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of the south chapel, and its great resemblance to similar work at 
Bromham and St. John’s, Devizes. 
They next proceeded with all speed to Etchilhampton Church, 
where, with Mr. Pontine again for their guide, the fine altar-tomb 
with recumbent effigies in the chancel, the nave roofs, west window, 
and curious south-west buttress with battlemented niches, were all 
noticed. 
This was the last item on the programme, and Devizes was reached 
in very fair time. 
The proceedings at the Conversazione in the Town Hall, at which 
seventy-two persons were present, began by Mr. PEnRuDDOCKE 
being called upon to read a paper on Mrs. Jane Lane, in which he 
described the adventures of Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester, 
and his eventful escape, assisted by the heroine of the paper; after 
which refreshments of a novel character, kindly provided by Mr. 
PENRUDDOCKE in illustration of his paper, were handed round, con- 
sisting of glasses of old Canary wine, and biscuits with a preserve 
made from a recipe of Mrs. Jane Lane, amongst the ingredients of 
which were rose-water and musk. 
Tur Presipent then read portions of a valuable and learned paper 
he had received from Dr. Garson, the eminent authority on the 
subject, on the skulls and skeletons found during his excavations at 
Rotherley and Woodcuts. After which Mr. PLenDERLEATH gave a 
short account of the finding by flint-diggers of an urn and three 
pierced chalk stones, supposed to have been loom-weights, in a pit 
some 6ft. below the surface, close to the ramparts of Oldbury Camp, 
and about 100 yds. south of the monument, a short time before. 
As time pressed, the valuable paper by Mr. J. Juxzes Browy, on 
the Geology of Devizes, which was next on the programme, was not 
read, but the substance of it was given in a short but interesting 
address by Mr. W. Hzewarp Bett, who lucidly explained the ex- 
cellent diagrams of sections of the cretaceous strata of the neigh- 
bourhood, which had been prepared for the illustration of the paper. 
At the request of THz Prustpent, Mr. James Way en, the 
historian of Devizes, gave a short account of the picture painted by 
himself representing Devizes Castle as it may have been in its 
