132 The Forty-Seventh General Meeting. 
little Caracci of the Carpenter’s Shop at Nazareth. A number of 
these pictures were cut from their frames and carried off, some 
years ago, by a man who had been a servant in the house, and for 
a considerable time entirely disappeared. The thief, however, 
found that they could not be disposed of, and they were eventually 
discovered and returned to their frames again. In addition to the 
pictures, the Long Gallery contains a magnificent Eagle, caught in 
Braden Forest, about 1840, and on the staircase is a portrait of 
Charles IT.’s M oll Davis, a native of Charlton, whom the King first 
saw at a féte there, from a window of the gallery. — 
YHARLION CHURCH, which was next visited, has several points 
ot interest, which will be dealt with in Mr. Braxsprar’s notes, read 
on the spot by the Rey. E. H. Goddard, in the absence of the 
author, who was unavoidably detained at Corsham until the after-— 
noon. GARSDON MANOR HOUSE, the next item on the programme, 
proved on examination to be more interesting even than at first 
appeared, for in addition to the good Jacobean strap-work ceilings, 
and mantlepiece, with the arms of Moody on it, it is evident that 
at the back of this later building the earlier hall of four bays of 
15th century date still exists—indeed its open roof is still visible 
in the attics. Mr. and Mrs. Sisum, the present tenants, most 
obligingly allowed the party to wander over the house at their will. 
GARSDON CHURCH. Mr. Braksprar’s notes were here read by 
the Rector, the Rev. R. W. Hay, who showed a Norman stoup 
bowl of very hard stone, ‘‘ said to have come” from the porch of the 
neighbouring Church of Leigh. ‘The Church plate, given by Lady 
'Pargiter, wife of Lawrence Washington, and the fragments of the 
mural monument which before the re-building of the Church in 
1856 stood in the chancel to the memory of Sir Lawrence 
Washington, Kt., now lying loose in the windows of the Church, — 
were inspected with interest, and an opinion was expressed that at all 
events the shields of arms belonging to this monument might well 
be fixed against the walls for security. These arms, some years ago, 
got as. far as Southampton on their way to America, having been 
acquired and removed by an enterprising American. They were, — 
however, rescued at the last moment by the late Rector, Dr. Gray. © 
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