636 Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



of June 16th hid also a good article giving shortly the history of the 

 building up of the estate between 1815 and 1830 by George Watson 

 Taylor, with some details of the history of Edington and of the varied 

 fortunes of Erlestoke itself since 1830. 



For the four days' sale of this estate four finely-produced folio Sale 

 Catalogues were provided. 

 First day. Parishes of Edington and Bratton, pp. 49, with excellent 

 photos of Housecrof t Farm, Manor and Parsonage Farm, Priory 

 House, the old Monastery Fishponds, Monastery Gardens Cottage, 

 The Grange, Half-Timbered House, Ballard's Farm, (all in 

 Edington,) a Key Plan of the County of Wilts, and three large 

 folding plans. 

 Second day. Parishes of Edington and East Coulston, pp. 45, with 

 photos of Coulston House, Woodlands (Edington), A'Beckett's 

 House (Edington), exterior and oak bedroom, George Inn (Tin- 

 head), Two Houses at Tinhead, with Key Plan and three large 

 folding plans. 

 Third day. Parish of Erchfont, pp. 29, Key Plan and one folding 



plan — no illustrations. 

 Fourth day. Parishes of Marston, Potterne, Worton, Great Cheverell, 

 and Erchfont, pp. 37, with photos of End Farm -(Marston), Two 

 Half- Timbered Houses (Marston), Pound Farm (Marston), Key 

 Plan and three folding plans. 



The Foxhaill Estate of Lord Lansdowne. The sale at Chippen- 

 ham on June 24th 1910, is fully reported, with the prices of the different 

 lots, amounting to 1050 acres, in the Wiltshire Gazette, June 30th ; 

 Wiltshire Times, July 2nd, 1910. 



Devizes, Early Victorian Schools. A series of recollect- 

 ions of School Life in Devizes by " Septuagenarian " appeared in the 

 Wiltshire Gazette, Aug. 4th and 18th, the latter being especially con- 

 cerned with anecdotes of the mastership of It. W. Biggs, LL.D. 



Wiltshire Centenarians. A note on some of the most remark- 

 able is printed in the Wiltshire Times, July 16th, 1910. 



Pickwick. The origin of the title of the "Pickwick Papers" by Dickens 

 is traced to Moses Pickwick, a coach proprietor of Bath, the great 

 grandson of one Eleazer Pickwick, originally a foundling picked up at 

 Pickwick and named after that place, who rose from being a postboy to 

 be landlord of the White Hart Inn, at Bath. Wiltshire Times, July 

 16th, 1910. 



Robert Hickman, Of Bromhani, condemned to be hanged for 

 acts of piracy under Captain Kidd in Madagascar, at Boston, U.S.A., 

 in May, 1701. Note in Wiltshire Times, June 11th, 1910. 



The Sarsen Stone in the River at Bulford. Mr. E. H. 



Stone, in a letter to the Salisbury Times, Sept. 2nd, 1910, writes from 

 a personal investigation of this stone, carried out in a boat, that "from 

 its size and shape it could not possibly have been intended to form any 



