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Title: Wiltshire notes and queries
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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iscopate of Bishop Jocelvn. His work in the earlier fabric and constitution of the Church. (5)The controversy and final settlement between Bath and Wells,concerning the election of the bishop, and the title of the bishop.(6) The growth of the fabric, and of the autonomy of the I )ean and Chapter in the home rule of the Church between 1242 and 1^33- These chapters will also be illustrated with several facsimiles of seals, a representation in colours of a twelfth-century crozier,and plans and drawings of the cathedral church at various stag* sof its history. The whole will be fully indexed. The work will be printed as a limited edition of 500 copies, ina demy Svo volume, and the price to subscribers, whose name-should be sent to Messrs. Barnieott and Pearce, 44, Fore Street. aunton, will be 1 2S. 6d., post free. Canon Church is such an authority on all that appertains tothe neighbouring Cathedral of Wells, that we are sure our readers will be glad to have their attention called to the work.
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MARCH, 1894. THE WHITE HORSE OF WESTBURY. E Westbury White Horse will be familiar to those readers of Wiltshire Notes 6°Queries who have had occasion to use the Great Western Railway, which passes through the outskirts of that town. The present horse is of comparatively modern construction, although it undoubtedly marks the site of one of the Saxon horses which were prevalent throughout the Kingdom of Wessex, but which in their original state may now be confined to that at Uffington in Berkshire, of which Mr. Thomas Hughes has so ably and pleasantly written in his Scouring of the White Horse. It is a curious facf that all the white horses arc in Wiltshire but the one just referred to. The cob-like figure which now exists is a great deal more to the taste of modern-ideas of equine beauty, though it is much to be regretted that the original is lost. 1 am informed that it became totally obscured, from neglect, till about the end of the Inst century, when the patriotic zeal of a local schoolmaster an

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