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ancient Manor House of the Longs, ornamented externally with 
grotesque gurgoyles and with several fetter locks, the badge of 
the family of Long, has been visited by the Field Club several 
times in the past, but is always worth renewed examination. 
The oriel window in the tower of entrance, the magnificent hall 
with its lofty oaken roof, built 1433, and its later mantlepiece 
of 1598 and elegant screen, the drawing-room of Elizabethan 
age, with its quaintly figured stone mantel, and the scalloped 
“sedilia ” opposite, the adjacent bedroom of same date, but even 
more curious mantel, with an ape’s head and “ mors rapit omnia ” 
in its centre, are most worthy of notice. 
The last residents in this grand old Mansion seem to have 
been the pupils of a Dr. Knight, and every part of the panelling 
_ of the various chambers and stone work bears marks of their 
pocket knives and pencils. It still remains in the possession of 
the Right Hon. Walter Hume Long, M.P., of Rood Ashton, and 
_as it could hardly be restored to suit the residential requirements 
-of the present age, it is to be hoped it will be carefully main- 
tained by the owner as a beautiful and perfect speciman of a 
country mansion of the 15th Century date with 16th Century 
-additions, 
The return drive to Bath was taken by Kingsdown, now 
adapted for the favourite game of golf, and through the villages 
-of Bathford and Batheaston. The weather was most favourable 
for the excursion, and the information acquired by the Members 
during the day concerning grand residences of Roman construction 
and 15th Century style of English building, and their peculiar 
differences and comparisons, is likely to be very valuable and 
worthy of much future consideration. | 
Several papers were offered by Members during the winter 
season, all of which are published in full in these Proceedings. 
On some supposed Electrical Phenomena in Water Finding. 
January 11th, 1899.—At the Royal Literary and Scientific 
Institution, the members of the Field Club assembled in the 
