154 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



Grafton Chimes, or " When I was a Boy," by w. Mau- 

 rice Adams. London : Henry J. Drane, Limited, Danegeld House, 82a, 

 Farringdon Street, E.C. [January, 1909]. 

 Cloth, 7fin. X 5iin., pp. viii., + 134. 



The author, who has written several other little books on Savernake 

 and its neighbourhood, in this volume sings the praises of his native 

 place. It is a simple kindly story of early recollections told in detail in 

 old-fashioned rhyme, in which East Grafton and the neighbourhood and 

 its then inhabitants are freely mentioned. 



A Genealogical Account of the Mayo and Elton 

 Families of Wilts and Herefordshire and some 

 other adjoining Counties, together with num- 

 erous Biographical Sketches. To which are added many 

 genealogies, for the most part not hitherto published, of Families allied by 

 marriage to the Family of Mayo, and a History of the Manors of Andrews 

 and Le Mote, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. By Charles Herbert Mayo, 

 M.A., Lincoln College, Oxford ; Vicar of Long Burton with Holnest, 

 Dorset ; Rural Dean and non-residentiary Canon of Sarurn. Second and 

 greatly enlarged edition, with many illustrations. London : privately 

 printed at the Chiswick Press, by Charles Whittingham and Company. 

 MCMVIII. All Rights Reserved. 



Cloth, ll^in. x 9in., pp. xxi + 628. Forty full-page plates and eight 

 illustrations in text. Price to subscribers, £2 2s. net. Two hundred 

 and fifty copies printed. [The first edition, privately printed in 1882, 

 contained viii. + 177 pp. only, and only the illustrations in the text. 

 The forty plates have all been added]. 



This sumptuous volume, printed and illustrated in the best possible 

 way, contains an immense amount of information concerning the 

 families of which it treats, and apparently no trouble or expense has been 

 spared to render the record as far as possible accurate and complete. It 

 contains chapters more especially connected with Wiltshire on " Mayo and 

 May of "Wiltshire and several adjoining counties": "John Mayo of Devizes, 

 and the descendants of his eldest son, John Mayo, Vicar of Avebury, 

 1712 — 1746, with notices of three younger sons " ; " James Mayo, Vicar 

 of Avebury, 1789 — 1822, and his descendants to the present day " ; 

 "William Mayo, Vicar of Wootton Rivers " ; "An account of certain 

 families which have intermarried with John Mayo, of Devizes, and his 

 descendants." There are portraits of James Mayo, Vicar of Avebury and 

 his wife Jane, their daughters, Jane and Barbara, Charles Mayo, Rector 

 of Huish and Beechingstoke, 1750 — 1829, and a small illustration of 

 Avebury Church before the addition of a vestry. There are forty-nine 

 genealogies of families allied by marriage with that of Mayo. Altogether 

 a notable family history. 



The Life of Sir Isaac Pitman (Inventor of Phono- 

 graphy) . By Alfred Baker. London : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 

 Ltd., No. 1, Amen Corner, E.C, 1908. 



