328 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



CriCklade. An article entitled "English Oral Tradition" in The 

 Nineteenth Century for March, 1907, pp. 436—439, by the Eev. G. 

 Monroe Royce, mentions as a curious instance of the survival of oral 

 tradition the belief that " anyone born in Cricklade has the right to sell 

 any proper merchandise in the streets of any town in England and Wales 

 without licence," a privilege " given to natives of this town because 

 Cricklade gave refuge to a Queen in distress." The author suggests that 

 the old house known as Abington Court at Cricklade, in which a fine 

 old oak bedstead is preserved (as inseparable from the house), was really 

 the site of a Royal Hunting Box, which Charles II. is said to have 

 been the last King to occupy. 



BOWOOd. Under the title " Beautiful Bowood, the House and its history ; 

 the Gardens and Pleasure Grounds ; the Park and Woods," the Devises 

 Gazette, July 25, 1907, has a long article, with process views, " Front 

 View," "South Wing," and "Italian Gardens," giving a great deal of 

 information not readily to be obtained elsewhere as to the history, plan, 

 and details, of the House and Grounds. When the park was granted to 

 Sir Orlando Bridgeman, the judge who presided at the trial of the 

 Regicides, a house existed, which whether altered by him or not, is 

 represented in a painting still preserved at Bowood. This plain square 

 house was embodied in the present S.E. block. 



John, Earl of Shelburne, bought the estate in 1754, and employed the 

 brothers Adam to re-model the old house. He died 1761, and his son 

 William, Earl of Shelburne, and 1st Marquis of Lansdowne, continued 

 the work, and built the south frontage of the Orangery and Library from 

 the designs of the brothers Adam, who took the palace of Diocletian at 

 Spalatro as their model : on the death of William, in 1805, his son John 

 Henry, 2nd Marquis, succeeded but never resided at Bowood, and dying 

 1809 was succeeded by his half-brother, Henry, 3rd Marquis, who added 

 the Bell Tower, by Sir Charles Barry, the second Terrace on the S. 

 Front and Gateways, formed the Pinetum, built the " Golden Gates " 

 Lodge, also from the designs of Sir Charles Barry, and collected the 

 pictures. He died in 1863. The park and woodlands as they now exist 

 were chiefly laid out and planted by the 1st Marquis. The account was 

 revised and published in pamphlet form, as "The History of Bowood. 

 Devizes : George Simpson, Gazette Office, 1907." [Cr. 8vo., 2 portraits, 

 3 views and plan, pp. 30. Price 3d.] 



John Duncan, Vicar of Calne^ 1865— 1907 Oxford, 



A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., Church Printers. 1907. Cloth, 6]in. X 

 4^in., pp. 30. Two portraits and one other illustration. 



This little book by his daughter, Mrs. Whitehead, gives a short 

 account of his life, and contains a number of appreciations of his 

 character and work which appeared after his death in various papers, 

 and others written specially for this book. 



