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masters of their art. Murillo is represented by " The Mar- 

 riage of Cana in Gahlee," a fine picture — with, however, 

 one or two anachronisms, e.g., a King Charles's spaniel sitting 

 at the feet of our Lord. Salvator Rosa, Vandyke, Sir P. 

 Lely, and others adorn the walls. The family portraits are 

 numerous. Amongst them is that of Lady Jane Seymour, 

 Queen of England (painter unknown). Leaving the house by 

 the conservatory, the Members next visited the church of 

 St. Catherine, consisting of nave, north aisle, transepts, and 

 apsidal chancel, erected by Wyatt in 1861, at the expense of 

 the late marquis— a conspicuous feature in the forest scenery, 

 with its elegant spire overtopping the surrounding trees. 

 The fine avenues stretching away from the house — the work 

 of " Capability Brown " — lost much of their distance through 

 the misty atmosphere, the dampness of the day (remarkable 

 even for the month of April) left much for the imagination to 

 fill up. The church of Great Bedwyn was the next point. 

 This fine old cruciform church, dedicated to St. Mary the 

 Virgin, with its late Norman nave of four bays, with deeply- 

 cut zig-zag mouldings and beautiful capitals of varied design, 

 presented a great contrast in the severe simplicity of its inte- 

 rior to the richness and colour so conspicuous in St. 

 Catherine's. From the vicar of the parish, who kindly 

 undertook the explanatory part, it was ascertained that during 

 the restorations in 1866, foundations of a Saxon church were 

 found on the present sites of the chancel, tower, and first bay 

 of the nave. A much defaced image of the Virgin and Child 

 was also discovered on the west face of the last pillar of the 

 north aisle. The tomb of Sir Adam de Stokke, date about 

 1313, who is said to have built the north transept, and that 

 of Sir Roger, are in arched recesses in the south wall of the 

 transept. Over the cross-legged figure of the former is a very 

 curious crocketed canopy surmounting a stone shelf, with a 

 piscina below. In the chancel are the effigies of Sir John 



