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Bristol, October 31st, 1899. The final excursion for the season 
was joined by some 13 Members of the Field Club, and was 
arranged for the purpose of investigating the few and scanty 
remains of old Bristol Castle, sleighted by Cromwell, and the 
ancient houses in the City, with some of its most interesting 
Churches. On arriving at Bristol at half-past 11 the Members of 
the Club were met at the Great Western Station by Mr. Harold 
Lewis, who is himself a Member, and kindly undertook to 
conduct the party over the most interesting sights. The first 
stop was made at the leaning tower of the Temple Church, 
3ft. Jin. out of perpendicular, and the colonnades of the interior 
of the edifice are also fearfully out of plumb, but considered safe. 
The vicar of the parish, the Rev. W. Hazledine, received the 
party in the chancel, and seated on a chair, for he was still 
feeble from a fractured leg and dislocated ankle, incurred in 
riding from Jerusalem to Jericho, explained the history of the 
Church and exhibited a corona of brass in the chancel with 12 
candles in two tiers, which has descended from the original round 
Church and the Knights Templar who owned and built it. The 
present Church is of Perpendicular style, 1460, there being no 
traces of the original round Church. It is of good proportions 
and contains some beautiful wrought-iron screens, a few ancient 
encaustic tiles, aud a highly decorated Chapel of the Weavers’ 
Company north of the chancel. The altar slab is composed 
of Olive wood, marked with five inlaid crosses, and highly 
polished. The vicar exhibited a beautiful silver paten of 
pre-Reformation date, and several ancient documents in the 
vestry, and gave a humorous account of an incident which took 
place in years gone by in the same vestry, when 16 Ministers and 
pious laymen exorcised a man possessed of seven devils. This 
took place on June 13th, 1788, when George Lukins, a demoniac, 
was cured of his possession. He was a native of Yatton, and the 
Rev. W. R. Wake, of Wrington, brought his case before the 
public, as having been held by 7 devils for 18 years. Many 

