14 The Seventeenth General Meeting. 
information, in your respective districts; and for thus furnishing 
accurate and valuable materials for the Magazine.” 
At the conclusion of the Report (which was adopted by the 
meeting), the Council, General and Local Secretaries and other 
officers of the Society were unanimously re-elected, with thanks to 
them for their past services. 
The Rev. D. Ottvrer read an account of “ Wilton Church,” 
which will shortly appear in the Magazine. This paper was the 
more acceptable as it was followed by a visit to the church itself, 
under the guidance of the Rector. 
Mr. Wituiam W. Ravenuitt next read a paper on “ The Trial 
and Execution of Colonel Penruddocke, at Exeter, for High Treason 
A.D. 1655.” [The first part of this paper is printed in the present 
number. | 
The thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Ravenhill for his 
paper, and before the meeting adjourned 
Mr. Cunnrneton said Lord Romilly had been in communication 
with the Society on the subject of our national antiquities. His 
lordship wished a committee to be appointed to petition the House 
of Commons in favour of legislative action. Committees had been 
appointed by the British Association and the London Ethnological 
Association, and he (Mr. Cunnington) had therefore to propose that 
a committee be appointed by the Wiltshire Society for the same 
purpose, such committee to consist of the President, Dr. Thurnam, 
Mr. E. T. Stevens, and Mr. Ravenhill. 
The Rev. A. C. Smiru seconded the proposition. It was of great 
importance that our national antiquities should be preserved. In 
riding across Marlborough Downs the other day, he came upon the 
only two cromlechs remaining in North Wilts, and he found that 
one of the capstones had been broken up for building purposes. He 
immediately represented the matter to Lord Ernest Bruce, as trustee 
of the property of Sir Henry Meux, and he trusted that the existing 
remains would be strictly preserved. 
The motion was carried unanimously, and the company then pro- 
ceeded to Wilton Church, in the inspection of which some time was 
occupied. 
