358 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets; and Articles. 



1st, protesting against the absurd extravagance of the price, .£125, 000, 

 asked for the property. 



The Spectator, Oct. 7th, 1899, contains a long letter, signed E. Hunter, 

 urging the necessity of the possession by the Government of compulsory 

 powers to prevent the alienation, or destruction, of national monuments 

 in private ownership — as well as the advisability of a larger sum than 

 the miserable pittance of ^£40,000 at present available, being provided by 

 Government towards the enrichment of the national collections and the 

 possible purchase of monuments of national interest. 



The Daily News, reprinted in the Wiltshire Chronicle, Sept. 9th, 

 reports an interview of a special correspondent with the Vicar of Amesbury 

 and the Eector of Durrington, and gives their opinions on the proposed 

 purchase. 



The Wilts County Mirror, Sept. 1st, reports a meeting of Wilton Town 

 Council, at which a resolution to petition the Government to purchase 

 Stonehenge was agreed to. 



" Stonehenge— and what it may become," with an 



illustration, " How Stonehenge might be Popularised if the Government 

 bought it," appeared in Punch, August 30th, 1899. The illustration is a 

 delightful sketch of the outer circle transformed into a " Druidical 

 Switchback," while the trilithons, &c, are neatly adapted to refreshment 

 bars, tea-tables, penny-in-the-slot machines, and tea-and-shrimp arbours, 

 much patronised and appreciated by the tripper of the future. 



TeSS at Stonehenge. The well-known scene from Hardy's " Tess 

 of the jy Urbervilles " is reproduced in the Daily Chronicle, Aug. 25th, 

 also a set of verses in Cockney dialect on the proposed sale of the monu- 

 ment, in the issue of the 26th. 



Wiltshire Parochial Terriers. Mr. c. w. Hoigate, the Diocesan 



Eegistrar, has done a good deed by printing in the Salisbury Diocesan 

 Gazette, Aug., 1899, a complete list of the parishes for which terriers 

 exist in the Diocesan Eegistry at Salisbury, deposited there under the 

 provisions of Canon 87 of 1604, and ranging in date from 1608 to 1808 5 

 most of the parishes having more than one terrier, and some as many as 

 four. The whole of the county of Wilts is included, though there are not 

 terriers of every parish. Dorset is not included, as it formed no part of 

 the Diocese of Salisbury between the years 1542 and 1836 — but, on the 

 other hand, Berkshire is — though Mr. Hoigate only prints in his list the 

 Wiltshire parishes. Anyone wishing for copies of terriers should apply 

 to Mr. A. E. Maiden, Deputy Eegistrar, The Close, Salisbury. It is 

 much to be hoped that Mr. Hoigate may be able to continue to throw 

 light on the secrets of the contents of the Diocesan Eegistry. 



" The Manor HotlSe, Coleme." A paper by the Eev. Wynter 

 E. Blathwayt appears in the Proceedings of the Bath Natural History 

 and Antiquarian Field Club, vol. ix., pp. 150 — 158, with four good 



