Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 329 



" Chippinge," by Stanley Weyman, 1907. A novel of the time of the 

 Eeform Bill, the scene of which is partly laid in Wilts, about Malmes- 

 bury, &c. 



" JetsadU." Story of an old labourer in a Wiltshire village, " Stoke 

 Friars." Saturday Westminster Gazette, August 10, 1907. 



Battle of Ediugton, a long letter from W. H. Stevenson in The 

 Athenceum, October 5, 1907, pp.405 — 406, supports the Wiltshire site. 



Goddard Wills, byR. W. K. GoAAsxA, Miscellanea Genealogica et 

 Heraldica contains abstracts of 13 wills, of which three are those of 

 Goddards of Wilts ; Edmond Goddard, of Harnham, Wilts, yeoman, 

 1606; Thomas Goddard, of Standen Hussey, Wilts, Esq., 1610; and 

 Richard Goddard, of Upham, 1615. 



The Eoliths at the Salisbury Museum, a letter from Dr. 



H. P. Blackmore defending their authenticity, Salisbury Journal, 

 August 31, 1907. 



The Trial of Elizabeth, Duchess of Kingston, by Hugh 



Childers, a paper in The Nineteenth Century, Sept., 1907, pp. 457 — 465. 

 Elizabeth Ghudleigh, of a good Devonshire family, Maid of Honour to 

 Augusta, Princess of Wales, was married secretly at Lainston, near 

 Winchester, in 1744, to the Hon. Augustus Hervey, who became Lord 

 Bristol in 1775. They finally separated in 1747 and in 1769 she married 

 the 2nd Duke of Kingston, who died in 1773, leaving her the bulk of his 

 property and disinheriting his nephew, Evelyn Meadows. She was tried 

 in Westminster Hall by the Peers (as a Peeress) and found guilty of 

 bigamy, but escaped any further punishment, and retained all her 

 property. She resided occasionally at Kingston House, Bradford-on- 

 Avon. (Of. Wilts Arch. Mag., i., 275.) 



The Aldhelm Crosses in Somerset and Wilts. By 



the Right Rev. the Bishop of Bristol, F.S.A. Proceedings of the Clifton 

 Antiquarian Club, 1906-7, vol. vi., pp. 121 — 127, with tracings of stones 

 at Bradford-on-Avon and Littleton Drew, and photo of those at Colerne. 

 The Bishop suggests that the seven stages of the funeral journey from 

 Doulting to Malmesbury were : Frome, Westbury, Bradford-on-Avon, 

 Bath, Colerne, Littleton Drew, Malmesbury. The Bishop regards the 

 existing remnants of Pre-Norman Sculptured Crosses at five of these 

 places as remnants of the crosses erected on the spots where the body 

 of the saint rested. Of the Littleton stones he says : " It is evident 

 that at least two of the sides were occupied by foliaginous designs of 

 very unusual character, and another was occupied by a curious com- 

 bination ot the ideas of vegetable growth and interlacement of bands 

 . . . The west face of the stone is so much broken that its ornament 



