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the guidance of local friends who had joined at lunch time ; 
others rode in the ‘break’ to the top of the hill, and dropping 
down the lane on foot passed on the way a clear and limpid well, 
called ‘Clive Well,’ and thus spoken of in the ancient register 
of the church (1692):— 
About the year 1360 Hathewisia, daughter of the famous Gurney, of 
the court at Barrow, confirmed her father Robert’s grant to Alexander de 
Budicombe of lands in Budicombe, near Clive Well, for his service in the 
field of Cressy, August, 1346. (vide Court Rolls at Barrow.) 
When all had arrived in the churchyard and had disposed 
themselves, some under the shade of the fine yew tree, others on 
the weather-stained steps of the old cross, the Rector of the 
parish, the Rev. W. H. Cartwright. gave extracts from the old 
Parish Register, and has kindly given permission to the Secretary 
to print them in full (vide p. 25). 
Due thanks having been given to the Rector for his concise and 
interesting account of the Parish and Church. A rapid ascent of 
the hill was made to the ‘ break,’ and the Members were driven . 
past the extensive reservoirs of Barrow to the Bristol station in 
time for the 6.40 p.m. train. 
Excursion to Wells and Wookey.—It was thought more convenient 
to go to Wells by road than rail. A ‘break’ with four horses and © 
a carriage and pair therefore received the Members in the front 
of the Assembly Rooms on the morning of June 10th. The 
monotony of the long four-hours’ drive was varied by some 
occasional remarks of the Vice-President, who called a halt at 
the top of the first hill to point out where the Wansdyke crossed 
the road in the direction of Englishcombe; reminding the 
Members that it was the same dyke which they had seen during 
one of their former excursions in Savernake Forest, and which 
formerly extended probably from the Thames on the east to the 
Severn on the west; well seen on the Wiltshire downs near 
Avebury, traced across our own downs at Hampton Rocks, 
appearing again near the Cross Keys in a field to the west. of 
