Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 525 



Crl'ittleton HOUSe. Article on the garden, illustrated with photo of 

 the house from the lawn, in My Garden Illustrated, July, 1914, pp. 

 100—102. 



The Wilton Diptych. By Sir Claude Phillips. Article in Daily 

 Telegraph, Feb. 17th, 1914, arguing at considerable length that this 

 famous portrait of Richard II. is not, as has been of late generally 

 agreed, of the Early French school, but is really an English work. The 

 possibility of its sale is also mentioned. 



r The Hazelands ," in New Park Street, Devizes. 



An interesting note on the history of this house and its occupiers is 

 given by Ed. Kite in Wiltshire Gazette, Nov. 27th, 1913, It belonged 

 to the Nicholas family, of Roundway, in Elizabethan days, and Robert, 

 son of John and Mary Nicholas, is believed to have been born here in 

 1595. He was Recorder of Devizes and M.P. in the Long Parliament, 

 1640, prosecuting counsel at the trial of Archbishop Laud, Sergeant-at- 

 Law 1648, and Justice of the Upper Bench and Baron of the Exchequer 

 later. After the Restoration he retired to Seend and died there 1677, 

 being buried without memorial at Southbroom. Ed. Richmond Nicholas, 

 M.B., died at the Hazelands, 1770. His eldest son, Robert, M.P. for 

 Cricklade, sold Roundway to the Sutton family and the Hazelands, in 

 1780 to John Anstie, clothier. On his death, 1830, the house became 

 the property of the Hazeland family (whence its present name) until 

 1887, when it was bought by the late John Llewellin. It has been 

 entirely modernized externally, 



A memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts. Com- 

 piled from Ancient Records, Registers and 

 Family Papers, by Richard Jefferies, Coate, 

 Swindon. 



8in. x 6in., stiff wrapper, pp., including title, 43. " Privately reprinted 

 by Dwight Goddard, at Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. 1912." Printed by 

 Simmons & Bothem, Shoe Lane, London, E.G. 



The two last pages contain a note from the " History of the D'oyley 

 Family " and " Extract from Pamphlet written by William Austin 

 Goddard." With this addition and the omission of pp. 54 — 56 

 containing the Apparition of William Avon, Jefferies' book is re- 

 printed verbatim. 



Other Days, Recollections of Rural England and Old 

 Virginia 1860—1880. By A. Cr. Bradley, London. 

 Constable and Company, Ltd., 1913. 



Cloth, 8fin. X 5|in., pp. xi. + 427. Portrait of the author. 



The portions of this interesting book which deal specially with 

 Wiltshire matters are Chap. III., " Dean Bradley and Marlborough in 

 the Sixties," pp. 64 — 104; Chap. IV., "County Cricket Forty Years 



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