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Hoare's Modern Wilts. Mr. T. H. Baker prints three " Licences to Eat 

 Flesh in Lent " granted by Peter Thacher, Parson of St. Edmund's, 

 Salisbury, in 1633. Canon Wordsworth gives a list of twenty-seven 

 Church Houses in existence in Wiltshire, about 1670, from the Notitia 

 of Bishop Seth Ward. 



NO. 80, Dec, 1912, " The Washington Memorials 



at Garsdon " is continued, with an account by Mr. H. Brakspear of 

 the old Manor House, great part of which was pulled down about fifty 

 years ago, and the remains adapted to farmhouse use. Much of 

 interest however remains, including the original 14th century roof 

 of the hall, and a beautiful Elizabethan stone mantelpiece, both 

 of which are here illustrated by admirable photographs. The 

 Wiltshire Protestation Returns of 1641 — 2 ; Marriage Bonds of the 

 Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum ; Wiltshire 

 Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1584 — 1604 ; 

 Notes on the Family of Jason, of Broad Somerford ; Notes on 

 Blunsdon St. Andrew ; Sherston Manor Rolls ; Steeple Ashton Church- 

 wardens' Accounts, are all continued. There are also Notes on the 

 Hydes of Wilts and Cheshire by J. J. Hammond, and the Family of 

 Tyse by A. Schomberg. 



NO. 81, March, 1913. The number begins 

 with a notice of the life of Tobias Crisp, D.D., with a reproduction 

 of the engraved portrait by A. Soly, 1690. He was born in London, 

 1660, was Bector of Brinkworth 1629—1642, and died Feb. 27th, 1642-3. 

 A beginning is made with the Records of Marden, prefaced by some 

 account of the place by the Rector, the Rev. T. S. Cunningham, who 

 tells us that there is still a tradition that " a great battle had been 

 fought ages ago on Marden Down between men with red heads and 

 men with black heads, and that the red-headed men won . . . that 

 the dead were buried in a large cave on the clown, and that nobody had 

 ever dared to enter it." Notes on the Family of Jason, of Broad 

 Somerford, with abstracts of several Jason wills ; Sherston Manor 

 Rolls ; Marriage Bonds of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and 

 Chapter of Sarum ; a Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire ; and 

 Wiltshire Protestation Returns of 1641 — 2 ; are continued. The will 

 of John Banninge, of Burbage, 1579, and that of John Ludlow, 1519, 

 are printed, and Mr. Talbot has a note on the existence in 1776 of a 

 " Church House over which is Vestrey Room & Hall, where is keept 

 y e Court Baron and Leet, for the Mannor of Lacock" just adjoining 

 the west side of the churchyard. It seems to have been demolished 

 shortly afterwards. Some Briefs in the Registers of Long Newnton 

 and Codford St. Peter are given. 



Salisbury Cathedral occupies pp. 38—49 in " English and Welsh 

 Cathedrals by Thomas Dinham Atkinson, with twenty illustrations in 

 colour by Walter Dexter, R.B.A. . . . Methuen & Co., London, 

 1912." 8vo. The feature of the book is the presence of the, in many 



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