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Hospitals, Benefactors, Celebrities, &c." Compiled by Edward Slow. 

 Price, 2s. 6d. net. Wilton : Edward Slow. Salisbury : R. R. Edwards. 

 Wilton : The Wilton Printing Works, North Street. Cr. 8vo, cloth 

 [1903], pp. 150. 



The actual " Chronology" of this little book occupies pages 10 to 43, 

 of which 17 to 43 are concerned with events from 1800 down to the 

 present time and the remaining seven suffice for all previous centuries. 

 For the earlier history the author does not profess to have gone beyond 

 Hoare, Britton, and the Wilts Archaeological Magazine. Even in later 

 years the list of events often includes only one or two items in each year 5 

 and many of these are events of general as well as local interest. The 

 greater part of the information is contained in the lists and short accounts 

 of various things connected with the town which fill the body of 

 the book. These begin with a list of the "Bishops of Wilton," 

 taken from Hoare, though, by persons who have not the good 

 fortune to live at Wilton, the Bishops from Athelstan, in 909, to 

 Hermann, 1045, are commonly known as Bishops of Ramsbury, and 

 Mr. Slow forgets, apparently, that Berkshire, as well as Wilts, was still 

 included in the diocese. 



A useful annotated list of Abbesses of Wilton, taken from Mr. 

 Nightingale's papers in this Magazine, follows, with the list of nuns at 

 the time of the dissolution. 



Next follow notices (taken from Hoare) of the ancient Churches of the 

 place, and a list of the Rectors. A list of the charters, with that of 

 Queen Victoria printed in full. An account of the Corporation Plate and 

 Seals, taken from this Magazine. Wilton Trade Tokens. A valuable and 

 fairly complete list of the Mayors from 1282 onwards, drawn up by the late 

 H. J. F. Swayne. List of M.P.s. Charitable Benefactions (from Modern 

 Wilts), and a short notice of the ancient hospitals. The ten pages devoted 

 to the notices of thirty- three " Worthies " are very useful, as well as the 

 notices of members of the Pembroke family which follow. The account 

 of the Wilton Carpet Factory is from this Magazine. The principal 

 buildings and objects of interest are noticed, and the boundaries of the 

 borough are given, this latter a very useful idea. The book ends with 

 "Walks and Places of Interest in the Neighbourhood," and the Sermon 

 preached in Wilton Church by the Bishop of Salisbury on Sept. 19th, 1900, 

 the 800th anniversary of the charter granted by Hen. I. This latter is 

 printed at length. 



Altogether the work is an unassuming little book with a great deal of 

 information within its neat binding, and Mr. Slow as a rule most com- 

 mendably gives the source from which he draws his matter, but why did 

 he and his printer allow quite so many misprints to pass uncorrected ? 



Salisbury Theological College. By the Rev. Rocksborough 



R. Smith, Vice Principal. An excellent article in The Treasury, May, 

 1903, Vol. L, pp. 688—692. The foundation of the college by Bishop 

 Hamilton in 1861, largely through the anonymous gift of a layman who 

 was supposed to be Mr. Henry Hoare, the completion of the buildings 



