196 Recent Wiltshire Books, PampJdets, Articles, &c. 



Somerset Arch, and Nat. H. Society, as having belonged to " Stanton 

 St. Bernard, Gloucestershire." Canon Gardiner's attention having 

 been drawn to this, he followed the matter up with the most laudable 

 pertinacity. It appears that the executors of a late vicar had sold the 

 flagon, strangely believing that it was his property, and it had passed 

 into the hands of a dealer, from whom Mr. Charbonnier bought it. 

 The latter, on being appealed to, at once offered to restore it, if the 

 price he had paid for it was refunded. This sum was collected by 

 Canon Gardiner, and the Flagon (of which a full-sized drawing taken 

 before its disappearance is preserved amongst the drawings of the 

 Church Plate of North Wilts in the Library of the Museum at 

 Devizes, so that there could be no doubt whatever of its identity) 

 is now happily restored to its rightful home at Stanton St. Bernard. 



Kotes on Semlngtou Monumental Inscriptions. 



Article by A. Schomberg in The Genealogist, N.S., vol. vi., pp. 116 — 118, 

 Oct. 1910. The wills of Thomas Sumner, of Littleton, in Steeple 

 Ashton, 1631 ; of Thomas Somner, of the same, 1668 ; of Joan Richmond, 

 of the same, 1694; of Thomas Somner, of Wellow (Som,), 1699; of 

 Edmund Blagden, of Keevil, 1733 ; and of Thomas Gerrish, of Seming- 

 ton, 1740 ; are here printed at length. 



Sarum Marriage Xiicences transcribed by the Rev. E. R. Nevill, 

 F.S.A., were begun in The Genealogist, July, 1907. vol. xxiv., part i., 

 N.S., and have been continued up to the present time. 



Mere and WinterslOW. Article in the Daily Mail, Dec. 7th, 

 1910, by W. Beach Thomas, "The Triumph of the Small Owner— 

 what I saw in Wiltshire," describes, not too fully, the newly-started 

 farm colony at Mere, and gives a few words to Major Poore's more 

 famous and successful organization at Winterslow, which has been in 

 existence since 1892 and is here held up as the model for all rural 

 England to follow. 



The Foundation of Salisbury. " A Civic design of the Middle 

 Ages." Article in the Builder, reprinted m Salisbury Journal, Nov. 12th, 

 and Wilts County Mirror, Nov. 11th, 1910. "The greater number of 

 the English towns founded prior to A.D. 1700 are the result of a growth 

 so slow as to be only comparable to evolution, It is the more interesting 

 to find one city at least, that of Salisbury, to wit, which sprang into 

 existence in as sudden a manner as a goldfield's settlement." An in- { 

 teresting article on the planning of the city. 



The Battle of Edington, A.D. 878. This is an article in 

 Blackwood's Mag., Oct., 1910, pp. 491—601, by the Rev. William 

 Greswell putting in shorter space the arguments in favour of the 

 Somersetshire site for the battle which he has given at greater length 

 in his book recently published, and noticed in Wilts Arch. Mag., 

 xxxvi., 632. 



Saydon. "Shepherds at Work." Article by Ch. McEvoy in Daily 

 Mail, March 25th, 1911. A column of literary musings. 



