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which Braden Forest is the remnant was stili held by the Britons, and 

 that they, and not the Welsh Britons, were the allies of the Hwiccas — that 

 Malmesbury was in Augustine's time a great centre of British power and 

 British Christianity — and that it was near Cricklade, perhaps at Oak 

 Farm, in Down Ampney, that Augustine met the Britons in conference. 

 The paper is a valuable one, and should be read. 



"The Wiltshire Whirlwind of October 1st, 1899," 



was the subject of a paper read before the Meteorological Society by the 

 late Mr. G. J. Symons, on May 16th, 1900. " This whirlwind occurred 

 between 2 and 3, p.m. commencing near MiddleWinterslow,and travelling 

 in a north-north-easterly direction. The length of the damage was near]y 

 twenty miles, but the average breadth was only about one hundred yards ; 

 in this narrow track, however, buildings were blown down, trees were 

 uprooted, and objects were lifted and carried by the wind a considerable 

 distance before they were deposited on the ground. Fortunately the 

 greater part of the district over which the whirlwind passed was open 

 down, otherwise the damage, and perhaps loss of life, would have been 

 considerable. At Old Lodge, Salisbury, the lifting power of the whirl- 

 wind was strikingly shown by several wooden buildings being lifted 

 up and dropped down several feet north-west of their original position. 

 At a place eighteen miles from its origin the whirlwind came upon a rick 

 of oats, a considerable portion of which it carried right over the village 

 of Ham, and deposited in a field more than a mile and a half away." 

 Athenceum, 19th May, 1900, p. 630. Devizes Gazette, May 24th; 

 Salisbury Journal, May 5th, 1900. 



Xic&COCk Abbey, by A. H. Diplock, in The Gentleman's Magazine, Nov., 

 1900, pp. 434 — 443, is an article which contains as much detailed 

 information as can reasonably be expected in the space of 10 pages. The 

 story of the foundation and the dissolution of the abbey is told ; and the 

 life of Sir William Sharington — the architectural features of the buildings, 

 the discovery of photography, and the career of John Man, a native of 

 Lacock, who became warden of Merton Coll., Dean of Gloucester, and 

 Ambassador to Madrid under Elizabeth, are touched upon. The in- 

 formation, moreover, appears to be carefully and correctly given — the 

 author having gone first to Mr. Talbot and the pages of this Magazine. 



LaCOCk Abbey. The Bath and County Graphic, Aug., 1900, pp. 

 41 — 43, has an article by " Glenavon," giving some account of the buildings 

 and history of the abbey, illustrated by five pen-and-ink drawings : [The 

 Bell. Cot] , Early English Piscina, Cauldron, Early English Window, and 

 Early English Capital. Also a View of the abbey in the September 

 number. There are some mistakes in the letterpress of this article. Sir 

 William Sharington was not " the last male heir of his family." He was 

 succeeded at Lacock by his brother, Sir Henry Sharington, and he had 

 also a younger brother, John, of Medbourne, Wilts. He left no daughter. 

 Olive (not Olivia) was third daughter of Sir Henry Sharingion. The 



