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Contributions to the AUasenm and Library. 
The Committee feel great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of the following 
articles, presented to the Society :— 
Twenty-two Roman silver coins of the following reigns, Nerva—Fanstina, Jun. 
—Titus—Sabina—Faustina—Vespasian—Marcus Aurelius—Trajan—Domi- 
tian—Antoninus Pius—and Hadrian ; found at Mere, Wilts, in 1856. (Ducuy 
or CORNWALL.) 
By the Rey. J. Lockuarr Ross, Vicar of Avebury :—A Black letter Bible, 
said to have been discovered during the last century in a hollow tree at Ber- 
wick Basset, Wilts. The reason for its concealment is unknown. It after- 
wards came into the hands of a grandson of ‘‘Tom Robinson,” (the Abury 
stone breaker mentioned by Dr. Stukeley,) in whose family it has continued 
until the present time. 
By G. Pouterr Scrorg, Esq., M.P., Castle Combe :—‘‘ The Geology and Extinct 
Volcanos of Central France,” by the Donor, 1858. 
By Mr. Cunnineron, Devizes:—Large Ancient British Funereal Urn, a 
bronze penannular Ring, a bronze armlet, and a bronze chisel (?), also an 
iron instrument, found at Oldbury, 1858. 
By Mr. J. Crarx, Heddington :—Large Roman leaden Coffin, found at Hed- 
dington. 
By Mr. J. Exten, Devizes:—Impression of the Great Seal of Charles II. 
CHiltshive Alotes and Queries. 
Wittsuire Durine THE Crvit Wars; or, a Political, Military, and Do- 
mestic History of this County, during the Stuart controversy, embracing a 
period of one hundred years, that is to say, commencing with the outbreak of 
the war in 1640, and terminating with the rebellion of 1745. This, which has 
already, in part, appeared in the Wiltshire Independent, J. Waylen proposes 
to re-publish in a thick imperial octavo, with additions, and illustrated with 
numerous engravings; price not to exceed a guinea. Subscribers’ names to 
be sent to Mr. N. B. Randle, or Mr. H. Bull, of Devizes. In furtherance of 
such a scheme, the loan of, or privilege of access to, original documents, such 
as warrants, inquisitions, parish entries, and private letters, will be esteemed a 
favour, and will be duly acknowledgrd. 
As the work will contain an elaborate account of the estates of the royalists 
in the county on the one hand, and lists of the Parliament’s friends on the 
other ; it is conceived that the genealogists will find many an unexplored field. 
The engravings to be principally historical groups. 
H. But, Printer, Saint John Street, Devizes. 
