Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 349 



Silbury Hill, Avebury, and the West Kennet Long 



BarrOW. A short article by H. St. G. Gray in Country Life, July 

 24th, 1909, calling the attention of the travelling public to these monu- 

 ments, and incidentally mentioning that although the barrow is under 

 the protection of H.M. Office of Works, a fire recently lighted to burn 

 up the docks, nettles, &c, which had been cleared off it, had been so 

 placed as to fracture one of the standing sarsens on the barrow and split 

 a large piece off it. Two photos of the long barrow are given, one of 

 which shows this fractured stone; a third photo shows " The modern 

 road into Avebury," with the recent excavations in progress at the side 

 of it. 



William Beckford's Adventure in Diplomacy An 



Unpublished Correspondence. Article by Louis Melville in 

 The Nineteenth Century, May, 1909, pp. 783—799. 



" Hitherto everyone has been ignorant that he (Beckford) dabbled un- 

 officially in high politics, and actually endeavoured, by the unaided 

 efforts of himself and his agents, to arrange a basis for a treaty of peace 

 between France and England in the year 1797. . . . The corres- 

 pondence is now printed with the object to make public Beckford's 

 interesting adventure in diplomacy, but it also throws some light upon 

 Beckford's activity and thoroughness as a collector." The Letters are 

 eleven in number, two of them from Beckford himself and eight from 

 Nicholas Williams, his agent in Paris, six of them addressed to Beckford 

 and one to James Goddard, of Salisbury. 



Ruth Fierce. The story of her death in Devizes Market on Jan. 25th, 

 1753, with the reprint of a leaflet describing it, signed by Kalph Good, 

 Mayor of Devizes, issued in 1760, together with a good photo of the 

 Market Cross. Wiltshire Times, Aug. 21st, 1909. 



Sir John PerrOtt, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, temp. Q. Elizabeth, 

 is the subject of an interesting note in Wiltshire Times, Aug. 21st, 1909. 

 He purchased St. Ellen's Well and a Chapel called St Ellen's Chapel 

 with other property in Devizes, and land called " Our Lady Bowre 

 belonging to Our Lady Bowre Chapel, and also two parrqcks, parcel of 

 the same Our Lady Bowre Chapel " in Bishops Cannings. The site of 

 these Chapels does not seem to be known. 



Stonehenge. The Baptist Times and Freeman, Aug. 13th, 1909, has 

 a long letter by Dr. John Clifford describing a visit to Stonehenge and 

 Salisbury Plain, reprinted in Wiltshire Times, Aug. 21st, 1909. 



Tews at Marlborough and Wilton in the Thirteenth 



Century. An interesting note in Wiltshire Times, Aug. 21st, 1909. 



Mr. Sam Darling at Beckhampton. Article in Fry's 



Magazine for July by A. Sidney Gal trey, extracts from which are printed 

 in Devizes Gazette, July 8th, 1909. 



