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the Club returned to Bath, having spent a pleasant and in- 
structive day. 
Marlborough and Savernake, May 22nd, 1900. Notwithstanding 
the very unfavourable weather, 13 Members of the Club started 
by the 9.52 train for Swindon. En route, it was suggested by 
some of the party that as it was too wet to drive through the 
Savernake Forest, as originally intended, the railway workshops 
at Swindon might be visited instead. Two Members of the Club, 
therefore, sought the courteous superintendent of the works, Mr. 
Lockyer, and obtained the requisite permission. Luncheon, how- 
ever, nad been provided at Marlborough, so it was necessary to 
go there first. This involved a wet tramp between the two 
stations at Swindon, which some Members pronounced “a very 
long mile.” Marlborough is an old town, though it does not 
give that impression, but this is due to several disastrous fires. 
There is some reason to believe the castle mound at Marlborough 
is contemporary with Silbury Hill, which is undoubtedly pre- 
Roman. And if, as Mr. Algernon Herbert believes, Merlin was 
not the name of an individual, but an official name for the High 
Priest of the Ambrosian sect, there may be some foundation for 
deriving the name Marlborough from Merlinburig, the town of the 
High Priests. The chief points of antiquarian interest now 
remaining in the town are the 17th century piazza in the chief 
street, and the fine Norman doorway of St. Mary’s Church, 
behind the Townhall. The Church is at present under repair, 
but its interior is unattractive and apparently without interest. 
The chancel, rebuilt from designs by Street, was covered, to 
protect it from dust during the repairs. 
St. Peter’s is well-placed at the other end of High Street, but 
the Members of the Club passed it by to visit the College Chapel. 
This, which replaces the original chapel, was completed in 1886, 
and contains, among other memorials of the former chapel, the 
window to Bishop Cotton, of Calcutta, a former head-master, to 
whom especially, the college owes much of its success. The 
