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" The History of Warminster/' by the Rev. J. J. Daniell, Vicar of 

 Winterbourne Stoke and Berwick St. James, and formerly Curate 

 of Warminster : — 

 Is just such a little volume of Parochial History as we should like to see 

 published for every one of the towns of this county, though we fear few possess 

 so good an historian as Mr. Daniell. Entering into details without being prolix, 

 and recounting the minutiae which go so far to make up local history without 

 being tediously diffuse, the author has hit the happy medium : and while he has 

 left little or nothing untouched, never wearies the reader with too minute des- 

 cription, but passes on from historical to parochial matters, and recounts things 

 municipal, ecclesiastical, and personal, with impartial hand. In short, we heartily 

 commend the "History of Warminster" as the very sample of what a Parish 

 History should be. [Ed.] 



" Fasti Ecclesise Sarisberiensis/'' or a Calendar of the Bishops, Deans, 



Archdeacons, and Members of the Cathedral Body at Salisbury; 



from the earliest times to the present. By William Henry Jones, 



M.A., F.S.A., Canon of Sarum, and Vicar of Bradford- on- A von. 



Such is the title of Canon Jones' work on the Cathedral dignitaries of Salisbury, 

 a most valuable and interesting memorial of the See of Sarum, the result of great 

 labour and perseverance, and compiled from many and recondite sources only 

 accessible to so accomplished an Archaeologist as the indefatigable author. The 

 work is to be completed in two parts, and the first portion has only just appeared 

 as these last pages of the Magazine are going to press : we can therefore merely 

 say on a very hasty examination that Part I. seems fully to come up to the high 

 standard of merit generally expected from such a work by the pen of Canon 

 Jones. The history of the Episcopate of Salisbury embraces a period extending 

 from very early times to the present, shows the gradual formation of the diocese 

 in Wessex from the early part of the seventh century, and includes a list of the 

 Bishops of Winchester, Sherborne, Eamsbury, and Old Sarum, previous to the 

 creation of the Diocese of Salisbury, as we now understand it. The history of 

 the Archdeacons in the Diocese of Sarum concludes the book so far as it has yet 

 appeared, and contains some account of the Archdeacons of Dorset, Berks, Sarum, 

 and Wilts, from their earliest institution at the close of the eleventh century 

 to the present date. The book is well and clearly printed by Messrs. Brown, of 

 Salisbury, and we look forward to its completion next spring, when a full ac- 

 count of the rest of the Cathedral Body is promised in the second part ; the 

 whole forming — we venture to predict — a very useful as well as interesting volume, 

 for which the diocese at large, and the members of the Great Chapter of Salisbury 

 in particular, are deeply indebted to the painstaking researches of Canon Jones. 



[Ed.] 



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