445

449

ELIAS DE DERHAM'S LEADENHALL IN SALISBURY CLOSE, 1226-1915 433
RETURN FOR THE HUNDRED OF WESTBURY, 1643
EAST WILTSHIRE MOSSES: By C. P. Hurst
MARLBOROUGH LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSCA: By C. P. Hurst 465
THE PURCHASE OF THE BROOKE COLLECTION
BRONZE IMPLEMENTS OF THE BRONZE AGE FOUND IN WILTSHIRE,
NOT PREVIOUSLY RECORDED, Supplementary List (Feb., 1917): By
the Rev. E. H. Goddard

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THE MEDIEVAL TITHE BARN, BRADFORD-ON-AVON.

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477

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REPORT ON

THE WORK OF REPAIR

485

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILTSHIRE Zoology: By G. B. Hony, B.A.

491

NOTES

499

WILTS OBITUARY

507

RECENT WILTSHIRE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, ARTICLES, &c.

ADDITIONS TO MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

516

521

ACCOUNTS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1916

INDEX TO VOL. XXXIX.

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527

Fig. 7. Leadenhall, Salisbury. South Window
Fragment of Bronze object of unknown use found
at Dinton and Socketed Bronze Celt.............................
The Barton Barn, Bradford-on-Avon. N. Side...... 488
The Barton Barn, Bradford-on-Avon. Plan and

Details

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DEVIZES-C. H. WOODWARD, EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, STATION ROAD.

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Fig.

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LEADENHALL, SALISBURY, NORTH-EAST.

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Fig. 3.

LEADENHALL FROM NORTH, SHOWING NORTH DOOR
AND SOUTH WINDOW.

Fig. 4.

WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE.

66 MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR onus."-Ovid.

ELIAS DE DERHAM'S LEADENHALL IN SALISBURY CLOSE, 1226-1915.1

By CHR. WORDS WORTH, M.A., F.R. Hist. Soc.

In June, 1897, the late Mr. Harding communicated a brief account of the Ancient (xivth century) Sub-Chantry House formerly in the Close at Salisbury (W.A.M. xxix., pp. 29—31), together with a coloured plate to illustrate wall-decorations found on three sides of the interior of its hall. The Sub-Chantry buildings were removed, the site of the house having been acquired for the enlargement of the Training-College and of the Deanery garden nearly fifty years previously to Mr. John Harding's communication. The decoration on the north and west walls was heraldic in motive, while that on the south wall was

"A kind of trellis pattern formed into oblong divisions by vertical and horizontal red lines; at each crossing of them was a calyx of four small black leaves; from each alternate one issued to the right and to the left a black stem with a flower of five red petals and white centre, so that there was a flower in each compartment of the trellis."

History "repeats itself" with variations. In 1915 it fell to the lot of Mr. Harding's son to carry out some alterations in one of the canonical houses on the same (western) side of the Close; a work which included the removal of a dangerously tottering fabric which had been condemned to demolition by an order of the Dean

1 The Society is indebted to Canon Wordsworth for the gift of the cost of the illustrations to this paper. Canon Myers kindly supplied the photographs by Messer here reproduced. The line drawings are by Mr. M. Harding.

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