Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 519 



Parm Changes in Wiltshire in 1907. Tins useful list 



is given in Devizes Gazette, Jan. 2nd, 1908. 



Witchcraft in Wiltshire. The Swindon Advertiser, July 5th, 

 12th, 19th, 1907, reprints at length from the Gentleman's Magazine for 

 May and June, 1832, the story of witchcraft at Malmesbury in 1685-6, 

 the greater part of which was reprinted in Wilts Arch. Mag., xxix., 159. 



Xongleat. Frances Bumey's Remarks on Longleat when she visited it 

 in 1789 with George III. and the Queen, are printed from her Diary in 

 Wiltshire Times, Jan. 11th, 1908. 



ISichael GS-eddeS. Under the heading " A Rational Divine of the 

 Seventeenth Century," The Guardian, April 15th, 1908, has a long 

 article by D. H. on the hfe and writings of Michael Geddes, born in 

 Scotland cir. 1650. Educated at Gloucester Hall (Worcester Coll.) and 

 Balliol, Oxford. Chaplain of Enghsh Merchants at Lisbon, 1678—1688, 

 and Chancellor of the Diocese of Salisbury, 1691 until his death in 1713. 

 He assisted Bishop Burnet in his " History of the Reformation," and 

 was himself a well-known Protestant writer, distinguished from others by 

 his knowledge of the Roman Catholic Church, derived from his residence in 

 Portugal. 



George Keel, who claims to have been born at Manton (in Preshute 

 parish), on Dec. 16th, 1800, and to be therefore 107 years old, an inmate 

 of the Elham Workhouse, at Lyminge, near Folkestone, is the subject 

 of an article in the Daily Chronicle, reprinted in Wiltshire Times, Jan. 

 25th, 1908. 



Map of Wiltshire, a new wall map of the county, to the scale of 

 1 inch to the mile, printed in colours, and mounted on rollers, has been 

 published by George Philip & Son, of 32, Fleet Street, London, at 12*., 

 for the County Education Authority. 



The Will of Richard Erie, alias Smyth, the elder, of Melksham, 

 (1539), is printed in Wiltshire Times, March 28th, 1908; and those of 

 Richard Erie, of Melksham, and Elizabeth Burge, of Fonthill Bishop 

 (1679), are printed in Wiltshire Times, Feb. 29th, 1908. 



The Will of Robert Woodcocks, " of Didnam, Co. w^ts," 



1628, is printed in Wiltshire Times, Feb. 15th, 1908. Didnam is in 

 Shinfield, now in Berks. The same paper has an account of the mythical 

 hero Sir Bevis, said by John Selden to have been Earl of Southampton 

 and to have resided at Downton. 



