periods into which Prof. Commont and the French archæologists divide the flints of St. Acheul and the Somme valley. He also dwells on the origin of the stria and the gloss which appears on so many of the flints at Knowle. He attributes the striæ to ice moving over the face of the gravel and pressing grains of quartz sand on the flint, and is inclined to suggest that the same agency working with very fine sand and iron is responsible for the gloss which others had attributed to blown sand.

Windmill Hill, Avebury. Flints. In a note in Man, Aug., 1914, p. 134—5, Mr. A. D. Passmore has a note on the “Rarity of large Flint Implements in Gloucestershire." This has been remarked by Canon Greenwell in British Barrows, p. 443. It is a district in which flint is not naturally produced, it must therefore have been imported from Wiltshire, and so would be scarce and valuable. Mr. Passmore suggests therefore, that when a large celt was broken the pieces were not thrown away, but were flaked up and re-made into arrowheads and scrapers. He goes on to suggest that the occurrence of so many flakes and fragments evidently struck off polished celts at Windmill Hill, near Avebury, is to be accounted for by the preference of the makers of arrowheads, &c., for pieces of flint which had already been chosen for celts because of their freedom from flaws.

Little Langford. The story of the robbery from the house of Thomas Gyfford, Rector of Little Langford, on Feb. 18th, 2 Rich. III.. by Richard Bays of Little Langford, and of the considerable amount of gold and silver jewellery and plate stolen therefrom, is given in Wiltshire Times, Jan. 23rd, 1915. In the same paper is printed a muster of the Pikeners, Bilmen, Archers, and Harquebusiers in the different divisions of Wiltshire in 1560, and the will of Thomas Cooke of Donhead St. Andrew, dated July 1, 1649.

Devizes St. Mary's. Proposal to re-cast the Bells. The proceedings at the Chancellor's Court at Devizes to hear an application from the Rector and Churchwardens for a faculty to authorise the re-casting of the present six bells into a new peal of eight bells, are fully reported in the Wiltshire Gazette, July 23rd, 1914. Mrs. Llewellyn presented the case for the Churchwardens, Mr. Brownlee West, Hon. Sec. to the Diocesan Guild of Ringers, and the Rev. H. E. Tilney Bassett, Master of the Guild, also spoke in favour of the application. The Rev. C. V. Goddard presented the case of the Wilts Archæological Society in opposition to the application, and Mr. G. S. A. Waylen supported him. The case was adjourned in order to obtain the evidence of a disinterested expert. Eventually the Chancellor granted the application.

Ogbourne St. Andrew Church. Report of the opening of the Church after the work of restoration by Mr. C. E. Ponting, F.S.A., the

principal items of which are described, and with Mr. Ponting's description of the building as given in W.A.M., xxviii., are printed in Wiltshire Gazette, Dec. 31st, 1914.

Chartists at Trowbridge and Westbury in 1839. An interesting letter from a girl of 14 to her brother describing the meetings of the Chartists and the arrest of their leaders is printed in Wiltshire Times, Jan. 9th, 1915.

Stonehenge. By William Burrough Hill, F.S.I. An article in "My Garden, Illustrated," Dec., 1914, pp. 361-363, with four illustrations. "A Peep into the Sanctum Sanctorum, W. Stukeley"; "After J. W. Turner, R.A."; "Present Day"; and "Garden Miniature." This is more or less a repetition of the pamphlet already noticed in W.A.M., xxxviii., 524, but is here accompanied by a page of ecstatic advertisement. "Rock gardens, bog gardens, formal or any other kind of gardens may be, and are, very beautiful as such-terraces, rockeries, winding paths, pedestals, and even statuary have their uses-but the charm of ancient history, coupled with the mysteries of the Dark Ages long before the Christian Era, can alone be found in mystic surroundings of a Model or Replica of 'Stonehenge.' What could be more beautiful, majestic, entrancing, and educational, than a full-size replica on a lawn of a garden of a few acres ?" Model A. 10 full size, may be obtained for 50 gns.; Model B, half full-size for 250 gns.; and Model C, full-size for 500 gns. "All prices including crating, packing, and plan for fixing" at 93, above Bar, Southampton.

Devizes Castle. [Sale Particulars]. "Messrs. Knight, Frank, & Rutty will offer the above for Sale by Auction, at the Estate Room, 20, Hanover Square, London, W., on the 25th day of June, 1914, at 2.30 o'clock." Large 4to, pp. 17, with etching of entrance gateway, and good photos of exterior of Castle (2); Norman Gateway, Bishop's Gateway, Ladies' Gateway, Oratory Window, Gallery, Drawing Room, Gardens, and folding coloured map.

Whitley House, near Melksham. Particulars of Sale. 60 acres at the King's Arms Hotel, Melksham, on 27th May, 1913, by Messrs. Foley, Son, & Mundy. 4to., pp. 10, with folding coloured plan and three photos, the Front and Back of the House, and the Garden. Snelgare and Mompesson. A note in Wiltshire Times, Dec. 26th, 1914, records a petition temp. Hen. VIII., from ten members of the family of Snelgare, of Bathampton (in Wylye), Corton, Fisherton Delamere, and Chilmark, against John Mompesson, who claimed them as his villeins and had seized their persons and their goods.

"A Famous Forest, the Beauties of Savernake.” A long article on the forest, filling several columns in Wiltshire Times, Dec. 26th, 1914.

Wiltshire Soldiers in the Reign of Elizabeth.

A list

of men impressed in Wiltshire for service in Ireland is printed in Wiltshire Times, Feb. 13th, 1915.

The Crabbe Centenial Celebration at Trowbridge, on June 17th, 1914, with the long address on the poet's life and works by A. M. Broadley and an abstract of the sermon by the Dean of Salisbury in the Parish Church are very fully reported in the Wiltshire Times, June 20th (with cuts of the Church and the Crabbe monument in the chancel, and a photo of the portrait by Pickersgill in the National Portrait Gallery), and in the Wiltshire Gazette, June 18th,

1914.

The Associated Householders" or "Devizes Loyal Volunteers" of 1798-1801, are the subject of an article by Mr. Mr. H. Robinson in Wiltshire Gazette, April 8th, 1915.

The Devizes Town Crier, some jottings about his costume, and predecessors, an interesting article by Ed. Kite in Wiltshire Gazette, April 29th, 1915. The Town Crier of Devizes shares with the criers of two or three other places in England, York among them, the distinction of being clad in scarlet, and his livery was described at the Brit. Arch. Association meeting in 1880 at Devizes as that of "a Verderer of the Royal Forests." Mr. Kite, however, regards this as an error, and goes to the Bye Laws of the time of Q. Eliz. for a better explanation of the royal livery. The Town Crier was then also "the Cryer of the Royal Court" held weekly in the Guildhall of that time, when the Manor and Borough were in the hands of the Crown. This Mr. Kite regards as the origin of the official scarlet dress and the cap, “wrongly described as that of a Royal Huntsman-which is really the Cap of Maintenance, but without the projections at the back as usually drawn in heraldry." His official title now is "Town Crier and Ale Taster." The Bellman was a separate official.

"The Call to Arms in Whiteparish, Wilts, 1914. A sermon preached at All Saints' Church, Whiteparish, by the Rev. C. F. Metcalfe, M.A., Vicar, August 30th, 1914. Poems by Rudyard Kipling, Esq., the late Lord Tennyson, and Bret Harte. List of Whiteparish men serving in His Majesty's forces. Sold on behalf of the funds of the Red Cross Society. Price fourpence."

Pamphlet, 8in. × 54in., pp. 16. Six plates containing photos of 24. Whiteparish men in the Navy or Army. It was compiled by Mr. W. F. Lawrence, of Cowesfield House.

ADDITIONS TO MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.

Museum.

Presented by REV. H. G. O. KENDALL, F.S.A.: Pipe marked T.H., from Winterbourne Monkton.

MR. H. E. MEDLICOTT: Nine small pipes found at Potterne.
REV. E. H. GODDARD: Grapta C-album, caught at Clyffe
Pypard, 1914.

REV. O. M. HOLDEN: Fragments of the pots in which the
hoard of Roman coins found at Grovely were contained.

Library.

Presented by MR. J. E. PRICHARD, F.S.A.:

Wiltshire," 1832.

"Hall's Pocket Map of

MR. AND MISS DARTNELL: Cuttings and Illustrations;
Salisbury Directory, two years.

MR. F. W. LONG: "Pitman Centenary 1913 Program of
Celebrations at London and Bath."

LORD AVEBURY : Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord
Avebury," two vols. 1914.

THE AUTHOR (E. F. PYE-SMITH): "Agricultural Developement
through Social order,” 1914.

MR. J. J. SLADE: Wilts Articles and Illustrations.

MR. H. E. MEDLICOTT: "Wiltshire Gazette," "Salisbury
Diocesan Gazette,"
""North Wilts Church Magazine," all
complete for 1914; eight Sale Particulars of Wiltshire
Estates.

MR. W. F. LAWRENCE: "The Call to Arms in Whiteparish,
Wilts, 1914"-pamphlet with portraits of the men serving.
THE AUTHOR (REV. H. R. WHYTEHEAD): "The Minster
and Church Life in Warminster."

THE AUTHOR (REV. H. G. O. KENDALL): "Flint Imple.
ments from the Surface near Avebury," reprint from Proc.
Soc. Ant., xxvi.

MR. G. FIDLER: Drawing of Roman Bronze enamelled Brooch from Stockton Woods, in possession of Miss Fidler, of Teffont.

THE AUTHOR (C. E. PONTING); "The Church of St. John
the Evangelist, Milborne Port," 1914.

MISS BAKER: Drawing of Old Lympley Stoke Church.
MR. EMMANUEL GREEN, F.S.A.: Several Prints, Documents,
&c.

MR. F. A. PAGE TURNER: Several XIV. Century Deeds
connected with Alderton.

REV. C. V. GODDARD: Salisbury Journal for 1914; Cuttings and Scraps.

THE PROPRIETORS: Wiltshire Times for 1914.

Jan. 1st. To Balance brought from last account... 33 9 3

DISBURSEMENTS.

No. 122.

Wilts Inquisitiones Post

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