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Salisbury. Queen Elizabeth had it alienated from the See and 

 presented it to Sir Walter Raleigh, when it became finally alienated, 

 a rent charge of only £260 being reserved to the See. Raleigh 

 improved the estate. It next came into the hands of Prince 

 Henry. Carr, Earl of Somerset, held it next. He closed his 

 career ignomiuiously, and the castle and manor were sold by the 

 Crown to Sir John Digby, afterwards Earl of Bristol. In A.D. 

 1645, it was captured by Cromwell and Fairfax after a siege of 16 

 days, when Sir L. Dyves and Sir John Strangways and 55 gentlemen 

 and 600 soldiers were taken prisoners. It was dismantled, and 

 Castleton Church and the wings of the present dwelling-house 

 were erected out of the materials. See " Archseological Journal," 

 vol. xxii., p. 360). The remains of the Castle are very interesting, 

 and well worth a visit. The position is very strong, and the outer 

 court has a strong wall and deep ditch, and another ditch just 

 within the first enclosure. The gateway, in good preservation, is 

 an addition of much later date than the keep and other parts of 

 the Castle. A portion of the keep remains within the inner court, 

 and some of the buildings attached to it. More than half the keep 

 has been destroyed, but one portion of a Norman buttress remains, 

 and also the pillar that supported the floor of the first storey, 

 which seems to be of the date of Henry I. There are some 

 windows and ai'cading of late Norman date in the walls of the 

 Chapel and great hall. This part is later than the keep. There 

 was probably a plain Norman keep before the Castle came into the 

 possession of the Bishops of Sarum, and this was afterwards added 

 to. It is a great pity that so interesting a structure should have 

 been so defaced. Had the buildings remained they would probably 

 have presented examples of castellated architecture from the time 

 of William I. or William Rufus to that of Queen Elizabeth." 



Fairford, Daglingworth, and Birdlip. 

 The recent controversy between Mr. Holt and others, whereby 

 the already celebrated painted glass windows in Fairford Church 

 have, if possible, been rendered more celebrated, induced the Club 

 to make Fairford one of the objects for the second excursion of the 

 season. Twenty members accordingly proceeded on the 25th of 



