232 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



Ditto, No. 48. Mr. Kite's excellent "Notes on the Montacutes " are 

 continued, with plates of the effigy of Sir John de Montacute in Salisbury 

 Cathedral, and the arms on his tomb. His will, as well as that of Thomas 

 Mountagu, Dean of Sarum, is given in full. Notes on Eyre, of Wilts, 

 are also continued. The will of Andrew Holes, Chancellor of Sarum, 

 1470, is printed, and the Bev. W. G. Gilchrist Clark has a note on early 

 instances of the uncontracted word " Sarum," in which he points out 

 thatthegreat seal of William Montacute 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1337, and 

 the seals of Eobert Wyvill, as "Official" of the see of Salisbury and 

 bishop elect in 1330, and the seal of St. Nicholas' Hospital at a date not 

 later than 1245, all read " Sarum." He concludes that the use of the 

 word began early in the 13th century, but for about a century it did not 

 come into general use for " full dress " occasions such as seals of dignity. 



Ditto, No. 49, March, 1905. The number opens with illus- 

 trations from drawings of the seals of Malmesbury Abbey in the 1 5th 

 century, and of Abbot Walter Camm of 1372. The Rev. C. S. Ruddle 

 follows with a paper on " The sad fortunes of some of the Clergy who 

 once lived near Salisbury Plain." Eyre of Wilts is continued. The will 

 of Sir Richard Grobham, of Great Wishford, is given in full. 



Ditto, No. 50, June, 1905. Eyre of Wilts is continued, with 

 good reproduction of the engraved portrait of Sir Eobert Eyre, Kt., 

 Judge of the Court of King's Bench, and a photo of the bust of Sir 

 Samuel Eyre, Judge of the Court of King's Bench, over his monument 

 in Lancaster Parish Church. A useful list of portraits connected with 

 Wiltshire, in the portrait exhibitions at Oxford, 1904 and 1905, is begun 

 Canon Wordsworth has an interesting note on Wilts Astrologers, and a] 

 further instalment of Wiltshire wills proved in the Prerogative Court o: 

 Canterbury is given. 



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The Geology of the Country South and East of 

 Devizes, by A. J. Jukes Browne, B.A., F.G.S. 



Explanation of Sheet 282, Memoirs of the Geological Survey. London, 

 1905. Price 1*. Pamphlet, ^\ X 6|, pp. vi., 60. The coloured map 

 accompanies the memoir. The country dealt with in this memoir con- 

 sists of considerable portions of Salisbury Plain and of the Vale of Pewsey, 

 from Devizes, Seend, and Potterne, to Chitterne, Shrewton, and Bulford, 

 and eastward to Pewsey and Upavon. In this' stretch of country the 

 Jurassic beds are disposed of in three pages, whilst thirty are taken up 

 with the cretaceous system. It is needless to say that every quarry, pit, 

 road and railway cutting seems to have been carefully examined and the 

 character of the strata and lists of the fossils are given. The chapters at 

 the end, on " Economic Geology," are very valuable, especially that on 

 the springs and water supply of the district. Outside those connected 

 specially with the survey the person most often quoted as the authority 

 for statements made or fossils found is Mr. W. Cunnington, F.G.S. 



