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Recent Wiltshire Books, Articles, &c. 125 



Devizes Charters. Letters from Messrs. A. E. Maiden, G. L. Gomme, 

 N. Story Maskelyne, Edward Kite, the Rev. E. H. Goddard, and others, 

 as to the desh-abUity or otherwise of exhibiting the charters in frames on 

 the walls of the council chamber, appear in ZJeij/se* Gazette,'Fe\).'lndi, 1905. 



Wiltshire Sheep Bells, a short article by E. E. D. in Country 

 Life, March 11th, 1905, illustrated by photos of four bells and six wooden 

 " collar pins " to hold the ends of the leather " tugs " which pass through 

 holes in each end of the wooden " collar " or yoke. There are, the author 

 tells us, eight sizes of sheep bells, varying in price from Is. &d. to 5.y. 

 " Two, three, four and five are the sizes most commonly used, sevens 

 and eights are monstrous affairs ; even a five is almost too big, for it 

 weighs, with the apparatus by which it hangs, no less than 25lbs. All 

 the bells are made by one maker at Great Cheverell, and his bells go all 

 over the world. 



This article was reprinted in Wiltshire Advertiser, March 23rd, 1905. 



Bronze Age Pottery. Drinking Cups found in Wilts. 



In a valuable paper by the Hon. John Abercromby, entitled " A Proposed 

 Chronological arrangement of the Drinking Cup or Beaker class of 

 Fictilia in Britain," Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 

 vol. xxxviii., pp. 323 — 410, the following admirable illustrations from 

 photographs of Wiltshire examples appear : — from Stonehenge Barrow 36 

 (Devizes) ; Stonehenge Barrow 39 (Devizes) ; Durrington Barrow 93 ; 

 Winterbourne Stoke Barrow 5 (Devizes) ; Winterbourne Stoke (B. 

 Museum) ; AVilsford Down Long Barrow 170 (B. Museum); Lake 

 (Devizes) ; AVinterbourne Stoke Barrow 27 (Devizes) ; Koundway 

 (Devizes) ; Winterslow Hut Barrow (Ashmolean) ; Rotherley, S. Wilts 

 (Farnham Museum); Upton Lovel Barrow 8 (Devizes); Wilsford 

 Barrow 13 (Devizes) ; Eushmore Park Barrow 20 (Farnham Museum); 

 Mere Down (Devizes). Mr. Abercromby has made a special study of 

 "drinking cups" which he concludes were in fashion for about two 

 hundred years in Britain, and all writers on the Bronze Age must take 

 into account this most elaborate and exhaustive paper, in which he traces 

 the sequence of the different types of drinking cup during that period, 

 the beginning of the Bronze Age, and incidentally the sequence of the 

 various types of dagger and other weapons found with the cups. 



A Salisbury Fifteenth Century Death Register, 



by A. E. Maiden, The Ancestor, No. 9. April, 1904, pp. 28-35. The 

 writer describes a volume of registers or Acts Books by chapter clerks 

 at Salisbury. One of them, John Machon, " anticipates Cromwell's orders 

 for the keeping of parish registers by about seventy years," and keeps 

 register of the death of persons connected with the Cathedral between 

 1467 and 1475. In many cases he gives their wills in full. Mr. Maiden 

 gives the wills of Eobert Cothe, chaplain, 1467 ; John Godryche, chaplain, 

 1470; and William Symmys, chaplain, 1473; and also a number of 

 notices of deaths with the places of burial of people connected with the 

 Cathedral. 



