120 Recent WiltsJiire Boohs, Articles, tOc. 



J. Keynes to Mr. Scattergood, J. Hammond to Mr. Eglesfield, 

 T. Keynton to Mrs. Manning, 28-30 Apr., 1653." 

 Expenses about the Fire, &c., 1653 — 4. 



" Take Heed in Time : or a Brief Relation of many Harmes which 

 have of late been done by Fire in Marlborough and in other places 

 (viz., London, Layton, &c.), written by L. F." 

 " A List of Sufferers and their Losses at the Great Fire in Marlborough, 



28 April, 1653." 

 Note on Dr. Sacheverell, 1710. 

 " A Loyal address from Marlborough, sealed 10th May, and presented 



by Lord Bruce to Queen Anne, 16th May, 1710." 

 These tracts are reprinted verbatim, and it is very much to be wished 

 that Canon Wordsworth's venture may meet with sufficient encourage- 

 ment to enable him to carry out the idea mentioned in his preface, of 

 printing further treatises relating to Marlborough in the Civil Wars and 

 under the Commonwealth. 



liife of St. Ealdhelm, first Bishop of Sherborne. 



By W. B. Wildman, MA. (Assistant Master in Sherborne School). 

 London : Chapman and Hall, Ltd. Sherborne : F. Bennett, The Parade. 

 1905. 7f X 5, pp. 134, with five illustrations, all of Sherborne. This 

 little book appeared just in time for the great celebration in honour of 

 St. Aldhelm at Sherborne, and is written with an eye to that celebration. 

 It is written in an easy popular style, and does not pretend to present 

 history in a learned way, though on many points the author has views 

 of his own which do not agree with the usually received accounts. For 

 these views he gives his reasons shortly and clearly. The Saxon conquest 

 of Southern Britain ; the position of the frontier of Wessex in A.D. 639, 

 the date of the birth of Aldhelm ; and the conquest of Dorset by the 

 Saxons; are shortly dwelt on to begin with. He holds that Mons 

 Badonicus, attacked by the Saxons in 516, was not Badbury Rings, in 

 Dorset, as has been generally assumed, but was far away in Northumbria. 

 He suggests, too, that the defeat of the Britons by Cenwealh in 658 " set 

 Peonnum " "at the hills," which following on the previous victory of 

 Bradford-on-Avon in 652, resulted in the conquest of the Malmesbury 

 district and the driving of the Britons to the Parrett, should be placed 

 not at Penselwood, on the borders of Wilts, but at Sutton Montis and 

 Cadbury, by Corton Beacon, in Dorset. " There you have your Peonnan ; 

 there you have Cadbury, the great fortress which the English stormed 

 before they drove the Welsh to the Parrett. There you have your 

 Sigwell, the well of victory, rightly named from the events of that 

 glorious day." 



As to the extent of the diocese over which Aldhelm ruled as first 

 Bishop of Shei-borne, the author, following Mr. Freeman, maintains 

 that William of Malmesbury was certainly wrong in assigning to Sher- 

 borne Wilts, Dorset, Berks, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, and that 

 the English Chronicle was right in stating that the eastern boundary of 

 the diocese was Selwood, whilst a British diocese of Cornwall existed 



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