348 The Fi/ti/-third General Meethuj. 



Clyfte Vicarage, Swindon. Tlie price to Members of the Society 

 is £1 lOs. ; to non-Members, £2. 



" In connection with this publication we must not omit to men- 

 tion the equally important work, also in the press at this moment, 

 the Great Survey of tlie Herbert Property, which our President, 

 Lord Pembroke, is printing for the Ptoxliurgh Club, under the able 

 editorship of our Hon. Local Secretary at Wilton, Mr. C. Pi. Straton. 

 Never before have two works of such importance for the history 

 of the county been in the press at the same time. 



" Stanley Abbey. — Through the energy and enthusiasm of Mr. 

 H. Bi-akspear, F.S.A., who has made the subject of monastic remains 

 peculiarly his own, and by the co-operation of Lord Lansdowne, 

 the owner (jf the site, extensive works of excavation have been 

 carried out this year, Ijy which practically the whole ground-plan 

 of the Church and monastic buildings of Stanley Abbey, hitherto 

 entirely concealed under grass mounds, has been recovered. It is 

 lioped that the results of this work may be fully described in a 

 futuie number of the Magazine. The excavations were visited 

 whilst in progress by" a large number of persons, but have now 

 been covered in again, as no good purpose could have been served 

 by keeping them open. 



General. — We regret to report tliat the remonstrances of the 

 Society last year against the removal of the screen from Great 

 Bedwyn Church were without the desired effect, and that the 

 screen has l)een removed. One of the objects of our Society is to 

 endeavour to preserve from destruction or mutilation the relics of 

 antiquity, and your Committee are ever desirous of co-operating 

 with those whose desire is to prevent or mitigate attacks on places 

 or buildings which have historical pretensions. The Society gladly 

 acknowledges the favour with which such representations when 

 made by them have usually been met. 



" E. H. GODDAllD, 



-ri r^ -n -o [HoU. ScCS.' 



E. 0. P. BOUVERIE, 



THE PRESIDENT then gave his address, which will be found 

 at a later page of the Magazine ; and THE BISHOP, in moving a 

 vote of thanks, spoke of the generous way in which the pictures 



