Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Article*. 107 



person, violent not only in his language, but also, according to his own 

 account, in his actions, against all who do not fall in with his suggestions 

 or orders, thinking nothing of personally hauling off an opponent^to gaol 

 when he is mayor, or violently beating a party of bearers who declined 

 to go into a plague-stricken house to fetch out the inmates. His great 

 achievement as mayor, however, seems to have been the suppressing of 

 all the alehouses in the city — above four score in number — by the simple 

 process of withholding their licenses. One alehouse, indeed, defied his 

 authority, and would not close. In three days and a half the whole 

 household had drunk themselves to death, a judgment on them for 

 resisting the mayor's edict! A marauding soldier who "swears high 

 upon the Welsh tongue" has the choice whether he will put his head or his 

 leg in the stocks, and though he " sprung out his heels and paid the 

 beadle " when his hands were tied to the whipping post, yet the beadle 

 "paid him" afterwards. Altogether Mr. Ivie seems to have been 

 something like a mayor, and in temperance matters had a short way 

 with brewers and publicans that seems to have been effective, but it is 

 hardly, perhaps, so much to be wondered at as he seems to think that 

 with many people he was unpopular. 



The Wiltshire Regiment. A long and good account of the 

 origin, history, and achievements of the old 62nd, raised in 1758, and the 

 99th, raised in 1824, which together form now the 1st and 2nd Battalions 

 of the "Wiltshire Kegiment," appears in the Devizes Gazette, Dec. 7th, 



1899, in connection with the departure of the regiment as a part of the 

 6th division ordered to South Africa. 



Wiltshire and the War in South Africa. The doings of the 



Wiltshire Eegiment — the Wiltshire Contingent of the Imperial Yeomanry 

 — and the Wiltshire Volunteers — with lists of Wiltshiremen serving at 

 the front, and letters written by Wiltshiremen from South Africa have 

 filled a large space in all the county papers during the progress of the 

 war, the Devizes Gazette having given especially full and good accounts. 



MalmeSbUry Abbey is the subject of three papers by J. G. Holmes 

 in the Bristol Diocesan Magazine for Oct. and Nov., 1899, and Jan., 



1900, with three process illustrations :— Exterior, S. Side — Interior, N. 

 Side — and Exterior, East End. 



SllttOn Beilger Embroidery. Mr. St. John Hope's notes on this 

 are reprinted in the Feb., 1899, number of the Bristol Diocesan Gazette, 

 vol. i , pp. 32—34. 



Wiltshire in 1899. A good review of the year's events as far as 

 they concerned the County of Wilts appeared in the Devizes Gazette, 

 Jan. 4th, 1900. 



Chippenham in 1899. A similar article on matters concerning 

 Chippenham, Devizes Gazette, Jan. 4th, 1900. 



