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Bishop Hallam's tomb at Constance shows that it was in ordinary use 

 in 1416, and on the seals of the Bishops of Salisbury it occurs as early 

 as 1330. A.S.M.'s note on John Noyes, of Calne, gives further letters, 

 one of them dealing with the precautions to be observed during the 

 prevalence of the plague at Calne. A note on the Wrottesley family in 

 Wiltshire, in a review of a paper in the Genealogist, and another on the 

 Dukes of Somerset iu the Complete Peerage end the number. 



DittO, NO. 26, June, 1904. Mr. Edward Kite concludes his 

 paper on Place House, Melksham, and its owners, giving the will of 

 Jacob Selfe, of Melksham, proved 1735, in full. Of other matters that 

 have been running in previous numbers Erchfont Kecords, Quaker 

 Birth Records, and Feet of Fines for Wiltshire, and John Noyes, of 

 Calne, are continued. Canon Wordsworth describes and illustrates 

 " wigcurlers " found at Marlborough. The abstract of the will of Thomas 

 Jacob, of Wootton Bassett, 1644, is accompanied by a pedigree of Jacob, 

 of the Rocks, near Bath, of Norton near Malmesbury, and of Tockenham, 

 compiled by the late Canon Jackson; the beginning of a list of 

 funeral armour still remaining or known to have existed in Wiltshire 

 Churches, by Mr. Kite, is the most important of the remaining notes. 

 An illustration of the Brass of Anne Still in Hadleigh Church, Suffolk, 

 is given. 



Nelson Relics and Relic Hunters. By Horatio, Third 



Earl Nelson. Article in Windsor Magazine, October, 1904, pp. 513 — 

 521. Lord Nelson begins by demolishing the claims of the plaster 

 death mask of Nelson, exhibited at the Royal Naval exhibition at Chelsea 

 in 1891, to authenticity, and then passes on to describe certain relics 

 now at Trafalgar. He explains that by inheritance he came into pos- 

 sesion of very few articles connected with the great admiral, as the 

 family heirlooms were, contrary to expectation, left by William, Earl 

 Nelson, to his daughter, Lady Bridport, and were eventually sold by 

 auction by her son, when many of them were bought for ,£3000 by Mr. 

 T. A. Mullens, and presented to the nation. Lord Nelson describes in 

 some detail the various articles now in his possession, and gives the 

 history and pedigree of each one of them, and the means by which he 

 became possessed of them. There are ten good process illustrations : — 

 " Silver-mounted dirk given by Cardinal York to Captain Nelson, H.M.S. 

 Agammemon." — Merton Abbey: Sir William Hamilton fishing in the 

 canal, and Lady Hamilton with Charlotte Nelson (afterwards Lady 

 Bridport) and the second Lord Nelson." — "Portrait Sketch of Lady 

 Hamilton, by Romney." — Nelson explaining his plan of attack for the 

 Battle of Trafalgar." — " The Hall at Trafalgar House." — " The authentic 

 account of Nelson's Death, by Sir William Beatty "(title-page of book). 

 — "The Copenhagen Seal, Hamilton Locket, and Nile Medal."—" Cup 

 presented by English Merchants trading in the Levant," &c. — " A Corner 

 in the Nelson Room, with Nelson's Armchair, Couch, Telescope, Cane, 

 Tray, and Presentation Cup." — " Overmantel showing the Signal 

 'England expects every man to do his duty,' and Miniature of Nelson 

 used in his honour at Fonthill." 



