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Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. (3, June, 1894, opens with the 



coniinencenient of an historical paper entitled "Annals of Purton," by S. J. 

 Elyard, illustrated by a charming drawing of the Church from the south-east 

 and a small sketch of Kingsbury Camp. The author does not give Wiltshire- 

 men due credit for their preservation of ancient place-names when he says that 

 the " ancient name of the forest of Braden is only perpetuated in Bradenstoke 

 Abbey and Braden Pond." In truth a great part of the area of the ancient 

 forest is still commonly known as Braden to the dwellers in North Wilts. 

 This is followed by " Wiltshiremen at C.C.C., Oxford," containing interesting 

 notices of John Spenser, Augustine Goldesborough, and John Hales, with a 

 facsimile of the signature of the latter. " Bygone Days " occupies six pages 

 with not specially valuable reminiscences of London, Oxford, and Castle Combe, 

 by " M." Then come five pages of a list of " Wiltshire Wills proved in the 

 Prerogative Court of Canterbury," which when completed will be of great 

 assistance to genealogists. " Some old Churches in the neighbourhood of 

 Chippenham" and "Stanley Abbey" are a series of desultory notes of no 

 great value. " Wiltshire Extracts from the Gentleman's Magazine" "The 

 Porch House at Potterne " (in which the remarkable statement occurs that no 

 such tools as the saw or plane existed when it was built!) and a series of 

 Queries and Replies, and Notes on Books close the number. 



No. 7, September, 1894. Mr. Elyard continues his annals of Purton, and 

 gives a view of Purton Street to illustrate them. " Wiltshire Extiacts from 

 the Gentleman' s Magazine'''' and "Bygone Days" are continued from the 

 last number. "Some Wiltshire Folk-lore." contains notes on quaint old 

 beliefs and customs quite worth preserving. T.S.M, contributes an interesting 

 note on the old manor-house af Quidhampton, and " Dr. Pope's Poem on 

 Sarum," with Queries and Replies (the most interesting on the family of 

 Poole, of Oaksey) bring the number to an end. 



No. 8, December, 1894. Mr. Elyard continues his Annals of Purton, 

 illustrated by a drawing of the interior of the Church. In this number he is 

 occupied with the fortunes of the families of Maleward, Walerand, and Periton, 

 who in the thirteenth century were the principal landowners in the parish, and 

 with the Keynes and Paynels, who succeeded to the estates of the Pcritons. 

 Then follow eight pages of M Wiltshire Wills," and a note on George and Jane 

 Chandler, Quakers, who emigrated in 1687, from somewhere in the Pcwsey 

 Vale, and — if American papers are to be believed — founded a clan in the States 

 which now numbers Upwards of three thousand members. Recollections of 

 Bygone Days, which are continued by M.E.Z., do not contribute much to our 

 knowledge of Wiltshire. The five pages of Extracts from the. Gentleman's 

 Magazine include an interesting story cf one Mary Smith, <s>f Devizes, who 



