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The members, after visiting Mr and Mrs Miles at the 
Rectory, dined at the Red Lion, Huntley. 
LEDBURY MEETING 
July 29th—The members proceeded by train from Glou- 
cester to Ledbury, where carriages were at once taken for 
Eastnor Castle, visited by the kind permission of Lady Henry 
Somerset. 
The fine Hall and Flemish armour, said to have belonged 
to the body guard of Charles V., were much admired. 
An early luncheon was partaken of at the Somers Arms, 
which is conducted on temperance principles. Carriages 
were then taken for Bronsil Castle, of which very little 
remains. It has, however, two moats, and from the inner 
one Mr G. H. Piper, of Ledbury—who is an authority on 
the Archeology and Geology of the neighbourhood— gave 
an instructive address. He considered the Castle to belong to 
the middle ages, and was probably the most recent of that 
period in the County. It was taken in 1644, after a brief 
resistance, from Mr Thomas Cocks, by a small force of Round- 
heads under a younger son of Sir R. Hopton. Hopton’s 
triumph was of short duration, for in a few days a party of 
Royalists from Hereford invested the place, to whom in less 
than twenty-four hours he was obliged to surrender, and with 
40 foot and 20 horse was carried prisoner to that City, before 
General Massey could send aid from Gloucester. 
On leaving Bronsil, en route to the Hollybush Pass, and 
_ close to the road, an old lava flow was examined. Mr Wethered 
remarked the Geology round Eastnor was of great interest 
- from the antiquity of the rocks, and explained the views of Sir 
_ Roderich Murchison, who considered the axis of the Malvern 
Hills was of Syenite, but later investigations by Dr Holl 
shewed it to be Metamorphic, an opinion since accepted by 
- Geologists. 
P An ascent was made of Hollybush Hill, from the summit 
of which is a grand view of the country, and Mr Piper read 
