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disappeared, there is no record to tell; but, it may be held as 
certain that the existing building dates from 1269, when it was 
commenced by Rocer Bieop, Earl of Norfolk, a descendant of 
Watter DE CrareE, and was completed in 1287, when Mass was 
celebrated in the church for the first time. Thus it sprung 
into existence at perhaps the noblest period of English 
architecture, and to this is due the happy uniformity of its style, 
and the graceful simplicity of its lines. The Hast window 
before the great altar is described as having contained eight ~ 
glazed panels, with the arms of the founder Roger Bieop. 
Hearn states that the church was famous for tombs and 
monuments of several great personages, amongst whom may 
especially be named, WaLTER DE Crake, the founder; GiLBERt, 
Earl of Pembroke; his brother Watter Marsnatt, fifth Earl 
of Pembroke; and his brother Ansrume, the last Earl of the 
name; and Wittiam Herserr, Earl of Pembroke, who being 
taken prisoner in the wars of the Roses, at Danes Moor, in 
Northamptonshire, was executed with Ricnarp Woopvii1e, 
Lorp Rivers and his son, and his own brother, in 1469, by order 
of the Duke of Clarence, and the Earl of Warwick, then in 
revolt against Epwarp the fourth. 
Leaving Tintern the party proceeded to Chepstow Castle, a - 
grand feudal pile, occupying an imposing position, but void of 
all historical celebrity until the period of our Civil War, when 
it was carried by assault by the Parliamentary Forces, and its 
Governor Sir Nicnonas Kemys, with 40 of his men were slain. 
It afterwards became the prison of Henry Marriy, one of the 
members of the High Court of Justice, before which CHaruEs 
the I. was arraigned, and one of those who signed the warrant 
for his execution, and his confinement here is now regarded as 
the most memorable event in connexion with Chepstow Castle. 
The Club dined at the Beaufort Arms, Chepstow. After 
dinner Rey. Dr. Smytue read a paper on the “Distribution of 
the Liassie Brachiopoda in the Cotteswolds with a description of 
some species new to our fauna.” 
The object of the writer in this paper, has been to obtain—as 
regards the class of fossil Brachiopoda—an exact record of the 
