480 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamijhlets, Articles, &c. 



of John Newton, Chaplain of Whelpeley in Whiteparish and Canon of 

 Salisbury, who died 1478, is printed in full. The Rev. W. Symonds 

 begins an account of certain Sherston Manor Rolls, now in his possession 

 1670—1679, giving the 1670 roll in full, and the Editor begins " Notes 

 on the family of Jason, of Broad Somerford." 



Report of the Marlborough College Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 for the year ending Christmas, 1910. No. 59. 



Marlborough, 1911. 



The usual reports of sections are given, with lists of plants, insects, 

 and birds observed. Three new species of Lepidoptera were added to 

 the list, a Tufted Duck was seen near Stitchcombe, and a flock of about 

 thirty Crossbills in the Forest in March. A Lesser Shrew, a species 

 not previously recorded for the county, was caught in the Forest. The 

 rainfall was 3942 inches, whilst the corrected average for forty-six 

 years is 31*87. This rainfall has only been exceeded once during the 

 last thirty years. 



Records of Seasons, Prices of Agricultural 

 Produce and Phenomena observed in the British 

 Isles, collected by T. H. Baker, Fellow of the 

 Meteorological Society. Supplementary Volume. 

 London, Simpkins, Marshall & Co., Stationers' 

 Court. Warminster, A. H. Coates, Journal 

 Office [1911]. 



Cloth, crown 8vo, pp. 74. This is a continuation of Mr. Baker's 

 previous volume under the same title, from the year 1883, with which 

 that volume ends, down to the year 1911. Up to 1898 Mr. Baker gives 

 the prices of farm produce, the rainfall, &c., in accordance with his own 

 experience at Mere Down ; after that date the particulars are those of 

 the Salisbury neighbourhood, in which the rainfall is usually one 

 fourth less than at Mere Down, and the prices of produce are taken 

 from the papers. The rainfall of each month is given, with notes of 

 remarkable storms, &c., the dates of harvest and haymaking, together 

 with general notes on farming matters. 



The continuation may be bought separately, or bound up under one 

 cover with the previous volume of 360 pages, which contains a mass of 

 information as to weather, crops, and prices, from all sorts of sources, 

 from the Christian Era down to 1883. 



Mr. Baker also gives a useful chart showing plainly the variations of 

 the tithe rent charge from the date of the Commutation in 1836 down 

 to 1900. 



The price of the volume, including the continuation, is 10s. Qd. 



Purton Cricket Club Reminiscences. [Reprinted from 



North Wilts Herald, Dec. 31st, 1909.] (1911.) 



Cloth, 5in. X 3|in., pp. 12. The reminiscences are written by J. E. G. 

 Bradford, and deal with the period from 1884 to 1868, when the club 

 was a recogaized North Wilts institution. 



