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gables on each of its two sides, and was probably in plan something 

 between Boyton and the larger Fonthill house of P^lizabethan days, 

 which the picture now above the library chimney-piece at Little Ridge 

 shows to have been a long building with a recessed centre and 

 projecting wings." When Sir R. C. Hoare published a plate of 

 Berwick St. Leonard House in 1829, it was in fairly good condition, 

 though even then used only as a barn, " but in 1905 it stood gaunt, 

 roofless, and derelict, merely an outside shell, and even part of that was 

 fallen, and all decayed." " It was therefore decided that the remnant 

 should form part of the new building and be the model for the rest. 

 The most accurate measured drawings were first taken of the 

 irregularity of the old mason's work in order that this might lie 

 retained. Then each stone was taken down, labelled, penned in 

 hurdles, removed to the new site and set up again in complete 

 harmony with its former position and appearance." Such details as 

 the finials on the gables, and the ornamental parapets surmounting the 

 bay windows, which appear in Hoare's illustration, had apparently 

 disappeared and have not been reproduced in the re-erected building, 

 the whole of the interior of which is new. The excellent illustrations 

 are : " Entrance Front," " The Wing from the Bowling Green," a 

 reproduction of Hoare's plate of Berwick St. Leonard Manor, " The 

 S.W. Front," " The Lily Pool in the Flower Garden," " The Flower 

 Garden from the Bastion," " The Garden Entrance from the High 

 Terrace," " Plans of the First and Ground Floors," " From within the 

 Garden House," "In the Library," "The Garden Room," "Plaster 

 Work " (mantelpiece), " In the Dining Room," " The first flight of the 

 Staircase." The letterpress was reprinted in Salisbury Journal, 

 October 26th, 1912. 



Wiltshire Parish Registers. Marriages. London : 

 Phillimore & Co. Vol. XII. 1912. 8vo. pp. viii., + 147. 



Price 10s. 6d. Contains the marriage registers down to 1837, of Bratton, 

 transcribed by the Rev. J. Gofton ; Kington St. Michael, by the Rev. 

 A. H. W. Adrian, and the Rev. F. P. Synge ; Fugglestone and Bemerton, 

 by the Rev. W. Symonds ; Boyton and Sherington, by J. J. Hammond ; 

 Latton, by A. H. W. Fynmore ; and Collingbourne Ducis, by the Rev. 

 R. G. Bartelot and the Rev. G. F. Tanner. 



Vol. XIII. Edited by John Sadler. 1913. Linen. 8vo. 



pp. vii., -+- 146. This volume is entirely taken up with the marriages 

 of St. Edmund's, Salisbury, and contains those from 1559 to 1741 , copied 

 by the Rev. A. R. Thurlow and Mr. James Parsons. The remainder will 

 be printed in the next volume. The marriages of seventy-three 

 Wiltshire Parish Reisters have now been printed in this series. The 

 editor appeals for further offers of help in the transcription of Wiltshire 

 registers. The series can only be continued if such voluntary help is 

 given. Anyone willing to transcribe the marriage registers of any 

 parish not yet dealt with should communicate with Mr. J. Sadler, 

 124, Chancery Lane, London. 



