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Recent Wiltshire Books, Articles, 8fc. 



in number, in the hands of various persons who provided thereout funds for 

 yearly celebrations on certain days, masses and Dirige to be said for certain 

 deceased persons, and lights to be burned before the images of Our Lady in 

 the porch, Our Lady in St. Nicholas aisle, Our Lady in the South aisle, 

 Our Lady of Pity, St. Christopher, St. Katherine, St. Nicholas, St. Sythe 

 or Osyth, the lamp before the High Cross, and Our Lady's light in the 

 chancel. 



DittO, No. 25, March, 1899. 



The most important item in this number is the first portion of the account 

 of the Old House at Lackham, destroyed to make way for the existing 

 residence. This is illustrated by two copies of early drawings — one from 

 Dingley's Sketch in 1684, and the other of the Porch and Oriel from a 

 drawing by Grimm in 1790, which is now in the British Museum. The 

 Eecords available for the History of Bratton — The Quaker Marriage Kecords 

 — The Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire — and Notes on Great 

 Somerford are continued, the latter illustrated with drawings of the arms of 

 Barrett, and Andrews impaling Townsend. The English Ancestors of the 

 Families of Batt and Byley, of Salisbury, Massachusets, is also continued. 



The Sale Catalogue of the Wiltshire Estates of 

 Ernest Terah Hooley, Esq., which were sold on Nov. 10th, 



1898, is an elaborately-illustrated production, with a " Key Plan of the 

 Estates " on the cover— three large folding coloured maps of the estates— and 

 no less than twenty excellent half-tone views, viz., At All Cannings, The 

 Church, The Manor Farm, Cliffe Farm, An old Farm-House, Three New 

 Cottages— Maddington Manor Farm — Hill Farm, The Manor Farm, and 

 The Church, at Winterbourne Stoke — The Church, Manor Farm, View of 

 Kiver Wylye, The Boot Inn, View in the Village, and Orchard at Manor 

 House, in Berwick St. James— East Cliff House, The Manor Farm, and The 

 Water Mill at Steeple Langf ord ; and at Staplef ord, a View in the Village» 

 and The Pelican Inn. 



The Estates Gazette, Oct. 8th, 1898, |has an account of these estates, 

 afterwards reprinted in separate form, with four half-tone illustrations : — 

 View in Steeple Langf ord Village ; Manor Farm, Winterbourne Stoke ; The 

 Berwick Stream ; and Page's Farm, All Cannings. 



Pitt : some Chapters of his Life and Times, by the Et. 



Honble. Edward Gibson, Lord Ashbourne, with eleven portraits. 8vo. 

 Longmans & Co. 1898. Price 21*. It contains a catalogue of one hundred 

 and sixty pictorial and plastic works of art, including twenty pictures of Pitt 

 by Hoppner, Gainsborough, and Eomney. Well reviewed, Spectator, Jan. 

 7th, 1899, Times, and Daily Chronicle. 



Thomas Moore Anecdotes Jarroid & Sons. 1898. 



" This amusing little volume consists of extracts from Moore's Diary, and 



