liv PROCEEDINGS, 



Field Meeting, 27th April, 1907. 

 KING'S LAXGLEY. 



The members, under the direction of Mr. Sutton, assembled at 

 King's Langley Church, which is interesting on account of its 

 association with Edmund de Langley, fifth son of Edward III, 

 who was buried here. The village owes its name to the fact 

 that this king built a palace on the tract of fertile land 

 known as the " lang-lea " or long pasture, on a spot still marked 

 by a few fragments of nuns a little west of the Church, and the 

 Eoyal Manor became known as Langley Regis. Edmund de 

 Langley was born in this palace in 1344. He became Duke 

 of York, Earl of Cambridge, and Lord Tivedale, and married 

 Isabel, a younger daughter of Don Pedro of Castile. In 1392 

 Richard II, with his first Queen, Anne of Bohemia, kept 

 Christmas at King's Langley Palace. 



Near the Palace was foimded, by one Roger Helle, a Priory 

 of Dominican Monks, which was enriched by Edward II 

 and several successive monarchs. The present Church is a Per- 

 pendicular structure of flints and Totternhoe Stone. The tomb of 

 Edmund de Langley and Isabel of Castile, brought from the 

 Priory Church at the Dissolution, formerly stood on the north 

 side of the chancel, but is now in the chapel at the end of the 

 north aisle. During the removal of the tomb to its present 

 position the bones of a male and of two females were discovered, 

 being presumably those of Edmund and Isabel, and of Anne 

 Mortimer, the wife of Edmund's second son, Richard, Earl 

 of Cambridge. 



While the members were in the Church, heavy rain came on, 

 and it did not cease the whole of the afternoon. On leaving 

 they walked up the hill past the ruins of the repvited Palace, 

 to see what remains of the Dominican Priory established in 

 1308, the portion of the building left being now known as the 

 Priory Earm. Here the present tenants, afforded the party 

 a welcome shelter, and it was decided, on account of the 

 continued rain, not to proceed to Chipperfield Common, as had 

 been intended, but to return direct to Watford, some by train, 

 others cycling. 



Field Meeting, 11th Mat, 1907. 



BEECH BOTTOM AND SANDRIDGE. 



The members met at St. Peter's Church, St. Albans, where 

 they were joined by members of the Barnet Natural History 

 Society, and then, imder the leadership of Mr. A. E. Gibbs, 

 proceeded to Beech Bottom by way of Harpenden Road. 

 Here, during the walk through this ancient earthwork to Soot 

 House Lane, Mr. Gibbs gave an account of the views held as to 

 its origin, which have been stated in reports of former visits. 



