360 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



Trowbridge High ScllOOl. An oblong pamphlet giving an account 

 of the school, with process illustrations of the Building (3) — End of New 

 Schoolroom — Covered Gymnasium — End of Old Schoolroom — Corner of 

 Boys' Sitting-Koom — The Gymnasium Stand — One End of the Large 

 Field — The Dining Hall — The Long Dormitory — Ground Plan — Plan of 

 Drainage. 



The Division of the Bishopricks of Wessex, by the Et. 



Kev. W. R. Brownlow, D.D., Bishop of Clifton, is the subject of a paper 

 of 9 pp. in the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society, vol. 44, 1898. It deals specially with the new light 

 thrown on the subject by the publication in 1895, amongst the "Early 

 Charters " in the Crawford Collection in the Bodleian, of a letter of St. 

 Dunstan, which has hitherto been entirely unknown, and which proves 

 that the account of the division of the Wessex Bishopricks, as given by 

 William of Malmesbury, was known in the time of St. Dunstan. 



The North Staffordshire Field Club spent from June 15th 



to 20th, 1899, in Wiltshire — four days at Marlborough, and two at 

 Salisbury. Their excursions were to Avebury and Tan Hill, Eamsbury, 

 and Aldbourne, Savernake and Great Bedwyn, Amesbury and Stonehenge. 

 An account ot the excursions appears in the St affords hire Advertiser, 

 June 24th, 1899. 



Avebury, Silbury, and Marlborough, The visit of the 



Newbury Field Club, on Sept. 13th, 1899, is described in the Newbury 

 Weekly News, Sept. 21st, 1889. 



WiltS Horticultural Society. A letter by W. A. Wheeler in 

 the Salisbury Journal, Aug. 26th, 1899, gives some account of the history 

 of this society, which was founded in 1830 at Salisbury as " The Wilts 

 and General Arboricultural, Horticultural, and Botanical Society," under 

 the presidency of Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., of Boyton. 



"WlltOIl HOUSe. A full and interesting account of the arguments on 

 both sides in connection with Lord Pembroke's appeal against the 

 assessment committee of Wilton Union in the matter of the rating of 

 Wilton House and Park is given the Wilts County Mirror, Oct. 20th, 1899. 



The Eflgies at Figheldean Church. The Kev. c. s. Buddie, 



writing in the Devizes Gazette, Aug. 31st, 1899, says : — " I doubt whether 

 the tradition that the effigies came from between Brigmerston and 

 Syrencot is correct. It is probable that they came from a Chantry 

 Chapel at Alton, a manor in Figheldean south of the river. It was under 

 Amesbury Abbey at the time of Pope Nicholas' Taxation. In 1552 the 

 incumbent had clear £8 13s. Ad. ; and the Vicar of Figheldean had 40s. 

 that he should minister the sacraments to the inhabitants of Alton. But 

 in Queen Elizabeth's time a long lawsuit " concerning an old ruinous chapel 



