Society’s Report. 261 
It will be in your recollection that the Society was formed “for 
the promotion of all objects connected with the elucidation and 
study of the general Topography of the county of Wilts,” or in 
other words, “to collect materials for a County History.” 
It has been suggested by Mr. Scrope, and others, that the Com- 
mittee should issue, from time to time, in the Magazine, reprints, 
either literally or in abstract, of parts of large, expensive, and 
inaccessible works already published on Wiltshire, as well as curious 
pamphlets relating to the county, which may be out of print. 
These would be found most useful by all who desire to furnish 
the Society with communications respecting their own localities, 
but who have no means of reference to many of these expensive 
and comparatively scarce works. 
By way of explaining their meaning your Committee would 
particularize the kind of auxiliary publications to which they allude. 
ABSTRACTS OR EXTRACTS: 
1. From Sir R. C. Hoare’s Ancient and Modern Wilts. 
2. » The Wiltshire Institutions, from the Salisbury Registers. 
3. » The account of Religious Houses in the County, in Dug- 
dale’s Monasticon, Tanner’s Notitia, and the Monas- 
ticon Wiltonense. 
4. », Aubrey’s unpublished works. 
The Heralds’ Visitations of Wilts. 
6. » The large volumes of Public Records, as:—The Valor 
Ecclesiasticus, The Inquisitions Post Mortem, Hun- 
dred Rolls, &e. 
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y: » Curious notes from Parish Registers, copies of Monu- 
mental Inscriptions in Churches. 
8. » Miscellaneous Collections or Notices about Wilts, in 
various Archeological and Topographical works, 
such as:—The Collectanea Topographica, Brayley’s 
Graphic Illustrator, Collinson, Penruddock Wynd- 
ham, Waagen’s Account of Wiltshire Pictures, The 
Archeological Journals, &c. 
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