120 Some Notices of the Library at Stourhead. 



Of the zealous coadjutors to Sir Richard Hoare's History of 

 Wilts, the greater part are now no more. Among them may be 

 noticed James Everard Baron Arundell, Mr. William Cunnington, 

 the Rev. John Offer, Charles Bowles, Esq., the Rev. William Lisle 

 Bowles, Mr. Richard Harris, Henry Wansey, Esq., John Caley, Esq., 

 Robert Benson, Esq., and Henry Hatcher, Esq. 



A few of Sir Richard Hoare's assistants are still living ; and the 

 manuscript collections of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. ; of George 

 Matcham, Esq., L.L.D. ; of the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. ; of 

 J. Britton, Esq. ; of William Henry Black, Esq. ; and J. G. Nichols, 

 Esq., F.S.A., will, I trust, still be added to the illustration of other 

 objects in the county. 



It is gratifying also to refer to what has already been published 

 relative to Wiltshire since Sir Richard Hoare's death. The follow- 

 ing may be noticed : — The History of Grittleton, by the Rev. J. E. 

 Jackson ; the History of the Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle 

 Combe, by George Poulett Scrope, Esq., M.P. ; the Memoir of 

 John Aubrey, F.R.S., and an edition of Aubrey's Natural History 

 of Wiltshire, by John Britton, Esq. ; an Account of the Manor 

 House at South Wraxhall, by Mr. Walker ; the History of Marl- 

 borough, by Mr. Waylen, &c. 



The meeting of the Archaeological Institute in this city in 1849 

 was delighted by an' Essay on the Results of Archaeological Investi- 

 gation in Wiltshire, by George Matcham, Esq., L.L.D. , and with 

 the interesting Topographical Gleanings of Stourhead, from 1825 

 to 1833, by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, in which he has so ably 

 sketched the character of Sir Richard Hoare and his literary 

 associates. 



And the proceedings of the first meeting of this Society at Devizes 

 are doubtless fresh in the recollection of the members, when Mr. 

 Poulett Scrope favoured the meeting with so eloquent an Inaugural 

 Address in which he took an able review of the antiquities of Wilt- 

 shire, and of what had been done for their elucidation. 



The magnificent collection of Manuscripts, Books, and Drawings 

 collected by Sir Richard Hoare for the illustration of the History of 

 AVilts, and now tranquilly reposing in the Library of Stourhead, 



