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_ whose site is marked by the grand old elms which still surround it. 
Wyke House, at Staverton, the residence of Captain Perkins Clark, 
is a good specimen of the domestic architecture of James I. It, at 
one time belonged to the Vynour family. Sir Henry Vynour was 
living there in 1623. His mother was a daughter of Robert Long, 
Esy., of London, And now pray forgive me for trespassing so long 
on your time, and let me thank you very much for the kind attention 
which you have bestowed upon my efforts. (Mr. Penruddocke re- 
sumed his seat amidst great applause.) 
The Rev. A. C. SmirH moved a cordial vote of thanks to the 
Cratrman for his very able address: they had already had experience 
of the capabilities of their President as an Archeologist at Wilton, 
therefore they expected an excellent address from him, and most 
certainly they were not disappointéd in their expectations. There 
were two or three matters touched on in the address on which he 
desired to say a few words. Reference had been made to the work 
of Mr. Fergusson and the strange doctrines it contained ; speaking 
for himself and for many of his friends around him, (he believed he 
might say for the Wiltshire Archeological Society generally,) they . 
utterly repudiated the theories which that gentleman had thought 
fit to broach. They could not bear to think that their grand 
antiquities at Avebury and Stonehenge were post-Roman : and they 
did not believe it for a moment. With regard to the parochial 
histories which had been alluded to, he (Mr. Smith) had now in his 
charge the histories of some 65 parishes in the county, and there 
were others now in the course of preparation : he was about to issue 
with the Bishop’s sanction, fresh applications to those incumbents 
who had not yet responded to the Society’s appeal, and he hoped 
- the result would be that eventually they would obtain a history of 
every parish in the county: these histories would hereafter, by the 
express desire of the Bishop, be deposited in the Society’s Library 
at Devizes, where they would be open to the inspection of the clergy 
and others. One other matter he would mention, and that was the 
want of a competent entomologist to elucidate the insect branch of 
the Natural History of the County: he trusted that some one whose 
taste lay in that direction would volunteer to supply the 
