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[N.B. — This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive, The Editor 

 appeals to all authors and publishers of pamphlets, books or views in any 

 way connected with the county to send him copies of their works, and to 

 editors of papers and members of the Society generally to send him 

 copies of articles, views, or portraits, appearing in the newspapers.] 



The Fifteenth Century Cartulary of St. Nicholas' 

 Hospital, Salisbury, with other Records, edited by 

 Chr. Wordsworth, M.A., Master of the Hospital, 



with twenty-two illustrations. Salisbury : published by Brown & Co., 

 The Canal. Printed by Bennett Brothers. 1902. Cloth. 8vo. Wilts 

 Becord Society Series. Pp. lxxxviii., 386. [Date on the cover, 1903.J 

 Price, £1 Is. (to members of the Wilts Kecord Society, 15*.). 



The introductory note tells us that " This book contains the whole of 

 the fifteenth century cartulary, or old register belonging to the antient 

 Hospital of St. Nicholas, in or near new Sarum, with such additions as 

 were made in that book until about the year 1639. Interspersed among 

 these and in part added, as a supplement to them, towards the close of 

 the book are such other records as relate to the hospital, and are preserved 

 iri diocesan or national archives. Some also have been included which 

 concern the Chapel of St. John Baptist on the Isle, the Scotist College of 

 St. " Nicholas de Vaux " (or " de Valle Scholarium ") and the collegiate 

 Church of St. Edmund, Salisbury, which it is hardly too much to call 

 daughter institutions or offshoots of St. Nicholas Hospital on Harnham 

 Bridge. A brief account or kalendar (in part by no means exhaustive) 

 of records belonging to the hospital has been added." 



Pages xxi. to xxxviii. are taken up with the editor's preface, of which 

 a chronological list of events relating to the hospital from 1214 to the 

 present day is an important item. 



" At the close of the 12th century . . . there was no considerable 

 edifice standing on the site of the city now known as Salisbury excepting 



%* It may be worth while to note that on pages 175 and 178 in Charters of 

 Robert Maskerel dealing with lands at Gerardeston (Gurston, in Broadchalke), 

 the expression " dimidia acra in Smokfurlang, & una acra in eadem cultura, 

 que vocatur la Smokacre " occurs. " Smokeacre " also occurs in a terrier of 

 the common lands of Clyffe Pypard, but no explanation has yet been forth- 

 coming as to the meaning of the term. — E.H.G. 



