Unpunished Documents relathig to Sir William Sharington. 159 



words have already been recorded by us, but we have made a few 

 extracts from the article in the foregoing pages. We trust that the 

 authoress will continue her researches into our " Field Names," a 

 branch of Wiltshire archaeology which has hitherto been somewhat 

 unduly neglected. 



Many Wiltshire words and expressions are also to be found in 

 " Lark : a Tale of the Down Country," a novel which appeared last 

 year, and has attracted much attention since. 



We have to thank the Rev. Dr. Smythe-Palmer and Mr. Slow 

 for a few additional notes and corrections which came to hand too 

 late to be included in their proper places, and are therefore given 

 separately above, as well as a few others from various sources. 



A Notice to Members, relative to the proposed publication of the 

 Glossary by the English Dialect Society, will be found on the cover 

 of the present number of this Magazine. 



%\\fM\^li^ Joftimente itlating to tlje %m%\ 

 of ^ir Milliam <§|amijtoii lanuat]), 1549. 



By the ^ev. W. Gii-chhist Claek. 



N various occasions in earlier volutbes of the Magazine, articles 

 have appeared which have dealt incidentally with the life 

 and fortunes of William Sharington, the grantee of Lacock Abbey 

 at its dissolution in 1539. The object of the present article is not 

 to give a complete life of Sharington, since for that purpose the 

 materials are not yet, I think, available, but to put before the readers 

 of the Magazine three documents, hitherto unpublished, which not 

 only give us further information about an individual of whose moral 

 character very various estimates have been made,* but also may 



' Froude (Kist. of Eng., vol. v.) speaks very slightiDgly of him : Latimer, on 

 the other hand, called him " an honest gentleman, and one whom God loveth." 



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