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George Herbert’s Church at Bemerton. The Salisbury Journal of Oct. 
17th, 1896, gives a very good account of this little Church, its history, and 
the works of repair which have this year been undertaken in it, further 
details being given in the issue of Oct. 24th, in the account of the re-opening 
of the building. 
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Wilts Visitation, 1565, Sowche of Pitton to Yerworth of Collingbourne 
Kingston, is continued in the July and October numbers of Vol. xiii. of the 
New Series of The Genealogist. The latter number also contains an article 
on the surname “ Le Poher’’ (Power, Poore). 
Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge. At the meeting at Salisbury of the 
Society of Estate Clerks of Works, Mr. T. Potter read a discursive paper on 
the objects of interest in Salisbury and its neighbourhood, dwelling at length 
; on Stonehenge, and quoting with approval the opinion of a gentleman who 
1 believes “that the [sarsen] stones came from the North of Europe attached 
to or embedded in icebergs during the Glacial Period,” and that of another 
i “eminent archzxologist ” who accounts for the propinquity of the cursus to 
the barrows by the suggestion that the deceased persons’ effects were offered 
as prizes in the chariot races, probably on the day of the funeral! Itisa 
melancholy thing to find anyone who proposes to instruct his fellow-men 
capable of talking such an amount of nonsense on one subject. The 
article is printed at length in the Salisbury Journal, Aug. 22nd, 1896. 
Salisbury and its Cathedral. An article by Christopher Crayon (J. Ewings 
Ritchie)—reprinted in the Wiltshire County Mirror, Aug. 21st, 1896, 
from the Christian World of the week before—expresses the opinion that 
in “ Protestant countries the Cathedral is played out,” and that “ outside 
the Cathedral the one curiosity of Salisbury is the fourteenth century 
Poultry Cross.” 
The Organ of Salisbury Cathedral and the Organist, Mr. C. F. South. 
; F. J. W. Crowe, in the Musical. Courier, quoted by the Wilts County 
Mirror, July 3rd, 1896, has an article giving interesting information as to 
the past and present organs, and notes on the life and work of the organist. 
PAvebury. A Brief Account of its Stone Circles and Avenues, 
Artificial Mound called Silbury Hill, Ancient Church, and other 
points of Antiquarian interest. With Two Illustrations, from 
Photographs. By the Rev. W. H. Davis, B.A., Vicar of 
Avebury. Price Sixpence. Devizes: published by Hurry & 
Pearson, 1896. (8vo pamphlet of 10 pp.) This little pamphlet does 
not pretend to be anything but a very brief guide for the use of ‘the many 
visitors to Avebury who know nothing of the history of the place. The 
various points of interest mentioned in the title are touched on shortly and 
judiciously, the various theories as to the circles and Silbury are given as 
far as space will allow, and there is a most commendable absence of positive 
statements about matters of which nothing positive is known, together with 
