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



the paper is famous. They are, " North Front of the ' Laundry ' Build- 

 ing," " The Western Elevation," " The South and West Sides," "The 

 Temple," "As seen from the Doorstep," " The Giant's Chair," "The 

 Loggia by the Pond," " A Saxon Parliament Place," "From the edge of 

 the Earthworks," " Guardians of the Dial," " Detail of the Pedimental 

 Centre." The writer by no means agrees with Messrs. Belcher and 

 Macartney (Later Renaissance Architecture in England) , who attribute 

 the original building of the house to 1650 and its alteration to 1720, and 

 tell us that " the work of the two periods has been well combined, and 

 the designer has so carefully preserved the character of the older work 

 that it is in many cases difficult to see where one ends and the other 

 begins. Even the mouldings, usually a sure index of date, give in this 

 case but little clue." 



" T " combats this view and believes that the house was built as a 

 whole cir 1685. The absence of the usual shield of arms over the pedi- 

 mented doorway is accounted for by the fact that the Coles family who 

 built the house, were not entitled to bear arms, for in a list of " all such 

 as have usurpet the Names and Titles of Gentlemen without Authoritie 

 and were Disclaimed at Salisburie in the County of Wiltshire in Sept. 

 A° 1623 " we find " Barnabie Coles of Duncton " set down with fifty 

 others and bracketed together as " Ignobiles Omnes." 



The Downton and other Moot Hills. The County 



Folk MOOt Of Wiltshire. Article, a column long, in Wilt- 

 shire Times, March 13th, 1909, arguing that the grass terraces at " The 

 Moot," Downton, are analogous to those of the Tynwald in the Isle of 

 Man. The argument is by no means convincing, however, and the 

 terraces are quite as likely to have been made in the 16th or 17th century. 



IiOllgleat. An article on the history of the house and the Thynne 

 Family in Black and White, October 10th, reprinted in Wiltshire 

 Advertiser, October 22nd, 1908, states that the building was commenced 

 by Sir John Thynne, January 21st, 1567, and continued by him until 

 March 29th, 1578, during which period a sum of over £8000 was spent 

 on it. Two years later his son, Sir Johu, succeeded, continued the work, 

 and added the oak screen and pannelling of the Hall. In 1808, Jeffery 

 Wyatt constructed the present North Front and Grand Staircase. 



IiOllgleat- Article on, with illustrations of front of the house, in Estates 

 Gazette, quoted in Devises Gazette, January 28th, 1909. 



Colepark. An estimate for building a wall round the park, temp. James 

 I., is printed in Wiltshire Times, February 6th, 1909. 



HOIlOUr Of TrOWbridge. A note on various lands held under the 

 Honour of Trowbridge is printed in Wiltshire Times, February 6th, 1909. 



" A True Relation of a number of people frozen to 



death near Salisbury, and in several other parts of the West 



