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the nobility and gentry of this county who, on the one 
side or the other, took a conspicuous part in these 
troublous times, of those who as Royalists had to com- 
pound for their estates, and of the flight of Charles the 
Second in disguise through this county after the fight at 
Worcester in 1651. Then of the restoration, the reaction, 
the demolition of the walls of Coventry, and the St. 
Bartholomew’s Act of 1662, which latter, though stigma- 
tised by some as harsh and savouring of intolerance, hasbeen 
by others considered as an act of retributive justice on 
that party which had plundered, insulted, ejected from 
their livings many of the clergy of the Church of England, 
and had proscribed the Book of Common Prayer. 
The Annual Winter Meeting of the WARWICKSHIRE 
Naturauist’s and ArcHxotocist’s Fietp Cius was held 
at the Museum, Warwick, on the 20th of February, 1868. 
The President read the report of the year 1867, and 
regretted his inability to prepare a special paper for the Club, 
but gave a short viva voce Archzological address, in which 
he especially alluded to the exploration of Palestine, now in 
progress. 
The Rev. P. B. Bropin, M.A., F.G.S., (Vice-President and 
Hon. Sec.) then read an interesting paper, entitled “a sketch 
of the Lias generally in England, and of the “Insect and 
Saurian beds,” especially in the lower division in the counties 
of Warwick, Worcester, and Gloucester, with a particular 
account of the fossils which characterize them. 
Mr. W. G. Frerton read a paper on “ Buried Coventry.” 
Dr. CorFieLD afterwards gave a short viva voce account of 
the Extinct Volcanoes of the Eifel. 
An animated discussion took place on some of the above 
papers, in which Messrs. Bloxam, Brodie, Parker, * and 
Wyles took part. 
A paper was also read by the Prestpent (for the Rev. W. 
Johnson), on “The advantages of literary and scientific 
inquiries, local museums, and local observations, and on the 
aids which might be found for them.” 
