156 Eecent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



Surrey. Devizes : C. H. Woodward, Machine Printer, 4, St. John 

 Street. 1908. For private circulation only. 



Eed cloth, 8Jin. x 5|in., pp. 114. Four illustrations, including *' The 

 Old Manor House, Woodborough " and " Woodborough Church in 1861." 

 Four folding pedigrees, including " Bobbins of Wilcote and Wood- 

 borough " and " Bobbins of Bulford." 



This is really a second edition, with some additional matter, of the 

 " Gleanings of the Bobbins Family," issued by the author in 1880. It con- 

 sists of a number of notes of references to persons of the name of Bobin or 

 Bobins in Jersey, Matson, Clay Hill, and Charlton Kings in Gloucester- 

 shire, and twenty-six other counties, including Wiltshire, where they 

 appear at Wootton Bassett, Mere, Salisbury, Ashton Keynes, Broken- 

 borough, Malmesbury, Melksham, and more especially at Wilcote, 

 Woodborough, Alton Barnes, Alton Priors and Marden. The book is 

 dedicated to the memory of "my uncle Samuel Robbins, founder of 

 Honeystreet, Woodborough, maker of the road from Kennett to Ames- 

 bury, and in other ways a public benefactor to the County of Wilts. 

 Died November 27th, 1869, aged 82 years." 



Wiltshire Parish Registers, Marriages Edited by W. 



P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and John Sadler. Vol. VII. London : 

 Issued to the subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane. 

 1908. 



8vo., cloth, pp. vi. + one page of Contents and one of " Corrigendum," 

 + 147. 



This volume contains the marriage registers, up to 1812, of Salisbury 

 Cathedral. Cholderton, Purton, Charlton near Pewsey, and Huish. 



Richard Jefferies, His Life and Work. By Edward 



Thomas, Author of " Horse Solitariae," " The Heart of England," &c, 

 with illustrations and a map. London: Hutchinson & Co., Paternoster 

 Bow. 1909. 



Cloth, 9in. x 6in., pp. viii. including title, &c, -(- four pages un- 

 numbered (Contents and list of illustrations) + 340. 



Thirteen illustrations, including three portraits of R. Jefferies, "As a 

 Boy," "As a Young Man," with an excellent frontispiece photograph 

 of him in later life. The other illustrations are " Forest and Down," 

 from a picture by J. Guthrie ; Old Swindon Church ; Coate Farm ; a 

 facsimile of a letter ; a photograph of the " Venus Accroupie " ; two 

 portraits each of James Luckett and Elizabeth Jefferies, Bichard's 

 father and mother, and one of Fanny Jefferies, his grandmother. There 

 is also a folding map of the district of North Wilts around Swindon. A 

 valuable Bibliography, (1) of the writings of Bichard Jefferies, (2) of 

 books and others writings relating to him, occupies pp. 329-355. This 

 is fuller than any Bibliography that has appeared before. There is also 

 a fairly full index. 



The author, in his preface, says : " This book is an attempt to give a 

 fuller account of the life and writings of Bichard Jefferies than has yet 



