Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 447 

 The Meux Estates in North Wilts, second portion, 



Particulars, &C. Sale, July 3l8t, 1906. Large folio, pp. 55. 



This portion included 9200 acres in West Overton, Fyfield, Preshute 

 0-bourne St. Andrew, Berwick Bassett, and Broad Hinton. Good 

 process views of " A View from the West Woods " ; " Lockeridge House ; 

 '' Clatford Hall " ; " Fyfield House" ; " North Overton House ; Manor 

 Farm House, Broad Hinton" ; and five maps. 



Ditto, third portion, Particulars, &c. Sale Oct. 



1906. Large folio, pp. 67. . ht it j 



This portion included 5670 acres in Dauntsey, Christian Malford, 

 Great Somerford, and Brinkworth. Process views of " Dauntsey House, 

 West Terrace and River Avon," "Principal entrance from mside, _ 

 " Principal entrance," " House from the park," " Swallett House, _^ 

 "Idover Domain Farm," " Swallett Farm," " Great Smithcot Farm, _ 

 "Malford Farm," " Beanhill Farm,"" Brook House,' " The Comedy. 



Stockton House. A Catalogue of the widely-known 

 collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean Furniture. 



Fine specimens of the Queen Anne period, and examples of the Chip- 

 pendale style . . . May21st, 22nd, and 23rd, 1906. 



lOHn X SMn., with thirteen plates, photos of the rooms with the 

 furniture. This was the most important sale of antique furniture that has 

 taken place in the county for a generation or more. The i-emarkable 

 feature of StocktonHouse was that it was furnishedpractically«Aro«y/<o«« 

 with old oak furniture more or less of the period of the house itself-some 

 of it the original furniture of the house, no doubt, but the greater part of it 

 collected by Gen. Yeatman-Biggs, to whom the admirable restoration of 

 the plaster ceilings and of the other features of the house many years 

 ago was due. There was, it is true, a good deal of William and Mary 

 and Queen Anne work, but the general aspect of the furniture was 

 Elizabethan and Jacobean, and it was almost entirely oak, to the ex- 

 clusion of the later Chippendale, of which there were only a few specimens. 

 Such an assemblage of "old oak" can but very rarely come into the 

 market, though finer individual pieces might be found elsewhere and 

 the sale attracted a crowd of dealers and collectors from all parts of the 

 country. The result was that prices were high throughout-in many 

 cases very high. The oak bedsteads went for 230 and 180 guineas ; he 

 court cupboards, 105, 75, 60, and 54 guineas ; the high back box settles, 

 48 40 30, and 28 guineas; a hanging cabinet, which had belonged to 

 Lord Byron, and came from Newstead Abbey, 52 guiiieas. The twelve- 

 sided table on tripod legs,bearing the arms of the 6th Earl of bhrewsburj^ 

 and probably from Fotheringay Castle-a very rare piece of Enghsh 

 work-went for 63 guineas ; a second example going for 48 gumeas. A 

 buffet (Elizabethan) made 70 guineas. The " Yorksl^i-e Chairs went 

 for 10 and 12 guineas the pair, and large armchairs for 25 and 26 guineas 

 each. The A^.ycou.h,temp. Ch.IL.made 120 guineas,and an Ehzabethan 

 chest dated 1593, one of the best things in the sale (the great state bed 



