l6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



mollusks and corals by impeding the action of the respiratory organs ? 

 Or, finally, were the sediments brought down by great rivers like the 

 Mississippi and its branches, and so necessarily almost devoid ot ocean 

 life? We may adopt such a conjecture as the last with no great 

 hesitation, and it agrees in some degree with the ingenious supposition 

 of Mr Godwin Austen, without requiring, as he does, that the sedi- 

 ments should have been deposited in a lake of fresh water. 



The Members went to Oxenhall Church, and afterwards 

 to the once celebrated Newent Coal Field, where I shewed 

 the accompanying section given me by Mr Fox, C.E. 



Some discussion took place as to whether the coal was, 

 as suggested by Mr Hoskold, a lagoon deposit in the old 

 Red. To this view Mr Wethered and I expressed our 

 dissent, believing that the evidence was decidedly in favor 

 of its being merely an out-crop of the Carboniferous 

 series which was also the opinion of the late Rev. W. S. 

 Symonds. 



Thence to the Castle Tump, from the summit of which 

 I gave a brief explanation of the Geological formations to be 

 seen from there, ranging from the Silurians of the 

 Malverns to the Oolites of the Cotteswolds. 



On arriving at Dymock a substantial dinner was done 

 ample justice to, and afterwards the Church was visited, 

 and its leading features explained by Mr F. W. Waller. 



Carriages were resumed to Pauntley, whose interesting 

 Church was also described by Mr Waller. 



Rudge, in his " History of Gloucestershire," says of 

 this parish : — 



" The Manor appears, by the Sherifl's Return, 1281, to have been 

 in William de Whytington. By the Inquisition taken 1311, William, son 

 of the last, was found to be the next heir of John, son of Thomas 

 de Solers, then 24 vears of age, in whom the Manor and Estates were 

 probably united. 



"The family of Whittington were proprietors from this period till 

 the year 1546. Richard de Whittington, the celebrated Lord Mayor 

 of London, was the younger son of William." 



