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three columns, the two outermost containing Beauchamp above Nevill 

 and Monthermer over Despencer respectively, while the middle column 

 has Newburgh between Montagu and Clare. 



Salisbury Cathedral. "Notes on the Montagu Monument in 

 Salisbury Cathedral " ; by the Eev. E. E. Dorling. Three pages, two 

 illustrations. The Ancestor, No. 6, July, 1903. 



A short article, illustrated by two phototype views of the altar-tomb of 

 Sir John Montagu, second son of William, first Earl of Salisbury of the 

 1337 creation, and father of John, the third Earl. The tomb, with its 

 recumbent efiigy of the knight and the series of Montagu coats which 

 afford most important evidence of the armorial practice of the fourteenth 

 century are minutely described. 



Maiden Bradley. "Historical Notes on Maiden Bradley and the 

 Neighbourhood," beginning in the Wilts County Mirror of Jan. 8th, 

 1904, and continued on January 15th, 22nd, and 29th, February 5th, 

 12th, and 26th, March 4th, 18th, and 25th, April 8th and 29th, and May 

 13th. 



The geology and water supply of the neighbourhood is first treated at 

 length, with the knowledge of an expert (a rare thing in articles in local 

 papers). The writer then attacks the far more debatable subject of the 

 derivation of the word " Maiden." He begins by saying that it is the 

 only example of its use in the County of Wilts, and that it occurs for 

 the first time in the hundred rolls in 1273, and then goes at great length 

 into the various derivations that have been proposed : (a) the Celtic 

 "maen" — (b) the derivation from Margaret, d. of Manasser Biset, the 

 founder of the hospital, and herself a benefactress to it in 1210 — (c) the 

 derivation from the B.V.M. the dedication of the chapel of the priory 

 having been to SS. Mary and Lazarus — (d) the derivation lately advo- 

 cated in the Antiquary from the "Leprous Maidens " of the hospital. 

 The author discusses the arguments in each case, and gives a great 

 number of the earliest references to the place from the public records 

 and Keports of the Historical MSS. Commission, maintaining that its 

 earliest use was by the priory alone, and was applied only to the property 

 of the priory. He then proceeds to elaborate his own derivation. The 

 field names are dealt with at some length, and the ancient fairs on May 

 6th and Oct. 2nd are described and what is known of their history is 

 told. In this connection the game of " Bumball Poopey," as played at 

 some of the inns, is described — a form of skittles in which the ball was 

 suspended from the ceiling and swung round at the end of its rope. 



IVEallliesbury Abbey was visited by the Bristol and Gloucestershire 

 Archaeological Society on May 25th, 1903, and the account of the ex- 

 cursion is fully given in their Transactions for 1903, vol. xxvi., 1 — 16, with 

 process views of the North Side ; North Doorway ; South Porch ; 

 Easternmost Clerestory Window, South Side ; Interior, South Side ; 



