Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamplilets^ Articles, dice, 483 



Folio sale Particulars, map, and five folding coloured plans, pp. 34. 

 Two sheets of photos of : Church fStreet, Oldest House in Westbury, 

 Biss Farm, Clivey Farm, Cottages— Bratton Road, Storridge Farm, 

 Lodge Wood Farm, Hawkeridge Farm, Dilton Farm, Brook House 

 Farm. 



Back Sword Playing. The Wiltshire Times, March I6th, 1912, 

 prints three curious advertisements from the Bath Journal of Sept. 1st, 

 1746 ; '24th August, and 7th September, 1747 ; giving notice of Back 

 Sword playing to take place in Honey-Gaston at Calne, and at " King 

 Ceol's Theatre at Celbury Hill, near Marlborough (which is the most 

 beautiful and magnificent mount in Europe)" where there "will be 

 Bull l^aiting. Back Sword Playing, Dancing and other Diversions " with 

 wrestling on the second day. " Eleven years ago about six thousand 

 people met at the said Hill." " N.B. — If the Gentry should encoura^-e 

 these Diversions (which by practice may make cowards brave men) the 

 same will yearly be repeated." 



Seend Monumental Inscriptions. Addenda, lleprinted 



from Hie Genealogist^ N.S., vol. xxviii., Jan., 1912. Iloyal 8vo, i)p. 5. 

 These inscriptions have been copied, the heraldry noted, and information 

 added as to the persons commemorated, by Arthur Schomberg and 

 Edward Kite. 



Edmund Leversedge and John Lynche, both of Westbury. 



Their wills, dated 1496 and 1504, are partly printed in Wiltshire Times, 

 March 23rd, 1912. 



Penelope Hancock, of Farley; Jeremy Clement, 

 Yeoman, of Little Trowle, Trowbridge ; and 



Nicholas Carde, of Tisbury. Their wills are printed in 

 Wiltshire Times, March 9th, 1912. 



*' Christopher Daniell, the sonne of Edward and Mary Daniell 

 of the parish of ^Varminste^ in Wiltsheere, who was tried heare by a 

 Counsel of Warr and found Guilty of bearinge of amies divers times 

 against King Charles and soe was condemd, executed and buried." 

 Extract from llegister of St. Cuthbert's, Wells, i)rintiMl in W/f.<hir€ 

 Tim.<'^, March 9tli, 1912. 



Wiltshire Highwaymen of the Seventeenth Century 



An article of four columns in Wiltshire Times, Aug. 2nth, lltlL Ke- 

 prints stories of highw.iyiiu'U and smugglers in Wiltshir.', William 

 Tcaiv, William Davis, Janics Whitney, and Crimes. 



Stanley Abbey. A lead \k\w\ of open work tracory found at Stanley 

 Abbey, which ajiparently was used, not as a ventilating panel, but as 

 api)lied ornament on .some wooden oV)jcrt, is illustratcil in J'roc. Soc. 

 Anf., Seeon.l Series, vol. wiii.. p. :i0.7 (191 It, ti-. '2. 



