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(reported Devizes Gazette, &c, August 6th,) the chairman announced 

 the receipt of a letter from Sir Edmund Antrobus stating that he was 

 willing to sell Stonehenge, including an area surrounding it not exceeding 

 eight acres, for fifty thousand pounds to some public body, At the same 

 meeting the council unanimously declined to contribute <£500 towards 

 the. expenses of the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society in 

 taking legal action with regard to the right of public access to Stonehenge. 



St01ielieilg*6. Sir Edmund Antrobus's offer to sell is the subject of a 

 leading article in the Standard, July 17th, 1903, expressing the hope 

 that some millionaire may come forward and present Stonehenge to the 

 nation. 



The Wilts County Mirror, Nov. 13th, 1903, quotes from an article 



in The Architect, on the subject, taking the side of the Commons Preser- 

 vation Society, and the daily papers of Aug. 21st, the Salisbury Journal 

 of Aug. 22nd, and Devizes Gazette of August 27th, print a letter from 

 "the Rt. Hon. G. Shaw Lefevre to Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice announcing 

 that the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society were about to 

 commence legal proceedings, but that they would be glad to see the 

 negociations for the sale of Stonehenge to a public body brought to a 

 successful issue, " provided it is clearly understood that the fence which 

 so disfigures the monument will be removed." 



At a meeting of the County Finance Committee, on Oct. 17th, a 



letter from the Treasury was read stating that the Lords of the Treasury 

 are not prepared to purchase Stonehenge at the price of ±'50,000. 

 Devizes Gazette, Nov. 19th, 1903. 



Malmesbury Abbey. The Monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul, by 

 J. Gr. Holmes. A paper on the history and architecture of the Abbey, in 

 Bristol Diocesan Magazine, Oct. and Nov., 1899, and Jan., 1900, with 

 three good process illustrations: — S. View, 1899 — Ruins of East End, 

 showing North Arch of Transept — North Wall of Nave, showing Pier 

 Arches, Triforium, and Clerestory. 



StantOIl PitZWarren, The Church of St. Leonard, by C. E. Ponting, 

 F.S.A. Reprinted from Wilts Arch. Mag. in Bristol Diocesan Magazine, 

 March, 1900, with process illustration of the Font, pp. 75 — 80. 



