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Prive de sa Majeste. Isaac de Caus inv. Oblong 4to. n.p. 

 Price £1 Is. 



This is a facsimile reproduction by Quaritch (P) of the rare set of etchings 

 by *Isaac de Caus published e. 1640, the title being taken from that of the 

 large folding plate, and a list of the 26 plates added, including the title 

 page and advertisement. The other plates are . — A Bird's Eye View of the 

 Garden, folded ; Plan of the Garden, folded ; 5 Plates of Embroydered 

 Flower Plats ; 4 Fountains with Statues ; the two Groves, with Statues of 

 Bacchus and Flora ; a Fountain surmounted with a Crown ; 2 Elevations of 

 the Covered Arbours ; 2 Plates of the Gladiator ; Elevation of the Front of 

 the Portico ; Plan of Portico ; Perspective Views of Interior of Grotto with 

 Figures ; a Piatt with two Statues, fountain, &c. ; the Raised Terrace. 



These etchings, of which the originals are so rare as to be practically 

 unattainable, are admirably reproduced and give a good idea of what must 

 have been in its day one of the most extensive and elaborate gardens of the 

 Italian sort, with clipped hedges, arbours, statues, fountains, grottoes, 

 formal " platts," and geometrical walks, ever devised. It was doubtless a 

 fine thing of its kind — but, when one thinks of the beauties of Wilton as 

 it is, it is hard to regret its disappearance. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 16, Dec, 1896. Mr. Elyard concludes 

 his " Annals of Purton " with a description of the Church, illustrated by a 

 plate of architectural details, and the charities of the parish. Then follow 

 ten pages of the valuable records for the History of Cholderton. The 

 sufferings of Quakers in Wilts for non-payment of tithes and Church rates 

 and non-attendance at public worship in the " Steeple House," taken from 

 a MS. book of " Sufferings from 1653 — 1756," afford many interesting 

 points. The parish clergyman is always spoken of as " ye prist." The 

 sufferers themselves seem to have come chiefly from the neighbourhood of 

 Salisbury, Bradford, Chippenham, Calne, Bishops Cannings, and Lavington. 

 After this Mr. Tompkins returns to the charge on the subject of the 

 whereabouts of the Swinbeorg of Alfred's will, and adduces some ingenious 

 evidence in favour of its being " Swanborough Ashes," or " Tump," in the 

 parish of Manningford Abbots — of which he gives a sketch. Nonsuch 

 House, Bromham, is illustrated by a drawing, and notes on the Norris 

 family, to whom (with many other small properties in Wilts) it belonged 

 during the whole of the eighteenth century. There is also a nice drawing 

 of Ivy House, Chippenham. Altogether the number is quite one of the 

 best yet published. 



Ditto, No. 17, March, 1897. This number — the first issued under the editorship 

 of Mr. Arthur Schomberg — contains an unusually large number of queries 

 and short notes. Of the latter perhaps the most interesting is the in- 

 formation given as to the holding of a Court Leet for the Hundred of 

 Swanborough in 1764 at " Swanborough Ash," and also another in 1763 at 

 Foxley Corner, in the parish of Urchfont, for the same Hundred. The 

 writer suggests that, as the ancient Hundred of Stodfolde was incorporated 

 in the Hundred of Swanborough, Swanborough Tump doubtless represents 



