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run in tlie ditch of the WANSDTKE, the rampart of which is 

 very conspicuous Avhere the road tui-ns at the hottom of the hill. 

 At GREAT BEDWYN lunch was ready in the school, and after 

 that had been disposed of the stately CHURCH — unfortunately a 

 good deal OA^er-restored years ago — \\\i\\ its Norman arcades, and 

 monuments, was inspected, imder JNIr. Poxtixg's guidance ; and 

 then the party started again for WULFHALL, where they arrived 

 somewhat hi/ore the time appointed — probably an event unique in 

 the history of the Society's excursions. Here the scanty remnant 

 of the historical BARN, in which the wedding festivities of Henry 

 YIII. and Jane SejTnour were celebrated (if, indeed the existing 

 building is any of it of that date), was visited, and made by ]\Ir. 

 DoKAN Webb the text on which he told many interesting stories 

 connected mth the family history of the place. " The LAUNDRY," 

 a singularly pictm-escpie brick building, ^dth a telling group of 

 chimneys of a ty^)e common enough in Elizabethan buildings in 

 Shi-opshire and elsewhere, but not often seen in Wiltshire, was also 

 visited and admii-ed before the time anived for tea, in the modem 

 house, above it, to which Lobd and Lady Frederick Bruce had 

 most kindly invited the Members of the Society. So pleasantly 

 ended the Marlborough Meeting of 189-i — a meeting which was 

 voted most successful by all who took part in it, and which was 

 certainly notable for the unexpected excellence of the weather — the 

 efficiency of the guidance at the hands of Messrs. Doran Webb and 

 Ponting — and the remarkable character of the local collections 

 exhibited by Mr. Brooke. 



E. H. a. 



