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in centre ; with a ‘W.’ in a square ; followed by an undecypher” 
able date, probably 1597, and a ‘8B.’ in another square at the 
end, In the garden in front of the Loggia a very fine tulip 
tree measured, at three feet from the ground, 10 ft. 6 im 
in girth. 
From recently-discovered documents, the following account o 
the house was given by Mr. Blackburn :— 
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Horton Manor house is in the form of the letter E, as was common in the 
reign of Elizabeth. The-northern side is in the Norman style, and was pro- 
bably built when Agnes, wife of Hubert de Rye, made this manor the corps 
of a prebendal stall in the Church of Salisbury. It was subsequently 
annexed to that, see by Richard Poer, Bishop of Sarum, 1222. The 
remainder of the structure was added by the Paston family, temp. Eley, or 
James I. The course of descent which the Manor has pursued, seems to 
point to the reason why the Manor house varies so much in its style of archi- 
tecture. Having become church property, temp. Henry I., its Lord remained 
a celibate, and therefore a moderate structure met his wants. In the north 
limb we find a hall, temp. Henry I. It was apparently open to the roof, as no 
traces of windows exist on the ground-floor, while a Norman window now 
stopped up is to be seen in the upper part of the wall. The hall is entered by 
two doors opposite each other, one north and the other south, both decorated 
with the zigzag colamns and capitals which are perfect, In the south-west 
angle of the hall are remains of projections for the stvircase to music gallery, 
the door being closed up. 
After a pleasant stroll about the shady lawn, and a swing in 
the hammock beneath the biggest of tulip trees, the members 
returned up the hill to the rectory, bad farewell to their kind 
host and guide, and passed through the fields to the Cross 
Hands, where the brake was in readiness for their return to 
Bath. 
Of the walks which are considered by some so important a 
feature of the Club, there is not anything of consequence to note. 
One on the 9th of Nov. to Bradford, by Claverton Down and 
Brass Knocker hill, perhaps deserves to be recorded, from the fact 
that the obstruction in the shape of the bolt on Limpley Stoke 
bridge has been abolished, and that the restoration of the Saxon 
