d. Any particulars which may be learnt from the managers. 3. Canals: (as for Railways).

SECONDLY. ECCLESIASTICAL AND RELIGIOUS HISTORY.

I. CHURCH OR CHURCHES:

1. General remarks:

a. Dedication of the Church.

b. The founders of the Church, or of any portions of it.
c. Characters of the several portions of the erection, particu-
larly as bearing on the social state of the period.

d. Successive changes in the structure, as far as traceable.
e. Any extension or renovation within memory: if so under
whose superintendence, and at whose expense?

f. Convenience of the site of the Church.

2. Externally:

a. Its materials, and whence procured?

b. Form.

c. Style of Architecture. d. Windows. e. Doors. f. Porch. g. Tower or spire, particularly as adapted to the scenery.

3. Internally:

a. General arrangement.

b. Arrangement of seats, and kneeling accommodation.

c. Are the seats free, or allotted by churchwardens, appropriated by faculty, or occupied by usage?

d. Tombs. e. Banners. f. Monuments. g. Brasses.

h. Arms. i. Inscriptions.

j. Paintings on walls.

m. Stained glass. n. Sedilia.

o. Piscina, with or without shelf. p. Ambry.

q. Squints or hagioscopes.

II. CHURCH-YARD :

r. Embroidered hangings or

coverings. s. Communion plate. t. Font. u. Bells.

1. Covered gate. 2. Cross. 3. Tombs.

4. Epitaphs.

5. Ancient coffins. 6. Coins. 7. Antiquities discovered. 8. Public footpaths. 9. Fences and their materials.

10. How kept and fed?

III. CEMETERIES:

11. Any private entrance?

1. Institution. 2. Distribution of the ground.

3. Working of the system.

IV. CHURCH RATES:

1. Expenditure as seen in the churchwardens' accounts. 2. Feeling in regard to them.

V. CHURCH PEOPLE:

1. Services for them: on what days and at what hours?
2. Average attendance on the several services.
3. Proportion of Church-people to the whole population.
4. Proportion of attendants on the services to the Church-
people and to the whole population.

VI. CHURCH LAND AND HOUSE:

1. Any land left for the purposes of the Church?
2. Glebe land:

a. Quantity. b. Cultivation.

c. Any particulars which may be gathered from old terriers.

3. Any record of any old Church house?

VII. GLEBE HOUSE:

1. Date and successive changes.

2. Any particulars from old terriers.

VIII. CHURCH MINISTERS:

1. Institutions from early times.

2. Any particulars of former incumbents or curates.
3. Chaplains of Unions.

IX. The above particulars, as far as they apply, to any places of religious worship and to any congregations, not connected with the Church of England.

X. MEANS OF EDUCATION:

1. Schools for the young:

a. Description of school.

b. Connection with any society.

c. Endowment and sources of support.

d. Master, mistress, and teachers.

e. Scholars :

(1). Number. (2). Age. (3). Average attendance. (4). Length

of stay.

f. Books and lending library.

g. Results of education, so far as you have observed.

2. Schools for adults, such as night schools, &c.

3. Mechanics' institute, reading rooms, and other like institutions for the promotion of literature and science. XI. CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS:

1. Alms houses. 2. Hospitals. 3. Dispensaries.

4. Lunatic Asylums. 5. Friendly Societies.

6. Savings Bank. 7. Clothing Clubs, &c.

THIRDLY. NATURAL HISTORY.

I. LAND:

1. Surface:

a. General features, whether mountainous, flat, undulating, &c.
b. Any commanding eminences affording extensive views.
c. Leading and most interesting objects within the range of
vision, with bearings by compass.

d. Heights of eminences, and connection with any mountain
system.

2. Beneath surface:

II. WATER:

III. AIR:

a. Nature of the sub-soil, whether sand, clay, chalk, gravel, marl, &c.

b. Stratified or unstratified rocks.

(1). Order and condition, as shown in any section.

(2). Depth and dip. (3). Organic remains.

(4). Origin, whether local or foreign.

c. Insulated or bouldered masses, such as the sarsens.

d. Quarries:

(1). Quality of the stone. (2). Application do.

(3). Mode of working.

e. Any geological particulars.

1. Sea:

a. Depth. b. Bed: comparison between its structure and

1. General properties of the air, whether dry or moist, clear or foggy, &c.

2. Climate, as dependent on elevation above sea level, slope towards sun's rays, prevalent winds, direction of mountain ranges, fall of rain, nature of soil, and degree of agricultural improvement.

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3. Climate, as ascertained by recorded observations of the thermometer, barometer, hydrometer, and rain

gauge.

4. Any meteorological observations.

IV. ANIMAL KINGDOM:

1. Quadrupeds: any, domesticated or not, which, being connected with the locality, deserve mention from their provincial names, rarity or abundance, habits, size, weight, food, retreats, attendant superstitions,&c. 2. Birds (the same as for quadrupeds).

:

a. Migratory: time of advent and departure.

b. Bustard: any particulars which may be gleaned from old inhabitants of the plain.

3. Fishes (the same as for quadrupeds).

a. Appearance of any new species of late years, injurious to vegetation.

V. VEGETABLE KINGDOM:

1. Herbs: any deserving mention, as used for culinary, medicinal or other purposes of art or science; as rare or peculiar to the district.

2. Shrubs: any deserving mention from their uses and peculiarity.

3. Trees:

a. Timber: to the growth of which the soil is most adapted; those remarkable for their size and beauty, giving age, height, girth, and cubic feet of timber in any particular trees, as far as possible.

b. Fruit: to the growth of which the soil is most adapted.

VI. MINERAL KINGDOM.

VII. Connection between the Physical history of the district, and its social history in regard to settlement, population, habitations and cultivation.

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Che History of the Priory of Monkton Farley.

By the REV. J. E. JACKSON, F.S.A.,

Hon. Canon of Bristol.

HIS place is about four miles east of the city of Bath on the way to Bradford, and lies at the back of the high ground called Farley Down, celebrated for its freestone quarries. The geological position is curious, and the view on all sides extensive and beautiful.

Of the village and principal estate nothing of much importance is known, until, about fifty years after the Conquest, it appears among the possessions of the great Norman Family of BOHUN. Humphrey Bohun came over to England with the best introduction for a share of plunder, being kinsman to the head plunderer, King William I., and was soon provided with a pleasant perch whereon to rest his foot, after his flight across the water. He was the founder of the English family (at first Barons Bohun, but in 1199 created Earls of Hereford,) which continued till 1372, when it ended in two daughters, one of whom, Mary, married Henry Earl of Derby, afterwards King Henry IV.

It appears to have been the second Humphrey Bohun who first became a landowner in North Wilts. At the desire of William Rufus he married Maud, daughter of the greatest landlord in the county, Edward of Salisbury, who, at the marriage, endowed his daughter with several estates belonging to the Honour of Trowbridge. Farley is not named among them, so that he obtained it in some other way. His wife's family were, at various periods, founders of the Abbeys of Bradenstoke, Lacock, and Hinton. Maud of Salisbury, the wife of Humphrey Bohun the Second, was certainly the person who designed the Priory of Monkton Farley. The land which she gave for the purpose was an estate called the Buries, at Bishopstrow, near Warminster, in later times the pro