486 Becent Wiltshire Books, Bamphlds, Articles, &c. 



of the Downs," " Climate and Water Supply," " Farm Life," " Com- 

 munications," " Population," " Vale of Pewsey," " Using a Map in the 

 Field," "History," "Savernake Forest," "Prehistoric Archaeology," 

 Camps, Barrows, &c.," " Statistics," " Bibliography," " The Wiltshire 

 Tornado." Anyone who wishes to know something of the Geology and 

 Physical Geography of N"orth Wilts cannot do better than begin by 

 studying this book. 



Xist of Inhabitants of New Sarum in 1306. The 



Rev. E. R. Nevill, F.S.A., prints, in Salisbury Journal, March 2nd, 1912, 

 a transcript of a list of names from the " Liber Evidenciarum," folio 

 cxxi., being the list of those who agreed to the composition dated 25th 

 August, 1306, made between the Bishop and the City as to their rights. 



Local Place Names, by the Rev. E. R. Nevill, F.S.A. A useful 

 article on place names in the district round Salisbury, in Salisbury 

 Journal, April 13th, 1912. 



Salisbury in 1455, by Rev. E. R. Nevill. Salisbury Journal, 

 April 15th, 1911. Extracts from the paper in Wilts Arch. Mag., 

 xxxvii., 66. 



The Awdry Family. A valuable article, in the Wiltshire Gazette, 

 April 11th, 1912. John Awdry (I.) Vicar of Melksham, 1601, died 1639, 

 is the first known ancestor of the Awdry family in Wilts. By his first 

 wife, Hester, who died 1607, he had two sons and four daughters. He 

 married, secondly, Joan Hulbert, of Notton, in Lacock. His younger 

 son, John (II.), married Katherine, daughter of William Tipper, of 

 Seend, and their only daughter Prosper married Thomas Dugdale, 

 clothier, of Seend. The elder son of John (I.), Godwyn, married Alice, 

 d. of Sandley Holmes, of Romsey, and from them descended the Awdrys 

 of Melksham and Seend. Their residence in Melksham was a house of 

 seventeenth century type in Bank Street (now "Linden House"). 

 Ambrose (I.), eldest son of Godwyn, baptized 1627, was " of Melksham, 

 grocer," married, first, Cecil, d. of Jeremiah Cough, of Beanacre, and 

 secondly, in 1675, Mrs. Jane Webb, of Devizes. Of his sons, John 

 (III.) was of Melksham, Ambrose (II.), born cir. 1663, was " of Beanacre" 

 in 1698, and in 1706 a clothier at Seend, where a field is still known as 

 Dye House Ground. He married Mary, d. of Isaac Selfe, of Place 

 House, Melksham, clothier, and died 1738. His soil, Ambrose (III.), 

 clothier, of Seend, married Jane, d. of John Awdry, of Melksham, and 

 died 1766. His son, Ambrose (IV.), re-built the Manor House at Seend 

 as it now stands, married, 1761, Christiana, d. of Peter Delme, of 

 Earlstoke Park, and died 1789. His son, Ambrose (V.), born 1762, 

 died 1842. He married Hannah, d. of Anthony Guy, of Chippenham, 

 and dying without issue, the Seend property passed to his brother, 

 Peter, who married, first, 1794, Hester Maria, only d. of Lord William 

 Seymour, and secondly, 1813, Eliza, d. of Anthony Guy. His son, 

 Ambrose (VI.), of Seend, born 1817, died 1890. His eldest son, 

 Ambrose (VII.), died in the samei year, aged 47. Another son, the 

 Rev. Edward Seymour Awdry, still lives at Seend. 



