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Herberts. But subsequently at “The Hostelrie,” which is the 
title of the village inn, a castellated building erected by Sir S. RB. 
Meyrick in the same style as Goodrich Court, the secret was let 
out, that an heir, faithfully fulfilling a death-bed promise to his 
kind testator, not to erect any hewn monument over his body, 
engaged two traction engines to drag this rock from Symonds 
Yat, and after great expense and diminishing its bulk succeeded 
in getting this mass of conglomerate into the churchyard, at the 
top of the hill, to serve as a tombstone. Mr. Moffatt, the present 
owner of Goodrich Court, has erected a magnificent village club, 
reading and dancing rooms, and handed over the building for ever 
to a committee of 12 labouring men, on the terms that no political 
or religious differences be a bar to admission, and that news- 
papers of all sides be supplied in the reading room. The saloon 
carriage again received the excursion party at 2.55 p.m., and as 
the thunderstorms seemed threatening, and thus far all had 
escaped a severe wetting, prudence advised no stoppage at 
Tintern Abbey, unsatiated though the party’s thirst was still for 
architectural and antiquarian investigation, and Bath was 
reached at 6.45 p.m. in an interval luckily between two 
thunderstorms. 
Sudeley Castle-—On Tuesday, June 28th, the third excursion of 
the year took place, and a large muster of 32 members of the 
Field Club started by the Midland Railway, at 10 a.m. for 
Cheltenham, whence a couple of breaks conveyed them eight 
miles to Winchcomb. On arriving at Sudeley Castle, half a mile 
from the town, the lady of the Castle, Mrs. Dent, and a consider- 
able number of her guests, received the party in the grand 
quadrangle, the Rev. Canon Ellacombe, a vice-president of the 
Field Club, being among the visitors staying at the Castle, and 
introducing the new arrivals. At the invitation of the hospitable 
hostess the whole party forthwith ascended to an extensive upper 
chamber, and partook of a sumptuous luncheon. Around the 
walls of this long room were arranged several antiquities, such as 
