602 Recent Wiltshire Books, Famphlets, Articles, &c. 



The Will of John Ludlow, of Lacock, 1465, is printed in Wiltshire 

 Times, July 18th, 1908. 



The Annals of the Royal and Ancient Borough of 



Devizes, 1102 — 1900. By the late Mr. James Waylen, the 

 late Mr. Gillman, and the present Editor. Introduction by Mr. Edward 

 Kite. Edited by E. D. Gillman, F.E.G.S. . . . Devizes: printed 

 at the "Advertiser" Printing Works, 1908. 



Oblong, paper covers, Tjin. X 5:^in., pp. 1 + 76. Price 6rf. 



Mr. Gillman in his preface states that the "Annals " down to 1865 

 were compiled by Mr. James Waylen, from 1865 to 1893 by the late 

 Mr. Gillman, and from 1893 to 1900 by himself. The plan pursued has 

 been to give in the shortest possible space a mention of all the principal 

 local events in the history of Devizes and its immediate neighbourhood, 

 with some mention of prominent people in any way connected with it, 

 under each year. The last five pages are occupied with a list of mayors 

 which is as complete as it can be made. This little book contains a vast 

 amount of information of which of course by far the larger portion belongs 

 to the 18th and 19th centuries, as to the history of Devizes, and indeed 

 of the northern part of the county as well. It is a really valuable work 

 of reference both for dates and facts. The only thing against it is its 

 awkward oblong shape ; it is worthy of better things than of being thus 

 made to appear like a " Popular Guide." It is really an excellent 

 sixpennyworth. 



Transactions of the North Wilts Field and Camera 



Club. Vol. I. Published by the Club, 1907. T. C. Davison, Hon. 

 Sec, Swindon. Swindon : Printed by Morris Bros., " Advertiser " Office, 

 99, Victoria Road. 1908. 



85 X 5iin., pp. 26. This, the first number of the club's Transactions, con- 

 tains a useful paper on the " Geology of Swindon and Neighbourhood," by 

 W. R. Bird, with two plates containing seven rather middling photos of the 

 quarries at Swindon, a geological map and a section of the strata from 

 Blunsdon to Barbury. To this paper are added useful lists of the local 

 fossils in the collections of Mr. C. H. Gore, of 13, Granville Street, 

 Swindon, and Mr. A. D. Passmore, the latter being especially rich in 

 fine Saurian remains from the Kimmeridge Clay and Portland beds. 



" Some Remarks on the Early History of Swindon," hy A. D. Passmore, 

 is a short series of notes on prehistoric discoveries in the neighbourhood 

 accompanied by three plates of antiquities, which have been already 

 illustrated in the Wilts Arch. Mag. at different times. 



Ramsbury Fast and Fresent. a retrospect of half-a-century 

 by the Rev. A. Wellesley Batson, a series of articles in Wiltshire 

 Advertiser, concluding April 9th and 16th, 1908. 



