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The exterior of Cheyney Court was viewed by the members of 
the Field Club on leaving this small but interesting church. The 
Speke arms are carved over the central door of the north facade, 
and a handsome flight of steps leads up to the principal entrance 
on the west. The house is of Elizabethan date, one half being 
used as a gentleman’s residence, the rear moiety being a farm 
house with its bartons and out-houses. The objects of the 
excursion having been fulfilled, the Great Western Railway 
speedily brought the members back to Bath, well satisfied with 
the result of their investigations, and marvelling that with such 
interesting subjects of antiquarian research in the immediate 
vicinity, by far the larger majority of the inhabitants of Bath are 
ignorant of their existence, or have never troubled themselves to 
see them. 
Shepton Mallet and Wells.—The last excursion of the season 
took place on Tuesday, October 31st, and was attended by a 
goodly muster of 30 members, Starting by the 10.25 a.m. train 
on the Somerset and Dorset line, the members were deposited in 
little more than 40 minutes at Shepton Mallet. This is a busy 
mercantile town, taking its name from its Norman lords named 
Malet, one of whom joined the Confederate Barons in extracting 
Magna Charta from King John, 1215, and two Crusaders of this 
family are represented by effigies in the Parish Church. From 
the Malets the Manor passed to the De Gournays by purchase, 
and of these lords, one assisted at the murder of King Edward II. 
in 1327, and another fought valiantly at Cressy and Poictiers, 
1356, and died, aged 96, in 1406, being buried at Stoke-sub- 
Hamdon, in this county. The manor reverted to the Crown in 
1536, and was granted subsequently to the Prince of Wales as 
Duke of Cornwall, and still the greater part of the parish, as well 
as the alternate presentation to the Rectory, is held by the Prince 
of Wales. The antiquities of the town are not many, but the few 
that exist are well worth a visit. The Parish Church of SS. Peter 
and Paul, whose statues stand right and left of that of our Lord 
