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It would seem then that the date of this royal visit, heretofore 

 unremembered, has got mixed up with the more recent and more 

 easily marked event, the granting of the Charter in 1690, and 

 muddled also, with the shrievalty of Sir John Harington in 

 1591-2 ; but it was in 1574 and not in 1592, that Queen EHzabeth 

 visited Bath. 



Further Gleanings in the Mendips. By the Rev. Prebendary 

 SCARTH, M.A. 



(Read January \bth, 1879.^ 



One of the objects which belong to a Field Club is to observe 

 and to chi'onicle any facts of local interest, as well as to record 

 any discovery that may come within the notice of its members — 

 ancient deeds and charters which may be brought to light, and 

 which have been hidden away for generations in private libraries, 

 or found their way into individual hands that have been ignorant 

 of their value; gems, or pictures, or ancient pottery — all have 

 their value when they can be brought to throw light upon ages 

 past, but especially inscribed stones, recording ancient names or 

 marking the boundaries of land. 



It was during the meeting of the Somersetshire Archaeological and 

 Natural History Society, held at Bniton in the autumn of the past 

 year, that a volume of the ancient Terrier of Glastonbury Abbey was 

 brought by permission for exhibition by Canon Jackson, who had 

 found it in the library of the Marquis of Ailesbury, at Tottenham 

 House, near Marlborough. This ancient rent roU of the possessions 

 of the Abbey contains the names of tenants on the estates, as well 

 as describes the lands and houses belonging to the Abbot. The 

 date is A.D. 1514, in the time of Abbot Beer. In it I found a 

 full detailed account of aU the holdings of the Abbot in the parish 

 of Wrington, the patronage of the church being in the gift 

 of the Abbey. By the help of Canon Jackson and Mr, 



