Mottisfont, Dunbridge, 

 Dean, and Alderbury, but was abandoned owing to its being found 

 impossible to make the cutting at Alderbury through the lower Bagshot 

 Sands hold water, is touched on in the evidence of Mr. G. A. Rawlence 

 before the Royal Commission. Reported in Salisbury Journal, Aug. 3rd, 

 1906. 



Humourous West Countrie Tales. No. 2. By e. slow. 



Pamphlet. Salisbury. [1906.] Price Sixpence. 6jin. X 4;^in. pp. 30. 

 Another series of Mr. Slew's well-known Tales in Wiltshire dialect. 



