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and South-East, showing Kuins of South Transept ; as well as a Ground- 

 plan by Mr. Brakspear. The Bishop of Bristol contributes a short 

 account of town and abbey, and Mr. H. Brakspear writes a good archi- 

 tectural account of the building. Mr. F. Were gives an interesting note 

 on the heraldry, maintaining that the royal arms on the screen (now 

 the reredos) are the early supporters of Henry VIII. and not those of 

 Henry VII., as has been generally stated, the supporters being the 

 hound as the dexter and the dragon as the sinister supporter. (In 

 Henry the Seventh's case their positions were reversed.) Amongst the 

 badges on the screen is the pomegranate of Katherine of Arragon. 



SherstOll was also visited on the same occasion ; and the account of it 

 occupies pp. 16 — 26 in the Transactions. There are process illustrations 

 of the Church, South Side ; the Kattlebone Figure ; five Corbel Heads in 

 the Church; and " Eattlebones' Chest." The notes on the history of 

 the place and of the Church are good, the architecture of the latter being 

 fully and carefully described. No fresh light seems to have been thrown 

 on the date of the Kattlebone figure, Mr. St. Clair Baddeley, however, 

 expressed the opinion that it was not of Pre-Norman date, though 

 perhaps of the eleventh century. 



Old Wiltshire Crimes. The Wiltshire Advertiser, January 28th, 

 1904, gives an account of the hanging of four men for sheep stealing, 

 two for horse stealing, and one for highway robbery at the Lent assizes 

 of 1801. At the summer assizes of the same year three men were hanged 

 for sheep stealing and one for stealing a calf. Others were hanged for 

 like offences in 1802 and 1803, and in the latter year Thomas Hilliker 

 was hanged for leading an attack on Littleton cloth mill in Steeple 

 Ashton and burning it at the time of the riots against the introduction of 

 machinery in cloth making. {Wilts Advertiser, Feb. 4th, 1904.) Many 

 other executions for horse and cattle stealing and highway robbery in 

 1804, 1805, 1806, were mentioned in the issues of Feb. 18th and May 5th, 

 1904. That of April 7 th contains the story of the execution at Warminster 

 Common on the 15th March, 1813, of George Carpenter and George 

 Buddock for the murder of Mr. Webb and Mary Gibbons, his servant, 

 at Roddenbury, and of the extraordinary procession to the place of 

 execution, consisting of detachments of the yeomanry, two thousand 

 peace officers and gentlemen on foot with white wands, the magistrates 

 of the division, and one hundred gentlemen on horseback, the minister 

 of Warminster, &c, &c, &c. 



BOWOOd. " The Guitar Player Surprised," by Watteau, from the Marquis 

 of Lansdowne's collection, was sold at Christie's on March 26th, 1904, 

 to Messrs. Lawrie & Co., for 2400 guineas. Times', Devizes Gazette, 

 March 31st, 1904. 



Charity Enquiries. Chippenham, Devizes Gazette, March 31st, 1904. 

 Bishopstone (North Wilts), Little Hinton, Lyddington, Wanborough, 



