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of my Wiltshire collection so purchased, has been transmitted to its 
new home at Devizes, near the centre of the county, the Mayor and 
Corporation have kindly and judiciously given it safe and respectable 
shelter, and the large and influential assembly, which met there on 
the 12th instant to inaugurate the Society, cannot fail to gladden 
my heart, and render the event, the time, the place, and the flatter- 
ing expressions used, the most memorable in the life of their old 
friend and well-wisher. 
Some thirty years ago, I had correspondence with Sir Richard 
Colt Hoare, about forming a Wiltshire Topographical Museum and 
Library in the county; I offered to present my collection, if he 
would do the same. He, however, declined, as he intended to pre- 
serve them in his own mansion. Family considerations have re- 
strained me from giving the whole of the materials and objects I 
had amassed relating to my native county; but as a Society is now 
formed, and has “a local habitation and a name,” and as it has 
paid me the sum above specified, for the articles I had enumerated 
in the printed catalogue above mentioned, it is my intention to 
present additional models, busts, drawings, books and manuscripts 
to the value of fifty pounds, and trust that this example will be 
followed by other gentlemen, and even ladies, before the anniver- 
sary meeting of next year. 
QUERIES 
RELATING TO 
Che Archoalagy oud Batural Bistory of Wilts. 
PAROCHIAL HISTORY. 
1. What was its ancient name and supposed derivation? 
2. Are there any ancient or modern accounts of it; by whom 
written; whether in MS. or in print? 
3. What historical events have occurred ? 
4. What circumstances worthy of note have taken place within 
the memory of man? 
5. Are there any letters, papers, or other documents of interest 
in possession of any of the resident individuals, or supposed 
to exist elsewhere? 
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