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the lay rector, to whom the vicar still pays a nominal rent. " What 

 more likely than that Henry Hyde as lay rector occupied his own house?" 



A long and very laudatory review appeared in Blackwood's Mag., 

 Nov., 1911, pp. 689—697. " He has given us a full-length portrait of 

 Clarendon, set against the proper background of his time." 



The Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 28th, 1911, in a two-column 

 review, on the other hand, says of the author's work : " By blending 

 the aims of history and biography he has produced a work superfluously 

 partisan in its bias and needlessly oppressive by its sheer length to the 

 fame of the very man it is designed to reinstate in the popular affection 

 or, at the lowest, esteem." 



The Ancient Trade Guilds and Companies of Salis- 

 bury, By Alder man Charles Haskins, J.F., author 

 of The Salisbury Corporation Pictures and Plate, 

 with an Introduction by Rev. Canon Christopher 

 Wordsworth, MA., Sub-Dean of Salisbury Ca- 

 thedral and Master of St Nicholas' Hospital, 

 Salisbury. With thirty-two Illustrations. Salis- 

 bury, Bennett Brothers, printers. Journal Office, 

 1912. 



Linen. 8vo. Pp., including title, xxxvi., + 423. Price 12s. Qd. 

 This stout and handsome volume is quite one of the most important 

 additions that have been made to the number of Wiltshire books for 

 some time. It . is based on the series of articles on the Guilds and 

 Companies of Salisbury which appeared in the Salisbury Journal 

 during the years 1907 — 1909, and were noticed in Wilts Arch. Mag., 

 XXXV., 513, 514 ; xxxvi., 164 ; but a very large amount of material has 

 been added from other sources, as the size of the volume shows. " The 

 interest," says the authors, " shown in the articles which form the basis 

 of the present book, and a generally expressed wish that they should 

 be published in a more permanent form, encouraged me to extend my 

 researches, with the result that a number of books, charters, and other 

 MSS. originally belonging to the local Guilds and Companies were placed 

 at my disposal, both by residents in Salisbury and elsewhere. Several 

 of these documents have since been presented to the City. This kindness 

 has enabled me to add a considerable amount of information illustrating 

 the influence exerted by Guild and Company upon the economic and 

 corporate life of the City." The various chapters deal with the origin 

 and development of English Guilds, the Merchant Guilds, of Old and 

 New Sarum ; the Guild of St. George; the Merchants' Company ; the 

 Craft Guilds ; the Formation of City Companies ; the Weavers ; Tailors ; 

 Shoemakers ; Searchers, Viewers, and Sealers ; Bakers and Cooks ; 

 Butchers ; Brewers ; Joiners ; Barber Surgeons ; Smiths ; Glovers ; 

 Cloth Workers ; and Wool Combers. 



The illustrations are photographs of the Charter of Edward IV. to 

 the Tailors' Guild, 1461 ; Initial Letter of Charter of James L, 1611 ; 



