274 Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



Wiltsliire Notes and Queries, No. 10, June, 1895. 



The number opens with a note on " an old mill at Purtou," with a sketch of 

 Newman's Mill, formerly the Ridgeway Mill, which the writer argues is the 

 original Purton Mill, though no part of the present building is older than 

 Elizabeth's time. The calendar of Wilts wills, and the extracts from the 

 Gentleman's Magazine ai'e continued. A note by Mr. A. Schomberg on 

 members of the Blake family, with a sketch of arms formerly on a hatchment 



in Seend Church, follows. Notes on the Life of William Fry, of Ashgrove, 



near Tollard Royal, a Quaker born 1622, who it seems waswo^ related to Mrs. 



Elizabeth Fry, the philanthropist, as asserted in Modern Wilts. Queen 



Elizabeth's progress in Wilts and Gloucestershire in 1592, when she visited 

 Eamsbury, Eurderop, and Lydiard Tregoze, and the town of " Cisseter " gave 

 her a " fayre cuppe of double gilte worth xx £ with a few shorter notes, 



queries, and answers, complete the number. 



Ditto, No. 11, Sept., 1895. 



This number is embellished with two good plates, from pen-and-ink drawings, 

 of an old cottage at Purton and the Manor-house at Biddeston. Mr. Elyard 

 continues his " Annals of Purton," tracing the subdivision of the original lay 

 manor of the "de Periton " family into a number of smaller estates — among 

 the co-heirs — each of which was regarded as a separate manor. " Wiltshire 

 Wills " and " Extracts from the Gentleman's Magazine" are continued ; and 

 under the heading of " Records of Wiltshire Parishes " a very useful abstract 

 of the chief ancient MS. authorities for the history of the Parish oE Cholderton 



is given. An account at some length of the meeting of the Wilts ArchiEO- 



logical Society at Corsham, and an article on " Sherrington," comparing it 

 with Bethlehem and giving as little information about the place as may be in 

 five pages, follow ; and the number ends with a number of queries and replies, 

 of which, perhaps, the most interesting is the evidence for the identification of 

 Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley with Richard Duke, of Lake House. 



The Corporation Plate and Insignia of Office of the Cities and Towns 

 of England and Wales, by the late Llewellyn JeA\dtt, F.S.A., 

 edited and completed 'N^ith large additions, by "W. H. St. John 

 Hoj)e, M.A. Bemrose & Sons. London. 1895. Two vols., cr. 4to. 

 Price three guineas. 



This book, which is really of national importance, treats of a class of objects 

 of which, up to the present time there has been no means of gaining any 

 accurate information — except in a few cases from papers here and there in 

 archffiological periodicals. Its aim is to describe fully every object of any 

 interest belonging to the corporations of the kingdom, and Mr. Hope's namg 

 is a guarantee of accuracy and completeness, so far as they are possible in 

 dealing with such a vast amount of material. The illustrations are numerous, 

 but, as is perhaps inevitable, of unequal merit, and the paper is hardly so good 

 as one would willingly have seen it in so monumental a book. So far as 

 Wiltshire is concerned almost the whole of the matter, and all the illustrations, 

 have already appeared in this Magazine, in the paper by the Rev. E. H. 

 Goddard on the " Corporation Plate and Insignia of Wilts," vol. xxviii., p. 28. 



