222 A Proposed Bibliography of Wiltshire. 
titles of books for further reference and arrangement. But I have 
not been able to devote any appreciable time to the systematic 
arrangement of my collection of titles, nor to the inspection of books, 
having been engaged upon editing a “ Register of Commoners of 
Winchester College, 1836—90.” This is now published, but as I 
am pledged to carry my records of Winchester Commoners as far 
back as possible, the earliest date at present seeming likely to be 
1653, I shall be fully occupied for some years to come. 
Canon Jackson’s COLLECTIONS TOWARDS THE WorK. 
It was Mr. Goddard who first told me that the late Canon 
Jackson, whose great services to the history and archeology of the 
county of Wilts, this Society, and the county, will ever hold in the 
highest esteem, had himself for many years been collecting materials 
for a Bibliography of Wiltshire. Mr. Goddard saw Canon Jackson’s 
collections in November, 1890, when on a visit to Leigh Delamere, 
and describes them as contained in a thick folio book, and consisting 
of cuttings from booksellers’ catalogues, manuscript notes of Wilt- 
shire books, &c,, which Canon Jackson told him were the result of 
many (forty or fifty) years’ collecting. 
Mr. Goddard suggested to Canon Jackson that the collections 
should be published, but the Canon said it might take up too much 
space in the Wiltshire Archeological Society’s Magazine, and, as 
Mr. Goddard did not then know of any one willing to undertake the 
labour and responsibility of completing and editing the work, the 
matter dropped. I shall quote later on in this paper a few words 
written by Canon Jackson to Mr. William Cunnington in February, 
1888, upon the subject of his collections, and his views at that time 
with regard to them. 
Canon Jackson’s death on March 6th, 1891, naturally called 
special attention to his works, both those accomplished and those in 
progress, and one object of my paper will be to show what a real 
interest Canon Jackson’s collections have to this county, and how 
important it is that they should be-edited and puleehes by this 
Society, or in some other way. 
