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EECENT WILTSHIKE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, 

 ARTICLES, &c. 



[N.B. — This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive. The Editor 

 appeals to all authors and publishers of pamphlets, books, or views in 

 any way connected with the county to send him copies of their works, 

 and to editors of papers and members of the Society generally to send 

 him copies of articles, views, or portraits, appearing in the newspapers,] 



The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High 

 Chancellor of England. By Sir Henry Craik, 

 K.C.B., Member of Parliament for Glasgow and 

 Aberdeen Universities. With portraits. London. 

 Smith, Elder & Co,, 15, Waterloo Place, 1911. 



Two vols., 8vo. Vol. I., pp., including title, xiv. + 394. ; vol. II. 6 pp. 

 unnumbered + 343. PrintedbyW. Clowes & Sons. 21s.net. Eighteen 

 good portraits, amongst which are Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, 

 from the original by Gerard Soest in the National Portrait Gallery, and 

 Ann Hyde, Duchess of York, from the original by Sir Peter Lely. 



In the introduction the author says : "I do not propose to re- write 

 the history of the Civil War and its sequel. I wish to depict the 

 character, to appreciate the motives, and to investigate the action of 

 one who was a foremost actor in the great struggle, and who left the 

 abiding impress of his hand in shaping its consequences ; and to claim 

 for him the honour which he deserves as one of England's great states- 

 men. I am quite aware that in so doing I must dispute the adverse 

 and grudging estimates of those who have condemned and belittled 

 him, and of those hardly less unfriendly critics who have given him 

 but faint and lukewarm praise . . . I do not claim to have un- 

 earthed new documents ... I claim for Clarendon that he should 

 be judged, not according to 'the political ideas of a later day, but 

 according to the notions, the traditions, and if you will the prejudices, 

 of his own time. No statesman of any age but will, in time, come to 

 need such allowance." 



In the opening chapter, dealing with Hyde's parentage, descent, and 

 birth, the author discusses the question of his birthplace at Dinton. 

 A yew tree formerly standing one hundred yards south-west of the 

 present rectory was said to mark the spot occupied by Henry Hyde's 

 house, but Sir Henry Craik maintains that it is most likely that Henry 

 Hyde lived in the old rectory, on the site of the present house, rebuilt 

 a,bout 1760 by a vicar who had been a Fellow of Magdalen and who 

 introduced into the facade reminiscences of the back quadrangle of that 

 college. Moreover, there are remains of old buildings, especially a 

 massive dovecot connected with the rectory, and from early days the 

 rectory did not go with the benefice bat was the exclusive property of 



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