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After this Malmesbury was soon reached—actually five minutes 
before the hour appointed. ‘The CONVERSAZIONE in the evening, 
at the Town Hall, was not so fully attended as on the previous 
night, some thirty-seven Members being present. The two papers 
read were “NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF SOMERFORD,” by the 
Rev. F. H. Manuey, which was full of interesting matter and 
will be a valuable contribution to the Magazine, and ‘‘ DURRINGTON 
AND MILSTON,” by the Rev. C. 8. Ruppre, an excellent paper to 
listen to, on a class of subject which is not easy to treat im a 
listenable way. 
The President having thanked the readers of the papers, and 
special votes of thanks having also been accorded to Capt. AUDLEY 
Lovet, for the exhibition of his magnificent bibles, to the Com- 
 wirrer or Lapres, who provided the tea and decorated the hall so 
effectively for the meetings, and to Mr. C. F. Morr, who filled the 
post—entailing a large amount of hard work—of Local Secretary, 
the Conversazione came to an end:and Members went off to bed. 
FRIDAY, JULY léru. 
Starting from the King’s Arms, the carriages drove first to 
CHARLTON HOUSE, over which they were taken by Mr. Batzs, 
after the gardens and the exterior of the house had been seen. The 
_ house itself, begun by Thomas Howard, Ist Earl of Suffolk, at the 
beginning of the 17th century, and much added to by Henry, Earl 
of Suffolk, who died in 1799, is, taken as a whole, a picturesque and 
‘imposing building, but the real interest of the place lies more in 
the pictures than in its architecture. The Long Gallery contains 
‘a series of portraits of the reigns of Elizabeth, Charles I., and 
Charles II., which, quite apart from their artistic value—and there 
are many notable pictures there, too, from that point of view, 
amongst them a delightful Vandyke, of the children of Charles I. 
—are most valuable, both historically and for the study of costume ; 
whilst the drawing-room still contains—in spite of the fact that the 
ereat Lionardo once there has found a home in the National 
allery—many delightful pictures, including the very unusual 
