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of Penruddocke impaling in the one case Freke and in the other case 

 Hanham. Now it was the elder Thomas Penruddocke who married 

 a Freke. and he it will be who is principally responsible for fitting 

 this room. But his son, the younger Thomas, whose wife was a sister 

 of Sir W. Hanham, probably completed the work and set up the 

 second shield ... As Charles Penruddocke (fourth in descent 

 from Col. John) lived till 1789, the decoration of the Drawing Koom 

 was probably carried out in his time. The very fine coved ceiling is 

 in the style of which Robert Adam was the chief exponent. But it 

 is not quite like his handling . . ." 



Boyton House, a seat of Mr. H. N. Fane. Country Life, 



Aug. 30th, 1910. pp. 262—268. An article with the following excellent 

 photographs : — the Porch ; the Forecourt Posts and the East Elevation ; 

 House and Church from the West Lawn ; the South and West Eleva- 

 tions ; Bowling Green, Terraces, and Wood as seen from the Paved 

 Garden ; the House from the new Rose Garden ; an Eighteenth 

 Century Urn ; Looking West from the Paved Garden ; the Drawing 

 Room; Boyton Church, the Southern Chapel and Tombs. 



The descent of the Manor is shortly traced, and the house, completed 

 by Thomas Lambert in 1618, is described, as well as the considerable 

 additions and improvements carried out by the present tenant, Mr. 

 Moffat, in the way of formal gardens. 



The Theory Of Stonehenge. A paper by W. Dale, F.S.A., read 

 during the visit this summer of the Hampshire Field Club to Salisbury 

 and Stonehenge, giving the results of the excavations by Dr. Gowland 

 and Sir Norman Lockyer's theory of the object and date of the structure, 

 is printed in The Salisbury Times, September 9th, 1910. 



StOIieheilge. " The Romance of Early British Life from the earliest 

 times to the coming of the Danes," by G. F. Scott Elliot. London, 

 1909, cr. 8vo. Contains a frontispiece of the Building of Stonehenge, 

 and chapter viii. describes the hauling of the stones and their erection, 

 and the quarrying of the Altar Stone at Frome. 



The Marchioness of Lansdowne at Lansdowne 



House. Article in The Onlooker, April 16th, 1910, pp. 120—125. 

 A short account of the house and its contents, pictures, and statuary, 

 illustrated by good photographs of the Porter's Lodge, the " Artemis " in 

 the Inner Hall, the Marchioness of Lansdowne in her Boudoir, the 

 Dining Room, the Library, the Ball Room and Statue Gallery, the 

 Ante Room, Lady Lansdowne's Boudoir, the Dining Room. 



The Erlestoke Estate. The sale of the Edington portion of the 

 Erlestoke Estate of Mr. G. S. A. Watson Taylor, which took place at 

 Devizes on June 28th and 29th, 1910, was fully reported with the prices 

 paid for the various lots, in the Wiltshire Gazette, June 30th and July 

 7th ; Wiltshire Times, July 2nd and 9th, 1910. The Wiltshire Gazette 



