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cuspings, and the soffits of the beams and the wall-plates are 
carved. In the centre of each panel is a shield with armorial 
bearings. There are some remarkable tombs in the Chapel, that 
of Elizabeth St. Armand having a richly-enamelled brass kneeling 
figure is specially notable. In the centre of the Chapel stands 
the altar tomb of Sir R. Jocotes, about 1492, with recumbent 
effigy in alabaster of a knight in armour, the base of the tomb 
being in Purbeck marble ; the inscription, which was on a strip 
of brass, has been removed. On the south side a fine tomb of 
Elizabethan date with a canopy over it, has some good brasses 
representing Sir Edward Baynton and his family. On the walls 
of the Chapel are hung some helmets and gauntlets of the 16th | 
century. On the north side of the Church is the tomb of the 
poet, Thomas Moore. The party then examined the alms 
houses (1612), the Post-office and an early house opposite the 
Church, all of which are of half timber work, that opposite the 
Church being an especially fine specimen of the style. 
The members were then entertained at luncheon at the 
Rectory house, and afterwards some of the party went to examine 
the remains of a Roman villa situated in a field at a. 
short distance from the Rectory, This villa is almost two- 
thirds of a mile from the supposed situation of the Roman 
station of Verlucio, which is on the Roman road from Bath to 
Marlborough. The portion uncovered contains remains of two 
tesselated pavements adjoining one another with a running 
pattern in white, black, and red tessere. The figures were 
indistinct, but part of a fish and a serpent were traced. There 
are also traces of a hypocaust, and several pieces of flue tiles were 
found lying about, a boar’s tusk, pieces of pottery, tesserz, 
and iron slag. The villa evidently extended under the site of 
the present road, and possibly more would be found in the field 
on the other side of it. Leaving this villa the party drove to the 
top of Bowden Hill, where they examined the exterior of the old 
Conduit house which supplies Lacock Abbey. This building has 
