116 Review of Waylen’s History of Marlborough. 
Review of Pew Publications. 
HISTORY OF MARLBOROUGH.* 
All who take an interest in the history of our county will readily 
acknowledge their obligations to Mr. Waylen for the valuable con- 
tribution to that subject with which he has presented us in this 
very handsome volume. We hail it as one indication among many 
of the spirit of research having been at length awakened into our 
ancient annals, and of the zeal with which independent writers, 
unaided by our Association, are already setting to work to fill up 
those great gaps in our county history that are at once a discredit 
and a disappointment to us. The work offers, moreover, a striking 
example of the abundant matter which such researches will be 
found to disclose in reference to those many towns and extensive 
districts of Wiltshire, which as yet are unexamined, or, at all events, 
undescribed by any local historian. Few persons, probably, would 
suppose, a priori, that the history of the comparatively petty coun- 
try town of Marlborough, could afford materials for a thick octavo 
volume of a most readable and agreeable character. Yet, we can 
truly say, that having once taken up Mr. Waylen’s work, we found 
it very difficult to lay it down again until we reached the last page. 
*A\ Hisrory, Mrrrrary AnD Municrpat, or THE Town oF MARLBOROUGH, 
AND MORE GENERALLY OF THE ENTIRE HUNDRED oF SELKLEY. By James 
Wayren. Swirn, 36, Sono SQuaRE. 
