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of the windows. The Canon said the parish records state that 
Taynton Church was destroyed by Charles the First’s troops in 
1644, and was re-built in 1699; that on March 19th, 1718, the 
moon being very bright, about 7.15 p.m., a light appeared in 
the West, bright as the sun, but lasted for a short time only ; 
that in August 1720 a bricklayer’s wife had four sons at a birth ; 
that “on Thursday, May 7th, 1702, about 4 o’clock in the after- 
noon, there happened such a violent and horrible thunder and 
lightning at Minsterworth Church, that a ball of fire as big as 
a bushel was seen to fall omthe wooden steeple which it burnt 
down, and melted the five bells in the tower, doing great damage 
to it.” The Club dined at the George Hotel. 
July 28th 1887, the Third Meeting, was fixed for Hdge- 
worth, but as Dr Day was able to make arrangements for an 
excursion up the Severn to Diglis under very favorable circum- 
stances, not likely to occur again, the Edgeworth Meeting was 
postponed until the following month. The steamer “ Berkeley 
Castle,” specially chartered, took on board a large party at the 
Westgate Bridge and proceeded up the Severn, making a 
halt opposite Wainlode Cliff—a fine section in the Rhetic 
formation which has been described by Messrs Brodie, Strick- 
land, Etheridge and Wright. Here the President gave a brief 
history and explanation of the various beds which are seen to 
much greater advantage from the river. 
On arrival of the boat opposite Tewkesbury Park, the Rev. 
W. Bazeley gave an interesting paper on the battle of Tewkes- 
bury, fought on May 4th, 1471. After discussing the disputed 
point as to whether Prince Edward was killed during the fight, 
or was murdered in Edward IV’s tent, he concluded by saying 
“All that can be said is, that the serious charge against 
Edward and his brothers was first made in a chronicle some 
thirty years after the event when there were probably no eye- 
witnesses left to disprove it, and that all the contemporary 
chroniclers wrote as though they knew that Prince Edward was 
slain on the field of battle like the Earl of Devonshire and 
Lord John Beaufort. He is said to have been buried near the 
centre of the choir of Tewkesbury Abbey, under the tower, 
without a monument or an inscription.” 
