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[N.B.— This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive. The Editor 

 appeals to all authors and publishers of pamphlets, books, or views in any 

 way connected with the county to send him copies of their works, and to 

 editors of papers and members of the Society generally to send him 

 copies of articles, views, or portraits, appearing in the newspapers.] 



The Tropenell Cartulary. Being the contents of 

 an old Wiltshire muniment chest. Edited by the Eev. 



J. Silvester Davies, M.A., F.S.A., Fellow of the Eoyal Historical 

 Society ; author of " A History of Southampton, &c." Sometime Vicar 

 of St. James's, Enfield Highway. " This MS. is the best key to open 

 the knowledge of the old and lost families which is my search "— 

 Aubrey. In two volumes. Published by the Wiltshire Archaeological 

 and Natural History Society. The Museum, Devizes, 1908. 



Demy 8vo., cloth, vol. i., pp. Ixvi.— 409. Vol. ii. pp. xliv.— 408. 



Vol. i., list of subscribers, pp. i. — iv. Introduction, dated Adelaide 

 House, Enfield, 9th November, 1907, pp. ix.— xxiii. Summary of con- 

 tents, XXV.— Ixvi. One folding pedigree. 



Vol; ii., two folding pedigrees. Summary of contents and corrigenda, 

 pp. v.— xliv. 2 plates of arms. Appendix of documents preserved in 

 the Public Record Office, which are transcribed in the cartulary, &c., 

 pp. 354—359. Index, pp. 361—408. 



Price to members of Wilts Arcbseological Society, £1 10s. ; to non 

 members, £2. Only 150 copies printed. Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., 

 New Street Square, London. 



This is the most important work published by the Society since 

 Smith's BrUisli and Roman Antiquities of North Wiltshire appeared 

 in 1884. Mr. Davies began the heavy task of transcribing the original 

 in 1901, and has been occupied ever since in the work, first of transcrib- 

 ing and secondly of editing, indexing, and seeing through the Press the 

 927 pages of which these two volumes consist. Of course a work of this 

 kind, consisting as the bulk of it does in the text of the deeds, Latin, 

 French or English, as the case may be, contained in the original MS. 

 can never expect a large sale, whilst at the same time it is very 

 expensive to print, so that in this case it is only the fact that a number 

 of most generous subscriptions were available, whilst at the same 

 time Mr. Davies was willing to undertake several years of drudgery 

 as a labour of love, that made the undertaking possible at all. In this 

 way a mine of information for the genealogy and topography of Wiltshire 



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