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MAGAZINE. 



No. LIV. NOVEMBER, 1879. Vol. XVIII. 



Contents 



PAGE 



Longleat Papers No. 4 ( Continued) : By the Eev. Canon Jackson, 

 F.S.A 257 



Consecration of Nuns at Ambresbury, A.D. 1327: By the Eev. 



Canon Jackson, F.S.A 286 



On the Occurrence of some of the Barer Species of Birds in 

 the Neighbourhood of Salisbury ( Continued) : By the Rev. 

 Arthur P. Morres, Vicar of Britford 289 



A Sketch of the Parish of Yatesbury : By the Rev. A. C. Smith, 



M.A. (Rector) 319 



Proposed Repeal of the Test and Penal Statutes by King 

 James the Second, in 1688 ; His Questions touching the same, 

 to the Deputy-Lieutenants and Magistrates in Wiltshire, 

 with their Answers thereto : including Confidential Re- 

 turns of the Parliamentary Interests at that period (from 

 the Original State Papers and Documents in the Bodleian Library) : 

 By Sir George Duckett, Bart 359 



Original Letters from the Wiltshire Commissioners to 

 Cromwell in 1655 (Extracted from the Original State Papers in 

 the Bodleian Library) : By Sir George Duckett, Bart 374 



Avebury. — The Beckhampton Avenue : By the Rev. Bryan King 377 



Review of Books 384 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Yatesbury Church, from the south-west 319 



Wards of a key, found in a barrow at Yatesbury 331 



Blade of a hunting spear, found in a Barrow at Yatesbury 333 



Font at Yatesbury 344 



Section of the Font at Yatesbury 344 



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