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The illustrations comprise : — Portraits of Bishop Shute Barrington and 

 of Will. Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, from prints, the former an 

 admirable reproduction of a mezzotint ; three sketches of the present 

 buildings by J. A. Keeve ; Effigy of Will. Longespee, from a print (poor) ; 

 seals of Ela, Countess of Salisbury (poor) ; coloured reproduction of 

 encaustic tiles ; Plan in 1245 ; Rough plan by E. Hickman ; Plan from the 

 Ordnance Survey ; Views of the Chapels of St. John the Baptist, of the 

 Hospital, and of the College de Vaux (from an etching by E. Benson 

 1826) ; View from the garden ; Group of brethren and sisters ; Fac simile 

 of Royal charter ; Seals of the hospital ; a Canon regular de Valle 

 Scholarium in Champagne ; and apparently inserted as an afterthought 

 a most admirable collotype of the original profession of canonical 

 obedience made by Ela, Countess of Salisbury to Bishop Bingham, 

 in 1240. 



Altogether a very valuable addition to the books of Wiltshire. 

 A long review in Salisbury Journal, Aug. 22nd, and one in Salisbury 

 Diocesan Gazette, November, 1903, by C. H. M. 



. Aldhelm, his Life and Times. Lectures de- 

 livered in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, Lent, 



1902, by the Right Rev. G-. P. Browne, D.D., 

 D.L.C.L., F.S.A., Bishop of Bristol, s.p.c.k. : London. 



1903. 7 X 4f. Cloth, pp. 366. Price 5*. 



The illustrations, twenty-two in number, mostly from photographs, 

 include the following connected with the County of Wilts : — Malmesbury 

 Abbey in 1903 (showing the restored S.W. bay)— Ditto in 1900, North 

 and South Views and interior — The Saxon Church at Bradford — Aldhelm, 

 Hildelyth and the nuns of Barking — and the Pre-Norman Stones at 

 Bamsbury, Bradford (2), Colerne, and Littleton Drew. 



Beginning with the connection of the See of Bristol with St. Aldhelm 

 and the history of the see itself, the author discusses the authorities for 

 Aldhelm's life, and takes William of Malmesbury's " Gesta Pontificum," 

 in the manuscript of which in the Library of Magdalen College, Oxford, 

 is included the Life of Aldhelm, as the authority whom he follows in 

 detail throughout the book. He then passes on to the early history of 

 Malmesbury, and sets forth the view which he has supported in this 

 Magazine that Malmesbury continued the easternmost stronghold of the 

 Dumnonian Britons right up into Saxon times after the Battle of Deorham 

 in 577 A.D., and that the Britons who with the Hwiccas fought the 

 Battle of Wanborough against the Saxons of Wessex were the Britons 

 of the Malmesbury district, and that it was they, and. not the Britons 

 of Wales, who met Augustine at their first meeting. He suggests that 

 the Irish teacher Maildulbh, who settled at Malmesbury, may have been 

 one of Carthach's followers, who were turned out of the great monastic 

 school founded by him at Kahan, in Meath. 



He discusses at some length the derivation of the name Malmesbury. 

 " In its earliest forms," he says, "the name is clearly derived from the 



