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this without disturbing the classical and more learned ^•ooabl^lary of the 

 sciences, which requires cherishing as a medium of international communica- 

 tion. If he had leisure, who so fit for the task of simplification as Dr. Bull ? 

 And now to turn to a few remarks and suggestions springing out of the fore- 

 going survey of 1873, 1 will crave your patience just a little longer. Our brief 

 taste of archaeology at Wapley ought, I think, to spur those membere of the 

 C'lul:>, whose proclivities are rather antiquarian than scientific, to cater for 

 our transactions much more of the kindred food, which in this border county 

 lies so ready to hand. Not only are there many camps still unexphjred, many 

 dykes still to be traced and investigated, but the whole field, which we reckon 

 ourselves specially privileged to traverse, is rich in historical remains and 

 memorials, from before the Norman Conquest until past the Parliamentarian 

 struggle. With many of these the pileasant, iDo^Dular, and (not the less on 

 that account) erudite volumes anent our " Castles and Manor Houses," by the 

 Eev. C. J. Robinson, have made us more familiar ; and with the connection 

 of Herefordshire with the struggle betwixt Charles I. and his Parliament, 

 some of you have become better acquainted by the able editing of "The 

 Military Memoir of Colonel Bird," for the Camden Society, by the late Rev. 

 John Webb. It is simple justice to say of that work, completed and carried 

 through the jjress by a son who inherits his she's accuracy, acumen, and 

 devotion to literature that its notes are worth at least ten times the value of 

 the memoir ; and that on the strength of these annotations it is a volume no 

 Herefordshire library ought to be without. Nor can it be out of place to add 

 here that the Rev. T. W. Webb proposes shortly to publish another and 

 larger work of his late father, entitled, " Memoirs of the Civil War lietween 

 Charles I. and his Parliament," particularly as it affected the county of 

 Hereford. Judging from the interest of the opening chapter, which I have 

 had the privilege of perusing in MSS., I cannot doubt the acquisition which 

 the proposed volumes will prove to the curious in Herefordshire history. Do 

 we sufficiently encourage those who strive to illustrate and imearth our 

 annals? I fear not, if one is to judge by Mr. Hull's first list of subscribers ! 

 But perhaps many are taking time to consider ; and such, too, may be the 

 explanation of the tardiness of members of the Woolhojie Club, to enliven 

 our meetings and enrich our volumes by papers illustrative of such features of 

 Herefordshire history, or anti<|uities, as have come within their ken. I have 

 mentioned a member and non-member who are honoiu-able exceptions to the 

 general rule of consigning our traditions to Lethe. Let me not forget, at the 

 present time, to express the debt of those who are proud of our old memorials 

 to our brother Woolhoplan, Mr. Phillott, for his share in elucidating our 

 Cathedral " Mappa ISIundi," which was first facsimiled through the instigation 

 of our Club. It vras wont to be said that Herefordshire was the Bccotla of 

 England : a hard saying, never, I believe, quite true — but now, if we husband 

 and utilise the talent and intellectual strength which new blood, it may be, 

 had raised among us— evinced by such works as the " Castles and Man.sions," 



