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Fines," ' Dugdale, of Seend " are continued, with an interesting deed 

 concerning the Manor of Bromham Battle, dated 1579. 



DittO, No. 28, Dec, 1899. 



Mr. Kite continues his Notes on Amesbury Monastery, but he has not 

 yet reached the discoveries. He also continues his notes on " Old 

 Lackham House and its Owners." A deecf relating to the manors of 

 Bremhill, Stanley, Bromham Battle, and Clench, of 1566 is printed, and 

 the various subjects running in former numbers are continued. The 

 most interesting note is one on the name " Tan," or " St. Anne's Hill." 

 Though it gets no further with the derivation, it establishes the fact that 

 the word " Anne " in the Wilton Chartulary, " Anne-Stan," Anne Torn," 

 "Anne Crundell," supposed by Canon Jones to indicate a land owner named 

 Anne, is really only, as used by the scribe in this document, the accusative 

 singular of the indefinite article "A." 



DittO, No. 29, March, 1900. 



The most interesting contribution, perhaps, in this number is the 

 annotated pedigree of " Stafford of Suthwyke in North Bradley, Wilts, 

 and of Hoke, Dorset," communicated by W. H. H. Kogers — in which the 

 vexed question as to who Emma, mother of Archbishop Stafford, buried 

 at North Bradley, really was, receives a glimmer of light from the fact 

 that a grant of lands in that neighbourhood by Bishop Beckington of 

 Bath and Wells mentions that these lands were formerly held by Emma, 

 the mother, and Agnes Bradley, the sister, of the Primate, who assumed 

 the name and arms of Stafford as the illegitimate son of Sir Humphrey 

 Stafford, Kt. Mr. Kite's Notes on Amesbury Monastery, with a cut of 

 the seal of Lady Margaret Hungerford — The Bratton Becords — Quaker 

 Records, and Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wilts — are carried a step further 

 — and Bishop William of Edington's will, which was unknown to Canon 

 Jackson, is printed in full. 



Marlborough College Natural History Society, 



ULeport for XS99. This report contains the usual account of 

 evening lectures, and of field days at Alton Barnes, Baydon, Little 

 Bedwyn, Chilton Foliat, and Devizes. In the Botanical Section, Mimulus 

 luteus and Galanthus nivalis are noted as increasing, and Muscari 

 racemosum as having established itself at one spot. In the Entomological 

 Section twenty-one species of Lepidojptera new to the district were taken, 

 very largely from the swamp at Chilton Foliat . The Ornithological Section 

 reports the Pied Flycatcher as seen at Marlborough, and the Hawfinch 

 as breeding — and eating peas — at Bamsbury. The most valuable thing 

 in the number is the hand-list of Lepidoptera of the district, compiled by 

 Mr. Meyrick — the most complete list of Wiltshire Butterflies and Moths 

 existing. There are five photo-print views : — " On Marlborough Common " 

 — " The Devil's Den " — " Alton Barnes Church" — " Alton Priors Church " 

 [these two have their titles transposed] — and the "New Beading- Room." 



