252 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



" Hodges " or " yokels " but living people ; and the birds, too, especially 

 the starlings, acknowledge her as an intimate friend. Indeed the book 

 has much of the charm that Eichard Jefferies' writings possess— The 

 charm that comes from the close observation of Nature, and the power 

 of showing the results to others. The book itself is delightfully got up, 

 many of the photographic illustrations, printed in a soft brown ink, having 

 all the charm and softness of a mezzotint. There are thirteen in all, 

 amongst them being : A View of Stockton House — The Almshouse 

 Gateway at Stockton— A Tomb in Stockton Church — Wiltshire Shepherds 

 — and a number of lovely bits of stream and winter trees, evidently, though 

 they are not named, from the meadows of the valley of the Wylye. 



It has been well reviewed in The Morning Post ; Daily Mail, June 

 8th ; Daily Telegraph, June 20th, 1900 ; Pall Mall Gazette, World, 

 Speaker, Athenaeum, Country Gentleman, and Spectator. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries. No. 30. June, 1900. 



This number contains an admirable half-tone plate of the monument 

 in the Mayor's Chapel at Bristol, to Mary, second wife of Sir Edward 

 Baynton, of Bromham, who died 1667, with a short note thereon. The 

 Eecords of Bratton, Quaker Birth Becords of the 17th Century — Feet of 

 Fines for Wiltshire — the History of the Dissolution of Amesbury 

 Monastery, with a list of and notes on all the known prioresses — are 

 continued from the last number. A deed connected with Aldbourne and 

 the acquisition of the manor by the Goddard family is given in full, with 

 notes on the history of the place. Amongst the notes is a valuable one 

 clearly establishing the fact that " Oram's Grave," the name given to the 

 barrow at the spot where the Salisbury-Warminster and Maddington- 

 Codford St. Mary down tracks intersect, in the parish of Chitterne, is so 

 named from one Oram, of Chitterne, who committed suicide some time at 

 the end of the 18th century and was buried at the cross-roads in the barrow. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries. No. 31. Sept., 1900. 



Mr. Kite, in his notes on Amesbury Monastery, reaches the dissolution 

 period, and takes up the cudgels against the theory advocated by Messrs. 

 Talbot and Buddie in this Magazine that the present Parish Church of 

 Amesbury is a distinct building from the Church of the Monastery. Mr. 

 Kite puts the case for their identity very clearly and strongly. To begin 

 with he recalls the indisputable fact that when a Church was partly 

 parochial and partly conventual, the eastern half of the Church, including 

 the choir, and usually the space under the tower and the transepts, was 

 habitually spoken of as the "Monastic Church"; whilst the western 

 portion, or nave, was called the " Parish Church" — as though they were 

 two separate buildings altogether. He argues that it was the " Monastic 

 Church " which was here condemned as superfluous, i.e., the chancel and 

 perhaps the transepts of the existing Church, of which the roofs were 

 dismantled, whilst the " Parish Church," i.e., the nave, belonging to the 

 parishioners, was left undisturbed, that its services were continued, 

 bequests were made to it, and parishioners buried within its walls as 



