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



school at 11, remained on a farm until he was 14, when he went to the 

 Swindon Gr.WVR. Works, where he became in due course, and still is, a 

 hammer-man at a forge. By hard study before and after working 

 hours, he has mastered Latin, Greek, and French. His first poems 

 were published in New Songs, in 1907. 



The Haunch of Venison, Salisbury. A short description, 



written by Firmin S. Bradbeer, with illustrations from pen-and-ink 

 drawings by William Brown. Price 6d. Salisbury : printed for F. S. 

 Bradbeer by the South Wilts Mirror and Express Co., Ltd., 1909. All 

 rights reserved. 



Pamphlet, 8fin. X 5|in., pp. 14 (unnumbered, including title). The 

 title on the cover, " The Story of an old Salisbury Inn," is misleading, 

 for with the exception of an extract from the Salisbury Journal of 

 1784, no fact in the history of the house is mentioned. Apparently the 

 house has been recently restored, and the illustrations, photographs of 

 the front, and of the group of objects (glass bottle, stoneware jug, shoes, 

 mug, &c.) found during the restoration, and the six pen-and-ink 

 drawings of the panels and beams of the interior are interesting. 



St. Augustine's, Swindon. Illustrations of "The New Parish 

 Church," "Interior of the Old Mission Church," and " S. Augustine's 

 C.L.B., with Band and Cadets," accompany a short account of the 

 parish in The Home Mission Field, Feb., 1910. 



Some Letters of Sir Christopher Wren, article by 



Lawrence Weaver, in Country Life, Jan. 8th,. 1910, pp. 41—44. With 

 a good reproduction of a portrait engraved by Elisha Kirkall, after the 

 painting by Klosterman, and facsimiles of three letters by Sir Christo- 

 pher :— a letter in admirable Latin to his father, in 1641 when he was 

 10 years old, a love letter to Faith Cog-hill, whom he married, and a 

 third, written in 1698, to his son, the compiler of the Parentalia, wheii 

 he was travelling in France. These letters are reproduced.from the 

 originals, which, with others, are preserved in a Graiigerised copy of 

 theParentalia in the possession of Mrs.Pigott, (nee Miss Wren-Hoskyns, 

 the only surviving descendant of the great architect in the direct line). 



Notes on some Relics of King Charles I., now in the 

 possession of Major J. Benett- Stanford, of Hatch 



House, Tisbury. [From " Proceedings " Dorset Natural History 

 and Antiquarian Field Club, vol. xxx., p. 236, 1909]. Dorchester : 

 " Dorset County Chronicle " Printing Works, 1909. 



Pamphlet 8jin. x 5|jn,, pp. 4 with three plates from photos of " Cast 

 of theface of King Charles I. " ; " Gloves worn on the Scaffold by King 

 Charles I. " and "Autograph Letter of King Charles to Prince Rupert " ; 

 " Letter to Prince Rupert." 



The Notes describe very shortly how these extremely interesting 

 relics come to be preserved at Hatch House, in the possession of the 

 author. 



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