126 Wiltshire Notes and Queries. 
to, original documents, such as warrants, inquisitions, parish entries, 
and private letters, will be esteemed a favour, and will be duly 
acknowledged. 
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 genealo- 
gist will here find many an 
unexplored field. The en- 
gravings to be principally 
historical groups. The ac- 
companying specimen of the 
smaller kind, is a supposi- 
titious portrait of Cantelow 
the Devizes wizard, the re- 
puted success of whose 
machinations keenly stimu- 
lated, even if they did not 
altogether baffle the prying 
scrutiny of King James I. 
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ANCIENT DOCUMENTS. 
When the paper on which old documents are written is much 
creased, carefully press a warm iron over it, and draw out the 
creases. Ifa parchment document be creased, dip it in cold water, 
pull out the creases, and place it quite flat under a board with a 
weight upon it, and keep it there till it is dry. 
If the ink with which any document has been written, whether 
on parchment or paper, has become so pale as to render the docu- 
ment illegible, wash it with a solution of tannin made thus— 
