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Emscote, to examine the low level drifts, joiming the rest 
of the members at the Woolpack, at five o’clock, when 
fifteen sat down to dinner, the Vice-President occupying the 
chair. 
About forty persons attended the morning Meeting, 
including members and their friends, and many ladies. 
On May the 21st, 1863, the Club met at Nuneaton 
The Hon. Sec. being unable to attend, Messrs. Johnson and 
Parker were kind enough to furnish him with the following 
account of the day’s proceedings :— 
On arriving there the Club visited the remains of 
the Abbey. The ruins are few, consisting chiefly of the 
four piers, which originally supported the tower of the 
Nun’s Church. The ornamentation of these piers, as far as 
they exist, shew that the church was not devoid of beauty, 
and as the foundations of these walls extended westward, 
beyond the probable length of a nave, it was conjectured 
that the refectory, or some important chamber of the Abbey, 
originally occupied this spot. 
The grass-grown foundations also shewed a quadrangle 
which was probably surrounded by a Cloister. The founda- 
tions on the south side were even less perfect, but in all 
probability the kitchen and other domestic offices were in 
this direction. 9 
The documentary evidence of the date of the building is 
somewhat imperfect, the monastery, it is true, was founded 
as early as King Stephen’s time, but no portions bore any 
traces of that early date. Henry II. seems to have been the 
chief benefactor to the Nuns, and with the money accruing 
