442 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



Avebury, and Stanton Drew, and has nothing to say that has not been 

 said in many places before. There are four photos of Stonehenge, one 

 of the stone implements found during the recent excavations, and one 

 of Avebury. The writer highly approves of Sir E. Antrobus' enclosure, 

 and finishes up with a note on the White Horses of Wilts. 



" Lacock Abbey," by W. G. Clark-Maxwell, traces the foundation and 

 endowment of the house, and describes the architecture of the existing 

 remains. He notices that the " Gothic " hall and the fine Palladian 

 dining-room were both built by John Ivory Talbot at the same time, 

 circa 1750. It is a good article. 



Mr. H. St. George Gray, formerly one of the General's assistants at 

 Rushmore, gives a full and very useful sketch of the life and work of 

 " Lt.-Gen. Pitt-Rivers," accompanied by an excellent photo portrait. 

 He notes by the way that King John's House at Tollard Royal, opened 

 to the public by the General as a museum, has once more reverted to use 

 as a private house. 



The Rising in the West (of Penruddoeke and Grove), by Miss S. K. L. 

 Earle, tells a well-known story, and is illustrated by a photo of the 

 portrait of Col. John Penruddoeke. 



One of the best papers of the book is — as was to be expected — that by 

 Dr. J. C. Cox, on " The Royal Forests of Wiltshire and Cranborne Chase," 

 in which he notes that " The Royal Forests of Wiltshire were more 

 important and more considerable than those of any other county." 



The " Arundels of Wardour," with a good view of Wardour Castle 

 ruins, is a genealogical article by Mr. Hussey Walsh, in which the 

 descent of the family and the manor is traced. 



" Salisbury Politics in the Reign of Queen Anne," by H. C. Foxcroft, 

 is concerned chiefly with the relations of Bishop Burnet with the citizens ; 

 and " William Beckford, of Fonthill," is a good article by M. Jourdain. 



"Marlborough in Olden Times," with a good photo of the " Castle 

 Inn," is a gossippy paper by Canon Wordsworth, full of all sorts of odd 

 information, as, for instance, that the sarsen stone on which Thompson 

 sat to compose his poem on " Spring " now stands as a curb stone at the 

 corner of the High Street facing the Master's Lodge. A table of coaches 

 passing through Marlborough in 1792, and a list of the signs of the 

 twenty-five inns existing in 1790 are interesting details, as well as the 

 account from Foxe's " Book of Martyrs " of the trial, condemnation to 

 death, and escape, of John Hunt and Richard White (afterwards Vicar 

 of St. Mary's) from being burned under Queen Mary. 



" Malmesbury," by H. Brakspear, with photos of the West Front and 

 South Door, deals authoritatively with the architecture of the Abbey 

 Church. " The internal arrangements of the nave are clearly indicated, 

 the eastern bay was occupied by the pnljaitum, a gallery separating the 

 choir from the nave in monastic Churches, from whence the epistles and 

 gospels were sung on holy days, and supported on two screens. The 

 eastern one remains, and bears badges of Hen. VII. with the royal 

 arms over the quire door. The other screen has been destroyed across 

 the middle of the nave, but remains in either aisle, where it is of elegant 



