104 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



not considered a matter worth mentioning, and Bishop Poore's Undercroft 

 at the Palace remains in its former condition as " cellarage." It is of 

 a piece with this that Tidworth should still be the property of Sir John 

 Kelt (sic), and that the little matter of the purchase of Salisbury Plain 

 by the Government and the considerable military doings thereon should 

 find no place in a book published in 1899— when, too, Warminster Parish 

 Church had apparently not been re-built. The very interesting Church 

 of Enford, with its unique octagonal vestry, is dismissed with the 

 statement that it was " entirely re-built " some time early in the century. 

 At Avebury the Saxon clerestory windows escape notice altogether, and 

 the very remarkable tower of Netheravon hardly fares better. The 

 Stourhead collection is said to be " deposited " by Sir Henry Hoare in 

 the Museum at Devizes. The series of pre-Conquest grave slabs and 

 cross-bases at Cricklade, Colerne, Littleton Drew, Minety, and Bradford- 

 on-Avon are not mentioned — and of the many remarkable examples of 

 Church plate to be found in the county only two or three are mentioned at 

 all. Omissions and mis-statements such as these are annoying to the 

 tourist, in a book of which one expects both fullness and accuracy. We 

 get what we want in Mr. Murray's Foreign guide books ; why should we 

 not also get it in those he provides for us at home. 

 Eeviewed, Devizes Gazette, Oct. 12th, 1899. 



Wiltshire Motes and Queries, No 27, Sept., 1899. 



Mr. Kite leads off in this number with nine pages, " Some Notes on the 

 Monument of an Ecclesiastic in Edington Church," with a nice drawing 

 of the tomb and a valuable cut showing the effigy full face with all the 

 details of the costume, interesting as being that of the Bonhommes, who 

 only possessed two houses in England — Ashridge and Edington. Mr. 

 Kite discusses the vexed question of the monogram and rebus on this 

 tomb. Britton gave them as T.B., and surmised " Thomas Bolton." In 

 the most conspicuous place in which it occurs— on the barrel — the 

 monogram appears to be LB., and has been so printed, but Mr. Kite 

 asserts that in other places on the monument where it occurs the first 

 letter is clearly a small black letter t, the monogram on the barrel at the 

 foot of the figure having been tampered with and made to look like I. 

 In support of his contention he gives cuts of the two perfect monograms, 

 and believes that the rebus is " Boc-in-tun," i.e., Bukkington, Bulkington, 

 as suggested by Canon Jackson. Now Leland mentions Thomas 

 Bukyngton as one of the principal benefactors to the monastery, and he 

 is mentioned in the Valor JScclesiasticus of 1584, in the list of obits 

 maintained at that time. Mr. Kite, forty years ago, in scraping off the 

 coats of whitewash from the niches at the head and feet of the effigy, 

 found distinct traces of the smoke and also of the wax of the tapers burnt 

 there. He concludes, therefore, that Thomas Bukyngton (or Bulkington), 

 who was certainly a benefactor, was also a monk of Edington, and is the 

 person here represented. Mr. Kite also begins "Notes on Amesbury 

 Monastery, with an account of some Discoveries on the site in I860." 

 " Bratton Kecords," " Quakerism in Wiltshire," " A Calendar of Feet of 



