SOME RECENT AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS, &c. 



THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Edited by 

 William Page, F.S.A. Vol. II. With illustrations and maps. Contents : 

 Ecclesiastical History. Religious Houses : the Abbeys of Abbotsbury, Cerne, 

 Milton, Sherborne, Shaftesbury, Bindon, and Tarrant Kaines ; the Priories 

 of Cranborne, Horton, and Holne or East Holme ; the Preceptory of Friar 

 Mayne, the Dominican Friars of Gillingham and of Melcombe Regis, the 

 Franciscan Friars of Dorchester, the Carmelite Friars of Bridport and of 

 Lyme, the Austin Friars of Sherborne, the Priory Hermitage of Blackmoor, 

 Wicheswood Priory ; the Hospitals of St. Mary Magdalen, Allington, of 

 Long Blandford, of St. Mary and the Holy Spirit, Lyme, of St. John the 

 Baptist, Bridport, of St. John the Baptist, Dorchester, of St. John the 

 Baptist, Shaftesbury, of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, 

 Sherborne, of St. Thomas, Sherborne, of St. Leonard, Tarrant Rushton, of 

 St. Margaret and St. Anthony, Wimborne, the Hospital or Lazar House, 

 Dorchester, the Hospital of Wareham ; Wimborne Minster ; the Priories of 

 Frampton, Loders, Povington, Spetisbury, and Wareham. Political History 

 of Dorset. Maritime History. Social and Economic History. Agriculture. 

 Forestry. Sport, ancient and modern. Industries. (Archibald Constable 

 and Co, London.) 1908. 



THE MUNICIPAL RECORDS OF THE BOROUGH OF DORCHESTER. 

 Letters Patent and Charters from the Crown ; the Dorchester Domesday ; 

 Minute and Account Books. Edited by Canon C. H. Mayo and A. W. 

 Gould. 25s. net. 1908. 



THE STORY OF FORD ABBEY from the earliest times to the present day. 

 By Sidney Heath. Illustrated with plan, photographs, drawings, &c. 

 (F. Griffiths, 34, Maiden Lane, Strand, W.C. 10s. 6d. net.) In the Press. 



NELSON'S HARDY : his Life, Letters, and Friends. By A. M. Broadley and 

 R. Grosvenor Bartelot. (John Murray, Albemarle Street, London.) In 

 the Press. 



DORSET PARISH REGISTERS. Marriages. Vol. IV. Contents : Litton 

 Cheney, Burstock, Charmouth, Stalbridge, Chedington, East Chelborough, 

 Bettiscombe, South Perrott, Maiden Newton, Wootton Fitzpaine, Pilsdon. 

 (Phillimore and Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 10s. net.") In the Press. 



POEMS OF RURAL LIFE in the Dorset dialect. By William Barnes. 

 Complete edition, containing the three collections. (Kegan Paul, Trench, 

 and Co., London. 6s.) 



THE WESSEX OF ROMANCE. By Wilkinson Sherren. New and revised 

 edition. With 16 illustrations. Contents : The Wessex People, their 

 character, customs, superstitions, and folk-lore ; A biography of Thomas 



