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WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE 
‘SMULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONOS.”—Ovid, 
THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Wiltshire Archeological & Natural Mistory Society, 
HELD AT WARMINSTER, 
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August 22nd, 23rd and 2Ath, 
1877. 
PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, ~ 
Tre Most HonovrasLte THe Margquis or Batu. 
jamersTiE General Annual Meeting! for 1877 was held at War- 
minster, which had not been visited by the Society for 
twenty-one years. A very large number of Members and their 
friends attended; the weather proved most favourable, and nothing 
could have exceeded the kindly and hospitable reception which the 
inhabitants of Warminster gave to the Society. The Meeting was 
in all respects thoroughly successful, and we suspect that in future 
so long an interval will not be allowed to exist between the visits of 
_ the Archzologists to Warminster. 
It was not deemed advisable on this occasion to form a temporary 
local museum, but on the walls of the Town Hall were displayed a 
_ number of valuable and interesting letters, discovered last year in a 
 Jumber room at Pyt-House, and kindly lent for the oecasion by the 
_ owner, V. F. Benett-Stanford, Esq., M.P. They consisted of 
several manuscript letters of King Charles I. to Prince Rupert; an 
_1In preparing this account of the Warminster Meeting the Editor desires to 
___ acknowledge the assistance he has derived from the columns of the Devizes 
_ Gazette, the Wiltshire Mirror, the Salisbury Journal and the Somerset and 
Wilts Journal. 
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