14 The Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting. 



THE CONVERSAZIONE 



was held at the Town Hall, the President of the Meeting in the 

 chair: when Mr. Charles Mooee, F.G.S., gave a very able ad- 

 dress, entitled " Notes on Wiltshire Palaeontology " ; and then 

 Canon Jackson, F.S.A,, in his happiest vein, read an excellent 

 paper on " The Eminent Ladies of Wiltshire History.'" As both 

 these papers will appear in the Magazine, no farther mention need 

 be here made of them, but to add that at their conclusion a vote of 

 thanks was moved from the chair, and heartily responded to by the 

 audience. 



SECOND DAY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10th. 



The archaeologists, under the guidance of Canon Jones, left 

 Bradford at ten o'clock in a long line of carriages, and first drove 

 to Westwood Church and Manor House ; then to Stowford Manor 

 House, and then to Beckington Church, at all of which places Canon 

 Jones pointed out the most noticeable features, and gave short 

 epitomes of their respective histories, as will be seen in his notes 

 farther on. At this point of the programme the Society was 

 hospitably entertained by the Local Committee at a luncheon spread 

 in the School-room. At its conclusion the Chairman (Sir C. 

 Hobhouse) proposed the health of the Rev. S. L. Sainsbury, the 

 Rector of Beckington, and congratulated him on the very happy 

 restoration of his Church, lately completed. The Rev. A. C. Smith, 

 on behalf of the Society, offered his best thanks to the Local Com- 

 mittee of Bradford for the hospitable entertainment given them 

 that day. The Society had been very kindly received in many parts 

 of the county, but in no place had they met with a warmer re- 

 ception or a truer welcome than at Bradford. Dr. Highmore 

 having suitably responded, the company left the School-room, and 

 turned their attention to the many interesting old houses of which 

 Beckington seems full, more especially to the charming old buildings 

 known as Beckington Castle, and the Grange. Thence to Seymour's 

 Court, Road Church, and North Bradley Church ; all of which are 

 merely enumerated here, as they will be severally described in Canon 

 Jones' noteS; mentioned above. 



