276 Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



" The Shepherd's Care on Salisbiiry Plain : the Lambing Pen " ; 

 by Gideon Fidler, illustrated by the Author. In Good Words for 

 Nov., 1895, pp. 741—747. Illustrations:— "Wind and Sun on Salisbury 

 Plain " (full-page), and, in the test, " Going to the Dew-pond," "At the Dew- 

 pond," " Hay time," " Beginning to pick for themselves," "Method of fastening 

 a dead lamb's skin to a live one," The letterpress is a practical account of a 

 shepherd's work on the Plain, and the drawings of sheep are really true to life, 

 though it is hard to agree with the author when he speaks of the " Hampshire 

 Down" as " this most beautiful breed of sheep." 



Seymours of Wolf hall. In the October No. of the Genealogist (vol. xii., 

 pt. 2, New Series), Mr. Vincent has an interesting article on " A Bristol 

 ancestor of the Dukes of Somerset." His name was Mark William, not 

 MacWilliams, a merchant and burgess of Bristol, and sometime mayor; his 

 daughter Isabel married Sir John Seymour in 1424, and survived her husband 

 many years ; in 1455 she took a vow of perpetual chastity in the collegiate 

 Church of Westbury-on-Trym, dying in 1485 ; her heir was found to be her 

 grandson, John Seymour, of Wolfhall, who at the time of her death was aged 

 34 ; his father and mother both pre-deceased his grandmother, the father, John 

 Seymour, of Wolfhall, dying 29th September, 1463, the mother, Elizabeth, 

 I9th April, 1472. She was possessed in fee of divers messuages, cottages, and 

 gardens in the town and suburbs of Bristol, and held in dower, or by joint 

 feofEment with her late husband, various lands in Cos. Southampton, Wilts, 

 Hereford, and Somerset. (I.P.M. 19 Edw. 17., No. 38.) 



The Wnts Visitation, 1565, from Ferris of Ashton Keynes, to Long of 

 Ashley, in Box, is continued in the same number of the Genealogist. 



Sharington, of Lacock. In the same number is a pedigree of Stapilton, of 

 Wighill, giving the marriage of Sir Robert with Olive, daughter and coheiress 

 of Sir Heniy Sharington, of Lacock, one of whose sons (Robert) was presented 

 to the Rectory of Lacock by his mother in 1616 ; her daughter, Ursula (bap- 

 tised at Chelsea 10th July, 1587), man-ied Sir Robert Baynard, of Lackham. 



Fiddington House Asylum, Market Lavington. A short notice of 

 this establishment, founded in 1816, occurs in Devizes Gazette, Nov. 14th, 

 1895. 



The Saxon Saucer-shaped Fibulae foimd at Basset Down, which have 

 been already described in this 'Magazine, are the subject of a note by the 

 Rev. E. H. Goddard in The Antiquary, Nov., 1895. 



PewhiU House, near Chippenham. The design, by Mr. T. B. Silcocks, 

 for Miss Dixon's house, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy this year, 

 is reproduced in the Building News, November. 



Wardour Castle. Photo-process view in Illustrated London New.s, Nov 

 9th, 1895. 



