848 The Story of Seven Children Bom at a Birth. 



are several original deeds many court rolls, and the like, relating 

 to Glastonbury Abbey. 



That there is, besides all the above-mentioned, an enormous | 

 quantity of deeds, letters &c., relating to Longleat itself and the 

 successive owners of the estate scarcely requires to be mentioned. 

 The whole of these documents have been put in order and a summary 

 of them printed in the Reports of the Historical Commissioners. 

 As these Reports present forty eight folio pages of double column, in 

 small type, of the heads of the Marquis of Bath's papers/it is out of 

 the question to attempt going into particular details. I will simply 

 say that next to the celebrated " Hatfield Papers," belonging to the 

 Marquis of Salisbury, it is one of the most important private collec- 

 tions to be met w:th. It is thus described in the words of the 

 Commissioners : — " The collection of the Marquis of Bath is a 

 wonderfully complete and vivid illustration of our civil, military, 

 naval, and ecclesiastical history, and from the earliest times. Its 

 value for historical purposes can scarcely be over-rated." 



J. E. Jackson. 



%\t jStorg of Sbtbtu Cjilken §ora at a §irt|. 



Deae Sie, 



Having a faint recollection that, when I was a boy and visiting at 

 Pewsey about 1820, I was taken to some church and saw there a sieve in which 

 several children who had been born at a birth had been brought to the font and 

 christened, I enquired about it of the Reverend the Rector of Pewsey, and by 

 his kindness and that of the Rev. Edward Hill, the Rector of Wishford, I am 

 able to communicate the enclosed, and trust that it may be worth a place in our 

 journal. 



Yours faithfully, 



R. C. A. Pbiob. 



To the Editor of the Wiltshire Magazine. 



