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THE FIRST FIELD MEETING 
of the Club for the season was held on Tuesday, the 26th of 
May, at 
AWRE, ON THE SEVERN. 
The day was favorable, and about twenty members mustered at 
the Awre Station by the train which arrived there at about 
11.38 a.m. The objects of interest were the Church, and the 
Section of the Lower Lias on the banks of the Severn. At the 
Church the party was received by the Rev. Mr Savaan, the 
Incumbent, with the ladies of his family. The Rev. W. 
BazeLey read some notes, of which the following is a brief 
abstract :— The Church of Awre, which is dedicated to St. 
ANDREW, is a good example of Early English architecture, with 
Perpendicular insertions. In the year 1200 A.D. Watrer DE 
Awne had a grant for life of the Manor and Advowson. Awre 
was a Royal Manor in the time of Epwarp THE Conressor, and 
continued to be so till 1220. In 1156 Roesr, Earl of Hereford, 
son of the great Mito, held it in fee farm of Henry Il. In 
1120 Witt1am Marsnarz, son of the Protector, obtained a 
grant of the Manor and Advowson in fee, in exchange for the 
Manor of Basingbourne, Wilts; and in 1125 he granted the 
Advowson to Henry pve Awez for his life. After the decease 
of Wirtr1am Marsuaty and his four brothers, who succeeded 
him without issue, the Manor and Advowson passed in moieties 
to the Dr Vatences and De Mortmers, who inherited them 
from Sonna, the wife of Warin pe Mouncuesry, and Eva, 
wife of Wiriiam pE Braoss, daughters of the Protector. 
Smytue, in his ‘Lives of the Berxeteys,’ tells us that Tomas 
Lord Brrxeey, the third of that name, married Marearer, 
daughter of Roger pE Mortimer, and purchased both moieties. 
In 1352 Tuomas Lord Berxetzy gave the Advowson of Awre to 
Llanthony Priory, in exchange for Coaley, and the monks of 
that house appropriated the tithes to their own use. After the 
_ dissolution the reigning sovereigns presented to the living till 
1608, when the Advowson was granted by James I to Tuomas 
James, of Lydney. Arxyns says that at his time (1712) the. 
Advowson belonged to the Haberdashers’ Company; and they 
are still the patrons,” 
