Notes, Archaeological and Historical. 



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Selections. A volume of selections from Jefferies, edited by Mr. 

 H. S. H. Waylen, is now in the press, and will shortly be 

 published by Messrs. Longman, but the exact title has not yet 

 been announced. 



In Praise of tJte Country, by H. I). Traill, Contemporary Review, 

 vol. 52, p. 477, contains a good deal about Jefferies. 



Note : — Referring to a passage in The Eulogy, pp. 83 — 84, Mr. 

 A. E. Perkins writes me as follows : — " Walter Besant, in his 

 Eulogy, mentions a letter in which Jefferies complains of the small 

 pittance offered him by the Marlborough paper. I well remember 

 the circumstance, but at the time we only wanted a few paragraphs 

 a week — not anything like his whole time. We employed him for 

 a short time, then he discontinued his contributions." 



Jotes, ^ujmologkal anir PistontaL 



Malmesbury Abbey — The Sculptures of the South Porch, &c. 



(From a MS. note in the possession of the Society, apparently copied from 

 " A Topographical Excursion through England in 1634," printed in 

 " Brayley's Graphic and Historical Illustrations," p. 411. 



" So on I posted into a new shire, through a little nooke of her, and by that 

 time it was night, I got into that ancient, sometimes famous and flourishing city : 

 [Malmesberry] but fHortune long since turn'd her face from me, so as now there 

 is little left, but the mines of a rare demolish'd Church, and a large fayre and 

 rich Monastery ; so much as is standing of this old Abbey Church promiseth no 

 lesse, (for it represents a Cathedrall) to have been of that largenes, strength 

 and extent as most in y e kingdome. 



" Her old strong Basis is answerable to her Coat. The two great Towers at 

 her West comming in, are quite demolish'd, and her great High Tower, at the 

 vpper end of the high Altar much decay'd and ruinated ; The Angle there cleane 

 decayd. At the West Doore, w ch was her entrance, are curiously cut in freestone, 

 the seuerall postures of the Moneths. 



