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— Mere, in churchyard — Minety (Pre-Norman sculptured fragments) — 

 Netherhampton, in churchyard — Netherhampton,wayside cross — Purton, 

 in churchyard — Ramsbury (Pre-Norman sculptured stones in Church) — 

 Rodbourne — Salisbury Market Cross — Salisbury, St. Martin's, in church- 

 yard — Wayside cross on Pepper-Box Hill, five miles from Salisbury — 

 Sedgehill, in churchyard - Sherston, base in vicarage garden— Shrewton 

 —Steeple Ashton, in village - Stourhead, Bristol Cross — Stratford Tony, 

 wayside " Cooper's Cross " — Tisbury, in churchyard — Trowbridge, re- 

 mains in Church porch — Wilton Market Cross — Wraxall, North, in 

 village. 



Mr. Adye notes Blindhouses and Lock-ups as existing still at Amesbury, 

 Box, Bradford, Chippenham, Colerne, Downton, Heytesbury, Hilperton, 

 Lacock, Luckington, Malmesbury, Maiden Bradley, Pewsey, Shrewton, 

 Southwick, Steeple Ashton, Sutton Benger, and Trowbridge. 



He also notes Stocks as still existing at Chilton (on a district road east 

 of the mill atLaverton, now in Berks, but formerly in Wiltshire), Wootton 

 Bassett (under the Town Hall), Melkshatn (at the Town Hall), Great 

 Bedwyn (a tree still stands called the " Stock Tree," to which the stocks 

 were formerly fastened), and West Knoyle (near the Church). 



Of Public Monuments Mr. Adye enumerates the Gore and Chitterne 

 Robbery monuments— the stone coffin west of Beckhampton, on the road 

 side — the three " Shire Stones " at Colerne, marking the junction of the 

 three counties of Wilts, Gloucester, and Somerset — The inscription on 

 St. John's Hospital at Malmesbury — the obelisk at Warminster- — the 

 Lydeway monument to James Long — and the Maud Heath monuments 

 and inscriptions at Kellaways Bridge ; the Cliff, Chippenham ; and Wick 

 Hill, Bremhill. 



Mr. Adye has done most useful work in this report, which does not 

 pretend to give an exhaustive list. In the matter of crosses, of course, 

 it might be considerably added to. 



Annals of the Seymours. By h. St. Maur. 10 x 6-*-, 534 pp. 



Kegan Paul. £1 10s. net. 1902. 



" A portly family history, in which Mr. St. Maur traces the name to 

 the ' small, but very ancient ' French village of ' Saint-Maur-sur-Loire ' 

 — so-called, as legend has it, from a ' black hermit ' of seventh century 

 fame. He follows the family to England and narrates their subsequent 

 history from 1491 in a series of short biographies, fully illustrated by 

 photographs from pictures and prints, genealogical tables, &c, with copious 

 notes." — Times Literary Supplement, July 4th, 1902. 



Stonehenge, The Architectural Discoveries of 1901 



at, by Detmar J. Blow. Read before the Royal Institute of British 

 Architects, Monday, 20th January, 1902. A paper in Journal of the 

 Royal Institute of British Architects, vol. ix. 3rd series. No. 6. 25th 

 January, 1902, pp. 121 —142. Illustrated with a plan (from the Times, 

 9th April, 1901), a small " General Plan," and thirteen illustrations from 

 photos of the operations, amongst the best that have appeared in any 



