160 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



Old Sarum. " Lines occasioned by a Walk to Old Sarum with a Lady 

 from London." Beal 8f Anset's Monthly, June, 1898. 



Sermon Preached in the College Chapel after the 

 Funeral of the Rev. J. S, Thomas . . . Bursar 



Of Marlborough College, by P. W. Farrar, D.D., F.R.S., 

 Dean of Canterbury. Marlborough. 1897. 8vo, pp. 12. 



Seend Church, Monumental Inscriptions. These are 



printed in the Wilts Advertiser, June 30th, 1898. 



Codford St. Peter Church. A note on works of repair executed 

 here and of a shield of the arms of the late Duke of Albany, presented by 

 the Duchess, and placed near the seat which the Duke, when resident at 

 Boyton, often occupied. Salisbury Dioc. Gazette, Nov., 1898. 



Old Sarum, The Parliament Tree. A short notice of Old 



Sarum and its Parliamentary history, based on the text of the destruction 

 of the " Parliament Tree " by the gale in March, 1898, is given in Beal 

 Sf Anset's Monthly, April, 1898. (Salisbury.) 



An Afternoon on the Lower Kennett. An article in < The 



Sportsman s Supplement to the Bazaar," July 11th, 1898. A Day's 

 Trout Fishing, with a process block of the Trout caught. 



StOliehenge. The Estates Gazette, quoted by Devizes Gazette, Sept. 

 8th, 1898, says a new light has been thrown on Stonehenge by Mr. H. M. 

 Scott, in a paper read recently before the members of the Bath Selborne 

 Society. Mr. Scott, starting from the assumption that no natives in Britain 

 were capable of erecting, and that the Phoenicians did erect large stones 

 elsewhere, concludes that this people built Stonehenge " as an observatory 

 and as a place where they might deposit their tin, and that they also made 

 it a temple of the sun and moon to give it sanctity and insure its safety." 



Devizes. Messrs. William Cunnington & Sons, 



Wine and Spirit Merchants, Old Town Hall. Under the head of " Important 

 Wiltshire Industries," the Wilts Advertiser of July 31st, 1898, has a long 

 article dealing principally with the details of the business — but incidentally 

 giving a good deal of information about the Old Town Hall, now occupied 

 by Messrs. Cunnington— and the Cunnington family— who, coming 

 from Upavon to Devizes in 1827, established a wool business at Southgate 

 House, which continued, latterly under Mr. Henry Cunnington's care, until 

 1868. The Old Town Hall was purchased in 1836 by Mr. William 

 Cunnington, formerly of Heytesbury, and the wine busiuess was commenced 

 in that year. This was carried on for a while b} r the three brothers, 



