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Richard Beauchamp, Bishop of Salisbury, and his 



connection with the building of St. George's Chapel, "Windsor, is the 

 subject of two or three notes in Wiltshire Times, September 21, 1907. 



Wiltshire Parish Registers. Marriages. Voi. iv., 



Phillimore & Co., London, 1907. Cloth, 9in. x 5^in., pp. vi. + 152. 



This volume contains the marriages of Preshute, Urchfont and Stert, 

 and Colerne, copied by Mr. E. LI. Gwillim and the Revs. Dr. J. Hamlyn 

 Hill, Maxwell H. Smith, and H. H. Stephens. 



Mere, a long article in The Standard, September 12, 1907, entitled 

 " Model workhouse ; union where casuals must work," holds up Mere 

 Workhouse as an example to the rest of England. 



Nelson and Lady Hamilton at Fonthill. The account 



of this memorable visit is reprinted at some length in Wilts County 

 Mirror, September 20, 1907. 



Sir William Sharington, and liacock. Mr. c. h. Talbot, 



writing to the Wiltshire Times, August 31, 1907, to correct certain 

 mistakes in the notice of Lacock printed in that paper, August 3 and 

 17, says, commenting on Canon Jackson's account of Sir W. Sharington 

 in " Aubrey " (p. 91) : " The date there given for his acquisition of 

 Lacock is 1547, but the real date was 1539. He was Lord of the Manor 

 in 1540. . . . The date of Sharington's appointment as sub- 

 treasurer of the Bristol Mint is the 5 of April, 1546. He thus held the 

 office for only a very short time, as his frauds were discovered and he 

 was committed to the Tower, 1548. He died in 1553. The date 1566 

 on his monument is the date of its erection. Olive was the third and 

 youngest danghter of Sir W. Sharington, she married first John Talbot, 

 Esq., of Salwarpe, Worcestershire, and secondly Sir Robert Stapylton. 

 . . . . I am somewhat sceptical about the former existence of a 

 larger cauldron. It is not mentioned by Aubrey or Dingley, and rests 

 only on the authority of Dr. Popham's notes, who may have misunder- 

 stood what he was told." 



Sir William Sharington. a long letter to him from his son- 

 in-law, George Heton, dated Dec. 24, 1550, concerning various trans- 

 actions as to wool and other merchandise, is printed in Wiltshire Times, 

 July 20, 1907. 



Sir Thomas liawrence. London: George Newnes, Limited, 

 Southampton Street, Strand, W.C. New York : Fredk. Warne & Co., 

 36, East 22nd St. Newnes' Art Library. 9^in. X 6|in., linen and 

 paper boards, pp. xii., -)- 48. 3«. 6rf. net. Printed by The Ballantyne 

 Press, Tavistock St., London. 



The letterpress account of the artist's career, and appreciation of his 

 work, by R. S. Coulston, is contained in pp. vii — xii. only, the re- 

 maining 48 pages consist of photographic plates of some of his most 



