182 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



here, and a new departure is made by printing lists of Lepidoptera and 

 plants, collected respectively by Messrs. E. Cook and T. F. Dunston in 

 the county outside the Marlborough district. 



Wilts Notes and Queries, No. 42, June, 1903. 



An excellent photo of Place House, Melksham, taken in 1864, just 

 before its destruction, accompanies the beginning of a paper by Mr. Kite 

 on Place House and its Owners. ''The manor and hundred of Melksham, 

 given by Henry III. to the Priory of Amesbury, were five years after 

 the dissolution conveyed by Giles Gore, Gent., and Elizabeth, his wife, 

 to Henry Brouncker, Esq. Mr. Kite gives a number of notices of mem- 

 bers of this family from Lawrence Brounker, who appears at Chippenham 

 in 1378 ; Bobert, who had property at Devizes, Bishops Cannings, 

 Southbroom, Keevil, Seend, and Came, in 1515—1534 ; his son, Henry, 

 who owned property at Bupton .and Thornhill, in ClyfTe Pypard, 

 1535, and later lands at Melksham, Whitley, Shaw, Benacre, Seend, 

 Orcheston St. Mary, Tilshead, Potterne, Marston, Steeple Ashton, and 

 Devizes, for which latter place he was M.P. He also owned Earlstoke 

 and was Sheriff of Wilts in 1558. His son, William Brouncker, sheriff 

 in 1580, M.P. for Wilts, 1586, was knighted. His son, Henry Brounker, 

 parted with the estate. Mr. Kite gives a pedigree showing the connection 

 of Brouncker with Dauntsey, of West Lavington, and Jennings, of 

 Co. Somerset. A branch of the Selfe family, of Benacre, became 

 owners of Place House. The will of Isaac Selfe, Sen., who died 

 in 1656, is here printed, and a plan of the surroundings of Place House 

 in 1734 and a drawing of the coat of arms formerly over a doorway in 

 the garden, are given here. Bratton Becords, Quaker Birth Kecords, 

 and a Calendar of Feet of Fines are continued. Notes on the Purton 

 Enclosure Acts — A Shield of Arms in Westwood Church, a letter from 

 Adam Gouldney, of Chippenham, to George Fox, the founder of 

 Quakerism, and an interesting series of briefs from the Baverstock 

 registers, are the most important remaining items in the number. 



On the Jurassic Strata cut through by the South 

 Wales Direct Line between Pilton and Wootton 



BaSSett. By Prof. Sidney Hugh Beynolds, M.A., F.G.S., and 

 Arthur Vaughan, Esq., B.A., B.Sc, F.G.S. Pp. 719—752. Vol, lviii. 



of The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Nov., 29th, 1902. 



This is an important paper, but only the last half-dozen pages are 

 concerned with that portion of the new line which lies within the County 

 of Wilts. This cuts through the Forest Marble, and Cornbrash, and the 

 Oxford Clay and Corallian formations. Sections of the Forest Marble, 

 east and west of Alderton Tunnel are described. This formation extends 

 as far west as Bradfield, in Hullavington, half-a-mile beyond which the 

 Cornbrash first appears. A list of the fossils obtained from this latter 

 formation is given. The Oxford Clay extends from Kingway Barn to 

 Wootton Bassett, where the Corallian appears. A section of this latter 

 is described, and a list of the fossils found in the Oxford Clay is given. 



