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THE CONVERSAZIONE 
was held at the Town Hall, at 8, p.m., the attendance numbering 
eighty-eight, when Tas Prustprnt continued the paper on the results 
of his excavations, the first part of which he had read at the after- 
noon Meeting. 
At its conclusion a cordial vote of thanks was passed, and the 
audience for a short space devoted themselves to the refreshments 
kindly provided by the Mayor. 
On the resumption of business the Rev. E. H. Gopparp gave 
an address on the Church Plate of North Wilts, illustrating the 
subject by a large number of drawings, made by himself and others 
as a basis for the history of the Church plate of the county which 
it is hoped may shortly be published by Mr. J. E. Nightingale. 
He was also able, through the kindness of many of the neighbouring 
clergy, to exhibit a series of actual examples of the various designs 
of chalices, patens, and flagons of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and 
eighteenth centuries, including a very beautiful flagon of 1603 from 
~ Heddington, Elizabethan chalices from the same parish and Hilperton, 
a chalice of 1631 from Wootton Bassett, the flagons of St. John’s and 
St. Mary’s, Devizes, and other specimens of the seventeenth and 
eighteenth centuries from Clyffe Pypard, Calstone, Cherhill, &c. 
THURSDAY, JULY 83lsr. 
The carriages left the Market Place at 9, a.m., with some sixty 
Members and their friends, for the first day’s excursion. The route 
lay by the Quaker’s Walk, up the hill to Roundway Down and 
Oliver’s Camp, which it was explained had nothing to do with Oliver 
Cromwell. The ramparts afforded the party one of the finest, 
perhaps, on the whole, the finest, view in Wiltshire—the various 
localities in the distance being pointed out by Mr. Mepuicorr, who 
afterwards read a short but lucid account of the Battle of Roundway 
Down, which had been prepared for the occasion by Mr. Water 
 Bucuanay. 
Mr. Cunnincton and Mr. Bett then called attention to the 
- characteristic gullies which cut into the sides of the chalk escarpment 
