Recent WiltHhire Boohs ^ Fam'pldets, Articles, &g. 197 



^ Devizes. Under the heading " An Interesting Old Devizes Diary," the 

 Wiltshire Times of March 2n(l, 1911, and two subsequent issues, prints 

 extracts from the diary or note book of George Sloper, baker, of 

 Devizes, from 1753 to 1782. The notes relate to various Devizes 

 matters. Amongst them under 1791 is this note :" This spring and 

 summer Edward Eyles, Esq. (ye Govener), pulled down the great 

 house on ye Green and built a new one." 



In 1782 " Mr. Broadley's servant maid, Elizabeth Stow, for stealing 

 two or three white handkerchiefs, found guilty and publickly whipped.'^ 

 Calne. Bentley's School. A Petition to the King in 1687, 

 signed by a number of the chief inhabitants of Calne, i)raying for the 

 confirmation of the appointment of a new schoolmaster, Mr. Avery 

 Thomson, in the place of James Webb, who was, as they certify, " a 

 man of debauched and vicious life and conversation and remiss and 

 negligent of his duty," is printed in Wiltshire Times^ January 7tli, 1911, 

 which also contains notices from the registers of Ogbourne St. George 

 in 1632, 1633, and 1639, of payments of from xij'^ to ij'. to one Looker 

 for " whipinge the doggs out of the Church." 



Winterslow, Major Poore's Iiand Scheme. An article 



y on this very remarkable experiment, begun in 1893, and now in most 

 successful working, by which Major Poore has given an object lesson 

 in the methods of establishing peasant proprietorship on a firm footing 

 to the whole of England, appeared in Tlie Nineteenth Century, Jan., 

 1911, and was reprinted in the Wiltshire Times, Jan. 7th, 1911. The 

 constitution and working of the Land Court, by which the affairs of 

 the thirty-seven heads of families who now practically own their cottages 

 and liohlings, is described. 



Stoneheng'e. In an article on "Prehistoric Puzzles in Stone" in 

 Forward, an American periodical, the origin and purpose of Stone- 

 henge are discussed without apparently any knowledge of recent 

 excavations. The part of the article concerning Stonehenge is re- 

 l>rinted in Wiltshire xiduertiser, November 17th, 1910. 



Worked Flints from the River Drift at Holt, Wilts. 



]jy W. G. Collins. A. paper in the Antiquarij^ May, 1911, N.S., vol. 

 vii., pp. 170 — 183. The author describes half-a-dozen small flints 

 which ho illustrates, collected in the gravel pit near the station at 

 Holt, where, underneath 2 feet of reddish soil, 4 feet of small oolitic 

 gravel occurs resting on Oxford Clay. This gravel contains very few 

 large stones and no large flints have been found in it, but a number 

 of small Hakes of (lint occur in it, many of which seem to 

 l)resent undoulttiMl signs of human working. They ai'c such as may 

 be picked up l»y thousands on any neolithic site, but tlirir presence in 

 1 tlie river gravel certainly seems to carry them back to I'aheolithic 

 I times and therefore gives them a considerable interest. No detiniti'ly 

 formeilimi)lements have been f.Mnul, for the Hint here illustrated whicli 

 ' is shaped like an arrowhead, can liardl> he assumed t«> lie such with 

 any certainty, 'i'lic llint> here ilhisti-atiMl ha\-e been given by .Mr. 

 Collins to thr S(M-iclv'> ,Mn>runi. 



