318 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



are described, and their marks carefully illustrated, indeed throughout 

 this latter part of the book the bells are more accurately described, and 

 are evidently of more interest to the author than any other feature of 

 the Churches. 



The account of Hilmarton is fuller and better than that of most of the 

 other places dealt with ; the Goatacre Corn Law meeting of 1846 is 

 dwelt on at some length, and a number of interesting entries concerning 

 the bells are given from the churchwardens' accounts. 



The remarkable ambulatory from the N. aisle to the chancel with the 

 rood loft steps within it is shown in the accompanying illustration of 

 the Church. 



Hilmarton Church. Screen from the Chancel 

 showing Squint, Ambulatory, and Rood Loft Stairs. 



The architectural notes on Braden stoke Priory by Mr. Brakspear are 

 very full and good, describing the existing remains at length. Among 

 other things he mentions that a handsome fireplace head which came 

 from the-three storied building which formerly stood, as shown in Buck's 

 engraving of 1750, at the south end of the existing range of buildings, 

 was taken to Corsham Court and there erected in the billiard room, 

 after long lying forgotten, in 1900. It contains the name of the prior at 

 the beginning of Henry the Eighth's reign, T. Walshe, whose rebus is also 

 found amongst the carved stones now built into a wall at Bradenstoke. 



The author notes that the cross which now stands close to the Church 

 formerly stood on the edge of the hill. 



Lyneham has the bell inscriptions and the execution of one Maskelyne 

 in 1838, for the attempted murder of Mr. Bryan Rumboll, of Lyneham 

 Court, as its two chief points of interest. 1 



1 Since the publication of the book the hitherto inexplicable inscription on 

 the medieval bell at Lyneham has been identified by Canon Chr. Wordsworth 

 as a part of the antiphon to Benedictus at Lauds of St. Thomas the Martyr 

 in the Sarum Breviary, I., p. cclix. It should be read thus : — opem. : nobis : 



O : THOMA : PORRIGE . REGE : STANTES. : [lACENTES : ERIGE.J 



