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brother. J. P. for Wilts for fifty-six years and high sheriff in 1847. Lived 

 for some yeai's at Seend Cleeve. Married, first (in 1828), Caroline, daughter { 

 of Henry Thompson, Esq., of Skelton, Yorks, by whom he had two children 

 — a son deceased, and a daughter, Caroline Charlotte Elizabeth, married to 

 Capt. Lamb in 1857. His second wife (1844) was Albinia, daughter of 

 John Dalton, Esq., of SleniDgford Hall, Yorks. By her he had seven sons 

 and two daughters. Obit, notice and sketch of the Locke family in Devizes 

 Gazette, June 11th, 1896. 



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J efferies' Land : a History of Swindon and its Environs. By the 

 late Bichard Jefferies, edited with notes by Grace Toplis. 

 "With map and illustrations. London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. ; 

 Wells, Som. : Arthur Young. 1896. Pp. xvi., 207. Jefferies spent much 

 time and labour in collecting the materials for this work, which appeared in 

 instalments in the North Wilts Herald during 1867. Regarded from a 

 literary point of view, it cannot of course be compared with the works 

 produced during its author's maturity, while his lack of true antiquarian 

 knowledge is too often evident ; but it forms a valuable supplement to what 

 Mr. Morris and others have told us of Swindon, and may fairly claim to take 

 its place as a local book of reference. The district to which the editor has 

 assigned the name of Jefferies'' Land, as shown in the accompanying map, 

 extends, roughly speaking, from Cirencester to Marlborough in one direction, 

 and from Malmesbury to Hungerford in the other. The scope of the work 

 itself may best be shown by quoting the headings of the various chapters, 

 which are as follows : — I., Ancient Swindon ; II., Holyrood Church ; III., 

 Swindon in 1867 ; IV., Upper Upham ; V., Liddington Wick ; VI., The 

 Marlborough Road ; VII., The Devizes Road ; VIII., The Oxford Road. 

 The illustrations are from drawings by Miss Agnes Taylor, and comprise a 

 column at Ivychurch ; Avebury Font ; Jefferies' House, Victoria Street, 

 Swindon ; Ruins of Holyrood Church ; Reservoir, Coate ; Wanborough 

 Church ; Entrance to Swindon from Coate ; Marlborough Lane ; Day House 

 Farm, Coate ; Chisledon Church ; Jefferies' House, Coate ; and The West 

 Window, Fairford. While the editor has wisely left the letterpress exactly 

 as Jefferies wrote it, without attempting to correct it or bring it up to date, 

 she has added many useful and interesting foot-notes. 



We observe that a reprint of the History of Malmesbury is announced 

 as to follow. G.E.D. 



