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Recent Wiltshire Books, Articles, 8fc. 



Views of Devizes and Neighbourhood, Published by 



Dotesio & Todd. Oblong cr. 8vo. Contains the following views, reproduced 

 from photographs, ^without letterpress : — Bird's-eye View of Market Place 

 and Town — Devizes Castle — Market Place, with Cross and Fountain — 

 Market Cross — Inscription on Market Cross—Canal and Locks — View from 

 St. Mary's Tower — Quaker's Walk, Eoundway Park — St. John's Church, 

 Exterior — St. John's Church, Interior — St. Mary's Church — St. James' 

 Church — Old Porch House, Potterne — Silbury Hill — Stonehenge — Druidical 

 Remains at Avebury. The views vary, but on the whole they are very fairly 

 reproduced, and form a pleasant souvenir of the place. 



Astley FcUllily . A notice of this family and of its genealogy is reprinted 

 in the Devizes Gazette, March 2nd, 1899, from the Nuneaton Chronicle, 

 apropos of the death of John Newdigate Francis Ludford Astley, of Ansley, 

 Warwickshire. 



'Wilt/Shire in 1898. A long and good record of the events of the year 

 so far as they affect the county was given in the Devizes Gazette, Dec. 29th, 

 1898, and January 5th, 1899, under the various heads of Social, Agriculture, 

 Land, Railway Extension, Education, Sport, Military, Miscellaneous, Political, 

 County Business, Local Government, and Law, Crime, and Casualties. 



DevizeS in 1898. A record of events affecting Devizes during the year 

 is given in Devizes Gazette, Jan. 5th, 1899. 



Langley Burr ell Church. Notes on the Restoration of the Church 

 are given in Devizes Gazette, June 23rd and July 14th, 1898. 



XiftCOCk. A chatty account of the History of the Village, Church, and Abbey 

 is given by " M.K.D." in Devizes Gazette, Dec. 1st, 1898. 



DevizeS Market CrOSS. A report furnished by Mr. C. E. Pouting 

 to the Town Council on the condition of the Structure and the Repairs 

 necessary is printed in Devizes Gazette, Feb. 16th, 1899. 



Horning* Sliaill. In Baring Gould's "An Old English Home and its 

 Dependencies," 1898, occurs the following: — "A singular and beautiful 

 custom still subsists in the village of Horningsham, Wilts, where, at the 

 burial of a young maiden, ' Wedding Peals ' are rung on muffled bells." 



Malmesbury Abbey Restoration. Full accounts of the meeting 



at Malmesbury under the chairmanship of the Duke of Beaufort held on 

 Dec. 20th, 1898, at which the Bishop of Bristol initiated the movement for 

 the preservation of the Abbey Church, with the speeches of the Bishop dealing 

 with the History of Malmesbury, and of Mr. W. H. St. John Hope dealing 

 with the past history and present condition of the fabric, were given in the 



