302 In Memoriam James Waylen. 



in 1S59 he married, secondly, in ]862, Sarah Tompkins, daughter 

 of Mr. G. W. Anstie, of Park Dale, Devizes, by whom he leaves a 

 son. The latter part of his life was spent in London, where for 

 some years he lived at No. 6, Cheyne Row, next door to Thomas 

 Carlyle, who found in him a kindred spirit imbued with the same 

 admiration of " The Great Protector " — and to whom he dedicated 

 bis " House of Cromwell and the Stori/ of Dunkirk," published in 

 1880. This, with the two already mentioned, are the three works, 

 by which he will be chiefly remembered ; but he was an industrious 

 and constant writer, and was the author of a number of contributions 

 from time to time in the " Devizes Miscellany ," " Gillman's Devizes 

 Register," the " IViltshire hidependent" and the " Devizes Advertiser." 

 In our own Magazine, too, for the first four years of its existence^ 

 1854 to 1857 — he appears as a frequent contributor, though after 

 1859 he appears to have written nothing for the Society for nearly 

 thirty years, until in 18S7 his " Wiltshire Compounders" appeared. 

 In 1892 another important paper, on the " Falslone Dai/ Book" was 

 printed, and a shorter paper in the last number of the Magazine. 

 Indeed he continued writing up to the time of his death. 



As to his writings, the same characteristics run through them all 

 —whether he is writing the history of Marlborough or of the 

 Quakers — whatever his subject may be he treats it whenever it is 

 possible to do so from a biographical and anecdotal point of view. 

 He is far more of a biographer than a historian. In his writings 

 we do not find wide views of history, but we do get pleasant peeps 

 at the lives of the men who in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early 

 nineteenth centuries took prominent parts in the events of the time 

 so far as they affected our own county of "Wilts. To tell the truth, 

 the seventeenth century, especially the Civil War and the period of 

 the Commonwealth, was to Mr. Waylen almost the beginning of 

 history. He took no account of archaeology, historic or prehistoric. 

 The middle ages he was obliged to look into more or less for his 

 histories of Devizes and Marlborough, but they possessed no atti'action 

 for him, and he hurried on to the struggles of the seventeenth century 

 and the Commonwealth period as the time on which he really loved 

 to dwell. It was, perhaps, natural that to him, a strong Liberal and 



