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of Mr. Simpson in proposing to re-publish Hoare’s Modern Wiits. 
Mx. W. Hewarp Bex1, in responding, dwelt on the serious loss 
of Members during the past year, and threw out as a suggestion 
the desirability of raising the annual subscriptiou from 10s. 6d. to . 
£1 1s., expressing the opinion that the work now being done by 
the Society was well worth the larger subscription, and that—unless 
means could be found to increase the number of members to their 
old numbers—some such expedient must be resorted to, if the work 
of the Society was not to suffer in quality and quantity. 
Mr. Taxzor next proposed that the Bishop of Bristol be invited 
to act as President of the Society for the next three years, and the 
Rev. E. H. Gopparp, in seconding this proposition, referred to 
the great advantage the Society had derived during the last three 
years from the architectural knowledge of their present President. 
The Officers of the Society and the Members of Committee were 
then re-appointed, on the proposition of the Rev. J. H. Hut, D.D., 
seconded by Mr. C. Simpson. 
Permission was also given to the Committee to dispose of certain 
eases of foreign birds and other miscellaneous curios which have no 
connection with the county, and which it is undesirable should be 
retained at the Museum. 
This concluded the formal business of the Meeting, and the 
Members adjourned to the CHURCH, which was grievously swept 
and garnished in 1852-53 by Mr. Butterfield—both the east and 
west ends of the building being entirely new work of his design, 
‘Here considerable discussion took place on the point which was to 
be be fought out in the evening—as to whether the existing 
Church was or was not the Abbey Church—Mr, Talbot maintaining 
that the balance of evidence is against its being so, whilst Messrs. 
Doran Webb and Brakspear believed on the contrary that it was 
the Abbey Church. 
After this preliminary skirmish a move was made to the garden 
of the Red House, where a most sumptuous tea had been prepared 
by Mrs. Blake. This having been done justice to, the party 
proceeded, under the guidance of Tux Vicar (the Rev. A. W. 
Phelps), to inspect the very curious Lodges at the entrance to the 
