Warminster Herald, Saturday 9 August 1879:
“MR COLES’S RAM SALE. We beg to call attention to advertisement announcing the sale and letting on Tuesday next, 12th August, at Salisbury, by Messrs. Waters, Son, and Rawlence, of Ram Lambs, from the celebrated Middleton Hampshire Down flock. Mr Robert Coles is too well known as a breeder to require any encomiums on our part to secure a large attendance at his sale. Britford Fair is held on the same day, but the time of the sale - 3 o’clock, - has been specially arranged to meet the convenience of parties returning therefrom.â€