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in the matter, and fairly puzzled himself, he consulted Mr. Gough, 

 author of " The Glossary of Heraldry," who writes that he regrets 

 he is not able to identify the crest. Mr. Godwin kindly obtained 

 for me "Fairbairn's Crests of Great Britain and Ireland," but a 

 careful search through that valuable and exhaustive work failed 

 to clear the matter. If it were an eagle rising out of a mural 

 coronet it might belong to a family named Strong and some 

 others ; or if it were a Phoenix out of a ducal coronet, to that of 

 Seymour, but it provokingly is neither one or the other but a 

 mixture of both. I hoped to have been able to find some clue 

 from the t. tie-deeds of the house, but though every facility has 

 been most kindly accorded me by the owner I have not so far been 

 successful. A story in the village that it was placed there by a 

 lady who once dwelt there as a memorial to a much beloved but 

 deceased parrot wUl not, I fear, aid us much. But now I leave it 

 in the hands of the members of our Club." 



The Chairman thanked Mr. Shaw, and expressed a hope that 

 some information would be elicited. 



Mr. Davis said the device might be no crest at all. 



Mr. Harold Lewis remarked, touching the question of Fielding's 

 connection with Bath, that his sister, Sarah, was buried at 

 Charlcombe. He shared Mr. Shaw's anxiety to obtain proof of 

 CoUinson's statement, for at the last meeting Mr. Green exposed 

 the credulity of that historian with regard to village legends. 



No conclusion was arrived at regarding the crest. 



Mr. Harold Lewis read a paper on " The Old City Walls," 

 ( Vide 138) describing their position and bringing forward from some 

 old newspapers a description of their condition in the last century, 

 and of the removal of the gates. He exhibited a copy ©f a plan 

 of the city made about 1650 by a French gentleman, and now in 

 the British Museum, as well as views of the four gates. 



Mr. C. E. Davis supplemented the paper with interesting infor- 

 mation. The wall, he said, came from the river up Slippery Lane, 

 and the North Gate stood across North Gate Street at the top of the 



