brother. J.P. for Wilts for fifty-six years and high sheriff in 1847. Lived 
for some years at Seend Cleeve. Married, first (in 1828), Caroline, daughter 
of Henry Thompson, Esq., of Skelton, Yorks, by whom he had two children 
—a son deceased, and a daughter, Caroline Charlotte Elizabeth, married to 
Capt. Lamb in 1857. His second wife (1844) was Albinia, daughter of 
John Dalton, Esq., of Sleningford Hall, Yorks. By her he had seven sons 
and two daughters. Obit. notice and sketch of the Locke family in Devizes 
74 Wilts Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 
Gazette, June 11th, 1896. 
: 
GHilts Books, Pamphlets, Articdes, He. 
Jefferies’ Land: a History of Swindon and its Environs. By the 
late Richard Jefferies, edited with notes by Grace Toplis. 
With map and illustrations. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. ; 
Wells, Som.: Arthur Young. 1896. Pp. xvi., 207. Jefferies spent much 
time and labour in collecting the materials for this work, which appeared in 
instalments in the North Wilts Herald during 1867. Regarded from a 
literary. point of view, it cannot of course be compared with the works 
produced during its author’s maturity, while his lack of true antiquarian 
knowledge is too often evident ; but it forms a valuable supplement to what 
Mr. Morris and others bave told us of Swindon, and may fairly claim to take 
its place as a local book of reference. The district to which the editor has 
assigned the name of Jefferies’ Land, as shown in the accompanying map, 
extends, roughly speaking, from Cirencester to Marlborough in one direction, 
and from Malmesbury to Hungerford in the other. The scope of the work 
itself may best be shown by quoting the headings of the various chapters, 
which are as follows :—I., Ancient Swindon ; II., Holyrood Church ; III., 
Swindon in 1867; IV., Upper Upham; V., Liddington Wick; VI., The 
Marlborough Road; VII., The Devizes Road; VIII., The Oxford Road. 
The illustrations are from drawings by Miss Agnes Taylor, and comprise a 
column at Ivychurch ; Avebury Font; Jefferies’ House, Victoria Street, 
Swindon; Ruins of Holyrood Church; Reservoir, Coate; Wanborough 
Church ; Entrance to Swindon from Coate ; Marlborough Lane; Day House 
Farm, Coate; Chisledon Church ; Jefferies’ House, Coate ; and The West 
Window, Fairford. While the editor has wisely left the letterpress exactly 
as Jefferies wrote it, without attempting to correct it or bring it up to date, 
she has added many useful and interesting foot-notes. 
We observe that a reprint of the History of Malmesbury is announced 
as to follow. G.E.D. 
