252 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY. The Committee feel great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of the following articles, presented to the Society:— BY REV. CANON JACKSON, Leigh Delamere.-The History and Description of St. George's Church, Doncaster, destroyed by fire February the 28th, 1853. 1 vol., Imperial quarto, illustrated with numerous woodcuts and lithographs. By the donor.-Nichols and Sons, London, 1855. BY J. Y. AKERMAN, ESQ., F.S.A.-A Fine between Richard and Henry Rutter, and Daniel Champernoun and Mary his wife, of lands and tenements in Cricklade, 34 Elizabeth. BY REV. JAMES HENRY HUGHES, M.A., Chaplain H.E.I.C.S. at Surat.— Laing's descriptive catalogue of Impressions from ancient Scottish Seals. Quarto numerous woodcuts and engravings.-Edinburgh, 1850. BY PROFESSOR BUCKMAN, Cirencester.-Stone Celt, found near Stonehenge. Pamphlet on the removal and re-laying of Roman Tesselated floors. BY THE ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETIES OF NORTHAMPTON, YORK, LINCOLN, WORCester, and BedfORSHIRE.-Reports and Papers read at their Meetings during the years 1854-5. BY WILLIAM GAISFORD, ESQ., Worton.-Medal struck to commemorate the capture of Porto Bello by Admiral Vernon in 1739-found at Worton. BY R. BROTHERHOOD, ESQ., Chippenham.-Fossil Mammalian Remains from the neighbourhood of Chippenham. BY REV. G. ASHE GODDARD, Clyffe Pypard.-Fossil Bones from the Kimmeridge Clay. BY MR. CUNNINGTON, F. G. S., Devizes.-Fossil Bones from the Drift and Alluvial Deposits near Chippenham. BY THE ESSEX ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-Their proceedings for the years 1852-3-4. BY ALFRED J. DUNKIN, ESQ., Dartford, Kent.-The works of Ralph, Abbot of Coggeshal, edited by the donor. 1 vol., octavo, 1856. Sundry numbers of the Archwological Mine, containing a History of Kent by the donor. BY MR. W. F. PARSONS, Wotton Basset.-Specimens of Romanised British Pottery, from a Pottery at Wotton Basset. Drawing of a Chimney Piece at Fasterne House. Engraving of Wotton Basset Church. BY MISS WICKENS, Salisbury.-Drawing of the Seal of the Weavers of the city of New Sarum. BY LOVELL REEVE, ESQ., Wandsworth, Surrey.-The Literary Gazette (New Series) from the commencement to the present time, published by the donor. BY R. COWARD, Esq., Roundway.-Two bone ornaments, a pointed instrument of deer's horn, a flint arrow-head, two grooved whetstones, a larger whetstone, flint knife and quartz, pebble, found with an interment of burnt bones in the long barrow on Roundway Hill, September, 1856. BY MR. HOWITT, Devizes.-Model of the Font in Preshute Church. BY MR. EYLES, Winterbourne Monkton.-Ring, and two ornaments of jet, flint knife, portions of four urns, curiously wrought pebble, and disc of pottery, from an interment beneath a large sarsen stone at Winterbourne Monkton; also a large whetstone from another similar interment. H. BULL, Printer, St. John's Street, Devizes. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY, The Collegiate Church of Edington, Wilts, BY VERNON W. ARNOLD, ARCHITECT. ERHAPS there is scarcely any ancient Collegiate Church in the kingdom which has been more an object of curiosity and interest to the Architect and Antiquarian, than the one, an account of which is now preparing for publication; and it is singularly remarkable, that the extreme beauty it is acknowledged to possess in rich and varied details, should not have occupied the attention of some of our able Architects, who might have delineated its construction and decoration. But such is the case: it has not been published, though we believe some drawings of great merit of parts of the building are in the museums of our Architectural Societies. To fill up the vacuum, the work has been undertaken by the author with the view of preserving its beauty in his pages, before it suffers further injury from the unsparing hand of time. In Wiltshire, as well as throughout England, the Church of Edington has been pointed out both by Ecclesiologists as well as Archæologists, as the one that illustrates more perfectly than any other the peculiar features found in the transitional change from the Late Decorated to the Early Perpendicular style of Gothic Architecture, in a way so impressive, that but few beholders can witness and forget. To corroborate the universal opinion there set forth, the author thinks that the subjoined letter from a gentleman holding a very high position in his profession, cannot but go far to establish the value that must attach to the publication of a work illustrative of an edifice of such great interest and importance. DEAR SIR, 20, Spring Gardens, I shall be happy to subscribe to your work on Edington Church, which I think an admirable specimen of its period, and one particularly interesting, from its connection with the history of the Transition into the Perpendicular style. V. Arnold, Esq. Yours very truly, GEORGE GILBERT SCOTT. 2 It is now only necessary to state that the work will contain an Historical account of the entire edifice, with particular descriptions of those portions which will form the subject of the seventeen illustrative plates: these will comprise Perspective Views of the Interior and Exterior, with Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details accurately drawn to scale, and every care will be taken in the production of the plates to render them clear and effective. To have this desideratum their production will be entrusted to Mr. Jobbins, who has produced Collings' Gothic Ornaments, the Details of Gothic Architecture, and Brandon's Roofs, &c. The price of the work to Subscribers will be 25s. in appropriate cloth binding, and to Non Subscribers, 30s. Gentlemen of the county and members of the Architectural profession who are desirous of assisting the author to carry out his labours, by adding their names to the subjoined list of Subscribers, will be kind enough to forward their names to MR. ARNOLD, 2, Duke Street, Adelphi; or to the Publishers, Messrs. BELL and DALDY, Fleet Street. The Right Rev. the Lord Archbishop of York The Lord Bishop of Salisbury Rev. B. Maddock Rev. S. Maddock Rev. C. M. Arnold Rev. W. Harris Rev. T. Dickson Rev. I. C. Clapp Rev. T. McConnell Hussey T. H. Wyatt, Esq. Tucker, Esq. C. Poland, Esq. B. North Arnold, Esq. M.D. J. Parker, Esq. THE WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. "MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS."-Ovid. THE FOURTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society, HELD AT WARMINSTER, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 5th, 6th, and 7th of August, 1856. PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, THE MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUIS OF BATH. THE Fourth Anniversary Meeting of the Society commenced at one o'clock on Tuesday, 5th August, with a public assembly in the Town Hall, Warminster; the chair being taken, in the temporary absence of the President, the Marquis of Bath, by the vicar, the Rev. PREBENDARY FANE, who opened the proceedings with the following address:-Ladies and gentlemen: I feel considerable difficulty in assuming the chair upon this occasion; but my apology is that it is the wish of the Council, and particularly of the noble President, that I should do so in his absence. The occupations which almost ceaselessly devolve upon me, render me, however, unfit for such a post; but, if an earnest and hearty desire to promote the objects of the Society, and the satisfaction which I feel in seeing the members of it assembled in my parish-if this be any claim to my occupying the chair, as deputy, all I can say is, that it gives me sincere pleasure to do so. The custom has hitherto been-and it is a custom which I am now desired to continue-for the President or Vice-President, for the time being, to explain to 2 L VOL. III.-NO. IX. the members who may be present what the real objects of these meetings are, and what the chief object of the Society is, in visiting different parts of the county-first one corner, then another. First of all, then, the principal purpose of the Wiltshire Archæological Society, is to preserve objects of local curiosity-whether ecclesiastical, domestic, or of remote antiquity-by a sort of fostering hand, a superintending care, an eye in fact which shall overlook every kind of curiosity in this county: to preserve the interesting remains of ecclesiastical and of domestic architecture-in fact, to promote a taste for ecclesiastical and domestic archæology. But we felt, when the Society was established, that we required more than this, and we added-and in my opinion added wisely-the study of Natural History. Therefore you are not to look upon us as mere seekers after dry bones, as men whose only purpose is to dig among bricks and mortar, and endeavour to ferret out of old hills objects of curiosity; but you are to regard us as persons whose endeavour is to promote, to the utmost of our power, a taste, not only for Archæology, but a taste for Natural History. There is another object which, I confess, influences me very largely in undertaking as I have, a considerable share in the troubles and labours attendant upon the present meeting-and it is this. There is always a difficulty in this country, in drawing together all classes of people for one common object, without what are called in geology the "faults" and "breaks,” which so frequently occur in the peculiar social condition of society in England. It is therefore, in my opinion, a great thing to introduce any object like the present in which a common interest may be excited-any object in which all classes may combine, as we see them combined on this occasion, from the noble Marquis who has so kindly undertaken to act as our President, down to those who labour in the sweat of their brow-and who I may truly say have laboured in the sweat of their brow, in adorning the room in which I hope we shall all of us presently eat a good dinner. It is, I repeat, this object especially-viz.: the uniting of all classes in mutual harmony and goodwill-so that Devizes may have a day's honeymoon with Warminster, and Warminster may have a day's honeymoon with Salisbury-and Devizes and Salisbury and Warminster |