Wilts Booh, Pamphlets, Articles, 8fc. 



George Herbert's Church at Benierton. The Salisbury Journal of Oct. 

 17th, 1896, gives a very good account of this little Church, its history, and 

 the works of repair which have this year been undertaken in it, further 

 details being given in the issue of Oct. 24th, in the account of the re-opening 

 of the building. 



Wilts Visitation, 1565, Sowche of Pitton to Yerworth of Collingbourne 

 Kingston, is continued in the July and October numbers of Vol. xiii. of the 

 New Series of The Genealogist. The latter number also contains an article 

 on the surname " Le Pober " (Power, Poore). 



Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge. At the meeting at Salisbury of the 

 Society of Estate Clerks of Works, Mr. T. Potter read a discursive paper on 

 the objects of interest in Salisbury and its neighbourhood, dwelling at length 

 on Stonehenge, and quoting with approval the opinion of a gentleman who 

 believes " that the [sarsen] stones came from the North of Europe attached 

 to or embedded in icebergs during the Glacial Period," and that of another 

 "eminent archaeologist " who accounts for the propinquity of the cursus to 

 the barrows by the suggestion that the deceased persons' effects were offered 

 as prizes in the chariot races, probably on the day of the funeral ! It is a 

 melancholy thing to find anyone who proposes to instruct his fellow-men 

 capable of talking such an amount of nonsense on one subject. The 

 article is printed at length in the Salisbury Journal, Aug. 22nd, 1896. 



Salisbury and its Cathedral. An article by Christopher Crayon (J. Swings 

 Eitchie) — reprinted in the Wiltshire County Mirror, Aug. 21st, 1896, 

 from the Christian World of the week before — expresses the opinion that 

 in "Protestant countries the Cathedral is played out," and that "outside 

 the Cathedral the one curiosity of Salisbury is the fourteenth century 

 Poultry Cross." 



The Organ of- Salisbury Cathedral and the Organist, Mr. C. F. South. 

 F. J. W. Crowe, in the Musical Courier, quoted by the Wilts County 

 Mirror, July 3rd, 1896, has an article giving interesting information as to 

 the past and present organs, and notes on the life and work of the organist. 



Avebury. A Brief Account of its Stone Circles and Avenues, 

 Artificial Mound called Silbury Hill, Ancient Church, and other 

 points of Antiquarian interest. With Two Illustrations, from 

 Photographs. By the Rev. W. TI. Davis, B.A., Vicar of 

 Avebury. Price Sixpence. Devizes : published by Hurry & 

 Pearson, 1896. (8vo pamphlet of 10 pp.) This little pamphlet does 

 not pretend to be anything but a very brief guide for the use of the many 

 visitors to Avebury who know nothing of the history of the place. The 

 various points of interest mentioned in the title are touched on shortly and 

 judiciously, the various theories as to the circles and Silbury are given as 

 far as space will allow, and there is a most commendable absence of positive 

 statements about matters of which nothing positive is known, together with 



