l2S Recent Wiltshire BooJa^, Articles, &c. 



Chamberlaine Family in Wiltshire, a letter from Mr. 



Reynell-Upham in the Wiltshire Advertiser, March 30th, 1905, mentions 

 Robert le Chaumberleyn lord of the manor of Compton Chamberlaine, 

 in 1316, Thomas man-at-arms 1324, Simon who held property at Coulston 

 1316, Robert of Warminster 1580, and John of Corsham 1599. 



Wilts and Dorset Bank Annual. Salisbury, Christmas, 1904. 

 Si X 6^, wrapper, pp. 101. This, the first issue of the " Annual," is 

 edited by Messrs. G. E. Dartnell and J. Rogers Rees. It consists of 

 seventeen papers by members of the staff of the bank, with seven illus- 

 trations, descriptive of holiday journeyings, none of them connected with 

 Wiltshire. It is nicely printed and got up. 



Wiltshire Highwaymen. "Highwaymen's Heaths," by C. G. 

 Harper, an article in the London Magazine, April, 1905, p. 328, contains 

 an account of the attack on Mr. Dean, of Imber, on Oct. 21st, 1839, with 

 an illustration of Salisbury Plain. 



"Imitation of Horace's Satires in the Wiltshire 



Dialect," Bk. I., Sat. 9. Poem in Marlhurian, March 22nd. 1905, 

 pp. 31—32. Good dialect. [By F. M. Willis.] 



Amesbury and Military Camp Light Railway. 



Illust. article, Raibmy Magazine, July, 1902, p. 76. 



The Wilton Diptych, by S. Arthur strong. Illust. article, 

 ArchcBological Review, April, 1902, p. 128. 



Alder bury, the " G-reen Dragon" Inn. The Dickamian 



for May, 1905, Vol. T., No. 5, pp. 119 — 122, has a short paper by Charles 

 G. Harper on the identity of the "Blue Dragon," near Salisbury, in 

 Martin Chuzzleiuit. It is an article of faith at Amesbury that the 

 " George " there is the original of Dickens' inn, but Mr. Harper has 

 satisfied himself that the " Blue Dragon " in Martin Chuzzleicit is really 

 a composite picture, combining the features of both the " George " at 

 Amesbury and those of the " Green Dragon " at Alderburj-. A cut of 

 the George Inn, Amesbury, and two of the Green Dragon, Alderbury, 

 are given, one of the latter showing the fine Tudor stone mantelpiece in 

 the bar parlour. 



Sarsen Stones. At the congress of the South-Eastern Union of 

 Scientific Societies at Maidstone, Mr. F. J. Bennett, F.G.S., in the 

 course of a paper, suggesting that both in Wiltshire and Kent Stone circles, 

 cromlechs, tumuli, camps and churches (representing older sites), are 

 often arranged in lines with reference to each other, made the more 

 practical suggestion that possibly Sarsen stones are due to the action of 

 humic acid on the loose sand of the Eocene strata. A short digest of 

 the paper is given in the Salisbury Journal, July 23rd, 1904. 



