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from the other ingredients [)resent in the solution, such as 

 treacle, gum, extractive matter, &.c. Thus a fine compound 

 of sugar is obtained, from which the Strontium Hydrate 

 can he separated, and the sugar crystallised out. Before 

 this [)rocess was used, about half the sugar j)resent in the 

 beet-root or cane juice was simply lost. 



Yate Court is a very interesting old building, of which 

 the chief features are a fine gate-way with portcullis 

 grooves, and the lower halls of what apparently was a 

 tower; and a moat still exists in almost its original entirety. 

 The property has changed hands so often that nearly all 

 its records are lost, but there is evidence that it existed 

 in the days of Richard I. In the time of Henry VIH 

 Lord Maurice Berkeley bought the property and built a 

 house U[)on it, in which he incorporated some portions of 

 the earlier building. In the Civil War of the 17th 

 century it was garrisoned by the Parliamentary forces, 

 who, it is said, on leaving it, set it on fire and reduced it 

 to ashes. A farm-house now on the site contains portions 

 of the old structure, including a staircase made of solid 

 blocks of oak. 



The party next went to Yate Church which has a 

 history dating back to Norman times. The original 

 edifice was cruci-form, with a chapel on the north side of 

 the chancel. Early English builders considerably changed 

 the character of the building, and it appears to have 

 remained as they left it until the perpendicular era. Late 

 in the 15th and in the early part of the i6th centuries the 

 church was practically re-built. To some extent, however, 

 the building still tells its own history. There are very clear 

 traces of Norman work in the -south transept, and the 

 eastern limb, and of early English architecture at the base 

 of the tower arch, and in the south wall of the nave. The 

 eastern end of the arcade between the nave and the nave 

 aisle, and the arch opening into the south transept, are 

 half-a-century later in date than the western end. The 



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