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too (as our lamented friend Flavell Edmunds told me with gusto), had ‘‘ a good 
day.” 
I pass to our fourth field meeting as one of exceptional interest—the visit 
on Tuesday, the 18th of August, to Lydney Park in Gloucestershire, and its 
extensive Roman remains. This was well attended by members of our club, and 
rendered in the highest degree pleasant and unlabourious by the perfect hospitality 
of Mr. Bathurst, the proprietor. No sooner did he learn that we meditated a visit 
to his Camps, and Temple, and Roman Villa, than he not only accorded the 
necessary permission, but offered to entertain our party at lunch, and undertook 
our reception in such wise, that we were his guests from the time our train reached 
Lydney station till we left it in theevening. At Lydney Park, where Mr. Bathurst 
had invited a party, amongst whom were Sir James Campbell, the (alas !) late 
Archdeacon Ormerod, the Rev. J. J. Trollope, and other kindred spirits to meet us, 
we had the prefatorial treat, as at Whitchurch, of a Museum to illustrate the local 
remains and scenes we had come to inspect—a Museum of singular value, as it con- 
tained not only all the evidences of high-class Roman refinement such as you would 
expect in the villa of a great Roman official and his family, but also three actual 
inscriptions from the temple, adjacent to the villa, inscriptions decipherable and 
nearly perfect —inscriptions establishing as clearly as need be that this temple was 
dedicated to the British or Britanno-Roman Aisculapius, the god Nodons or 
Nudene, who is supposed to have his name from knots or joints, and to have been 
much in request in cases of gout and rheumatism. On these interesting relics and 
the places whence they were found, the several chambers of the villa and temple, 
which Mr. Bathurst had had unbared for the occasion, that gentleman discoursed 
lucidly and solidly to us at their respective sites. Neither our reporter on that 
occasion nor the author of an article on the Lydney Remains in the Saturday 
Review on the 29th of August could speak with such firmness of assurance as one 
who has so strong hereditary knowledge of and interest in these special vestiges 
of Roman occupation, and our club cannot be sufficiently grateful to Mr. Bathurst 
for the thoroughness with which he not only opened to us his treasures, but also 
did his utmost to make us understand their nature and value. I feel that it is but 
due to him, before we publish another volume of Transactions—in which will appear 
a record of the Lydney visit—to submit to his revision the Woolhope notes of it, 
in order that our report may be worthy of the day, which was one of the pleasantest 
and most successful in our annals. As regards the inscriptions, an amount of 
certainty in interpreting them has been realised which is very unusual, and it 
would be a pity that it should not come forth as nearly accurate as possible in the 
records of our club. Between Mr. Bathurst’s lucid account and Dr. McCaul’s 
Britanno-Roman inscriptions such accuracy may, I feel sure, be approximated, 
and I shall be very ready to lend a helping hand, of course under correction of one 
who has an hereditary and personal acquaintance with these interesting memorials, * 
I will not linger in retrospect on the silvan beauties of Lydney Park and 
* Mr. Bathurst's death, in the fullness of years, since this address was delivered has unfor- 
nately interfered with its supervision, 
