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prevalence of Christian names in Wiltshire and Devonshire in the middle 

 of the sixteenth century. Taking the names mentioned in the survey 

 Dr. Straton finds in Wiltshire that in every hundred the order of fre- 

 quency was as follows: — John 22, William 15, Thomas 10, Eichard 6, 

 Henry 5, Robert 4, Edward 3 George, Stephen, and Walter 2, Alexander, 

 Edmund, Nicholas, Philip, Roger, and Simon, 1 ; whilst girls' names 

 occur with the following frequency : — Jane 23, Alice 13, Elizabeth 6, 

 Margaret and Agnes 5, Edith and Christian 4, Anna, Julia, Blitha, Joan, 

 Mary, Katherine, and Thomasina, 2, Denise and Margery 1. 



The origin of the surnames mentioned is also discussed, and Plough, 

 White dog, White hart, Buck, Bull, Fox, Cock, Chough, Crane, Nightin- 

 gale, &c, are explained as taken from the signs of inns or shops. 



The first twenty-eight pages of the Introduction are taken up with the 

 descent and history of William Herbert Earl of Pembroke, and his wives 

 Anne Parr and Anne Compton; the remainder with the customs of the 

 various manors, and the hundred and one other matters of interest upon 

 which the survey of one manor or another throws light. Among buildings 

 named are the " Court of the Belhouse, " the chief court of the seignory of 

 the abbey, the Shirehall, and the Brown Bower (or Lockup) at Wilton, 

 the Church House at Ramsbury and elsewhere. The Hospital or Priory 

 of St. Giles, stood behind the present laundry of Wilton House, 

 " the Chapel of which was converted into two cottages during the last 

 century, and some remains still exist .... The Hospital was used 

 as a leper hospital, and many of the old inhabitants believed that they 

 had seen ' The leprosy Queen ' walk in the dark part of the road where 

 it formerly stood. It was removed in 1830 to a site in Fugglestone — 

 farther west — and is now an almshouse." 



The Manor House at Dinton contained a hall, parlour, kitchen, cham- 

 bers and chapel. Knighton Manor had a Church in which the Vicar 

 of Broad Chalke was bound to say divine service " every Sunday and 

 on all Feastful days in the year, and every Monday, Wednesday, and 

 Friday in the year." This does not appear to be the chantry in 

 Broad Chalke Church. " A few years ago there was an old hollow stone 

 in the garden of Knighton Manor, like the base of a cross, and a sketch 

 in an old terrier shows a small building between the house and the 

 river, with a bell cot on the roof ridge." 



The surveys of the Wiltshire manors are contained in Vol. I., those of 

 Devonshire and elsewhere in Vol. II., and to the contents of the survey 

 itself the editor has added, as appendices, The Customal of South Newton 

 A.D. 1315; Decree by the courte of Augmentacions upon the composition 

 betwyne the Propriatories of the Parsonage of Chalke and the late monas- 

 tery of Wilton ; Inquisitio p.m. William Earl of Pembroke ; Will of 

 William first Earl of Pembroke ; Originalia Roll 35 Hen. VIII. ; Patent 

 Roll 5 Edw. VI. 



The illustrations include portraits of William, first Earl, from the 

 Heroologia, and from a medal ; the Court of the Belhouse, Wilton ; 

 Anne, Countess of Pembroke, daughter of Thomas, Lord Parr of Kendal, 

 ob. 1552, from stained glass in Wilton Church, formerly in the chapel of 



