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Club should request Mr. Winwood to allow his paper to be 
published in their Proceedings, and to allow one copy to be 
nicely bound and presented to Mrs. Blomefield on behalf of the 
Club. The Rev. H. H. Winwood remarked that when he 
commenced the paper he felt the subject was one almost 
utterly impossible for him to touch. He had recorded all the 
reminiscences which occurred to him, and had also put down his 
personal views with regard to Mr. Blomefield. He thanked the 
_ Chairman and Mr. Martin for their kindly expressions, but 
thought it would be better for the Club to see the completed 
_ paper in print before passing any resolution with regard to it. 
It was possible they might not think it worthy of presenting to 
Mrs. Blomefield. The Chairman: I think we might leave that to 
Mr. Winwood, the secretary, and the committee. Mr. Winwood 
added that he was in possession of some very interesting 
observations made by Mr. Blomefield with reference to the 
progress of science in Bath, which he did not believe had ever 
been published. In them he spoke of the Institution as the 
fruitful vine, the mother of a happy family, her affiliated 
daughters being as the olive branches round about her table. 
He thought the observations were uncommonly good, and should 
be included in any publication of the kind suggested. The 
airman thought they should give Mr. Winwood a free hand to 
enlarge his paper as he thought fit. He was sure it would be 
Cornwail, read by the Rev. Philip Williams. He stated that in 
e reign of Queen Elizabeth nearly all the pre-reformation plate 
had been made to disappear by the connivance of the church- 
wardens of that day, but a considerable number of flagons, patens 
i nd chalices remained of the date of James I. ‘The paper was 
illustrated by specimens of old silver spoons of Queen Elizabeth’s 
