Rev. Frederick Rendell, died April 21st, 1912. Buried at Parish Church, Harrow-on-the-Hill. Youngest son of Charles Henry Rendell, of Tidcombe. Born 1822. Educated at Bath; King Edward's School, Birmingham; and Trin. Coll., Cambs. B.A., 1845; M.A., 1848. 29th Wrangler and Chancellor's Medallist. Fellow of Trinity Coll., 1846 -48. Deacon and priest, 1848 (Manchester). Assistant Master at Harrow, 1848-82. Married, first, Anna Downes, who died 1853; secondly, the daughter of B. Tayler, and widow of Captain Ricketts, who fell in the Mutiny. After resigning his mastership, in which he won universal respect and regard, he devoted himself to theological work, and writing. He was the author of : : "The Theology of the Hebrew Christians," 1866. Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews," 1888. Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles," 1897. He edited the "Epistle to the Galatians" in the Expositor's Greek Testament and wrote many articles in the Expositor. Obit. notice, Times, April 23rd, 1912. Ven. Hemming Robeson, died suddenly June 16th, 1912. Ball. Coll., Oxon, B.A., 1855; M.A., 1858. Deacon, 1857; priest, 1858 (Oxford). Curate of Bray (Berks), 1857-62; Vicar of Forthampton, (Glos.), 1862-74; Mildenhall (Suff.), 1874-77; Tewkesbury, and Walton-Cardiff, 1877-92. Archdeacon of Bristol, 1892, and afterwards of North Wilts until his retirement, when he went to live at Tewkesbury, where he died. Obit. notice, with portrait, Wiltshire Times, June 22nd, 1912. RECENT WILTSHIRE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, ARTICLES, &c. [N.B.-This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive. The Editor The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Two vols., 8vo. Vol. I., pp., including title, xiv. + 394. ; vol. II. 6 pp. unnumbered + 343. Printed by W. Clowes & Sons. 21s. net. Eighteen good portraits, amongst which are Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, from the original by Gerard Soest in the National Portrait Gallery, and Ann Hyde, Duchess of York, from the original by Sir Peter Lely. In the introduction the author says: "I do not propose to re-write the history of the Civil War and its sequel. I wish to depict the character, to appreciate the motives, and to investigate the action of one who was a foremost actor in the great struggle, and who left the abiding impress of his hand in shaping its consequences; and to claim for him the honour which he deserves as one of England's great statesmen. I am quite aware that in so doing I must dispute the adverse and grudging estimates of those who have condemned and belittled him, and of those hardly less unfriendly critics who have given him but faint and lukewarm praise I do not claim to have unearthed new documents I claim for Clarendon that he should be judged, not according to the political ideas of a later day, but according to the notions, the traditions, and if you will the prejudices, of his own time. No statesman of any age but will, in time, come to need such allowance." In the opening chapter, dealing with Hyde's parentage, descent, and birth, the author discusses the question of his birthplace at Dinton. A yew tree formerly standing one hundred yards south-west of the present rectory was said to mark the spot occupied by Henry Hyde's house, but Sir Henry Craik maintains that it is most likely that Henry Hyde lived in the old rectory, on the site of the present house, rebuilt about 1760 by a vicar who had been a Fellow of Magdalen and who introduced into the façade reminiscences of the back quadrangle of that college. Moreover, there are remains of old buildings, especially a massive dovecot connected with the rectory, and from early days the rectory did not go with the benefice but was the exclusive property of ! "What the lay rector, to whom the vicar still pays a nominal rent. more likely than that Henry Hyde as lay rector occupied his own house?" A long and very laudatory review appeared in Blackwood's Mag., Nov., 1911, pp. 689-697. "He has given us a full-length portrait of Clarendon, set against the proper background of his time." The Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 28th, 1911, in a two-column review, on the other hand, says of the author's work: "By blending the aims of history and biography he has produced a work superfluously partisan in its bias and needlessly oppressive by its sheer length to the fame of the very man it is designed to reinstate in the popular affection or, at the lowest, esteem." The Ancient Trade Guilds and Companies of Salisbury, By Alderman Charles Haskins, J.P., author of The Salisbury Corporation Pictures and Plate, with an Introduction by Rev. Canon Christopher Wordsworth, M.A., Sub-Dean of Salisbury Cathedral and Master of St Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury. With thirty-two Illustrations. Salisbury, Bennett Brothers, printers, Journal Office, 1912. 66 Linen. 8vo. Pp., including title, xxxvi., + 423. Price 12s. 6d. This stout and handsome volume is quite one of the most important additions that have been made to the number of Wiltshire books for some time. It is based on the series of articles on the Guilds and Companies of Salisbury which appeared in the Salisbury Journal during the years 1907-1909, and were noticed in Wilts Arch. Mag., xxxv., 513, 514; xxxvi., 164; but a very large amount of material has been added from other sources, as the size of the volume shows. 'The interest," says the authors, "shown in the articles which form the basis of the present book, and a generally expressed wish that they should. be published in a more permanent form, encouraged me to extend my researches, with the result that a number of books, charters, and other MSS.originally belonging to the local Guilds and Companies were placed at my disposal, both by residents in Salisbury and elsewhere. Several of these documents have since been presented to the City. This kindness has enabled me to add a considerable amount of information illustrating the influence exerted by Guild and Company upon the economic and corporate life of the City." The various chapters deal with the origin and development of English Guilds, the Merchant Guilds, of Old and New Sarum; the Guild of St. George; the Merchants' Company; the Craft Guilds; the Formation of City Companies; the Weavers; Tailors ; Shoemakers; Searchers, Viewers, and Sealers; Bakers and Cooks; Butchers; Brewers; Joiners; Barber Surgeons; Smiths; Glovers; Cloth Workers; and Wool Combers. The illustrations are photographs of the Charter of Edward IV. to the Tailors' Guild, 1461; Initial Letter of Charter of James I., 1611; Portrait of Charles Wootton, Mayor, 1583; Initial Letter of Charter of Mary to the Tailors; The First Folio of No. 1 Ledger, Tailors' Guild, 1444; Confirmation of Tailors' Charter by Bishop Beauchamp, 1462; The Gospel In Principio Swayne's Ledger; an unnumbered folio in Swayne's Ledger; The Church of St. Thomas, Exterior, Chapel of St. John Baptist, and Painting of the Doom; Arms of Salisbury, Tailors' Corporation; Initial Letter of Charter of Elizabeth; Giant and Hob Nob; Portrait of William Gillowe, 1656; Oak Shields, Tailors' Hall; Portrait of Philip Crew, Schoolmaster; Cordwainers Members' Certificate, 1785; Philip Crew's House, Crispin Inn; Shoemakers Company's Leather Cup in shape of Shoe; Arms of Bakers Company; Bronze Standard Bushel, 1485; Portrait of William Windover, 1633; the Ancient Green Market; Poultry Cross and Butcher Row; Old George Hotel, Front, Middle, and Solar Chambers; Joiners Hall, Front, and Window; Pewter Plate from Joiners Hall; Giant in Procession at Coronation, 1911. Copious extracts from the records of the various companies are printed and matters of interest contained in those records are duly set out. 66 The index gives, as it should, references conscientiously to every name of old time" mentioned in the book, some of the modern names being omitted, but in references to matters of interest other than personal names, it might, perhaps have been with advantage fuller. The book is indeed a mine of material for the history of Salisbury, and the author has in many places, as for instance where under the heading of the Brewers Company, he gives us lists of Salisbury Alehouses and Inns and their Keepers, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, gone out of his way to give information not procurable elsewhere. Canon Wordsworth, in the introduction, makes an interesting point as to the " sequence of liturgical colours" used at Salisbury. It was formerly stated that green was unknown to Sarum Use, but he points out that in three of the documents given in this book as well as in other inventories elsewhere, there is clear evidence that green vestments were used in Salisbury about 1451 and 1548. A long notice (two and a half columns) in Salisbury Times, Feb. 23rd ; Salisbury Journal, Feb. 17th, 1912. Old Sarum. Report of the Committee for the Excavations during 1910, by W. H. St. John Hope and Lieut.Col. Hawley. This is printed in Proceedings Soc. Ant., 2nd Series, xxiii., pp. 501-517, with a folding "Plan of the inner work at Old Sarum, showing parts excavated down to the end of 1910," and four plates, "North-East Angle of Great Tower," "South-East View of St. Nicholas Chapel, &c." and two plates of "Medieval Pottery." The report was also issued separately to subscribers. The excavations were begun on May 22nd and continued until Oct. 29th, 1910, and were mainly concerned with the clearing of the site of the great tower or keep of the castle, a rectangular structure 104ft. along the north wall and 81ft. from north to south. The site of the 66 kitchen and the chapel have been determined. The stones of the conical spire or capping of the Norman chimney which belonged to the hall fireplace were found at the foot of the wall. It was of an ornate character. Two garderobe pits 28ft. in depth were possibly filled up with chalk during alterations in 1181-2, when a garderobe tower on the east side of the tower was perhaps built, with two pits 19ft. deep. Another pair of garderobe pits 22ft. deep were found on the west side of the great tower. Nothing can be said of the height of the great tower except that it certainly was of two storeys at least. The roofs were covered with tiles of pottery or stone with cockscomb pottery ridge tiles glazed with various shades of red and green as well as a number of tiles of a dark brown shale, like Kimmeridge Shale, and others of grey slate. The date of the great tower must be previous to 1130, when it is mentioned in the Pipe Roll. The line of the bailey wall north of the postern was traced until the scanty remains of a large building north-west of the great tower, which may have been the Chapel of St. Margaret," mentioned in 1246, were found. The southern end of the postern tower was opened up and a vast garderobe pit, lined like the others with ashlar masonry, 11ft. square by 42ft. deep, was emptied. Beyond this, to the south-west, a stretch of the bailey wall was uncovered. The castle well was found in the centre of the bailey, but only a few feet of it were emptied. The objects of interest found came almost exclusively from the garderobe pits, the surface spoil heaps yielding almost nothing, so complete has been the destruction and spoliation of the site. Building stone, indeed, was so valuable that everywhere the walls have been razed almost to the foundations, and where this is not the case the ashlar has been stripped off them, leaving only a rubble core. A great quantity of potsherds of rough unglazed ware was found in the pits, and a few more or less perfect vessels, including small cooking pots with rounded bottoms, jugs, &c., a quantity of glazed fragments of a superior ware, red, green, and yellow, in cluding a perfect cylindrical costrel and several tall jugs. A mass of decayed fragments of stained window glass occurred in one of the pits, and a number of small pieces of domestic drinking glasses, &c., of fine quality, some of it probably Venetian; also a small gold ring set with an emerald, a piece of textile material with an heraldic pattern in gold thread, a flageolet made from the bone of a swan's wing. Amongst the mass of bones found, the red deer is curiously absent, the fallow deer is frequent, the roe deer 'less so. Sheep, ox, pig, duck, goose, swan, domestic fowl, pigeon, partridge, snipe, &c., also occurred, with quantities of oyster shells, sea fish, and shells of mussels, whelks, cockles, and winkles. Of stone there are fragments of mortars and millstones of Andernach lava, and several stone cressets. Two iron mounts for wooden spades were met with amid the surface debris, and are assigned by Col. Hawley to the time of the spoliation. The ashlar building stone is some of it greensand, from Hurdcote, three miles west of Wilton; some of it cream-coloured oolite, from Chilmark ; and some white freshwater limestone, from the Isle of Wight. |