336 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



Kugby (1837), under Dr. Arnold. Scholar of University Coll., Oxon,1840. 

 B.A., 1st class in Greek, 1844, and Fellow of University Coll. Latin 

 essay prize 1845. For twelve years he was an assistant master at 

 Rugby. He married, 1849, Marian, d. of Archdeacon Philpott. He 

 was appointed Headmaster of Marlborough in 1858, succeeded George 

 Edward Lynch Cotton, who in 1852 had succeeded Dr. Matthew 

 Wilkinson, the first Headmaster, who was appointed on the formation 

 of the school in 1843. Dr. Bradley was ordained on his appointment to 

 Marlborough. He held the Headmastership for twelve years, until 

 1870, when he left to become Master of University College, Oxford. 

 He became Canon of Worcester in 1881, and in the same year Dean of 

 Westminster, an office which he resigned in 1902. He died in March, 

 1903. This account of his work at Marlborough is by one of his pupils 

 there, and is an enthusiastic eulogy of his work there, claiming that he 

 was " by universal consent recognised as the greatest schoolmaster of 

 his time." 



Stanley Abbey. The excavations carried out by Mr. H. Brakspear, 

 F.S.A., were noticed shortly in The Antiquary, May, 1906, pp. 163, 164, 

 and also in the North Wilts local papers in April. 



^aiCOCk Abbey. Notes on the Architectural History of the Building, 

 by C. H. Talbot. Journal of the British Archceological Association, 

 New Series, Vol. XL, Dec. 1905, pp. 175—210. 



This paper is intended, the writer says, to supplement an account of 

 the Abbey given in a former number of the Journal (XXXVII. , 174). 

 Mr. Talbot goes fully into the alterations made by Sharington, and by 

 his successors, and although he necessarily goes over again some of the 

 same ground covered by Mr. Brakspear in his account of the mediseval 

 buildings, he also gives a great deal of new information as to the 

 Renaissance portion of the buildings, which it is to be hoped may be 

 printed later on in this Magazine. Among other things he prints for 

 the first time a correct reading of the inscription on the gravestone of 

 the foundress in the cloisters. It is as follows : — 

 - INFRA SVNT INFOSSA EL^ VENERABILIS OSSA 



QV^ DEDIT HAS SEDES SACRAS MONIALIBVS iEDES 

 ABBATISSA QVIDEM QViE SANTE VIXIT IBIDEM 

 ET COMITISSA SARVM VIRTVTVM PLENA BONARVM. 



The article is an important one, and is well illustrated with a plan of 

 the whole building by H. Brakspear, F.S.A., and photos of South Front 

 Site of Church ; N.E. Angle of Cloister Court; Sixteenth Century Plan 

 E. Cloister looking North ; S. Cloister looking West : View from N.E. 

 and Sixteenth Century Pillar of Sundial. 



LaCOCk Church. By C. H. Talbot. Article in The Journal of the 

 British Archmological Association, New Series, Vol. XL, Dec, 1905, 

 pp. 257—264. 

 Mr. Talbot here gives the architectural history of the Church in detail, 



