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CoNPESSOE. It was surnamed D'Abitot from Egbert D'Abitot, 

 steward of the household of William the Conqxjeeok, and the 

 church shows still some relics of Norman masonry. Redmarley 

 Park was gTanted for a term of years to Kichaed Bakthelet, 

 physician to Henry VIII. Here too lived and died Geoege 

 Shipsidb, who married Alice, sister to Bishop Eidlet, who, in 

 his farewell before his martyrdom, wrote to him, and said, 

 " Farewell, my dear brother Geoege Shipside, whom I have 

 ever found faithful, trusting and loving in all states and con- 

 ditions." He bids farewell, too, to his Alice, who, like Geoege, 

 was ever faithful, loving and true. " My dear sister Alice," 

 were the last words penned by Eidlet before he faced the stake 

 at Oxford. One wonders what were the feelings of Geoege 

 and Alice when they heard of the last tortures the Yice-Chan- 

 cellor of the University and the other commissioners inflicted 

 on him and Latimee, and which they witnessed, as is recorded, 

 "with pious and complacent countenances." There is at Bury 

 Court, now a small farm house, near Eedmarley Park (also a 

 farm house), an ancient building of early English date, but which 

 is used as a cider house. I wish some one of archseological 

 authority would visit this record of Malvern forest days, and 

 tell us more about it, but I can make no more of its history than 

 that it is supposed to have belonged to the Shipsides. Perhaps 

 within its walls Alice Shipside bent the knee and asked for- 

 giveness for those who brought such sorrow over the green fields 

 of Eedmarley and the woods of Hazeldine. The relations of 

 the " waterstones" of the Eedmarley district to the Bromes- 

 berrow sandstones or upper Bunter beds, are best seen by 

 walkino- from Hazeldine to Bromesberrow Gorse, and Eussell's 

 End. The waterstones or upper Keuper sandstones overlie some 

 dark red beds known to us locally as the Bromesberrow sand- 

 stones. These are the equivalents of similar rocks which rest 

 on the base of the upper Keupers at Grinshill, near Shrewsbury, 

 and occupy the position of the upper Bunter deposits. We 

 have no opportunity of examining any junction of these strata 

 in this country, but I do not think they are conformable to each 

 other. They may be easily distinguished by their colour, and 



