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park in England, and furnished it with foreign wild beasts. A 
labyrinth was constructed here by Henry II. for the fair 
Rosamond, daughter of Walter Lord Clifford, but its intricacies 
did not prove effectual to save that frail one from the jealous 
resentment of the Queen Eleanor. The bower and labyrinth of 
_ Rosamond have left no trace, but the spring which supplied her 
bath is still extant, to the westward of the grand bridge, a few 
paces from the lake. Chaucer is said to have been born at 
_ Woodstock, his house is no longer standing, but in the main 
street the residence of Cromwell is still marked by an inscription. 
_ The Parliamentarians utterly ruined the old Manor House after a 
k : siege, and the materials and contents were exposed for sale in 
_ 1653 by Lieut.-Gen. Fleetwood to whom the Protector had 
_ granted them, and he obtained £1,000 by the sale. 
At 6.20 p.m. the Members, now reduced to 18 in number, two. 
having returned to Bath vid Handborough, re-entered the train 
and reached the haven for dinner and slumber at half-past seven, 
the Red Lion Hotel, at Banbury, kept by a most obliging host, 
| who entertained the party right royally. 
The town of Banbury was just recovering from a record 
_ meeting of the Oxfordshire Agricultural Society, and the scaffolds 
of the triumphal arches were still standing across the streets. It 
contains still some half-dozen old timber houses, which the 
- Members visited before carrying out the programme for the day. 
The Reindeer Inn has old oak doors, dated 1560, and contains a 
fine panelled chamber with decorated ceiling, stated to have been 
Cromwell’s residence. The Unicorn Inn, in the Market Place, 
has still more elaborate doors, but the finest old timber house is. 
in the High Street, opposite the Red Lion. At 10.45 am. two 
brakes took the Members three miles to Broughton Castle, 
belonging to Lord Saye and Sele, but inhabited now by Lord and 
Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox, who gave the Club a most kindly 
“reception, and conducted the Members over the whole interesting 
‘building. The most ancient parts are well nigh in their original 
