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Wiltshire Notes and Queries. No. 38, June, 1902. 



Notes on Wiltshire arms in 1716, with illustrations of the Sharington 

 arms, and Swathing quartered with Pyrton — Bratton Eecords — Calendar 

 of Feet of Fines — Quaker Birth Eecords — Notice of the Historical 

 Manuscripts Commission's volume on Wilts Quarter Sessions Becords — 

 The Will of John Huddesfeld, Beceiver or Steward of the Abbey of 

 Amesbury, made in 1528 — The Murder of William Baynton by reputed 

 witchcraft. This is a curious story of the murder of William, infant son 

 and heir of Edward and Agnes Baynton, by one Agnes Mylles, widow, 

 of Stanley, Co. Wilts, who apparently confessed that she had compassed 

 his death by witchcraft at the instigation of Dorothy, wife of Henry 

 Baynton, gentleman, the next heir to Edward's property. " Because it 

 did not then appear who had murdered the child" "one Jane Marsh, 

 widow, living in Somerset . . . of such skill that she could detect 

 persons who used witchcraft . . . was sent for to Salisbury to declare 

 her knowledge and at and before her coming to the place where he was 

 murdered she declared the said Dorothy Baynton to have been the 

 procurer thereof." Agnes Mylles was hanged for the crime at Fisherton. 

 — Amesbury Monastery is again to the fore with Mr. Kite's rejoinder to 

 Mr. Talbot's attack. He remains quite unmoved by Mr. Talbot's 

 arguments — in fact both disputants maintain precisely the ground on 

 which they started, and seem likely to do so until Mr. St. John Hope 

 intervenes with the spade at Amesbury, as there seems a probability of 

 his doing next year, and settles the question of the existence or non- 

 existence of a second Church once for all. Mr. Hope, probably the first 

 authority on monastic houses in England, has already begun to excavate, 

 but has not up to the present time found any conclusive evidence. A 

 note on the name Painter in and near North Wilts — and other notes and 

 queries, occupy the remaining space. 



West Conn trie Tales, containing Ben and Nancy 

 Sloper s Good Fortune, their Visit to Lunnen to 

 zee tha Drury Lane Pantomime of tha Vorty 

 Thieves, and to tha Allhamber Music Hall. 



Cr. 8vo. Salisbury, n.d. [1902,] p.p. 31. Price6d.net. 



One of Mr. Edward Slow's tales in the Wiltshire tongue — an admirable 

 description of a day in London from the neighbourhood of Salisbury. 



Stonehenge, an Enquiry respecting the Fall of the 



TrilithonS, by A. L. Lewis. An important note in Man, Sept., 

 1902, pp. 133, 134. 



Aubrey was told by one Mrs. Trotman, living at a farm at West 

 Amesbury about 1665, that the great trilithon of which the lately-leaning 

 stone formed one upright, had fallen in consequence of the digging of 

 the Duke of Buckingham in 1620. Aubrey, having no reason to doubt 

 this statement, published it, and all subsequent writers have repeated it. 

 Mr. Lewis, however, contends that this is a mistake, and gives a copy of 



