228 Recent WilUhirc Books, Pmirplilcts, and Articles. 



St. Thomas' Church ; Market Place ; Poultry Cross ; and Bemerton 

 Church. 



In the catalogue of the loan collection, which included a representative 

 collection of the more remarkable pieces of Church plate in the county 

 of Wilts, including thirteen out of the sixteen existing Pre-Reformation 

 pieces : the Bishop's private pastoral staff, the chalice and paten from 

 the tomb of Bishop Longespee in the Cathedral, the Wylye chalice, the 

 Heddington flagon, the Corsley paten, the Garsden communion vessels, 

 as well as the alabaster panel of the Adoration of the Magi, found under 

 the Castle Hill, at Mere, and now preserved in the Church Museum there, 

 are illustrated. 



Souvenir of the Crabbe celebration and Catalogue 

 of the Exhibits, at Aide burgh, Suffolk, 16th to 



18th September, 1905. Pamphlet, Svo. Price 2.9. &d. It 

 contains process illustrations of the tomb of Crabbe's father and mother 

 in Aldeburgh Churchyard; four portraits (by Millington, by Thomas 

 Phillips, and another) of the Rev. George Crabbe ; portrait of Miss Caroline 

 Crabbe ; Crabbe's Cottage, Aldeburgh ; Trowbridge Parish Church, 

 Exterior and Interior ; Trowbridge Rectory ; the entries in the registers 

 of Crabbe's baptism and marriage ; the titlepages of the first editions of 

 several of his works ; the mural tablet in Trowbridge Church : views of 

 Aldeburgh, &c., &c. These illustrations are accompanied by a most 

 strange collection of snippets from his life, his letters, and from letters 

 of other people about him and his writings, which are strung together 

 without apparent connection. The portraits are the only useful things 

 in this singular " souvenir." Accounts of the celebration appeared in 

 the Aldeburgh, Leiston, and Saxmundham Times, Sept. 33rd and 30th, 

 1905. 



Boy Bishop, in the course of an interesting article on " The Boy 

 Bishop of Medieval England " by Rev. C. H. Evelyn-White, in Journal 

 the British ArchcBological Association, 1905, New Series, vol. xi., 

 pp. 30 — 48, a rendering in English is given of the office contained in 

 the Processionale ad usum insignis et jireclare Hcclesice Sartim, for the 

 service of the Boy Bishop on the eve of Holy Innocents' Day — and the 

 origin of the idea that the diminutive bishop's effigy in Salisbury Cathedral 

 represents a boy bishop who died during his term of office is discussed, 

 the conclusion being that it represents without doubt a real bishop. 



The Bishop of Salisbury and his See, with some 

 Sketches of the Wordsworth Family, by Douglas 



Macleane (Rector of Codford St. Peter), in The Treasury, Oct., 1905, 

 vol. vi., pp. 1 — 7, is an excellent article giving much information in a 

 small space, which is not readily attainable elsewhere, as to the bishop 

 and his family. Moreover, it is accompanied by the very best and most 

 characteristic photograph of the bishop that has yet been published. 



