596 Recent Wiltshire Boohs, PamjMets, Articles, &c. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 58, June, 1907. 



" Eyre of Wilts " and extracts from the " Complete Baronetage" are con- 

 tinued. A reproduction of a print of John Greenhill appears as the 

 frontispiece. Mr, E. Kite begins a new and excellent article on 

 "Wilton House and its Literary Associations," and the Eev. E. 

 E. Nevill gives a transcription of the first pages of " The Chrysom 

 Book of St. Thomas, New Sarum." This book of 60 pp., dating 

 from 1569 to 1592, contains entries of chrysoms, offerings at 

 churchings (ehurchwyves), offerings at marriages, and payments 

 for candles for the Font Candle. The notes on " Stokes," continued, 

 include the wills of Alice, 1614; John, 1646; Alice, 1656; John, 1664; 

 William, 1669 ; all of Seend ; as well as that of Alice Jacob, of Wootton 

 Bassett. 



Ditto, No. 59, September, 1907. " Stokes " is continued, 

 and the wills of the following are printed: — Ann, of Seend, 1731; John, 

 of Bishopstrow, 1553 ; John, of Bishopstrow, 1559 ; Sybil, of Bishopstrow, 

 1562 ; Christopher, of Castle Combe, 1565 ; Thomas, of Bishopstrow, 

 1573 ; Agnes, of Castle Combe, 1574 ; Henry, of Bishopstrow, 1579. 

 Four pages of Sadler monumental inscriptions in Wroughton Chui'ch 

 are also included. 



Ditto, No. 60, December, 1907. Mr. Kite concludes Im 

 article on " Wilton House and its Literary Associations." This contains 

 much material valuable for Wiltshire bibliography, books or pamphlets 

 dedicated to and written for and about the Earls of Pembroke, and books 

 connected with Wilton House in other ways being mentioned. Incidentally 

 he records the fact that Philip Massinger, the dramatist, the son of Arthur 

 Massinger, was baptized at St. Thomas's, Salisbury, Nov. 24th, 1583, a 

 fact which has escaped the research of many of the dramatist's biographers. 

 He also prints in full the wills of Richard Browne, of Calne, 1597, Thomas 

 Moffett, 1604, and Katherine Moffett, of Calne, 1626. Three pages of 

 Sadler entries in the Wroughton registers are given. 



Ditto, No. 61, March, 1908 (Vol. VI.). a note by Mr. 



E. Kite on "Encaustic Tiles at Tinhead " begins the number, with 

 illustrations of four tiles, probably from Edington, now laid in a fireplace 

 in a room with good Jacobean panelling at Becket's Farm, Tinhead. 

 "Stokes," continued, gives the wills of Edward, of Titherton, 1667 ; 

 Alice, of Studley, 1675 ; John, of Bishopstrow, 1683 ; William, of 

 Semington, 1710; Abjohn, 1712; and William, of Bishopstrow, 1729, 

 Lists of the nobility and gentry of Wiltshire, 1673, are extracted from 

 the Britannia of Thomas Eoycroft of that date. A valuable series of 

 lists of marriages from the Visitation Books of the Peculiars of the Dean 

 and Chapter of Sarum is begun by the Eev. E, E. Nevill. 



No. 62, June, 1908. "Stokes" contains the wills of Richard, of 

 Calne, 1723 ; and Thomas, of Barbadoes, 1731, with an illustration of 

 the Stokes Cup at Merton College, Oxford, Genealogical Notes on the 



