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reputation of the Monmouth Grnmmar School for producing not only a Senior 

 Wrangler, but one also who had {guided so many others to the envied position of 

 Wrangler, nor had the party been informed that such a remarkable festooning of 

 foliage in plaster had ever been executed as was found by them an the ceiling of 

 the first floor of the Castlo House built for one of the Duchesses of Beaufort, now 

 occupied by the Monmouth Volunteer Engineers. More might have been seen of 

 the interesting Castle adjoining, but for the circumstance that in 1655 its demoli- 

 tion was rendered more complete by the use of its materials in the building of the 

 Castle House. Neither was the kind reception, the drawing-room entertainment 

 by Mrs. Willis, the spread of viands and refreshments upon her cool lawn, any 

 portion of the authorised programme ; yet the opportunity was seized of making 

 them all a portion of the day's accomplished work, the usages of the Woolhojie 

 Club and of the Blue Ribbon Army nothwithstanding. It is not our province to 

 write a history of Monmouth, especially when one object alone in the town, 

 namely the ancient Gate Tower, has had so many chapters to itself ; long may its 

 masonry remain in situ ! Long be it preserved from removal like Temple Bar ! 

 But one work must be recorded which will deserve a place of honour when the 

 next edition of Waugh^s (xuide to Monmouth comes to be printed, viz., the Jubilee 

 Hall, an excellent model of what such a building ought to be, for the suggestion of 

 which we believe Monmouth owes as much to Dr. Willis, whilst Mayor during the 

 Jubilee year, as it does to the family of Rolls for its execution. 



Before leaving Monmouth the business of the Club was transacted. It 

 consisted of proposing the name of Mr. Cecil Butler, of Dulas Court, to be balloted 

 for at the next meeting, and of electing the following members : — Rev. H. 

 Brierley, Messrs. W. J. Curtiss, William Sharland, and H. J. Southall. 



A list of the company present was now taken: — Mr. H. Southall, F.R. 

 Met. Soc, President; Sir Herbert Croft, Bart., Revs. R. H. Cobbold, J. E. 

 Grasett, E. J. Holloway, A. G. Jones, A. C. Lee, R. Remington, W. R. Shepherd, 

 H. W. Tweed, Messrs. S. W. E. Gilliat, R. Clarke, T. Hutchinson, C. G. Martin, 

 J. Riley, A. Watkins, H. C. Moore, Honorary Secretary, and James B. Pilley, 

 Assistant Secretary ; and the following visitors : — Miss Armitage, Miss Nora 

 Armitage, Miss Baylis, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Cobbold, Miss Gould, Miss Grasett, 

 Miss Holloway, Miss M. Holloway, Mrs. Hutchinson, Miss F. Jones, Mrs. 

 Jacob, Mrs. H. C. Moore, Mrs. W. Pilley, Mrs. Pocock, Miss M. C. Remington, 

 Mrs. A. Watkins, Colonel E. Temple, Dr. Cockcroft, Messrs. W. C. Blake, 

 H. M. F. Croft, — Holloway, W. Jacob, and H. J. Southall. 



Mr. Moore obtained the sanction of the Club to send copies of their 

 Transactions and to submit their name for registration to the Council of the 

 Society of Antiquaries, with the view of being recognised hereafter as one of the 

 "Societies in Union." 



The following Ornithological record was given by Mr. Thomas Hutchinson : 



" A specimen of the Hobby Hawk was shot by a farmer in the parish of 

 Kimbolton, and three eggs taken from its nest. The eggs are now in the collection 

 of my sister at Kimbolton Vicarage, but unfortunately the bird was hung up as a 

 gcare-crow and the akin was spoilt before she heard of the bird being shot. " 



