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shipped to America in 1744 as a boy. Notes on Salisbury Cathedral, on a 

 Poll Book of 1705, Queries and Replies on various subjects, and Notes on 

 Books complete the number. 



No. 9, March, 1895, opens with an account and an illustration of the Old 

 Timber House in Wine Street Alley, Devizes, which it seems likely may be 

 shortly pulled down. "Blagden House," Keevil, is mentioned as a timber 

 house of the same character— but the well-known house at Keevil is not 

 "Blagden House," as this is built of stone. Five pages of Wiltshire Wills 

 and six of Extracts from the Gentleman^s Magazine follow. Then a couple 

 of pages of Mr. Elyard's Annals of Purton, with a nice drawing of the 

 Postern Door at Lord Clarendon's. The abduction of Miss Smith at Broad 

 Somerford, in 1774, is a curious story of the last century. Notes on the 

 Chandler Family, and on the position of " Kingsbridge," from which the 

 hundred takes its name, follow. "T.S.M." has been at considerable pains to 

 trace the exact position of the bridge, and believes, on the authority of Mr. 

 Henry Simpkins, of Lyneham, that the bridge crossing the brook at Shaw 

 Neck, on the road from Bushton to Calne, is the spot. Mr. Simpkins says 

 that seventy years ago that spot was pointed out to him as the place from which 

 the hundred was named. Another interesting note is that by Mr. Parsons on 

 a volume of poems by Mrs. Marian Dark, daughter of Mr. Henry Stiles, of 

 Whitley, Calne, published in 1818. Queries and Eeplies on various subjects 

 and an obituary notice of George Mayo follow. 



Capt. Hopewell Hayward Budd, R.N. : a Biographical Sketch. 

 Cr. Svo. This little pamphlet is a recent reprint of a notice which appeared in 

 the " Devizes and North Wilts Gazette " November 22nd, 1869, together 

 with an account of the Chippenham Ploughing Match from the same paper in 

 1844, and letters from Admiral. Sir William Sidney Smith in 1812, pressing 

 Lieut. Budd's claim to promotion for long and active service in Egypt, at 

 Acre, at Scylla, and elsewhere, on the notice of Lord Melbourne, as well as one 

 signed by ten magistrates of the Marlborough and Swindon Division in 1830, 

 also addressed to Lord Melbourne, stating that his " unwearied and extraordi- 

 nary gallantry and spirited exertions have contributed in no slight degree to 

 the present pacific state of the County of Wilts." This was at the time of 

 the machine-breaking riots, when Captain Budd, having retired from the 

 Navy, was occupying a large farm at Winterbourne Bassett, where, by his 

 resolute courage, he gave the first check to the rioters who were then terrorising 

 the farmers of North Wilts. Captain Budd was buried at Winterbourne, 

 aged 90, in 1869. Two photographic portraits from miniatures are inserted in 

 the memoir. 



" Truffle-hunting in Wiltshire," by P. Anderson Graham, in Zoiiffiuan's 

 Magazine for March, 1895, is a very full and pleasantly-written article on a 

 subject which has attracted unusual attention of late, having already been 

 briefly dealt with in the English Illustrated Magazine for November, 1893, 

 and the Standard of 6th October last. We note that the centre of the 

 industry is Winterslow, and that the pick of the season lasts only some four 



