Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 139 



about a walking tour, and describing the daily incidents that beset the 

 walker, the people he met, especially the landlords and landladies of 

 tb.3 inns, the frequenters of their bars, and what they talked about and 

 how he answered them, and what manner of pictures decorated the 

 walls of the bedrooms where he slept. 

 Noticed, Times Literary Supplement, May 8th, 1913. 



The Registers of the Parish of Wylye in the County 

 of Wilts. Published by the Rev. G. R. Hadow, 

 IKE. A., from Transcripts made by T. H. Baker 

 and J. J. Hammond. Devizes : printed by Geo. Simpson, 1913. 



Linen, lOjin. X 7in., pp. x (including titles) + 4 (unnumbered, title 

 of register and notes) + 252 + 1 (page of errata unnumbered). Price, 

 10s. Qd. 



The Rev. G. R. Hadow, when leaving Wylye Rectory, has put his 

 former parishioners and his successor in the parsonage under an obli- 

 gation to himself by providing an edition of the parish registers of 

 marriages, baptisms, and burials, from the middle of the reign of Queen 

 Elizabeth down to the first year of Queen Victoria. It is an attractive 

 looking volume, both outside and within, and does credit to Mr. 

 Simpson's press. 



The index to the Wylye Registers is an admirable piece of work. 

 Where I have tested the references I have found them perfectly 

 accurate. Two or three minor references to place-names may have 

 escaped, but the array of Christian names as well as surnames is very 

 legibly set out in print. The Christian names themselves would make 

 an inviting study. For the work of transcription Mr. Hadow has been 

 fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Baker, who has already put 

 us under obligation by his labours expended on several volumes in 

 Messrs. Phillimore & Sadler's series of marriage registers, and by several 

 useful pieces of work, and he has found in the instance before us a keen 

 coadjutor in Mr. J. J. Hammond. The editors have given us a list of 

 incumbents and patrons of the benefice and a record of the plate and 

 bells, and of the charities, as well as the monumental inscriptions in 

 Church and churchyard at Wylye. Fifty-six pages of the book, com- 

 prising the registers from 1581 to 1643, are (for the most part) expressed 

 in the diffuse latinity of the Rev. T. Crockford, a schoolmaster at 

 Stockton, who served as a coadjutor to the Rectors of Wylye from 

 about 1618 to 1629, and from the less scholarly pens of certain others 

 of the clerical staff. Some errors in expanding or printing the contracted 

 Latin on these early pages of a faded register will be condoned by the 

 reader, as a page of errata is being issued by the publisher. 



The illiterate entries on pp. 61, 70, indicate that occasionally the 

 dignified rectors of the Restoration period employed a parish clerk or 

 sexton to write up the register. The loquacious Georgian incumbents 

 have left many characteristic annotations in the Church books. As 

 Mr. Crockford the latinist held the vicarage of Fisherton-de-la-Mere in 

 1613 — 34 we venture to express a hope that at some not far distant 



