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messages to the Citizen of Gloucester to bid them close their 
gates, and started himself early in the morning of the 2nd 
May, and arrived before evening within five miles of Tewkes- 
bury, having marched with the whole of his army along the 
brow of the Cotteswolds between sunrise and sunset. The next 
day he attacked Queen Margaret, who was still on this side of 
the Severn, and won the decisive battle of Tewkesbury. 
Old Sodbury Manor House was next visited, and the Rev. 
W. Bazeley read an able paper of its early history, of its 
owners the Walsh family, and of William Tyndale the trans- 
lator of the Bible into English, while a tutor in the family of 
Sir John Walsh. Before dining at Chipping Sodbury, the 
Vicar, the Rev. W. H. P. Harvey, explained at the Church the 
leading features of this not much known and very interesting 
building. 
The Second Field Meeting was held on Thursday, June 
30th, and the Members left the Gloucester Station at 10.35 a.m. 
in a large brake for Huntley, where, after partaking of the 
kind hospitality of the Rev. H. and Mrs Miles, visited the 
beautiful Church, in which the marbles (all British) were much 
admired. Thence on to a quarry on the right hand side of the 
road, where the beds by lateral pressure are to be seen folded 
back to nearly a vertical position. The President having asked 
the Rev. Dr Smithe to describe the quarry and give an expla- 
nation of the causes which had produced the dislocation of the 
beds, said: Huntley Hill was simply a prolongation of May 
Hill to the South East. They were standing now, geologically, 
on the base line of the Upper Llandovery rocks (one of the 
sub-divisions of the Silurian system), the whole of the Lower 
Llandovery being absent, and these Upper Llandovery (or May 
Hill Sandstone group) were reposing unconformably upon the 
underlying strata. Consider the significancy of this fact; the 
unconformability implied great lapse of time, in fact, so many 
leaves missing from the geological record, and in addition to 
this loss of strata, there was a loss of the characters written in 
the record ; the characters being the fossils, or the paleonto- 
logy. So that technically speaking, they were surveying the 
