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“ At a Court Baron held this day, the Homage presented 
* that the late Philip Hampton had taken in part of the Lord’s 
“ Waste into a ground of his from the Gravells to Garden Mill 
*‘ which part was to be thrown up again.” 
Again, 5th October, 1739— 
“At a Court Baron held this day—The Jury presented 
“Thomas Crawley, Esquire, to erect a Bridge over the Great 
“ Brook in Westbury at Garden Mill, by 25 March next.” 
On 13th October, 1786— 
“At a Court Baron held this day—held at The Flat 
‘““ House—The Jury presented Thomas Crawley Boevey Esquire 
“for not keeping a Bridge across the Great Brook at Garden 
“* Mills, near The Severn.” 
Being anxious to know the meaning of the word “ Garron,” 
and seeing the name occurred in Ireland, I wrote to Professor 
Hull on the subject, and from whom I received the following 
satisfactory explanation :— 
* According to Dr Joyce, Garran, Garrane, and Garraun 
“‘ means, in Irish Celtic, ‘A Shrubbery.’ It is not an uncommon 
“name in Ireland, and is the nearest thing to ‘Garron’ I can 
“find. At Garron Point, co. Antrim, the Cliffs are clothed in 
“a natural growth of small trees or shrubs, which may very 
“ fitly have given the origin to the name.” 
The Sessions of our Winter Meetings commenced on 
November 26th, when Major Fisher gave a paper on 
“ Falconry ”—a subject new to the present members of the 
Club, and which he treated in an able and interesting manner, 
giving the result of many years of original observations. 
This paper will be found in the forthcoming number of 
our Proceedings. 
Mr T. 8. Ellis afterwards read a paper on “ River Curves,” 
which was the substance of a paper he read before the School 
of Science Philosophical Society in February, 1882, and which 
he now illustrated with diagrams and maps. 
Some discussion followed, and as the subject evidently 
much interested those present, and it was getting late, the 
President suggested that further consideration should be post- 
poned until the next meeting. 
