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Club to tea at Sloperton cottage, where Mr. and Mrs. Moore 
lived for many years, and where they both died. The drive from 
Bromham Church to Sloperton is circuitous, and but little time 
remained for visiting Tom Moore’s favourite walk, where the 
Tara ivy still clings, and the room in which the poet spent the 
close of his life. Cordially thanking Mr. and Mrs. Upham for 
their hospitality, the party went on to Seend, where the train 
was taken for Bath, which was reached at 6.42 after a pleasant 
day and fortunately without rain. 
No meetings were held in the winter season for reading papers, 
but in these Proceedings a very interesting paper on the Trade 
Guilds of Bath, by our Vice-President, the Rev. C. W. Shickle, 
is published, exhibiting long and careful investigation of the 
ancient archives of the City, and meriting careful perusal, Mr. 
T. S. Bush also publishes, with illustrations, two papers on 
Tumbrels and Ducking Stools, and on a Box of doubtful use, 
probably a Pyx, or Cash receptacle, belonging to the Church of 
St. Peter in our neighbouring City of Bristol. A paper is also 
kindly communicated to the Club by Mr. Harper Gaythorpe, 
F.S.A., a Member of a Club with whom the Field Club is—in 
exchange of Proceedings, on a very interesting Bronze Celt found 
at Bristol. 
The Members of the Field Club will also find in this the 
completion of Vol. IX. of our Proceedings, the list of Excursions 
carried on to date, and a catalogue of the valuable works 
contained in our Library, which the Members do not seem to refer 
to as frequently as is desirable. 
WALTER W. MARTIN, 
Hon. See. 

