122 Some Notices of the Library at Stourhead. 



Vol. III. The Hundred of Westbury, by Mr. Richard Harris 

 and Sir R. C. Hoare. The Hundred of Warminster, by 

 Henry Wansey, Esq. and Sir R. C. Hoare. The Hundred of 

 Downton, by George Matcham, Esq., L.L.D. The Hundred 

 of South Darnerham, by William Henry Black, Esq. and 

 Sir R. C. Hoare. The Hundred of Cawden, by Sir R. C. 

 Hoare. 

 Vol. IV. The Hundred of Dunworth and Vale of Noddre, by 

 James Everard Baron Arundell and Sir R. C. Hoare. The 

 Hundred of Chalk, by Charles Bowles, Esq., of Shaftesbury. 

 Vol. V. The Hundred of Alderbury, by Sir R. C. Hoare and 

 John Gough Nichols, Esq., F.S.A. The Hundred of Frust- 

 field, by George Matcham, Esq., L.L.D. and Sir R. C. Hoare. 

 General Index to the preceding five volumes. 

 Vol. VI. The City of Salisbury, by Henry Hatcher, Esq., assisted 

 by the Collections of Sir R. C. Hoare and Robert Benson, Esq., 

 Recorder of Salisbury. 

 Among the drawings at Stourhead relating to Wiltshire, may be 

 noticed : — 



A magnificent collection of drawings of churches, monuments, 

 fonts, and antient mansions in Wilts, drawn under the direction of 

 Sir Richard Hoare, at an unlimited expense, by Mr. John Buckler, 

 F.S.A., which were thus noticed by Sir Richard Hoare, in his own 

 catalogue : — 



&" 



" The love of topography has induced me to collect as many books as could be 

 procured relating to the General History of Britain ; but niy attention has been 

 paid in a higher degree to that of the Province in which I reside, on which 

 account I employed Mr. John Buckler, an artist every way competent to perform 

 the task, in making drawings of every church, every curious font, brass or 

 tomb, and every remarkable mansion, which laborious undertaking he has now 

 happily completed, and much to my satisfaction, in ten folio volumes." 



Architectural Views of Malmesbury Abbey, in 47 drawings ; and 

 of Lacock Abbey, in 14 drawings, both by Mr. John Carter, F.S.A. 

 They are also thus noticed by Sir R. C. Hoare : — 



"The fine abbey at Malmesbury, most powerfully excited both my admi- 

 ration and attention from the very moment I first viewed it. I therefore 

 prevailed upon Mr. John Carter to devote a summer to the minute investigation 



