blazonry. The principal quarterings are those of Acton of Iron 

 Acton, and Tame of Fairford. Members of this family were 

 sheriffs of Gloucestershire in 1294, 1303, and 1477, and Huntly 

 of Boxwell is its present representative in this county. It may 

 be remarked here that the arms given by Fuller, in his list of 

 sheriffs belong to a very distinct family, long settled in his time 

 at Bristol, and, as appears from the Visitation of 1621, in the 

 Huntley pedigree should be corrected as follows : Arg. afess sable 

 in chief three pellets. 



" Here the section subdivided, the majority going on to the 

 quarries at Furzen Leaze, in search of " tracks** on the Forest 

 marble slabs, which were found in abundance : the minority to 

 Preston church, to sketch the campanile for three bells, of elegant 

 proportions and arrangement, so unusual as to be almost unique. 



"All arrived at the College in time for dinner, from which 

 period their proceedings were precisely identified with those of 

 the general meeting." 



In the evening, papers were read by Mr. Brodie, " On the Lias 

 of Burrow-on-Sour, and the Inferior Oolite and Lias of Northamp- 

 tonshire and Gloucestershire." Mr. Lycett also read a paper, 

 " On the Inferior Lias and Oolite of the Cotteswold Hills, com- 

 pared with similar deposits on the coast of Yorkshire." 



On August 25th a very small party, consisting of the President, 

 the Rev. S. Lysons, and Mr. J. Jones, with Mr. Lysons as a 

 visitor, met at Beckford Inn to breakfast. 



As Dumbleton hill has become, through the labours of Buck- 

 man and Strickland, classic ground to the Jurassic geologist a 

 great increase in number was only waited for by the next train, 

 but to no purpose. The time, however, was not ill spent in an 

 inspection of the Church and Beckford Hall. 



The former presents many features of Norman architecture in 

 a good state of preservation, which would lead us to place the 

 date of its foundation in the reign of Stephen, the ornamentation 

 and the legendary subjects represented in the tympanum of the 

 doorway arches being precisely those described at Quennington, 

 but more coarsely executed. 



Beckford Hall is a seat of a branch of the Worcestershire 

 Wakemaus, long settled here, of which the last Abbot of Tewkes- 

 bury was a member. It is interesting from the fact that it does 

 not appear to have been improved or added to since the period of 

 its erection. In the cellars are some arches which probably 

 formed part of a Priory founded here in the Saxon times, of which 

 the revenues were estimated in the taxation of Pope Nicholas at 

 32. 16s.; and in the garden is a fine avenue of box trees. The 

 thanks of the Club are due to Mr. Woodward, who now resides 

 here, for his kindness, in anticipation of its visit, in providing 

 vehicles to convey its members to Dumbleton. 



At the base of Dumbleton hill, apparently turned up in the 



