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certain taxes and personal obligations to serve on juries and 
other local boards on account of his having caught a burglar and 
relieved the country of him by the gallows at Tyburn. By the. 
second deed the yeoman sells for £6 10s. to another party all 
_ the freedom and privileges granted to him by the first. 
Notes on the Hundred of Bathforum. February 1st, 1899.— 
The Rev. T. W. Whale contributed the next paper to the Club’s 
Proceedings. The difficulty of the Anglo-Saxon names for the 
various lands and tenements rendered it no easy work for those 
3 present to follow a read paper, but at its close a hearty vote 
of thanks was accorded to the reader, and it was generally 
acknowledged that he had added a valuable paper to the Club’s 
Proceedings, which will well repay a careful perusal in its pub- 
lished form. 
On the Manor House, Colerne. February 22nd, 1899.—The 
year closed with a paper by the Rev. Wynter E. Blathwayt on 
the small but interesting Manor House to the N. of the Church- 
_ yard at Colerne, which the reader had sketched roughly in its 
most interesting parts. Several conjectures were offered as to 
"the individual denoted by the letters T. B. engraved on a stone 
mantelpiece in the house. The date of the reign of King 
William III. on another slab seem to offer some clue as to the 
_ identity of T. B., but no certain explanation can be offered. 
_ The thanks of the meeting were at the close returned to the 
Rev. W. E. Blathwayt for his paper, and the hope was expressed 
that the most interesting sketches should be reproduced in the 
 Club’s published Proceedings. 
The Library of the Field Club has been considerably added 
to during the year by gifts from the Smithsonian Institute, 
Washington, the published Proceedings of the various Clubs 
with whom we are on terms of exchange, and private gifts. 
4 ‘he Librarian, Mr. T. 8. Bush, has given much attention to its 
‘shelves, and a new Photograph Book has been purchased to 
