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‘Trevis or Travers, of the Salters’ Company of London. On the. 
purchase of the property some years ago by the Lygons Earls 
Beauchamp of Madresfield its name of White Hart was dropped. 
Charles IL, on May 16th, 1645, met here Sheldon, of Broadway 
Court, a strong cavalier, only to be followed by Cromwell, who 
with his Roundheads slept here September Ist, 1651. 
A fine old stone house higher up the village has the date 1659 
on its facade, and many with their quaint gables turned to the . 
road are worthy of notice. The old Parish Church, dedicated 
to St. Eadburga, is a mile distant, and is now disused, a new 
edifice in the centre of the population now serving its purpose. 
On Broadway Beacon, the highest point of the N. Cottswolds, 
two miles distant, stands a Tower erected by a Miss Coventry, 
1798, from which 13 counties can be seen on a clear day. 
Time did not suffice for the party to reach this point of view, 
but the Lygon Arms has not in its length of existence as a 
hostel lost its repute in supplying an excellent luncheon, so its 
welcome shelter was sought, and the Members heartily enjoyed 
the meal Mr. Cordell, the proprietor, placed before them. The 
carriages then again bore the eight members to the Midland 
Station at Evesham, whence the 3.12 p.m. train brought them 
speedily back to Bath, after an interesting excursion favoured 
with the most brilliant weather and no excessive heat. 
Sherborne, Dorset, September 20th, 1898.—Favoured by sunny 
and warm weather a party of 17 Members of the Field Club left 
the Midland Railway Station at 10:25 a.m., and reached the 
_ charming old town of Sherborne at half-past 12. Here they 
were met, at the request of Mr. Wingfield Digby, M.P., of 
Sherborne Castle, by Mr. W. B. Wildman, of the Abbey House, 
_ Sherborne, who led the way at once to the fine Minster, passing 
_ the very graceful monument to Sir Walter Raleigh at the en- 
_ trance to the Church precincts. The rich colour of the Ham 
_ Hill stone of which the whole town is built, quarried at Stoke- 
under-Hamdon, in Somerset, in strata of Inferior Oolite age, 

