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Wilts Obituary. 



Langley Fitzurse." 2nd edition. Warminster: B. W. Coates, Market Place. 

 1872. Price Fourpenee. Royal 32mo. 

 A little paper-covered book. pp. 54. 



" Strong Drink and Christian Duty." Pam])hlet. Cr. 8vo. Salisbury: 

 Brown & Co. ; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1875. pp. 36. 



This is a tract written by the author when senior Curate of Wilton in 

 favour of the strictest total abstinence, in favour even of banishing alcpholic 

 wine from the Holy Communion. 



"The History of Warminster, with a View and Map of the Town and 

 Neighbourhood." London: Simpkin & Co. ; Warminster: B. W. Coates. 

 Cr. 8vo. 1879. 



"The Life of George Herbert, of Bemerton." S.P.C.K. London. 1893. 

 Post 8vo. Cloth, pp. 328. 

 New edition. 1899. 



Por notice of this book see Wilts Arch. Mag., xxvii., 317. 



"The History of Chippenham, compiled from researches by the author and 

 from the collections of the late Rev. Canon Jackson, P.S.A." R. P. Houlston, 

 Chippenham and Bath, 1894. Cr. 8vo. Cloth. Price 5s. net. pp. 248. 



For notice see Wilts Arch. Mag , xxviii., 63. 



" Verses by the Rev. J. J .Daniell, Rector of Langley Bun-ell. " Chippenham : 

 R. F. Houlston. Post 8vo. Sewed. (1898.) pp. 18. 



Contents :— The Wreck of the Avon Maid— Bath Abbey Bells— Emma's 

 Grave in Langley Fitzurse Churchyard — Alleluia— Lauds — Hymn 341 A. & 

 M., as approved by the author — Johnnie's Grave in Lansdown Cemetery, 

 Bath— Aspirations — Death of Richard Carew, of St. Anthony, Cornwall. 



"Chippenham and the Neighbourhood during the Great Rebellion." 

 Paper in Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xii , 292—317. 



ReV. William Henry Awdry, died February 18th, 1899, aged 63. 

 Buried at Ludgershall. Born 1835. He was the eldest son of Mr. West 

 Awdry, of Chippenham. He was educated at Ilminster, Winchester College, 

 and Exeter College, Oxford. B.A., 1857 ; M.A., 1862 [Crockford says I860]. 

 Deacon, 1858; priest, 1859, by Bp. of Lichfield. Curate of West Felton, 

 Salop, 1858—60 ; Quedgley, Gloucestershire, 1860 ; Compton Bassett, Wilts, 

 1860 — 62; Ludgershall. 1862— 72, when he became Rector, and held the 

 living until his death. J. P. for Wilts, he was Chairman of the Bench for 

 the Everleigh and Pewsey Division, and was a prominent member first of 

 the Andover and afterwards ' of the Bcwsey Board of Guardians, the parish 

 having been transferred from the former to the latter union. He was for 

 some time a Diocesan Inspector of Schools. He was a good example of the 

 best type of " Sporting Parson," now becoming so rare. Nobody was a 

 keener sportsman, or knew more about horses and hounds than he did. In 

 his earlier days he had been a conspicuous-cricketer and athlete. and throughout 

 his life he was very closely in touch with all branches of country and county 

 matters. He was thus widely known and much respected, hut by none 



