Recent Wiltsliire Jjoolcy,, PninplikU, ArtidcH, &c. 481 



Proposed Sale of the Hungerford Almshouses at 



Corsham. Tlie full report of a ])ul)lic nieoting on tliis matter is 

 given in IViltshire Gazrtte, Fel^ruary 15th, and Wilhkire Times^ Fel). 

 ]7th, 1912, with a cut of the Ahnshou.se porcli. 



Johnson Family of Lacock and Bowden. Mr. C. H 



Talbot has an interesting note in WUtskm' Tlrnes^ Oct. 7th, 1911. Sir 

 Henry Sliarington, of Lacock, died in 1580 and his estates were divided 

 between his two daughters. Grace, wife of Sir Anthony Mildniay, of 

 Apthorpe, Northants, had IJowden and lands adjoining. Th(;ir only 

 daughter, Mary, married Francis Fane, afterwards Earl of Westmoreland. 

 Mildmay Fane, their son, second Earl of Westmoreland, sold Bowden 

 4jc., to William Johnson, who was already the tenant, and his son 

 George. William Johnson died 1668. His widow, Elizabeth, died 

 1664. She was the daughter of Henry Hyde, of Purton, Esq., and 

 widow of — Low, Esq. George Johnson, Bencher of tiie Middle Teni])le, 

 a Welsh Judge, Solicitor to the Treasury and M.P. for Devize.s, 1681, 

 built a new house at Bowden, which no longer exists. A sketch of it 

 appears in Dingley's History from Marble, drawn in 1684, as well as a 

 sketch of George's important monument in Lacock Church, which has 

 also disappeared. " At one time it was supposed that the Johnsons of 

 Lacock before 1662 were of a different family, but that has been entirely 

 disproved by a further examination of the Lacock parish registers." 



The Wills of Thomas Coventre, of Devizes, 1451 

 and of Richard Bromwick, of Bratton, 1600, 



are printed in Wiltshire Times, Feb. 3rd, 1912. 



Wiltshire Parish Registers, Marriages. Edited by. 



W. p. W. Phillimore and John Saddler. London. 1911. Vol. XL 

 Price 10s. Cloth, 8vo, pp. vi. + ir)2. Contains the marriage registers 

 of \V1iitei)arish, Devizes (St. John), and Luckington. 



George Denholm Armour. The December number of 27^^' .Ir/ 

 Joiiriuil contains a long notice of the 7'«mc7i artist, and an appreciation 

 of liis work by George 11. Halkett, from which long extracts are printed 

 in the Wiltshire Ga~jtt(\ December 2rtth, 1911. 



Trowbridge. A Icctmv on '•Ticwbiidge : Karly Annals and i;<ini- 

 niscences^' was given by Mr. Ct. Lansdown at the Town Hall, <>n Jan. 

 Kith and a resume of it is printed in the Wiltshire Times, Jan. '20th, 1 912. 

 The value of the lecture consists chiefly in the stories, reminiscences, 

 and jottings of eighteenth and nineteentli century doings connected 

 with the town, >u(li iii;itliT<, tor insiancr, as the origin of the^Bell 

 Lands Charity, the stories of Trowbridge Worthies, and the origin of 

 the nicknames "Trowbridu'e Knobs" and " liradford Ciu.lgeons" (from 

 the shape of the HniaL on the lockups of the res|.ective towns). It is 

 much to be wislied that Mr. Lansdcnvn would continue to collect such 

 jottings and -^uw day giv.- tleni to ir> in prrniam-nt f.-rni. 



