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the members visited Mincop again, through Bitton Dingle, 
to Meadowtown, where the upper Llandeilo flags are 
charged with innumerable ‘ Ogygia Buchii” in their young 
stage. On Friday, two of the party left for a tour in Wales. 
The Revs. P. B. Brodie and J. La Touche visited the 
lower Llandeilo flags at Mytton dingle, a picturesque 
mountain gorge on a small scale, where a few fossils were 
found, amongst them a nearly perfect ‘Calymene parvifrons’ 
a local and somewhat rare lower Silurian Trilobite. This 
terminated a most agreeable and instructive excursion. 
The third and last meeting of the season was held at 
Banbury, on the 9th of September, being the Archxological 
day. The party first visited Warrington Church, built 
in the fourteenth century. The door at the west end is a 
good decorated work, with a window over it of same style. 
The upper windows are of later date, and belong to the 
perpendicular style. The roof is of original plain timber 
work. Some encaustic tiles, and an iron door-handle of 
much interest, are preserved. There was no time to visit 
the ancient Manor-house. Thence the members proceeded 
to Edge hill, where Mr. Fetherston, the Archeological 
Secretary, gave a description of the battle. Proceeding 
along the ridge of Edge hill, the members visited Compton ~ 
Winyates, tke well-known seat of the Marquess of 
Northampton. 
The family of Compton have been certainly resident in 
Warwickshire, since the reign of King John, or perhaps 
earlier than that period. Perhaps no family recorded in 
English history were more conspicuous for their valour 
and for the part they took in political affairs, than the 
Comptons, in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. Sir 
William Compton, who built the greater part, was highly 
