172 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamplilcts, Articles, <&c. 



Castle Combe. The WUtaldre Times of April 13th, 1907, begins a 

 series of useful articles on " Picturesque Wiltshire " with one con- 

 taining a good deal of interesting matter on the history of Castle 

 Combe, with three cuts of the cross and village. 



Braidford-OU-AvOU, the second article of the above series, Wiltshire 

 Times, April 27th, with four cuts : Chapel on the Bridge, Saxon Church, 

 The Hall, and In the Bull-pit, and three columns of letterpress description 

 which are on the whole quite good. The Chapel on the Bridge is, 

 however, in all its upper part of the " Lock up," and not of the mediaeval 

 period. 



EdiUgtOU, with cut of the Church, and another of the Village, is the 

 third of the series. Wiltshire Times, May 11th. 



Corslia/Ill, with cuts of the Court, Flemish buildings. Mayo Memorial 

 fountain, and Porch of Almshouses forms the fifth of the series. Wilt- 

 shire Times, June 1st, 1907. 



Charlton Park. The circumstances of the robbery of pictures by an 

 ex-butler, some fifty odd years ago, are recalled in a letter in The 

 Spectator, Feb. 23rd, 1907. 



The Iieper Hospitals of Maiden Bradley and of St. James and 

 Dennis of Southbroom, near Devizes, are the subject of notes in Wiltshire 

 Times, March 30th, 1907. 



Feter In.Ce, who was ejected from Donhead Rectory in 1662, and after 

 earning his living as a shepherd became minister of a meeting-house 

 erected for him by Mr. Grove, and Faul FreWOr, ejected from 

 the living of Kempley (Gloucs.), and licensed to preach as a Baptist at 

 Trowbridge, in 1672, are mentioned in Wiltshire Times, March 30th, 1907. 



Hares on the Wiltshire Downs. Article in The Times, Dec. 



27th, 1906, on the abundance of hares still found on the downs, although 

 in many parts of England they have become very scarce. 



Woolmer House, in Melksham Parish. i>^ the Wiltshire 



Times of January 12th, 1907, Mr. C. H. Talbot wrote correcting a 

 statement that this house had been destroyed. He says : "It is now a 

 farm house belonging to Mr. Charles Awdry. It appears to be certain 

 that the house was built by George Hulbert, Esq., who by his will in 

 1639, left to the parish of Lacock, in which he was born, a bread charity, 

 which is still distributed. He confirmed by his will the gift which he 

 had made for several years, viz., from 1629, when he bought his property 

 at Woolmer, in the parish of Melksham. He was a citizen and vintner 

 of London. The inscription on the old house at Woolmer is G.M.H. 1 631. 

 The letters evidently stand for George and Martha Hulbert. His widow, 



