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" Memorials Of Wren." A paper by Lawrence Weaver in The 

 Architectural Review, Oct., 1909. Illustrated from the Wren MSS. 

 and drawings. 



The Ancient Guilds of Salisbury. The Tailors' 



Guild. Extracts from the Kecords of the Fraternity. Salisbury 



[Journal, Dec, '25th, 1909. This is the concluding article of the series 

 which have appeared from time to time in the Journal, and brings 

 down the history of the Tailor's Guild from 1739 to May 26th, 1880, 

 when the two surviving members sealed a deed of feoffment disposing 

 of all the property of the corporation, its effect being to render the 

 corporation defunct. The history of the guild during the nineteenth 

 century is melancholy reading. Its very considerable house property 

 in Salisbury was gradually sold and the rents and purchase money as 

 regularly divided amongst the few remaining members, whose object 

 was to keep the membership as small as possible in order that each 

 individual's share in the plunder might be the greater. In 1839 it was 

 worth the while of John C Munday, a " foreigner," to pay an entrance 

 fee of £85 (instead of the £5 which had always previously been exacted 

 from a "foreigner ") for admission to the guild. Naturally the legitimate 

 objects of the guild were entirely ignored, and when its property had 

 been eaten up it came to an end. The " Tailors' Hall," built in 1524, 

 situated behind the buildings at the corner of Milf orcl Street and Penny- 

 Farthing Street, is now used as a store and is in a very dilapidated 

 condition. The Salisbury Museum contains various relics from this 

 hall — including The Giant, The " Hob-nob," the Giant's two-handled 

 sword and mace, a panel of the arms of the Corporation of Tailors, the 

 seal of the guild, and two pieces of fifteenth century glass from the 

 windows representing the Virgin and Child and St. Chi'istopher. 



StOnehenge, (June 21st, 1908), by W. H.Hudson. Article 

 • in The English Revieiv, Dec, 1908, pp. 60—68, describing the crowd at 

 Stonehenge at daybreak on the longest day, with a few reflections on 

 the Plain, &c. 



Songs in Wiltshire by Alfred Williams. Erskine 



Macdonald, 17, Surrey Street, Strand. W.C. 1809. 



Cloth, 8jin. X 5jin., pp., including title, 132. Printed by Butler & 

 Tanner, Frome. Price, 5s. The dedication is " To Lord Fitzmaurice, 

 whose spontaneous interest occasioned the appearance of this volume." 

 It contains sixty short poems, of which two are translations from 

 Horace's Odes and one from Anacreon. " The Greek Peasant's Prayer 

 for Eain," and " The Brook," appeared in New Songs, Mr. F. Bowles' 

 anthology, 1907, and " The Devotee and " The Bondman " in Garnered 

 Grain, 1909. There is nothing distinctive of Wiltshire in these poems 

 beyond the titles of two or three of them : " Wiltshire Song," " Lyd- 

 dington Hill," and " On the Downs." The introduction, of four pages, 

 by Galloway Kyle, gives an interesting account of the author's re- 

 markable career. The son of a carpenter at South Marston, he left 



