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RECENT WILTSHIRE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, 

 ARTICLES, &c. 



[N.B. — This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive. The Editor 

 appeals to all authors and publishers of pamphlets, books, or views in any 

 way connected with the county to send him copies of their works, and to 

 editors of papers and members of the Society generally to send him copies 

 of articles, views, or portraits, appearing in the newspapers.] 



Life in an English Village; an Economic and 

 Historical Survey of the Parish of Corsley, in 



Wiltshire. By M. P. DavieS. T. Fisher Unwin, London : 

 Adelphi Terrace. Leipsic : Inselstrasse 20. MCMIX. 



9in. X 5fin., pp. xi. + 5 unnumbered + 319. Cloth. 10*. 6d. net. 

 Seven illustrations — An Old Inhabitant ; Map of the Parish ; Cley Hill ; 

 The Old Church, pulled down cir. 1830 (S. view, from an accurate 

 drawing) ; Cottage with Weaver's window, inhabited by John Mines, the 

 last weaver in Corsley ; Corsley Heath Wagon Works (a group of work- 

 men) ; Temple and the Longleat Woods. 



" In 1905, when a student at the London School of Economics, it was 

 suggested to me by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb that I should pursue my 

 studies of Economic History and Social Science by making an investigation 

 into the history and present conditions of the parish in which I was 

 living, and it is upon the research and investigations begun at that time 

 that this monograph is based." So says the authoress— Miss Maud F. 

 Davies — in her preface. 



The book is a stout volume on good paper, well printed, and its scope 

 may be judged of from the proportionate length of the two parts into which 

 it is divided ; Part I., " Corsley in the past " occupying pp. 4 — 96, whilst 

 Part II., " Corsley in the present " fills pp. 99 — 290. 



The appendices contain a translation of the grant of the manor of 

 Corsley in 1245 to the nuns of Studley ; an Inquisition of 1337 ; 

 translation of an extent of the manor of Whitbourne in 1364 ; a 

 translation of the Papal Bull of 1415, giving the right of sepulture to 

 Corsley, which before that time bad buried at Warminster; an in 

 interesting order of 1635, assigning the seats in the Church to their 

 respective occupiers ' ; and a list of incumbents and patrons of Corsley 

 from 1250 to 1902. Extracts from the overseers' accounts of 1729, the 

 Census Reports, and the farming accounts of Mr. John Barton in 1804, 

 together with a list of references to Corsley, MS. and printed, are also 



1 This curious order, which exists amongst the parish records, showing a 

 plan of the Church with every seat marked, is not here illustrated, but a 

 photograph of it is inserted in the copy of the book in the Society's library. 



