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Queen's side, as the Duke of Somerset rode up to the LordWenlock 

 in the entrenchments, called him a traitor, and ' with his axe he 

 stroke the brains out of his head.' Prince Edward and Queen 

 Margaret were taken prisoners, the Prince murdered by the Dukes 

 of Clarence and Gloucester either in the tent of Edward IV., on 

 the battle field, or, as some suppose, in a house in the town of 

 Tewkesbury (vide ' Dyde's Tewkesbury '). The Duke of Somerset 

 with many other knights were dragged out of the Abbey, where 

 they had claimed asylum, and were murdered. Prince Edward 

 and Somerset were supposed to have been buried in the Abbey, but 

 neither the tomb of the Prince nor of the ' haughty Somerset ' 

 have yet been discovered there." 



The geology of the district now came in for its fair share of atten- 

 tion, and it is needless to add that full justice was done to it by the 

 able President of the Malvern Club. Standing on a rising knoll 

 of gravel he eloquently discoursed on the various changes which 

 the face of the country had gone through since that bed of gravel 

 was deposited. First came the period of cold, with the great 

 stream of northern drift bringing its materials from beyond the 

 Malvern range far away from the north, and depositing them some 

 hundreds of feet above the level of the present Severn, hence called 

 the " high level gravel," or "northern drift" in which marine shells 

 occnr. Then came the period when the '• low level gravels" were 

 deposited, forming the present banks so conspicuously fringing the 

 Severn, at varying distances along its course, and raised some 20 

 feet above its bed. In these occur freshwater mingled with 

 estuarine shells, and the remains of the great extinct mammalia 

 associated with the remains of man. Then came a period of 

 repose when the valley had been filled up gradually by dammed-up 

 lakes, until it had reached its present level ; and finally the period 

 dm-ing which the present river had been slowly cutting its way 

 through these late formed deposits. Crossing the Severn, which 

 though a noble stream is yet but a degenerate descendant of a far 

 more noble sire, Forthampton Court was visited, and by the kind 

 pei-mission of Mr. Yorke, the members were permitted to enter the 

 grounds and inspect the veiy fine recumbent figure of Le Zouche 

 (arms, gules, 10 bezants), the same knight whose figure forms one 



