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Wilts Arch. Mag., xxxiv., 159, but with the names arranged alpha- 

 betically and a full index of the benefices added, filling ten additional 

 pages. 



Old Marlborough History, Part II. a Lecture delivered in 

 the Bradleian, Marlborough College, 16th February, 1905, by Rev. Chr. 

 Wordsworth. Pamphlet. Marlborough, 1906, 8Jin. X 5jin., pp. 23. 



This is a sequel to the Lecture printed in Marlborough Coll. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Report for 1904, p. 29. It deals chiefly with the history of 

 the place in the seventeenth century ; the sack of the town by the 

 Royalists in 1643 ; the Fire of 1653, and its effect on the architecture 

 and history of St. Mary's Church ; the visitations of the Plague and the 

 Pest Houses ; an account of the Adventures of William Houlbrook, black- 

 smith ; a collection of references to the remains of the Castle, the 

 mansion of Lord Seymour which took its place, the Castle Inn, which 

 succeeded the mansion, and portions of the remains which still exist in 

 the College, complete a paper full of information— much of it out-of-the- 

 way information, not readily found elsewhere— as to Marlborough and 

 its history. 



Some Early Reminiscences, by Earl Nelson, in The 



Treasury, Dec, 1905, pp. 187 — 190, with full-page photo of the author 

 deal with remembrances and experiences of Church life in his early 

 days at Whiteparish, Cholderton, &c. 



Life in Salisbury in the Olden Days, continued, in Salisbury 



Journal, Dec. 23rd, 1905. 



Directory of Salisbury and District. i906. Price i«. 



Pp. 276, with folding plan of the city, and photos of Poultry Cross ; 

 Victoria Park : Blue Boar Row : Cathedral W. Front and from Long 

 Bridge ; Harnham Hill : Infirmary ; Old Sarum ; and Pembroke Me- 

 morial Statue at Wilton. 



Truffle-Hunting in Wilts. Article from the Spectator, reprinted 

 in Wilts County Mirror, Dec. 29th, 1905. 



Popular Guide to Devizes and its District, written 



by R. D. Gillman, F.R.G.S., rejected by the Committee of Taste of the 

 Corporation of Devizes. Price One Penny. [1906.] Pamphlet, 6J x 4, 

 pp. viii., 39. 



The circumstances under which this little " Guide " is published are 

 fully set forth in the "Personal Explanation" by the author which 

 occupies the first three pages, and have also been explained by him in 

 the local papers. It is not written on the ordinary lines of a local guide 

 book at all, indeed if you want to find any definite information on any 

 particular building it is not easy to put your finger on it without reading 

 the whole pamphlet through. On the other hand the historical 



