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" On the Study of Anglo-Saxon, and its value to the Archaeologist." 1 

 In 1882, " On some Early Features of Stockton Church, Wilts";' 

 « On the Church of S. Peter, Manningford Bruce, Wilts " ; 3 " On 

 a Sculptured Stone at Codford St. Peter, and Heraldic Stone at 

 Warminster"; 4 "On the Early Heraldry in Boyton Church, 

 Wilts." 5 In 1883, « On a Hoard of Gold Nobles found at 

 Bremeridge Farm, Westbury, Wilts " ; 6 with regard to the last of 

 which the Editor will never forget the enthusiasm which led Dr. 

 Baron to journey all the way from Upton Scudamore to Yatesbury 

 in order to exhibit, for a short half-hour, the beautiful gold nobles, 

 which he had then in charge. 



The Bev. Canon William Henry Rich-Jones, M.A., F.S.A., 

 was even better known to our Society as one of its most active 

 members than Dr. Baron ; having acted as our guide on so many 

 of our Annual Meetings, as well as contributed so largely to the 

 pages of our Magazine for so many years. Indeed, none can have 

 attended the General Meetings of the Society in various parts of 

 the county without kindly recollections of the good-humoured Vicar 

 of Bradford, and his interesting account of the various Churches or 

 other objects of antiquity to which he conducted the excursionists. 

 But Canon Jones was essentially a man of letters, and of literary 

 research, and he had made it a principal labour of his life to collect 

 and compare and present to the world all the original records of the 

 Church and diocese of Salisbury which have come down to us from 

 the earliest times. Gifted with marvellous patience in research and 

 singular sagacity of interpretation, he was indeed an expert in de- 

 ciphering those most interesting, but often most obscure and per- 

 plexing, records of the remote past which are contained in the 

 archives of Salisbury Cathedral, of the British Museum, and of the 



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1 Vol. xvii., pp. 336—346. 

 a Vol. xx., pp. 107—122. 

 3 Vol. xx., pp. 122—137. 

 * Vol. xx., pp. 138—144. 



5 Vol. xx., pp. 145—154. 



6 Vol. xxi., pp. 121—140. 



