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



in various digressions on the subjects which it opens up. There are, 

 for instance, many notes on points of mediaeval ritual and Church 

 history, and customs. The use of the " low side window " is discussed at 

 length, and the reader is given the choice of very many of the fifteen 

 theories which have been invented to explain this most inexplicable 

 feature of mediaeval ecclesiastical architecture. King Charles the 

 martyr is dwelt upon at some length. The figure of St. George in a 

 window by Kempe gives occasion for much somewhat savage criticism 

 of the representation of that saint upon our coinage, and Pugin is 

 extolled as the greatest Christian architect since the middle ages. 



Amongst interesting points which are not mentioned in Mr. Ponting's 

 notes on the Church ( W.A.M., xxx., 182 — 186), are the following : — 



A fine Caroline Door originally in Winchester Cathedral has been 

 placed in the N. doorway. " A bowl or piscina " near the font came 

 from Cirencester. A German wooden panel with a carving of the 

 Adoration of the Magi, bearing the date 1587, probably came from 

 Diessen, in Hanover. The new chancel roof has been largely made up 

 of good perpendicular woodwork " from a private chapel in the N. or 

 Midland counties " bought from a dealer (Mr. Little) of Bristol. 



A list of the Rectors from 1299, extracted from Philipps's Wilts 

 Institutions is printed. 



One serious omission there is. The Rector gives the names of the 

 designer and sculptor of all the woodwork, ifec, except of those pieces, 

 — and they are many — which he has wrought himself. Of the author- 

 ship of these not one word is said. Surely this silence is a little hard 

 on the next generation, for whose behoof as well as for that of the 

 present generation presumably the book is published. Indeed, if one 

 did not already know it, one would never find out from this book that 

 the Rector was a wood carver at all, or that any of the decoration of 

 the Church was due to his own hand. The description of the chalice 

 is misleading, and it seems to imply that the base and stem may be of 

 15th century date. As a matter of fact the base and stem are quite 

 nice Elizabethan work, and the bowl appeal's to be later, probably of 

 the date engraved on the foot of the paten cover, 1698. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 79, Sept., 1912. 



Daniel Whitby, S.T.P., 1638—1726, Precentor of Salisbury, with a 

 portrait and his will, is the subject of a note by Mr. A Schomberg. 

 " Notes on the Family of Jason of Broad Somerford," " Sherston Manor 

 Rolls," "The Wiltshire Protestation Returns of 1641— 2," "Calendar 

 of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire," " Marriage Bonds of the Peculiar Court 

 of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum," and " Steeple Ashton Church- 

 wardens' Accounts," are continued from previous numbers. Mr. E. Kite 

 begins an account of " Drew, of Southbroom," the name appearing first 

 in the parish of Bishops Cannings about 1498. Notes on Blunsdon 

 St. Andrew are chiefly concerned with Sir Anthony Keck, who purchased 

 the manor in 1695, and the descent of his property. Mr. J. J. Hammond 

 has a note on "Goldston, of Alderbury, " and' on a shield of arms in 

 that Church which differs much now from the account given of it in 



