350 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &e. 



Rev. George Webb, Rector of Bath and Bishop of 



Limerick. An interesting article by the Eev. C. W. Sbickle, 

 F.S.A., in Proceedings of the Bath Nat. Hist, and Antiquarian Field 

 Club, xi., 141 — 150, 1908 — 9, with reproduction of a portrait engraved 

 by Thomas Slater. George Webb was born at Bromham, 1581, son of 

 Hugh Webb, the Eector, who died 1597. Entered at University Coll., 

 Oxon., gained a scholarship at Corpus Christi. Vicar of Steeple Ashton 

 1605, married 17th June, 1606, Annie, d. of Robert Seager, of Bromham 

 (b. 1589, died Nov. 17th, 1617, Monument in Bromham Church). 

 He married, secondly, October 27th, 1618, Elizabeth, d. of Clement 

 Browne, of Avington, Berks. Rector of Bath 16'21. Bishop of Limerick 

 1634 — 1641. Died 1641 of gaol fever, having been imprisoned by the 

 Papist rebels. Buried in St. Munchin's Churchyard, Limerick. He 

 published many sermons. 



HarthaiU Park, the seat of Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Bart. 

 Article in Country Life, August 7th, 1909, with thirteen excellent 

 photographs of the extensions and architectural features of the gardens 

 lately designed by Mr. H. A Peto. They are " The House and its 

 Setting," " The Canal," " In the Garden House," "The Pergola and the 

 Sundial," " The Way over (the Canal)," " Art and Nature (the Canal) " 

 "The Loggia and the Bridge," " The South Lawn," "A Circular Rose 

 Garden," " A copy of the Warwick Vase," " The Enclosure at the End 

 of the South Terrace," "To the South Terrace,"" "The Gardener's 

 Cottage. " 



"All CanuiUgS Estate. . . . 2606 acres . . . comprising 

 almost the entire village of All Cannings . . . will be sold . . . 

 by Messrs. Knight, Frank & Rutley ... at the Bear Hotel, Devizes 

 . . . September 23rd, 1909." 



Sale particulars. Folio, pp. 36, 2nd Edition. Folding coloured plan 

 in pocket of cover, and map of district on back of cover. Forty good 

 photoprocess views of houses in the text, viz., Manor Farm ; Bridge 

 House Farm ; Cliff Farm ; Chandler's Lane Farm ; South Farm ; 

 Drewitt Cottage; and thirty-four views of cottages and houses in the 

 village street and elsewhere. An excellent pictorial guide to the village, 

 on the sale of Sir Christopher Furness's Wiltshire estates. 



" Steeple Langford, Stapleford, Berwick St. James, 

 Winterbourne Stoke, and Maddington. Particulars 



of Sale . . . 7816 acres . . . forming the greater part of the 

 villages of Steeple Langford, Stapleford, and Winterbourne Stoke, pro- 

 ducing a gross income of about i'3,811 per annum . . . sold by 

 Messrs. Knight, Frank, and Rutley ... at the White Hart Hotel, 

 Salisbury . . . 21st and 22nd, September, 1909." 



Folio. 2nd Edition, pp. 59. Three coloured folding plans loose in 

 pocket of cover and map of district on outside of cover. Good process 

 views of Manor Farm, East Cliff Farm, Mill House and seventeen cottages 



