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Oxen at the FlOUg'h.. An interesting article on the use of oxen as 

 draught animals in Wiltshire, and of the reasons for their discontinuance, 

 appears in the Wiltshire 2'imes, Dec. 31st, 1910. It is perhaps dou]>tful 

 whether their use survives at present anywhere in the county, though 

 up to even ten years ago there were many teams at work on the down 

 farms. 



Amesbury. Article on its history, Wiltshire Times, Dec. 31st, 1910. 



Local Review of 1910. Wilts Advertiser, Dec. 29th, 1910. 



Thomas Long*, clothier, of Trowbridge. His will, dated 1554, is 

 printed in Wiltsldre Times, April 22nd, 1911. 



The Private Devotions of Elizabeth Wightwick. 

 1781. Born 1699, Died 1787. Aged 88. [1905] 



Pamphlet, r)fin. X 4in., pp. including title and preface 66. Printed 

 (for private circulation) by Edward Green, the Broadway Press, Frome. 



The compiler of this (considering its date) very remarkable little 

 MS. book of Devotions, which has never been printed before, was 

 Elizabeth {nee Waight) wife of the Kev. Henry Wightwick, fellow of 

 Pemb. Coll., Oxon, whose early married life was passed at Dauntsey. 

 He then moved to Tetbury and from 1740 to his death in 1763 was 

 Pector of Ashley, Wilts. The heading of the MS. runs thus : " This 

 book contains the Rules for the Festivals of the year, and for Sundays. 

 In this manner I have practised it, and I advise my children to follow 

 the same if tliey shall think fit." Elizabeth Wordsworth contributes 

 an interesting and appreciative preface. 



Rural Deanery of Avebury (Cannings portion). 

 Memorial Tablets, &c., and Church Plate, AD 

 1910. 



Wrappers, 8vo., pp. including title 113. 



This substantial book compiled by Canon W. Gardiner, Vicar of 

 Southbroom, the present Rural Dean, contains an apparently careful 

 and exact copy of all the monumental inscriptions now existing in the 

 Churches of the Cannings Deanery, as well as a very full account of the 

 Church Plate, giving hall marks, weight, inscriptions, and descrii)tions 

 of each se])arate ])iece, It is in fact a model which might with the 

 greatest advantage be followed by all Pural Deans, and Canon 

 Gardiner has deserved well of North Wilts in printing it. That such 

 inventories are by no means works of supererogation is proved by the 

 fact that under Stanton St. Bernard Canon Gardiner notes that a 

 Pewter Flagon noted by Mr. Nightingale in Wilts Church Plate in 1891 

 "has now disap])cared and nothing seems to be known as to its 

 disapi)earance." Tliis fine pewter vessel however at tlir time these 

 lines were written was a ])rominent exhibit in a loan collection of 

 pewter at Taunton M u-^cum, belonging to ^^r. Charbonnit-r, anil was 

 ;u-tu;illy illu-t rated in tin- '' ( Juide " to that collection I'ublished by the 



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