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he cross at Bathampton Ford before Hopton reached it, or was 
there any other Ford nearer the city? Waller, in his opinion, 
after sending a troop of horse to Marshfield to keep touch and 
_ prevent an attack, stopped for the night near the chapel where he 
_ prepared the wall for his retreat, the long wall spoken of as 
dividing the two farms in the case of Pitt v. Attwood, and, when 
he retreated, marched his men across the open Down until he 
reached Rough Lane, or he might even have gone down the slope 
where Winifred Lane now ran to the open ground on the common 
Ring and Barton Fields. No General would have shut his men 
in the Weston Lane along which they would march in narrow 
line slowly with difficulty when he could retire them in massive 
columns for two miles out of the three, beside which the Weston 
Lane is far to the west and would increase the distance 14 miles. 
And it was by this same road Charles rode into the city in 1644, 
as no other place would answer the description, and here the 
Mayor met Queen Anne with a sedan and offered to carry her 
down to the North Gate. That she drove down the Weston Lane 
ean be explained by the desire of the Corporation to show her the 
wonders of Hide Park, which ceased to exist in 1742. It no more 
proved that no road ran over Lansdown than that London Bridge 
Station was not opened until after 8th March, 1863, because the 
Princess of Wales alighted at the Bricklayers’ Arms goods station in 
order to allow the people of Southwark to welcome the Sea King’s 
daughter. At the conclusion of the Paper the President, Canon 
Ellacombe, said that the thanks of the Club were due to Mr. 
Shickle for his excellent Paper. He wished Mr. Green had been 
present as he had made the Battle of Lansdown his especial study. 
He himself had lived close to Lansdown all his life, and therefore 
was much interested in the Paper. With reference to the 
Barrows, Mr. Parkes, of Upton, told him some years since that 
he had opened a Barrow on Lansdown, and had some of the 
rticles found at his house. Mr. H. D. Skrine remarked it was 
ifficult to follow without closely examining the maps, but with 
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