. Wiltshire notes and queries. iscopate of Bishop 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 andChapter in the home rule of the Church between 1242 and 1^33- These chapters will also be illustrated with several facsimilesof 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
. Wiltshire notes and queries. iscopate of Bishop 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 andChapter in the home rule of the Church between 1242 and 1^33- These chapters will also be illustrated with several facsimilesof 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 , 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 readerswill be glad to have their attention called to the MARCH, 1894. THE WHITE HORSE OF WESTBURY. E Westbury White Horse will be familiarto those readers of Wiltshire Notes 6°Queries who have had occasion to usethe Great Western Railway, which passesthrough the outskirts of that town. The present horse is of comparativelymodern construction, although it un-doubtedly marks the site of one of the Saxon horses which wereprevalent throughout the Kingdom of Wessex, but which intheir original state may now be confined to that at Uffingtonin Berkshire, of which Mr. Thomas Hughes has so ably andpleasantly written in his Scouring of the White Horse. It is acurious facf that all the white horses arc in Wiltshire but the onejust referred to. The cob-like figure which now exists is a great deal more tothe taste of modern-ideas of equine beauty, though it is much tobe regretted that the original is lost. 1 am informed that itbecame totally obscured, from neglect, till about the end of theInst century, when the patriotic
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