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’ A discussion then arose on the subject of more frequent 
meetings for the reading and discussion of papers, it being a 
cause of complaint that the reading of papers after dinner, as 
had been customary, left no time for discussion, indeed that 
frequently there was not time for the reading of papers at all. 
Upon the proposal of Dr. Wricur it was resolved that three 
supplementary meetings should be held during the autumn 
and winter months, with a view to remedy the defect com- 
plained of. 
Mr. Jonny Bexiows then read a paper “On the Burning of 
Bishop Hoorrr.” In connexion with this deeply affecting 
tragedy he had searched the archives of the city of Gloucester, 
feeling assured that there must be some record of the event; 
in this search he had been greatly assisted by Mr. K. H. Frymr, 
the Town Clerk; and had been rewarded for his pains by finding 
the whole of the costs and charges incurred in carrying out 
the cruel sentence, duly entered in the accounts of the City 
Chamberlain as—“ Allowance in money gevyn in rewarde to 
the Kyngs and Quenes servants at the bryngyng downe off 
Mast® Hoorrr to be brent.” A fac-simile of this page was 
exhibited. Joan Hoorsr suffered death at the stake in 
February, 1555; in the year 1826—nearly three centuries 
afterwards—some labourers, making excavations in St. Mary’s 
Square, came upon the lower end of the stake at which 
Hoorrer was burnt, which, after passing through two or three 
hands, was secured for the city of Gloucester, in whose keeping 
it is now placed, with a metal label attached, on which its 
history is engraved. 
About thirty sat down to dinner, at the Bell Hotel. After 
dinner a report was read by Professor Bounerr, of the Agricul 
tural College, Cirencester, on the progress towards completion 
of the Flora of Gloucestershire, in which he stated that his 
appeal for help towards the completion of the proposed county 
Flora had been amply responded to. As an associate in his 
work he had secured the co-operation ’of Mr. Atnen Harxer, 
of Gloucester, who had for some years been occupied in 
collecting materials for a Flora of the county; the result of 
