360 Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 12, Dec., 1895. The number opens 

 with a continuation of Mr. Elyard's Annals of Purton, accompanied by nice I 

 sketches of the Ponds Farm, Purton Stoke— once the " Mansion House " of | 

 William Bathe, Vicar of Purton at the end of the seventeenth century — and 

 "The Buthaye," where was brewed "the St. George's ale," connected in 

 pre -Reformation days with the cult of that saint in the Parish Ohurch. Mr. 

 Elyard's instalment is a very interesting one. Next follow continuations of 

 Wilts Tithe Cases, in the seventeenth century, and extracts from the Gentle, 

 man's Magazine. Interesting as these extracts are, it is a somewhat striking 

 commentary on the general accuracy of the information contained in the 

 magazine that, in the seven pages here given, Hagley in Worcestershire, 

 Hebden in Yorkshire, Shipton, and Henbury St. Michael, are all stated 

 erroneously to be parishes in Wiltshire ; whilst misspellings, such as Fiskerton 

 Anges and Christian Welford are also found. The records available for the 

 History of Cholderton and the list of Wiltshire Wills proved in the Canterbury 

 Court are continued, and Mr. Kite begins a paper on " South wick Court and 

 its Owners." The most interesting of the short " notes " is the identification 

 of the two places mentioned in King Alfred's will — Swiubeorg and Langandene 

 — as Swanborough Tump, between Woodborough and Pewsey, and Long Dean, 

 on Marlborough Downs. The former was apparently the meeting-place of 

 Ethelred and Alfred, as well as the spot from which the hundred takes its 

 name. 



Ditto, No. 13, March, 1896. 



Mr. Elyard's well-written talk of Purton in the early seventeenth century, 

 dealing with Ashleys, Maskelynes, and Hydes, with a good pen drawing of 

 Clarendon House, and a process plate of a Maskelyne monument, is, as usual, 

 interesting and readable. The records of Cholderton and extracts from the 

 Gentleman' s Magazine are continued. In the latter the amazing recklessness 

 as to accuracy of the editor of those days is again exemplified — Langley 

 Abbots (Herts), Bushey (Herts), Northey (? Herts), Stimley, Hembury, 

 Linbury, Amesden, Abbotston, Upminster (Essex), and Barclay are all men- 

 tioned as parishes in Wilts ! The history of Southwick Court is concluded, 

 with much genealogical detail from Mr. Kite's stores of such lore. Amongst 

 the short notes an interesting point as to the builder of the old house at Keevil 

 is raised by Mr. Talbot ; and an extremely quaint and curious old invitation 

 card of the Wiltshire Society is well re-produced — it includes in one view 

 Salisbury Cathedral, as seen from the Close, Stonehenge in the distance, a 

 shepherd and his sheep in the foreground, and a flock of bustards between him 

 and the Cathedral ! A process plate is also given of the heraldic stone at 

 Warminster, illustrated in vol. xx. of the Wilts Arch. Mag. Altogether the 

 number is a good one. 



Salisbury Field Club Transactions, vol. ii., pt. i. The number commences 

 with an account of the proceedings of the club during 1895, including visits 

 to Sherborne, Shaftesbury, Norrington, Wardour, and Malmesbury. Then 

 follows the report of the annual meeting, from which it appears that the club 

 now numbers seventy-nine members. This is followed by the introduction to 

 the volume of Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Thomas's and St. Edmund's, 



