Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Articles, Sfc. 



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Devises Gazette, Dee. 22nd and 29th, and in the Wiltshire Times, Dec. 

 21th. 1898. The latter paper gave also three good ruts of the South Front, 

 The Norman Porch, and View from the North. 



Lady Clive. At the end of "Lord Olive." by Sir Alex. J. Arbuthnot, 

 1899, is a full pedigree of Lady Clive (Margaret, daughter of Edmund 

 Maskelyne and Eliz. Booth), traced from William Maskelyne, of Purton. 



Ail Old English Glass Linen Smoother from 



RaniSbury. An illustration of this object, with a note by Mrs. M. E. 

 Cunnington, appears in the Reliquary, April, 1899, p. 125. The writer 

 speaks of it as the only specimen known to have occurred in Wiltshire. 

 Several have, however, passed through the hands of Mr. Passmore, of 

 Swindon, of late years, and a tine example from near Hungerford has lately 

 been secured for the Society's Museum. 



Allotments in WiltS. The Devizes Gazette, Dec. 1st, 1898, has a 

 long quotation from the chapter on the allotment system on the Bowood 

 Estate, in Mr. H.H.Smith's "The Principles of Landed Estate Management." 

 On the Bowood Estate of 12,000 acres there are eight hundred allotments. 

 Between 1812 and 1817 ten fields were laid out in allotments, in 1831 

 thirteen more, and in the next three years thirteen more. 



Wilts, The Ancient Inhabitants of. a lecture by Mr. w. 



Heward Bell. Printed in Devizes Gazette, Feb. 2nd, 1899. 



Devizes, St. John's and St. Mary's Churches were 



visited and lectured on in the course of a series of lectures on * k English 

 Ecclesiastical Architecture," given at Devizes by the Rev. Walter Marshall, 

 an Oxford Extension lecturer. See Devizes Gazette, Jan. 26th, Feb. 9th. 

 March 2nd and 23rd, 1699. 



Bishop John Earle, of Salisbury, is the subject of an essav 



entitled "A Minute Philosopher," in a volume of "Essays " by A. C. Benson. 

 Heinemann. 1897. " From a Cornish Window," by A. T. Quill er-Couch, 

 in Pall Mall Max/., Sept., 1897, also contains several pages upon him. 



MrS. Benett-Stanford'S exploits as a slayer of big game in Africa 

 are described in Holiday and Travel, Dec, 1898, accompanied by illustrations 

 of the lady in her hunting attire and of a rhinoceros which fell to her rifle. 



