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"CROCKETT'S HOLE." 



The President, Mr. Geo. H. Piper, read a paper on Crockett's Hole at Cugley, 

 the hiding place of Protestant Martyrs in the reign of Mary Tudor, bringing in 

 traditions on the subject, and referring to the burning of "John Home "in the 

 "Court Orchard," near Newent Churchyard, immediately before the Queen's 

 death. 



TAYNTOX CHURCH. 



This Church was built under the Commonwealth, and to gratify Puritan 

 tastes stands due north and south. It is believed that one other Church only was 

 built in England during that troubled period. 



The President read a paper also upon this subject. 



The following has been found recorded in ^otcs and Queries, February 9th, 

 1889 : — In 1700 a gold mine was discovered in a village called Taynton, on the 

 northern border of the Forest of Dean, of which a lease was granted to some 

 refiners who extracted gold from the ore. 



NEWENT CHURCH. 



A paper was read by the Pre.sident upon Newent Church, with its early 

 English tower and spire, and also some notes on the history of Newent, with 

 curious details from a rare manuscript. 



MAY HILL. 



The observer stands at May Hill upon an elevation of 96.5 feet above sea 

 level, on a Silurian i.sland of the old Mesozoic sea, and look.s from this Upper 

 Llandovery elevation over Wenlock and Ludlow rocks, over the Old Red Sand- 

 stone country of Herefordshire, and the coal fields of the Forest of Dean, over 

 Triassic rocks, and over the whole Liassic vale of Severn away to the Oolitic 

 encampment of the Cotteswold Hill. See "Woolhope Transactions," page 71 

 of 1873. See also "Symonds' Records of the Rocks," pp. 146—147. 



It is a subject of great regret that none of the papers upon these four 

 subjects have ever come into the possession of the Editorial Committee. They 

 have all been mislaid. 



