LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED IN ANSWER TO THE APPEAL BY THE HON. CURATOR FOR £100 FOR NEW CASES FOR THE MUSEUM, 1923, £5. Mrs. E. Cook, Marquis of Lansdowne, J. Sadler. £3 3s. Bertram Phillips. £3. Sir Prior Goldney, Bart. £2 13s. 6d. Dr. R. C. Clay. £2 2s. Sir Reginald Butler, Bart., Lord Fitzmaurice, R. F. Fuller, Basil Hankey, Earl of Kerry, H. C. Lott, R. S. Newall, H. S. Walker, G. S. A. Waylen. £2. Marquis of Bath, Miss A. Bouverie, Major-Gen. T. C. P. Calley, E. Coward, Mrs. E. H. Goddard, W. S. Klein, Field-Marshal Lord Methuen. £1 18. Col. W. Heward Bell, M.P., D. W. Butler, G. J. Churchward, A. Cook, Rev. G. H. Engleheart, R. C. Gundry, Canon E. P. Knubley, Viscount Long of Wraxall, J. U. Powell, E. C. Skurray, Capt. J. E. P. Spicer, P. Williams. £1. Commander C. A. Codrington, O. G. S. Crawford, B. H. Cunnington, Rev. H. E. Ketchley, G. Kidston, Canon F. H. Manley, J. Moulton, A. D. Passmore, C. E. Ponting, A. Schomberg, H. Viney, W. J. E. Warry Stone, Chancellor Wordsworth. Capt. G. Penruddocke. 11s. 6d. 10s. 6d. Lt. Commander H. Cary, C. T. Flower, Rev. E. Glanfield, 10s. F. G. H. Armin, W. H. Barrett, H. G. W. d'Almaine, J. A. Fraser, Mrs. Grant-Meek, J. R. Neate, H. Sainsbury, Rev. C. Sladen, E. H. Stone, W. R. Sudweeks, Mrs. Webb, Lt.-Col. R. S. Weston. 5s. T. S. Bush, Col. A. Canning, Rev. J. L. Redfern, Mrs. Stratton, Miss E. Weston. NOTES. Survey of the lands of Ferdinand Hughes, of Bromham, 1652. [A small 4to MS. presented to the Society by Mr. W. H. Barrett, 1923.] A Booke of the S'vey and Admeassurement of all the Landes of Fardinande Hughes of Bromham in the Countey of Wiltes gent. Meassured by the pole of sixteene foot & a halfe to the pearch or Statute Measure. And in this Booke the Letter A standes for Acres the Letter R for Roodes or quarters of an acre & the Letter P standeth for pearches poles or Luggs, as followeth in the booke. Memd. that where you find any Letter in the Mergent1 of this Booke that Letter is placed against the thing spoken of And is alsoe placed in the Mapp for yo' Direction to the place there. By me Edward May the 31th Day of off (sic) May Anno Domn 1652. The (?) Liveing 2 Imprimis one Dwelling howse fayrly built and other houses thereunto belonging together wth one Garden one Court & one orchard thereunto Adioyneing Conteyning by Measure One Barne & stable With the Backsid or barken thereunto belonging Conteyneing R. R. P. 0 3 16 0 230 One Kitching garden that (?) adioyning wth a fish Pond in him the garden & pond Conteyneth The ground Called the Somer ground is One ground of Meaddowe next adioyneing East called Slades One Coppice Called the Redd moore conteyning One Little Meaddow next adioyneing East called Brownes 2 0 00 One other Meaddowe next adioyneing East Called Brownes One ground of Errable Called the stoneing stile Leaze con- One other ground of Errable next adioyning south-east called One ground of Errable & Meaddowe next adioyneing West The other werneyground Errable next adioyneing South-west is The letters in the margin are here omitted. 2 This was written "The Whome Liveing," but "Whome" has been erased and another word which looks like "Ford" written in. The Little Drove at the south End is One Meaddowe next adioyneing south called Blunt's Ley Meade One ground of pasture next adioyneing West Called Blunts Two Meaddowes next adioyneing north called Landes Meades One ground of pasture next adioyneing west Called the hether One other pasture ground next adioyning south west called (——— ?) Clingehill cont. One other ground of Errable next adioyning westward called the Clingehills next Durlett Conteyneing The whole Content of the Whom Liueing besides the Tenem is one hundred & Eighteene Akers one yeard And Eight & Twenty Luggs The Mill Liveing. Imprimis one Dwelling house fayrely built together with the The Pond Mead next adioyneing in the north side of the Dwell- One ground of Errable next adioyneing west called Upp 8 0 11 One other ground of Errable next adioyneing south Called 8 1 22 Alsoe one Tennement or Cottage in the possession of Walter 0 0 34 0 0 16 Soe the Quantetey of the Mill Liveing is twenty fower Acres & A halfe & Ten Luggs The Tenemt belonging to the Whome Liveing. Robert Akerman houldeth one Tenem house and one Garden VOL. XLII.-NO. CXXXIX, 2 B te Edward Aland houldeth one Tenem house or Cottage with one The Contents. The whole Content of all the ground belonging to the whome The Content of the ground that is to the Tennemente that The Content of all the Ground that belongs to the Mill Liveing is wth the Tenemte So the whole Content of all is One tennement lying in the Tything off Netherstreet and in the possesion of Theophiles Peat for terme of two lyues Theophiles the elder And Theophiles the younger. One Dwelling howse Conteyneing two (— ?) of building & one other out house thereunto belonging together with one Orchard & one Garden & backside Conteyneing by meassure Alsoe one close of Meaddowe thereunto Adioyneing East Conteyneing Alsoe one other Close of Errable called gunes lying in the west side of the house ouer athrwrt the lane Conteyneing Soe the sume of this Tennemt is Sarsen Stones in the vale off the Chalk, As a rule Sarsens are confined to the surface of the chalk, where they were left when the softer part of the sands in which they were formed as nodules were denuded away. Occasionally, however, they occur in the vale at some little distance from the present line of the chalk escarpment. Thus at the Westbury Ironworks a large sarsen was found just below the surface of the ground in 1896, of which there is a photograph in the Society's Library. Another lay in the farmyard at Woodlands, Mere, when the Society visited the house in 1921. A third exists at Stanton Fitzwarren as a "Standing stone." And quite recently (May, 1923) my attention was called by Mr. Cholmeley, the owner of Rodwell Farm, in Hilmarton parish, to a number of sarsens lying in the flat fields, perhaps half a mile from the foot of the chalk escarpment, between the house and the hill. Two at least of these appeared to be of large size, with their tops showing just above the ground, and several others 3-5ft. across had been found resting on the clay some 2-3ft. under the surface, in the course of deepening ditches or digging drains. Presumably these are the sole remains of the former northern extension of the chalk beyond the present escarpment. ED. H. GODDARD. Danvers Precepts for Wiltes. This is a MS. volume measuring 10 × 8 inches, bound in old brown calf, beautifully written in a small hand of the latter part of the 16th century, with some ornamental initial letters. The greater part of the book is in Latin, but some portion is in English. Its contents appear to consist entirely of the various legal forms which the Sheriff of the county during his tenure of office might find necessary, or which his under sheriff or clerk might find necessary, in the conduct of the many matters of legal business, which in those days were transacted under the authority of the Sheriff. There does not appear to be anything of strictly local interest connected with the County of Wilts in the volume. Sir John Danvers, for whose use this book was compiled, was twice Sheriff of Wilts, in 1573 and 1584, and was the fourth of that name who held the office during the 16th century. He was the son of Silvester Danvers, of Dauntsey, (Sheriff in 1547, who died 1552). He married Elizabeth Nevill, daughter of Lord Latimer. He died 1593 and was buried at Dauntsey. Of his ten children, Sir Charles Danvers, b. 1572, was beheaded 1600-1; Sir Henry Danvers, b. 1573, created Baron of Dauntsey, 1602, and Earl of Danby, 1628, died 1643, and was buried at Dauntsey. He founded the Botanic Gardens at Oxford. These two brothers were the murderers of Henry Long, at Corsham, in 1591. The third son was Sir John Danvers, the Regicide. The book has lately (1923) come into the possession of Capt. B. H. Cunnington. Roman Pavement near Avebury. In May, 1922, two labouring men, the Rogers Brothers, of Avebury, whilst ploughing a small arable field near Avebury Truslowe, came on a patch of tessellated pavement and told the Rev. H. G. O. Kendall, of Winterbourne Bassett, who passed on the information to myself. The field, called Little Whyr, is a small one in the occupation of Mr. Farley, of Avebury. It abuts on the roadway from Avebury Truslowe to Yatesbury, and is the second field on the Windmill Hill side of that road, after passing the junction of the roadway leading up to Windmill Hill as you go towards Yatesbury from A vebury, exactly 1634 yards west of Avebury Church. It seems that tesseræ have been ploughed up in this field for years but no notice seems to have been taken of them until now. On the matter coming to my notice I wrote to Mr. Farley asking if we might investigate further and see what the remains consisted of, and he very kindly allowed us to do so. Mr. Kendall then arranged to have the patch of pavement which had come to light cleared, and other trial holes dug round about it. The spot is 38 paces from the edge of the ditch of the hedge at the further side of the field, parallel with the roadway, and 34 paces from the wire fence of the next field towards Avebury. The existing pavement is only 62 inches under the surface, so that it is a wonder that it has so long escaped the plough. The patch uncovered, which does not seem to extend further, measures 9ft. by 6ft. 10in., and is obviously only part of a larger pavement, the rest of which has perished. The centre of the patch is occupied by a rectangular area ornamented with squares of three different colours |