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Lifted Owen Williams. Born at South Maston, in 1877, left school 

 at 11, to work on a farm, and at 14 entered Swindon G.W.B. Works, in . 

 the wagon frame shop. He studied English Literature, taught himself 

 Latin and Greek, and in the intervals of his labour, for he is still in the 

 "works," has written poems and a play, some of the former having been 

 printed. 



An interesting article upon his life in the Daily Telegraph reprinted 

 in Salisbury Journal, Jan. 23rd, 1909. 



Halmesbury Abbey and its Founders, article by j. p. 



Meehan in the Beacon, Nov., 1908, pp. 131, 132, with reproduction of 

 old print of the Abbey from the river. 



Wiltshire, the COUnty in 1908. Devizes Gazette, January 

 7th and 14th, 1909. By far the most carefully compiled and fullest 

 account of events of all sorts in the county during the year. 



DevizeS, IiOSt Charities. The Wiltshire Advertiser, Sept. 17th 

 and 24th, 1907, gives a curious list of "Vanished Charities," with some 

 notes on the donors. These were William Bede, Councillor of Devizes ; 

 Henry Morris, clothier, of Devizes ; John Archard, clothier, of Lyneham ; 

 Walter Keymeis Clarke, Bector of Compton Bassett ; John Truslowe, 

 of Avebury ; Dame Anne, widow of Sir Henry Sharington ; Hugh 

 Attwell, Parson of St. Tewe, Cornwall ; William Barrett, of London, 

 son of William Barrett, of Devizes ; Cleophas Smythe, of London, 

 draper, born at Devizes ; and Thomas Flower, of London, draper, son of 

 Stephen Flower, of Devizes. 



Trafalgar HOUSe. On Sept. 30th, 1908, the Hampshire Field Club 

 visited Trafalgar House and Downton. At the former they were con- 

 ducted over the House and shown the many portraits and Nelson relics 

 of all kinds by Earl Nelson, whose notes on the history of the house and 

 detailed descriptions of the various objects preserved there are printed 

 at length in two columns of the account of the excursion in the Samp- 

 shire Chronicle, October 3rd, 1908. Perhaps no such full notice of these 

 extremely interesting relics has been printed before. 



Downton, visited on the same occasion, is the subject of a long paper 

 in the Hampshire Chronicle, October 10th, 1908, by the Vicar, the Bev. 

 R. G. Plumptre, giving long extracts from the Downton Parish 

 Magazine, 1885—1888, on the history of the Manor, by Mr.T. F. Kirby, 

 and on the history of Standlynch, the Moot, the Parsonage House, and 

 the Church, by the Bev. A. D. Hill. The Moot was also described by 

 Mr. W. Dale in "a short paper printed in the Hampshire Chronicle of 

 October 3rd. 



The Moot, Downton, Wiltshire, the residence of Mr. E. Pitts 



Squarey. Country Life, Jan. 9th, 1909, pp. 54 — 62. An article signed 

 " T," illustrated with the splendid photographic illustrations for which 

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