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



ll|in. X 7fin., half red morocco. Part I., pp. xiv. +■ 122, with 

 seventy-three portraits and illustrations. Part II., pp. 8 unnumbered 

 + 123—275, with eighty-two portraits and illustrations. 



This is an elaborately illustrated and sumptuously produced account 

 of the author's family and of everything that can be gleaned concerning 

 the different members of it. The greater portion of the two parts of 

 Vol. I., each of them a respectable volume in itself, now issued, is taken 

 up with details concerning the present and immediately preceding 

 generations of American members of the Stokes family. The author 

 does not seem to have traced his pedigree with any great certainty, but 

 is no doubt descended from the Stokeses of Seend and Titherton, and 

 he gives illustrations of the Stokes Brass in Seend Church and of the 

 Church itself, the north aisle of which was built by John Stokes, who 

 died 1498. He also gives a certain amount of genealogical information 

 as to the Stokeses of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. 



Borough of Devizes. Reports made to the Council 

 in relation to Letters Patent of King James I., 

 1609—10, granting property to the Corporation, 

 being an outline of the History of Chantry 



Property in Devizes, together with the Minutes of Meetings 

 and Reports of a Special Committee appointed by the Town Council 

 to enquire into the above Letters Patent. Printed at the " Wiltshire 

 Gazette " Office, Devizes. [1909.] 



4to pamphlet : pp., including title, 11. 



This consists of an Historical Introduction, and a translation of the 

 Letters Patent of James (1609 — 10) re-granting charity lands to the 

 Mayor and Burgesses of Devizes, by P. D. Gillman, the Minutes of 

 the Meetings of a Committee appointed to investigate these grants, and 

 Reports by Mr. Edward Kite upon "Devizes Chantries, &c, their 

 Founders and Endowment " and on " Letters Patent from James I. 

 . . . re -granting Chantry Lands to the Mayor and Burgesses." 



Compton Park, the Seat of Mr. Charles Penruddocke. 



Article in Country Life, Aug. 13th, 1910, pp. 228—236, illustrated by 

 excellent photos of "North Entrance," "Doorway from the Dining 

 Room to the Hall," " Dining Room Mantelpiece," " Hall Chimney," 

 " Portrait of Prince Rupert in the Dining Room," " Ceiling of the 

 Drawing Room," "In the Drawing Room," "A Lacquer Cabinet," 

 North- East Aspect," "Compton Church," "The Church, the Hall, and 

 the Yew." 



" In the Library we find a plaster ceiling and a wooden mantelpiece 

 and wainscotting of reserved ornamentation but of excellent design, 

 belonging to the period of William III. Of the same period, but 

 much more elaborate, is the great Dining Room. The carvings are 

 very likely not the handiwork of Gibbons, or even a product of his 

 workshops, but they certainly belong to his time and his school, and 

 are fine examples of their kind. . . . The shields show the arms 



