Notea on the Documentary History of Zeah. 203 



with the County Council on the subject of the Wild Birds Pre- 

 servation Acts. The remains of the Pleiosaurus referred to in our 

 last report have been most carefully and accurately put together as 

 far as possible, and are now exhibited in the Mviseum. The Com- 

 mittee have not lost sight of the Memorial to Canon Jackson, but 

 are not yet in a position to make a recommendation on the subject, 



" Mr. Medlicott and Mr. Ponting attended the Annual Congress 

 of Archaeological Societies at Burlington House in July, 1894. 



" An account of the Meeting of the Society at Marlborough last 

 year appears in the last number of the Magazine. Thanks are due 

 to Mr. Ponting, F.S.A., and Mr. Doran "Webb, F.S.A., for the 

 very great services rendered by them as guides at various points 

 dimng the excursions. 



" We are meeting this year for the first time at Corsham, and it 

 is hoped that the Society will be enabled to visit places which it 

 has not before been possible to visit from Chippenham or Bradford." 



ote$ an t|e gwnmentarg Pl^totrg of ^ea(5* 



By John Battbn, F.S.A. 



^EALS, or Seals, a tything in the parish of Mere, contained 

 ^^ two manors called, after their ancient lords, Zeals Ailesbury 

 and Zeals Clivedon. 



Sir Richard Hoare ^ observes that there is a wide gap in the 

 records relating to Zeals until it became the property of the Chafyn 

 family, but the following facts, gathered from the muniments of 

 the present owner, Mr. Chafyn Grrove, and other sources, will, it is 

 hoped, help to fill up the gap to which the learned historian refers. 



• ffistortf of Modern Wilts, I., p. 31. 



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