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



" The Graves of Three Washing tons," by H. c. Potter, 



article in The Centura/, February, 1907, pp. 509—516, with illustrations 

 of Garsdon Manor House ; a fireplace in ditto ; Garsdon Church ; aisle 

 and chancel of ditto ; tablet to the Washington family in ditto ; com- 

 munion plate presented to Garsdon Church by the widow of Laurence 

 Washington ; ruins of Malmesbury Abbey and Abbey House. 



Malmesbury Abbey and Lacock Abbey, included in 



Messrs. Puttick & Simpson's sale, of July 31, 1907 (lot 289), was an atlas 

 folio volume dated 1801, containing 54 beautifully finished sepia draw- 

 ings of these two buildings by John Carter, apparently from the Stourhead 

 Library. 



West AshtOn Mineral Water. An article in Gentleman's 

 Mag., April, 1905, p. 392, on Charing Cross and its immediate neigh- 

 bourhood contains the following paragraphs : — 



" During the rage for mineral waters, those of the West Ashton 

 Mineral Well, near Trowbridge, in Wiltshire, discovered in the year 

 1731, were to be had of the sole vendor in London, Daniel Gach, 

 Druggist, at the King's Arms, near Craven Street, in the Strand." 



" By drinking and washing with this water more than 100 Persons 

 have been already cured of Wounds, from one to upwards of twenty 

 years standing, of Scorbutical Eruptions, of sore Eyes, sore Breasts, the 

 Leprosy, and the King's Evil." 



" N.B. — Lodgings may be had at the same place (? West Ashton) and 

 in the Town of Trowbridge within one mile and a half Distance." 



" The Water is also sold in Bristol by Mr. Grip, Printer ; in Salisbury 

 by Mr. Carent and Mr. Light ; in Bath, by Mr. Horton, apothecary, 

 near the Abbey." 



" No other correspondence is yet settled." 



See London Evening Post, 10 May, 1733. 



Nicholas Family. " The old Devizes family of Nicholas in alliance 

 with the Cromwells." Article of two columns, with a good deal of useful 

 information. Wiltshire Advertiser, June 6, 1907. 



•' Round about Wiltshire," by a. G. Bradley. Reviewed at 

 some length, Wiltshire Advertiser, May 9, 1907. 



Annals of Devizes from I8I9— ISeO. a useful chronicle of events. 

 Wiltshire Advertiser, May 30, June 6, 13, 20, 27, 1907. 



Calne, Calstone, and Trowbridge Court Rolls, in 



the " No. 225 Book Bulletin " issued by Henry Gray, Bookseller, Gold- 

 smith's Estate, East Acton, in 1904, appeared the following items :— 



" Original MS. Court Eoll Book of the Hundred of Calne and Manor 

 of Calston, pp. 564, folio. 1580—1612. £12 12=/^." 



