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given, and the architecture of the Church is described, the restoration 

 by Mr. C. E. Ponting being rightly praised for its care and conservatism. 

 Why the quaint animal supports of the Jacobean pulpit should be said 

 to be much earlier than the pulpit itself does not appear. They are 

 probably a valuable example of what the original bases of these 

 pulpits, which have in the great majority of cases been destroyed, were 

 like. 



Chippenham. One of Mr. J. Lee Osborn's well-written topographical 

 articles in The Wilts and Gloucester Standard, March 14th, 1914. The 

 architectural features of the Church are well described. There are 

 photographs of the Bridge and of the Old Town Hall. 



Bremliill and Stanley Abbey, Maud Heath's Causey, 



is another article by the same author, Wilts and Gloucester Standard, 

 April 11th, 1914. The Church is again well described, and affords a 

 text, as it well may, for one of Mr. Osborn's savage onslaughts on 

 "restorers" and all their tribe. In his account of Stanley Abbey he 

 does not seem to know of Mr. Brakspear's very full excavation of the 

 site. In connection with Stanley the " Word Ale " at Midgehall is 

 described. 



Maude Heath's Causeway, by" Penwriter," article in Wiltshire 

 Times, April 18th, 1914. 



Cricklade, by J. Lee Osborn. Cirencester, 1913. Pamphlet, 7in. x 4|in., 

 pp. 15, price 2d., is a reprint of the article which appeared in Wilts and 

 Gloucestershire Standard with photos of St. Sampson's Church with old 

 Market Cross ; St. Sampson's Church, looking East ; St. Mary's Church 

 with Cross ; St. Mary's Church, looking East ; St. Augustine's Oak in 

 the Garden of St. Sampson's Vicarage. 



Coate, the Birthplace of Richard Jefferies, and 



Chiseldon Church. By J. Lee Osborn. H. T. Harding, The 

 Abbey Press, Malmesbury. 1913. Pamphlet, 8£in. X 5|in., pp. 8. A well- 

 written sketch of Jefferies'lif e followingMr.Salt's somewhat extravagant 

 estimate of the " Pageant of Summer" and " The Story of My Heart " 

 as prose poems "unsurpassed by anything which the English language 

 contains." 



The Gospel Oak, Cricklade, St. Augustine's 

 Meeting Place with the British Bishops. 



Cirencester : by J. Lee Osborn, Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard 

 Printing Works, 1913. Pamphlet, 7in. X 4|in., pp. 8. 



The author, assuming that Bishop Browne is right in his contention 

 that " Gospel Oak " marks the meeting place of Augustine and the 

 British Bishops, tells the story of that meeting here. 



The Wilton Hounds. Article by X. in Country Life, Dec. 27th, 



1913, pp. 923—925, with nine photos of hounds. 

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