164 Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



" MautOll Horses." Articles in The Sporting Life, Feb. 10th and 

 13th, and " A Visit to Manton," in The Sportsman, Jan. 26th, 1909, 

 described the famous training establishment. 



The Will Of Margaret Hud, of Studley, in the parish of Trow- 

 bridge, is printed in Wiltshire Times, March 27th, 1909. 



The Ancient Guilds of Salisbury. Twelfth Article 



This valuable series of articles is continued in the Salisbury Journal, 

 October 17th and December 26th, 1908. Further extracts from the 

 records of the Tailors' Guild are given at length. Among other interesting 

 items are the inventory of goods belonging to the Corporation of Tailors 

 in 1709, and a bill " amounting to £10 11*. 6d. for knots (rosettes) and 

 other decorations for the members, Giant, etc., for use at the midsummer 

 feast and procession, 1713." In the thirteenth article (December 26th) 

 a further series of extracts, extending to two and a half columns, from 

 the ledgers of the same Guild are given. 



Notes on Objects of the Bronze Age Found in Wilt- 

 shire, " by the Eev. E. H. Goddard. An article in The Reliquary 

 October, 1908, pp. 242—249, with fifteen illustrations from pen drawings 

 in the text. These notes deal with objects in the Devizes Museum, in 

 Mr. J. W. Brooke's collection, and elsewhere, which have not before 

 been properly described or illustrated. 



Lord Fitzmaurice at Leigh House, Bradford-on-Avon, is th& j 



subject of an article in The World, one of a series of " Celebrities at 

 Home," which is reprinted at length with a good portrait in the Wilt- 

 shire Times, October 31st, and in Wilts Advertiser, November 5th, 1908, 

 It contains a fairly full account of the new Chancellor of the Duchy of 

 Lancaster's career, with some description of his home and its contents. 



Salisbury, the " Infirmary Walk." a note in The Nursing |j 



Mirror, Oct. 3rd, 1908, describes this annual function which dates back 

 to the foundation of the Infirmary in 1776. It consists in the procession 

 of the nurses and staff of the Infirmary and of as many patients as are able ■ 

 to join in it, through the streets to the Cathedral to take part in the | 

 Anniversary Thanksgiving Service, this being now amalgamated with the i 

 annual Harvest Festival services at which the collections are for the I 

 Infirmary. 



Ed. Gibbon at Devizes. The Wiltshire Advertiser, January 14th, J 

 1909, has a note on the connection of the historian with Devizes. He I 

 was a Captain in the Hampshire Militia for three years, and during the j 

 latter part of the year 1761, when he was twenty-four, his regiment lay 

 at " the populous and disorderly town of Devizes," during which time as \ 

 the " little civility of the neighbouring gentry gave us no opportunity of < 

 dining out," he set himself " to recover his Greek." 



