530 Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



a tempting theory, of which, if you are ready to accept camps, barrows, 

 ditches, lynchetts, and British villages, as one and all of the same age, 

 and that the Neolithic, a good deal may be made, but it cannot be said 

 to be founded on any real archaeological evidence at all. 



The book is a pleasant catalogue of the camps and trackways of the 

 South of England, with small plans of all the more important earthworks. 



Noticed, Times Literary Supplement, July 16th. 1914. 



Wootton Sassett. Notes on the Town Hall and the 

 Relics and Portraits contained therein. Fart I. 

 The Corporation Fire Engine and the Ducking 

 Stool. By the Rev. £. H. G-oddard, Hon. Secretary- 

 Wilts Archaeological and Natural History So- 

 ciety. Farts II. and III. The Town Hall and 

 the contents of the building other than those in- 

 cluded in Fart I. By W. Gough, Wootton Bassett. 



Devizes : Printed by George Simpson & Co., Ltd. 1914. 



Pamphlet, 8vo., pp. 27. Illustrations of mace and sword. 



Mr. Gough has compiled a very useful description of the contents of 

 the Old Town Hall, which gives its character to the wide High Street 

 of Wootton Basset. In addition to the old Town Stocks, the Crimean 

 Gun, and the curious old Fire Engine of the middle of the 18th century, 

 which are preserved under the Hall, there are in the Hall itself a con- 

 siderable number of engraved portraits and photographs of the Earls 

 of Clarendon and of others who have been connected with the history 

 of the Borough. The list of these is accompanied by short but accurate 

 notes of the lives and careers of the persons depicted, forming a sort of 

 conspectus of Wootton Bassett worthies. The notes on the maces and 

 insignia are reprinted from Wilts Arch. Mag., xxviii., 28. It would be 

 well if many more important places would follow the. example of 

 Wootton Bassett and find a Mr. Gough to record their treasures and 

 possessions. 



Ashton Keynes and Somerford Keynes. Article by J. Lee 



Osborn in the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, July 18th, 1914. 

 As usual in these articles the architecture of the Churches is well dealt 

 with, the vials of the author's wrath on this occasion being poured in 

 full on the heads of those who widened and " re-built " the Norman 

 chancel arch at Ashton Keynes. Two photos (poor ones) of the Church 

 and Upper Cross at Ashton Keynes are given. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries. No. 82 June, 1913 



Continued from former numbers are notes on the Family of Drew 

 of Southbroom, with entries from the registers of St. Mary's and St. 

 James', Devizes, and Lacock, by Ed. Kite ; the Washington Memorials 

 at Garsdon ; Jason Family of Broad Somerford, with a pedigree ; 

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



