WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 
“ MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS.”—Ovid. 
JUNH, 1897. 
THE FORTY-THIRD GENERAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Wiltshire Archeological and Natural History Society, 
HELD AT SALISBURY, 
July 14th, 15th, and 16th, 1896. 
. Sir H. Bruce Mevux, Bart., President of the Society. 
| TUESDAY, JULY 141x. 
=2ZHE GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING of the Society, at which 
some twenty-five Members were present, was held at the 
Bicenty Hotel at 2.30, pm. Mr. C. Prenruppocxe took the 
| chair in the absence of the President, and called upon Mr. H. E. 
- Mepuicorr to read THE REPORT.’ In connection with a paragraph 
in the Report, a letter addressed to the Society, from the Society for 
_ the Protection of Ancient Buildings, urging a protest against the pro- 
i posed removal of the tower and nave of the old CHURCH OF LEIGH, 
in the north of the county, to a new site, was read by Toe Rev. 
‘2. H. Gopparp, who explained the circumstances under which 
this was proposed to be done. In the discussion which followed 
Messrs. Tarzor, Scnomperc, Bert, Mepzicorr, Gopparp, 
 Cotnourne, Arcupzacon Lexar, and others, took part, some 
_ defending the proposal to remove the Church as being a /esser evil 
- than allowing it to remain on its present site and go to ruin—as in 
‘ 1 Printed in the last number of the Magazine, December, 1896. 
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